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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
YOUNG PEOPLE
SAY GOODBYE
EPWORTH LEAGUE TENDERS
FAREWELL RECEPTION TO
MABEL AND ESM DANIELS

The members of the Epworth
League of the Methodist church met
in the league room last evening and
rendered a farewell reception to Miss
Mabel Daniels and her brother, Esli
both of whom departed today with
their parents for Long Beach, Cal.
The guests of honor have for years
past been active in league work and
also in other departments of the
church. They are blessed with cir
Gle of young friends who hold them
in high regard and their presence
will be greatly missed.
About thirty-five young people as
sembled in their honor and spent the
time enjoyable playing games and
otherwise having real good time.
Light refreshments consisting oi
ice cream and cake were served be-
fore the final farewells were ten
dered.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
MADISON CITY
COMMISSION MEETS
BIDS ARE RECEIVED FOR CON
STRUCTION OF NEW POWER
HOUSE

The city commissioners, with the
exception of Mr.. Henkin, who was out
of the city on business, met in the city
hall last evening
Chris Rensch and Martin Berther
were present and presented plea
for water extension along VanEps
avenue ~ to the intersections of
these streets west. A motion was
made for the referring of this matter
OF the city engineer for estimates.
This motion received a second and
the matter was so referred
One bid was received for the erec-
tyon of a new power and light build
ing. This bid was made by r. Bill
il gsley & Co., of Minneapolis. They
offered to construct the building ac-
cording to plans and specifications
furnished for the sum of $23,900.
Mr. Schmidt moved that the mayor
and auditor be instructed to enter
into contract with the firm handing
in the bid. A second was received
and il was so ordered.
This means that the eelctric light
building will be enclosed by the
time cold weather sets in and ready
to receive the machinery ordered
from the Busch-Deisel Engine Co.
and the General Electric Co.
j. l.. Jorgensen appeared before
the commission requesting a raise in
salary. He gathers up garbage from
all over town, and maintains that the
work is growing harder right along
because of the fact that more and
more people are using his services.
He asked to be paid at the rate OF
$50 per month.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
Governor PrOclaims
Constitution Day

Pierre, Sept. 9.--With nations, as
with individuals, experience is a
great teacher, and certainly the crises
through which out country has re-
Gently passed-climaxing on the 18th
cs last November--have brought
strongly home the necessity of our
citizenship being strongly American,
Surely there can be nothing of
greater Importance to the naticn than
the full realization by every Amer
lean of the preciousness of our form
OF government; the sacredness of the
principles on which it is established,
and the momentous value of the fed
eral constitution In which those prin-
ciples are embodied.
To build permanently and for all
time, we must attend to 1t that the
entire youth of the United States
the children of the rich and the poor !;
the.American born as well as those of
alien birth; those from the east and
from the west; from the north and
from the south--shall fully under
stand the whole meaning of Ameri-
can citizenship.
In view of the vital need for con-
tinuous emphasis upon 100 per cent
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
8 "LAoN INFoRMERs" TO DIE
Three Others Arc Condemned "a
Death by Default In French
Court.

Paris.-Sentences were delivered In
the case known as the "Laon inform
ers" after trial of more than sixty
days.
OF the twenty-eight persons accused,
eight were condemned to death, two Of
them being women; three others were
condemned to death by default. Six
were acquitted and the remainder re-
ceived sentences of from one to twenty
years Imprisonment.
The charge against the accused was
denouncing compatriots to the German
authorities during the occupation Of
Laon. In many cases the hiding
places of French soldiers, who had es-
capped the German advance, were point
ed out, with the result that a large
number Of soldiers were executed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
Three Foreigners
KILLED in RIOT
POLICE RETURN FIRE OF RIOT
ING STRIKERS AND KILL
THREE; WOUND MANY

Hammond, Ind, Sept. 9.-Three
foreigners are dead, two are dying
and twenty-five are wounded as the
outcome of rioting early today by
striking workers of the Standard
Steel Car Co., who have been out on
strike for six weeks.
The rioting started when four hun
dred foreigners with an armed sol
dier carrying an American flag,
n arched through the streets in al,
effort to prevent $50 American en-
ployees returning to work
They were met by a number of
policemen and were ordered by them
to disband. Some of the foreigners
opened fire and the police returned
the volley. Three foreigners dropped
dead
The Americans returned to work
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
DIR. HANSON TRACES
AMERICAN PLUM
SOUTH DAKOTA HORTICULTURAL
EXPERT MAKES NEW
COVERIES

Brookings, Sept 9.-Dr. N. E.
Hansen, professor of horticulture at
the state college, has traced the ma
tive plum to its northwestern limits
in southeastern Saskatchewan, Can.
Doctor Hansen has taken several
trips during the last two years to Sc
cure fruit specimens from extreme
North America for fruit breeding
work at the state college. On his
last tour, just completed, he found
native grapes in Manitoba, further
than ever found before. Fine red
raspberries were discovered more
than a thousand miles northwest of
Brookings. He also found a sweet
choke berry, with no trace of the
usual astringency which he will put
in propagation. Professor Hansen 8
travels included three Indian reser-
vations in North Dakota, and the
Hudson ay country nearly 500 miles
north of Winnipeg.
In Manitoba and Saskatchewan it
was found that the best strawberry
was the Dakota, and the best hardest
raspberry the Sunbeam. These and a
number of plums were all developed
at the South Dakota state college.
The latest of these are three plums
produced by crossing the wild Mani
toba plum with choice Japanese
plums. and named the Cree, Penn
bina and Ojibawa plums. The Wa
meta, the best of ten thousand seed
lings, is hybrid of the Japanese with
the native plum, two inches in diam
eter, weighing two ounces. 1t was
the main feature in the horticultural
department of the recent Brookings
county fair.
AT the annual meeting of the asso-
citation of official horticulturists of
the Northern Great Plains region, of
which Doctor Hansen was the first
president, the program was further
developed 0f raising at least one mill
lion seedlings of native fruits in each
seate and province, the program COW
ering one hundred years, If necessary.
Banquets were given in honor of the
association by the cities of Winnipeg
and Morden. Brandon and Indian
Head were also visited.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09

Americanism, l have designated the
week commencing Sunday, Septem-
Der IA, as Americanization Week
and have set apart Wednesday, Sep
tember II, 1919, as Constitution
Day, in and for the state of South
Dakota.
/ hope and urge that in the
churches, through the press, particu-
larly in the schools and colleges, and
over the state generally, there may
be furthered during this week an ac-
tive campaign for enhanced patriot
ism, more comprehensive under
standing of American liberty and a
more thorough familiarity with our
constitutional document.
In testimony whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the
Great Seal of the State of South Da-
kota to be affixed at the capitol in
the city of Pierre this 4th day of Sep
tember, A. ID. 1919.-Peter Norbeck
Governor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
Villa Bandits Are
Killed by Federals

Ell Paso, Tex, Sept. 9.-Gen Pedro
Favela defeated a Villa command
which was about to attack the town
OF San Juan del Rio, Durango, Sat-
urday afternoon, killing ten, accord
ing to dispatch from Gen. Manuel
Dieguez, in command of operations in
Torreon in pursuit of Villa, to Juarez
military authorities.
The telegram stated that a Mexican
doctor told Favela he attended Mar
tin Lopez. Villa leader, who was
wounded and was being brought
north by command under Ramon
Vega.
Villa forces are moving north into
Chihuahua state, having crossed the
Nazas river, with cavalry unde.' Gen.
oJaquin Amaro in pursuit, the mes
sage stated.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
South Dakota
Educators to Meet

Mitchell, Sept. S.-The thirty
sixth annual meeting of the South
Dakota Educational association, post
poned from last year on account OF
the influenza epidemic, is to be held
at Mitchell, Nov. 24-26. Dr. III. Nj
Gage, of Huron, president of the asso-
citation, has secured as attractions for
the sessions Miss Catherine D. Blake
of New York City; DR.. Charles III
Judd, of the University of Chicago;
Mrs. Henrietta Calvin, of the u. s
Bureau Of education; DR.. HI. w
Foght, who was at the head of the
state school survey; Tolbert MacRae
of Des Moines, who did war camp
community service as song leader
and Prof. George A. Works, head oi
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09

rural education, Cornell university.
The presence of these inspiring
leaders together with many others
from our own state insures program
of interest and value to every teach
er. There ought to be an enrolment
of several thousand-indeed several
hundred are already enrolled. Every
county superintendent in the state is
a member of the advance enrolment
committee.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
Mayor of Sturgis
Weds DeadwOOd Girl

Deadwood, Sept 9.--In this city
occurred the marriage of Harry p
Atwater, mayor of Sturgis, and Miss
Frances D'Argent, of Deadwood. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Ed
ward D'Argent. father of the bride
who is rector of st. Johns Episcopal
church. The bridegroom is one oil
the pioneer attorneys of the Black
Hills, and during the campaign oi
1918 was the republican nominee fol
congress from the Third South dakota
district. embracing all that part oi
the state west OF the Missouri river
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
Aid For Family
of Wreck Victim

Hurley, Sept. 9.-The residents o.
Hurley and vicinity contributed lib
orally to fund for the family oi
John DeBondt, of Hurley, who re
Gently was one of the victims of an
automobile accident near Egan, wher
the automobile in which he and 9th
ers We're riding was run down by 6
passenger train. He left his widow
and children in almost destitute cir.
cumstances. Almost $500 was con
tributed here for them. Friends al
Alton, Ia, where they formerly lived
raised fund of $1,000 for them
Davis friends contributed an addi-
tional $3.50.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
WILSON'S ADDRESS
GETS QUICK ACTION

st. Paul. Mimi, Sept. with the
address of President Wilson on the
high cost of living still ringing in its
ears, the Minnesota legislature this
afternoon got quick action on the
problem when il received a bill by
Representative John Levine, of st.
Paul, providing for the establishment
of state department of trade and
commerce.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
Calf Without leos.

Joseph Stewart of Bowers, DEL, has
q cow which gave birth to calf, born
without legs. The calf has perfect
body and apparently is healthy. 1t
rolls over to its feed and seems to en-
Joy 1t. People from miles around have
viewed the freak and Its owner has re-
ceived several offers from proprietors
of museums and sideshows who wish
to exhibit II.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
WISCONSIN GUARDSMEN
ORDE.tED TO QUELL RIOTlNG

Madison. Wis, Sept. 9.-Governor
Phillips today ordered state guards
men to Two Rivers to quell riting
and disturbances caused by a strike
which has been in progress there for
six weeks.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-09
SENATE PASSES FOREIGN
BANKING LEGISLATION

Washington, d. c., Sept 9.-TheI
senate today passed the Edge bill,
authorizing the organization of for
eign banking corporations under the
supervision of the federal reserve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03
No Decision on Question of
Universal Military Training.
Secretary of War Baker Tells
Committee To Wait.
WANTS ARMY OF 500, 900 men
Force Would Be Raised by Vol
untary Enlistment.
A Bill Will Be Submitted to
Congress Before Long.

Washington, Jan. 3.-No decision
has been reached by the war depart
ment on the question of universal mil
itary service, Secretary Baker told
the house military committee today
and he indicated that no definite pro-
ject for a permanent military estab
lishment would be presented to con-
gress until the peace conference had
concluded its work.
When asked whether it would be
necessary to keep a large force in
Europe for at least two years, the Sec
retary said:
1--WE hope that is not true; we are
not planning for it,
He said 100000 men had been dis
charged from the army since the
armistice was signed and that another
million men would be discharged
within the next five weeks.
Army of Half Million.
Mr. Baker gave notice that a bill
authorizing a regular army of 100000
men to be raised by voluntary enlist
ment would be submitted shortly to
congress, together with estimates for
appropriation. This army he said,
was in the nature of a temporary mil
itary establishment which would tide
over the period until peace is re-
established The secretary's state
he sought with the committee con-
cerning disposition to be made of ar
tillery training camps at Fayetteville,
n. c., Columbus, Ga, and West Point,
KY. In regard to the sixteen national
army cantonments, Mr.. Baker said it
was his personal judgment that the
cantonment sites should all be pur-
chased for training centers for what
ever army the nation may decide to
maintain.
Questioning brought the statement
that the war department did not an
ticipate keeping any large proportion
of the 100000 men for the regular
army in Europe for any length of
time.
Representative Kahn, of California,
who will be chairman of the COM
mittee when the Republican majority
organizes the next house asked:
''Is it the policy of the war depart
ment to favor universal military train
ing %
Baker Would Wait.
''The war department" Secretary
Baker replied. has no policy on that
subject. Personally I do not believe
it would be wise to attempt to settle
the question of our permanent army
policy now or before the peace con-
ference has arrived at it's conclusions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03

Topeka Is suffering from a "hang-
over from the influenza epidemic
ban. The order of the city board lof
health requiring the Topeka Railway
company to take out windows in the
cars to insure adequate ventilation has
caused the freezing and bursting of
hot water heating pipes and as a re
suit the city has for a week gone
without proper street car service. The
extra service during the rush hours
of the day has been abandoned due to
the shortage of equipment. In Is de-
gree below zero weather Topekans
have walked for twenty and thirty
blocks to work in the morning be-
cause the cars were filled. In parts
Of the city this morning cars were un-
able to take any passengers after they
had gone but five blocks from the end
Of the line. Passengers hung to the
steps, the rear ratings and fought for
a chance to make quicker work of tAe
morning exposure.
Howard Patten. superintendent of
the railway system, said this afternoon
that it would be next week before
normal service could be resumed The
shops of the company are filled with
disabled equipment. Pipe filters, air
brake experts and car repairers hsve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03
Have To Feed Stock While
Soldiers Loaf in Camps.
That Is Assertion Made by
Governor Capper Today.
WAR DEPARTMENT BLAMED
Appeals To Release Men Ig-
nored in Washington.
Working Bureau of Service
Told 1t Is an Outrage.

Governor Capper today declared
that Kansas women on the farms are
compelled to do large amount of out
Of door work and feed livestock during
the present cold spell because the war
department has not permitted the re-
turn of soldiers in the camps. The
governor placed the responsibility at
the door of the war department and
asserted that its attitude was an out
rage
Speaking today at a meeting of the
United States working bureau of serv-
ice, the governor and United States
senator-elect, flayed the federal de-
partment for holding $1,000 Kansans
| in army camps. He declared he could
get no satisfaction from his appeals
for relief. Neither is an explanation
offered.
Calls 1t Outrage
"It is an outrage" the governor de-
clared, land 1 am confident the war
| department is to blame
/ kansans in the environments are
needed badly on the farms of this
state, it was urged. Never have. the
farmers been SO far behind with their
work. Yet the daily appeals to the
governor for relief and his appeals to
| federal officials have brought neither
| explanation nor relief.
| Speaking of the Kansas labor situa-
ton before the employment bureau al
| a meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce today, the governor said in
part:
Governors Charges.
''For several weeks have beer
making every possible effort to gel
the war department to release the
boys in the camps. I have writer
and telegraphed a number of time:
to. the secretary of war. and have
also appealed to the commanding of
ficers of every cantonment in which
Kansas boys are located. I have ad.
vised them that scores of letters art
coming to me every day from fathers
| mothers, wives and other relative.
showing how necessary it is to have
the boys home. 1 am confident thous
| ands of dependent relatives are actu
ally in distress, because their supper
has been taken away from them.
The need of men ON the farm Il
particularly urgent. have neve
known the farmers of Kansas so fal
behind with their work. / have beer
surprised to learn that during thi
severe cold weather women are il
many cases doing a large part of tn,
outdoor work. especially in the feed
ing of livestock There is no goot
reason why $4,000 men should bs
held all winter at Camp Funston OF
lany other cantonment. 1t is an out
4 rage and I am confident that the wal
department is to blame. 1 cannot ge
any satisfaction out of the official!
at Washington in response to my ap
pea1s. They offer no explanation o.
the delay, and will not give me any in
formation as to when the men can ex
pect their discharge"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03
Wheat Growers Assured Price
Will Not Be Changed.
Government Guarantee il
Force Until June 1, 1920.
ADMINISTRATION OUTLINES II
MohIer Gets Status of Situa-
tiOn From Washington.
State Has Largest Acreage Ever
Sown in the u. S.

Kansas wheat growers need feel no
apprehension concerning a slump in
wheat price next year or a modifica-
ton or revision of the provision guar
anteeing prices. That is the assur-
ance which has come to J. c. Mohler,
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture, from the federal food admin
istration.
Under the order as it now stands.
the guarantee for the 1919 wheat crop
does not expire until June l. 1920.
That means millions of dollars to Kan
sas wheat growers. At this time the
wheat acreage is the largest Kansas
has ever known. In fact. it is the
firsst time any state has ever sowr
more than ten million acres of soil
to one crop. Growing conditions are
excellent and with the moisture of the
late fall and recent SHOWS, wheat pros
poets in this state were never brighter
Every bushel of wheat grown this
year will be sold under the govern
ment guarantee. In a message which
Secretary Mohler received from the
food administration, the situation was
outlined as follows:
Guarantee Explained.
Under the provisions of the Lever
act under which the. United State:
CONTINUED on Page Two.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03
CAN'T TCLEARLINES
Extremely Cold Weather Is
Hampering the Railroads.
Trains Continue To Run Late,
TOday's Reports Show.

Complete recovery of railroad train
schedules from the recent storm was
checked today by extreme cold
weather and sharp biting wind.
Operating officials say that all trains
into Topeka today are and will con-
tinue to be f-om an hour to five or six
hours late because of the difficulty
arising in getting trains over the road.
Some telegraph wire trouble is also
being experienced.
Lines on the Union Pacific, Rock
Island and Santa sFe which were
blocked the first of this week by
heavy SHOWS in eastern Colorado and
western Kansas have all been opened.
it was asserted. Just now. however.
whiskered rails, difficulty in tele-
graph service and low temperatures,
agitated by the wind, are causing
schedule demoraIiza ton.
In Topeka today street car sched-
ules were still demoralized. Consid-
erably less than the usual number of
cars were on the more important lines
of the city. and the ones which were
running were not on established sched-
u1es.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03

been borrowed from the Santa Fe
shops to assist the regular street rail-
way forces. BY the rush hours this
evening Superintendent Patten hoped
to restore the regular daily schedule
in effect before the recent double
header blizzard tied up traffic. In
other words, an attempt will be made
to run the cars on the old schedules
but without the extra ''tripper" service
necessary to care for the crowds dur
ing the rush hours. Not until next
week will the extra cars be in operat-
ing order
The West Eighth avenue line has
mot been open since the first snow
storm. Ice has formed between the
rails and the paving and Patten esti-
mates that it will take 100 men four
or five days to remove it. I'VE
haven't the men to do it now" he
said THE patrons will have to share
our troubles until we are able to con-
troll this streak of misfortunes.'
The city board of health last even
ing gave the railway company per-
mission to restore the windows re-
moved to fight the flu epidemic and
it Is not thought that there will be any
more trouble with broken water pipes
Other cars are out of service due tc
frozen airbrakes and burned out mot
erS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03
INTERNATIONAL PORT
Polish Premier Wants To Make One
of Danzig for Future.

Warsaw. Dec. 81 (delayed) AM
dreas Moraczewski, the Polish premier
said today that he was in favor of
the creation of an international port at
Danzig. In outlining his program he
said:
81 desire to see Poland inha bitcd
only by Poles. I do not favor giving
special autonomy and schools 70 the
Jews, but do believe in giving them
civic rights if they performed their
civic duties
I'VE have been robbed by both the
departing Russians and Germans, the
latter trying to destroy our industries
and our markets. The allies should
consider these difficulties. Territorial
ly we want what is ours ethnograph-
iealIy. We do not want what is Ger
man or CkraiBian. but think that
Lithuania is ours in this sense