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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-20

Progressive Candidate

| hereby my candidacy for
the republican nomination for the office
of superintendent of schools of Lake
county. | have had twelve years ex-
pe%rience as a teacher, nine of which
have been in Lake county, at Win
fred and Wentworth. | believe that
our rural schools should have super.
vision equal to that of our city
schools, or as near that as can be
given, that the superintendent should
visit the schools often. and during
the winter months when the enrolment
is largest. l believe in more CO.
relation of our regular subjects with
agriculture. domestic science and such
other subjects as will probably be OF
practical benefit to the children in
later life. / have the endorsement
of the majority committee of tue re-
publican party, and / ~respectf ally So
licit your support at the primaries on
| March 24.-T. W. Stillwell.
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Eat at Jacks.
For Sale. New steel range. A snap
at sep. Hirtes, zoe West Fifth
street.
A general meeting of the CONNER
cial club is called to be held thi:
evening to discuss various matters OF
interest to the city.
Local market today: Wheat, rs;
velvet chaff. IA; oats, 80; corn, 80;
barley, AZ. Sioux City. hog market,
SIS. 05 to IS. Is.
Wanted. Bell boy at Lake PARK
hotel.
Lost. Red fox scarf, between city
aud southeast end of Lake Herman.
Return to this Office and receive re.
ward.
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To The Public.

The Holidays are passed and gone
Vacation time is Ger
And we're settled down to labor
For a stretch of twelve months more
We are in the eating business
AT the same old place and price
Will be glad to meet you Thursday
And you'll surely think its nice.
Catholic Ladies.
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LOCAL NEWS.
Eat at ack' &.

Eat at JACK &.
Wash ice delivered to any part of
the city. Geo. Parker, phone 81 main.
The big slaughter sale at Mrs.
Knoeri's is still on and will continue
until Jan. 81.
Found. Breach. red stone setting,
This office.
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while its laxative effect adds greatly
10 the health of your child by remov-
ing the dangerous and disagreeable
effect of worms and parasites from the
system. Kickapoo Worm Killer is a
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-20
Worms The Cause of Your Child's
Pains

A foul, disagreeable breath, dark
circles around the eyes, at times fever
ish, with great thirst; cheeks flushed
and then pale, abdomen swollen with
sharp cramping pains are all indica-
tions of wolms. Don't let your child
suffer = Kickapoo Worm Killer will
give sure reiief-it kills the oTnis-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-20

Gnerally fair tonight and Wednes-
day; colder tonight with cold wave
east and central portions; moderate
winds.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-01-20

health producer should be in every
household. Perfectly safe. Buy a
Lox today. Price csc. All druggists
or by mail. Kickspoo Indian Med.
Co., Philadelphia OF st. Louis. ADV
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dangers from firedamp. and cramp
muscle and nerve.
The Man and His Method
But of the man. his equipment al
training, word. After three yea
study In the academy of Brussel
taught drawing in Louvain.
In the seelusion ofthls somnolent
astie town, he worked out his
tion unaided. His studio had forl
served as a dissectiug room of the ne
medical school of the university, and was
a grim sepulchral structure, tower-shaped
and pierced by narrow, arched windows.
some of which were roughly boarded over.
He never had an assistant. preferring to
build the fire and execute the most rudl-
mentary tasks with his own hands.
His work shows infinite patience and
care, and in it fingers the temper OF the
subject. seen in the shrunken faces, In tho
gray calm OF the picture Ills method
seems to have been to spend as much time
as possible with the men In the workshop.
the mine the brick fields, the forge. and
so to familiarlze himself with the outline
and character of the subject as to con-
vey 1t to his larger work in his studio a
gray, dreary place dominated by the noble
spirit, the incentive OF which was undoubt-
edly to Illustrate the aborer as he found
him not to idealze him.
His Life With the Workers
Meunier was intimate with weavers of
cloth. carvers chair makers. button and
stay front makers and men engaged in
kindred crafts Many of them used the
lathe in their Industries, and when ths
little streams which furnished power dried
up In summer or froze in winter Meunier
turned their lathes for them.
His deep feeling for the man tired, worn
out, body and soul and spirit, is shown In
his work, particularly in his Illustration
of the dock laborers, those who bore upon
their shoulders stone or baggage those
who dragged nets along the beach spread
ing them to dry. With the dyers in their
shops he shared MISUNDERSTANDING
wringing, dipping, drying, cleansing. ver-
lily wallowing in their watts of steamng So
luton. With the farmers in the heat %
the sun he bore his share of the toll His
harvest, depicting men cutting corn ana
women binding 1t into sheaves. is vigorous
lit Is true
The impassiviity and gloom of tho
miner, of the puddler the thin, jerky,
rapid movements of the glassblower the
rhthymcal gait and grave serenity OF
the plowman, the plodding of the job
hand or the fisherman-these, thanks to
Meuniers daily comradeship with the mea
wherein he noted their individuality ana
their temper, are all shown in the LAM
guage of the man of the street.
There is just one word in this Meunisr
story revealing the psychology of the
man and his method of procedure which.
though much used today in the chatter OF
the hour. is still pregnant with serious
meaning The word is Service"
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sight, with a Winchester rifle leaning
against the wall at his side At that ais
tance l would have been an easy faai
even for an inexpert marksman.
,Theer was a gate to the field. and II
was necessary to let down one of the
bars and crawl through, leaving the horse
tethered. 1 entered the field, and hardly
had l passed the gate when Sweeney
shouted to me to throw up my hands, at
the same time raising and covering me
with the rifle.
who are you and what do you want?"
he yelled. as I came to a halt.
MY name is Foster" I answered. land
I want to see Mr.. John B. Sweeney"
'I am John B. Sweeney. What do you
want with me?" demanded the man on the
porch. still covering me with the rifle.
II beg your pardon. Mr.. Sweeney" I
replied, 'but is that gun loaded?"
what do you think 1 would be doing
with this gun if it wasn't loaded?' shout
ed Sweeney. adding an oath.
'.Wel. if it is loaded. wish you would
turn it in some other direction" l said
patiently. THAT horse that have down
there is one that 1 borrowed from the
liveryman at Vinita to ride over here on,
and if that gun were to go off accidentally
1t might scare him and cause him to break
loose, or maybe hurt me. If the horse
got away I would have a lot of trouble
catching him, and If didn't catch him
tho liveryman would make trouble for me.
Besides. I didn't come over here to get
shot. anyway. If I had expected that
there was going to be any shooting l
wouldn't have come"
''Then what did you come for?" de-
manded Sweeney.
"why. it's this way" answered
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over the proposition, however, [ decided
to make the arrest single handed I had
seen Sweeney a year before In Kansas
City, when the man was pointed out to
me by an officer. but 1 felt sure that
Sweeney would not recognize me, and
that could take him by stragem. IL
went single handed, whereas, If [ were
accompanied by my assistant. Sweeney
would become suspicious of our motives
and would open fire. I knew that the
bad man" becomes a very good man in
deed when he is confronted by a man
over whom he has no treacherouslv ac-
quired advantage. Bonnen de,nnrr al
strongly. fearing for my life. bur re-
FUSED to allow hi INTO join me.
hired horse from livery stable
and started for the farm, reaching the
house about $50 in the morning. after
passing through three miles of under
growth along the banks of Little Cabin
creek. It was a dangerous ride, for II
Sweeney had been in ambush he could
have shot me at almost any place 4,
that dense brush timber. When l
emerged on the open field which iormed
the approach to the farmhouse, l saw
the building about 100 feet away ard
Sweeney seated upon the porch in plain
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II wouldn't TAX him through Muskogee
if were you." said the Indian.
why not?' l asked.
THE railroad men there don't like
Sweeney" answered the captain. They've
come to the conclusion that he is a fraud
and that 1t was him and not the other
fellow, who shot "Chick" Warner They'll
probably lynch him if thcy can get hold
of him. "Chick" Is fine fellow and very
popular among the men,"
Accordingly We boarded the northward
bound train and took Sweeney to st.
Louis. transferring there to the Iron
Mountain for Little Rock. Here another
Little Rock road. and thus Fort Smith,
Little Rock road. an dthus Fort Smith,
Ark. was reached in safety, without any
interference on the part of the railroad
men.
From the moment of his arrest Sweeney
appeared stunned He did not utter n
single word until he was on the st. Louis
train. and probably 20 miles north of
vlnita. Then, being seated beside Capt.
Sam Sixkiller In the smoking car. with
myself in the seat Immediately behind
he turned his head around.
Mr.. Foster" he said, still addressing
me by the name which l had given on the
occasion of my arrival at the farm house,
Il wish you would please show me that
gun you stuck into my mouth"
II took the cartridges out OF the der
ringer and handed it to him. The weapon
was of Al caliber, and not more than
five Inches In length The prisoner took
the pistol and examined it critically Then,
without turning his head again he handed
it back over his shoulder, saying in dis
gusted tone of voice:
Il thought 1t was a foot long!"
Sweeney was in due course lodged in
Jail at Fort Smith. He was indicted
and finally tried but was acquitted since
I was never able to discover the identity
Of the slain fam hand or the motive for
the murder.
Sweeney came into collision with me
on an occasion subsequent to this cpl
sode. After his release from Jail he re-
turned at once to Clay county, Missouri
whence he wrote a letter to Mr. A. A.
Talmage. then general manager of tho
Missouri Pacific railroad, demanding slo,-
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to know that you have met him." I add
ed because he has been led to under
stand that the people of>that town do not
like you, so his plan is to run his train
from Vinita, and we can leave our horses
at the livery stable and walk to the side
track, each of US taking a different direc-
ton, and thus the people will know moth
ing about your having met the colonel"
II know them fellows at Vinita are
al lafraid of me-" answered Sweeney land
If Colonel Eddy will give me a job and
pay me enough 1 can get those train rob-
bcrs for him. I'll go with you."
During this coloquy sweeney's brother
in-law, the owner of the farm, had come
out of the house and stood, an interested
spectator, upon the porch. Sweeney
turned to him.
. GO and put the saddle on Baldy, will
your he asked.
He lowered his rifle, which had been
aimed at me during the whole of my
speech.
"Come up and take a seat here on the
porch" he said. "I'll go up and get
ready.
He took his rifle and went upstairs,
while I waited. Now that the strain
of this stratagem was over. I was con-
scious of burning thirst called
Sweeney's sister and asked her 10 give
me a drink of water. Hardly had I
swallowed this when Sweeney reappeared
in the doorway. He had left tile VIM
chester in the house. but in its place ne
had brought his nine-inch AS Colt eix-
shooter.
WELL" he said. suspiciously, nov that
you have found the way here you can
get on your horse and lead the way
lack again."
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Dez@nlzi1g

900 Immediately and threatening that IL
this sum was not received he would blow
up the bridge ON the Wabash railroad,
also stating that he would kill me on
sight In any event. This letter being
handed to nee. I obtained a warrant for
sween'y arrest and went to his fathers
farm near Missouri City, Clay county,
accompanied by a deputy sheriff. 1t was
night and Sweeney was in bed. My com-
panion and I tapped at the door. which
was opened by sweeney's father.
I'VE are officers and have a warrant
for the arrest of your son Barney"
said.
At the head of the stairs stood "Bar4
ney." shotgun in hand.
''I am here" he shouted. 'and I will
kill any man who attempts TO come up
those stairs"
In an instant the deputy sheriff had
bounded up, I following him. Barney
was thrown to the floor and captured
without a shot being fired. He was taken
10 St. lsouiS anu seuteu io illee OF iouS
years in the penitentiary.
After his release Sweeney held up and
tried to rob a Wabash passenger train,
in which attempt he was shot through
the ankle by telegraph operator. lie
received a sentence of II years for this
offense. subsequently he appeared again.
as a witness against the New York Life
Insurance company in the celebrated KIM
mel case. He claimed 10 have visited n
wild part of oregon with Kimmel, a.
man named Johnson, and third per-
son, in search of treasure. Part of tho
treasure was found, and during a quar-
rel over its distribution Johnson shot
Kimmel dead and Sweeney shot Johnson
dead in return
On reading Sweeney's story In the news-
papers, which was almost repetition
of the story of the fake holdup down
In the territory, as related to the express
officials and myself, | really sympathized
with the attorney who had gone to the
trouble and expense of getting Sweeney
there, knowing. as | did, that he was
absolutely untruthful and unreliabe
Braggart, coward and liar, Sweeney was
a typical bad mad"
Copyright, 1914, by International Press
Bureau)
Next Week: "The Parraeide"
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While he was speaking his brother
mounted it. while 1 went ahead and,
after having let down the bars. mounted
to lead the way. which l did. While the
horses picked their path along the trail
that led back through the dense brush,
Sweeny rode close behind me, his revol-
yer In his hand, and grew loquacious,
telling me how he had practeed shooting
with the James gang and how lie had
proved to be the best marksman of the
lot. He also pointed out a clump of
bushes near the path. in which, he said.
the gang had been encamped during the
period that they had been in the neigh
torhood.
While I had perfect confidence in the
success of my plan. it was not without a
distinct sense of relief that 1 saw the
open prairie in front of me AMI vinita
in the distance Then l unfolded a prop
osition to Sweeney.
'T think the best thing for us to dc
will be to ride to the livery stable and
leave our horses there" 1 said. '"Iher
you had better go direct to my room. II
is the corner room in the hotel, and my
grip is still there. Meanwhile 1 will sc
to the telegraph office and find cut from
the operator where Colonel Eddy's spe
cial train is, and what time 1t will arrive
at Ninita. l don't know how you feel
but l am getting hungry, and If 1 nnC
that we have time to eat before th'
special train arrives I will order sem,
food. AS soon as I find out what timt
1t will be here I will come straight bacI
to my room and let you know"
Sweeney appeared satisfied as to-. my
bona fides, and, after we had left oui
horses at the livery stable he went
straight to the corner room at The hote
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which I had occupied while l moved or
in the direction of the telegraph office.
who had been greatly worried as to the
fate of my mission and of myself. Bon
nell was of course, too good a detective
to approach me on the street at that
juncture. He had seen Sweeney part
company with me at the livery stable,
and now he followed at a little distance
until he received the signal to walt.
I went to the telegraph office, but
instead of entering 1t, walked round
the back of the building until 1 had
placed several houses between myself
and the hotel 1 crossed the street
at a point west of the depot and went
round to the rear of the hotel, where
there was a flight of outside stairs
ascending from the back yard to the
second floor. On the way I met Bon
nell again and signaled to him to fol-
low. Then, with my assistants a little
way behind, / assembled this flight and
went quietly toward my room The
door stood partly open. Peering
throgh the crevice I saw Sweeney ly-
ing upon the, bed in his shirt sleeves
with his hat. boots and spurs on. He
was taking things easy II he had
had tolo to INT
tions, these had been completely dis
sipated by my nonchalant way of let
ting him go after their arrival at
vinita.
I drew a small, doubled barreled
Remington derringer from my pocket,
and, hiding 1t behind me, entered the
room whistling. AS Sweeney looked up
I suddenly thrust the derringer into
sweeney's mouth, loosening two of his
upper teeth.
Hands upl" I exclaimed, and the
bad man" complied Immediately.
With my left hand I unbuckled my
captive's belt and removed 1t. 1t con-
tafned the holster with the Colt. AT
that moment Bonnell entered. In
structed him to put handcuffs on the
prisoner and take him to the Gala
boose.
When the next train stopped at
vinita there descended from 1t. not
Colonel Eddy. but Capt Sam sixkiller.
who had arisen from his sick bed and
gone to vinita to assist me In making
the arrest.
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his cheek and infiicting a painful wound.
The man who had fired was Immediately
shot and killed by his companion, his
dead body falling across the platform of
the car. The name of the murderer was
John Barnes Sweeney. and he had for
merly been a resident of Clay county,
Missouri.
When I arrived at vinia l learned from
the express agent there that Sweeney,
after shooting his companion, had re-
turned to the station end informed him
that the train had been held up by the
James brothers and an outlaw named
Ed Miller. Sweeney stated that the gang
had been camping in the brush on Little
Cabin creek, about four miles northeast
Of the spot where the train murder oc-
Cured, that he had known all the men,
bers of the gang before coming to the
Indian Territory, having been born in
Clay county, near the former home Of
the James boys, and that he was con-
nected with them by blood. When the
gang encamped on Little Cabin creek,
Sweeney continued, he himself was stay
ing with his sister on a neighboring farm.
The James brothers had told Sweeney
that they intended to hold up and rob
number of trains on that line and had in
vited him to join them. Sweeney said
that he was an expert rifle shot. and
that for this reason he would have been
valuable to the gang. He mad accepted
the invitation for the purpose Of caus-
ing their arrest. and the man whom
he had shot dead was Ed Miller.
Inquiry showed that the man who had
been killed by Sweeney had put in an
appearance at Vinita only few days
before the shooting. He was looking for
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Colonel Eddy, the general manager of
the NJ. X. & T., went south last night,
passing through Vinita on his special
train, and he wired me in cipher from
Flufaula, asking me to come out here and
see John B. Sweeney and request him to
come over 10 vinita and meet him on his
return north to Parsons. He said in the
message that he expected to arrive at
Vnita about 11:30 today. and that he
wanted to have a private talk with you to
arrange with him for your services in as
sisting in the capture of the parties i'm
plicated In the hold-up that occurred at
Vinita few days before If you are
Mr. Sweeney. and will accompany me
ha'k to Vinita, we will just about have
time. by starting soon. to reach there be-
fore Colonel Eddy's> train arrives. The
colonel does not want the people at vinita
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slDAn INEANT,,
|DECOYING A BAD MAN"
IA Notorious Character Falls for a Bit of
Strategy After Killing His Pal in
a Fake Hold-Up

THAvE always believed the BAD Man"
to be largely a myth, so far as cour-
age is concerned, and 1 think I DEM
onstrated this theory of mine in the fol-
lowing instance, which happened while
was chief of the secret service of the
Missouri Pacific railway, one of whose
leased properties was the Missouri. Kan
sas and Texas.
In the year 1892 the memory of the
James brothers was still green in the
regions of their exploits Though Frank
James was then living the life of a good
citizen in Tennessee, and Jesse, his broth
er, was also in that state, the rumor of
their presence in any of the parts where
they had operated was enough to raise
scare. Especially was this the case in
the eastern portion of the state of Okla
homa, then known as the Indian Terri
tory, which had been the scene of many
holdups and brutal murders.
In the year above mentioned I received
telegraphic dispatch from Colonel Eddy,
the general manager. instructing me to
proceed to Iinita at once, to investigate
a murder which had occurred there, and
to prosecute all persons connected with
the crime.
On the night of September 13, as
northbound passenger Grain was being
shunted upon the main line from a sid
ing about mile north of Vinita, two
men climbed upon the front platform of
ductor, saw them and opened the door,
Without word one of the men drew a
revolver of small calibre and fired at
Warmers head, the bullet passing through
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Selling the Opportunity
From Judge.

Mrs. Crenshaw-You shouldn't be 20
greedy, my dear, and hang up both your
stockings
Willle-Why not. ma? Only while ago
you said you loved me twice as much az
you ever did before.
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A Little Girls PRAYER

From the London Pelican.
Asked to pray for warm weather so
that her grandma's rheumatism might
pass away. little girl knelt and said:
"oh. Lord. please make 1t hot for
grandma"
The herald., 1914-06-25
CHARTER OF THE FOREST CAFE
COMPANY

"'1,g OF louisiana, City of New Orleans. Par.
BE 1t known. That on this 18th dav Of Nav
f1u-t".rS T II5, one thousand nine hundred and
pDi ~ Nl,Ir)' before me, ARTHUR b. LEO.
iHLLD' notary public, ia and for the p5-;sb
-. ,'1HS; state Of Louisiana, duly commits.
.ftu"cu and qualified, and in the pTese1ce -
- .cS>eS ntreinatter named and urder.
sons -, 'o'.alIS came and appeared the per.
-" rs. .,'So names are hereuntO subscribed all
49, we iuIi age Of majority, who srvrraIiy
uC.,aIeu mat. ayailIng themselves NJ tba CO.;
,, "a. avs OF tins State relative TO the orgsn;.
tbr7,soi,.ni separations. they hereby form
-. .SeNeS INTO and constitute corno-5t;o
s,!-,, ,IG ooJeCtS and purposes and urder Nh.
,LiSl'nS hereinafter set forth
,, rN,.Se l.. The name and title of III. cor.
FORFSr" ~ tI " formed IS declared to be THE
stoMTESI CAFE COMPANY. It's 5o,;dii.
I'd't nc IN the city Of New O-Iaars SSoi . :
~! >l1'I' and II shall have and e1io,' e., W
NJ 80 uN us corporate name for nsr;od
berc5g nine years from and after the date
ms corporation shall nave noy.- 81
, 10y 70 contract, sue and be sre5 - ~.
- az name; 20 make and use a co-no-.to
and rs-s, .o'H. receive, hire and purchase rTsI
rledge ~. property, and to sell, mortgage Or
Sc - same. and 20 borrow money ard ;s-
9o1ds' notes and other nbligatio1s anu i
se-,s4 ..ooS or other legal process shall 10
of h;s ~" .He president, and, in thu rvert
csuse ,ISS.',e or inability TO act from, a1y
D-cSife-- s"dll be served upon the yic,
leans Louisiana ol''eF IN New Or
Article H. The objects and pr-nosss e.
mLlvn nus corporation is Organized s15 -.
81 tIe business TO be carried on bv II
are declared 10 be: To engage ~ IL - ~
on the restaurant and LIQUOR bpsin.ssu AIRY ~
~ oranChes, and to sell at retail or Who'll
sale, all kinds OF liquors and refresbr,a,.s
and as an adjunct thereto. TO provide -
'u' 'iSn annusements' entertainments and di.