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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
GARFIELD MADE
FUEL DIRECTOR
Control of Coal Industry Is
Almost Complete.
FIXES ANTHRACITE PRICES

President Sets Rate for Producers and
Jobbers and Places Limit on Profits
to Be Made by Bituminous Whole
saIers-Coal Administration vii
Organize as Soon as Possible.
Washington, Aug %. = Government
control of the coal industry was made
almost complete when President VII.
son named Or H. A. Garfield, presi-
dent of Williams college, fuel admins
traitor fixed anthracite prices for pro
ducers and jobbers and set limit on
profits to be made by bituminous
wholesalers
The next and final step will be to
make regulations for coal distribu
tion and to fix anthracite and bitumin
Gus retail prices This will be done
when a distribution program is per
lected and when the federal trade com
mission has completed a plan under
which retail profits may be fixed
The anthracite prices fixed effective
Sept / are virtually the same as those
now charged al the mines under d
voluntary arrangement made by pro
duCeIs with the Il ade commission. The
prices that may be charged by jobbers
however, will reduce present costs
sharply Bituminous iobbers profits
too, will be cut by the new price scale
set for wholesale transactions
The coal administration will be or
ganized as soon as DR. Garfield has
| com pleted his work OF recommending
to the food administration q govern
ment price for the 1917 wheat crop.
Under the lag giving the president
control of fuels the government car
take over and operate any mines fail
1 log TO observe regulations prescribed
Fixing of retail prices presents .
/ tangled problem Handling costs arr
not the same in any two cities and ;
! fat gross margin that will assure
I equitable profits will be hard to fix.
ON the other hand a percentag'
1 profit plan would present even more
4 difficulties because of trouble in keep
ing track Of bookkeeping methods.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION
Votes to Impeach Governor Ferguson
of Texas.

Austin. Tex. Aug 25.-The Texas
house OF reprcs, natives, by vote of
~ TO 81, adopted a resolution to pre-
sent TO the senate articles OF impeach-
ment against Governor James +. Fer.
3ison.
a committee oi nine was appointed
Immediately to diaT up articles of i'm.
pcachment and report the articles to
the house. The action was taken as
. result OF the INVESTIGATION of thir-
iecn charges tled by Speaker f. o.
Fuller against the governor alleging
ille al acts in Office.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
GUARD AGAINST EPiDE MICS
Red Cross Will Equip Five Railway
Laboratory Cars.

Washington. Arg 25 The medical
advisory committee OF the Red Cross
war council has just de ided to equip
five laboratory railroad cars which
will be prepared for emergency work
against possible outbreaks of epidem-
ics in cantonment camps in this coun-
try
Each car will have staff of five or
more experts and viii lie so stationed
at various cities that any cantonment
can be reached with one OF these labo-
ratory cars within twenty-four hours
on receipt OF request from federal or
state authorities.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
DATE ERROR Is RECTIFIEO
Colonel Roosevelt Will Speak in ST.
Paul Sept. 23.

St Paul, Aug. 25.-Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt will speak in st Paul Sept.
rs, instead OF Aug. q, as previously
announced.
|. A. Caswell, director OF the speak
ers' bureau Of the Loyalty Lyceum,
received telegram from Charles
Moos, who secured Colonel Roose-
velt's promise to speak in minnesota,
explaining through a stenographer' s
error the previous message gave the
date incorrectly. Mr. Casweil imme-
diately arranged for the St Paul Au-
ditorium for the later date
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25

Washington. Aug. 25.--After debate,
embittered by charges that those de.
string to make the war unpopular and
embarrass the administration were
crease tax rates in the war tax bill, the
senate rejected, SIS to 81, Senator La
Follettes amendment TO raise $685.
$4,000 from individuals incomes in
stead of $490, 600 as proposed In
the bill.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
CAN ENDURE LONG SIEGE
Turks Strongly Fortify Ancient City
of Jerusalem.

New York, Aug. 25.-The ancient
city of Jerusalem, one of the objec-
tives of the British campaign of Pales-
tine now is strongly fortified city.
Protected by modern armament and
held by Turkish defenders, officered
by Germans of high command, it has
a defensive, which, to overcome, will
require an effort on a parity with the
trench campaign in Flanders, accord
ing TO members of party of mission
aries who arrived here this week from
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
FOR PRESENT FISCAL YEAR
Shipping Board Calls for slips, 900, ,ooc
Fund.

Washington, Aus 25.-Estimates
totaling 100000 for completion
of the government 1917 shipbuilding
program were sent to Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo by the shipping
board.
Congress will be asked to appropri'
ate the sum as soon as President VIII
sons approval is obtained.
The new appropriation asked will
run the board to the end OF the fiscal
year and will make total of slightly
less than two billion dollars for The
building and purchase of merchant
feet.
Three-quarters of million was
given the board some months ago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
Now Hold All Points Lost
More Than Year Ago.
STILL BATTLE FOR LENS
British and Germans in Desperate
Fighting Near Great Coal City, the
English Reporting Slight Gains
Portuguese Win Laurels in Franco.

London, Aug. 25.-In a brilliant at
tack on the Verdun front the French
carried Hill 304, one of the most bit
terly disputed positions of the war, IN
the struggle for which thousands of
men have lost their lives. The French
advanced TO an average depth of one
and one-fourth miles over the sector
between Avocourt wood and Dead
Man hill, Paris Announces officially, and
in addition to Hill 304 stormed the
fortified works between Haucourt and
Bethincourt. Evacuation of Hin 304
is admitted by Berlin.
The new French assault was deliv-
cred west of the Meuse. At the first
shock the French. although highly sue
cessful, did not obtain all their objec-
tives and this attack doubtless was
intended to complete the attainment
OF the ends Immediately in view The
French are now masters of all the i'm
portant points on the Nerdun front,
which they had before the beginning
of the great German attack last year.
Still Battling for Lens.
On the British front the bitter fight
for possession OF Lens was continued
during the night The official British
statement announces that the British
now hold German trenches immedi
ately northwest of the Green Grassier
a great Stag heap TO the south of Lens
and that especially heavy losses have
been inflicted on the Germans. Ber
lin announces that in the fighting
Wednesday the British lost twenty-one
tanks.
Portuguese troops which are holdins
a sector in Northern France repulsed
German raids in the vicinity of La
Bassee. Heavy artillery lighting con
tinues around Ypres, where the British
have improved their positions and sue
cessfully withstood counter attacks.
The Italian war Office reports thai
the battle ON the Isonzo front contin
ues and that about sixty guns have
been captured and more than 20,OO'
prisoners
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
Girls Summoned for Harvest.

Berne, Aug. 25.-Numerous German
girls employed in Switzerland as
nurses and servants received an o.
fetal call to return home for harvest
work. Others who are now in Ger
many for the holidays are prevented
from returning to positions in Swift
erland for the same reason.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
BREAK APPEARS IMMINENT
Germany Declines to Concede De-
mands Of Argentine.

Zurich, Aug 25.-Germany has re
piled to the Argentine note which de
manded compensation for a torpedoed
Argentine ship and pledge from Ger
pedoing Argentine vessels in the fu-
ture. 1t is officially announced from
Berlin that Germany has not conceded
these demands, but the possibility OF
an amicable settlement is not ex
cluded
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
viii Double Shell Supply.

Washington, Aug. 25.-As a result OF
the official report ON the submarine
destruction of the American tank
steamer Campana. which said the gun
crews supply of shells ran out in the
midst of the npht, the amount of am
munition supplied armed merchant
ships will be doubled The Campana
had $50 shells.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25

London, Aug. 25-A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Melbourne says Adele Pankhurst,
daughter of the English suffragette
leader, was sentenced to a months
Imprisonment for demonstration she
started outside the parliament build
ing.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
Tribal Indians Exempt.

Washington. Aug. 25.-Tribal In
dians are not subject to army draft
because they are not citizens and may
claim exemption on the same ground
as aliens. The war department for
mally ruled on the question at the re-
quest of counsel for some OF the
tribesmen.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
Russia Gets 500, 900, 900.

Washington, Aug. 25.-Another cred
1t of $100,000,000 to Russia was made
by the American government. This
brings the total of credits extended
so far to the Russian government to
S276, 100000
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
Rear End Fail Crash.

Mansfield, III, Aug. 25.-A fast
freight train on the Big Four railroad
overlook passenger train No. A, east
bound as It was halted in front Of
the station here and crashed into the
rear sleeping car, the wreck resulting
in the death Of two persons and the
injury to at least ten others.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
KILL WILSON FOR $4,000
Remark Promptly Lands Chicago Aus
trian in jail.

Chicago. Aug 15.-peter Oberhofer.
al Austrian, IS alleged to have re
that the presid ut ought to be killed
and that for $4,000 he would do it
himself.
few minutes later the department
of justice knew of the remark and
foolinG' did not obtain his release.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
PASTOR TO BE iNTERNED
Nebraskan Ordered Taken to Fort
Riley for Duration of War.

Omaha, Aug. 25. - United States
Marshal Flynn received orders to take
Rev. William G. Krauleidis, pastor of
the Lutheran church at Riverdale,
Neb, to Fort Riley, Kan, for intern
ment during the war.
Krauleidis has been held in the
Grand Island Jail for several weeks on
the charge of disloyalty.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25

Houston, Tex. Aug 25.-Twelve
white men, civilians, police officers
and national suardsmen were killed
and more than a score of persons,
inen, women and children. We're
wounded in an outbreak here of negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry, stationed here to act
as guards during the construction of
Camp Logan, at which the Illinois ma
tional guard will train.
1t is not known how many negroes
are dead.
Captain j. W. Mates. A battery,
Second Illinois field artillery, was
among the dead, being killed when he
tried to demonstrate with the negro
soldiers.
The outbreak is supposed to have
originated in a difficulty which two
negro soldiers had with police officers
who arrested them for disturbing the
peace and sent them to the police sta
zion.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
NEGRO SOLDIERS
INDULGE IN RIOT
Trouble Follows Arrest Of
Two of Their Number.
DOZEN WHITE men KILLED

and National Guardsmen-Over a
Score of Persons, Men, Women and
Children, Wounded-Number of Me-
eroes Slain Unknown.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
PEOPLE nv BERLIN MAY
NOT TAKE BATHS SOON.

Amsterdam. Aug. 25- Berlin
newspapers received here say
the Berlin municipal thorities
intend to prohibit persons bath
ing in their homes The step
will be taken, it Is added, to
save water and fuel
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
SECRETARY BAKER POST
PONIES ACTION.

!. Washington, Aug. 25.-Sen-
: ator Sheppard of Texas, after
!. conference with Secretary Ba-
+ ker, announced that the negro
+ troops concerned in the rioting
+ at Houston VOID be with
|. drawn from Texas Immediately
! Later Secretary Baker, after
!. reading official reports. an
!. nounced that he could take no
+ action of any kind until the af-
!. fair had been investigated
+ fully.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25
Ambulance Starts Trouble.

The firing began when an ambu-
lance started through the section oc-
cupied by the negro soldiers.
They stopped the ambulance and,
firing a volley. riddled it. 1t was this
volley that wounded sixteen-year-old
white girl standing in her fathers s
store.
Police reserves were sent out and
were met by volleys from the negroes.
Civilians went to the assistance OF
the police officers and firing continued
for an hour and half.
1t Is believed that several bodies
will be found in the prairie around
the negro soldiers camp
There were several hundred Texas
guardsmen here ready to entrain for
training camp. but they had no guns
A battery of the coast artillery was
rushed to Houston n motor trucks.
Two mounted policemen, Ora O
Rainey and Rufe Daniels were killed
Another policeman. Henry J. Meinke
also was slain
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-25

Viscount Ishii, special ambassador
and head OF Japan's mission to the
United States, presented his creden-
tials to President Wilson and with
them an autograph letter from his EN-
peror congratulating the president and
the people OF the United States on
their decision to enter the war against
Germany
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-21
ONLY INDISPENSABLE
men TO DRAFT
Wilson'S Proclamation Leaves
Work of Exempting Those Fig
ible for War to Local Boards.

Washington. D.. c., June 16.-Farmers
are not exempt from the draft. To dis
pei widespread apprehensions and
answer the thousands OF questions
pouring into Washington Provost Mar
Crowder today reiterated that lin
d~ispensable men in any industry
would not be called. But every man
will be called to the colors from any
line of business unless 1T works a
hardship on his business and depend
ants, General Crowder said.
A notice will probably be issued in
a few days stating the indispensable
men who will be in line for exemptions
and there will also be an explanation
of who are and who are not i%ndispen-
sible men. To decide this also is the
task of the applegate court taking ac-
ton on this, of which there are to be
"a in the country. The presidents
proclamation will furnish The basis OF
the rules for exemptions. but the ex-
emptions will be largely to the discre-
ton of the exemption boards.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-21

using men, in Germany and without,
as their spokesman whom they have
hitherto deSpised and oppressed, using
them for their own destruction-social-
lists, the leaders of labor, the inker
they have hitherto sought to silence.
Let them once succeed and the men,
now their tools, will be ground to
military empire they will have set up;
the revolutionists in Russia will be
cut off from all succor or cooperation
in western Europe n a counter reNo-
luton fostered and supported; Ger
many herself will lose her chance of
freedom, and all Europe will arm for
the next, the final struggle.
German Spokesman in U. S.
The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country than
in Russia and in every country in
of the imperial German government
Gan get access. That government has
many spokesman here. in places hlgh
and low. They have learned discretion.
They keep within the law. it is opinion
they utter now, not sedition. they pro-
claim the liberal purposes of their a
tiers; declare this a foreign war which
can touch America with no danger to
either her lands or her institutions; set
England at the center of the stage n
talk of her ambition to assert economic
dominion throughout the world; appeal
to our ancient tradition of isolation in
the politics of the nations. and seek to
undermine the government with false
professions of LOYALTY to it's principles.
False Betray Themselves.
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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-21
Government Lets News
of Nippon-C China Middle Come
From Acknowledgement
Britain Also Declines.
CHANG HsUN is DICTATOR
His Power Said to Mean Return
of Nation to Monarchy
State Dispatches
Kept Secret.

Washington. June 18.-Japan has
taken action similar to Great Britain's
in refusing to associate herself with
the American action in asking the rival
factions in China to compose their diff
%ferences. it was said today at the state.
department. No reason was given for
the action oe either nation. but 1t Is
assured that neither felt that the Amer
lean action would be successful.
Japan is known to resent that h
United States sent Its note to China.
feeling that it d~isregarded the special
position Japan claims for herself there.
The whole question, from what little is
being divulged by h state depart
ment, seems to have arisen from q
series Of misunderstanding.
Asked Others TO Aid.
AS nearly as a be learned. the
United States. on June 4 addressed
what it considered a most friendly note
to China, asking the two fighting fac
tons to compose their differences and
restore internal order. AT about the
same time Great Britain, France and
Japan were invited to take some steps
toward the restoration of order in
China, but Japan. at least apparently.
did not understand that the American
action had already been taken.
On June 8 h first public intimationf
OF Americas actual action came In q
dispatch from Picking. quoting the tex
of the American note given out, ap-
parently by the Chinese authorities.
Not Announced Hers.
On June 9, there appeared In the
Toxic Asahi not this real text, but q
dispatch sent from New York, and con-
sisting of newspaper comment. Tho
Japanese were doubly disturbed, first.s
by h seeming direct interference In
Il H{ D 2 M ~~2 AM -~N~~NA - ~
knowledge that America had already
taken her action while negotiations
were apparently still under way.
Today again from a foreign sources
comes h first word of h original
American suggestion that other row
ernments associate themselves In the
move to restore order in China. Great
Britain Is reported to lave expressed
general agreement with Americas
policy, but to view the situation from
q slightly different angle. Just what
that angle Is not known.
Meanwhile, China is understood not
to have replied to the American note.
though reports Indicate that it was
"~favorably received.
Monarchy Restored.
The state department is not making
public any of its dispatches about the
revolution, but news dispatches indi-
cate hat General Chang Hsun, head
Of the military faction, has arrived as
n dictator in Picking following Presi-
dentt Lis compliance with his demand
to dissolve parliament. Whether this
means the restoration of q monarchy,
as limited at. is unknown.
France also asked by this country
to take action, has not formally replied
as yet, but it is thought unlikely that
she will follow the United States, now
that Great Britain and Japan nave re-
fused to do SO.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-21

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10 GiHc Up LANDS.
Germany Will not undertake on:of-
fensiNc so long as an agreement with
Russia seems possible. Alter onNe
Stations with an important parsonage,
! am convinced that Germany aims az
a peace with RUSSIA, honorable TO both
partles, WIN lntlinate economic ana
commercial relations n 1lnanleal
support to place RUSSIA once again on
her leet. NO Interference IN the 90
mestic a1Iaifs OF ft9ssiI, An ti'ehls
cordlale on foiahd. ana
Courland IN view OF the r~eiallonshlp
between tlle peoples. re'2.i.u..oii .,ee
occupied provinces ana Hussia. OF the
other mana 20 give odSh 20 S1us.i,a l.e
provinces "hieh she mas peeh apie "
'aKe. &c -ofr;oi., "a
Copehhasen, 3u' n..taa 80 az
MISSION VI loo4 = .hns.o aa ~ na-
many, resultlns rom a snor.ass u 20,
I ana the inaoeauacs ~ BAN
stocks 70 allolu d suppis.',s,,,ans -
ratlon, IS niaue ~ an y ~ "
the 1000 controi departtnen'. lne an
nouncemen states that lhe ans
potato ratloh. "Ilch mas lons pes e.
only olllclal lie.I2n. w ~
ana ina "hiis an a:.ein ~
Will be MADE 10 p oreau ~ ~.
place OF potatoes the QUANTITY nus
be reduced.
me berilnei Iasepia. leporaS az. =,
having INQUIRIES. tnal wv, :. d
the lgnes three POUNDS " pola.os
weekly is all mat can De suppne9 unt .
new potatoes are avallapie IN niiu. July
and tina instead OK l4o gralnlnes -
bread hitherto ppl as d supsliluI
for each railing pound OF potatoes On,
70 grammes, or less tnan zR ounces
can be furnished
Prospects for the gram crop are pc
coming dark owing TO the long COZ
tinued drought:
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-21
Peronne Cemetery Graves
Used as Lining Quarters
By Germans; Dead Burned

With the British Armies in the Field,
May Is, (by mail.)-Whole. towns
erased by dynamite. orchards slieared
off at the ground and towering rows of
roadside trees ~methodically felled-
these scenes of merciless destruction
illustrate why the British soldier wants
~retribution against the Boche.
Tommy goes ahead repairing the
roads and clearing the debris from viii
lage streets. admitting that it was mill
tary good sense for the enemy to OBJ
struct the lines of pursuit.
Peronne cathedral refutes the plea
of military necessity. Dynamite blew
out the east wall and two sides and
brought h dome crashing amid the
PROSTATE stone columns. Today the
interior is a mountain of hopeless
wreckage. On it's sagging balcony the
pipe organ sings the ghost of n peace
time anthem as the Nav breeze goes
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-21
kansas Bob, Noted P~1ainsn1ar,
Dies IN Dakota Soldiers Home
Former Companion of Buffalo Bill, Jack Harvey, Little Buck.
shot, Wild Bill and Other Frontiersmen Led a Thrilling
Life in Early Border Days.

In 1858 he was in the Mormon war IN
Utah. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fourth
Kansas regiment. serving in the civil
war until 1864. He was for several years
after the close of the rebellion a dis
patch rider in the new west, n it was
during this period that he becam asso-
ciated with Buffalo Bill, and other
celebrated frontier characters,
Kansas Bob" was in a number of In
dian campaigns. and from 1858 to 1870
was engaged in trapping and hunting,
when buffalo were plentiful OH the
plains. In 1870 he engaged in the show
business and in 1876 took up mis- resi-
idence in the Black Hills, where he re-
manned until his death. In the latter
year with two other men he opened up
the Bella Union theater in Deadwood.
continuing in the show business until
failing health a few years ago COM
PEELED him to seek refuge in the state
soldiers home in Hot Springs. When he
went into the show business he as
sumed the name of Charles r. stacey.
and by many was not known by any
other name until his death.