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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
GOLD MEDAL
Offers Prize to Children for
Good Roads Letters

Washington, April 21.-A gold medal
to the school boy or girl between the
ages of 10 and Is who writes the best
composition, not to exceed 500 woIds,
on the repair and maintenance of
earth roads, is to be awarded by Lo-
gan Waller Page, director, Office of
Public Roads, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, d.
c. All compositions must be submitted
to Mr.. Page before May Is, 1918, and
the medal will be awarded as soon
thereafter as the compositions can be
graded. The composition may be
based on knowledge gained from books
or other sources, but no quotations
should be made.
After many years experience in
dealing with the public road situa.
tion of the country. it is Mr.. Pages
belief that ignorance on the subject of
repair and maintenance of roads is as
much the cause of their bad condition
as any other one factor. 1t is expect
ed that the competition will bring
about a better understanding of the
subject of repair and maintenance in
the rural districts.
Many children living in the rural
districts have experienced the disad-
vantages of roads made impossible
through a lack Of proper maintenance
and it is expected that their interest In
the competition will stimulate greater
interest among the parents. Bad roads
have prevented many children from OBJ
tanning a proper education and have
even prevented doctors from reaching
the side Of rural patients in time to
save their lives.
Any child between the ages men
toned, attending a country school,
may compete. Only one side of the
paper must be written on; each page
should be numbered; the name, age,
and address of the writer, and the
name and location of the school which
he or she is attending must be plainly
written at the top Of the first page.
The announcement of the competition
has been sent to the superintendent
OF schools In the iural districts. No
further information can be obtained
from the Office of Public Roads. This
announcement should be plain to
everyone. and all children will thus
start on a basis of equality.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
WET OR DRY?
Madison Liquor License Election
Causes Newspaper Dis
cushion

Sioux Falls Press: Madison offers
the first opportunity and it will no
doubt be tak,n for testing the new
law regulating voting on the license
question by cities and towns. License
received a majority of three votes over
the no-license forces Tuesday, q clear
majority Of the number Of votes cast
on that question. But the vote for
license was not a majority of all the
votes cast at the election. Some vot
ers did not vote either way on this
subject, but, by voting for city candi-
dates. participated in the election
nevertheless. Both the license AMI the
no license forces claim the victory, on
the strength of different interpretations
of a law.
The feature of the law which is at
tracing particular attention just now
at Madison and elsewhere in the state,
is the clause that provides that license
shall be Issued In a community where
the majority of those voting on the
proposition declare for license. The
provision of the new law is as fol
lows:
"If a majority of the voters of such
township. town or city VOTING ON
SUCH PROPOSITION shall vote in
favor of such sale of intoxicating liquors
at retail, the corporate authorities
thereof shall grant permission for
such sale for the ensuing year"
Heretofore the law has required a
majority of all votes cast at the cleo
tion before licen se could carry. The
clause quoted above was defeated by
overw helming maiorities in botn the
house and senate of the last Legislature
but in some unexplainable manner ii
made its appearance in the enrolled
bill which was signed by the governor.
The journals of the two houses show
that the amendment was defeated and
the attorney general holds that, under
the Dillon law, the journals Of the
two houses are the best evidence OF
what the law is. Previous to the pas.
sage OF the Dillon law in 1909, the su-
preme court had held that the enrolled
hill is the beet evidence of the legisla-
ture.
Both sides, according to reports from
Madison, are determined to win, and
the matter will very likely have to be
decided by the state supreme court.
Meanwhile there should be some lively
work done in Pierre to run down the
cause of he blunder in enrolling on the
bill a clause that was decisively de-
feated by both branches Of the legisla-
ture.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
STATE NEWS

Miller-Judge Hughes was here and
passed upon Harold Cousins, the l2.
year-old hoy who set the st. Lawrence
school house on fire. He is to go to the
training school at Plankinton until he
is 81.
Flandreau-Charles Lawrence an In.
dian student at the government Indian
school here, is proudly exhibiting Q
letter which he has received direct
from President Wilson, in which the
chief executive Of the nation thanks
the Indian boy for some fine examples
of pipestone work. which the Indian
lad recently sent the president.
vermiIlion-Maitin Poulson, a young
engineer Of this city has gone to Mis-.
sissippi. where he will sci We as govern
ment inspector of drainage work. Mr..
Poulson war the engineer in charge Of
the big irrigation ditch recently com
pieted in this county. He is a gradu
ate Of the University Of South nakot,
school Of engineering.
Washington. D. c. Secretary Lane
Of the interior department, appointed
Thomas G. hoy, of Keystone, s. D..
% superintendent of the Wind Cave
National park In South Dakota.
Pierre-O. W. LANCE. a special
representative Of the department Of The
interior, arrived to investigate charges
q persecution of homesteaders by
special Agents Of the general land de-.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
LOCKED Up
BY Boy, Boys Mother Spends
a Day in a Closet

Bellefontaine. o., April 21.-Mis. r.
W. Southland, wife of a manufactures,
was imprisoned in a closet in her home
five hours by her two-year-old son
Robert, who pushed the closet door
shut. Mrs. Southland went into the
closet, under a stairway. to hang up
a shawl. The baby toddled after her
and shut the door. which had a spring
lock. There was no knob inside the
door and Mrs. Southland could not re-
lease herself.
She called and tried to explain to the
baby how TO open the door, but the
little fellow became confused. She
then told the child to go to the tele-
phone and call his papa, which he
undertook to do The receiver was
heavy and he dropped it, thus leaving
the telephone open.
Worry over injury that might hap
pen to the baby while she was impris-
oned caused Mrs. Southland to COAX him
near the door. With a long hatpin
she somehow caught his clothes suf.
ficiently to hold him so that be could
not be harmed in falling down a
stair way or in numerous other way
that the mother. in her prison imagined.
Toward evening Mr.. Southland called
from his Office by telephone. The tele-
phone operator informed him the tele-
pone at his home was open and that she
could heal a baby crying. fastening
home MI. Southland was met by the
baby, who had become released, who
led him to the door of the closet.
When he opened the door Mrs. South
ard fell into his arms. All the closet
doors in the Southland home are now
being fitted with inside knobs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21

and derision and the battle wa&ed only
fercer.
Passengers on incoming steamships
report that the affair is assuming in.
ternational importance since develop
ments ale eagerly followed abroad.
There IL no doubt of the seriousness
of the situation. or its importance in
the eyes of the New Workers, though
it is hard for an outsider to under
stand such a tempest in a teapot.
But apparently to limit New Yorker:
as to the quantity or quality of their
dancing is the n thing. they will
not stand for, and the turkey trot
battle is likely TO go down in the
history as one of New York 8 t%iercest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21

partment. The special agent was sent
out in response to q resolution of the
Legislature asking for action on the
part OF the government.
pierre-In a FIRE started from a gaso.
line blaze this afternoon Mrs. W. 4.
LANCE, who operated a garment clean
ing establishment. was sever ely burned
before she escaped from the building.
Pierre-The state capitol commission
selected Phelps Wymsn. Of Minneapolis,
as the landscape gardener to lay out
the work on the grounds OF the state
capitol and start operations on active
Improvement.
Yankton-Sig. o. Hanger of Yank-
ton, has been notified by Norwegian
Counsul General Ravn of New York.
that he has been appointed vice coun.
Gil for South Dakota, an important
position in this state of large Norwegian
population.
Vermillion--An unusual hall game
Is scheduled for May /. in which the
University of South Dakota team will
play a Chinese baseball team from the
Chinese university. of Honolulu,
Hawaiian islands. All the players OF
the visiting team are of the Monaghan
race and are said to pat up q good
game. The contest will be pulled od
on the university field.
Miller-The funeral of Lindon Lud.
lam was largely attended today. His
death was most tragic. Sitting on the
dill sowing grain. one Of the horses
kicked him over the heart and he fell
backward. breaking his neck. The
four horse team then ran Of with the
machine. n of the horses nearly be-
ing killed by running against a shaft
that penetrated it's body. Another OF
the horses was badly injured. A
~neighbor in passing discovered the
tragic situation.
Sioux Falls-By the terms Of q will
filed in the probate court in Sioux
Falls, Miss Gwendolen Moore Garey.
1t present u student in Z college Il
drinnell, Ia, 10 given one-half inter
est In = Ainnehaha county farm which
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21

she would not be living today n
Known for forty three years rs the best
remedy for coughs and colds. Price,
soc and 81. Recommended by all
druggists.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
DANCE MAD
New York Turkey Trotters Will
Not Be Curbed

New York. April 21.-Not in decades
has New York seethed so wildly as il
is now doing over the question of dane
ing. Incredible as it may seem to out
sideis this question with q very great
number Of people throughout the city,
people of every class, is overshadow-
ing everything else. Compared to il
the income tax is a side issue and the
tariff a matter of little importance.
For New York Is in the midst Of a
great turkey trot war. To q very
much lesser degree this has spread ia
some otnei parts of the country. Here,
however, the struggle has assumed
tremendous proportions which it is be.
lieved only legislation at Albany car
settle. There are many who believe
that even this will be inadequate. The
average New Yorker apparently be-
lieves that his right to dance when hs
pleases, where he pleases, and particu
larly how he pleases. il guaranteed
under the constitution, DR. IL 1t is moi
should be. The mayors recent order
closing NJ 1 o'clock places at which
New York is accustomed to dance,
caused q roar which could have been,
and undoubtedly wal heard at Albany.
The few places which got around the
order coined money and soon New
Workers in their Unsuitable desire t.
dance caused open violations.
Afternoon turkey trotting. even Sun.
day afternoon tiotting fcuriohes, and
New York il apparently dance mad.
The announcement of the mayor that
the ban would be put on certain kinds
OF dances evoked frssh kowlA Of rags
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
Beware Of for Catarrh that Contain
Mercury

as mercury win surely destroy the sense
OF smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces Such articles
should never be used except on pre-.
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as the damage they will do 10 ten fold tc
the good that can possibly be derived
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, man
ufsctured by +. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo
o., contains no mercury and is taken in.
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and muoous surfaces Of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. II is taken internally
and made in Toledo, o., by Frank
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
A FREAK LAW
lawmakers Pass II to Beat the
Referendum Law

Pierre. April 21.-Do you want 8
domestic or a hired mani Have yor q
horse OF any live stock for saleH On
are you looking for work of any char
acter or do you want to buy anything
Any and all of these questions are tc
be answered of hand by the state
bureau Of information, called the
state swapping bureau In South
Dakota, in charge of G. N. McIlvaine,
secretary Of the state fair association,
with registers of deeds as heads OF the
county information founts.
All this is under the most p~aternal.
istic legislation ever enacted In thi.
state. The law was framed by X. o.
Richards. the father of the primary
election law which is making county
auditors gray headed before their nor.
NAL time.
The law requires each register OF
deeds to supply himself with three loose
leaf ledgers, one to be known as the
labor book, another the live etock
book, and the third the cereal book.
In these shall be registered all applica-
tions for labor o. positions: or Of live
stock or gain for sale, Oh a desire to
purchase any of these commodities.
The registers are to make a daily re-
port to the state central head and all
their applications of any nature what
ever are to be compiled and all
questions answered In regard to what
is to be found in the way of labor OF
position; or products of all classes for
sale OF desired.
All Of the applications of any char
acter may be sent to the proper officials
through letter. telephone OF any other
means Of communication and entry
shall be made on application.
The law should be a boon to the
woman who wants a girl for geneia al
homework as it puts the supply of the
whole state at her command to choose
from IL there are any to choose, and
the girl looking for a place has the
same opportunity to pick. as all the
details as to what will be expected Of
her must be recorded in the application.
incidentally it might be pertinent to
say tine law was only enacted on the
open assertion that it was passed to a v
the referendum ballot from being fur
Their cluttered at the next general
election. the author being ready with
his petition to carry it to a vote IL
the Legislators refused to accept 1t.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21

get a bottle of DR.. Kings New Dis
covsry. You will get relief from the
first dose, and finally the cough will
disappear. 0. II. Brown, Of Musa-
dine, Ala, writes: "My wife was
down In bed with an obstinate cough.
and I honestly believe had it not
been for m. Kings New Discovery,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-21
Coughs and CONSUMPTION

Coughs and colds. when neglected,
always lead to serious trouble of the
lunga The wisest thing 20 do when
you have . cold that troubles you II to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22

That spring we floated seventy
thousand logs down to our mill,
and as ! stecred each one in its
proper course we didn't lose
single log, Bobwrote Sen Lewis
that | was a perfect wizard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22

Soon we hit the dam. Old Bob
went on down. As my log
plunged down | back out of il.
Our log raft came on swiftly. 1t
would take fast work the next
few minutes to save our lumber.
The Calumet news., 1913-05-06
SAYS EDDIE IS
AFRAID OF HIM
Nc Goorty Replies to Klaus Def
With Offer of $4,000

Chicago, May G.-t'rank Klaus, of
Pittsburgh who returned a short time
ago from Paris is accusing McGoortl
of being afraid 10 meet him. Franks
statement is not borne out by the
facts. once in san Francisco Klaus
declined To meet McGoorty and again
in Pittsburgh there was run out, and
1t wasn't on the McGoorty end either
From this distance il looks as if Klaus
wanted to fight the big fellows and
is unwilling To make weight for any
Cf the legitimate middlewcights. jim.
my Gardner defeated Klaus not So
long ago and so did Hugo Kelly and
both Of these men have since hear
relegatcd To the scrap heap. Klaus
defeated Papke ii is true. but it tool,
him sixteen rounds and then the de-
cisicn came on foul.
McGoortN's record is considerably
cleaner than Franks. the Pittsburgh
man must admit. and this gives him
no legitimate chance To howl at the
Oshkosh star. MCGoorty has beaten
the hes, Of them and has done every
thing they have asked him To do. His
quick knockout of Dave Smith. the
Australian light heavyweight who
had. previously beaten Billy Papke,
Johnny Thompson and Jimmy Clah-
by, was a sensational performance.
and he topped it off by trimming Jack
Harrison. champion of England. In
similar fashion When one puts on
top of that his defeat of Mike Glib
bons. of 81. Paul, the man who was
tabled by the New York critics as
the boxing wonder of the age. Eddie's
work stands out far above that of
Klaus.
Incidentally. when McGoorty heard
about the Klaus remarks he wired an
offer to Pittsburgh to give Frank q
side wager of $4,000 on twenty-round
contest At liS pounds at the rinGside
for the worlds middleweight title,
Oshkosh friends of McGoorty having
offered 10 find the larger part of this
stake for him. II Klaus is real mid
dleweight this offer cannot fail to h"
attractive to him
The Calumet news., 1913-05-06
CRACK BRITISH ATHLETE.
Ashington of Cambridge Is Said To Be
Another Thorpe.

New York, May 6.-When the OK
ford and Cambridge athletes come
here 10 meet Yaic ana Harvard I'm
dual meet this summer American fol-
lowers of track and field sports will
have an opportunity ot seeing one "l
the best athletes in the world. lie IS
IL. =. O.. hshinSton of Cambridge
Not I'm recent times has an athlcte
shown scuh remarkable ability on the
track and field as has Ashngton. Even
he mighty Jim Thorpe never did what
this young Englshman did recently.
81 the recent oxford cambridge
mert Ashingtcn won thre" events
the 120-yard high hurdle race. the
running broad jump ana the half-mil@
ruu. He captured tho hurdle in 10 -
seconds. smashed the meet record IA
the jump by clearing % feet "a
inches and won the half-milc In MN
utcr I IL seconds.
The Calumet news., 1913-05-06
BUSH GREAT LEAD OFF MAN.
Tiger Shorstop Is Exceptionally Hard
Man To Pitch To.

Detroit, May G.-Donie Bush. the
pepperv little Detroit shortstop only
batted 23l last year, and Yet players
To man. claim he is the greatest
leadorr batsman in the American
league.
Detroit scribeS figured out that
Donie drew 10 bases on balls i'm his
games last season. and that is more
passes than any other player in the
league gained of the opposing pitch
crs It's Donie's crouch that makes
him one of the hardest marks in base
ball to put the ball across the pan for.
TN cobb told some of his fellow
players that If Donic would only
spread his legs farther apart as he
stood at the plate aud combined that
with his crouch To make himself Il
shorter mark, there would hardly he
a pitcher in the league who could
pitch To him.
The Calumet news., 1913-05-06
Timely Observations Of Events Happening in the Sporting World
AMONG CORNER LOT TEAMS.
Great Activity Among Future Greats
OF the Baseball Diamond.

1'h" Y, NJ, &. \. Junior baseball team
defeated the Hccla Cubs Saturday by
the score Of Is To 3. Danbom and
Mahcwson were the Y. NJ. {. \. bat
terry and Pichitino. Charricr aud Kelly
for the Cubs. The Y. NJ Z. A. Juniors
are anxious Ia meet - year old teams
The lineup is as follows: Mathew
son, catch; DdnbOm, pitch; RenWick,
first Richards. second; H. Williams,
third; Silyerman, short stop, Kerr
Edwards and I'riskcy. fielders.
The North Tamarack Fire Flies,
managed by Dan Cusick. will meet the
Ahmeek team at Ahmeok SATURDAY.
En- Clemens will pitch and James
Taylor catch. The team will play
Wolverine at Wolverine Sunday.
Waatti viii pitch and Albert Moilanen
catch Louis Sandretto and Ralph
Nerson have been released and will
be replaced 10y Elmer Wesala and
Tony Gianoni.
The Calumet news., 1913-05-06
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The Calumet news., 1913-05-06
OWNER MURPHY
MAY SELL CUBS
Chicago National Magnate to Re-
tire His Friends Assert

Chicago May G.-"Fur Salc-one
major league bah cmh-apply 10
charles w. Murphy, tenth door, Cot
tom Exchange building, Chicago, III
some inside information gained here
frines ,ut the tip that unless the Guns
keen up IN, annual fight in the Ma
ucnal league pcnnant struggle, the
above advertisement may he waited
around the baseball globe
Of course. at the present. Murphy
/, bound lu deny that he has any in
,ontions Of selling the Cubs and may
5o me- VIII not, but il is mighty COM
mon talk here that If Johnny EVers
tails 10 rebuild the once great ma
chine. Murphy will quit baseball. sell
his club and retire from the game
% n,ar-mllionaire
The sensational change in the make
W. of the lour-time y. l.. pcnnant
winners has changed the enthusiasm
in Chicago considerably With the
White Sox the popular favorites with
Hr fans the west side aggregate
ha9 20 win pcnnants to get the play
al the gate,
The cubs won the pcnnants and al
though comiskcys SoN never amount
ed much after 1906. the American
lwguc-s usually cleaned up just as
much as the rival foe on the West
side
Eut the release Of Frank Chance,
Joe Tinker Mordecai Brown. Artic
Hoffman and Jimmy Sheckard has put
e. Webb Murphy in a mighty bad
light with the folks who are respon-
sblc fo' the erection of the million
dollar plants.
With Chance, Tinker, Brown, Hof-
man and Sherkard gone, Pnester and
many other members of the two-timc
worlds championship winners, the
chicago Uopulece is be ginning to wane.
They never did like Murphy, hut like
'he cratic baseball fan, patronized the
great 'uh machine
But 30 lruls as If things will he diff
lcrcnt M Chicago this year, and the
PREDICTION S. out in the entire middle
N'Sl ial, 'hc cubs are wrecked.
MI inc fuss in the past winter was
revived this spring when Trainer
por SDmmcus planted "yako" wal
Np ON Manager Evers' Jaw resigned
and then ioincd Joe Tinker and the
E'd% Ih, once moro started the agi-
Glin ae1iust Murphy.