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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-05-06

w iSPOAA DCAbS 1o = vs.
Salary fund
April /, cash on hand. IS SASH
Received from county
treasurer ~2,681.55
BY 5 warrants paid ..... 1866
May l, balance on hand. 3,273.60
Street fund
April /, cash on hand $1,194.11
Received from Lake View. 91.13
Received from county
treasurer ....... 1,340.77
BY 2 warrants paid So. 103.10
May /, balance on hand. 2,522.91
Contingent fund
April l, cash on hand. -. $1,281.71
Received bank interest. 24.44
Received fines from Spon-
holZ .......... lZ4.l5
Received from county
treasurer $3.50. SO4.46
By 8 warrants paid ..... $3.50
May /, balance on hand. 80. 2,13S.16
Interest fund
April /, cash on hand. IS 94S.S5
Received from county
treasurer ..,..... 1,394.40
May /, balance on hand. 2,343.25
Sinking fund
April /, cash on hand IS 1909
Received from county
treasurer . . ......... ~3,1b4.Zo
May /, balance on hand. 3,314.82
Library fund
Received from county
treasurer ........$ 1881
Sewer fund
April /, cash on hand. ..$1,337.14
May /, balance on hand. =. 1914
Treasurer's check for $26.19 in
terest on deposits for April was or
dered placed in contingent fund.
The following applications for per-
nit to sell liquor at retail were read
and on motion permits ordered is
sued:
Fred Kurth, lot IS, block 10.
John Donnelly, lot IT, block 10.
Ben DeBelts, lot 20, block 10.
Peter Heagney, lot 10, block 10.
w. G.. Comfy made application for
permit to sell on lot FL, block 10.
On motion, Monday night, June /,
1914, was set for hearing of same.
City Health Officer Duff submitted a
report regarding the health, OF
which was on motion accepted and
placed on file.
II giGAtloh vi ~ ~ oiAiR ~ cs
chief; K. Hunt, LIST assistant and H
w. Brown, End assistant by the fire
department was duly confirmed by
the commissioners.
Bond of the Electric Supply com
pany, with Jos. Henkin and K. l.
Biederstad as sureties was approved
and license granted; also the poo
and billiard hall bond of G. e. Shift.
let with Joseph Henkin and VIM
Abbott as sureties.
The following bills were read and
on motion allowed as read, Mayor
Waskey voting yes, Commissioners
Kundert and Johnson, yes.
G. j. Simpson, freight and
drayage DAT
C. M. & st. p. Ry., freight on
2 cars coal ........... 1885
Frank Nelson and r. Westa-
by, unloading 2 cars coal. 1890
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have their own code of manners and morals. They do not steal one anoth- CTS crusts or vodka bottles. They sometimes eXeeute justice-some weeks ago the body of a strangled man sup posed to be cadet was found near the field with the label "Vor," which means thief. Also they respect one an- others wives" The field shelters about To of these some of them once shone in aristocratic drawing rooms One, a woman who calls herself Osipoff is' supposed to be Anna Osipovna Cast freund. rich Riga woman who killed her lover and spent some years in Si- beria. Osipoff gives tone to the Hot Field and adorns it's entertainments. When cadet gets, begs or steals money he entertains that is. he goes to the red saloon as Russians say. comes back laden with vodka: and shares if with his comrades until all fall insensible.
 Policemen periodically raid the Hot Field. They pull the cadets by the heels or hair out of their holes and demand evidence of identity. This means that thA Things That Once Were Men must prove what men they were. If they prove to be casual vagabonds they are expelled frcm the city. This pleases them. The municipality gives each sheepskin coat ard pair of felt knee boots. and they are despatched to the frontier of St. Petersburg province. whence they imme- diately return. Cadets who prove them- selves to be natives Of St Petersburg cannot be expelled. Cadets who arc iobles either by birth cr life nobles by virtue of having been officials or mem. btrs of the learned professions are treat ed with respect as rprivileged." The DO. lis e let them return to their holes Hence the longest residents cr the Hot Fieldg are the Things That Once Were Men or oNten
 St, Petersbures sanitary authorities have long desired to abolish the Hot Field" colony. but the political police ob- 5ccted. They have been backed up by M. Msklakoff. the minister of the interior He and other high political officials dis- riay strange partiality for the human di't-heap The req son fs probably that the Hot Field makes easier the task of the political police It attracts fuRitives from jail and from Siberia. Formerly tl'ese made fer the Vazenssaya Lavra. s vheer they remained undetected among thousands of wastrels. nameless men and passport'ess criminals. Now many poiiti- cal fusltives make for the Hot Field. 7 Tbe field is suspected of harboring police spies among its cave dwellers, and this in part explains the relative wealth of some cadets. In 1912 man who was tried for ccncoctfng bomb plot a the instigation Of the police admitted that he had lived for three months in the field
 Mayor Count Ivan Tolstoy wants in close the 1eld both for sanitary and for political reasons. He is a stout liberal. and was education minister in Witte's 1908 reform cabinet. He does not see why st. Petersburg should tolerate a menace to health and morals merely because if helps the reacti0nary government to Iav @fs honGes onr politeal victims.
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which he duly did. I took the porter, whose name was Davis. to a colored barber shop in Palestine, where 1 had Davis whiskers shaved off, as we'll as his mustache. The porter protested vigorously. but I finally persuaded him into the chair. l afterward had Davis don the suit of common field hand and soft hat of the kind usually worn by the field hands in that section After Davis had been shaved and dressed in his new clothes his own mother would not have recognized him.
 l then placed the porter in the charge of McCabe, who was unknown in that part of the country, with the following instructions: He was to take the first train on the following morning as far as the water tank above mentioned near Overton. There Davis and he were to leave the train, and they were to walk into the village and go around It, looking carefully at every person who came near them. In the event of Davis being able to recognize one or both of the masked men he was to in- form McCabe quietly, and McCabe was to report to me at once
 I proceeded to Overton from Pales- tine on a train that left on the preced- ing night and waited for developments.
 short time after McCabe and Davis arrived they were passing a blacksmith shop when Davis suddenly recognized
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Russ;a's Things That Once Were Me,,''

tho late Willia mT. Steady and prom fsed to follow his counsel to knock the Lavra down, and replace 1t with model dwellings, This was done. In the name of hygiene and morals, the 10,0 Things That Once Were Men" were deprived of their home. Many left Pe- tersburg for their villages. The grim nest, widest dirtiest, boldest and clev- crest laughed at the notion of living in rural tedium without metropolitan amenities. and they resolved to find an- other home. They tied their furniture in handkerchiefs and made for the Hot Field" famous then only for its smells and It's mountains of offal and filth which, when covered with a foot of snow, served the city's yout has tobog- gan slides. They dug holes in the rub bish and in these holes began to live wild beasts. They next looked about for name and organizations; and be- ing largely men of education and tal- ents they chose good one. They called themselves Cadets of the Gold en Company" "Kadetic Zolotoi Rotuin By that name they are known today
 The rubbish hills of the "Goryatchee Polye" are honeycombed with dwell lings, some of which are made merely by scooping into the piled up filth while some are tunneled under the earth The system gives protection against the mius 15 degrees centigrade which north Russia gets several times in the winter. At first the Cadets of the Golden Company" merely dug tun- nels into the rubbish boarded them up in a primitive way to prevent collapse and made breathing holes. In the holes they practically hybernated during the winter. leaving their rubbish beds only once In several days to hunt for vodka and terrorize "tea money' out of soli- tary women and children
 Later, under the influence of Things That Once Were" architects or en- gineers. the lairs were improved Some of the things have tunneled far into the rubbish heaps, and hollowed out several rooms" They set up primitive stoves for which fuel is found in the vast quantity of consumable matter cast on the rubbish heaps Primitive chimneys made of stolen tubes project out of the heaps Some caves are lux uriously fitted. in that they have store rooms of food, and of stolen vodka. Nearly all the vodka stolen by officials from the state drink shops goes to the hot field. In this way the field Ia made homelike. A frightful stench af decomposing filth is waited from it; and people with sensitive noses fight shy of the neighborhood But the in habitants are used to this. They live in what seems indescribably misery in rage, filth, damp, hunger, and when vodka runs short-thirst, But be- ing by ntaure vagabonds and wastrels they enjoy life; and one of them lately told the writer that his life is pleasant CT in the hat field than when it was spent in the saloons of Moscow, where this particular thing, once lived as a successful oculist.
 The "hot field" produces surprising types of deprayity and misery. Most of
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the company" are old men; nearly all are blear-eyed and crippled with rheu- matism. They are clad in rags; and when raided by the police and turned out for inspection in the cold, they look like wild beasts at bay. Yet in the average cadets mein there is something. 2. that shows him not to be an uneduca ted wastre1 of the sheeplike mouiik or sledge driver type. The cadets show their mettle by their cynical speech: i: their boldly expressed hatred of the law and of society; and the demoniacal glee they get from the humiliation of others.
 The hot field has it's hierarchy of misery There are classe sand ranks One of the rubbish dwellers is the study 50-year-old 'Spiridon Poworot" "Spiri- don Poworot" is a generic name taken by Russian vagabonds when they want to conceal their real names from the police. Spiridon lives in a tunnel well supplied with food and drink His real name is Plestcheff; and he was d pro- lessor at Petersburg university under the reactionary education minister Bo- golepon, who was murdered by a stu dent. After quarrel with Bogoliepoff. Plestcheff lost his post. He took to drink, and one day entered Moscow prefecture and slapped the prefect's & face. Later he disappeared. and as he was next seen near Libau harbor it was supposed he had drowned himself
 Last winter he was recognized in "Spiridon Poworot." The police in searching the Hot Field" for mur- derer suspected Spiridon of being their man. Spiridon dragged out of his rags Il filthy passport and showed it to the police. It bore the name simon Plestcheff." Plestcheff's relatives tried to rescue" him. He laughed; invited his cnnSip tp dah hat tl. Dish cave, and offered him a lunch consisting of stolen vodka and crusts picked from the heaps
 casual dweller in the Hot Field Is Etanislas Jasinski, who is the Pol ish count Stanislas -Alsen- -Jasinski. Jas lnskl served In the Cavalier Guards regiment and on the staff During the lighting round Plevna in the Russo Turkish war he was employed by car Alexander II as messenger to Prince Charles of Romania. He Sost his monev in gambling; took to Viazebskaya Lavra and later to the Hot Field ' Every spring JasinslSi disappears: and cadets joke grimly about his visits to his wife. who is said still to own q palace near Liublin. Jasinski surrounds himself with bodyguard of criminals and hoolisans. He is well fed: gets money from some unknown quarter and nicknames the other cadets rats" The field contains other men of dis tinction. Among them is a doctor who medicines his brother cadets; man supposed to be a governors chief of chancellery who after bribery trial in 1888 disappeared. and several par doned political convicts. The inferior rank of the fields society consists of thieves, vaga bonds and apaches of low origin.
 Vhe cadsta- of. the oelAsa -oompanx
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19

 @7T. PETERSBURG, April 1s.- I>I tSpecial)-Russia's 9Th ing s
 That Once Were Men" are shiv- BI ering in despair on the brink of the Neva. They are to lose their last refuge, the Hot Field. The "Goriatchee Polye" the Hot Field, is to be enclosed hy high fence. and the Things That Once Were Men" are to be dispersed. The Hot Field is 60-acre open space on the outskirts of the city where the munich raiity dumps house rubbish, and where human rubbish dumps itself The human rubbish does not live in houses, or even huts, but in holes, caves and tunnels in the household rubbish. There squat sev- eral hundred men and women, who, as Russians say, have lost Gods image" in dirt, pestilence and crime unparalleled. And now Count Ivan Tolstoy, Peters burg's energetic mayor, has decreed that the Hot F'ield' must be done away with, house rubbish, human rubish, and all And the Things That Once Were Men are desperate
 Maxim Gorky popularized the phrase Things That Once Were Men" In Rus sian it is concise-''buivshiye liudi," lit orally "ex-human beings" Vsevolod Erestowski and other famous writers also used the phrase Russia has more ex- human beings than any other country, and St Petersburg has more than any ether town.
 Russia is the country and St Peters, burg the city of vicissitudes Only in Russia are there ex-governors of prov inces who, after stealing millions too recklessly, now steal their daily bread ex-millionaires who staked their fortunes ard their wives on a card and lost; princes and counts whom drink and de- bauchery have made lose Gods image:" ard rich men of good character who out of mysticism or perversion have aban- doned civilized life. and joined the amaz- ipg corps of Things That Once Were Men" Such types herd in the rubbish holes of the Hot Field. There are cashicred guards officers; scholars who rave way to drink; idle ex-country gentle men of the type of Gontcharoff's self running "Oblowoff" men of literary genius who prefer crime to fame; other weak and brilliant persons with the Sav characteristic which French critic called the impussance de vivre. These wrecks of humanity foregather in the Hot Field; the strangest closing of in fanny, degredation ana wretchedness to be seen anywhere on earth.
 Formerly St. Petersburgs outcasts herded In the viazemskaya Lavra a vast. disease-soaked complex of tene- ments which sheltered 10000 individ- uals The Things That Once Were Men" lived 20 in room, in moderate comfort; and produced two murders q month and enough typhus, smallpox and scurvy for the whole empire. The Viazemskaya Lavra brought consid- erable revenue to tis owner the good Princess Viazemsky; and one day when three murders were committed by her tenants the good princess conscience was hurt She flew to London to consult
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Powers. the wounded brakeman had been conveyed to the railroad hospital at Fort Worth. Tex. where he was sup posed to be lingering between life and death from the wounds he had received and l had been informed that Powers likewise could identify the two bandits As Davis had already identified Price and Knight, and his identification was corroborated by strong eircumstantial esi- dence among which was that the blood hounds, ] resolved to put the two men under arrest and take them to Fort Worth. so that Powers might have an Opportunity of seeing them. 1 therefore telegraphed from Overton to Maj. Joseph Merron, general superintendent of the In ternational and Great Northern railroad al Palestine, in a cipher code which we employed requesting him to send spe- cial engine with a coach to Overton that night, and to arrive about II o'clock, by which time the great majority of the in- habitants would be in bed I also ie- quested that he would send my man Me- Cabe to me aboard this special train Major Merron wired back to me that he would comply with my request and that, if I desired it. he would come him. self and bring another man with him. l asked whom he intended to bring, and he replied that he would bring Chris Rogers. who at that time was city mar shal of Palestine. Rogers had held this position for a number of years, and was a terror to the evildoers of the com munity, having killed no fewer than seven or eight men during his term of office.
 I wired to Major Merron that 1 should be glad to have him bring Mr. Rogers along with him, and requested him further to instruct his engineer to ap- proach the station at Overton quietly ard without ringing his bell or blowing lsis whistle, as it was essential that the eitl- zens should not know that train was approaching.
 The train arrived at the time appointed bringing with 1t Major Merron, Chris Rogers and McCabe. I met them and took them at once from the station to the house of John Knight, where rapped for admission. My knock was answered by John Knight at once. and he was i'm mediately seized and secured. W hen We proceeded to the house of his father-in- law, Price.
 We fully expected to have trouble with Price, for he bore very bad reputation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Don't Worry About That

From the FHegende Blatter.
 Guest Ca world famous tenor)-Id like to grant your request and sing for you, |, dear lady. but unfortunately I'm very hoarse.
 Hostess-What shame: can't you do anything else?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19

John Price as one of the bandits. John Price, who was inside the shop. had an apron on and was shoeing a horse at the time. It was then near noon. and the bloodhounds, with the mob follow ing them, were seen coming down the hill into the town, evidently having had enough of the pursuit, which, after Knight and Price had been indicated by the animals, had become an aimless wandering hither and thither. As the mob drew near Davis recognized Knight among the front rank Of the crowd be- hind the hounds. He told McCabe and my operative promptly informed me. then instructed McCabe to send Davis back to Palestine and instruct him to await further orders there.
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having been mixed up in number of shooting scrapes. He was considered py the people of Overton to be bad man of the community. Arriving outside he Price house. sent McCabe, who was not a large man, but was thoroughly game. to the back, while Rogers and I went to the front door and rapped. A mans voice immediately answered from within, ask ing who we were and what we wanted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
(Copyright. 1914.

ight, 1914, by Curtis Brown.) I. PETERSBURG, April 1S.- ecial)-Russia' "Things
 That Once Were Men" are shiv-
 ering in despair on the brink of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-08
FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS
RECEIVE BIG SUBSCRIPTIONS

Washington. ID. O.. May S--Each OF
the i federal reserve banks mas naG
subscribed TO the minimum amount OF
stock SAOOO.UOO TO enable them 10 e.
feet an organization. The 1901 banks
to be in the system 6097 had furnished
to the organization committee at the
close Of business Thursday their SUD
scriptions. Three hundred banks SUB
scribCd 20 the stock today. bringing lle
total amount subscribed up TO $Jo,zo''-
600.
Today is the last day on which sub
scriptions may be received
The largest number Of subscriptions
received from any one district said a
treasury statement. IS from the tnl-
cagO district. I'm which Isl banks nave
made their subscription The next
LARGEST number Of subscriptions has
come from the Philadelphia district
where 6S6 banks have subscribed ~
the Cleveland district 6lT banks nave
sent i'm their subscriptions Kansas
City GU. and Dallas COZ banks
The largest amount SUBSCRIBED IS IN
New York state. S19.112.9JO being SUB
scribed by 426 banks
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-08
Britton Intends To Keep Higgins
-I:- --:I:- -:I:- -:H:- -:I-
Richie Hands Foley His Discharge

championship as a Joke. TO accept Mccoy
who has no semblclce Of G. record whatever.
would cast ridicule on the boxing game
I in general The only thing is TO- start back
as champion, except in his own section OF
the country.
Rumor has bobbed NJ again with the
report that Robert Hedges. manager Of the
ST. Louis Browns. is going 10 peddle his
bail club club The latest Is that a svuat-
cate offered Hedges the sum OF Se15.00O
Tor the club, an amount which staggered
minated that he might sell an extra OUT
tlelder or two. few bat bags. and dozen
or 50 books belonging to the park Hedges
aroed that recently he had been approached
buy his club. The Browns owner claims
that he is in baseball to stick
Happy" Littleton. the New Orleans mid
Herrlck, at the Orleans A. c. In the near
future Promoter TCr.orlch has u-o-.ired
the big mlcLleveiEht match with some
good boy az the next show 10 be staged BY
ager, arrived In New Orleans several DAYS
ago. AFTER a stormy trip through Texas II
Is narQly probable that Herrlcl- viii ever
be seen at Juarez again. The gate receipts OF
the last show staged at New Orleans we're
approximately 5000
Benny Chavez. the crack Trinidad feath-
crTelElt. has signed arICIes Tor a Is rrrnd
bout win Johnny klbane. feather cham
pion Of the world. 10 be STAGED at Denver
credited. has gone down considerably since
his last appearance IN the rizE. He once
met Eddie CaDpi. the California bantam
IN an elimination bout FOR the tile in Los
feather champion by prominent critics Who
him in action.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-08
The Liver as Aid
TO Blood Purity
The Natural Stimulus Re-
CURED is Not the Pur-
gative Kind.

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mover. 1t works IN the LIVER cells 20 .-ssiss
IN the natural and necessary llnctlll. el
converting from the blood certain c-ls. "
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nd healthy material for tlat W. - -
cling destroyed by the energy o. tissue
Images. t
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required those medicinal properties MLlen,
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catclytic ENERGY to keep on tAlg-7u .---
blood circulation TO do bGttie Win lA-p-4-
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Rhcrur-fen cnrar-h aEclnla. most SKIN
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while duplicating the liver by their meroli
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TO the healthy and tudicious seIccuon OF
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Take no chance by permitting anyone TO
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