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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
New Tax Rate.

Pierre.-Letters received by the
members Of the tax commission show
that many citizens throughout the
state have held the i'm
preston that tax leyies are definitely
fixed by the legislature, and that this
fact would be a bar to a lower levy
in ~readiusting to the higher valuations
required III the present assessment.
The legislature does not fix the levy.
1t merely authorizes the levy and i'm
poses the limit. The board Of assess
ment and equalization" which 10Y
will be the tax commission. is author
lied and empowered to levy a certain
number Of mills. The language Of
the law does not make the amount
mandatory, bnt constitutes an "au
thorization" to the amount stated.
Under the South Dakota system the
local levies for support Of counties,
school districts and cities is made in
a lump sum. not in mills or percent
ages. A special amount is to be
raised. and in making up the tax list
the auditor figures the amount Of lew
required TO raise the amount Of money
needed by the taxing districts
In discussing the question on read
iustments under the new plan. Coy.
F. NJ. Byrne said:
Under u system there is no rela-
ton between the assessed valuation
and the amount of money raised fer
taxes-that is. assuming each taxing
district follows the law and leyies
money legally. The only possible dis
c~repancy. or the only way open by the
increase Of assessment for material
increase in taxes, is in the case of tax
ing districts that have been levying
to the limit. A large increase in val
uation would make it possible for such
districts to raise more money, assum-
ing it is their desire to raise all they
can.
my understanding IS. however. that
very few taxing districts of the state
levied the maximum amount under the
valuation of 1912. and have no rea.
o to fear that many districts will
materially increase the amount of
money raised because of the increased
valuation.
so far as the state levy is concern.
ed. it will be made after the assess.
ments com in from the various coun
ties and are equalized and finally ad.
justed. and will be based entirely up
on the valuation. My judgment is
that instead Of being 4 mills, as here.
tofore, the assessment will be from !
to liz mills"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Without Food for DAYS.

Aberdeen.-Exposed 70 the April
weather and storms and without food
for days. II. B. Briner. a homesteader
near Wibaux, Mont, was brought
home to Aberdeen. where it is expect
ed that he will ultimately recover
from his horrible experience. Brlner,
formerly of Richland Center, Richland
county, Wis, took up a claim twenty
miles southwest Of Wibaux three years
ago. After spending the winter in
Aberdeen with his sister, Mrs. ID. I.
Wegner. Briner left for Montana April
s. No word was received from him
and ia May Mr.. Wegner went in search
of him. Briner vas found foul miles
from his claim. He had been wander
ing about the Montana Bad Lands for
many days without food and living on
water alone. He had wasted away
from $50 pounds to a mere skeleton OF
a man weighing less than 100 pounds.
His limbs were swollen and he was
without shoes. having taken them Off
and being unable to get them on again.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What Is Going On at Wash
inoton and in other Sections OF
the Country.
CONGRESS-

Senator Ashurst has introduced a
bill to appropriate $1,6oO.ooo for a
government armor plant.
one-cent postage for letters after
July /, 1914, vas proposed in a reso-
luton by Representative Rouse OF
Kentucky.
A constitutional amendment to pro-
vide direct election of the president
and vice president for a single six
year term was proposed in a resolu-
ton by Representative Britten OF Hi
nois.
The parcels post business has
grown SO extensively that the House
has been compelled to appropriate a
100000 emergency fund for extra
clerks.
Senator Nelson has introduced a
resolution for a constitutional
amendment, giving the president
power to veto any item in the appro.
priation bills.
Senator Chamberlain has refuted
Delegate Understands statement
that he had introduced a bill which
WOulu nave leu otCl h"A
Dor to the G~uggenheims.
Elevation of diploamtic mission to
Spain to an embassy and provision
for separate ministers for Uruguay
and Paraguay are provided in a bill
introduced by Senator Bacon.
Senator Pittman has introduced a
bill to permit the government to
mine Alaskan coal when needed by
the navy, or when it would relieve op-
pressive conditions to o coal monop-
oily.
Senator Tillman's bill allowing the
secretary of the navy to assign gradu-
ate from the naval academy to the
lowest commissioned grades in the
maine corps or staff corps of the navy
was ordered favorably reported.
President Wilson discussed with
Senator Kern, the majority leader,
the prospects of currency legislation
at this session, and learned that at
tention had been focused so sharply
on the tariff that there was no agree
ment in sight as yet as to the ad-
visibility Of banking reform.
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
which has passed both houses Of con-
gress and is awaiting the signature OF
the president, is the outcome Of con.
slant agitation by closed shop unions
to prevent their being held subject to
the Sherman antitrust law, declared
Joseph w. Bryce of Battle Creek
Mich, in an address yesterday before
the National Association of Manufac'
turers at Detroit, Mich.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Mystery Feature in Death.

Oldham-Friends in Kingsbury
county may make a demand tor an
investigation by the proper officers
of the United States government OF
the mysterious death at sea of An
drew Jacobson, a pioneer farmer OF
kingsbury county, who after a visit
at the old home in Denmark was re-
turning to the United States and
South Dakota. Jacobson was accom-
panied on the Journey to Denmark by
Soren Peterson and wife. who lived
near him in kingsbury county and
we're old friends. They took passage
on a steamer. and the second day out
jacobson was taken suddenly III and
died about two hours later. The Pc
tersons were aware that Jacobson had
considerable money on his person
when he sailed, but after his death no
money was found. 1t is further
charged by Peterson, who has reach
ed his home in South Dakota, that the
officers on the boat were reticent as
to the cause Of Jaeobson's death and
would not permit Peterson 10 see the
BODY. The officers OF the oat sent
the remains of the dead man by a pass
ing boat back to Denmark for burial.
The dead man was a pioneer settler
In South Dakota.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
GENERAL

Maryland expects to complete 500
miles Of new state roads system this
year.
The City Of New York owns $500
parcels Of land, valued at ST.
800. 900. 900.
New York is passing the hat for
$50 900 to finance a Fourth of July
celebration.
The school children Of Clinton, Mo-,
dug up 1O.747 pounds Of dandelions
last week.
DR.. Eusebio Morales, the newly ac-
credited minister from Panama has
arrived in Washington.
The United States sent a new am
bassador to the court OF st. James
when Walter Hines Page sailed for
his post in London.
John Muir, the famous California
naturalist. has Just celebrated at
Martinez, his home, the seventy-sixth
anniversary of his birth.
A porcelain teapot, cream jug and
two cups and saucers. nee the prop
erty OF Edmund Burke, the Irish ora
tor, were sold at auction for $1,000.
The third death among patients
who received the friedman tubercu-
lOsis treatment is reported at Wor-
cester, Mass. The last victim was an
Armenian personally treated by the
doctor.
Mrs. George Wallace, 90 years old,
OF Belmont, Pa, won a twenty-mile
automobile race to Grennsburg a.
gainst Mrs. Harry Leordon, aged %.
She drove the distance in twenty
three minus.
The imports Of American merchan-
disc into Liverpool last year exceeded
by $~50,0O0.000 the figures Of 1911,
which were greater than ever before
IN the history of the trade, the total
bling 1917. 750,9O2.
Clubwomeu of San Francisco have
put up to the supervisors q demand
for representation on the police force.
Morris S~almonson, deceased clerk
IN Chicago. in thirty years Of service
issued marriage licenses to over
1,00O.O0 persons.
Exports from the United States
last month were greater by 2 1000. 900
than in April, 1912. while imports
we're SIS. 000. 900 less.
A single contract for the delivery
bf 1,60o,0 900 barrels OF cement was
awarded BY the advisory board Of
ohe California state department OF On.
cheering
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
MUST REFUND TAXES
OPINION is HANDED DOWN BY
ATTORNEY GENERAL
JOHNSON.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Various
State Institutions and From
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine State.

Sioux Fails.-In accordance with an
opinion rendered by Royal c. Johnson,
attorney general of South Dakota, on
A case arising from Roberts county,
that and other counties in the state
will be compelled to refund to the taX-
ing districts of the counties a large
sum of money as their share of certain
tax, penalties and interest alleged by
The attorney general to have been ille-
gally collected. In Roberts county the
illegal collections are stated to have
extended back over a period OF about
counties in the state it has been the
practice in Roberts county to divide
the interest and penalties received
from delinquent taxes between the
state and county general funds. and it
is this practice whichthe attorney gen
aral says is wrong, and intlmates that
proper refunds will have to be made.
So far as Roberts county is concerned,
Just what the aggregate refund will
be cannot be estimated as yet. but II
will run into the thousands of dol
lars. 1t has been computed that under
the opinion of the attorney general
the city of Sisseton alone will be en-
titled to s~1,54S.37, while the Sisseton
school district will receive an addi-
tional ~s1,5S5.55. Every village, town
ship and school district in the county,
as we'll as in other counties. will come
ia for their share of these funds.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
SPENDING LARGE SUMS.
Safety Block System Being Installed
on Milwaukee Road.

Aberdeen.-The Milwaukee road is
signal system at a cost OF $500, 900 be-
tween Aberdeen and Minneapolis
along the route of the new double
tracking for the purpose OF preventing
tall-end collisions. The system pro-
vides for two-mile blocks and is work
ed automatically by the contact of the
train on therails. When a train en-
ters the block the signal flashes dan
ger" remaining at that signal until
the next block is reached, when he
caution" signal is flashed until he
train reaches the second block, at
which time the CLEAR light Is dis
played.
Construction crews are busy all
along the line from Summit To Min
neapolls grading for the new double
track, The principal point OF activity
is the l2-mile stretch between Mil
bank and Ortonville, where a change
in the line is being made. Two steam
shovels, grading machine and
Ito horses, together with several hun
dred men, are employed along that
portion OF the road. Steel gangs are
at work between Summit and Twin
Brooks. The concrete pedestals for
the block signals are all in between
Aberdeen and Groton Bronze grass
Is beng sown along deep fills and
cuts, the heavy sod from the prone
grass preventing the washing away
of the sides OF the fills.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Presentation Caused Explosion.

Spencer.-E. S. H~artenstein, a drug
gist. narrowly escaped a serious and
perhaps fatal accident when a stran-
ger went into his store and asked to
have a prescription compounded. 1t
appeared suspicious to the pharma-
cist, and after he had filled the bot
tie it became so hot that he had to
place it in a dish of water to cool.
When the party returned for the bot.
tie, the pharmacist shook it twice and
Immediately the contents exploded,
scattering the fragments Of the bottl~
over the room. and the liquid spatteF
ino AVER the two men.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
SPORT.

Third Baseman Callahan, who has
been with Wichita for two years. has
been sold to the Sioux City Western
League club.
George Stovall of the Browns is in
the 800 class, which is one Of the rea-
| sons Colonel Hedges is 30 anxious to
have his manager reinstated.
"Chic" Palmer, a member of the
Columbus, Nebr. State league base
ball team, has resigned his position
and quit the game entirely.
The largest field of entries ever
made in the history of the Dies
Moines Driving club is announced for
the 1913 races to be pulled off July )
to 5 on the state fair grounds.
Manager George Stovall of the
Browns has been reinstated by Presi-
dent Ban B.. Johnson of the American
league after being on the suspended
list for nearly three weeks.
Announcement has been made by
the Omaha, Neb., management that
Glavenuch, a right hand hurler, has
been purchased from the Cleveland
club of the American league.
Jack Hendricks, manager Of the
Denver ball club, denied a report
from Denver that he would farm out
Shortstop Matthews to the Luding-
ton club OF the Michigan State league.
One OF the largest track and field
meets ave- staged in the west was
held at Des Moines, Ia, in a combined
| state college and state high school
meet. Over 400 We're entered for the
various events.
Walter Johnson, W~ash;ngton's
crack pitcher, was defeated for the
first time this season by 5 to 0
score. at the hands Of the Cleveland
team. He had a record of ten
straight victories.
Denver seems to be hitting the
chrtes. Things don't como so easy
away from the home bear pit.
Mike Ragan, a member OF the Kan
a City American Association teams
| pitching staff, has been sold to tho
| wichita Western league club.
Alma w. Richards, the Olympic
high Jump champion, competed in six
events in q dual track and field meet
between the Brigham Young Univer
sity and Utah Agricultural college 4:
Provo and finished first in five of the
events and third in the other. making
a total OF ~twenty-six points for his
team.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Marrled in Prison.

Mitchell.-A peculiar wedding took
place in the sheriff's office at the court
house, when Perry Goodner, alias Har-
ry Brown, was married to Miss Laura
Siberling. The couple have been liy-
ing together as man and wife on a
farm four miles north OF this city for
h past two years, and there was not
the slightest suspicion that the people
We're other than they represented.
Goodner came here from RENSSELAER,,
Ind, from which place he fed under
the charge Of grand larceny, and the
officers there have been OF track Of
him ever since. Goodnes @as finally
traced TO this city. and Sheriff Berry
made the arrest of Goodner on the
complaint Of the Indiana authorities.
Miss Siberling came to the city and
suggested that they get married. A
license was secured, Goodner was
brought up from his cell, and Judge
Herbert Of the municipal court per
formed the ceremony. Sheriff Hoover
reached the city from Rensselaer,,
and returned to hat place With Good
ner in his custody. Goodner's wife
returned to the farm and said that she
would be able to take care of the
crops and harvest them 0hen they
We're ready In the fall.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Pardon Board Recommendations.

Pierre.-The state pardon board at
a meeting recommended a commuta-
tation from life sentence to forty
years for Francis Van Moore, sent
from Stanley county on a conviction
Of murder of an Indian woman. The
recommendation is one to allow him
to hold title to property In which he
has an interest. A communication
from fifteen years to ten years was
recommended for Walter johnson,
sent from Custer county ON . charge
Of highway robbery.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30

Miss Frances A. Shaw, for thirty
years a resident Of Minneapolis ana
widely known rs an author, is deaa
Chicago reports the formation or q
lew mail order house, capitalized aI
$4,000, 900.
Maine has 1885 wage earners en-
ployed in 1886 factories.
The Emperor OF Japan is seriously
Ill with inflammation of the lungs.
A herelc bronze statue Of the late
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale mas
been unveiled at Boston.
Sale of cigarets to persons under
q years is heavily penalized by a
new law in Pennsylvania.
More than 80 per cent OF Calilor-
MAS orange crop escaped the disast-
rous frosts Of a few weeks ago.
Charles NJ. Schwab is having a pri-
vate railroad car built for nun IN
South Bethlehem, Pa, to cost sl22,~
900.
Trinity Church corporation, New
York, has q tenant in one OF It's
houses who is the mother OF twenty
four children.
Rum is now imported into prohi-
bition Maine in powder form, the con-
signee preparing the drink by the ad-
dition OF fluid.
Thomas Zieglar Of York Springs,
Pa, who is Sc years old, cast his frst
vote at Carlisle, and it was for James
Polk for President.
Special elections for the submission
of initiated or referred laws are not
permitted under the Arizona conStltu-
ton. according to Attorney General
Billiard.
Hereafter in California giving a tip
to porters, conductors, walters, par
bers. bellboys or others performing
similar services is a felony, pena1lzed
by liberal fines.
A branch OF the women's welfare
department of the National CIVIC
Federation is soon to be formed at
Pittsburgh, the initiative step having
already been taken.
Near Boston an engineer obtains
| electric power for his extensive sub
urban estate by near Of a windmill
which is a close copy Of the most mod.
arn steam turbine.
The Missouri public service com
mission has ruled that the telephone
companies cannot furnish free tele-
phones to railroad stations for the
accommodation Of the public.
Former President Taft told mem
bers of the graduating class Of the
Harvard law school at their banquet
that he had received much Of his
legal training "at the expense of the
people"
By a vote of So to 0 the Illinois
senate passed a bill putting quack
doctors and fake medical sharks out
of business. The bill is now before
the house OF representatives with a
favorable report.
Mount Vernon, home Of George
Washington, will remain closed TO Wis
itors on Sundays as heretofore as the
result of resolutions adopted by the
council Of regents of the Mount Yer
non association.
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Meigs, who has
been the copyist and indeNar Of the
supreme court in the District Of Co
lumbia for twenty-five years, has been
appointed assistant chef clerk of the
court, being the first woman to hold
this position.
The oldest and most gruesome
theft probably recorded took place in
New York lately when ONE one
stole a human hand wearing a dia-
mond ring, which had been several
from a young woman falling under
an elevated train.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
blanks Sent Out.

Pierre.-The secretary Of state has
sent out blanks to all county treasurers
for use in the automobile law.
Registrations can be made any time
before the first of July. The law
might have been put in operation soon
er. but for the delay In securing print
ing supplies. While all blanks are
filed out 1t the county treasurer's OF.
fee. the county treasurer sends direct
to the secretary Of state for the large
.agz, which this year are white. with
black lettering and very large.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Beujn IRRIGATION Survey.

Pierre.-The first official survey
work on the proposed irrigation plan
for the utilization of the flood waters
of the south fork of Cheyenne liver
has begun. The force which Will run
the lines from the point or Cheyenne
river near Buffalo Gap out onto the
p~rairies of eastern Pennington and
western Stanley counties, is headed
by Littell Snivelv, engineer III charge
assisted by Henry Sparks, Emil Heck
and Clearance Hofstetter from Brook
ings state school; with Dan Gier"a-
gen as general scout for the party.
the project being his pet plan for de
yelopment of the western part Of the
state. G. W. Pope Of Philip will be
the cook and general utility man. The
party will be out for most OF the SUM
mer and their work will be the basis
for estimating the possibilities Of that
plan of irrigation, and may mean the
development Of a large area which
viii be greatly benefited by the plac-
ing OF water upon II.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
To Build Orphans Home.

Sioux Falls.-What is known as the
ton which has many members in
South Dakota, has decided to estab-
lish an orphans home in the state, and
Rev. j. A. Quello, a representative of
the synod. now is in South Dakota
for the purpose Of looking over the
field and selecting the town where
the new institution will be located. 1t
is believed some town in the south
eastern part of state will be selected.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Rooster In Mother Role.

Fort Pierre.-As an addition to the
list of unusual animal incidents noted
in various sections of the country,
Charles Millet, living near here, pre-
sents the case of a rooster on his
farm which is successfully and indus
triously mothering several little chick
ems. orphaned in an accident. It re
quired some effort at first. to reconcile
the rooster and the chickens to the ar
I.ngement, but now the rooster han
dies the job as naturally as any hen on
the place.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Odd Fellows to Meet.

Rapid City.-Watertown was select
ed as the next meeting place by the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows by a large
majority. Officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows. Grand
Master, S. E. Wilson, Hot Springs,
deputy grand master, Chas. Barrett,
Watertown; grand warden, Harvey J.
Rice. Huron; grand treasurer, Geo. W.
Snow, Springfield: representative. two
years, A. +. Clough, Springfield: grand
representative. II year, j. NJ. rat
ton, Sioux Falls.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Phone Fiuht at Mitchell.

Mitchell.-The Dakota Central Tele-
phone company has made an effort to
effect a compromise with the CITY
council concerning the differences
which exist between them on the tele-
phone franchise situation. Mayor
Hitchcock stated that he had gone
over the proposition of the telephone
company thoroughly and made an
equally thorough investigation of the
ordinance, and decided not to accept
the new proposition. A special cleo.
ton will be held June 10. and 1t is be.
lieved hat the citizens will stand by
the council in its efforts to solve the
telephone question.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-05-30
Many New Companies.

Pierre.-Articles of incorporation
have been filed for the Mound City
Mercantile company, with a capital OF
$4,000. Incorporators: NJ. j. Wien
stein, Charles l.. Gross, Joseph Chur-
ter.
For the Tropical Development com.
pany. limited, headquarters Huron, and
Detroit, Mich, with a capital OF SlVo.-
600. Incorporators: Fred IL. Law
renee, William Fl. Lawrence, Detroit,
Mich. Philip Lawrence, Huron, S. d.
The Okalahomba Petroleum COM
pany at Britton and Ardmore, Okla
homa, with a capital Of $500, 600. IN
c~orporators: G.. l.. Mcclure, G, l.. West
w. p. Potter, r. NJ. Johnson, Ard
more. Oklahoma; II. w. Mountain.
Britton.
For the Commonwealth Securities
company. with headquarters at PIERRE.
and Chicago, Ill, and a capital of $500
600. Incorporators: A. b. Headlngton.
Chicago. Henry f. Lenister, Nalpar-
iso. Indiana; Albert f. Hams, Craw-
louisville. Indiana; Jas. 5. Sebree.
Pierre.
For the Stratton Venture Corpora
ton. at Deadwood with a capital or
81, 900. GOO. lncorporators: Frank ,.
Stratton. Henry II. Hyde, Robert M.
Ogden. William l.. Ogden, Deaduood.
w. N. Allen. Troy, \. Y.
The Ardmore Oil company, at Ard
more, with a capital of $1,000. 900. In
perpetrators. O Anderson. II. l.. KEEL
Ter, r r. brennan, Ardmore; S. A.
oliver, j. n. Bruer, J. r Mcconnell
Crawford, Nebraska; Lawrence III.
Hedrick, Hot Springs.