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The Washington times., 1915-04-16

Funeral services for p. J. Garner,
aged ffty-one years, who died yester-
day morning at his home at Townsend
will be held tomorrow morning at II
o'clock from his late home. Interment
will be in st. Peters Churchyard, at
Waldorf.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16

Funeral services for Marshall Carr,
who died yesterday at the Alexandra
Hospital will be held tomorrow
morning at $50 o'clock from st.
Mary's Catholic Church. Besides his
wife Mr. Carr is survived by a daugh-
ter. Mrs. Edward X. Powell. or this
citV
The Washington times., 1915-04-16

The bimonthly meeting OF tho Bank
ers' Association of the District will be
held Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the
rooms of the Washington CHAPTER,
American Institute of Banking, 1914 r
street northwest.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16

Robert B. Moore, cashier of the First
National Bank of Geithersburg, this
county, is critically i'll of pneumonia.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
r y 1Y A RATHER.
Man Cuts Open Wound and Sucks
Out the Poison.

Man Cuts Open Wound and Sucks
Out the Poison.
Gregory.-Struck by the fangs of q
rattlesnake while on a load of hay, Carl
Hoblit, employed on the farm Of Ben
iamin Bailey, saved his life by his pres
ence of mind. Immediately after the
fangs had penetrated his arm he cut
the wound with a knife and then suck.
ed out the poison. He then went to a
nearby farm honse, where the wound
was cut still deeper and more blood
drawn out and an antiseptic applied.
Aside from being made sick from the
effects of sucking out the poison and
having a very sor arm, he is none the
worse for his narrow escape. He was
piling hay on a hay rake when he
heard the kissing of a RATHER behind
him, the snake evidently having been
raked up with the hay. Hoblit placed
his arm behind him to get off the rake,
when the fangs of the reptile struck
him nea the elbow.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Ruling Against Lodge.

Watertown.-A case of unusual in
terest has been concluded here, Judge
c. G. Sherwood deciding for the plain
tiff in the case of Mrs. Belle Peter
son VS.. the grand lodge, Ancient Or
der of United Workmen, for the state
of South Dakota, and ordering the
payment of the full face of a policy
carried by the husband of the plain
tiff. The defendant secured a stay
of sixty days in which to perfect an
appeal to the supreme court. The
case grew out Of the refusal of the
grand lodge to pay the policy carried
on the life of Pete Peterson, on the
ground that Peterson engaged in the
saloon business subsequent to his join
ing the order. The defense took the
stand that the subordinate lodge at
Watertown and officers of the grand
lodge. as well, knew that Peterson
was in the saloon business, and con.
tinued to receive premiums monthly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Missing Tooth in Nose.

Deadwood.-An employee Of the
Iomestake machine shops in Lead
about eleven years ago was the vic
i'm of an accident, when a crowbar
slipped and knocked out two of his
sront teeth. He picked up one of the
broken teeth. but the other could not
De found, although a diligent search
was made by himself and fellow work
men. Recently he had occasion to
blow his nose, and this dislodged the
missing tooth, which it was discov-
cred had, at the time of the accident.
been driven into the upper part Of his
mouth, where it caused him no dis
comfort during the eleven years.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Horse Buyer Proves CRATER.

Mobridge.-A mar giving his name
as Coats and representing himself to
be a member Of the firm of Coats &
Coats, horse buyers of Chicago. pulled
off a smooth graft at Wakpala when
he started making arrangements for
buying horses right and left. telling all
owners of horses to have them at the
stock yards Saturday morning when
he would pay for them and shin them
out. In the meantime he contracted
a number of lebts around town, the
merchants falling for him and his
statement that his partner would be
there Friday night with the cash TO.
the horses. When Saturday morning
came, neither Coats nor his partner
were in evidence, but a large number
Of horses-and unpaid bills were.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
IN DANGER.0F DEATH
FRIENDS TRYING TO SAVE ROY
HULL HELD IN A MExl-
CAN RASTlLE.
HAPPENINGS OF THE STATE
Mat 10 Going On Here and There
That 10 Of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout South Dako-
ia and Vicinity.

'estern Newspaper Union News Service.
Deadwood.-Many kilograms have
been sen between Washington and
Mexico in an effort to save Roy Hull
Of Pasadena, CAL, now in danger OF
death in a prison at Tia Juana, Mex.
Hull, in company with Miss Marga-
ret jenkins of Lead, drove an auto
belonging to w. E. Adams Of this city
across the border last Sunday from
San Diego and in ome way they acct
dentally ran over and killed a Mexican
soldier. They were seized at once.
Miss Jenkins was released and
brought back to San Diego by an
American. Influential men here and
in California are now bending every
effort to extricate Hull from his di-
lemma. but SO far the Mexican gov
ernor has been obdurate.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Long Imprisonment.

Sioux Falls.-At the Bodega saloon
in Deadwood is being exhibited a
trout about three inches long which
is as lively as a cricket after being
frozen in ice for a period of eight
months. When the daily quantity of
ice was delivered to the Bodega sa-
loon in n of the blocks was discov-
red the small trout. 1t was cut out
of the ice block and placed in a small
ar. and in a few minutes was darting
about in search of food and otherwise
displaying the fact that it had not
been affected by it's long imprison-
ment in the cake Of ice. The ice was
ut and stored last December.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
FARM s%TATIsrIc1.
Clay County Marketed 1000 Bushels
Plums-Alfalfa and IRRIGATION.

Clay County Marketed 1000 Bushels
PIums-AIfalfa and irrigation.
Pierre.-Over four thousand bushels
Of plums marketed in Clay county last
year is the showing of the agricultural
figures in the state census. Yankton
county marketed two thousand bush
els. Fall River county sold nearly four
thousand bushels Of apples, and Clay
county practically two thousand bush
els. The alfalfa acreage of Butte coun-
ty is over fifteen thousand. Yankton,
in the southeast corner, shows, up
nearly seven thousand acres, and Da-
vison a little over seven thousand
acres. Butte county leads with irri-
gated acreage, with nearly 1000 acres,
while the eastern counties show a
small movement in that direction, with
fourteen acres in Yankton and fifty
five in Brown handled in this \. amer,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Marion Town Board Upheld.

Marion.-City Attorney Fl. Var
Ruschen has received the information
that Judge r. B. Trip Of the first cir
cult has handed down a decision in the
certiorari proceedings instituted
against the local town board by Ger
tain members of the fire department
who we're ousted by the board for mis-
management and INSTRUMENTATION, and
that the decision is favorable to the
town board, it being held, in effect,
that a town board has full control over
its fire companies and that its acts ir
this respect cannot be reviewed by
any court. This case was contested
vigorously on both sides.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
War on Supeeders at Aberdeen,

Aberdeen.-The police are waging
war on %violators of the city's traffic or.
dinances with reference to AUTOMOBILE
ing and motorcycling. thereby mate
rally increasing the high cost of mo.
oring for many of the prominent res
dents Of the city. Seventeen arrests
we're made in three days, these in
Guiding the former police commission
or, a lawyer, city official and several
IF the most prominent business men o
he city.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
STATE TAX LEVES|
ALL PROPERTY IN SOUTH DAko.
IA is VALUED At 1927,
573,249.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine State.
Newspaper Union News Service.

sestern Newspaper Union News Services.
Pierre.-The total assessment fig
ures for South Dakota, as completed
by the state tax commission, shows a
valuation Of all property Of 81, 271,573,-
249, an increase of $50, 0OO, 900 over
the figures of two years ago. On this
the commission made a levy of / mill
on general property for state taxes,
and a levy Of 9.97 mills on corporate
property for all purposes. The levies
for last year being ! mill for general
state purposes and 9.99 mills on cor
porate properly. The showing in diff
ferent classes of property is, for the
two years.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
To Share in Refuses Estate.

Clear Lake.-Mrs. w. w. Barnes OF
this place is one of the heirs of Torgen
O. S%vendsen, aged 20, a bachelor, who
died recently at Toledo, Ore. He had
liven the life of a recluse for the past
thirty years. He was the owner of a
fine ranch and much other valuable
property. About $1,000 in gold has
been found in a trunk. 1t is believed
that he had in addition several thou
thousand dollars in cash secreted in
the house, and a search now is being
conducted. His estate is estimated to
be worth upward of Sic. 1000. The dead
man was a brother of Mrs. Barnes.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Lads Life Saved by Women.

Rockham.-The prompt action OF
several women saved the life of New
I'll Kennedy, the young son of Rock
ham people, when his clothing became
ignited as the result of the explosion
# a car of wood alcohol. He was at
-emping to light the gas lights in the
Methodist church at the time. The
women rushed to his assistance and
xtinguished the flames in his clothing,
but not before his face, hands and
arms had been badly burned.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03

Madison.-John Molumby, a promi.
nent pioneer citizen, while driving an
auto tried to pass DR.. Goldman on the
road one mile east OF Madison and his
car ran into an embankment and
turned over, Molumby was killed and
his wife fatally hurt. Four others were
injured, but not seriously. A baby I
year old escaped injury. The victims
were members Of the Molumby FAINT
" except two. Molumby was an mex
p~erienced driver and had had I car hut
= month.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Attempt to Hold Up Marshal.

Aberdeen.-An attempt to hold up
he town marshal at Doland nearly re-
5ulted in some dead stick-up men.
When the marshal was commanded to
brow up his hands he made a quick
lump, pulled out al automatic and be-
AN pumping the air full of lead. The
stick-up men made a hurried exit and
t is not known whether any OF them
we're injured by the fusillade. The
marshal was unhurt.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Rows Boat at 80.

Big Stone.-Mrs. Griffin, a highly
respected pioneer resident of this
place and vicinity. celebrated her 8Otb
birthday by rowing a boat across Bis
Stone lake, thus proving that she is
one Of the most remarkable of the
aged residents of the state and north
west. She is unusually sprightly for
n Of her years, and is as active as
most women half her age.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Clash with hoboes.

Ipswich.-The first clash between
authorities and hoboes occurred here
when a hobo of unusual build was ia.
ken out to work by 2 different partiee
and on arrival refused to work and
demanded that he be returned to town.
He was found preventing other labor.
ers from going put for less than $500
per day. and when ordered to get to
work or leave town became abusive
to Sheriff swale. and endeavored to
run the sheriff on the street. The sher.
~ laid him ont with . fork handle
NJ ~ left town On the first t3ala
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03

Raymond.-In searching for the
person who stole a pair Of pants con.
tanning $40 in cash belonging to q
guest at the Lommis hotel, Marshal
Earl Sly arrested a suspect who car.
led 20 quarts of whisky in his grips,
which, evidence showed, the man had
been boot-leeging. The fellow only
surrendered afr being shot at twice,
we bullet striking him in the fleshy
part OF theleg.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
THOUSANDS OF HARVEST HANDS.
Harvest Labor Bureau Of Aberdeen
Supplied Many Men with Jobs.

Aberdeen.-Work in the harvest
the harvest labor bureau of the Com
mercial club here this year. and it is
estimated that from $4,000 to 10000
harvest hands made Aberdeen their
headquarters during the harvest.
There has been very little crime here
this season as compared with other
years. Fifteen gunner have been ar
rested and are either serving time in
the county Jail or in the state peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls. The fact that
Aberdeen has been a dry town since
July l is given as a reason for this
falling off in the number OF crimes
committed during the harvest season.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03

Elihu Root of New York was unani.
nously elected president OF the
American Bar association is session
It Salt Lake City.
The railroad station, hotel and a
onestory building are the only struc-
turs left in Moclips, Wash, an ocean
resort town, which was visited by q
destructive fre.
Thomas A. Edison. while at work
In n Of his laboratories at Silver
Lake, N. Y. was severely burned
about the eyes by the accidental
splash Of q potash solution.
The life-saving equipment clause In
the La Toilette seamen's act is believ-
ed to have been virtually nullified in
an opinion which Attorney General
Gregory sent to the president.
The establishment of departments
in American colleges for the training
of public officials was urged at the
second national conference on univer-
stiles and public service at Boston.
Colonel John v. White of the coast
artillery corps, stationed at Fort
Hamilton, N. Y, died. He ranked
third to the chief coast artillery, and
was in charge of the coast artillery in
the southern district of New York.
The hurricane which recently
swept over the West Indies destroyed
80 per cent of the banana trees on the
north side Of the island of Jamaica.
according to officers of the steamer
Commodore Rollins, which arrived In
New York.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has disapproved increases in the
freight rates and changes in the rules
governing shipments of packing house
products, fresh meats and other arti-
cles in so-called peddler cars, in
southwestern territory.
II shall recommend to congress the
appropriation Of 81, 900 dollars for
submarines and aeroplanes, which I
realize are the most powerful wea-
pons of warfare" said Secretary of
the Navy Daniels upon his arrival in
Boston to attend q meeting Of gov
ernors.
A short cut to world peace through
the establishment Of a university at
Washington, D. c., with 1000 profess
sors and al income OF $1O,O 0O, 900 a
year to support it and teach students
Of all nations. was suggested at Oak
land, CAL, by Philander C. Clayton,
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Man Killed in Runaway.

Pierre.-Custer Peterson, a young
man of %, residing south of Harold
in the east end Of this county, was
stop the team and was struck cver
the heart by the end of the wagon
tongue, causing his death.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
School Innovation.

Pierre.-School innovations of the
practical sort appear to be popular in
Perkins, one of the new counties in
the northwest part of the state. Last
year one country teacher was, on her
request, supplied by the school board
With a stove and a few cooking uten.
sils. and cooked her pupils a warm
midday lunch at a very small cost to
each OF them, the parents providing
the supplies. This year the school
board at Bison, the county seat, has
rented a building as a dormitory and
employed a matron to look after the
country pupils who desire to take a
high school course, which cannot be
given them in the rural schools. The
pupils will be charged a small amount
for room and board, but will be re-
quired to supply their own bedding
and car for their own rooms. The
matron will also teach music to those
who care to take up that branch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
Alfalfa Advice.

HlgdIJa NOVIVSs
Brookings.-Sow alfalfa to thicken
stand rather than allow the plant to
reseed itself, advises DR.. A. N. Hume,
agronomist at the South Dakota State
college, In reply to the following in
quiry from Hutchinson county: Last
year we sowed fifteen pounds of alfal-
ia and about one bushel Of wheat to
the acre. We cut it once. It is kind
of thin. Would it help any to let it
seed now, and then cut it,"
DR.. Hume's reply is: Il would not
advise you to try to thicken your
stand of alfalfa by letting it reseed
itself. Rather SOW some seed on the
thin spots and harrow it in, after you
make q cutting OF hay. II you are
using this for hay, when you make
this ~reseeding, you might consider also
putting on some bronze grass. Alfalfa
bronze grass mixtures seem to make
good mixed hay. / mention this latter
merely for your consideration-some
farmers do not like bronze grass at all.
others do"
Rapid City.-The school year OF the
Iouth Dakota School OF Mines. in this
city, begins September Is. The out
look for the year is very encourage
Ing and an Increased attendance Is
promised. A large amount OF new
equipment has been installed during
vacation, especially In the electrical
department. and the school is now
1nely equipped with the very latest
81 electrical apparatus. Dr.. ]. 4.
Hartman. . former instructor 1t Mar
ward. ID to be the new head OF the
lpsartment Of chemistry. while Miss
EermaA. Of Chicago university. takes
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
SPORTING

Bob 1ngersoll, Of the Omaha West
ern league, pitched a no-hit, no-run
game against Topeka, Omaha winning
Z to 0. The game was played at To-
peka.
Mike O'nowd knocked out Freddie
Gilmore of Chicago in the fifth round
Of q scheduled ten-round bout in st.
Paul, MINI. O'Dowd is q st. Paul
man.
Walter T. Hayes Of Chicago won
the championship singles in the In
nual Iowa state tennis tournament at
Des Moines. by defeating AL Lindaner,
In straight sets.
L. B. Clarke OF Chicago, shooting
from the seventeen-yard mark, won
the grand American handicap, the
feature Of the national trap shoot
tournament, held in that city, with
q score of ninety-six out of 100.
Efforts are on foot to match Johnny
Kilbane with George Clancy of Balti-
more, leading contender of the feath-
erweight crowd. Sam Harris. Cleve-
land promoter, made q proposition to
Manager Jimmy Dunn for a fifteen
round Clancy Kilbane bout at Balti-
more.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
. "cIean-up Week."

Pierre.-In line with the fire proven
tion work of the department Insurance
Commissioner Stblein has issued a
proclamation, In which he ask the
mayors of all cities of the state to
proclaim a Cleanup Week. some
time between nov and the first of No
vember. While this is intended to ap-
ply to the cleaning up of rubbish and
a-ccumulations of weeds in alleys and
back yards, which may be the aus
OF starting fires at any time, it also
includes the proposition of the depart
rlent which is being carried on with
the aid of local authorities, in the re-
moval Of old buildings which stand as
a menac to the towns in the way of
fire hazards and which will assist in
the reduction Of insurance rates if thew
afe removed. The department is push
Ing this work in a number of locali-
ties, having ordered several such
structures torn down in Deadwood and
Lead, and in the past week has placed
a ban On five such structures in, the
business section Of Pierre, and in some
OF these cases the order is being ac-
cepted without protest, and the work
OF destruction has already been COM
menced.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03
WARRINGTON.

An advance of three cents q hun
dred on oil from Kansas and Okla
homa points to Omaha and Omaha re-
lated points Is prescribed in the md
Continental Oil rate case decided by
the interstate commerce commission.
While still awaiting q reply from
General Carranxa to the Pan-Ameri-
can appeal for q peace conference in
Mexico. the State department issued a
statement denying that the United
States government had yer consider
ed amy particular man for provision
al president Of Mexico"
Comptroller Of the Currency Will
liams announced that the present un-
employed loaning capacity Of the ma
tional banks and reserve banks was
suiicient to finance at market value
the entire cotton crop and half, II not
all Of the tobacco and wheat crops.
and to conservatively justify an ex-
pansion Of credit Of $4,000. 0O00. 900 or
5000. 900. 900.
Destruction Of the United States
army camp ut Texas City BY the
recent gulf storm. with q loss Of ten
soldiers and = number Of unidentified
civilians. VA reported to the war de-
partment from Houston, Texas.
Preliminary figures issued BY tho
immigration bureau show : Sc Per
cent lecrsase II immigration during
~ frst week q August compared
With ~ same period . year ago.
Nils every month this year has
sDwn : 1ecllne = ffom s = ~ "
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-03

HERALD
~ MiLLlAM ~. DoWNla
NeA1AMk oouTh DAKOTA
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
olseudee What 10 Going on at Wash
ineton and In Other Sections q
che Country.
WAR NEWS.
Russian gunners have shot down .
Zeppelin that 81 approaching Wilma,
according to Z dispatch from Petro-
grad.
The German admiralty announces
that during the forenoon Of August
10 the British submarine E-13 wa
destroyed.
The Trankfurter Zeitung estimates
that the Germans and Austrians are
now holding more than 10000 900 pris-
oners Of wal. Of whom 1.654,0OO are
Russians.
70 make Il possible for all soldiers
who receive Z furlough at the front
70 visit with their families, the Ger
man government will grant free trans
portation to man Of every rank untf1
the end Of the war.
Berlin reports the Germans have
captured Novogeorgievsk, with $4,000
men, six generals, TOO guns and 2
large quantity Of war material. Novo-
georgievsk was the only strong fort
ress held BY the Russians In Poland.
The White Star liner Arabic.
bound from Liverpool to New York.
carrying 423 persons. passengers n
crow, including twenty-six Americans.
was torpedoed and sunk In ten min
utes By . German submarine.
A dispatch from Petrograd says
that the Germans lost the battle cruis-
q Moltke. three cruisers and seven
torpedo boats in the Riga battle. and
that the German fleet Was compelled
- withdraw from the bay.
The German undersea neet at pres
1at comprises Aftyeight submarines,
|. according to . neutral authority, who
has Just returned to Denmark from
Germany. Germany's Baltic fleet, &C
cording to the same authority, con-
oists o. ~thirty-eight warships.
A dispatch from Rome says that
the Balkan league is to be recon
structed with q combined army OF
100000 men, and that Rumanian
railroads have been ordered to place
III rolling stock at the disposal Of the
ninister Of war on September IA.
IN sentencing q soldier for fraud In
England In connection with separa-
ton allowance, q London magistrate.
Cir william Troloar, remarked that
ho understood the nation was now
paying something like f4O,OOO,DOO
(12O0, OOO, 00O) . year In these allow
auces to families Of soldiers absent
q the front
IA statement from q British authorf-
tatiye source on Germany's strength
a men and it, losses was made pub
lie Ii london and asserts that July
a tho Germans had 1900, 900 men on
the western front, 1,400. 900 on the
eastern front-a total Of 100000
men On the lighting lire. The German
casualties Ii killed. wounded and
m1ssing reached, TO June 80. totalled
1.e73.444 men.
Edltors Of the Southwestern Iowa
Annnelnfi0n viii hold the next meet.