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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
CHINESE PROVINCE
DECLARES INDEPENDENCE
! lnt'I News Service.

BY Pac. and lntI News Service.
CANTON. China. April Lung Chi
kuang, governor of the province of
kwang Tung, of which Canton is the
capitol has declared its independence.
This province has a population of 3O,,
100000.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
TWO KILLED IN
NEW ORLEANS CYCLONE
BY Pac. and Intr News Service.

NEW ORLEANS, April IA cy.
clone struck the Gentilly heights, a
fashionable residence district here this
morning. killing two of the residents
and injuring five others. A number of
buildings were also destroyed.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
A MIRACLE OF
WAR PROSPERITY
BY Pac. and Int'I News Service.

BY Pac. and Int'I News Service.
NEW YORK. April 1.-The firm of
CASTOR. Williams & Wigmore, formed
just after the war started with an
original investment of $1,000 did $i7.-
100000 gross business last year, with
net profits of s4.S0O,0OO. 1t has now
eight subsidiary corporations in foreign
and shipped 100000 tons of railway
supplies and $50 locomotives to Rus
sia last year.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
BRITISH SEIZE
AMERICAN VESSEL
BY Pae. and Int'i News Service.

WASHINGTON. April T. Great
Britain has notified the state depart
ment that the steamer Edna. formerly
the Matzalan. has been seized off the
Falkland Islands and ordered to an
English port. where her San Francis
co owners will be given a hearing in
the prize court.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
D|R|G|BLE BREAKS
MOOR|NGS IN STORM
BY Pac. and Inti news Service.

BY Pac. and Int'i news Service.
PENSACOLA, April 1.-THE navy's
new dirigible worth 100000, broke her
moorings this morning and disap-
peared to the northwest in high
wind. 1t is planned TO have the dirig-
ible followed by aeroplanes.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
ELEVEN sEAMEN OF THE
ORIENTAL STEAMER DROWNED
ey Pac. and Intr News Service.

BY Pac. and IntI News Service.
LONDON. April 1T was an
nounced this morning that eleven sea
men were drowned when the Peninsu-
lar Oriental Liner Smla was sunk in
the Mediterranean yesterday. All
others aboard the boat were saved
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-07
THE DIFFERENCE

A TON OF ORDINARY STEEL COSTS TWENTY DoLLARs-A
TON OF WATCH STEEL COST TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
THE DIFFERENCE is A MATTER OF REFINEMENT. TON OF
FLOUR AT THE SUNSET s54Oo-A A
CREDIT STORE COSTS s7ooo-THE DIFFERENCE MATTER
OF PRICE ONLY WE CUT PRICES ENTIRE GROCERY
LINE. DO IT NOW. you CAN SAVE FROM THIRTY
PERCENT. HERE ARE FEW ITEMS OUR REGULAR PRICES
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
To A HEAD MONDAY
CITY COMMISSION CONSIDERING
ALL PHASES OF PROPOSED
STREET PAVING.

Definite steps on the petition to
pave Egan avenue will probably be
taken at the regular meeting next
Monday night OF the city commits
sioners. While the proposed paving
was up for discussion at last nights
meeting of the commission, no formal
action was taken. Mayor Geo. Was
key said that he thought the matter
would receive direct attention at the
commissioners next session.
As it is the first paving petition
that has been presented to the com
mission, Mayor Waskey said it is
thought best to make haste slowly"
1t is the intention to go over the
project again with the city attorney,
probably tomorrow forenoon, the
mayor said. 1t is thought probable
that the necessity for the paving will
be advertised before complete specifi-
cations for various kinds of paving
will be ordered. Any property own
ers in opposition to the proposed inn
provement, have thirty days after the
resolution declaring the advisability
of paving is passed, to make protest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01

will have a serious effect here. All
of the fuel merchants have a substan-
tial quantity of hard coal, and only
n dealer reported today that his
supply of soft coal had been exhaust
ed. The merchant whose supply of
bituminous coal has u out, said
that he had had three carloads of
fuel on the road from Minneapolis
since the first of last week. He told
that he had heard no word of the cars
since they left the Minneapolis rail
way yards.
1T is predicted that the demand for
fuel will be unusually strong follow
ing the breaking up OF the subzero
weather. 1t is thought numbers of
farmers will flock to the city to re-
plenish their coal bins as soon as
travelling on the country roads inn
proves.
Dealers say they do not anticipate
any immediate change i'm the price
of coal.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
BETTER FARMING
CLARK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
AGENT GIVES OUT
HIS PLANS.

Clark, Feb. AT a big meeting
of farmers held in this city, County
Agricultural Agent l.. v. Ausman
outlined his plans for the promotion
of better farming throughout Clark
county during the coming spring,
summer and fan. Among other
things he plans on forming boys and
girls clubs, introduction of grains
especially adaptable to Clark county,
experiments with corr and the de-
velopment of pure bred cattle raising
throughout the county.
As the result of experiments thus
far made he has found a very desir-
able wheat and barley, which are eX-
pected TO do unusually we'll in such a
climate as that of Clark county. Corn
will be bred so ii will be adapted to
Clark county conditions. Plans also
have been devised by the county
agent TO eradicate hog cholera in
Clark county, by the organization of
a farmers club in each township.
with each township subdiyided so
that a more careful watch may be
kept of affected hogs and thus check
the disease as soon as it appears in
any community.
The boys of the county will be en-
couraged to raise corn and other
crops on small tracts of land set aside
for them on the farms of their par
ents, and the girls of the county will
be organized into clubs for baking
and sewing and poultry raising. This
work will be done in conjunction
with the state director of boys and
girls club work and the county su-
perintendent of schools.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
SUBMARINE LOST


Charleston, S. c., Feb. Reports
reached here from apparently reliable
sources that one of four submarines
of the X type, en- route from the New
York navy yard to Pensacola, Fla,
had been missing since ! o'clock sun
day morning. Capt. Benz. G. Bryan,
commandant of the Charleston navy
yard, refused to affirm or deny the
reports.
The monitor Tallahassee and three
submarines Of the X type, said to be
the K-1, K-2 and K-6. arrived off
Charleston bay, but did not. enter be-
cause of the fog. The buoy tender
Mangroye left Charleston apparently
toward Cape Roman, off the Carolina
coast northward of here, where il was
said the submarines were lost sight
of. The KS was one of the four
submarines en- route to Pensacola.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
INCREASED POPULATION


P%etrograd. Feb. 1t is estimated
that the population of ~Petrograd, in
Guiding every class of transient and
refugee has grown from 1000. 600 TO
5000, 600 since the war began. The
suburbs of both PetrOgrad and Mos
COW, usually occupied only i'm sum
mer, are overcrowded this winter.
Besides the usual refugees from the
war zone, thousands of country folk
have flocked to Moscow, fearing to
remain in the little country towns
this winter. The influx has been so
great that students in the universities
there are unable to find the cheap if
cherries rooms to which they have
hitherto repaired, and many have
been sleeping in the railway stations.
As these are closed during a few
hours Of the early morning, part of
the night has TO be spent outdoors.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
BOY LANDS in Tolls
MILO HALL APPREHENDED HERE
AT REQUEST OF HAMLIN
COUNTY OFFICIALS.

To answer to a charge, the pur-
port of which is not known here, Milo
Hall, about IT years of age, was
taken into custody yesterday by Chief
of Police Grant Winesburg, and to-
day was returned to the peace au-
thorities at Bryant, on whose advice
the boy was ap%prehended.
Chief Winesburg was given a de-
scription of the young man over the
long distance telephone yesterday
morning. The sheriff of Hamlin
county, in which Bryant is located,
said only that a warrant for Hall had
been issued, and that he would prob
ably be a passenger on the forenoon
passenger train from the north.
The boy declared that he had com
mitted no offense of which he was
aware. He told that for about a
month he had been employed in a
poolhall in Bryant. 1t had been his
intention, he said, to go to the home
of his parents in Austin, Mimi.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
LUCE Line PROSPECTS
EARNINGS LAST SIN MONTHS
DOUBLE THOSE OF A
YEAR AGO.

Minneapolis. Feb. 1.-The in
creased prosperity which struck Min
nesota during the last half of 1915 is
beginning TO show in the reports Of
railroad earnings, and will mean an
increased reyenue for the state in the
form of railroad gross earnings taxes.
The first road TO report came in to
day, the Duluth 4 Iron Range, re
porting earnings Of $3,82S,729 for
the six months, compared with So
694,9S1 for the corresponding period
of 1914. an increase of more than 40
per cent. The Electric Short line.
known as the Luce line" reported
earnings of s56.742 for the six
months, compared with $25,S56 for
the same months of 1914. The Elec-
trio Short Line Terminal company,
organized last summer to handle the
Minneapolis terminal, made its first
report, showing earnings Of $9,10l.
WATERFOWL Public Opinion: That
the Luce Electric Short Line project
ed from Minneapolis west toward
South Dakota two years ago, will be
completed to this city in 1917 If
building is conducted at its present
rate until that time, is the opinion
expressed by +. A. Studer, of Excel
sior, Mimi. who is spending today in
WATERFOWL. Mr.. Studer is engaged
in railroad construction and has CON
structed over two-thirds of the grade
of the Luce line, as far as it is built
at the present time.
Next spring will mark the open
ing of the greatest amount of con
struction work for 1916 that has
been done in a single year since the
line was started" said Mr.. Studer.
The road is now practically finished
TO Hutchinson, Mimi, and contracts
will be let as soon as weather will
allow crews to start work, for con
struction of the road to Clara City
and probably beyond next summer
Mr.. Studer stated that the Luce
line is doing a splendid business be-
tween Hutchinson and Minneapolis at
the present time and has as solid and
well built roadbed as any railroad in
the northwest. AT the present
time" he said, the Luce line is OPP
Grating six steel trains daily between
Minneapolis and Winsted and will
probably extend this service to
Hutchinson in the spring. Two daily
through trains, which do not stop at
intermediate stations besides the reg
ular locals, are being operated be-
tween Hutchinson and Minneapolis
now"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01

States Attorney Holdridge return
ed TO the city by the belated train this
morning.
Wanted by man and wife, heated
rooms for light housekeeping. IN
quire at this office.
The W. G. T. L.. will meet with
Mrs. S. G. Westaby Wednesday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
st. Katherine's Guild will meet
with Mrs. Buckholz Wednesday aft
ernoon. There will be work.
VIM. Rae went to Sioux Falls to-
day as inspecting officer of the X. T.
commandery of that city.
DR.. and Mrs. A. f. Clough were
morning passengers for Chicago, and
will thence proceed to points in
Texas.
To level the banks Of snow ada
cent to downtown sidewalks, the
street scraper was brought into serv-
ice this afternoon.
The postponed Presbyterian Mis-
VIVA y swiftly bA1tALAG wiz ~ tAt
at the home of Mrs. j. w. Ginder at
3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Guy f. Hanson was a morning pas
senger by the east train for st. Paul
to transact business and enjoy the
outdoor carnival in progress in that
city.
There will be work in the degrees
of Hope Rebekah lodge No. 2, We'd
nesday evening. All members of the
staff should be present. Lunch will
be served.-Cora Brown, N. G..
1t is not thought that the passen-
ger train which was due to arrive
here at AIS o'clock this afternoon,
will arrive before tonight. At the
passenger station this afternoon II
was said that the time at which ii
would probably arrive is problem
atical.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
LOCAL NEWS.

Eat at Jacks.
Hot drinks and luncheonette at
the Sugar Bowl.
For a Spirella corset, phone 439
yellow.
Clothing at half price at Millard's
cash store.
Wash ice delivered to any part of
the city.-Roy Beesley, phone 367
yellow.
For Sale. Two fresh milch COWS.
L. w. Unzelman.
Eat at Jacks.
Wash ice delivered to any part Of
the city.-Geo. Parker, phone 81.
Baled hay for sale by the bale or
by the ton.-D. McKinnon.
Maekinaws and wool coats at
greatly reduced prices - Millard's
Cash Store.
Eat at Jacks.
1.-TWO souls with but a single
thought" Yours, to eat good candy;
ours. to sell 1t. We do, the very best
in fact.-Osborn's Drug Store.
For Sale. House and three lots,
also four blocks adjoining, well To-
Gated in northwest part of the city
C. F. Marth at Scudder Bros. market.
Don't lose sight of our large line
of hot water bottles, fountain syr-
inges and combination sets. The rs
cent hot water bottles are far above
the average in quality and everyone
ruarauteed.-Osborn's Drug Store.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
Mdkei ii a habit to meet
your friends at the
IN
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEsT..

A proprietary medicine, like every
thing else that comes before the pub
lie, has TO prove its merit. 1t has to
meet competition. The law of the
survival of the fittest" applies to
this as to other things. The fact that
Lydia T.. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound after forty years of success is
still n Of the largest sellers proves
that it is a dependable, standard rem
edy for the ailments of womankind.
and n in which they may have per-
feet confidence.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01

Pain is a visitor to every home and
usually comes quite Unexpectedly. But
you are prepared for every emergency If
you keep a small bottle of Sloan's Lini-
ment handy. 1t is the greatest pain kill
er ever discovered. Simply laid on the
skin-no rubbing required-it drives the
pain away. 1t is really wonderful.
Meryin II. Soister. Berkeley. Cal. writes
Last Saturday. after tramping around
the Panama exposition with wet feet, !
came home with my neck SO stiff that |
couldn't turn. / applied Sloan's Lini-
ment freely n went TO bed. To my
surprise, next morning the stiffness had
almost disappeared. four hours after the
second APPLICATION ] was as good as new"
March. 1915. At druggists. rs cents.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
PERILS OF THE SEA
OFFICERS AND CREW RISK LIVES
IN BATTLE WITH WIND
AND WAVES.

New York, Feb. with six life
boats gone and her superstructure
salt crusted from bridge to deck
house aft, the American liner New
York came into port from Liverpool
two days late.
A week ago she encountered a
west-southwest gale, four days out of
the Mersey, which soon developed in
to a hurricane, with the wind bowling
at an so mile an hour clip. Chief Of
ficer Edgar Madden said the New
York heeled over Al degrees and that
he had never seen such seas. They
were so high, he said, il looked inn
possible for the liner to climb them.
A whole watch was detailed to put
double lashings on the life boats and
several members of the crew were al
most swept overheard. Robert Heal
ey, the boatswain, was caught by a
sea. picked up off his feet and hurled
against a boat davit. Third Officer
Thomas Cartright dashed out on deck
after him at the risk of his own life,
but managed to reach Healey and
carried him lnboard.
One sea tore the door of the cadet
house on the boat deck, abaft the
bridge, off its hinges and there was a
foot of water on the floor of the
house. The cadets had a real expert
enc in a winter crossing Of the At
lantie.
The first life boat was swept over
board at 5 p. m. Sunday. IT was No
> boat on the port side forward. Then
three more life boats and two col
%lapsibles We're ripped from their lash
ings and washed over the sides. Capt.
Roberts was forced to slow down and
for twenty-four hours from Sunday
afternoon until Monday morning the
New York was practically hove to.
1t was so rough after the liner left
the landing stage at Liverpool that
when she passed the %lightyessel off
the Mersey, Charles Parkinson. the
Liverpool pilot, could not get off and
he came here. The 256 passengers
wasted no time in getting ashore
when the New York locked at the
foot of West Twenty-second street.
+. A. S. Franklin, receiver for the IN
ternational Mercantile Marine, was ct
the pier.
The New York's crew %contcnded
that the most worried passenger was
Emiline. a large black eat and the st.
Paul's mascot. Emiline took a night
off when the st. Paul was in Liver
pool the last time and went ashore.
She missed the boat. With eat cum
ming, she waited for the New York
and sailed on her, and the crew Of
the latter was willing TO swear to a
man that Emiline calculated she
could catch the st. Paul here. While
the New York's engines throbbed un-
der the jingle bell Emiline purred
blissfully, but when the liner hove
to she did not even take a cat nap.
But the New York arrived before
the st. Paul sailed from here at noon
and locked at the next pier. Emiline
was first ashore and seampered over
to the st. Paul. where she was re-
ceived with open arms and treated by
Chief Steward William Reen to a hur-
riedly cooked bowl of p%orridge.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01

A big double header basket ball
game is the card announced for next
Friday night at the Normal school
gymnasium. The local high school
team will meet the Sioux Falls high
school boys, and the Madison Normal
quintet will be pitted against the
tossers from the Springfield Normal
school. Both local clubs have signi-
fled their hope of grabbing off a de
cisive win.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
DOWN ON HIS BACK.

"Abou two years ago / got down on
back" writes Solomon Bequette. Flat
River. Mo. II got a so cent box of
Foley Kidney Pills and they Strengthened
me right UP. / recommend them TO all
who have kidney trouble. Rheumatic
aches and pains. soreness and stiffness.
sleep disturbing bladder trouble, yield
quickly to Foley Kidney Pills.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01

Il have a little girl 6 years old who
has a good deal Of trouble with Group"
writes w. T.. Curry. Evansville. Ind. II
have used Foley's Honey and Tar. OBJ
tanning instant relief for her. My wife
and / also use Ii and will say ii Is the
best cure for a bad cold. cough, throat
trouble and Group that | ever saw"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01

Many aches and pains, sore muscles,
weak and diseased kidneys. giving
system. Foley Kidney Pills tone up
stiff joints and much rheumatism, at
tributed to cold weather have their first
cause in failure Of the kidneys TO prop
erly eliminate waste matter from tn"
prompt relief from aches and pains.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
JANUARY's SLOWING UP"

Winter indoor life, heavy food and ir-
regular exercise cause a dull. tired feel
ing. Foley Cathartic Tablets tone up the
stomach and bowels. liven up the liver,
cleanse the system and give the light,
free feeling of proper digestion and good
health. Do not grippe or nauseate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
DELAY COAL SHIPMENTS
ONE DEALERS STOCK OF SOFT
COAL is DEPLETED
OTHERS HAVE FUEL.

While the cold weather of the past
week has cut considerable of a swath
in the coal piles Of local retail deal
ers, it Is not thought the shortage
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-01
THE CITY.


Partly cloudy tonight and Wednes-
day; slowly rising temperature to
night in southwest portion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-15
Miners And Owners In Wales
Continue Traditional Quarrel

payment on tonnage basis-so much
for every ton of coal mined-have
been paid only for the large or first
quality coal. Every ton of coal which
a miner sent to the surface was first
passed over the screens and only the
residue after the small coal had been
screened out, was weighed and paid
for. Ordinarily, a miner who sent
twenty tons of coal TO the surface
would receive payment for mining
only about seventeen tons, three tons
having passed through the screens
and been discarded as small coal"
The men now point to the large in
crease in price which the owners are
obtaining for this small coal today as
compared with the price before the
war. This price shows an increase
from about nine shillings (s2.25) TO
nearly IS shillings, ($4.50) per ton.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-15
By ASSOCIATED PRESS,

Cardiff, Wales, Dec. 14.-After a
year OF comparative peace, labor and
capital are again at Ioggerheads in
the South Wales coal fields For
nearly a generation the colliery own
ers and the miners have maintained an
attitude sof mutual ill-temper and sus-
picion, and war has not been allowed
10 dispIace their traditional quarrel.
A year ago a five-day stoppase of the
mines, on which the British navy
largely depends for fuel, actually took
place, and a prolonged deadlock was
only averted by the intervention Of
Lloyd George, who summarily granted
most of the miners demands over the
protests of the owners.
The demands now made by the
miners may be summarized as fol-
lows:
Immediate concession of a 10 per
cent advance in wages to cover the
increased cost of living.
An independent audit OF the coal
owners books to show exactly what
are the profits on all classes of coal
over long period of years.
That the financial relation Of wages
to profits be ultimately arranged so
that the percentage shall be the same
as before the war.
Payment to be made for small coaf'
henceforth on a tonnage rate to be es-
tablished by later negotiations.
That the selling price of coal be
henceforth established by competent
Independent authority on basis OF
the standard wage paid.
1t is evident from this complicated
and elaborate series of demands, that
a settlement must necessarily involve
protracted negotiations. The miners
contend that the 10 per cent wage in
crease is urgent and should be granted
at once; the other demands may be
taken up more leisurely before any
suitable tribunal.
One of the most puzzling of the de-
mands is that which seeks payment
for the so-caIled small coal" This is
a new demand, and meets with de-
terInined opposition from the owners
Hitherto the workmen who received