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The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15

word to convey the impression to his really competent stenographer. It was true that many times, even as just now, when Nellie sat in his private office taking dictation, it had been a relief from business cares and a posi- tive pleasure to look at the delicate expressive face of the young girl and appreciate her buoyant accommodate ing ways and quick intelligence. If there was the dawning of love iL the companionship, however, it was on the part of Nellie herself In fact, she had just written the fact to her sis ter. And because she felt a growing fondness for her kindly indulgent em- ployer she had decided to sever a tie that it might be difficult to break, later on by leaving the pleasant em- ploy of Ransom & Go.
 Meanwhile Danny had gathered up the letter on the floor of the main office and was cogitating over the great precept of wisdom that Miss Deane had sought to inculcate.
 Look before you leap," Danny re- peated the axiom. That fits me. Sweetie is a good adviser and I'm go- ing to adopt that as my motto
 Danny picked sheet of paper from the waste paper basket, folded it, took a stub of pencil from his pocket and proceeded to diligently and laborious- ly place the appealing axiom upon it's surface. He slowed the folded paper in his pocket as if it were some valued talisman and an unfailing remedy against blundering.
 More than once during the rest of the day Danny consulted his creed. Then that night when he went to bed, he found he had learned his motto by heart and took out the sheet of paper to place it in a bureau drawer when he chanced to open it.
 "Whew!" he eIaculated as he pe- rused the inside of the sheet. Why, it's part of 8 letter Sweetie has writ ten to some. relative or friend and -whillikens! she's in love with the boss"
 Yes, that was certain. Miss Deane had written to her sister that MT Ran som had attracted her as never any man before. But she realized that gulf between them, showed due humil- ity in not construing his little acts of kindness into any marked attentions and was going to seek another posi- ton.
 Why. if she leaves Ransom & Co. Hm-lostl" walled Danny. Say. if
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15
HIS GOOD ADVISER
By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD
 RIDGE.
'Blunderhead!" angrily expostulated

'Blunderhead!" angrily expostulated the bookkeeper of Ransom & Co.
 Look before you leap Danny" in sweet solacing contrast followed the tones of the office stenographer, Nellie Deane.
 Wish I could. Guess I'll go stum- bling through life just this same old wayi" groaned Danny Skiles. Wish you was my sister. I'd get out of here If 1t wasn't for you-yes, I would" "
 The electric button on the desk of the stenographer sounded an appeal just then. It was from MT. Ransom s office. Hastily Nellie swept into a 1rawer-or rather fancied she swept into it-several pages of a letter she had been writing to her sister. One of the sheets, however, had slipped un- noticed over the edge of the desk and had fallen among vast litter on the floor beside it.
 Danny had precipitated the over flow of the waste paper basket only a few seconds previously. He had stum- bled over it in the exercise of that CAI4 dOA uAhd4y dD11lIy Ol HIS lO ueS0TV0 the common nickname of "Blunder- head" Danny was simply chemically irremediably clumsy. When he raised 8 window he generally smashed it. When he moved chair he usually tip ped it over. When he ran to attend to some urgent office call he stumbled over a rug or the linoleum.
 
 Danny with a daggers look at crusty old Collins. "As to Sweetie-that's what I call her and that's just what she is-if I ever amount to anything it will be her kind ways to me that did It. She's pretty as picture and good as gold. Yes, and I'll bet the boss knows it!" chuckled Danny wisely.
 If ''the boss" young Alden Ransom, knew it, however, he had spoken no
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15

she could marry the bossl Wish l
 was matchmaker. Whatll do?"
 This was as to the letter. Danny decided ne would think things over be- fore he said anything about it. Then came the crisis of Danny's life, and the "Blunderhead' of the office situa-
 tion became a star character and hero.
 Danny earned only four dollars a week and had to pay some board at home at that. This did not admit of any banquets. The week before he had bought small bunch of violets to place on the desk of Miss Deane. She had scolded him severely, but Danny was proud to think he could spend 50 cents to show his devotion to the kindest friend he had ever known.
 For the present week, therefore, Danny was wont to take his meals at a cheap beanery. There were items on the bill of fare that ran from four to seven cents. One evening he had to remain at the office overtime to stamp some mail. Six o'clock found n1lu AuA6Iy WILL OuC-udA1 dA AO0l work still undone. Danny went out for a bite. As he passed down a court running along the side of the building where the office was located. he noticed that the light in the room of the boss had been extinguished and the boss himself was just approach ing his automobile, the only one in the solitary court
 Then there occurred something that made Danny think of rapid moving picture show, it was all done so quick ly. Three men had suddenly leaped from a dusk doorway. One sprang to the chauffeur's seat. Two others ad- vanced upon MT. Ransom. They threw a long coat over his head, lifted him into the machine, stifled his cries and away dashed the auto.
 ''Kidnapedi Just like in the movies" gasped the petrified Danny.
 h a flash he was after the speeding machine. As he ran an inspiration came to him. He drew out his big jackk life that was his constant com panion, caught at the knob of the bag gage box and clung there.
 The automobile followed the court then an alley and then curved into public street. It was here that Danny got ready for business.
 He made a desperate lunge at the nearest rear wheel. Blade-deep through outer and inner sheathings of rubber went the knife. There was a Fr;o f,,I chauffeur caught the warning sound. The auto sidled on a menacing slant. Danny sprang free, yelled for the po- lice, the car was surrounded and "the boss" was rescued.
 MT Ransom took Danny back to the office with him after the police had se- cured the kidnapers, who it appeared had set in motion the first section of a deep blackmailing plot.
 There's something else," said Danny, when the greater part of his story had been told--"there's Sweetie."
 "Ah! what about Miss Deane, now?" questioned the young business man, with every token of deep interest.
 And Danny produced the letter sheet. His eye sparklesi as he knew what he had long hoped-that Miss Deane cared particuarly for him. And | then rather amusedly he read the | scrawled words Danny had written:
 Look before you leap"
 MT Ransom" observed Danny fer vently, that's my motto, but you don't have to look before you leap if you're thinking about Sweetie. She's all gold, just like yourself!"
 Copyright. 1914. by W. G. Chapman.)
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15
RATE INCREASE
 NECESSARY
FARMERS UNION OFFICIALS THINK RAILROADS ARE EN-
 TITLED TO MORE REVENUE.
Products of Flow and Farmer Who Lives at Home Should Be
 Exempt From Increase.
By Peter Radford.
Lecturer National Farmers Union.

Lecturer National Farmers Union.
 The recent action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in granting an increase in freight rates in the eastern classification of territory; the applica- tion of the reads to state and inter- state commissions fol an increase in rates, and the utterances of President Wilson on the subject bring the farm CTS of this nation face to face with the problem of an increase in freight rates. It is the policy of the Farmers Union to meet the issues affecting the welfare of the farmers squarely and we will do so in this instance.
 The transportation facilities of the United States are inadequate to ef- fectively meet the demands of com merce and particularly in the South and West additional railway mileage is needed to accommodate the move ment of farm products. If in the wis dom of our Railroad Commissions an increase in freight rates is necessary to bring about an improvement in our transportation service, and an exten- sion of our mileage, then an increase should be granted, and the farmer is willing to share such proportion of the increase as justly belongs to him, but we have some suggestions to make as to the manner in which this in- crease shall be levied.
 Rates Follow Lines of Least Resist
 ance.
 The freight rates of the nation have been built up along lines of least re- sistance N The merchant, the manu- facturer, the miner, the miller, the lumberman and the cattleman have had their traffic bureaus thoroughly organized and in many instances they have pursued the railroad without mercy and with the power of organ ized tonnage they have hammered the life out of the rates and with unre- strained greed they have eaten the vitals out of our transportation system and since we have had railroad com missions, these interests, with skill and cunning, are represented at every hearing in which their business is involved.
 The farmer is seldom represented dI TdI6 hearings, dS HIS OTBdulLdIAOuS have never had the finances to em- ploy counsel to develop his side of the case and, as a result, the products of the blow bear an unequal burden of the freight expense. A glance at the freight tariffs abundantly proves this assertion. Cotton, the leading agricultural product the South, al- ready bears the highest freight rate of any necessary commodity in com merce, and the rate on agricultural products as a whole is out of pro portion with that of the products of the factory and the mine.
 We offer no schedule of rates, but | hope the commission will be able to | give the railroad such an increase in | rates as is necessary without levying | a further toll upon the products of | the blow. The instance seems to pre- | sent an opportunity to the Railroad | Commissions to equalize the rates as | between agricultural and other classes of freight without disturbing the rates | on staple farm products.
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15
Ex-Gouernor ZuIic Coming.

zona's chief executive during Cleveland's first administration. has written from his home at Avon-bv-the-Sea. New Jersey, accepting the invitation of the Phoenix Board of Trade to visit that city on his contemplated trip to the coast.
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15
What Is a Fair Rate9

We do not know what constitutes a basis for rate making and have never heard of anyone who did claim to know much about it, but if the pros perity of the farm is a factor to be considered and the railroad commis- sion concludes that an increase in rates is necessary, we would prefer that it come to us through articles of consumption on their journey from the factory to the farm. We would, for example, prefer that the rate on nogs remain as at present and the rate on meat bear the increase, for any farmer can then avoid the burden by raising his own meat, and a farm CT who will not try to raise his own meat ought to be penalized. We think the rate on coal and brick can much better bear an increase than the rate on cotton and flour. We would prefer that the rate on blows remain the same, and machinery, pianos and such articles as the poor CT farmer cannot hope to possess bear the burden of increase.
 The increase in rates should be so arranged that the farmer who lives at home will bear no part of the bur den, but let the farmer who boards in other states and countries and who fee Is hi' lock in foreign lands. pay the price of his folly.
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15
The Reason He Does Not.

''I am quite sure that can stop drinking when I have had enough"
 But you never seem to do it."
 'I know it. You see, the trouble is that when have had enough don't know it."
The Holbrook news., 1915-01-15
Calendar Must Be Wrona.

Bride-Oh, dear, Hugo's leave is up tomorrow, and we haven't half fin ished our Fliegende BIat- ter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK MARKET

Sioux City. July 24.-Usual light
run of cattle arrived for a Friday,
some IL a loads or around 800 head
as against 500 a week ago and 479
the corresponding time a year ago.
Trade conditions on killing cattle
showed no alteration and it was prac-
tically a continuation of Thursdays
trade as far as prices were concern
ed. Supply of steers included moth
ing of prime quality.
Nothing new developed in the mar
ket for stockers and feeders. Fresh
supply was limited, the few odd
punches selling at full recent figures,
which are judged to be Is q Csc high
err than at the close of last week.
Light receipts of hogs at all mar
ket centers served to check the
downward trend to prices and permit
a slight reaction, sales today being
judged 5 a 15c higher than yesterday,
with heavy kinds getting the most adj
vance. Tops for the day landed at
$3.50.
Supply of sheep at hand this morn
ing consisted of direct stuff to local
packers and so that the market did
not come in for any real test, prices
holding nominally steady with the
previous day.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
MAKE ARRESTS FOR
MURDER DONE IN 1868
After 10000 Robbery Bodies
Were Thrown Into Well.

Bedford, Ia.-With the arrest OF
Bates Huntsman, aged seventy, on a
charge OF murder is revealed a remark
able cas- of buried treasure, counter
feiting and double murder.
Huntsman was locked up without
bail. 1t Is charged that he and others
In 1868 murdered a wealthy stockman
and his little boy, robbed the former
OF $4,000 and threw the bodies into
an old well. The alleged murderers
then buried the 100000 and 1t Is
through the revealing of this wealth
that the strange story has come to
light.
Warrants were also issued for Hank
Daincote and Samuel and Henry Serb
Huntsman. Henry Scribner has been
arrested. The others who are believed
to have been associated with these men
are dead.
Huntsman was arrested after an In
vestigation by Assistant Attorney Gen
eral G. A. Robbins.
1t was through Samuel Anderson Of
Lucas. Ia, that the story came to
light. Anderson consulted Attorney
w. w. Bulman of Charlton r~elative. to
starting civil suit against three Of the
mentioned men, alleging that twelve
years ago he was employed by them to
dig for treasure which had been buried
on a farm near Siam, Ia. at that time
occupied by his parents.
He was to have a fourth of the
wealth. He said that he had uncovered
II, but that Immediately he had been
driven away at the point Of a gun and
that he had not received his share Of
10000.
In possession of these facts. Attorney
Bulman started an investigation which
resulted In ~uncovering the double muir
der in 1858 and the fact that 1t was
supposedly committed by counter
letters. He laid his facts before At
torney General Cosson, who detailed
men, and the arrests followed. Ac-
cording to the story plans were made
Immediately after the murder showing
the exact whereabouts OF the buried
money, but the plans were destroyed In
a IRE which consumed the house OF one
Of the men now dead.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
SHOOTS WIFE, KILLS SELF
Iowa Grain Dealer, Seventy Years Old
Wounds Spouse.

Winterset, Ia, July 24.-In a fit OF
insanity Miles Young, Sr., a prominent
grain dealer Of Winterset, shot his
wife with a shotgun as she stood in
the hall.
Mrs. Young fell on the porch and
while two neighbors we're attending
her wounds Young reloaded the single
barrel gun. went into the sitting room,
locked the doors and shot himself. dy-
ing instantly.
The only witnesses to the tragedy
were their two small girls. Young
was seventy years old. Mrs. Young
NAV live.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
GATHERING OF POLITICIANS
Mystery Surrounds Conclave O.
Democratic Ch~Ieftains.

Milwaukee,, July 24.-National chief.
tains of the Democratic clan are
heading for Catfish lake, seven miles
from Eagle River, Wis.
Champ Clark. Jr., is already on the
ground. Attorney General Thomas
W. Gregory. Speaker Clark and First
Assistant Postmaster General Daniel
G. Roper OF South Carolina are ex.
pected at the lake within a few days.
The party is to be entertained by
c. M. Lewis Of st. Louis. said to be
prominently identified with the ma.
tional liquor interests.
Mystery surrounds the conclave, but
there is a hint of a secret political
conference.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

New York, July 24.-William nj.
Twins, a well known lawyer and for
many years prominent in politics, died
at his home here. He was sixty-four
years old. Mr.. WINS recently was
taken Ill after his labors In behalf of
william Barnes in his libel suit
against Theodore Roosevelt.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Amsterdam, July PA semi-oficial
telegram from Berlin, commenting on
the British report of the sinking of
the German ~battleship Pommern or a
vessel OF that type in the Baltic sea
July 2, says: mo German warship
has been sunk in the Baltic sea by a
hostile submarine"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
~" OFFICIALS ARE ACCUSED
Wisconsin Legislators Say Land Pur
chases Were Wasteful.

Madison, Wis, July 24.-Land pur,
chases for the University of Wiscon.
sin, made by the regents and presi-
dent. are called "unwise. u~nsystematic.
wasteful and without regard to the
welfare Of the state" in a report of
an investigating committee of the
state legislature.
Lands which cost the state 81, 200
are being sold for pasture purposes
the committee charged. The blame
for the situation is placed upon the
shoulders of the president.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Chicago, July 24.-Henry Stephen
Hawley. a veteran constructor and
promoter Of railroads throughout the
country, died at his summer residence
In Saundertown, r. l., according to
word received by relatives here. He
was sixty-four years old.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Detroit, Mich, July Chichester
Hall. %flfty-eight years old, of Grand
Rapids, shot and killed his wife, An
ma. aged t%hirty-eight years, and his
stepson, Henry Towers, eighteen years
old. Hall then blew off his own head
with a shotgun. The family moved
here from Grand Rapids a few weeks
weeks ago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
Gold Output Increases.

Washington, July 24.-Alaska's gold
production in 1914 was valued at $15,-
7e4.250, an increase of $4,000 over
The previous year. Production of cop
pr amounted to 2~1,450.628 pounds
against 21. $50. 1853 in 1913. The total
mineral output was $19.1l8,0SO, com
Dared with $19,476.3c6 in 1913.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
Wilson Discusses Mexico.

Washington, July 24.-The Mexican
situation again came to the forefront
with a conference between President
Red Cross, who have virtually aban-
doned their campaign for the relief
of noncombatants In the southern re-
public because of the chaotic condi-
lions there.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
Minneapolis Grain.

Minneapolis, July 23.-Wheat-July,
$1.37A; Sept, $1.07b; Dec, $1.0Sh.
Cash close on track: No. l hard, ST.
SOS; No. l Northern, s1.40h 01.50h
No. Q Northern, $~1.37hQ1.47h; No.
3 Northern, $1.32A 01.43h; No. 5
yellow corn, 79N @79Ac; No. 3 white
oats, 52h @53c; fax, $1.61A.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
BURNING STEAMER IN PORT
Benalla Reaches Durham With Smoke
Issuing From Its Hold.

Durham, Africa, July 24.-The PEN
insular and Oriental line steamship
Benalla, on which fire broke out on
its way through the Indian ocean from
London for Australia with 500 emil
grants on board, arrived here with
smoke still issuing from its hold.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

South st. Paul, July 23.-Cattle-
Receipts, 2.400; steers. $5.00Q9.75;
cows and heifers, $4.75@S.35; calves,
$4.00Q9.25; stockers and feeders,
$4.50G7.50. Hogs-Recefpts, 300;
range, $6.4047.40. Sheep--Receipts,
400; lambs, $4.75@7.75; wethers. $4.75
95.50; ewes. $2.00l5.25.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Chicago, July 23.-Wheat-July, ST.
10A; Sept, $1.06A; Dec, $1.OsH.
Corn-July. S0Ac; Sept. 1850; Dec.
64hc. O%ats-July. 51hc; Sept. 37Ac;
Dec, $3.50. ~Pork-July, $14.22h;
Sept. $14.97h; Oct, $14.62h. Butter
-Creameries. 251Ac. Eggs-14017Mc.
Poultry-Springs, 10000; fowls. 12o.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

st. Paul. July 23.-Wheat-No. /
Northern. $1.40@1.50h; No. 2 North
ern, s1.37h Q1.47b: No. 2 Montana
hard, s1.35h @1.37M; corn, 1870
79Ac; oats, 52hQ5Sc; barley. 67Q
TIC; rye, 99c@$1.00; fax, s1.63A.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Seattle, Wash, July 24.-The Puget
Sound navy yard has put into opera
ton new rules, ii was learned, under
which visitors must register their
and addresses.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
MARKET QUOTATIONS.


Duluth. July 23.-Wheat-On track
and to arrive, No. / hard. s1.43; No. l
Northern. s1.41Q1.43; No. 2 Northern,
s1.3691.39. Flax-On track and to ar
rive, $1.67M.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Denver, July 24.-Knowledge of a
plot to abduct Joseph +. Smith, head
of the Mormon church In Salt Lake
City, and to take him to the Jackson
Hole country in Wyoming and there
demand a ransom Of 100000, has
come to the federal authorities Of the
department OF justice here.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
Asks $s5,o Heart Balm.

Chicago, July 24.-Mrs. Ada Z. Cant
we'll of New York has filed an amend
ed bill Of complaint against Arthur
p. Jones OF Chicago asking damages
Of $4,000 for breach Of promise.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24
FIND AGAINST MINNESOTAN
Chicago Authorities Would Accuse
Halstead of M~ansIaughter.

Chicago. July PA coroner's jury
here has asked Minnesota authorities
to %apprehend Jerry Halstead to be
held to the grand jury OF Martin coun-
ty, MINI, on a charge of manslaugh-
ter.
The recommendation of the coro-
ner's jury follows an inquest into the
death of John Claussen, Dalton, Ill,
who died here from blood poisoning
resulting from gunshot wounds said
to have been inflicted by Halstead.
The shooting is alleged to have oc.
Cured near Ormsby, Mimi, on a
farm. Halstead was arrested for the
shooting, but was released later.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Chicago, July 23.-Cattle-Steers,
$6.40Q10.35; cows and heifers, $3.50
9.15: calves. $7.O0@10.50. Hogs
Light, $7.40@7.S0; mixed, s6.S097.70;
heavy, $6.45Q7.40; rough, s6.45Q6.65:
pigs. $7.O0@7.75. Sheep-Native. $50
06.75.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-24

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt an
nounced that Governor Hiram John
SON OF California would be his candi-
date for the presidency in 1916.
AS the colonel was taking in the
sights at the exposition an enthusi-
asst yelled: TELL us. colonel, who is
your choice for president next year"
Roosevelt raised his hat and, point
ing to Governor Johnson. who was
with him, said:
Here Is the man. Johnson Is the
next president"