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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
IOWA MAYOR ARRESTED ON
CHARGE OF ILLEGAL ElSAiM1

Armour s. p, Oct. 2I.+-State and
Federal Game Warden l.. p. Johnson. Of
Armour Yesterday arrested J.. f. Ford.
ago ofEnn,t Dodge, Ia; A. b. Ander-
sen, an auto garage man Of Fort Dodge.
Thomas Elrad city marshal of Wagner
.. Pr Art Leather, a barber Of
Wagner. for fishing without state IL
cense. In Lake Andes.
Ford and Anderson paid a fine Of
$3.50 each n costs. amounting to
$SS- Eirods and. Leather put up cash
bonds OF s35 each to appear before Jus
tice OF the Peace Frank Novak of
Charles Mix county November
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
VOTES FOR DEAD MAN
GIVEN LEGAL Status
Ais Success at Polls Would Be
Valid, Requiring Election
to Fill Vacancy.

Pierre, S. D., Oct. 3O.-Voters of Bon
Homme county have the right to vote
Tor a dead man and the votes thus
cast VIII have a certain legal status.
Theodore T. Bcrndt, present state
senator and candidate for reelection,
Il a few days ago, after the official
oallots had been prepared and the time
lor supplying ballot vacancies had ex-
PRED.
Senator Berndts death has caused a
olAefence of opinion among authori-
tles IN Bon Homme county as to the
erect of votes cast for Senator Berndt,
either directly or by virtue Of the cir
Gle at the head of the ticket, and the
question has been put up to the attor-
AcE general for q decision.
members of the republican ~organiza-
tioh II Bon Homme county contend
t1af the republican candidate for state
senator, James Stephens, will be elect
ed by default, and that no votes cast
ior the dead man, Theodore e. Beru1t,
should be counted.
Inc Bon Homme county auditor rules
tina II the name Berndt receives more
votes than the name Stephens, a va
cancy will De created, requiring a spec
lal election. II Stephens receives the
most votes, all complications will be
removed.
The attorney general probably will
not offer a ruling until after election,
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

Pennsylvania will be heard from
when the votes are counted next No
vember," said congressman from
that state in the House lobby. 1T
will be in the shape of an old-fash-
toned Republican majority. Our peo-
pie have had enough of Democracy
and they know that business would
be flat but for the abnormal condi
lions that have been brought about
by the European war. The policies
of President Wilson and the views of
the people of PENNSYLVANIA are not in
accord"
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
Aquatic Food Plants.

The collections of Aquatic food
plants secured in recent expedition
to China are of special interest. These
include water chestnuts, water nuts,
and a number of aquatic bulbs, as well
as the water bamboo. The Chinese;
the departments explorer found, have
mastered through centuries of expert
ments the process of using swamp
lands for the raising of food crops,
and their success is believed to point
to commercial possibilities for some
of our swamp regions where reclama-
ton by drainage is not practicable.
The kauba, sometimes called wild rice
or water bamboo, now to be made the
subject of experiment, is a vegetable
in taste somewhat between grass and
asparagus. The swollen stalks of the
plant are eaten much like our aspara-
gus. The ordinary bamboo, contrary
to the prevailing opinion, is not an
aquatic plant, and for successful cul-
tivation calls for fertile and we'll
drained soil.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

POLITICAL GOSSIP


Washington, April II. Especial cor
in Tennessee will enter the coming
campaign in militant and aggressive
mood" declares Representative Sam
r. Sells of the first district of that
state. Twice within the last six
years we carried the state for Re-
publican governor and were defeated
in the last contest as a result of over
confidence, coupled with gross cleo
ton frauds in the western section of
the state. The present national adj
ministration is by no means popular
in Tennessee, The only argument
that is now advanced by the support
ers of Mr., Wilson is that he has kept
us out of war There is a widespread
conviction that in so. doing he has
sacrificed our national honor and
abandoned American rights. Were
people of Tennessee, as a nonpartisan
QUESTION. three-fourths of our people
would favor the policy of protection.
Thousands of Democrats will vote with
us on this issue who have never sup
ported the party before. There is
no Progressive party left in Tennes-
see. The fifty thousand voters who
supported Mr.. Roosevelt in 1912, have
all climbed on the Republican band
wagon and are ready for an active
campaign to redeem Tennessee in No
vember.'
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

Clifton U. McArthur.-Thew west may
have made mistakes in frittering away
its school land and water-power rights,
but IL is not doing these things today,
and this very fact is sufficient proof
that we are capable of administering
our own affairs. The west prefers to
correct and rectify these mistakes, in
20 far as possible. without bureau
cratic Interference from Washington.
The west does not like absentee land
lordism or bureaucratic rule by fed
eral agents who are not responsible
to the people of the west and we are
opposed to having the public domain
put into federal leasing system.
Such a policy tends to restore the
Crown-land systems of the middle ages
"a policy utterly foreign to our Amer
lean ideals. We of the west are a
free. virile race of people. and instead
of federal tenants or vassals we want
independent landowners who will pay
their share of taxes. take an interest
in public affairs, and become part
and parcel of our splendid citizenship
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

February imports into this country
eclipsed all records in the trade his
tory of the United States. Our i'm
ports amounted to s193.935, III which
paid customs duties in the sum of
$40, 239.5S5, or an average rate of
duty of 80 per cent, compared with an
average of from is to 20 per cent
under Republican law, which provided
ample revenues for running the Gov
eminent and left the legacy of a fat
surplus for the Democratic admins
-tration to dissipate. The current
fiscal year to the end of February
showed a net inward gold movement
of s2S0.312, ST., while correspond
ing period last year showed a net
outward gold movement of s94. 500
This gold is coming in to pay the
trade balances of the warning powers
and is part of our war order pros
perity in trims Of dollars
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

THE Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri,
Speaker of the House, who four years
ago climbed to fame as a presidential
candidate by announcing that if he
won he would ride down Pennsyl-
vania avenue behind span of Mis-
souri, mules, has evidently forsaken
oline driven 'steed'," said member
of congress to a group of colleagues,
as Champ stepped into an attractive
limousine, and was whirled away from
the Capitol. few days since. Time
and circumstances have evidently con-
verted the Speaker to the belief that
the days of the Democratic Mule are
numbered"
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

Il. S. Bayard.-There are three par
ties TO every labor dispute-the work
man. the employer and the public. Just
the railroad companies and the train
men. now the best paid body of work
men in this country. And the third
party. the public is very likely to get
all the worst OF it. II there is strike
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
TILE DRAIN CHEAPER
THAN OPEN DRAIN

Many farmers are laboring under
dram is much more expensive than an
open drain, and are therefore wasting
money in the construction of many
small open drains. The fact of the
cases, especially where tile less than
one foot in diameter is required, the
closed drain is the cheeper The
slope of the banks of an open drain
should not be less than l to 1, and the
drain should be il most cases, for ir-
rigated lands, at least Az or 5 feet
deep. Figuring an open drain of this
size and comparing the cost of the
same with 10 in. tile drain, we find
that they are just about equal.
The cost of the construction, how
ever is not the only thing to be taken
into consideration, but the lmaiItte-
nance of the system is also of great
Importance. In the case of the open
drain, we have conditions exactly right
for the rank growth of vegetation,
and the open drain continually needs
attention. The cost of maintenance
Therefore is high. The closed-tile
drain, on the other hand, if properly
installed, requires very little atten-
ton as far as maintenance is concern
ed, and in the end is cheaper than the
open drain.
Open drains have their place and
serve their purpose well when prop
erly used, but they should be con-
structed for outlets of larger drain
systems where tile would be out of
the question on account of the large
size necessary. They are, however,
entirely out of place when constructed
as lateral drains for individual farms.
E. B. House. Colorado Agricultural
College. Fort Collins, Colo.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
International Harvester Company Of America
Q,csPssaisD
STOCKHAM BROS. & Co.

the public suffers. If the railroads
are compelled to reduce their service
or to lessen promptness. the public is
the loser. II the railroads have to pay
they must advance their rates for
transportation. which is all they have
to sell, their only source of revenue.
The people should understand very
clearly that they have to pay for such
things as the extra men now required
by our absurd full crew laws and for
all unreasonable costs of transporta-
ton.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

John T. Cunningham.-Ther is only
one real aristocracy in America, or in
the world for that matter. and to 1t
belong men and women, rich and poor
alike. who are gentle. modest. consid-
crate and kind: who love life for its
simplicity and frankness, and whose
aspirations and hopes are builded
around those things which stand for
honesty and purity. An aristocracy
which purports other than these
things is living lie In the light of
things as they really are.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
WILL COMPEL UNIFORM
TO r. r. CROSSINGS

An investigation into the feasibility
and necessity of requiring all rail-
roads in the state to make grade
crossings uniformly safe, so far as
the physical character of the 1876
crossingin the state are concerned,
has been inaugurated by the state
public utilities commission: Every
steam and electric railroad company
in the state has been notified to have
present at hearing
on this investigation, to be held at
the rooms of the commission in the
state Capitol building at 1000 a. m,
May 10th.
The plan of the commission, as set
forth in its notice to the railroad
companies, is to require each road
to construct and maintain at each
state highway grade crossing uni
form approach to be at least 20 feet
from its tracks, such approach to be
at a uniform grade in no instance to
exceed six per cent; also to place
planking between the rails of its
tracks at such crossings, and for at
least one foot outside of each rail,
in order to do away with with rough
ness, commonly known as ''thank-you-
ma'ams," at such crossings. These
approaches must be at least "a feet
in width to give ample room for the
passing of vehicles in emergency
cases.
1t is the belief of the commission
that this plan will obviate the neces-
sity of automobilists slipping the
clutches of their machines and coast
ing across tracks in order to avoid
severe jolting and wracking of their
machine and occupants, and which
often results in engines dying just
on the crossing.
In addition, the commission is con-
templating the preparation of per
manent record of each grade crossing
in the state, showing the character
of the crossing, the nature of the pro-
ttCtlpli, IL dlloiQ0u ny vi
gates, watchmen, sign-posts. wig
wag'' signals or other appliances or
devices, the grade of the highway. the
grade of the railroad track, the num-
railroad track and the amount of
vehicular traffic over the crossing
daily.
In this connection, the commission
has figures showing that the state
has expended upward of 100000 on
primary highways in the last three
years, and that the counties have en-
pended fully as much more, while the
railroads have done little to make
their crossings safer with respect to
roadways. If every grade crossing
we're to be reconstructed in accord
ance with the specifications planned
by the commission, the cost to the
railroads would be several hundred
thousand dollars. However, it is the
avowed intention of the commission
to treat the matter sanely and rea-
sonably and to have the work done
gradually. beginning with the primary
state grade crossings and gradually
extending to fhe crossings on the
secondary highways and then to those
on the feeders.
Following the Inauguration of an
into the local rates with
in the San Luis district and between
that district and other points in the
state. the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
Dad company,@ respondent in the
case voluntarily has reduced several
rates. putting them into effect imme-
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

Silas-Did that Denver Teller who
moved out near you have any luck
with his vegetables last year? Hiram
i'm way. He got snake bit and col
lected $500 from an accident insurance
company.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
A Night Message

A hurry-up call for Baby's
Bottle is only. one of many
occasions when the small all
night lamp IS convenient. In
the halls, in the bathroom, on
the porches, you'll find it handy
to have a light all night.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
WITH THE THINKERS

George Gunnell- More important
than military preparedness is our un-
readiness. coming from false sense
of security from graf moral peril, in
variably is discovered when too late.
The best things of life have a way OF
slipping away so quietly that before
we know II they are gone beyond
recall. The finer things OF life depart
without sound of trumpet or beat of
drum.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

Following the Inauguration of an
investigation into the local rates with
in the San Luis district and between
that district and other points in the
Dad companyis respondent in the
case. voluntarily has reduced several
rates. putting them into effect imme-
lately nna-r authority granted by the
pab,ic utilities commission.
These rates are subject to revision
by the commission when the hearing
on the general investigation into all
San Luis rates is held. on May 4th.
since the commission has not passed
upon their reasonableness.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
LIVE STOCK PRICES
AT SOUTH OMAHA
Fat Cattle Active and Strong
to a Dime Higher
HOGS STEADY TO Sc STRONGER


Light Lambs, With a $1,000 Top
Heavy Kinds and Muttons Slow to
Shade Lower.
Union Stock Yards, South Omaha,
April IL, 1s16.-Receipts Of cattle
Tuesday were again rather liberal,
about $500 head. and the quality was
very good Trade opened out slow.
but keen demand developed and
prices ruled anywhere from strong to
dime higher than Monday. Best
beeves sold up to 1925. Cows and
heifers were also in active demand
and stronger, and there was consid-
cradle activity in stockers and feed
ers. with prices strong to shade
higher all around.
Quotations on cattle: Prime beeves,
s9.1o@9.30; good to choice beeves,
sS.SoG910; fair to good beeves, $3.50
@S.75; common to fair beeves. $500
$40; good to choice heifers, $7.25@
S.25; good to choice cows. s7.0o97.S5:
fair to good cows, s6.25Q7.o0; can
ners and cutters, s4.50@6.00; veal
calves, $1,000 1850; bulls, stays, ETC.,
s5.75G775; good to choice feeders,
$7.S01S.60; good to choice stockers.
s7.75@S.25 fair to good feeders, $40
67.SO: common to fair feeders, $3.50
@T25; stock heifers, s6.75@I75:
stock cows, s5.7596.75; Stock calves.
$7.00@S.0o.
Some Advance in Hogs.
The run of hogs was quite liberal.
1880 head, but with vigorous de-
mand from both packers and shippers
the trade was lively and prices
steady to sc better than Monday.
Tops brought $3.50. the same as on
Monday but the bulk of the trading
was at ss1O@s.25 as compared with
$9.10@9.20 on Monday.
Liaht Lambs Sell Higher.
A tolerably liberal run of sheep
and lambs showed up. about 1850
head. Packers went after the light
lambs eagerly and paid about 1O@l5c
higher figures for them, choice Mexs-
cans reaching $1,000. Heavy lambs AZ
well as mutton grades were slow sale
at more or less shaded prices all
around
Quotations on sheep and lambs:
Lambs, good to CHOICE handy. S11.5s
111.60; lambs. fair to good hano~
&11.15@1135: lambs. fair to choice
heavy. sl0,7561l,25; lambs. clipped.
$s.50@s.25: ylgs.. fair to choice light,
$s.25G10,40 ylgs., fair to choice
heavy. ss50@s.25: wethers. 1 ir to
choice. $s.00@s.00: ewes. god to
choice. ss4o0s.s5; ewes. fair to
good. e7S06S.40.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21
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The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-21

When it voted to continue the duty
on sugar, the Democratic party not
only Topped on its fiscal policy, but
by vote of its membership in the
House, absolutely Endorsed the great
protective policy of the Republican
party and admitted that it had been
all wrong upon this schedule, said
New England congressman. IF it
was wrong on that schedule, there is
no reason why it is not wrong on all.
think when the voters of this coun-
try come to realize this great right
about-face on the part of the Demo
cratic party, they will awaken to the
need of returning the Republican
party to power and the reestablish-
ment of the protective policy which
brings business prosperity
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-09-30

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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-09-30
CALIFORNIA TAX COMMISSION SOUNDS
PEOPLE ON NUMEROUS TAX PROBLEMS

The state tax commission of Cali
fornia. is setting a GOOD example to
similar bodies in other states. 1t is
arousing thought among taxpayers
concernin, proposed reforms that
should have careful consideration It
Is doing this by sending to every tax
payer in the state the following ques-
tons:
would you favor the exemption
from taxation of all factories and
manufactured products? effort is
being made along this line in several
Give reasons.
would you favor the discontinue
ance of the tax on personal property
and the adoption Of a reasonable in
come tax in it's place? (This has been
recommended by various tax com
missions and has been partially put
into operation in Wisconsin and re-
Gently adapted in Massachusetts,
Give reasons.
do you believe improvements on
land (houses, trees, etc. should be
taxed in the same proportion as the
land itself? Give reasons.
do you favor the gradual reduc-
ton of taxation upon buildings, trees
and vines, and the assumption of that
tax burden by the land? Give rea-
sons. (This proposition has been dis
cussed in New York. and other states
and attempted in Canada, New Zea-
land and elsewhere. It is estimated
that land in California is assessed at
: about one half it's full value and it
has been argued that if it were as
sessed at full value, improvements
. could be exempted without increasing
the tax rate.)
1T is argued that land values in
cities and other social centers are
greatly augmented by the amount OF
population and that the community
itself, and not any effort on the part
, Of the owner of the land, gives it the
: high value. If this is true, do you
or do you not believe that man
who gains this extra wealth from the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-09-30
PAST RECORD OF CANDIDATE HUGHES -.
ENTITIES HIM TO RAILWAYS SUPPORT
(By Basil Marley, member Industrial
Relations Committee.(

(By Basil Manley, member Industrial
Relations. Committee.) 49,.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-Charles
e. Hughes decisions as supreme court
justice and acts as New York gover-
nor entitle him to the railroads sup
port for president.
AS governor he vetoed the 2 cent
fare and full crew bills.
AS justice he has concurred in de-
cisions that:
1. State and nation can exercise no
control over railroads except in mar
row field of transportation.
2. Private shippers can not recover
damages when their businesses are
ruined by illegal rebates.
3. Congress and the federal courts
can wipe out state railway laws and
tons.
4. Railroads in determining "rea-
sonable rates" can include in their
valuation land given by the people to
them.
. Helped Big Business.
|, The first decision referred to was
in the case of the Great Northern rail-
road VS.. Minnesota; the second, that
of the Pennsylvania railroad VS.. the
International Coal company.
Hughes greatest service to the rail-
roads was performed, however, when
he wrote the decision in the Mime
sofa: rate case. The people apparently
got the decision, but the corporation
got the law.
This case came from the lower fed
eral courts where Judge Sanborn
, handed down down decision that
was denounced by resolution in the
governors conference, at Lake Mo-
| honk, where a special committee of
governors was created to notify the
supreme court that if the .Sanborn de-
cision was sustained, it would be re-
sisted by the states.
With this ominous threat Of organ
| lied resistance. the case came to
/ Hughes, who had been selected ito
! write the decision.
Justice Hughes gave every appear
ance of reversing the Sanborn deci-
sion, while in reality he sustained
Judge Sanborn on every point of law
! for which the railroads were seriously
| contending. He ruled that the main
principles upon which the Sanborn
! decision was based we're right. but
that in the Minnesota cases the prin-
ciple had been too narrowly applied.
Quibbled Over Points.
Thus it was ruled that the sanborn
| decision was RICH. in holding the
| courts could a41nul rates fixed by the
state, if they were unreasonably low,
| but that in the particular cases before
I the court the rates were confiscatory
in only one out of the three roads af-
fected.
Even in the case of the road for
| which the rates were held confisca-
tory, the net earnings were $742.0OO.
Welding 3.5 per cent on the enorn-