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Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
Lamb Has Hoof on Tall.

Grand Junction.-H. B. Woods q
prominent sheepman of Mesa county,
is exhibiting lamb with perfectly
shaped hoof on the end OF it's tail.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
Irrelevant Reasons.

why is Jones making his girl take
music lessons? She'll never learn II
she practices for a million years"
Jones says he knows she has no
talent. and he can Ill afford the ex-
pense, but that he hates the people SO
on the next floor"
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
Kind Of Things to Buy.

I'm thinking of going on tour on
the Rhine this summer. and I should
like your advice about the best things
to buy there. You've been there.
haven't your"
yes. but it's long time ago. I
shall have to refresh my memory.
Waiter. bring the wine CARD
Fliegende Blaetter.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
Good Roads Association MeetIno.

Logan. Utah.-The third annual con
tention OF the Inter Mountain Good
Roads Association meets at Logan
Utah, June ~ to IA.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23

Many q woman who wishes she had
been born a man would be surprised
to know that her husband shares the
wish.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23

You may have noticed that about
the time a shoe begins to feel COM
Portable 1t looks like a candidate for
the refuse wagon.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23

A true friend is person who listens
to your troubles.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union Views Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.

June l1-Iuly 19.-Summer Term. State
Teachers College. Greeley.
June lS-2O.-State Sunday School Con-
vention. Colorado Springs.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23
Cuts Down Sentence.

Cuts Down Sentence.
Silicus-Do you believe in long en-
gagements?
Cynicus-Sure. The longer q man
is engaged the less time he has to b
married.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23

Garfield Tea helps clear q muddy complex
lon, dispel foul breath and sweeten the temper.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-23

Mans favorite brand of love Is usu-
ally the latest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
Open Country.

When worn out by the noise and
palpitatlng life of the city or town, try
restoring the balance of temper and
optimism by running away for a quiet
day in the country. Leave all cares,
worries, doubts, fears carefully locked
in a Pandora box, and if possible leave
the key where it will never again be
found. Tuck under one arm a faVorite
book and under the other a simple
lunch, board a train or car and ask
the CONDUCTOR to let you off near a
wood or by the side of a stream. In
agine yourself a true child Of nature
or an Indian maiden treading the will
derness when the land was young. For
get the appointment with the dress
maker or the possibility of a new H.
brary carpet, just be lazy and dream
in the sun-potted shade, for summer
is here and is willing to give of her
store of plenty to a frayed and edge
worn world. One day out in b open
is worth a whole course of treatment
by a nerve specialist.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
WOULD OWN WIRES
HITCHCOCK ASKS u. s. TO AC
QUIRE TELEGRAPH LINES.
Postmaster General Points Out That
Postal System Would Be Made
More Profitable.

Washington. Acquisition Of the
telegraph lines by the government
and their operation as a part OF the
postal system is the latest idea OF
Postmaster General Hitchcock. A
resolution to this effect will be Of
fered to ongre at TIE present ses-
sion.
He believes such a consolidation
would result in important economies
and permit the adoption of lower tele-
graph rates. Post Offices are main
tanned in numerous places not reached
by telegraph and proposed consolida-
ton would afford a favorable oppor-
tunity for the wide extension of tele-
graph facilities.
In many small towns where tele-
graph companies have offices the
telegraph and mail business could
be readily handled by the same en-
ployes.
A method has already been pre-
scribed for the taking ove of the
telegraph lines by section 1857 Of the
revised statutes, which provides that
the government may, for postal, mill
tary or other purposes, purchase
telegraph lines operating in the
United States at an appraised value.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
Old Italian Test.

An old Italian test is to put a silver
coin in the boiling pot of mushrooms,
and if the silver turns black it means
yoison. There is no safe rule to tell
the harmless fungi. Some of the dead
Hest are of common growth. Another
very curious thing Is that wholesome
mushrooms are liable to absorb poi
sons from the place where they grow
such poisons as paris green, manure
poison, or rotting meat poison. Per-
maps there has been no greater piece
of e~xaggeration worked off on the
public tina long bow shots OF the
worlds riches in mushrooms. Fungi
and not easily digested-this is due to
their cellulose or woody framework
and to shrinkage and hardening in
cooking. On this account the pain
which they SO often cause is often mis-.
taken for poison, and the doctor is
called whip and spur to relieve a mere
mushroom Indigestion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
Cardinal Farley.

among these who participated in the
welcome to Cardinal Farley, which
was not only brilliant, but impressive.
At Twenty-third street the cardinals
carriage turned into Fifth avenue and
proceeded in a direct line to st. Pat
rick's Cathedral. the curbs on Doth
sides being crowded with members of
all the big Catholic societies of Great
er New York. Further up the cadet
corps of all the Catholic military
schools, institutions and organizations
of the metropolis lined both sides of
Fifth avenue and at the very end Of
his triumphal march. the cardinal was
greeted by his best and most beloved
friends, the 10000 Catholic children
attending the parochial schools of
Greater New York. This part of the
reception seemed to please the car
dinal more than any other feature Of
his welcome.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
PRIZES FOR SCHOOL PUPILS
National Municipal League Offers Two
for Essays on "Street Cleaning
in My City,"

Philadelphia.-The National NUM-
cipal league announces that through
the generosity Of certain friends it is
enabled to offer two prizes to high
schools, the first of $50 and the second
of $40, for the best two essays on
"Street Cleaning in My City"
The essays must not exceed fifteen
hundred words in length. They must
be clearly written on one side of the
sheet only and must be mailed to
the secretary of the National Num-
cipal league, Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
703 North American Building, Phila-
delphia, not later than Feb. 20, 1912.
Each essay must have an assumed
name at the top Of the first page and
be accompanied by a sealed envelope
bearing within the name. address and
class Of the competitor, and on h
outside Of the envelope the assumed
name. These envelopes will not be
opened until the award Of the judges
has been made.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
HARVESTER TRUST is FLAYED
Representative Of Independents Makes
Sensational Charges at House
Committee Hearing.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. charges
against the International Harvester
company. the so-called Harvester
trust" were made before the house
rules committee by F. j. Lowe of
New York, representing Independent
manufacturers.
Mr.. Lowe told the committee that
81 per cent. of the stockholders in the
steel, sugar. beef and bankers trusts
control also the International Harvest
er company. I'VE charge that the
International Harvester company,
through the National City bank of
New York. a break any independent
nicer In the United States" said
Mr.. Lowe.
The witness said the department
OF justice had ''chloroformed every
movement made to prosecute the har-
vester trust, shown by the fact that
the Townsend report to the depart.
ment in 1906 has slumbered there
ever since. The report showed. among
other things. that there were thirteen
independent harvester concerns in the
United States when the International
Harvester company was organized.
Today there are only two %independ-
emit concerns in the United States.
Mr.. Lowe charged also that the In
ternational Harvester company insist
ed on q profit of 100 per cent. on Its
goods sold in this country. but that
Europe got them almost at cost.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
COUNTIES WIN TAX FIGHT.
udge Holds They Have Right to Sci
Tax Titles.

Pierre.-Increased revenue to a
number OF counties of the state will
"a the outcome of a decision by Judge
lfcGee. on a case IL this, the Sixth
circuit, where he was called in to
hear the case. The point sat issue is
frc right of counties to take tax titles
n cases where the county bids In
tracts at the annual tax sales Many
Of the counties were holding tracts
secured in this way under legal provi-
sions to that effect, until the last leg
f~slative session gave them the same
rights as individuals to secure titles.
A number of the counties, among them
Hughes, at the earliest time took ad-
vantage of this new law. But owners
of tracts who were sliding along with
out paying taxes so long as the u
nv held their tracts went into court
TO attempt to stop the county from
securing title. Judge MCGEE was
called in to hear the case, and after
having it under advisement for some
time he has announced his decision
sustaining the actions Of the county
authorities, and the validity of the
law on all points. This will allow the
counties to sell the tracts so secured,
and put them on the tax rolls again
after having been off for years.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
RAIL CHIEF DIES IN FIRE
Guy l. Stewart, Industrial Agent Of
Cotton Belt Road, Burned to
Death In Wreck.

cultural and industrial agent Of the
Belt railroad Of st. Louis, was
burned to death in his private a in
a wreck in which trains Of three diff
ferent roads wer in collision at
Kelso. Nc. The Cotton Belt passen-
ger train was late in arriving at KEEL
so. 1t found the track blocked by a
Chicago & Eastern Illinois freight
train. While the passenger trail was
waiting an Iron Mountain freight train
crashed into 1t from the telescop-
ing it into the freight train ahead.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
KATE SHELLEY DEAD
iowA's HEROINE PASSES AWAY
At HER MoINGoNA
HOME.
HAD BEEN ILL SOME TIME
Gained Fame When 16 Years Old on
Night Of July s, 1881, by Saving Pas
senser Train from PlunsIng Into a
Collapsed Bridge.

Moingona, Iowa.-Katherine Carroll
Shelley, known as Iowa's heroine, died
at her home here Sunday, aged AZ
years. Miss Shelley became famous
on the night Of July 6, 1881, when she
saved a Chicago and Northwestern
passenger train from going into a river
which had left its banks and washed
away the bridge.
Bright's disease, following al oper-
alton for appendicitis at a Carroll hos
pital last summer, wore her vigorous
constitution away and for months she
had lain at deaths door. Survivors
Of the family Miss Name Shelley, Mrs.
George Swisher. of Woodward. To-, and
John Shelley, a Northwestern employe
at Boone, were all present at her
death. The patient suffered greatly,
but was conscious to the last. though
unable to speak. She was as brave in
the race of death as in life.
While sitting in her home about IL
o'clock on the night Of July 6, 1881.
Miss Shelley heard a crash. and upon
going to the door found that a freight
train had been plunged through a
bridge which had been weakened by a
fierce storm. The entire crew was
killed. Miss Shelley knew that the
passenger train was due to pass over
the structure in thirty minutes, and,
against the wishes OF her mother.
went out into the storm and picked
her way through the black night to
the closest telegraph station, nearly
two miles away. The passenger crew
was warned OF the danger. At the
meeting OF the next legislature, Miss
Shelley, who was then 16 years old,
val given a gold medal and 5000 in
cash for her bravery. She also was
rewarded by the railroad company
and given a position an station agent.
which she held until q few months
ago
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
EXPRESS AGENT IS TAKEN
Robin c. Ferguson, Claiming to Be
Son Of Railroad Chief, Held
for $1,000 Theft.

Chicago.-Posing as the son of a
railroad president, and known to the
employees Of the Hotel Aston as the
millionaire Kid" Robin Carlisle Fer
gason is under arrest here.
Until recently he was a messenger
for the Southern Express company on
the Georgia Central railroad. He was
accused of the theft of a package
containing $1,000 on December 16.
He has been in Chicago since Janu-
airy 2. With him was a young woman
he represented as his wife. 1t Is said
she was a waitress in a hotel at
Quincy, Ill.
Since coming to Chicago Ferguson
has financed a theatrical venture that
has cost him more than $1,000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
The exemplary Pharmacognosist.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, who is by all
odds the best-beloved expert in the
governments employ, was talking at
a luncheon at the New Willard in
Washington about the duties of a phar
macognosist.
"a pharmacognosists duties," he
said, ARE just as difficult as the name
would lead you to expect. There are
few pharmacognosists of DR.. H. H.
Rushby's ability, because there are
few men willing to toll and toll for
years for sciences sake"
A smile spread over DR.. Wiley's
smooth-shaven, intelligent and humor-
Gus face, and he founded off his re-
marks with his epigram:
Few indeed are willing to climb
the difficult tree of knowledge. They
all want to reach up, break off a few
fruity branches, and carry them
home.''
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
HEALTHY CONDITI0..
GOOD SHOWING FOR STATE
BANKS MADE IN REPORT OF
PUBLIC EXAMINER.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, tire Various
State Institutions and DIT.
-ferent Parts of the
Stats.

MitcheH-Public Examiner j. l..
Wingfeld has issued his report of the
condition of the state banks in Sout
Dakota. The feature of the state
ment is the amount of personal depo5-
it's, and there is shown a more healthy
condition at the present line than
previous to the call of September l.,
when there was a falling Off OF over d
million dollars in that respect. Since
September / the decrease in personal
deposits was but $196,S7O.22. For the
first time in six or eight months the
savings deposits show a decrease at
the period, although it is slight, the
mount being S~5,725.64, while the IN
crease previous to he September l
call was $79,4S3.74. The total amount
of personal deposits at this time was
S19,492,7 20.91, and the savings depos-
it's amount to 81 ,935,005.5S. In the re-
sources there is an item OF a decrease
of 1924, S36.21 Of unsecured paper, n
also an increase of S113, 964.O5 in cur
rency The 52S banks show an in
creased expense account OF $3.50, I3o.lZ
since the last statement. In the
amount due from BANKS LIe ulh 10"
been notably decreased, the amount
being placed at 1851, 1878, making a
marked change from the statement OF
September l, where the sum showed
an increase of 81, O0S,336.20 in this re
spect.
There a. been a remarkable change
in the matter of undivided profits
since the September call. These
showed a decrease at that time OF
S44,833. The December call showed an
increase of S1,157,116.72, and there is
a marked change in the amount under
the item of bills payable. The Sep
TENDER call indicated an increase OF
Sill ,1S7.4S, and for the December
statement this sum is credited with &
decrease of$507, 225.43.
The general condition of the state
banks by this statement is shown to
be better than at the September call.
both in strength and reserve One
bank is reported to have gone out OF
business, the White Butte State bank,
which closed it's doors after having
settled up all it's accounts.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
TAFT WARNS CUBA
REPUBLIC FACES THIRD OCCUPA-
TON UNLESS IT REFORMS
EXISTING CONDITIONS.
SEE SITUATION AS SERIOUS
President Gives Gomez UItimatum
That There Must Be No Military
Interference in Political Affairs
Veterans Seeks Gomez's Overthrow.

Northumberland Intervention
In Cuba by the United States for the
purpose of protecting the established
government and preserving peace was
predicted here as likely to follow the
transmission of a note to Havana
that the United States would be com
PEELED to interfere in Cuban politics
unless the veterans movement
there Is Immediately quelled.
The note, which amounted practical
ly to an ultimatum, was sent to Min
lister Beaupre following a report
from him that officers in the
army had deliberately disobeyed
an order issued by President Gomez
forbidding them to participate in pol
itics or attend meetings of the Vet
Grams association.
The situation is regarded as the
most serious since the second MILL
tary occupation. The veterans are re-
ported to have made threats against
the government.
A fleet of four army transports Is
now in readiness at Newport News to
sail for Guantanamo, and within a rev
days 10000 troops can be put aboard
1t with which 10 enforce the ultima
tum.
After the cabinet meeting Secre-
tary Knox, under instruction from the
president, gave out the following note.
which has been sent by the govern
ment to Minister Beaupre In Havana.
who was directed to present 1t to
President Gomez:
The situation in Cuba, as now re-
ported, causes grave oncer to the
government of the United States.
THAT the laws intended to safe
guard free republican government
shall be enforced and not defied is OBJ
viously essential to the maintenance
of the law, order and stability indis-
pensable to the status of the repub-
lie of Cuba, In the continued we'll be-
ing of which the United States has al
ways evinced and cannot escape a vi.
tai interest.
THE president Of the United
States, therefore, looks to the presi.
dent and government Of Cuba to pre-
vent a threatened situation which
would compel the government of the
United States, much against its de-
sires, to consider what measures 1t
must take in pursuance of the obliga'
tons Of it's relations to Cuba"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
South Dakota Supreme Court.

Pierre.-In the list of decisions
handed down by the supreme court
there were several of statewide inter
est. Among these was Pierson ct al.
VS.. Minnehaha county. In this case
Pierson and Savage, two tax ferrets
hired out to Minnehaha county to dig
out and collect taxes on property
which the regular assessors had miss
ed; the collectors to he paid SO per
cent of the delinquent taxes engaged
at this occupation for a time, the com
missioners decided that they did not
need their services any longer, re-
scinded the contract and refused to
compensate Pierson and Savage. The
court held that the ferrets could not
ecove because the commissioners
had no power to make such a con
tract.
In the case of the Milwaukee rail
way VS.. the city commissioners Of
Sioux Falls the court dismissed an APP
peal from Judge Jones' circuit court.
in which he refused to grant the rail
way a temporary Injunction preventing
the city from putting in new pavement
OIL INOIJH EHllllpo dNCIitS. III tiAo SlIys
in the vicinity of appellants depot.
There has been a corps of itinerant
physicians doing business in the state
for the past couple of years going I'M
der the name of "The United Doc
tors" Doran, the chief United Doc
tor" was prosecuted in Grant county
for practicing medicine in violation Of
the state statute regulating practition
ers. The court found this law uncon-
s~titutional because it was SO broaG
that it refused license to practice tc
any resident itinerant physician, IN
less he had been in the state at the
time of the enactment of the law. This
Interpretation of the law will allow
travelling doctors to continue to sell
pills in South Dakota.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
JURY SEES DYNAMITE CODE
Ping" Letters Direct the Blowing Up
Of Certain Structures-Facts
Given by McNamara.

Indianapolis. Ind.-Telegrams and
letters signed Ping" purporting to
contain a code giving instructions
about viaducts, bridges and buildings
that we're to be blown up, were read
before the federal grand jury in con-
nection with Ortie McManigal's con-
fession regarding the dynamite con-
spiracy.
This signature, according to Nc
Manigal, was not that of the McNa-
maras, but was used by another per-
son whom he named.
Because of his belief that Ping
was receiving 5000 for each lob" and
was giving him only s125. McManigal
says he refused to work with him, and
later arranged through John ]. Nc
Namara, to do Jobs" with the aid of
James B. Mcnamara.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
Basford Gives Figures.

Watertown.-At the annual banquet
given by the Dakota Mutual Life In
surance company of this city, Commits
sioner of Insurance 0. S. Basford was
the principal speaker, and in his ad-
dress gave some interesting figures
concerning the business of home com
panies during the last five years. In
1906 the total risks written was only
$4,000, with premiums received
amounting to but 1854. During the
year 1910 the amount of risks carried
jumped to s~4.S5O,344, with premiums
paid of $347,955.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26
MAN|ACS IN FIRE
FLAMES SWEEPS THROUGH Dun
MING ULL.) INFIRMARY sUllD
ING; 27o PATIENTS SAVED.
EMPLOYEES ARE THE HEROES
Two Insane Turn on After Iant and
Fierce Battle on Bridge SO Feet In
Air Ensues-Police Restrain In
mates From SeIf-Destruction.

Chicago.-lnsane patients at the
Cunning Oily institution were herded
together and marched out of the blaz-
ing "old infirmary" building just be-
fore the structure collapsed.
Supposed to have ignited from a
defective fiue on the top floor OF the
main wing, the flames gradually ate
their way downward and four hours
after the fire was discovered virtually
all Of a three-wing building, four and
five stories high, was in ruins.
The fire was characterized by al
most innumerable acts OF heroism on
the part Of underemployes and at
tendants.
One man was leading a group OF pa.
tients across the bridge leading from
the main structure to a wing that had
not been attacked by the fire when
two of their number tried to run back
into the flames. Thomas Edgar. at
tendant in charge. ran after them,
seized both and e~ndeavored to drag
them back to safety.
The two patients turned on him n
struck, hit and kicked him In an eff
fort to drive him away Failing In
this they tried to throw him over the
high railing and down to THE ground,
so feet below.
They had succeeded In pushing him
to the top of the railing when he
broke from their grasp, knocked down
one Of the men and forced the other
into the wing In which he was caring
for his quota of patients. Then he
carried in the other man. still kick
ing and biting.
There were 27O insane patients In
the institution all OF whom were got
ten out without injury.
When some OF the patients saw the
flames and heard the changing OF the
bells on the arriving fire engines they
began to fight. Like horses. for which
flames appear to have mad fascina-
ton, some Of them started to run IN
the direction Of the fire, while others
rushed to windows and tried to leap
out.
The police, with drawn clubs. helped
to form lines OF the patients and to
keep the violent from committing sui
eide or injuring those who were try
ing to save them.
Many policemen. firemen and at
tendants. both men and women. bore
deep scratches and bruises as mute
witnesses OF the terrific struggle they
had.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-26

CARDINAL IS GIVEN GREAT oVA.
TON AT NEW YORK.
TriumphaI Return Is Marked by Elab-
crate observation-disclosures Gather
at Pier.

New York.-The triumphal return to
New York of Cardinal John Murphy
Farley was he signal for the great
est ovation hat has ever been accord
ed a man Of the church in the United
States. Coming back from Rome.
where he had been elevated from
Archbishop of New York to the high
est honor within the grant Of the
Catholic church, excepting that of the
Holy Father, he was the recipient OF
visible and audible homage UGH as Is
seldom paid to any man.
Many of the most prominent figures
in the public life of the nation