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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
characteristics of st. Peters,
burg Noted by English Tourist.
Officers Among the Finest Specimens
Of Their Kind in the World
Furs More Costly Than in
United States.

st. Fetersburg.-Peter the Great
order that he might have a window
out of which he could look on Eu-
rope" he built the city on the Neva.
Indeed. Judging from the strong SIM
plicity of his face In a celebrated pic
ture, In which he is cen lectur1ng his
feeble looking son. aesthetics could
not at any time have Influenced his
choice of cities or otherwise. 1t was
Lady Craven who regarded a city built
amid such surroundings as certain to
fall, though, as she admitted, the en-
press did all she could to Invite po-
likeness, science and comforts to cheer
this region of ice" F. G. Aflialo writes
In the London Pail Mall Gazette. "All
this Is very well; yet today, as n
walks down the crowded Nevski Pros
pekt or along the Morskaia. as one
drives over the bridges to the Islands.
or stands within the cathedral or the
opera house, 1t Is difficult. indeed. to
realize that, little more than two cen
turtles ago all this was desolate morass
VI tuc hluu Sccu III IL ANoiA SN
press between the city and the from
tier.
1t Is a city of great spaces and de-
serted squares. Its population must
exceed 100000, yet the tourist Will
find immense emptiness between
crowded quarters. Although, more
over, the city struggles along the
Neva, it cannot be said to have resi-
Dental suburbs along the railway, for
the train seems to come suddenly on
it's Sums from the open plain. Its
vast unused spaces doubtless have
owners. but these eem unable or un-
willing to turn their property to &C
count, and one is irresistibly reminded
of Tolstoy's story of the victim of his
own greed. who. having been promised
the freehold of as much land as he
could walk around In a day. fell dead
just as he had completed the circuit.
The officers are among the finest
specimens of their kind anywhere in
the world, and here let me say that
they compare very favorably indeed
with those of another continental
power for %politeness and %affability.
AS a S in point. l was buying some
typical photographs Of horses, includ-
ing cavalry, In a large shop. and the
man behind the counter was quite un-
able to tell me the different regiments
represented. A tall officer happened to
be making purchases at the same
counter. and he most kindly came to
the rescue, speaking excellent French.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
Searct. for Tusks Has Cost
More Lives Than War.
SavaQes Know Values-6ig Stock on
Hand In Interior Africa, but
Chiefs Guard Treasures
jealousy.

London.-The ivory market OF the
world is to be found in London-in
Mincing lane, in fact-and there you
will find stored all the ivory that
enters the London docks from time
to time. Sales are held periodically,
and prior to a sale the ivory is placed
on view for the benefit Of prospec-
tive buyers.
The elephant, for the most part. sup
plies our ivory. and each year. 1t is
stated, some SO, 900 elephants have to
be secured. The fact is. however,
that a great quantity Of ivory is taken
from dead elephants-animals that
have died naturally and have no fall
en- before the hunters gun.
When large herds Of elephants
roam a district you may be quite sure
that an elephants cemetery is to be
found somewhere in the locality. To
this cemetery all ailing elephants re-
pair and very often there they die.
It Is a great stroke OF luck to dis
cover an elephants cemetery, for a
fine haul Of ivory is certain to be Sc
cured. But ivory is found lying in the
forests from time to time; and, OF
course, these tusks lie Is they fall,
read to- be picked up.
At the present time there is . great
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
Personal.

General Bernardo Reyes will not be
shot for melting a rebellion.
The 20Oth anniversary OF Frederick
the Great was celebrated at Berlin.
Alton B. Parker blames Colonel
Roosevelt for starting agitation lead
ng to the demand for judiciary recall.
President Taft has accepted the in
vitation to attend the st. Pat.rick's
day dinner of the charitable Irish So
ciety of Boston.
Premier Yuan Shi Kai is said to be
IN grave personal danger.
Jack Johnson aspires to wrest the
wrestling championship from Gotch.
Mr.. Bryan believes that no man
ought to have a third term OF the pres
idency.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher and
Postmaster General Hitchcock are
going to view the Panama canal.
Mr.. Bryan has given out an editor
ial defending Woodrow Wilson for his
break with Colonel Harvey.
Commissioner Of immigration Kee-
70 y there Is a cunning evasion OF
exclusion laws by the ~Ainese.
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CITY ON THE NEVA

and gave me all the information l re-
CURED. In the other country he
would have clanked his sword and
given me a 'ook that froze, or tried to.
Up to Christmas the snow does not
take itself seriously. In November |
saw it thick in the streets one day
and gone the next. The canals are
useful rather than ornamental. They
are said to smell when the ice is
breaking up, and l can bear witness
that they do so when it Is not; SO
they are active all the year round. The
best shops are about as expensive as
those in Bond street and the window
dressing is artistic. but any one ex-
pecting to get furs for a song out
here will be disappointed. At any
rate, the song would have to be suns
by Melba or Caruso. Indeed. they
are dearer than elsewhere, for the
simple reason that furriers have not
the art of dressing the skins in Rus
STA, which means that these must be
reimported after paying duty. This is
but a tourists glimpse of the streets
of this %curiously attractive city. the
farthest north of my rambles for
pleasure. Indeed, any holiday more
h%yperborean would exceed my widest
ambitions.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
w. m. Hays Says International Census
Would Solve an important Problem
for the World.

Washington.-The classification OF
all the peoples of the world In a great
international census. giving each per-
son a number in a single world series.
to the end that the human race may
be improved by scientific marriage.
was the plan advocated by Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture w. M. Hays
in an address here before the Amer
lean Breeders association. one of the
organizations making up the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
Of Science. AS a means of improving
the heredity of the human family Mr..
Hays proposed a classification of all
human beings, both as to mental apti-
tude and generic efficiency. Based on
such knowledge as this census would
give, he said, a racial religion" would
develop requiring the more efficient
to produce families larger than the
average, and those less efficient to
produce families smaller than the
average.
The world numbers. said Mr.. Hays,
would serve to join g~enealogies into
one numerical system. so that all re-
lationship could be traced. Each per.
son would have a number or percent
age that could easily be averaged so
as to give the genetic or family val
ues of each person. Modern science
and charity works against the law OF
the survival of the fittest," he declar-
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
WOLTER "ELECTROCUTED
For the Murder Of 15-Year-OId Steno-
qrapher.

Ossining, New York.-Albert w.
Wolter, aged 10, was electrocuted in
Sing Sing prison for the murder Of
Ruth Wheeler aged 10. He went to
the chair, unconcerned and smiling.
Since his conviction, the youthful
murderer has spent much time read
ing adventure stories and in writing
long letters to his mother and sisters.
His mother visited him weekly, but he
seemed little concerned over her
grief. His father. an honest old car
penter, has visited his son only once.
1t was rumored that Wolter had
left a signed confession with Rev. DR..
S. F. Duemeyen, his spiritual adviser.
The murder Of Ruth Wheeler at
tracted national attention. The beauti-
full 15-year-old girl, just out OF bust
ness college, on March "a, 1910, IN
swered an advertisement Wolter had
inserted for a stenographer. When
she applied at his rooms, Wolter at
tackled her and choked her to death.
He multilated her body and sought to
burn it in an open fireplace in his
room.
The girls disappearance was fol-
lowed by VOTERS arrest on March %,
for abduction, though the girls
charred corpse, wrapped in a burlap
bag, was not found on the fire escape
of the Wolter fiat until the following
day.
Wolter was convicted of murder on
April %, 1910. He was sentenced to
die on June g., 1910, but the case was
taken to the court of appeals, where
the sentence was confirmed. Cover
0 Dix, i'll at his home in Albany, de-
clined finally to interfere in the case.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
LYNCH 5 REBELS
AMONG VICTIMS is FORMER
PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC AND
TWO BROTHERS.
REVOLT SNUFFED OUT
Action Follows Assassination OF EH'
ecutive Chosen by Troops.
Disorders Began with
Estrada's Death.

Guayaquil, Ecuador. - A mob broke
into the Quito penitentiary in spite OF
a double guard and lynched Generals
Alfaro, Ulpiano Paez and Manuel Sor-
rano, all prominent revolutionists.
With the putting to death of Gen
eral clay Alfaro, eX-president of Ecua-
dor, his brother, General Flavio Alfaro,
ex-minister of wal and commander-in-
chief of the revolutionary forces; Gen.
eral Medardo Alfaro, who is believed
to have been a brother Of the two
other Alfaros, and Generals Paez and
Manuel Sorrano, the leading lights in
Ecuador's latest revolution have been
snuffed out.
This revolution, although it had been
long brewing, began in reality a few
days following the sudden death on
Dec. % last of President Emilio Es-
trada.
Last Thursday at Guayaquil General
Pedro Montero, who was proclaimed
president Of the troops after the death
of Estrada, was shot and beheaded by
a mob which later burned his body.
The shooting of Montero took place
in the court room where the general
had just beer tried by court martial
and sentenced to 16 years imprison-
ment for his connection with the re-
volt. The people evidently annoyed at
what they considered a too light sem
tence, rushed into the court room and
after Kidding Bontero's body with bull
lets, dragged it into the open. Then
they decapitated it, built a bonfire and
threw into the flames the torso and
head of the man who once was a popu-
lar hero in Ecuador.
Eloy Alfaro and Generals Paez and
Montero were captured Jan. % at
Guayaquil. Flavio Alfaro had been
wounded in a battle a few days be
fore the fall of Guayaquil. Medardo
Alfaro was captured Jan. %.
Severe fighting followed the out
break Of the revolt and continued with
varying successes until Jan. 10, when
the revels suffered a bad defeat at
Yaguache, northeast of Guayaquil.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
LEAD PENCIL IS LIFE SAVER
Stops Dirk Thrown at Trolley Con-
ductor by Negro In Atlantic
City, NJ. J.

Atlantic City, N. IA large dirk fly
ing through the air flashed before
women about to board a street car az
Michigan and Atlantic avenues, and as
it struck Charles w. Wade. the con-
ductor, with the blade apparently i'm
bedded In his heart, a gasp of horror
arose
The women and the passengers were
treasured when Wade leaped to the
street and gave chase to a negro, who,
having been elected from to" car for
insolence. retaliated by hurting the
knife.
Instead of penetrating Wade's heart.
the blade became imbedded in a lead
pencil in his vest pocket, cutting the
pencil amost in half. Wade reported
the matter to the police and furnished
a good description Of the negro, who
escaped him.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
EP|T0ME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention OF What 10 Transporting
In Various Sections OF Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
Washington.

The senate has passed the Gamble
bill opening to agricultural entry
100, 900 acres of the Cheyenne : In
dian reservation in South Dakota.
About six persons in every 100, 600
In the United States were murdered in
1910. This estimate is made by DR..
Creesssy l. WILDER, chief statistician
Of vital statistics of the census bureau.
American ships would use the Pan
ANA canal free of cost. while foreign
vessels would pay a charge not ex-
ceeding SLIPS a ton under the terms
of q bill introduced by Senator Brad
ley of Kentucky.
According to cablegrams received
1t the state department, Chinese
princes in Peking decided not to alb
dictate, but to leave the question or
the form Of government to a national
convention properly called.
Promoters OF fraudulent statements,
who had obtained 81, 600, 900 from the
public, were put out of business dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80. last,
according to the annual report OF
Robert 8. Sharp, chief inspector OF the
postoffice department.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion dismissed the complaint OF the
Fairmont (Neb.) Creamery company
against the Burlington. The creamery
company complained Of a rate OF 81
cents per ten gallon can of cream
trOm Concordia, Kas.. to Crete, Neb.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
authorized the preparation OF designs
and plates for suitable commemorative
hostage stamps for the Panama-Pacific
International exposition In 1913. The
Opening OF the Panama canal and
vOme important event in the history
u California will be represented in
the designs.
Andrew Carnegie Is having trouble
selecting from the government $2S.7O
tn witness fees for his recent testi-
mony before the house steel trust
committee. The notary in New York
Who witnessed the voucher for Mr..
yarnegie failed to afix his seal. Not
lntil this defect is remedied Will
Uncle Sam give up the money.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
ASKED TO BUY A BREWERY
Cleveland Men Want Rockefeller to
Take Over Property and Convert
1t Into Park Site.

Cleveland, O.-William B. Woods,
city councilman. and others. have
laid before John D. Rockefeller a big
park improvement project which calls
for the removal of a group of brewery
buildings at the end Of Hough avenue.
The property on which the red brick
structures with their tall chimneys are
located would become q part OF the
park bearing the oil mans lame II
he decides to cooperate with the city
in pushing forward the plan. The
plan shows an imposing circle at the
Hough avenue approach to Rockefel-
Ter and Wade parks.
1t would take $3.50. geo 20 remove the
buildings. according to the estimate OF
Mr.. Woods.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
Ivory Supply Is Short

shortage of ivory all over tho world;
the demand is always greater than the
supply. But there are big stores OF
ivory in the universe for all that.
In several parts of Africa the chief
tains of j.. age ace have big stocks
on hand, but these chiefs quite under
stand the commercial value Of ivory.
and never at any time do they put
a large quantity on the market; it Is
doled out in small parcels. so to
speak; so evidently these chiefs have
a good idea of what a corner means
in the commercial sense.
Ivory at the present time costs from
$3.50 to $1,000 per hurdredweight, but
certain qualities run much higher In
price. Thus. there is an ivory that
comes from Zanzibar. known as soft
tooth" quality. that Is very costly. 1t
is the the finest ivory known to com
merce, but the supply is limited. A
single tusk of ivory weighs, on an ay-
erage,. about ninety pounds, but you
can get a tusk weighing twenty
pounds or $50 pounds. they differ SO
greatly.
Billiard balls are always cut from
the finest ivory, but usually they are
not cut from the largest size of tusks
the moderately small tusk yields the
best results SO far as billiard balls are
concerned. The ivory reaches the
billiard ball make. in the form Of
small blocks or squares.
Ivory Is white in color, but its his.
tory Is red-it has an evil past. most
particularly the ivory that emanates
from the storehouse of savage chief
tains. These chiefs have often come
by their ivory In no recognized com
mercial way-usually each piece Of
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
Canada Seeks Preference,

Ottawa, Ontario. Delegates
from most of the British West Indies,
will arrive in Ottawa on March q. to
confer with the Canadian government
on proposals for closer trade relations
between the dominion and the island.
A similar conference with commits.
s%ioners from Australia is now being
arranged. According to figures pre-.
pared here a small preference given
to Australia by Canada over the
United States would, in a few years.
increase trade with Australia from
S1.o00.o 900 or less to about $4,000. 900.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
Carrier Pigeons Took q MESSAGE


New Rochelle, N. Y.-Edward Car.
son looked out of the back window
OF his jewelry store at noon the other
day and saw n OF his best carrier
pigeons hopping about the yard.
Thinking the bird had escaped from
the cote a few blocks from the store,
be went out and caught it, intending
to take 1t home. When he took 1t
into the store he noticed a piece OF
papaf fastened to one of it's legs. The
paper bore this message:
Telephone not working. Come to
lupcneon early. Company" He wrote
this nsWe
Count me in"
Luncheon was ready when he got
home. Mrs. Carson found the bird
hopping on the kitchen porch with the
nete.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
-, :.
Now He Wants a Wonden a.

Montgomery. Ala.-Deeply grateful
for the clemency shown him by Gov.
Emmett O'Neal In granting him a
pardon from the ~penitentiary. but feel
ing somewhat aggrieved over the loss
OF a leg. Charles Schaefer, just from
Wetumpka, hobbled into Governor
O'Neal's office recently and asked for
a wooden les. He said that while
serving the state as a convict laborer
in Flat Top mine be lost his leg. he
thinks that the state should REIN.
burse him by buying for him a wood
en- leg.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02

The Folk-Clark fight in Missouri
has reached q bitter stage.
Charges OF fraud In Indian LAM
oales is being investigated at Minneap-
otis.
Italy insists on her right to search
steamers Of friendly powers suspected
q carrying c~ontraband.
Republican Leader Mann proposes
n Increase Of all district judges sal
azles from 5000 to $1,000.
william ]. Bryan was honor guest
ot . banquet given by the WOODROW
Wilson club at Tampa, Fla.
Rutherford Page, making his first
flight since receiving his license, was
killed at the Los Angeles meet.
The Fourth Oklahoma district re-
publican convention declared in fav-
- OF Taft as against Roosevelt.
BY the terms Of q bill passed by the
house the president must name en-
noruers Of candidates for the judic-
1ary.
9ocalled strikebreakers number
lng $50 employed In the Hartman
line shops 1t Houston. Tex. walked
ont.
Hearings on the Hughes eight
hour labor law we're begun before the
senate committee OF education and
labor.
At st. Joseph, Thomas Marshall. I
years old, coasted down q steep hill
into the side Of q street car and "a
killed.
James Speyer. the banker, has re-
ceived from the German emperor he
decoration OF til Red Eagle Of the e c
ond class.
Public lands committee favorably
reported q bill making $4,000. 900 acres
81 public oil lands available for agri-
cultural entry. j.
senator Gore Of Oklahoma will ad-
vocate q federal appropriation OF $l0.-
OOO. 900 to $4,000 900 for the next ten
! to be expended on roads.
AZ the days 90 by 1t appears more
and more clear that the name OF
\ Roosevelt is TO be a complication
throughout the nomination campaign.
Governor Woodrow Wilson said he
you'd send to the New Jersey legis-
1ature q special message recon-
mending she ratification OF the pro-
posod income tai amendment to the
Aderal constitution.
The use Of firearms by municipal po-
Ice throughout the country was CON
lamned ii the house while an appro-
nrfation for the District of Columbia
no1ice authorizing the purchase Of
modern ~revOlvers was under discus
sion.
senator John Sharp Williams in.
froduced biz bill for the regulation OF
corporati0ns. engaged Il interstate
Ponding Hills TO Increase the pay
raxksof-army avsaters- were urged
~ house committee on mill
nffaisS ~ Major General James
Il 2N9 ~
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02

ivory added to the store means the
loss Of human life. These chiefs will
commit murder in cold blood In or.
der to secure a tusk!
Those in the ivory trade will tell
you that ivory. or rather the gaining
Of ivory. has cost more human lives
than war. and that is saying a good
deal.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
High Prices Cause act.

BrocktOn, MaSs.-'Even a minister
of the gospel has to eat and wear
clothes. | can't work without money"
was the declaration OF Rev. Clarence
II. Wheeler, pastor o. the Baptist
church, when he read his resignation
from the pulpit. The CO animation OF
increasing cost of living and decreas-
ing salary was too much for him, he
said.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
Would Classify All People

ed, "by keeping alive many persons
who inherit weaknesses such as fee
"Reminiscences or insanity. BY paying
attention to genetic efficiency a ace
may make itself stronger for the eco
nomic contests among the races OF the
world"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02

Chicago. Jan. 29.-Ohio and Indiana
reports of poor condition of winter
wheat acted today as a stimuli for the
price of the cereal. The market re-
fiected also strength at Liverpool. due
to light worlds shipments and scarcity
OF contract quallty. SmallnesS of Ar
gentine offerings formed a special
source of worry to shorts. The opening
was the same as last night to &c high
eT. May started at $1.01R Loo to
$1.02A, unchanged to Bc up and ad-
vanced to SLOPPY.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-02-02
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Twin CITY AlarlAfu

Minneapolis. Jan. 29.-Wheat. Nav.
$1.o7h; July. $1.os15; No. ] northern.
$l.07 II, No. 2 northern. $1.05R; No. 1
durum. $1.01; No. 5 corn, 63Nc; No. 3
white oats, 47c; barley. mailing, s1.2S;
No 2 rye s9c; No. | flax. s215.
Duluth, Jan. 29.-Wheat, May, 81. O6 % :
July. $1.O6&; No. l northern, $1.O7A /;
No. l durum, $1.04.
South St Paul, Jan. 29.-Cattle-
Steers, $479@4a5; cows. s3.5om3,75;
sheep and lambs. S.. so M5 SO.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-24
DISTANT PLACES
AS Homes Do Not Appeal to
South Dakotans,

Lead, Oct. 24.-Letters have been
received from several people who last
summer left the city and the Hills for
the purpose of making their homes on
the Pacific coast, all of the people
writing having bought homes either in
Oregon or Washington. In all of the
letters n the same strains, a song
of home, for, even though some are
nicely situated, the longing for the
Hills has grown upon them as the
desire for a ''better and a milder
climate" and a place where fruit
grows and soft breezes. perfume laden,
sough softly throu gh trees and bios
soming shrubs, has worn off. A letter
received yesterday from a gentleman
who had once been prominent in Leads
business circles. says that both him
self aud his wife have grown weary
of their new hone in Washington,
and are preparing to leave for the
Hills, and that their friends need not
be surprised to see them come back
any day, and when they do come,
Lead will remain their place of resi-
dence for all time. Others from
Oregon have written in the same strain,
and many to whom the allurements OF
distant places have lent ~enchantment
confess now that they have become dis
i'll usioned and that after all the homely
life of the Black Hills, its rugged
mountain peaks and peaceful valleys,
fruitful and yearly yielding golden
harvests, is now more beautiful to
them, more restful and more entranc-
ing than all of the charms of the
vale of Cashmere aud every storied
place rolled together TO make a fancied
whole, so they are coming ''home,'
coming to live their lives again la the
Black Hills among the scenes and trials
of their yonng manhood and woman
hood and later prosperity.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-24
For Sale.

Registered Short Horn animals, on
the John Foley FARM seven miles
northwest CT Madison. Phone 10, IN
A line,