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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-04-02

further south, but in other respects
appear much like the ordinary beef
strains of Dakota animals.
Pierre-State Game Warden He'd
rick has returned from the Black
Hills where he went to receive the
shipment of elk to the state from
Victor, Idaho. The herd is for
Wind Cave National park near Hot
Springs, and the state reserve, each
getting twenty-three. One of these
consigned to the state died on the
trip, and twenty-five have been To-
Gated on the reserve, in a tract about
seven hundred acres which has been
enclosed until the fence about the
whole tract is completed.
Lake Preston-For the first time
in the history of this immediate Sec
tion farm land has sold at upward of
$40 an acre, this being more than
double what ii was valued at five or
six years ago. The record price for
Kingsbury county has been made by
the sale of what is known as the
Henry Schrader farm of 100 acres,
which was sold for S125 an acre to
G.. G.. Porter, of Wayne county, Ne
DTdShd. ne ldIHl 10 Wtli liipIoNtd.
The new owner will not take posses
sion of the farm until September Is
next.
Pierre-An agreement has been
signed between the state land de-
partment and the government forest
reserve department by which the
state and government are to share
expense of forest patrol during the
fire seasons" this year. A like
agreement was carried out last year,
which gives each reserve the aid and
assistance of the other in fire patrol
work. The department is sending
out notices for bids for $500 rods of
woven wire fencing for the com
pletion of the fence around the state
reserve which work is being pushed
as fast as the appropriation allows,
the bids to be opened April Is.
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MERCHANT SUICIDES
Harry Stever of Ipswich Broods
Over His Financial
Troubles.

Ipswich. April 2.-Harry Steever,
proprietor of a general store at Ips-
wich, a pioneer of Edmunds coun-
ty, is supposed to have committed
suicide at Ipswich by taking poison.
Financial worries over his business
affairs are said to have been the
ause. An inquest will be held over
the remains.
Steever went home about S o'clock.
Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Alma
Lewis, his housekeeper. found him
dying. Medical aid was summoned,
but he died shortly before 6 o'clock.
A bottle partly full of carbolic acid
was found hear him, but he showed
no burns from the poison. He had
been worrying over his troubles con-
siderably of late. He was about As
years old and was a blue lodge Ma
sen.
Steever located at Ipswich in 1883.
opening the first hotel in the town,
which he operated until entering the
general merchandise business in
1905. He was a widower. One 50,
Frank Steever, Of Minneapolis, sur
wives him.
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STALWART FACTION
May Dictate Governors APP
pointments Under Rich
ards Law.

Aberdeen, April 2.-Another kink
in the Richards law has been dis
covered in the power it gives the
state central committee and the
chairman thereof in the regulation
of political appointments. The law
provides that all persons who desire
appointments to state positions shall
file their wants between now and the
November election. All these appli-
cations shall be kept on file, and on
the first Tuesday in December ii
shall be the duty of the state central
committee. including its chairman
and secretary, and the members OF
the party national committee, to as
semble at the state capitol and in
dorse the men they deem fitted for
the positions to be filled. This party
Endorsement Is to be filed with the
secretary Of state. and 1t is presumed
the governor and other appointive
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FELL BY WAYSIDE


Pierre, April 2.-The newspaper
men who sought the favor of the re
publican voters at the recent primar-
les did not fare very well. Deacon
j. ID. Reeves of the Groton ~Independ-
ent and Paul butcher of the Brook
ings Register, who ran for nomina-
ton for state senator on the minor
ity Republican ticket i'm their re-
spective counties, were defeated.
And in Sphinx county O. b. Axtell, of
the Mellette Tribune, who was a can
didate for the nomination for state
representative, lost by a small vote.
John III. LeMay of the Worthwhile
Journal and Len V. Doty of the Do
land Times-Record were rival candi-
dates for county auditor of Sphinx
county. and in choosing between
newspaper men, the voters gave Doty
the preference by a majority of 50.
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STATE NEWS

Pierre-The Locke hotel. which
was headquarters of the legislative
lobby in this state In the early days
of statehood when hat feature flour
ished, and which was owned by a
local stock company, has been sold
to George Washburne and III. Hunt
er. OF Quinn.
Hudson-George Henneman is the
corn king of this vicinity. He has
Just delivered to a local elevator 81
400 bushels OF shelled corn, which
he raised last year. He had previ-
ously shelled 5000 additional BUSH
els, and this he yet has on hand and
will sell later. He will raise corn on
a large scale this year. having ar
ranged to plant 400 acres to this n
crop.
Pierre-That the proposed in
crease of from one to two cents per
cwt. on cattle and from 2 to A cents
per cwt. on sheep shipped from west
of the Missouri river to eastern mar
kets has been suspended, pending a
hearing. is the notice given the state
railway commission on their COM
plant to the Interstate Commerce
commission.
Frankfort-To have the value of
his farm increased more than three
fold in IL years was the experience
of Joseph Schultz, a well known
farmer living in this vicinity.
Eleven years ago he purchased the
farm OF $50 acres for SIS an acre.
He has just sold the farm to a Me-
braska mar for 5000 an acre, thus
receiving more than three times as
much for the farm as he originally
purchased 1t for. Each seaso dur
ing the time he owned the farm he
raised profitable crops on the land
Aberdeen The Aberdeen park
board is considering the idea of EN-
ploying a landscape gardener to look
after the system of city parks, now
nicely established, of which there are
nine altogether, including the large
and small parks. The board has
yer 10000 live streets in its vari-
Gus nurseties and in the parks. and
is making rapid progress in beauti-
flying the city's breathing spots.
Miller-Wyland & Corcoran have
just shipped in here from st. Pau
100 head of cattle. the most of which
they say came from Canada. This
is the first shipment of Canada cattle
to this part. Many Of them are near.
~ fat enough for beef now. They
have longer hair than cattle raised
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powers will be governed by it.. If
the majority of the state central
committee members from the differ
ent counties should be standpat re-
p%ublicans, therefore, that faction will
be placed in a position, if the law is
complied with, to virtually dictate
the appointments to be made by Gov
ernor Byrne, should he be reelected,
although the governor belongs to
the progressive wing of the party.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
BOARD MET MONDAY.
Supervisors Put i'm Two Day Ses.
sion Auditing Bills and Look
ing After Road Matters.

The board of supervisors met
Monday and transacted a lot OF
business Monday and Tuesday, au-
diting claims against the county and
looking after road matters.
The Burr Oak road in the vicin-
ity of the Jacob Haas farm is bad
ly in need of repairs, which seems
to be the case year after year, on
account of it getting washed out.
The board has two propositions on
for a new road. The first is to build
two bridges and a new right of way
on the east side of the creek, and
then come into the Burr Oak road
at the north.
The other proposition is to cross
the NARROW property and wind
around the hill and get upon the
ridge, and then run straight north
to the Gossman farm, and take in
a little of Canoe township. Then
keep straight north until the south
line of Horace Smiths farm is
reached. From there two PROPOSE
tions are in view, either keep the
ridge, cutting off a piece there, or
else take the line and run due east
into the Burr Oak road.
The estimated cost of the new
proposition would be about $4,000.
Supervisor j. S. Williams and
County Engineer Lee have the prop
ositions in hand and will look care
fully into the matter of the high
way, ETC. and report at the next
meeting, which will be held Aug.
Goth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

the latest happenings, keeps New
York city in intense excitement. The
war bulletin Offices of the newspap-
ers find hundreds eagerly gathered
of war events.
We have always felt that we live
in a stage Of advanced civilization,
where lives and property are pro-
tected, and considered above death
and destruction. but we must con-
clude that our foreign brothers are
in an advanced stage of war, instead
of an advanced civilization OF the
goth century,.
The ruin brought about by the
present warfare is so tremendous
and destructive that differences, no
matter of what nature they may be,
should be adjudged in a peaceable
manner, and no such slaughter of
human lives should be permitted in
this day and age. We now realize
more than ever, that the Wilson
policy is by far the better, in ad-
justment of such national affairs.
l was down in Wall and Broad
streets, the main financial streets of
the city, and due to the fact that
the Stock Exchange, as we'll as the
Consolidated Exchange and the
Curb market are closed, it seemed
the streets were deserted, and a
good deal more quite than the Fri
day before the closing Of these ex-
changes, when stocks in one day,
dropped from 10 to 20 points, max
ing thousands poor, and many rich
in very few hours.
Not since 1873 has the stock ex-
change been closed, and then for
only 10 days, but from present seri-
Gus European conditions, there is
no telling when these places will be
opened. We, at home, can hardly ap-
preciate the meaning of the closing
employ thousands of people who
for the present at least are out OF
work, and their earnings are cut
off.
In the commercial line, imported
goods will Immediately increase in
value by the failure of European
firms to deliver millions OF dollars
worth of goods, which are on order
but cannot be sent over TO this
country. 1t is hard to say what ef-
feet all this will have on our com
mercial situation, but it should give
American industries the biggest
business which has been enjoyed
for years. And while this, no doubt
will be the case, you hear nothing
but regret everywhere, and If Unit
ed States could stop this wholesale
slaughter of human lives and pu
an end to the war, it would be done
at once.
The United States practically ha:
no merchant marine service. w,
have relied on Europe for our pas
senger and freight service on the
sea; and while we may find some
way to export our bread stuffs, etc.
still 1t will be hard matter to find
CONTINUED on last page)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
HON. G.. N. HAUGEN.
Fourth District Statesman, Dean
Iowa Delegation, Gets Review
in National Magazine.

In a review OF national officers
at Washington, the National Maya
zine for August contains many ar
ticles of general interest, among
the number being review of the
public life of the Fourth district
congressman.
Just around the corner from the
elevator, in room 200 of the house
office building, the seeker will find
Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen.
Mr.. Haugen was born in Rock
county, Wisconsin, in 1859. and was
actively engaged in business in
Worth county, Iowa, up to the time
he was elected to the Iowa legisla-
ture. He started in business at the
age of fourteen and is an interest
ing type of the self-made man.
Everybody in his district appears
to know Gilbert Haugen and trusts
him. The same popularity which
he enjoys at his home in Northwood
seems to prevade his district, and
party disputes may come and go,
but for eight terms Gilbert Haugel
has been honored by his constituents
in reflections. After a service of
sixteen years, he is regarded as one
of the solid and substantial leaders
of his party When his colleagues
gather for conference in the room
of Gilbert Haugen they feel that
they are getting at the very gist OF
the problem, and are listening to
opinions founded on just rugged
common sense.
He is dean of the Iowa delega-
tion, and his poise and goodnauTe
have given him a unique distmc-
tion in the house of representatives.
His long service on the agricultur-
al committee and his faithful work
on war claims is record Of which
he may we'll be proud. Mr.. Haugen
has been working night and day IN
/ behalf of the dairy interests Of the
United States, and to defeat the
oieomargarine measure. He has
stood so far ahead in this work that
lhe was once asked if he were the
sole defender of the dairy interests
on the committee" His reply was
characteristic of his modesty, "Oh
no, l have a number of friends on
the committee, but l have been en-
gagged in the work so long and am
so familiar with it that | naturally
take the lead He is greatly in
terested in measures looking toward
pure food" legislation, in the es-
Establishment of a childrensl bureau
and in other legislative matters
such as tariff currency and railroad
rate regulation.
In a review of the discussion or
the Federal Reserve Banks, Mr.
Haugen made one of those plain
simple statements that attracted
widespread attention in congress
He drove straight at the situation
from the standpoint of practical eX
perience rather than Elusive theory
He made a speech on the Panama
tolls last March and his address OF
vocational education was most in
teresting forecast of the message
which is certain to crystalize into
law. He has also spoken on the
parcels post, the savings banks, th'
tariff, the post office appropriation
bill-in fact very few measures o
Importance have come up in con
gress in which the voice of the stur
ldy congressman from Iowa has no
been heard.
/ Mr.. Haugen has always beei
Continued on last page.)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
THE FIRST CHAUTAUQUA.
Last Week Was the FOrtieth Ami
versary OF the First Meeting
Held. 1000 Now i'm
Operation.

Forty years ago this month, on
Aug. 4, 1874, group of clergymen
and Sunday school teachers held
the first Chautauqua meeting. This
summer Chautauquas are being held
| in 5000 American cities and towns.
1t is estimated that by the end OF
| the season in September 5000, 900
persons will have been admitted to
| lChautauqua tents and auditoriums,
and that approximately $7,500,000
will have been disbursed as gross
Expenses of the exercises. Such is the
popularity which has been attained
by the Chautauqua 'the most Amer
lean thing in America"
The meeting of 1874 was held at
lChautauqua, N Y, it being from
this place that the subsequent Chau-
itauquas borrowed the name. AT
Chautauqua, N. Y, the Chautauqua
Institution, the direct result of that
assemblage Of forty years ago, is
carrying on many activities on an
extended scale. 1t will hold a forti-
eth anniversary week beginning Aug
2. This week will be preceded by a
musical festival week, also in honor
of the anniversary.
The Chautauqua Institution has
lno connection with the rest of the
1000 Chautauquas, and these, in
turn, are split into groups and indi.
vidual units. The two main divisions
are system or circuit Chautauquas
and local Chautauquas.
There are fifteen system Chautau-
quas, which control circuits of towns
lin which Chautauquas are given. OF
these circuit towns there are 2,400,
These system Chautauquas are indie
pendent of each other and in many
instances are competitive in at.
tempts to book towns.
In addition there are 600 loca'
Chautauquas owned and managed in
individual towns, each being inde-
pendent and having no affiliatior
either with the circuit Chautauqua
or with the Chautauqua Institution
] 4. Many famous men and wo-
men have appeared at the Chautau'
qua Institution and before the small
er meetings Among them have
been: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford
B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William
| Mckinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Will
liam Fl. Taft, James Bryce, Robert
Nj. LaFollette, Charles Z. Hughes
Marcus A. Hanna Earl and Counties:
of Aberdeen, Henry Drummond
Lady Henry Somerset, Maud Balling
ton Booth, Susan B. Anthony, JohI
B. Cough, Frances f. willard. viii
liam James, Lew Wallace, Edward
Everett Hale, Thomas Nelson Page
George w. Cable, Jacob Riis. JUL;
Ward Howe, Jane Adams, Charlie
! w. Elliot and dozens or otner la
nous in politics, social reform, re
ligion, education, law and iitera
ture.
\ The man who first proposed TIL
idea which ultimately led to tn
foundation of the Chautauqua. Insti
!, tuition, and thence to the nation
, wide Chautauquas of today, is Bish
! op John H. Vincent, who in 1S7
, was a Methodist minister in Plain
/ field, N. j. His idea was, in his owl
words, the establishment of sum
mer camp institute for the trainin
of Sunday school workers; summe
| institute for thorough normal drill i
the interest of the great body O
/ earnest men and women who wer
Continued on page 1O
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
THE IOWA SALOONS.
At Present Rate Commonwealth
VIII Be Completely Dry in
Five Years.

Year by year the destroying hand
of the anti-liquor sentiment has re-
duced the numbers of the saloons
in Iowa until today the institution
shows but fragment of it's former
strength This is the tale that figures
on the saloon situation, brought up
to date, have to tell.
The reduction of the number of
saloons has been steady and prac-
tically unchecked. Eight years ago
they numbered in the whole state
1,770. Today all are gone but
$50. If that rate of decline should
continue, it will be but five years
more till there will not be a saloon
left. If the rate of decline from
1913 to 1914 should continue, it
will be six years till they are all
gone.
Only a Dozen Wet Counties.
Thirteen years ago there were
fifty-eight wet counties in Iowa
fifty-eight counties which had coun-
ty consent petitions. Today there
are consent petitions for the coun-
ty as a whole in only twelve. Out
side of these twelve counties there
are but twelve places where liquor
is sold in saloons.
OF the trend of the sentiment
concerning the saloons, the figures
are the best evidence. Here they
are:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
In All His Visits to New York He
Never Saw the Excitement So
Intense as the European
War Makes it Now.
WAR BULLETIN BOARDS
EAGERLY WATCHED
New "BiltmOre" Hotel JUST Opened
Wonderful HOstelry, Twenty
six Stories High, 1000
Rooms and $50 Private -
Baths.
New York, Aug. s.. 1914

My Dear Editor:
This is my seventy-eighth trip
to New York City-a record which
few business men can boast Of.
have witnessed this great city dur
ing its booming period before the
panic of 1907, and in fact in almost
every stage this country has passed
through within the past 80 years,
but never in all of my business trips
have seen the excitement prevail
ing as during the time of my pres
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

A shack in the woods back of
town and watermelon is better
than dear old Lunnon and a trav-
elers' check that won't buy any
thing to eat. We have vast
advantages over Vienna. Ber-
lin and the gay capitals of Europe
nowadays, don't you think?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
Wet Wet No.
Polk Has Two Wet Cities.

The figures on the number of wet
wherein liquor is sold anywhere.
There are twenty-three such in
Iowa now. But only twelve of them
have general consent petitions for
the whole county. Ten additional
counties have saloons in one city
or town only, and one county, Polk,
has saloons in two cities.
The wet counties and the number
of saloons they have are: Bremen
S, Carroll 10, Chickasaw s, Clay
ton Is, Clinton 81, Crawford II,
Dubuque "A, Ida 5, Jackson IA,
Lee 25, Osceola 8, Scott SS-To-
tai, 297.
The cities outside the wet coun-
ties licensing saloons, and the num-
her they have are: Boone 10, Bur
lington "a, Cedar Rapids 50, Cres-
ton 6, Council Bluffs 20, Des
Moinet Sc, Fort Dodge Is, Iowa
City 10, LeMars 4, Oelwein 6
Sioux City AZ, Valley Junction p
Total, 271.
o. Have Closed Doors.
On July 1, 1913, there were 66S
saloons in Iowa. There has been a
reduction since then of 100. The
| big share of this reduction was
brought about by application of the
law passed by the Thirty-fifth gen
eral assembly to bring down the
number of saloons in special char
ter cities to one for each 1000 o.
the population. Half the excess mum
ber of saloons in the charter cite:
were cut off July / of this year
Davenport lost 81 and Dubuque
lost 21. Strict application or the
law within the year caused Cascade
to lose 6, Bernard to lose 1, Dyers
vile to lose z, Farley to lose
New Vienna to lose L, WorthingtoI
to lose l, LIE Mars to lose Z. Ochey
| Continued on last page.)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
Supreme Court Judge Here

We acknowledge a call this NOR
ming from w. S. Withrow, Justice
of the Supreme court of Iowa, whose
home is at Mt. Pleasant. He was
here getting acquainted with as
many Of the voters as possible, as he
is up for reelection at the coming
election. He is fine appearing
man, and has an excellent record.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

Anyway those tourists will have
a story to tell entirely different from
that brought back by those who
went over when everything was
lovely and "Bill' Shakespere's tomb
was an exciting experience.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

ent visit. The
war is heard and
talked about in
every part Of the
city. On every
street corner you
see people stand
ing in groups,
talking war. The
newspapers issu-
ed in almost spe-
cial hourly edi-
tions containin c
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

An exchange says: THE next
building erected should be for in
durable automobile speeders, New
er mind about padding the cells.
They have no brains to butt out"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

If women voted in Europe there
would be no war. o, yes, of course,
but those domestic affairs aren't
actually war tho the neighbors may
think so. =
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12
Bless your lucky stars that "

Bless your lucky stars that you
were able to go out and pail the
cows or do the horse chores this
morning instead of grabbing a gun
and getting in line to furnish a
mark for some emperor's soldiers
to shoot at. 1t is much more pleas
ant to own farm in Iowa than to
be a kings chattel abroad. What?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-12

The plan of the universe is per-
fect-just when the hottest wealth
er comes and nothing fit to get for
dinner the tired housewife throws
away the cook books and piles up
a seven story dish of green corn on
the cob