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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Double Tracking Plans Reduced.

Aberdeen.-The double tracking op-
erations of the Milwaukee road be-
tween Aberdeen and Minneapolis Will
be cut in two this year, owing, 1t IS
stated here, to the financial stringency
in the east making it difficult for the
road to secure funds with which to
complete this costly work this year.
Only about 1875 miles of the 2S7 miles
separating the two cities will be dou-
BILE tracked. although the contracts
let for grading of the roadbed and the
work the company is carrying on OF
widening and replacing bridges and
culverts will be carried on to COM
pletion this year. Steel will be laid
only between Aberdeen and Milbank
and between Cologne and Glencoe,
Mimi The balance of the steel will
not be laid until next year or possibly
later. Contract work is going on gem
orally alone the line, but it is notice
able that the contractors have pro-
vided themselves against a repeti-
ton of the lack of manual labor ex-
perienced last year by putting on a
larger amount of machinery and fewer
men on the grading work.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Assessors Shy at Law.

itchell.-Differences of opinion ex,
list between the assessors of Dawson
county and C1H. Preston, of the state
tax commission, regarding the assess
ment of property at its actual valua-
ton. The former, at recent meeting
which was addressed by Mr.. Preston
to explain the new law, adopted a
schedule which increases valuations
to considerable over the old rate but
which is regarded as only a partial
compliance with the statute as it now
stands. In making their schedule the
assessors made land assessments from
$40 to $50. and structures from three
to five times the value of last year;
horses years old and under $50 to
$780, and over that age 500, large
increase over year ago. Household
furniture is raised to three times of
the average value of a year ago; au-
tomobiles are discounted SO per cent;
wagons and carriages 500 to $50.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
COURSES Of STUDY
MEASURE WILL BE PASSED ON
AT A REFERENDUM
VOTE.
HAPP ENlNGS OVER THESTATE
What 10 Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout South Da.
kota and Vicinity.

Mitchell.-When the state legisla-
ture turned down the bill presented by
the state board of regents more clear
ly defining the scope of the normal
schools of the state, and enacted a bill
known as the Aberdeen Course Of
Study Bill" the friends of the board Of
regents took advantage of the refer
endum to refer this law to the peo-
pie, and hold it in allegiance until the
law has been voted upon. Petitions
are now being circulated among the
voters of the state asking for vote
on whether the law shall stand or not
The course of study bill was de-
signed to apply especially to the Aber-
deem normal school, and refers to the
studies usually found in the normal
stool work, and, in addition, the study
OF the trts and sciences and allied
branches of learning, this to include
the equivalent of the instruction Civ
en- in tie first two years of a college
course. The circular that accompa
MES the petition recites the manner in
which the Aberdeen normal is per-
verting the course of study outlined
for strictly normal school and en-
deavoring to make of it a college. 1t
is a question which has been thrashed
out for number of years that the
normal school is not sending out the
class of teachers desired in the town
and the rural schools that they may
teach the course of study that is more
directly beneficial to the boys and
girls who seldom get beyond the high
school course. There is a great de-
mand for teachers who are more thor
oughly equipped to teach the branch
es within the range of the first eight
grades, and with the normal school
neglecting this part of the teaching
to emphasize the college course has
aroused The people to point where
they wile endeavor to secure such leg
islation n the future that will make
the normal schools more responsive
to the demands.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
A CHALLENGE TO GERMANY
Delcasse's Appointment to St. Peters
burg and Big Increase in French
Army Taken as Defiance.

London.-In the present critical sit
uation in European politics, France,
Germany, England and Russia are all
watching each other to see which
takes the first step.
A British diplomat, discussing the
elements impaired to the situation by
the accession of Poincare to the
French presidency, said: ~
1T is admitted by all who are ac'
quainted with the currents of diplom.
acy In Europe that the coming oil
Poincare has put more electricity intp
the Franco-German situation thai
there has been in many years. THE
appointment Of Delcasse, who has an
avowed partisan policy, as ambassa-
dor to st. Petersburg, and the in
creasi2g Of Frances army constitute
nothing less than a direct challenge to
Germany, the answer to which has
not yet been given and which, when
1t comes, may stagger the world with
its suddenness.
THAT Germany, which insisted on
the dismissal of Delcasse from the
cabinet in 1906 as a result of the
Moroccan imbroglio, giving the
French the alternative of war; should
now eat humble pie in the face of this
open defiance from the head Of the
republic, is at the present moment"
the diplomatist said, "a matter OF
undisguised amazement to all the
chancellories of the world. Indeed.
never within the last ten years, not
even in the Moroccan crisis, has
Franco German war been nearer"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
GENERAL.

An agreement has been reached be-
tween the partisans of General Felix
Diaz and President Huerta and his
cabinet to make fresh efforts to have
a general election called.
Failure to show one case in which
he had investigated home conditions
to which an adopted baby was to be
assigned, featured the testimony Of
DR.. l.. D. Rogers, head of a maternity
hospital at Chicago, when the legis-
lative committee investigating treat
ment of orphans was resumed.
1t was decided by the board of edu-
cation Of Pittsburgh to allow the COM
mittee of citizens asked to investi-
gate the alleged charges of morality
made against Superintendent S. l..
Heeter to "act as it may see poper,
without condition, limitation of re-
striction upon it's power"
1.-THE Chinese senate has rejected
the five-power loan contract. Dr.
Sun Vat Sen, the former provisional
president, and other leaders have
been calling personally on foreign
firms and trying to purchase arms
for their party to the amount of mil
lions of dollars. They are conspir-
ing to start another revolution,
which would provoke foreign inter-
vention and end China's independ-
ence."
Governor A. O. Eberhart of Mime
sofa, has signed the minimum wage
bill passed at the session of the legis-
lature just closed, which provides for
a commission and gives it power to
investigate vice conditions Gin the
state.
Robert G. Fowler, the American
aviator, made a recent flight across
the isthmus in hydro-aeroplane
with a passenger
More than 200 Americans have left
Cananea, Sonora, on special trains
for the border The refugees were
thrown out of work by the partial
closing down Of the plants.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
SPORT.

Gunboat Smith and Jess Willard,
heavyweights, have been matched .or
twenty-round bout to be held III San
Francisco May IT,
Pitcher Bob" Smith has been re-
leased by the Chicago Americans to
the Minneapolis American associa-
ton team. He was purchased by
Chicago from Boise, Idaho.
Having taken the measure of the
Red Sox and tested the Climbers, Con-
ME Mack AYERS that Washington and
not Boston is the team, he will have
to beat
Manager George Stallings says he
would take $4,000 for Fred Smith,
the inielder picked up in Cleveland
for him by Bill Bradley. And this is
the same Smith who was declared a
free agent last year because after
trading with Peoria for him, the De-
catur club of the Three-1 league re-
fused to violate the salary limit Of
it's league and pay Smith more salary
than the law allowed.
Jimmy Clabby, the globe-trotting
middleweight, and his manager,
Frank Mulkern, are in Denever to
wind up training for Clabby's bout
with Eddie McGoorty, which will be
held there Friday night The bout is
to go ten rounds, weight to be 1853
pounds at. 6 o'clock. Clabby was
anxious to have the weight 1853
pounds ringside, but McGoorty held
out for the former condition.
Manager Jennings of the Tigers is
using his southpaw pitcher, Bert
Clauss, every minute in the day pitch
ing to batters in the hope that the
Tigers may overcome their weakness
against sOuthpaws.
All of the classic events of former
horse racing days, the Suburban,
Metropolitan and BroAklyn handicaps,
the Lawrence realization and other
failures, are to be renewed during the
eighteen days racing, which will be
tried at Belmont park, New York, be-
ginning on Decoration day.
Frank Gotch of Humboldt, worlds
champion wrestler, underwent a sur
gical operation for the removal of an
excessive growth of bone in the nose
The operation was made necessary
as a result Of an injury received sew
eral years ago
President Comisky Of the Chicago
Americans plans to increase the ca
pacity of the South Side baseball
park from 10000 to $4,000 for the
season of 1914. When the enlarge
ment has been completed the White
Sox park will have the largest ca
pacity of any baseball park in the
country.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
FOR THE BUSY MAN
NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign intelligence Con.
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
CONGRESS.

Secretary Bryan has named Prof.
T. J. Brooks of the Mississippi agrl-
cultural college and Prof. G. w. Pugs-
ley of Lincoln, Neb, to represent the
United States at the International In
stitute on Agriculture at Rome in
May.
Ben c. Davis, confidential secretary
to Secretary of State Bryan, was
made chief clerk of the state depart
ment. Davis lived in Omaha after
completing his course at Carthage
college, Illinois. He was Mr.. Bry-
ans secretary when the latter was in
congress.
Senator Cummins introduced res
olution to amend the constitution so
that when legislatures of sixteen
states or Is per cent of the voters OF
"a states petition the president for
constitutional amendment, 1t
may be ratified by two-thirds of the
entire states, either through the leg
islatures or by direct vote.
In his maiden effort in the house
Representative Barton, who sue
ceeds former insurgent Norris in the
house, severely criticised the demo
Gratis for passing the tariff bill in Sc
cret caucus. He scored the demo-
Gratis as fathering measure that was
unjust to the farmer and the people
as whole.
In the senate this week the sundry
civil appropriation bill, repassed by
the house, will come up. This meas
ure, vetoed by former President Taft
because it prohibited the use of funds
allotted the department of justice for
prosecution of farmers or labor or
CARNATIONS for violation of the Sher-
man law, will meet with some re-
sistance AS it passed the house af-
ter consultation with President Will
son, the opposition in the senate is
not expected to be effective.
Sir Cecil-Spring-Rice, the new Brit
fish ambassador, is expected to COM
municate officially with the state de-
partment and arrange for his formal
presentation to, President Wilson.
The change in the head of the en-
bassy here probably will be followed
by others in the minor places, and
among the members Of the staff eX-
pected to be transferred from WASH
ington and promoted very soon is F.
Mitchell lines, counsellor of the am
bassy.
Excited debate and heated wrang-
les marked the beginning of the
reading of the democratic tariff bill
in the house for amendment. Pro-
gress on the perfection of the meas
ure was slow, but the talk was loud
and vociferous, and on one occasion
brought Speaker Clark on the floor
with a vigorous speech. The republi-
cans offered amendments to the var
ious passages in the chemical SEIZED
ule, and every amendment calmly
was voted down by the big democrat
ic majority. Several minor amend
ments offered by the ways and
means committee to correct the
phraseology of the bill were adopted.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Looking Into Cause Of conflagration.

Deadwood Evidence is being Sc
cured by both government and state
officials to present to the federal
grand jury which meets here this
month against several individuals
who are alleged to have been guilty of
criminal negligence in connection WITH
the recent forest fire in the southern
Black Hills that proved SO expensive
to both the government and state. It
was at first expected that complaints
against four men in that part of the
Black Hills would be filed with Unit
ed States commissioner. but later de-
velopments decided the officials to file
information with the grand jury. The
offense of carelessly permitting a for
est fire to start is punishable under
the federal statutes by fine of from
500 to $500 and Imprisonment up to
two years in the penitentiary, while
the state statutes provide a heavier
fine and shorter Imprisonment.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
ESKIMO is MORE CIVILIZED
comino of the White Man Shows Rev.
olutioa In Lives Of Northern
People. -

Nome, Alaska.-The coming Of the
white man is effecting slow revolu-
ton in the lives of the Alaska eski-
mos. especially those who spend the
warm months at Nome. These Eski-
mo. who live on a beach all summer.
have already picked up many of the
ways of cultivation, eat some of the
white mans food and wear some OF
his clothes. They are still very dirty,
however, love blubber and all fat as
well as ever and prefer fishing to any
other variety of toll. They are liter
ally children of the sea, which yields
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Adds Reduction Facilities.

Keystone.-The Ohio Development
company, which owns 1000 acres of
property near keystone, now devel-
oped into a producing point, will in
stall $4,000 worth of machinery dur
ing the summer. 1t will consist of an
amalgamating and concentrating mill
to be built in three units, the first of
which will have capacity of 100 tons
per day. This company has two tun-
Scls, 300 and 500 feet respectively,
one of which produces ore worth $50
per ton and the other $12 per ton.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
suffrauettes Prepare for Fioht.

Paris. May 2. - Chrystabel Pank-
hurst, IN an interview, treats the ar
rests in London as matter of little
consequence. She says, 1T will not
make an atom of difference. We have
anticipated such move and our plans
are made. The good work will 20 on
as vigorously as ever. The govern
ment has defied us; so we will re-
double our efforts. This last move is
the stupidest of the many stupid tao
tics adopted by the government. Do
not forget that we thrive on adver-
sity"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Declare Dividend.

Deadwood.-An extra dividend OF
$40 share amounting to $4,000, has
just been declared by the directors of
the First National bank Of Deadwood,
which was in addition to the regular
March dividends of $4,000. The direc-
tors announce that later in the year
another dividend of S13,500 will be
declared, which will make total of
$4,000 in dividends for the present
year, the largest amount this bank has
ever paid.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
The city council of Gettysburg has

The city council of Gettysburg has
purchased ground upon which to erect
a new city hall building. for which the
voters authorized the issuance of
bonds bonds in the sum of $1,000. The
bonds have been sold and the money
now is on hand. The structure will be
pushed to completion as speedily as
possible. The tentative plans are for
building 24x70 feet, two stories
high. to be constructed of brick.
The board of county commissioners
of Dawson county have awarded the
contract for all the engineering and
survey work on the roads to be built
in that county this year to the Dakota
Engineering company for the sum of
$22.50 per mile. Last year the board
paid $6523 mile for the same work.
Dawson county will expend $4,000 on
good roads this summer and about so
miles of new roads will be built.
Business men and other residents
of Hudson have formed a stock COM
pany with the purpose of installing an
electric light system, something which
Hudson has desired for long time.
Within short time $4,000 was sub
scribed and this will be rapidly in
creased to the necessary amount. The
work of installing the system will
commence with as little delay as pos
sible.
Word was received at Mitchell of
the recent marriage in Chicago of
Miss Fannie Mccormick, one of Mitch
ellis best known young women, and
Chas. Howard Entsminger, of Cham
berlain The couple will make their
home in Mitchell. Miss Mccormick
is a talented young lady and wealthy.
Her parents are both dead.
Despondent because of ill health,
Miss Marie Vibrant, aged so, who
made her home on farm in Jerauld
county with her brother, Ernest vi
brant, committed suicide by swallow
ing a quantity of paris green. The
dead woman was born in Germany,
but had lived in the United States a
number of years.
The county commissioners of Bon
Homme county have sold the $4,000
in bonds which were voted at the cleo
ton last fall for the erection of new
Bon Homme county court house, and
the work of construction will COM
mence in the near future. The new
court house will be erected close to
the old court house.
A stranger who disguised himself
under the name of John Doe was ar
rested by the Wagner authorities for
"bootlegging" He was fined $25, but
this was RENTED on condition that he
instantly shook the dust Of Wagner
from his feet. He accepted the offer
and lost no time in making his get
away.
Steps have been taken to secure
funds for the erection at Trip OF a
Carnegie library building.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09

them food, raiment, light and fuel,
They are very skillful seal hunters
and expert boatmen. The boats are
made of skins stretched taut over a
rigid frame and some of them are ex-
ceedingly difficult to manage.
The beach at Nome is wide and
sandy and the Eskimo enjoy the time
they spend there. Tents are pitched,
but the shelter of the great boats turn
ed on their sides is depended upon to
a large extent. Cheap cooking uten-
sils bought at the stores have replaced
many of the crude dishes formerly
used, and sometimes an old stove is
seen in use.
The Eskimo men are rather skillfu1
with tools, and the women do certain
kinds Of needlework expertly. The
heavy garments of skin are remark
ably we'll made and even the shoes d6
skin are fashioned much more neatly
than one might expect In winter
very heavy furs are worn, and the
head is covered with large hood.
The men have devised various rough,
but highly efficient tools and use them
deity to make boats. sleds and weap-
ons.
Although the Eskimo are indescrib-
ably filthy and inclined to take advan-
tage in some ways, they are almost
invariably good natured and fond of
joke. They are intelligent, quick to
learn from people and enjoy the games
of civilization. They are not at all
belligerent and avoid a quarrel If they
can.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Judges PuIIet 10 Some Layer.

Tarrytown. N. Y.-Judge Robert =.
White owns buff pullet Of remark
able egg-laying ability. A few days
ago D. c. Paulding, a fancier, made
the statement that he owned a hen
that had laid 235 eggs in the year
ending January 81. Judge White
came back at his neighbor with the
statement that his pullet had laid 287
eggs IN the year from Feb. z, 1919.
Judge White says the hen Is tho only
N0e he haA
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Franchise LEAGUE Formed,

Huron-A Beadle county Universal
Franchise league has been formed by
the women OF this city and county
who are interested in securing the bal
lot. There is already a good enroll
ment of members, and the first of a
series of monthly meetings was held
last week, Dean Gage OF Huron col
lege, addressing the ladies on the top
ic. Mental characteristics of men and
Women"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
Ends Life in Strange Way.

Pierre.-The coroner of Stanley
county was called to Cottonwood to
investigate the death Of Wilhelm
Herman, an aged German recluse liv-
ing on a claim north of that town. An
investigation disclosed that he had
killed himself by plugging up the
holes in his shack and then releasing
a strong fumigating preparation. His
relatives are in Germany.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09

Testifying for the defense in the
trial of Arthur B. Smith, charged
| with the muir der of his wife, Florence
c. Smith, by poisoning, DR.. Ellis r..
Schilling of Columbus, o., a pathol-
ogist, declared that Mrs. Smiths
death was due to natural causes.
More than half the Belgian work
yrs who took part in the strike for
equal suffrage returned to their en-
| ployment.
Postmaster General Burleson has
ordered that unpaid, misdirected I'M
mailable and unclaimed postal cards,
as well as postcards deposited for
local delivery be returned to sender.
Appointment of a special states at
torney to take charge of the investiga-
tion of Chicago's $1.00O,O00 voting
! machine purchase was demanded by
the grand jury making the inquiry.
c. S. Lawrence of Nashville, Tenn,
has been selected for assistant at
torney in the Department Of Justice
to specialize largely in the land title
questions.
AC LII dSO, SA., oiACitCi, e-SN Nt
for two weeks by a strike of Mexican
laborers, resumed wok with $50 ne
groes brought from Louisiana and
Texas.
The association of pastors and
delegates of the Elkhorn Valley dis
trict, which met at Creighton was
well attended and lively interest.
s,,%1 Il
Twenty-four delegates were present.
In letter to Milwaukee authorities
recently, John Schrank, now confined
in the Northern hospital for the in
sane near Oshkosh, Wis, asks to
have sent to him the revolver he
used in his attempt to assassinate
Theodore Roosevelt last October.
The joint commission of the Meth
odist Protestant church and the
Church of the United Brethren of
Christ, in session at Columbus, O.,
recently unanimously adopted basis
Of union for the two churches, form
ing a new denomination, to be known
as the United Protestant church.
Mrs John Knzuuus, a bride of three
days, is in a critical condition and
may die, as a result of dancing too
much at her wedding. The Polish
custom of dancing with the bride for
81 a dance is responsible. During
the 23rd dance and with 293 silver
dollars constituting the brides dowry,
Mrs. Knzluus collapsed and may not
recover
Thirty-four of the thirty-six states
which have ratified the constitutional
amendment for direct election OF
United States senators had given for
NAL notice CT their action. When Sec
rotary Bryan receives similar notices
from his home state, Nebraska, and
Oklahoma, he will be ready to pro-
claim that the seventeenth amendment
to the constitution is operative.
Hotel men say the new Nebraska
hotel law will prevent designation
houses from masquerading as hotels.
Omaha, Lincoln and other cities have
numbers of such "hotels," and more
than ever since the Albert law went
into effect. The new law is aimed at
this distinction through requiring
that any place holding itself out to
the public as hotel and using the
name hotel" shall be place with
one or more dining rooms or cafes,
serving meals to transient guests all
in the same building and under the
same management.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-09
DAILY MARKET REPORT


Minneapolis, May Wheat, May,
$3.50; July. 81 Nc: No. ] northern, 91Mc;
No. northern, SO 1Ac; No. ] durum, 94c;
No. 3 corn, 56 7ac; No. 3 white oats, 33c;
barley. mailing, 5Sc; No. rye, 5Shc;
No. flax. $1.33.
Duluth. May Wheat. May, 90kc;
July, 92kc; No. l northern, 81 5sc; No.
durum, 96Hc.
South st; Paul, May 1.-Cattlc-
Steers, $3.50; cows. $5.5O@7.00; calves.
lambs, $6.60@7.25.