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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
NORTH DAKOTA MEN GET
DAKOTA NATIONAL BANK

Aberdeen. S. D., Dec. 2S.-The an
nouncement was definitely made yes
terday afternoon of the sale of the Da-
kota National bank, of Aberdeen, to
Marshall & Mccartney Banking com
pany, of Cakes, n. d., of which Thomas
=. Marshall, former congressman from
North Dakota is at the head. Mr..
Marshall assumed charge of the in
stitution yesterday. George Grant
Mason, the New York financier,
nephew of James Henry silent" Smith,
has been president of the Dakota Ma
Observation-Disclosures company bought
his interests and hat of a number of
other stockholders, and stands ready
to buy the interests of the remaining
minority stockholders if they desire To
sell.
Mr.. Marshall has beer in the bank
ing business in North Dakota for
many years. 1t is understood here that
he will remain a resident of Cakes,
where he has interests. He
is a republican national committeeman
for North Dakota, and Il possible candi-
date for the republican nomination for
United States senator, to succeed Sen
ator p. j. McCumber.
Another bank change in this vicinity
is the sale by j. G. Campbell of a con-
trolling interest in the Sank of Hough-
ton, of which he has been cashier, to
C. A. Aarnes, a banker of Prosper, n.
D. Mr.. Campbell has bought an in
terest in the First National bank of
Frederick, and will take a position with
hat bank.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
new PERIsC0PE hat
HALTS BOLD WASHER
Little Mirror at Convenient
Angle Makes Flirting Dan
gerous In Chicago.

Chicago. Dec. o7.--The newest turn
in millinery in Chicago il the peri
scope bonnet, by means Of which the
path Of the home town mash.r has
e paved with thistles. The novel
skyniece has . rr:l.ror placed at a CON
~venient angle in tie upper dock ard
the wea:er cat: see ali tae eransp;res
for a distance ii 2 BLOCK Ssh:n! her.
When c InasEsr turns. nem:.ee. nd
jnsts his c:aya.. ar5 starts on Il zig
pursui. The .ws.ys; &C The Y~er!sccpe
bring the old ..nra,;y c.sbrella covS
with accuracy :lna forcN apnn 4 reg
sonahly vac=n: nate
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
SUPREME COURT REvERsEs
AWARD IN ALIENATION ci,,r

Mitchell. s. D. Dec. 2s.-The SUI
preme court has overruled the decision
of the circuit body in granting a judg-
nent OF $4,000 u John Maiden against
f.. Boyd. a local farmer, for the
alienation Of the affections OF the for
mers wife. Because OF the promi-
hence of the parties involved. the case
attracted much attention. Maiden and
his wife wore divorced after the trial
Of the case. Mrs. Maiden later marry
Ing EOyd at Sioux City
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
RAILROAD MOVING MACHINE
is INVENTION OF DAkOTAN

Canova, S. D., Dec. 24.-Winiam
Roach, a well known Canova man. has
been officially advised by the patent
office at Washington that he has been
granted a patent on a railroad now
ing machine which he perfected some
time ago. He was granted a patent on
the machine last February, but some
Madison, S. d, parties made a some
what similar machine n also applied
for a patent. The case was taken in
to court and Mr.. Roach was shown to
be the original inventor, and he now
has been granted his patent. The ma
chine invented by Mr.. Roach mows
both sides Of a railway track and will
cover 80 miles a day At hand" prices
he estimates that the machine will do
$3.50 worth of moving per hour dur
Ing the time it is being operated. The
machine costs only about 5000 to build.
Observation-Disclosures c. Brown. for
some time editor and owner of the Spear
fish Enterprise. a local weekly newspaper,
has leased the property to L.. C. Emerson,
who will take control January / and con-
duct the paper III future.
BRIDGIWATER-A farmers short
course has been arranged for this city, to
be held December 27-2s. under the auspices
OF the Bridgewater Commercial club. Pro-
80 nHS " iouS lst VI
prizes for the best exhibits. In connection
with the regular institute a ladies' aux
Hilary will be conducted, in charge OF Mrs.
Gordon w. Handlett.
TYNDALL-At their annual business
meeting the member OF the Tyndal
Ladies' Improvement association elected
the following officers for the coming year:
President. Mrs. s. e.. Berry: vice presi-
dent. Mrs. F. F. Chaldek: secretary, Mrs.
F. u. scoblic: treasurer. Mrs. E. j. Cal
ondine.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
N. MTTE, WHO HAS
DROPPED FROM SIGHT,
FORMER HOWARD man
Last Seen at Pierre, Where He
Left Grip and Overcoat In
Lobby of Hotel.

Howard, S. d, Dec. pm. Witte, OF
Marshall, MINI, the real estate man
who recently disappeared mysterious
the real estate business in Howard,
and is well known throughout Miner
and adjoining counties.
The nan who now is missing was
in Howard about November /. and
spent severa. days in the city visiting
friends and attending to business mat
ters. He went from Howard to Pierre.
and recently relatives in South Dakota
and elsewhere, alarmed by his strange
absence, commenced a search for him.
which thus far has been fruitless.
After removing from Howard, Mr..
White lived for a time at points in
Iowa. and finally went to Marshall,
Mimi, and engaged in the real estate
business, the same line of business
which he followed while a resident of
Howard. When in Howard a short
time before his mysterious disappear
ance, he appeared to be prosperous
and in a happy frame of mind, but
former business partner in Howard,
who now resides in California.
While in Howard he told friends
that he was going to points in western
South Dakota and to the Black Hills
after his visit to Pierre, but he also
made an engagement to meet a How
ard mar at Huron, after t~ransacting
his business at Pierre and failed to
put in an appearance at the appointed
time. 1t is not thought that he car
ried a very large sum of n but he
was wearing Valuabl diamonds when
last seen and these may have caused
MN to be the victim of robbers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

peror Of Japan has just conferred the
decoration OF the Order Of the Rising
Sun, nth class. as the most success
fiil Japanese In California, has for 20
years bean known as George Shima. In
the state l1S is known az the potato
king. having risen from poverty to
safflnence Through his success in
lhandling extensive potato croDs.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton the value Of it's prop
erty IN this country at 500, OoO, 900.
FAR OF last years income on this cap
ltal was an Increase of 40, 900 men in
the bible class enrolment. The asso-
citation owns 7b9 buildings.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

in general buy twice as
many books per capita as Americans,
In America an average of one book an
nually to every 7,300 persons is sold.
while in Switzerland the ratio is as
high as one to every 872 persons.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

An automobile museum has been es-
tablished in London, where there ara
exhibited gasoline cars made as early
as 1895, a steam tricycle., made in 1881.
and n of the earliest steam cars made
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

Cows, apparently, can not be herdeo
~ the moral %suasion" plan. A farm.
er writes to the Rural New Yorker
complaining that his imported Scotch
collie dogs are too gentle with the
stock. These dogs, he says, are very
bright and Intelligent, and would make
good stock dogs II they would only bite
the cows enough to make the cows
afraid OF them" The dogs are prob
ably hereditarlly disposed not to bite
their charges, cOllies having been for
generations accustomed to herd sheep
Their i~ndisposition to attack the cows
ought to go to their credit, as being
genuine collies.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

The Lackawanna railroad is not
satisfied with the novelty OF its own
name. SO calls its marvellous new
bridge g East river New York. he
"Tunkhannock viaduct..
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

4 OF the largest English railways
Y building a ~fireproofing plant in
which to treat all of the lumber used
~ ears which will be constructed in
future.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
SKID INTO DEEP RAViNE
AND BOY FATALLY HURT


Lead. S. D., Dec. 24.-Santa Claus
may not get to see 10-year-old Fred
die Lang. who was fatally injured IN
an accident yesterday morning. Tues
day night the mother, Mrs. Sophie
Lang, was sent to the state insane hos
pital at Yanlkton. The father died last
spring.
Yesterday morning Freddie Lang and
his four little brothers and sisters were
taken by auto on their way to relatives
in Harding county. Seven miles out of
town the auto skidded through the
snow owe a high embankment. Fred
die is dying at the hospital at Dead
wood.
Mrs. Thomas Ruskin. of Harding
county, an aunt. suffered penetration
of the lungs and is not expected t.
live.
The other children We're cut and
bruised.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

BY making gunpowder by a chemical
mechanical process. instead Of grind
Ing It in mills, q German inventor pro-
dilces smaller grains. which explode
more rapidly and completely.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

A family of II, all able to pick cot
ton. paid Hillsboro, Tex, a visit re-
Gently. In this family are four twins
2 n set of triplets. leaving eight
Mrs. Joel. The Joels gather two bales
OF the fleecy staple a day.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

p. A. Williams, of Riggsville. Me-.
recently bought a house that had been
vacant several years. In remodeling
the chimney he found an immense
amount Of honey stored there. 1t was
IN 10 layers. eight feet long, from 12 to
13 inches wide, and ~ inches thick.
Each layer averaged 1917 pounds and
h total weight was 1aa mounds
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

During last year the police depart
ment OF the city Of New York aided
l0li24s sick and injured persons, while
from drowning.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

There are now in the United States
4,063.02S persons native to Germany.
Austria and Turkey. and 6,SS5,724 ma
I've TO the nations fighting in the OPP
posing alliance.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

Fred Fife, of Fryeburg. Me-, has pre-
sented to the state museum a mounted
passenger pigeon, inc of the few speci-
mems in New England of this extinct
species.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

h entire plant of the PENNSYLVANIA
asphalt block manufacturing concern
- mounted on freight cars, so that it
for II to do.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

That the talking machine needle is
more soothing than the ~hypodermic to
a man about to undergo an operation
is the statement of DR.. Edmond Krause
a western impressario, who recently ex-
perienced the table. But, further, lis
ten to this: Il gave myself up to the
music. and instead OF paying attention
to the operation pictured in imagina-
ton the flight of Napoleon from burn
ing Moscow. Best of all, l suffered no
reaction. l had no nervous shock"
But NAPOLEON did.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

The hammer used at the sale of Ger
man prize ships in London was the
same as that used in 1856, when the
enemy's ships seized were sold. At the
close Of this sale the autioneer pre-
sented this hammer to the marshal OF
h admiralty. II. w. Lowell. A gold
lettered inscription on the hammer re-
called the Crimean war.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

During the last two years United
States forest officers have killed
4 nearly 5000 predatory animals. more
than three-fourths of which were coy
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

most costly thimble in the world
= owned by h queen Of Siam. 1t is
shaped like q lotus bud, ana is made 81
Y sold thi~cklyHstudded withsdiamonds.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

American commercial interests in
Greenland rest wholly in obtaining
supplies OF cryolite from there. The
quarries at Ivigtut, at the southern ex-
tremity OF the land, furnish nearly all
the cryolite used in the world. The
United States is now importing con-
siderable quantities of this cryolite, it's
use being in manufacturing opaque
glaze for erameling ironware (the i'm
ports OF which from Europe are now
cut Off and in fiuxes for e~lectrolytic
aluminium and white Portland cement.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

asEI e the sea were Il rise or the land fan
~ feet b Delaware and Chesapeake
6AXa#Wonld disappear.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

AxQE@AAxtensiye tests French experts
1SiSH1 apathat nnoaern violins were equal
e1ES3G6f66 tn.4f not better than, old ones
fSfXsa16uA Reputation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30

NkssI IN grocery store to every
S30gstnhabitasats In the United States.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
STATE BOARD T0 Bind
RIVAL PROMOTERS TO
ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION
Precaution to Be Taken Before
Issuing Second Permit For
Mitchell Platte Line.

Mitchell. S. D., Dec. 24.-Guaranty
bf good faith by h filing of a bond
will be required by the state railway
commission from the South Dakota &
Western railroad before it will be given
= permit to build Its proposed system
between Mitchell and Platte, S. D., over
4 route practically identical with one
already mapped out by the Dakota &
Southwestern line.
In making known this decision of the
state commission. M. P. Dougherty, a
member of that body, declared that the
refusal was intended to test the sin
certify of the promoters of the South
Dakota & Western line. G. w. FELTON,,
Of Sioux City, Ia, one of the promoters
Of the proposed road, is an official OF
the Milwaukee system and it is thought
that the filing of incorporation papers
and an application for a construction
permit was possibly a bluff" to check
he work of the other system, which
had already Incorporated and received
It's permit to build the Mitchell-Platte
inc.
The existence of the two companies,
With nearly identical names and routes,
has aroused much interest in Dawson,
Aurora, Charles Mix and Douglas u
lies, as it is believed that their activi-
les will result in definite action OF
lome kind. J.. Rosholp and Winstead
Bros, the in~corporators Of the Dakota
V line, TIE llISL Oue "
commence operations, are railroad
construction firms who have built
many miles of railroad in South Dako-
IA and other northwestern states.
The state railway commission will
iet a date for a hearing on the build
| ng permit tt the South Dakota &
! Western within the neal future, Mr..
Oougherty said.
STRINGENT REGULATIONS TO
CHECK OUTBREAK OF ANTHRAX
Pierre, S. D.. Dec. 24.-Because for
the past 10 years anthrax has been pre-
yalent in Stanley county, south of Fort
Pierre, without any permanent ex-
tinction Of it, the live stock sanitary
board has issued full authority to the
state veterinarian to make such uar-
hntine regulations as he sees fit, suit
able to the cases, gives him full
powers to enforce them. Rigid investi-
cation of the matter n compliance
with the law concerning 1t Is to be en-
forced from now on in that vicinity.
The persons who ave had anthrax
| cases have been extremely negligent
| as to taking proper care of cattle af-
ficted with the disease, and a W not
properly burned the carcasses, in
many instances leaving them on the
prairie, these practices leading to con-
tinued trouble.
This time measures will be final and
effective, and no person in the affected
| district will be immune from the regu-
lations.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
GRADUATE VETERINARIANS
DEFEATED I'M COMTEN-IHN!

Pierre, S. D, Dec. 24.-The state live
stock sanitary board. in session this
week announced that no further
schools for instruction on hog cholera
will be held-because no Instructors
can be secured. Several dates had
been set for the month of January,
and these are cancelled.
The board sustained it's earlier ae-
ton in granting a certificate to Ed
Waller OF Sphinx county. to practice
veterinary medicine and surgery. The
case has beer in the courts, and before
the board for some time. 1t grew out
Of the complaint of w. G. Moderator.
who was a graduate veterinarian, that
Waller should not be allowed to prac-
tice because he is not a graduate. The
law provides that If a person had been
practicing five years in the state, no
examination was necessary Waller had
practiced the five years. and the board
issued him a certificate. Endeavor TO
hold this clause of the law invalid hes
been backed by graduate veterinarians.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-30
FARMER NEAR WHEELER
SHOWS STATE POSSiRu TIES

Wheeler. S. D., Dec. 24.-To start
with only a few dollars and accumulate
loo, acres Of valuable land. is what
has been accomplished by Perry Bid
die, a we'll known farmer of the
Wheeler territory. He settled on a
homestead in this vicinity in the early
SOS n experienced all the privations
II the early settlers. Not discouraged
by the failures of the early years he
stuck to his farm, and for a number
Of years has been SO successful with
his farming and stock raising that he
now is the owner of the 1900 acres of
land, which is highly improved, with
good buildings. and much other prop
srty. He is famous in his territory as
! successful stock raiser. and par
siculariy in the raising of hogs. IIe
states that his great success in hog
raising is due to the fact that he a firm
believer in small hog houses instead Of
large ones, as to have these animals
divided up into small lots makes them
less subject to hog cholera and other
diseases.
STURGIS+Judge McNenny sentenced
Bryan Guffey and r. c. James to five
Years each in the state penitentiary at
Sioux Falls. Judge Hughes sentenced
Joshua Guffey to the same term. All
were tried and convicted for horse steal
ing at the present term of the Mead
county circuit court. The cases ,sill he
appealed to the supreme court.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-08-20
LOAN|NG CAPACITY
Of BANKS LARGEST
SAYS WILLIAMS

Washington, Aug. 19.-Comptroller
of the Currency Williams announced
today that tho present unemployed
loaning capacity of national banks
and reserve banks was sufficient to
finance at market value the entire cot
ton crop half, if not all, of the to-
bacco and wheat crop and to conser.
vatively justify an expansion Of credit
of two or three billion of dollars.
The statement referred to the pros
poets for unusual demands for funds,
particularly in the event cotton
should be declared contraband by the
European belligerents and declare a
survey of the conditions Of the ma
tional and reserve banks was dis
tinctly encouraging.
Never before, MIR. Williams said
have the banks been so strong and
so thoroughly prepared to handle any
problem that might be presented te
them
Just before tae statement was is
sued, the British embassy had au-
thorized the announcement THAT the
Allies had agreed on the principle
that cotton was contraband.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-08-20
FEELING is INTENSE
IN WASHINGTON over
SINKING OF ARABIC

Washington Aug. 19.-Vice Consul
Thompson at Queenstown, cabled the
state department tonight the names
of sixteen American survivors of the
Arabic. He said there was no auth
entic information as yet as to how
many were lost.
According to survivors, the vice con-
sul's message said the ship was tor
pedoed without warning and sank in
eleven minutes. Excellent discipline
prevailed. Twcnty-one boats were
lowered and apparently all were pick
ed up by rescue vessels.
Comes As Shock.
News of the torpedoing of the Ara
bic, with Americans on board, came
as shock to government officials
who had hoped since the dispatch Of
the last American note there would
be no further aggravatjon of an al
ready tense situation between the
United States and Germany.
While it was recognized that a can
vas of the survivors might reveal that
no American lives were lost the tor
pedoing without warning of vessel
carrying Americans has in itself been
pronounced by the United States gov
ernment as violation of. its rights.
which if repeated would be regarded
as deliberately unfrendly."
UnfriendIy Act.
In the last note to Germany, which
was generally accepted, was the final
word on the principles Of the question
from the United States Secretary Lam
sing used the following language in re-
ferring to violation of American rights
in the war zone: .
Friendship itself prompts it (The
United States Government to say to
the Imperial Government that repeti-
ton by y4the; commanders of the Ger
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-08-20

man naval vessels of acts in contra
vention Of whose rights must be re-
garded by the government of the
United States when they affect Ameri-
can citizens, as deliberately uhfrind-
ly."
Can't Predict Action.
What the course of the United
States would be, no official would pre-
dict, because Of the absence of detail
ed information. It must be establish
ed authoritatively whether any warn
ing was given and whether the vessel
attempted to escape. If no American
lives were lost it was thought in some
quarters tonight that drastic steps
were improbable, hut in the event it
is found Americans were drowned, a
supt,lre in diplomatic relations was
everywhere discussed as likely.
President Wilson Startled.
President Wilson was startled by
the news. He spent the entire after
noon and evening trying to get de-
tailed information. Not worried, he
took the position that judgment
should be withheld until official de-
tails were received.
The president gave orders that all
Information, official "nd unofficial, be
forwarded to him as quickly as pos
sible.
The name of the American surviv-
ors, as given out by the White Star
Line in New York, showed all but
three cabin and four steerage passen-
gers of known American resident was
accounted for.
Those unaccolinted for were James
Houlihan, Miss Josephine Bruguiers Of
New York, and Edmund Wood Of
Janesville, Wis, in the cabin and
Thomas Elmore, William Hughes,
John Kellett and John Olsen in the
steerage. ...aa.. &.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-08-20
HOLD INJUNCTION
HEARING AUGUST 50
Case Against Milwaukee Road to
Be Heard in Federal Court
at Fargo.

Judge Amidon Of the federal court
at Fargo has set August 80 as the
date for trying the injunction case
against the Milwaukee road in this
state. All the railroads in the state
were enjoined from shipping liquor
into North Dakota for illegal sale,
by Attorney General Linde some time
ago.
The case before Judge Amidon will
test out the legal phases of the in
junction. This is the first test case
to be tried in the state and consider
able interest is attached to it. The
various railroads in the state will
combine to fight the injunction, and
an interesting legal battle between
the attorney general and the railroad
attorneys is looked for. Regardless
of the outcome of the case at Fargo,
it will likely go to a higher court to
be determined. The main question
to be settled is whether or not the
injunction will lie.
The duty of the transportation
companies will be determined in the
matter of liquor shipments, relative
to determining who liquor shipments
are for. The legal phases of the
question are many and complex, and
some interesting facts in regard to
the amount of liquor shipped into the
state will be given out by the attor-
ney general, who has carried on a
tireless investigation in all parts of
the state. A vast amount ofevidence
which will be hard to combat has
been secured. No stones have been
left unturned by the attorney gen
raj in securing the evidence of viola
tions of the state prohibition law,
and the general belief is that he will
make the injunction stick.
Attorney General Linde and Assist
ant Attorney General Francis ]. Muir
ply will likely handle the case for
the state at Fargo.