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CONGESTION 0F FREIGH1 IN J. $. NOW CALAMITY" Lack of System on Railroad Lines Causes Great Gar
 Shortage, COTTON SHIPMENTS
 GREATLY DELAYED Instead of Thirty Days Required Usually to Send Cotton from South to New England, Three Months
 Now Consumed.

New York, March 16.-"We ace confronted with horrible calamity ' said a freight man today. "No less word can describe the confusion, waste of energy and lack of syst e'1 throughout the country's railroad lines
 The transportation systems are ov- elwhelmed. Every terminal here $ surfeited, every pier is overtaxed, ships cannot find places to load, ship pers cry for accommodations. ship nents are lost or delayed months Gv' ertime, the East bids against the West in a grand wrangle for freight cars, and the railroad lines fail by a long ways to get the benefits they should out of the present tremendous surge of industry.
 Foreign governments compete With chants. The railroads are accused of favoring war supplies while American business men can get neither raw ma terials nor deliveries of their p"H' ducts; the foreign agents at the same time tear their hair because smells and powder do not go forward fast enough
 A new crisis has been caused by the action of the British government IT. ordering the Cunard ships to. refuse all freight except that consigned so the British government. and in com mandeering almost all the cargo space on the other vessels under the union jack. This means the tying up of export freight in the yards of all the great railway lines which reach the seacoast here.
 If you see car branded For Gov ernment Use," you may know 1t con tains supplies for the allies. Such shipments now have freight right of way on most railroads. But this does not mean very much. For instance,
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TWO KILLED NEAR LITTLE ROCK IN
 AUTO ACCIDENT
Edwin l.. Rogers, Contract or, and Negro Chauffeur
 Crushed Beneath Car.


 Little Rock, March 16.-Edwin L.. Rogers, aged 45, local contractor and former railroad agent, and Elijah Ford, 27, negro chauffeur, were killed, and N. c. Smith, grocer, and Robert G. Barnes, young electrician, were injured about 1 o'clock this morning when an auto in which they were re- turning from Hot Springs plunged down 14-foot embankment, near the iron br dge over Fourche bayou, about 15 miles from Little Rock.
 The accident was due, it is said. to defective steering gear. Mir. Smith says that the steering wheel had be- come .loosened recently. and when a front wheel of the car struc! a rock at curve 'n the road, young Barnes, who was driving, lost control and the machine went over the embankment.
 Rogers and Ford were instantly killed when crushed under the car. Smith was thrown out as the ma ch ne hurtlfd down the embankment. escaping with slight injuries. Barnes was badly injured. but it is now be- lieyed he will recover.
 After tho accident. Smith walked three miles to a hunters camp to get assistance. It was several hours be- fore physicians could be summoned
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HUSBAND SAVED
 HIS WIFE Stopped Most Terrible Suf- -fering by Getting Her Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
 ble Compound.
Denison, Texas. ---" "After my little girl was born two years ago began suf-

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State Gets Land Patent,

Little Rock. March Ex-Governor Hays yesterday received from the commissioner of the general land of- ice patent to the state of Arkansas of tract of S5.34 acres of swamp land on Little Red river.
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NOW FEELS ENTIRELY WELL.

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Mrs.. Tom Meeks was taken to the Davis hospital yesterday in the Hol- derness ambulance, for medical treat ment.
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whole scalp. The general appearance of the breaking out was small elevations of the skin about the size of a pin head to a large pea. They contained a serolrs fluid ac- companied by itching often so intense that I was conl- pelled to scratch my head.
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INTENSE ITCHING OF SCALP TROUBLE
Compelled to Scratch Head and Lost Sleep. Hair Fell Out Gradu-
 ally. Became Dis6gured..
HEALED BY CUT|CURA SOAP AND OINTMENT

'I became afflicted with a painful scalp trouble starting first on the base of my skull. but extending by and by over the
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-14
SELLS HORSE
YOUNG BROOkINGS FARM HAND
Is ARRESTED ON CHARGE
OF HORSE STEALING.

Brookings, Aug. 14.-Because he
sold one of his employers horses in
order to collect the sum alleged TO
be due him in wages, a young man
named Ed Doyle, employed on a
farm near Bookings, was arrested
on the charge of horse stealing. His
wife, who was employed on the farm
with him, did not accompany her
husband and the officer who arrest
ed him, deciding TO remain on the
farm where both secured employ
ment several weeks ago. Doyle is
quite a baseball player, and during
a recent game was tried out in the
position of shortstop on the Brook
ings league team in a game against
the Toronto team. In connection
with the horse stealing charge he ex-
pressed confidence that he would be
able to prove his innocence of inten-
tional wrongdoing.
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TWENTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
Items Taken from the Daily
Leader Files

Miss Clark Park, of Wells, Mimi,
who has been the guest of Miss May
Belknap for some time. returned
home.
Howard Press: Masters Charles
and Victor futile, Morris, Harry and
Benlap jerks and Miss Madge Tut
tie, OF Madison; Master Thomas and
Misses Katie and Ruth futile, of
Winfred, came up Wednesday for a
visit with their cousins of the futile
household.
BY a recent resolution of the board
of education, tuition of foreign schol-
ars in the high school and grammar
department will be so per month.
For the lower grades heretofore re
quiring so cents for tuition, $50
per month will now be required.
During the storm last night light
ming struck the house of Mrs. Bor-
land in the north part of town, tear
ing through the roof and knocking
off the plastering promiscuously in
an upper room. None of the inmates
however, were near enough to the
scene of disturbance to be injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. ID. McGillivray
entertained twelve couples at a card
party last evening in honor of their
guest, Miss Kate Croft, of Milwau-
kee. In addition to the pleasure of
the game, the guests were royalty
entertained with refreshments and
otherwise, by Mr.. and Mrs. McGil-
liyray.
The very heavens beloved and the
floods poured down last night in gen
uine elemental fashion. but the
change brought thereby Is refresh
ing. Farmers got time TO visit town
today, easy blowing is assured and
an abundance of green fall feed for
stock will be the result. Dakota is
strictly in it this year, Mckinley
and all.
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Lane EXPLAINS
FORMER CITY AUDITOR OF WA.
TEKTOWN CONFESSES
DEFALCATIONS.

WATERFOWL, Aug. 14.-How O. M.
Lane, register of the federal land Of
flee at Rapid City, and former city
auditor of WATERFOWL. practiced the
fraud with which he is charged and
accomplished defalcation amounting
to more than $13, 900, is revealed in
a voluntary confession the accused
man is said to have given the states
attorney OF Codington county.
Armed with information gained
through the work of f.. /. Lampy, of
the state accountants office, States
Attorney Haugen, City Attorney j..
T.. Mather and Mr.. Lampy left last
week for Rapid City, where they met
Lane and confronted him with the
disclosures of the municipal records,
1t Is said that he made no effort to
refute the charges. The outcome of
the conference was a voluntary con
fession now in possession of Mr..
Haugen.
In this confession Lane admits
having obtained $S,006.33 through
fraudulent warrants drawn by him in
favor of out of town concerns, with
two exceptions. The excerpts are the
Slower Construction company and
the Watertown Cement company.
Other warrants of the same charac-
ter, but drawn against the street
and property pay roll" Melted him
So, 5000 he admits. while between
$500 and $4,000 was taken on war
rants issued to the county.
Lane, in his confession, states that
he alone was concerned i'm the
thefts.
While Ii is known that various
small sums received as license money
or in other accounts, was not prop
erly accounted for. by far the larger
part of the shortage is due to a sys-
tematic issuance of fraudulent or
bogus warrants. The practice, ii is
said, was TO issue one, OF perhaps
two, bogus warrants at the same
time the regular batch OF good war
rants were made out following their
allowance by the commissioners.
These warrants, or many of them.
after being made out, were presented
together with the usual punches to
the mayor for his signature, We're
then signed by the clerk. and pre-
sented to the city treasurer. The
auditor, upon receiving a check for
the money. RENTED by draft TO the
payees, retaining for himself the full
amount of the crooked warrant.
Warrants of this kind were usually
drawn on out of town parties or
firms.
The specific warrants upon which
the prosecutor bases his allegation of
embezzlement was drawn for $500
in favor of +. w. Dodge & Co, for
supplies furnished the city. The
firm is not mythical. but is actually
engaged in dealing with cities. The
appearance of such a warrant among
many others of ge%nuineness did not
attract attention, and thus was sign
ed and paid.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-14

Locusts Thrown Into Missouri River
Attract Thousands of Catfish.

Pierre, August lin the fight
upon grasshoppers on the Missouri
bottoms a large number were de-
stroyed by the use of a trap baited
with kerosene. These locasts were
thrown into the Missouri river. and
the catfish for miles assembled along
the bank where the grasshoppers
we're distributed, until the fish were
so thick that they were thrown out
of the water with ~pitchforks, but,
curiously, every fish is intirely in
edible.
Several prominent citizens secured
the fish, and, though they were fried
TO a delicious brown, not a mouthful
could be swallowed. More than a
ton of grasshoppers were thrown in
TO the river.
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TIRED, WEAK AND NERVOUS
Why Are So Many Madison People
i'm This Condition?

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Everything for Children, Middies, Dresses, Rompers and Suits. Ladies' Mdt
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JOHNSON'S BILLPASSED
HONESTEADERS MAY SERVE IN
MILITIA WITHOUT HINDER
ING PROVING OF CLAIMS.

Washington, Aug. 14.-The senate
passed Congressman Royal C. John
sons militia homestead bill, which
had earlier passed the house.
This measure permits the home
steaders who are members of the ma
tional guard. or who lately Joined
the guard for service on the Mexican
border or in encampment, to attend
to their military duties without pref
udicing their interests in proving up
their claims.
Heretofore a homesteader could
his rights to his claim, because the
time of residence required by the
homestead laws would have been in
terrupted.
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HEY, RCBE."
TOwnsmen of Frederick Battle with
Circus Men.

Frederick, Aug. 14.-With a cry
of Hey, Rube!" the workers at q
circus showing here Saturday, grab
bed tent stakes and prepared for a
battle with some townsmen who at
tempted to get by the ticket taker
without paying. In the melee one of
the home guards was severely hurt
with a club. Many heads were
bumped on both sides.
Later in the day a local officer had
the surprise of his life when he was
attacked by a semiintoxicated man
he had locked safely in Jail a while
before. The man had crawled out
the chimney hole and hunted up the
officer for revenge. The officer,
caught playing a game of
pool, saved himself from serious in
jury only by using his cue to the best
advantage. The prisoner was this
time locked up in a tighter place, and
the game resumed,
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STATE NEWS.


kimball-Last evening Mrs. Am
brose Westendorf was accidentally
shot by her husband i'm the abdomen
with a revolver, and il is said a cor
set worn by the young woman inn
peded the ball, which was later ex-
tracted. Mrs. Westendorf is in a Sc
rious condition. The Westendorfs
live about four miles southeast of
Kimball.
Miller-The lives of Fred Kenady
and wife, George Kenady and wife,
Miles and Stanley Sellers, Lewis Hal
lett and John Moss, Of this vicinity,
were placed i'm jeopardy when they
were poisoned by p%artaking of faint
ed pressed chicken and canned
beans. For a time several of those
affected were in a serious condition.
Aberdeen-Only the quick action
of his companion saved Ed Edwards,
n cigar salesman, of this city, from a
serious accident when he was struck
and knocked senseless by a flying
dove. Edwards was driving his auto
mobile at a 30-mile an hour clip
when ii happened. The feathered
missile struck him fairly in the fore
head.
Pierre-The Missouri river has re-
NAMED so high this late i'm the sum
mer. which is unusual. hat boating
parties have been very frequent. A
three days cruise is under way to
Chamberlain and return. with stops
along the way. Judge Gates. Judge
Meow and ia mfifaG nnann pnhfngnn
and Miss Robinson, 5. A. Travis and
family, and other friends will com
pose the party.
Deadwood-In a telegram from
Commissioner Frary, OF Vermillion,
to the Deadwood Business club, no
tification was received that the pure
food, dairy and drug officials of the
United States AVE selected Dead
wood for their 1917 convention city.
The choice was made at Detroit. with
New York city, Des Moines and Far
so also ~contending for it. Deadwood
nearly won the convention at Sc
attic three years ago.
Misunderstanding his throat,
arms and feet with a butcher knife,
Christ Lorenzen, a baggage man, of
this city, attempted TO commit sui
eide at his home early this morning
and lies at the hospital in a critical
condition today. His windpipe was
severed and ugly gashes cut in both
forearms and just above the toes of
both feet. Temporary insanity
brought about by excessive drinking
led TO the act.
Pierre-Ranchers from Stanley
county say they are not being trou-
bled as yet off the valleys by hop
pers,' but hat the cricket problem
is one which they have to meet.
These insects are so numerous that
they are destructive in several sec
tions. The cricket plague is also one
which is causing housewives in this
city much worry, as the insects do
damage to clothing and fabrics which
are not put away SO closely that the
crickets cannot possible get to them.
Plankinton - John Cafaro. a
P~lankinton man, has been advised
that his brother was killed on the
Italian front. where he was serving
in the Italian army. His death was
caused from the effects of a gas
bomb. Since Joining the Italian
army eight months ago the young
man had seen almost continuous
fighting and was wounded twice, re-
covering each time. He had planned
on taking up his residence in the
United States if he survived the
great war in Europe.
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THE COMPELLING PERORA-
TON TO MR.. HUGHES
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.

We live in a fateful hour. In
a true sense, the contest for the
preservation of the Nation is
never ended. We must still be
imbued with the spirit of heroic
sacrifice which gave US our
country and brought US safely
through the days Of civil war.
We renew our pledge to the n
cient ideals of individual liberty,
of opportunity denied to none
because of race or creed. of un-
swerving loyalty. We have a
vision of America prepared and
secure; strong and just; equal
to her tasks; an exemplar of the
capacity and efficiency of a free
people. indorse the platform
adopted by the Convention and
accept it's nomination.
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-14
TRUE iNWARDNESS OF THE
VERA CRUZ INCIDENT.

In the spring of 1914. occur
red the capture OF Vera Cruz.
Men from one of u ships had
been arrested at TampicO and
had been discharged with an
apology. But our admiral de
manded a salute, which was re-
fused. Thereupon the president
went 10 congress. ASKING au-
thority to S the armed forces
OF the Unitel States. Without
waiting for tle asSage or the
re- so. rtiOn. Vera Cruz was sei;-
ed. 1t appeared that a shipload
of ammunition for Huerta was
about to enter that port. There
was a natural opposition to this
invasion and a battle occurred
In which nineteen Americans and
over a hundred Mexicans were
killed. This. of course. vas var
Our dead soldiers were praised
for dying like heroes I'm a war OF
service. Later. we retired from
Vera Cruz. giving up this noble
warfare. We had not obtained
the salute which was demanded.
We had not obtained reparation
for affronts. The ship with am
munition which could not land
at Vera Cruz had soon landed at
another port. and its cargo was
delivered to Huerta without in
reference. Recently the naked
truth was admitted by a cabinet
officer. We are now informed
that I'VE did not go to Vera Cruz
to force Huerta to salute the
flag" We are told that we went
there ito show Mexico that we
were I'm earnest I'm u demand
that Huerta must CO." That IS.
we seized Vera Cruz to depose
Huerta. The question OF the
salute was a Ter pretext.-
From Mr.. Hughes Speech Of
Acceptance.
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HIS GONE.

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LOOK GoOD-rEEL GOOD.

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GAVE THE BABY REST.

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SAYS THEY ARE WONDERFUL.

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Brief Sentences Featuring the
Speech OF Acceptance of
Charles E. Hughes.
America First and America Efficient.

We are too great a country to re-
quire OF our citizens who are engaged
tary service to which they are now
called.
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We cherish no illusions. We know
prevented by pious wishes.
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We 9%enounce all plots and conspira-
ton.
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Time is money. Save time and
money by subscribing for The Daily
Leader. 1t gives Al the news.
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The nation has no policy Of agrees
sire for any part of her territory.
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During this critical period the only
danger of war has lain in the weak
course of the administration.
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Mrs. Laura Beall, Plattsburg, Miss.
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We propose that in the competitive
struggle that is about to come the
American workingman shall not suffer.
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We must take Vera Cruz to get Huer-
Ia out of office and trust to other ma
tions to get our own citizens out Of
peril. What a travssty Of international
policyl