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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
FOUND GUILTY
TURNER COUNTY LAWYER CON.
NICTED OF SWINDLING A
CLIENT.

Parker, Nov. "a verdict of gull
ty was returned by a jury in the dis
trict court in the case of the state of
South Dakota VS.. Harm Van Ruschen,
an attorney of Marion, Turner eoun-
ty, who was charged with swindling
a client. Sentence will be pronounced
later.
Van Rrschen, who has been some
what prominent as a filler of libel
suits, vas charged with obtaining
property by false p%retenses from Mrs.
Lammars, a widow of Marion. 1t
was asserted that he induced her to
sign deeds to property, telling her
that she was affixing her name to
mortgage releases.
States Attorney Hansen prosecut-
ed the case. Van Ruschen was de-
Tended by several widely known
firms of lawyers.
S. r. Kelton, a criminal with a
record, vas sentenced to serve three
years in the South Dakota peniten-
tiary after being convicted on the
charge of burglary. Kelton was a
member of a gang of automobile
burglars who robbed stores in a
number of South Dakota towns last
winter. He was captured by Chief of
Detectives j. b. Richard of Sioux
CITY.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
NOTICE.

State OF South Dakota. County of
Lake. In Circuit Court, Second Ju-
dicial Circuit. ID. L. Ayers, plaintiff,
VS.. William Young, defendant. No
tice is hereby given that by virtue of
a writ of attachment in the above en-
titled action the undersigned sheriff
of Lake county, South Dakota. has
seized and has'in his possession, an
undivided %one-fourth interest in 10
acres of corn in the field, upon the
northeast quarter of section 35, town
ship 107, range 54. Lake county,
South Dakota, and the said corn be-
ing perishable property, the same
will be sold upon the said premises
where ii is situated on Monday, the
18th day of November. 1915, at 2
o'clock p. m, at auction to the high
est bidder for cash as it stands in the
field.
Dated at Madison, South Dakota,
November 3, 1915.
F. w. Butts,
Sheriff of Lake County, S. d.
ID. ID. Holdridge & Son.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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ards, the owner, placed a pair of
young beavers. Now there is a col
ony OF twenty. Starting a few rods
below the spring, the beavers have
erected fourteen dams in a space of
twenty rods. They are all live"
dams. with fresh material placed on
them every night by the t~ireless little
workers.
The dams, which are from 8 to 6
feet high and from 10 to 20 feet
long, are so constructed as to form q
succession of pond terraces and are
connected by underground burrows
at the side which serve the double
purpose of a mean of passing from
one pond to another under cover, and
a canal for water at such a fall as not
to wash out the bank.
This spot is the historic Ta-ho-
Kouty, or Killdeer mountain battle
ground, and the spring which feeds
the creek quenched the thirst of the
Indians and Sully's soldiers fifty-one
years ago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
LURED AND BEATEN
lroquois, ;. d., Farmer Slugged in
Sioux City.

Sioux City. Nov. "a man with
his face swollen and bleeding, his up
per lip cut and his head considerably
injured, walked into the White
House, a Fourth street rooming place
early this morning and asked for
lodgings. The clerk, because of the
mans condition, refused, and called
the police.
AT police headquarters he describ-
ed himself as Jim Brown, a farmer of
Iroquois, S. ID. He said that he had
been drinking, according to the po-
lice; that he had visited some cues
tionable resorts and had met a man
in one of them who had taken him to
the bottoms" where he was kicked
and otherwise maltreated.
The motive for the assault, Brown
declared, was a mystery to him. He
was told that he ought to be locked
up. and replied that he thought so,
too, because he had no business go
ing into such Places He was given
a bed to sleep in at the police station.
Brown was not beaten for purposes
OF robbery. He had $45 when
brought to police headquarters. DR..
r. Z. Keeffe, police surgeon. stitched
and dressed his wounds.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
Laid DOWN HIS LIFE
AT THE TIME OF HIS ELECTION
BISHOP BILLER SAID 1T
WOULD CAUSE HIS
DEATH.

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.-As though
death itself were powerless to halt
the devoted Bishop Biller OF South
Dakota, several posthumous paper
were read at the session of the Epis-
copal synod of the province of the
northwest at its meeting here Satur-
day. These papers showed that Bish-
op Biller believed he had sacrificed
his life for his work.
IF | accept my election and APP
pointment as bishop of South Dakota,
| sign my W. death warrant" he
declared to a friend at the time of
his election. The papers were read
by Rev. Paul Roberts of Bookings,
S. d.
There were other speakers to show
that South Dakota is by far the larg-
est missionary district in the United
States and entirely too large for one
bishop.
At the close of the discussion the
synod voted unanimously to memo
rialize the general convention of the
church, at its meeting next year in
st. Louis, to appoint an assistant, as
well as a bishop for the district of
South Dakota.
A letter from the widow of Bishop
Biller was read. in which she dwelt
on the overwhelming labors of her
late husband against an enormous
task.
1T is in accordance with my hus-
bands wish that | urge upon you to
elect a bishop and an assistant to
care for the work in the district for
which my husband laid down his
life," said the letter in conclusion.
1t was shown that there are in
South Dakota ten parishes and ISIS
missionary stations and that over 100
of the latter are not reached By a
railroad.
One Sunday. not long before his
death, Bishop Biller visited stations
among the Dakota Indians, preached
seven m in the Sioux language
and travelled over 100 miles by auto
mobile.
II should give thrice the time to
this work, he said, but, alas, there
are only 365 days in a year"
At another time he spent forty
hours without sleep in his labors.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
A CLOSE CALL
RANCHER PINNED UNDER NOW.
ER NEAR DEATH BEFORE
RESCUED.

Pierre, Nov. 3.-To be caught I'M
der a mower and the team tangled in
the harness piled upon the machine
was the close call to serious injury
on the part of Henry Hudson, a prom
inent Cheyenne river rancher, a few
days ago. That he came out with
nothing worse than a number of bad
bruises and a lacerated arm was for
tunate for him. He had started to
unhitch his team from the mower,
and with one tug yet hitched, they
started to run. In attempting to stop
them he was caught and dragged I'M
der the machine, but held to the lines
and the team tangled in the harness
and fell yer the mower, where the
pile-up remained until neighbors
could come to his aid and untangle
things.
Stanley Philip and William Powell,
two other Stanley county ranchers,
had a close call from serious injury
when the team they were driving
started to run and the tongue of their
wagon dropped to the ground, and
throwing the wagon box high in the
air and shot the occupants out onto
the prairie. Powell fell upon the
hard roadway and was unconscious
for several hours after being picked
up, while Philip came off with slight
injuries.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
THE FUEL PROPOSITION
MORE COAL WILL BE USED ON
ACCOUNT OF SHORTAGE OF
CORNCOBS FOR FUEL.

The fact that more coal will prob
ably be used in this district during
the coming few months than has been
burned here in previous average win
ters, and that western railways will
probably be at least a trifle delin-
quent in delivering fuel after the
close of the fall grain movement. is
not likely to materially affect either
the supply or prices of coal, accord
ing to information given out today
by local dealers.
Despite unsettled labor conditions
which obtained at some of the mines
this year, the prices of both hard and
soft coal are the same as last season.
High grade anthracite retails at
Sll.25 a ton, delivered, and bitumi-
nous coal brings $3.50 for the Mary
land product, and IS for that from
the Ohio mines.
Dealers predict that If the winter
is a normal me- the demands on their
stocks will be considerably heavier
than usual, especially in the country.
They cite that farmers in this vicin-
lty FOR the first time within the recol-
lection OF many, will not, because of
the failure of the corn crop, be able
to do their cooking by heat generated
from cobs. Where in the past cook
ing was done owe cob fires in most
rural and in many town homes, ii
viii be necessary for all this winter
to resort to coal. 1t is estimated that
the foregoing condition will augment
the sales of soft coal In Madison at
least 20 per cent.
Largely owing TO the mild late fall
weather, the seasons fuel sales have
so tar been comparatively light. Mer-
chants advise that householders
should not delay a minute longer
than necessary in laying in their sup
plies of fuel, as the price cannot by
any possible chance decline. and hat
by deferring placing their orders UNI
til the first cold snap, is likely to in
volve many in a rush that will spell
belated deliveries for numbers.
Experience CLEANED in former. years
has taught dealers, they announce.
that while the fall grain movement is
on, it is of slight difficulty to obtain
delivery OF coal from the docks at the
head of the Great Lakes. With the
height of the grain shipment over.
which usually occurs about December
1, the railways are reluctant to make
haste in carrying empty cars to Su-
perior and Duluth in order to supply
the sometimes delinquent western
districts with fuel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03

price of $100 an acre to James Reddy
Of Ellsworth, Mimi. The farm is a
fine one and has a good set of build
ings. but ii has been sold numerous
times during the last twenty years for
IS. $40, $40, $50 and $50 an acre.
This is the first farm in the history
of the Clear Lake territory to be sold
for 500 an acre.
Observation-Disclosures that a band
of elk from the government national
forest had destroyed everything in
sight IN their property, Connors and
Wheeler, two veteran p~rospectors of
the linton district in the north part
of the county, are making prepara-
tons to bring suit against the gov
eminent for damages. The elk have
been roaming through the Hills since
they were brought from Montana a
couple of years ago, and several times
have been reported as damaging
crops and personal property.
Worthing - Elmer Feldman of
Canton was the victim of a serious
accident while hunting in this vicin-
ity. He went to the hunting grounds
on a motorcycle, and when he decid-
ed to return home he returned to the
motorcycle. While mounting the ma
chine his gun was discharged, the en-
tire charge striking his left foot. BY
good fortune a man in an automobile
came along 500 after the accident
and took the wounded man to his
home in Canton. He now has been
taken to a Sioux Falls hospital in the
hope of saving the injured foot.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03

P1erre-Three fatalities are re-
ported from automobile accidents in
South Dakota for October.
Pierre-At the October examina-
tions for teachers certificates the
markings show that there were 922
applicants, of which 264 were grant
ed second grade certificates, 213
third grade certificates, 3 primary
certificates. and $40 failures were re-
corded.
Vienna-Landlord Jorgenson oil a
local hotel, provided three roomers
with sleeping quarters for the night.
b next morning two of them were
missing. together with $40 of the
motel mans money. No trace of the
W men can be found.
Wecota--Rud Wakefield had a
narrow escape from death when his
clothing became caught in the ma
chinery while he was operating a gas
oline engine. The fact that he is un-
usually strong no doubt saved his
life. for after almost superhuman eff
forts he was able to tear himself
loose, but his clothing was torn to
shreds.
Pierre-John Craven, who lives on
White river south of Kadoka, reports
the dropping of a tract about 100
yards long and fifty yards wide, to a
depth of about seventy-five feet, on
the Pine Ridge reservation, a short
distance from the river. Mr.. Craven
reports that at the time of the occur
renee the ranchhouse, near the place
or the drop, was shaken severely
enough to overturn chairs and other
wise stir up the domestic arrange
ment3.
Clear Lake-What is known as the
old George Clark farm, situated two
and one-half miles southwest of Clear
Lake, has been sold at the record
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
BEAVERS BUILD DAMS
killdeer Mountain battle-ground Now
Thriving Colony.

Dickinson, N. D., Nov. 3.-"Work-
ing like beavers is well illustrated at
the Diamond C ranch on the southern
slope OF Killdeer mountains, fifty
miles north of Dickinson, n of the
play places of North Dakota. A new
er failing spring gushes from the
m~ountainside and winds down the
course to form the headwaters OF
Spring creek.
Here, o few years ago, w. l.. Rich.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
COUGHS THAT ARE sroPPEDi

Careful people see that they are stop
ped. DIR. Kings New Discovery is a
remedy of tried merit. 1t has held it's
own on the market for forty-six years.
Youth and old age testify to it's soothing
lung troubles are often caused by delay
oftreatment. DIR. Kings New Discovery
stops those hacking coughs and relieves
lagrippe tendencies. Money back If it
fails. so cents and 81.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03

The congestion of the blood in it's flow
causes pain. Sloan's Liniment penetrates
to the congestion and starts the blood to
flow freely. The body's warmth lis re-
newed: the pain is gone. The imam or
woman who has rheumatism, neuralgia
or other pain and fails to keep Sloan's
Liniment in their home is like a drown
ing man refusing a rope Why suffer.
Get a bottle of Sloan's. csc and soc.
81 bottle holds six times as much as
Csc size.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
STATE NEWS.

Pierre-Three fatalities are re-
ported from automobile accidents in
South Dakota for October.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-03
WATER RENTS NOW DUE.

Water rents must be paid on or be
fore November 10, or service will be
suspended without further notice
BY order of city commissioners.-Ed
Rafferty,, Supt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
FASHION SNOWB0UND
IN ATLANTIC CITY
Boardwalk's Annual Display of
Finery Prevented by Easter
Blizzard.

Atlantic City, April 8 (by railroad to
PHILADELPHIA Atlantic City is com
pletely showed under. The boardwalk,
which was to serve tomorrow as the
stage for that annual production, THE
Newest Thing in Dress" is dreary ex-
panse of slush and ice.
More than 10000 visitors. e great
army Of fashions followers and willing
slaves, are marooned in the hotels
without their storm clothes. They
gaze from their windows. wondering
sadly what is to become Of the silk and
satin frocks jealousy guarded for the
Easter sDectacle, footwear and hose or
delicate hue and hats the like OF which
man never saw before.
Nine inches of snow covers the en-
tire resort. In some places the axes
are piled seven feet high on the board
walk. The tide is high and turbulent.
The wind screeches in the tlagree
work atop the hotels and is tearing a
great deal OF it down. Signs are being
blown down by the do ms. Railroad
trains are moving slowly and irregu-
larly. The long distance telephone is
not working and the telegraph lines
have been down for hours. Officials
say there is no prospect Of resumlng
the service.
The Pennsylvania tonight aban-
doned attempts to run trains from
Philadelphia. A few trains are op-
Grating on the Philadelphia Reading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
CITY SHELTERS 1880;
FIFTY ARE WOMEN
Hundreds of Men from Mu.
nicipal Lodging House Aid
In Clearing Streets.

The storm was at its height late yes
terday afternoon, when men and worn-
en- began the trudge through East
Twenty Street 70 the Municipal
Lodging House.
By $3.50 o'clock william Albert
whiting, superintendent. had registered
100 persons. Thirty women, two
carrying infants, appealed for shelter,
and seven children, two with fathers
and the remainder with mothers, were
cared for.
Shortly before midnight the number
reached 1880. and the unfortunates
kept coming. Among those sheltered
at midnight were fifty women and
twelve children. At IL o'clock the
capacity of the lodging house proper
was exhausted, and the men were sent
to the East Twenty-fourth Street Rec
reation Pier, which is equipped with
double deck cots. Mr.. Whiting an
nounced that in a case Of emergency
the morgue would be used as a shelter.
Commissioner Fetherston, OF the
Street Cleaning Department. sent in q
call TO Whiting for men for shovelling.
Three hundred responded, and after
they were given soup, bread and coffee
those who were not sufficiently clad
were given extra coats end gloves.
Superintendent Whiting advised Mr..
Fetherston at midnight that 500 men
had signifed their Willingness TO join
the shovelling squad this morning after
breakfast.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

snowstorm. From 10 o'clock in the
morning until after nightfall practi-
cally all vessels were tied up at their
piers. Only those craft which had TO
move. principally the ferryboats. took
chances of a collision or of losing their
way IN the swirling mist of snowiiakes.
Ferryboat captains resorted to their
compasses 10 find their way from slip
10 slip. All schedules were abandoned,
as il was impossible 10 maintain run
ming time under the circumstances.
The remarkable feature of the day was
that no serious accidents took place.
To add to the difficulty, the sticking
qualities Of the snow glued IL TO the
windows of the pilot houses, making
them impenetrable TO the eye in
short time. Observers sent to the bow
Of the vessel TO look out for danger
had their eyes filled with singing snow
pellets and were able to add but little
10 the general safety. The ear was the
best medium OF guiding boat.
Tugs that found it necessary to
scurry about the rivers and the bay
had difficulty in rounding the Battery.
Three hundred yards from shore they
we're invisible in the storm. II was
necessary for them to keep in close TO
the wall and take buffeting from the
wind and waves to determine where
they were going.
A mufHed Gin Of warning blasts from
hundreds Of tug and ferry whistles
came from under the snow blanket
that seemed suspended above the sur
face Of the water II was like being
near a New Years Eve celebration and
unable to see il. Bells on the end of
all the piers were rung steadily TO
warn nassing craft.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
SNOWPLOW SQUAD
GETS NEW TRY-OUT
Commissioner Puts rs Ma
chimes and $4,000 Men
to Clearing Streets.

Commissioner Fetherston's "snow
fighting" plan had it's second try-out
yesterday, but the snow was much
lighter and easier to handle than in
the storm of March 6. The head of the
Street Cleaning Department was at his
Office all day, and at o'clock decided
TO call out the frst force Of $4,000
emergency workers. In addition, he
had the departments twenty-six snow
ploughs in action.
He was positive that the snow would
be removed from the streets as rapidly
as possible and at the least possible
cost TO the city, and was hard at work
last night directing the departments
efforts
The first apparatus to be put into
action were the ploughs. At / o'clock
yesterday afternoon these ploughs
were attached to large commercial
automobile trucks. Their first aim was
to clear Fifth Avenue and Broadway
between Forty-second Street and Co
lumbus Circle. Then they started upon
the more important side streets. The
trucks, which are privately owned. car
ry in front of them ten-foot plough,
set at an angle, and sweep seven feet
Of the street each trip. On Fifth Ave-
nue. the snow was piled In the centre
Of the thoroughfsre, but on streets
where tro ley lines are operated 1t was
moved toward the curb.
Four hours after the call for the
first emergency snow fighting force
was given, 1900 shovellers and 5000
bosses and timekeepers were at their
places. Subdivided into districts, they
fret tackled the buster thoroughfares'
The Commissioner at q late hour
last night had not yet determined
whether TO call out the volun eer force
when the emergency squad would finish
its work early this morning. Such an
action, he said, wou depend largely
on how long the storm lasted, and how
much snow filled the streets.
Ii was explained at Mr.. Fetherston's
Office that the sidewalks were not COW
cred with snow until two and one-half
hours after the storm had commenced
as it melted rapidly at first. AS there
was no ice to be considered, the Com
missioner was certain that his plan
for clearing the streets would work
out successfully.
There were three separate forces en-
gagged. The snow fighting force under
direction of the Street Cleaning De-
partment, did not wait, as in former
years, until the storm had abated, but
began work while it was still in prog
ross Then there was the contractors
snuad. which hauled snow to the river
front, while the Commissioner men
were placing it in sewers. Transpor-
tation lines also furnished men who
took care of certain streets, according
TO an agreement made with the Com
missioner last year.
The volunteer force, Mr.. Fetherston
pointed out, was recruited by the city's
patrolmen, while the men now at work
registered for their places last sum-
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msr and fall, and appeared at the sta,
t ti.er "oon after the storm began. AZ
I've word from the Commissioner tne s
pol;cs Department is notified, and then
aa V nrecinct head sends patrolmen 10
s eaen the men they can obtain work.
Working at 80 cents an hour, tne
e GOO men engaged yesterday began
f fr,J 2 until I o'clock. Then, after
nine.hour rest, they can again De
LIED 10 work il conditions warrant.
In Brooklyn $500 men, large part
- them unemployed. were put to worS
Cleaning the streets last night, an. ana
6eputy Commissioner Mauro said that
hy pJaybreak to-day the principal thor
oyyghfsre will be cleared. The depart
mel has 700 Of its trucks engaged
and 600 have been obtained from con-
tractors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
Three Plays for a Dime.

Three one-act plays will be given at
the Cort Theatre April II under the
auspices Of the Junior League OF the
Chiidren's Educational Theatre. Ad-
mission to the three will be 10 cents.
In one play Broadway stars will form
the cast. The others will be by casts
of the Chidren's Educational Theatre.
The proceeds will go toward the fund
of the Children's Educational Theatre,
which plans FOR next season the produc-
ton of two new three-act plays.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

at Asbury Park. and tourists we're
marooned at their hotels. Telephone
and electric light service was miss"
Ing and the steam trains were FAR be-
hind their schedules.
Offcials Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company said lsS night that
serious trouble had boen reported along
the Virginia and Carolina coasts, but
the inland wires were working well:
In New Bedford, Mass, they stated
that wires and poles were down, forced
to the ground by the weight OF the
wet snow. The Postal Company au-
thorities announced that there was a
delay in transmitting private mes
ssges, but that, excepting in the South,
there was no special trouble.