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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-01-04

z. ID. Leyson and family spent Sun
day at Washington. the guest Of Mrs.
Leyson's sister, Mrs. A. F. Churchill
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-01-04

Wanda and Irma Wilson went to
Huron Friday evening to spend the
school holidays with their grand
father, Thomas Wilson.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-01-04

Lucy Sedan returned Sunday from
Huron. where she spent a week at
the home of her uncle, Howard
Sedan.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-01-04

DR.. S. r. Wallis made a professional
trip to Rochester, Mimi, Friday even
ing. His son Reasin accompanied
him.
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Mrs. s. II. Wallis entertained a
small company of young people at
her home New Years Eve, compli-
mentary to Miss Matilda Tarleton,
who is spending the holiday vacation
at her home I'm this city.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-01-04

The members of the NJ. f. Epworth
League held a watch party at the
church Sunday evening. They serv-
ed a lunch, and after the ringing out
of the old year they enjoyed a bob
sled ride.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
WASHINGTON.

Great Britain has advised the Unit
ed States that President Wilson's re-
ply to Pope Benedict's peace proposal
is in effect Great Britain's reply, as
was indicated recently in statement
by Lord Cecil
Saturday night at II o'clock whisky
manufacture ceased in the United
States under provisions of the food
control law and the millions of bushels
of grain heretofore used in making the
form Of drink will be delivered to food.
importation of whisky also stopped.
Liliuokalani, former queen of Ha-
Waii, has sent to the American Red
Cross through Governor Pinkham a
contribution Of $100.
Food Administrator Hoover is con-
fident that the price of flour will drop
So a barrel as soon as the flour from
government controlled wheat reaches
the market
Better weather favored crops gen.
orally during August and as a result
larger yields were forecast by the De
partment Of Agriculture in it's esti-
mates based on conditions existing
Sept. 1.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
WESTERN.

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, was
elected president of the American AL
lance for Labor and Democracy at
Minneapolis.
Private Joseph Lawrence of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, a member of E battery,
Eighth field artillery, was killed at
Fort Sill Okla, when sixty horses,
frightened by the heavy gun firing,
stampeded
Nebraska will get credit for one
man certified by Denver division
board No. for service He is Floyd
F. Green of Bladen, Neb. He was
certified for service at Denver along
with seven others from his district
for the reason he had made his tenn
porary residence in Denver.
Lawrence de Lacy, editor of week
ly publication; D. J. Harnedy, mer-
chant, and William Mullane, a bartend-
er, in the United States District Court
at San Francisco, were found guilty of
conspiring to effect the escape from
an internment camp on Angel Island of
Franz Bopp, former German consul
general, and Baron Won Setback, form
er vice consul.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
SENATE PASSES
RECORD TAX BILL
REVENUE MEASURE BREAKING
ALL WORLD RECORDS GOES
TO CONFERENCE.
RAISE $2,411,67o,0oO
CONSUMPTION TAXES ON SUGAR,
TEA, COFFEE AND MOLASSES
KNOCKED OUT.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WashingtOn.-The war revenue bill
proposing the greatest single levy
on taxes in the history of the world
was passed by the Senate.
The measure provides revenue total
ing $2,411, ,67O, 900, an increase of $542,-
100000 over the amount proposed in
the bill as it was passed by the House
The difference between the House and
Senate provisions will be compro-
missed by the conference committee of
the two houses.
The Senate adopted, 40 to "a, Sena-
tor Shoots motion to strike out the
McKellar amendment providing zone
increase in second-class postage rates
beyond 800 miles and designed to Sc
cure $12,OOO,0OO.
After knocking out the consumption
taxes on tea, coffee, sugar and molass-
es, proposed in the House bill, the Sen
ate passed the measure by a vote of
50 to 4.
Here are some of the things the bill
will do:
Raise approximately $2,5O0,OOO,O00
revenue in addition to the $1,330,000,-
900 raised by existing law.
Compel war profiteers to pay $1,0OO,-
100000 out of their estimated $4,100,-
100000 excess profits this year.
Take approximately $842,0OO,OOO from
incomes.
Impose liquor, tobacco, stamp and
consumption taxes to the extent Of
about $40,000,000.
Levy income taxes upon the earn
| ings of single men over $1,000, and Of
married men over $4,000.
Draft approximately $1S3,OOO,OO0 of
the steel trusts war profits.
Proposes levies upon passenger
travel, freight, telegraph and long dis
tance telephone messages.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
WHERE HE LOST INTEREST
Working Man Couldn't See Where
There Were Any Bones to Be Left
From His Sunday Joint.

For half an hour the working-class
audience had listened patiently to the
talented lady who was speaking to
them about economical and nOurishing
cookery. She had talked about egg
less puddings and BUTTERFLIES cakes,
and now said with smile:
IT will now tell you about splendid
soup which can be made for next to
nothing. Take the bones left over
from your Sunday joint"
At that a man in the middle of the
hall rose to his feet with a disgusted
look on his face, and said to his mate:
"'Ere, Bill, let's get out O. this
whats wrong?" asked the other, In
surprise. Don't you like soup?"
"Aye, like soup we'll enough" was
the grumbler's reply; "but how many
bones does she think there are In q
half a pound O. liver?"-London Tit
Bits.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
SPORT.

After six years the New York Gil
ants finally succeeded in winning a
game from Jack Coombs. He beat the
Giants twelve times.
The Denver Country Club golf play
ers took another leg of the Antlers
trophy, insuring the club possession
of it for at least three years more.
Officers at Camp Custer at Battle
Greek, Mich, have organized a foot
ball team and are out with a def
to Chicago and Detroit clubs for hol-
iday and weekend games.
Francis Ouimet and Jesse Guilford,
the Boston golfers, won the four ball
match, which was begun at the Brae-
burn Club by up and to play on
the links of the Baltusrol Club, Short
Hills, N. ].
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
LUxBURG DENIAL NOT ACCEPTED
u. s. to Demand New Swedish Rule
to Gust Pro-Germans.

" d TO OenldnO new SWeQlSn rule
to Gust Pro-Germans.
Washington-So serious does Presi-
dent Wilson regard Sweden's violation
of neutrality in the Argentine affair
that he will be satisfied with no ac-
ton shore of a change in the person
mel of the Stockholm government
which will eliminate the pro-German
officials who have made their country
the accomplice of the Prussian au-
tocracy in war plots against American
states. This disclosure was made in
connection with information that the
three messages made public by Sec
retary of State Lansing constitute
only small part of the evidence that
the Swedish government has been act
ing regularly as the channel of secret
communication between Berlin and
German ENJOYS and agents in neutral
countries.
The people of Sweden generally
are not pro-German but it is believed
here that the ruling element would
rush the country into the Teutonic
camp if they dared to do so without
some tangible reasons that it would
satisfy the people.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

France will not compromise on
question of Alsace and Lorraine.
Two British ships of more than g.
600 tons have been sunk by subma-
rines.
Russian batteries have shelled Ger
man ships in the Gulf of Riga, COM
pelling them to withdraw.
Korniloff has announced himself
military dictator. Petrograd has been
declared in state of war by Keren-
sky.
Germany will shortly be able to pub
lish her peace terms, according to DR..
Georg Michaelis, the German chancel.
lor.
Reports reached Laredo, Tex, OF
the defeat and practical annihilation
Of a body of 100 Carranza soldiers in
an encounter with bandits near Villa
Barcia.
The Italian drive has been held up
by bad weather, but the fight for
Monte San Gabrielle continued Mon
day with the Austrians making des'
perate struggle to retain the strong.
hold.
There has been a great slackening
of the German advance in northern
Russia. The Slavs made successful
stands at several places. On the
Pskoff road Russian cavalry repulsed
an attack.
The Germans made an aerial attack
upon the American hospitals occupied
by st. Louis and Harvard conting-
ents, situated in coast village, kill
ing an officer Of the American army
medical corps and wounding three
others.
The war commission Of fifty prom
inent Chinese, headed by Lu Cheng
Haiang, has advised the government
to join the entente allies, to sign the
London agreement against separate
peace and sign the Paris economic
compact.
Successful attacks were delivered
by the British northwest of st. Quen-
tin, where German positions on a
front of several hundred yards were
captured and many prisoners taken.
Berlin reports this attack resulted in
success for their forces.
Violent blows delivered in the Yer
dun district drove the French from
some of the trenches temporarily, but
Gen. Petain's forces re-established all
their lines inflicting severe losses on
the enemy. At other points the
French made important gains.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
GENE RAL-.

National prohibition will be real
ity in less than five years, in the
opinion of Governor Arthur Capper of
Kansas.
Passenger train No. 3, Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway,
southbound was wrecked a mile north
of Sheldon, Iowa, and forty persons
hurt, eight seriously.
Bar silver moved up another point
in the market Sept. 7th, and London
also recorded Jump of " pence. New
York quotations were 96% cents, as
compared with 49 pence in London.
According to a story printed in the
New York papers, Mrs. Maude A. King,
who was shot to death in the woods
near Concord, N. c., on the night of
Aug 29th, had been preyed upon by
a powerful band of international ad-
venturers for years.
Corn, the country's greatest crop,
needs only few weeks freedom from
frost to mature into the largest pro-
duction ever known in the history of
the nation. The governments Sep
tember crop report forecasts produc-
ton of 3,24S,OO0,OOO bushels, which
is 124,OO0,O0O bushels more than pro-
duced in the record year of 1912.
No blankets and no breakfast
caused the leaders of the men in
camp at Columbus, N M, who were
deported from Bisbee, Ariz., July H.,
to send kilograms of complaint to
William D. Haywood at Chicago and
to Gov. Thomas E. Campbell of Ari-
zona
The United States mail, utilized by
disloyal and sedjtious citizens more
than any other single medium to
spread their anti-war propaganda is to
be closed to persons at issue with the
government, according to plans now
under consideration in Washington.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Berkman Gives $4,000 Bail; Rearrest

New York.-Alexander Berkman,
anarchist, succeeded in raising $685.
900 cash bail to gain his liberty pend
ing appeal from his conviction for par
ticipation in anti-draft conspiracies,
and was promptly rearrested when he
stepped from the Tombs. Central Of
flee detectives took him in custody on
request of the San Francisco author
tiles, who want him to explain his al
legged connection with the bomb explo-
sion on preparedness day, in July,
1916, when seven persons were killed
there.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
SLAVS HALT GERMAN ADVANCE
Russians Launch Offensive Near Riga
While Cadorna Keeps Up Cor
liza Attack.

London, Sept 1.-THE Russians
have launched an offensive near Riga
and temporarily checked the advance
of the Germans. A death battalion"
put the Teutons to rout northeast OF
the big seaport.
Rumanian forces also have assumed
an offensive and delivered repeated at
tacks against the enemy in the Trotus
and Oituz valleys.
Furious fighting continues for the
Monte San Gabrielle stronghold. The
Italian official statement denies the
claims made by Austria several days
ago of recapturing ground near Her
mada.
Northeast of Verdun the French
consolidated the positions taken in as
saults on the crown princes army.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15

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am now well and do all my housework,
besides working in my garden. Several
of my neighbors have got well by tax
ing Lydia E. Pinkham' s egetable Com
pound. - Mrs. VIOLA FHl1CAL, Wagon
er, Okla.
Such warning symptoms as sense Of
suffocation, hotflashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
.arities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be needed
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
FOREIGN.

At Amsterdam the German crown
princess gave birth to daughter.
Difficulties with the winter supply
of fuel in Germany already are be-
ing felt
Premier Ribot at Paris gave up the
task of endeavoring to reform his old
ministry.
The resignation Of the Ribot min
istry was decided upon unanimously
after a cabinet meeting at Paris.
The Swedish minister to Argentina,
Baron Lowen, denied that dispatches
III cipher had been sent to Berlin by
the German charge through the Swed-
ish legation at Buenos Aires.
America LAS never known defeat
and on this occasion, too, she will tri-
umph," was the confident declaration
of Premier Lloyd George at Birken-
head, England, that swayed a great
crow to thunderous applause
The budget committee of the cham
ber of deputies at Paris has COM
menced an examination of the war
credits demanded for the final three
months of 1917. The total amounts
to 11,200,000,OOO francs, the highest
since the war began.
Conscientious objectors and citizens
OF alien birth are made men without
a country" by the new franchise bill
which is before the house Of COM
mons at Ottawa. While disfran-
chising these classes of men, the bill
gives the vote to 100000 mothers,
wives, widows, daughters and sisters
of Canadian soldiers in foreign serv-
ice.
The British government has posses
sion of copies of all messages sent
by Swedish officials in this country
in the Swedish diplomatic code to
Stockholm by British cable. The
British government also is in posses
sion Of the cipher used by the Swed-
ish legation in Buenos Aires in trans
mitting the incriminating messages
for the German d'affaires, the text of
which was made public by Secretary
of State Lansing at Washington.
The Washington State Department 8
revelation of a Swedish diplomat in
Argentina acting as an intermediary
for transferring German messages to
Berlin has created one of the greatest
international sensations of the war at
London The development itself is not,
however, a great surprise, the chief
surprise being that the American Of
ficials were able to obtain the mes
sages, as they did the Zimmerman
note of last winter regarding German
overtures to Mexico. The Swedish
government, with the monarchy, the
aristocracy and the army officers, has
been rated strongly pro-German
throughout the war, and Queen Vic
toria in several public utterances has
proclaimed her German sentiments as
strongly as any German could.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
MINNESOTA DRUGGIST
PRAISES DR.. KILMER'S
SWAMP-ROO1

I believe you have a splendid, reliable.
kidney, liver and bladder medicine in DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and my customers.
who have taken it during the past thirty
six years have nothing but praise for what
it accomplished for them. On account OF
the splendid reputation which it enjoys in
the trade I have no hesitancy in recon-
mending it for the troubles for which it il
intended.
Yours very truly,
j. G. SIEBEN, Druggist,
Sept. q, 1916. Hastings, MINI.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Status Quo Peace Plea by Germany

London.-Througho official Lon
don the belief is held that very def
mite peace offer will come from Ger
many before winter and that the Of
fer will suggest immediate cessation
of hostilities on a status quo basis.
Entente statesmen have fully indi-
Gated that they will refuse such terms
and no doubt Germany is aware of
this. But German leaders regard q
status quo offer as an indispensable
step in the preparation of German
public opinion for further concessions.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
STATE OF WAR
IN PETROGRAD
RUSSIAN ARMY COMMANDER DE.
NOTED WHEN HE ATTEMPTS
TO SEIZE FULL POWER.
LUCIA TAKEN BY REBELS
COSSACkS AND RADICALS RALLY
TO KERENSKY's AID TO SAVE
DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Petrograd, Sept. 11.-According to
reports from the Winter Palace,
where the Government Council was
in session this afternoon, consider
able force of supporters of Gen. Korn-
iloff already have passed Luga on the
way to Petrograd. The government
refuses to make a statement but For
eign Minister Terestchenko informs
the Associated Press that he believes
the Korniloff forces consist of only a
few hundred men. The town and rail-
road station at Luga are in Korniloff' s
hands.
Petrograd.-Premier Kerensky is
sued a proclamation addressed to the
army, the fleet and the nation and
also to the committees of the army at
the front, outlining the attempted
mir Nicolaievitch Lvoff and the meas
ures that had been taken as a result.
Regarding Gen. Lokomsky, the pre-
mier says:
"The chief of staff, Gen. Lokomsky,
also proved traitor. He refused to
carry out the provisional govern
ment's order to assume command of
the armies in view of Korniloff's dis
missal, indicating to the provisional
government the possibility of civil
war on the front, the opening up Of
the front to the Germans and the con-
clusion of a separate peace. The gov.
ernment is in full agreement with the
executive of the Workmen's and Sol
diers' deputies for taking measures
for the crushing of the counter-revo-
lutionary plot instituted by traitors to
their fatherland."
After announcing the dismissal Of
Korniloff and stating that he would
be punished for treachery, the proc
lamation adds:
Against Korniloff's attempts to di-
rect individual military detachments
to Petrograd, most decisive measures
have been taken"
statements of the Workmen's and
Soldiers delegates suggesting that the
army and navy ignore commands is
sued by Gems. Korniloff and Lokom-
sky, and adds:
"All of the army organizations
should give the government and the
executive of the Workmen's and Sol
diers' decisive cooperation and sup
port in their struggle against counter
revolution. The conspiracy has no
deep roots among the commanding
forces of the army"
Premier Kerensky has declared that
a state of war exists in the town and
district of Petrograd and has ordered
Gen. Korniloff, commander-in-chief Of
the Russian armies, to resign as a
consequence of Korniloff's demand for
supreme power. Gen. Klembosky has
been appointed commander-in-chief.
Premier Kerensky received a depu-
tation of Cossacks and other troops,
who said they regarded it as their pa
triotic duty to prevent civil war and
to lend their support in the conflict
between M. Kerensky and Gen. Korn-
iloff
1t is said that the Bolshevikis in
tend declaring for the government and
appealing to all the parties of the Left
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Government Controls Wheat Market.

Chicago.-The government wheat
corporation assumed full charge of
wheat coming into this market Sept.
10. Millers were permitted last week
to buy in the open market at the
prices fixed by the government, but
henceforth they must deal with agents
of the food administration. Local
agents intend to allow outside as well
as local millers to buy wheat here.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
CRISIS OF
W0MAN'S LIFE
Change Safely Passed by
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Wagner, Okla.-'1 never get tired
Of praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-

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be aus e during
Change of Life l
was in bed tw o.
years and had two
operations, but all
the doctors and OPP
erations did me no
good, and I would
have been in my
grave today had it.
not been for Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable ComDoun6'
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Letter to
DR.. Kilmer q Co.
Bin9hamton, N. r.

Prove What Swamp-Roo Will Do For YoE
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
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formation, telling about the kidneys and
tion this paper. Large and medium size
bottles for sale at all drug stores-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Government to Fix Coal Prices.

Washington, Sept. 10.-Retail coal
prices will be announced for every city
and community in the country before
the end of the month, Dr. H. A. Gar
field, the fuel administrator, an
pOunced
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Farmers Reported Holding Wheat.

Minneapolis.-Fa throughout the
Northwest are holding their wheat in
the hope that the government will re-
open. the price question, and in conse-
quence the country faces flour fam
inc
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
German AGENTS in Mexico.

Mexico City-A number of German
consuls have recently arrived in Mex
leo City, including Herr Schultz of
Juarez and R. Everbusch of Tampico.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Already Done.

"That chorus will soon catch up the
national airs"
"From what the director has been
saying to them, should judge they
had already caught Hail Columbia"
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Not Information to Him.

Little Eva-I will now read to you
from Milton's sublime epic, Paradise
Lost"
Uncle Tom-Huh! All knows all
about dat pair O. dice los. All done
los dem bones mahSef.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15

Switzerland's 1915 imports were val
ued at 1882, 1886; exports, $322,-
872,036.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15

Pm N ington DC. Books free. High.
U ~ D 6Bv " est references. Best results.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
Fifty Joliet Convicts in Riot.

Fifty Joliet ConVicts in Riot.
Joliet, Ill-A riot occurred in the
state prison here during which one
convict was shot and three guards
stabbed.
The Benson signal., 1917-09-15

Silver 97%c; Highest Since 1891.
New York.-Silver was quoted at
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-01-21
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