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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
MAKING GROUNDS
READY FOR FAIR
NEW BUILDINGS AND CORRALS
APPEAR AT HURON-DOR-
MITORY FOR GIRLS.

Huron, July 6.-Many improve
ments are in progress at the South
Dakota state fair grounds prepara-
tory to the coming fair. The secre-
tary's office is being changed and re-
modelled, and it is planned to move
the downtown office of the fair board
out to the grounds about the 1st OF
August. Several new corrals for
sheep and swine have been put up al
the north end of the live stock row
and are entirely completed. Plans
are being made to enclose the east
end of the big concrete grandstand
at an early date. The large open
space under the grandstand has not
been enclosed and the new enclosure
will render the space available there
underneath the seating tiers, for use
by some concern as offices or stands
1t is expected that this work will 5t
started at once. The largest building
that has been erected on the ground:
this year is the new dormitory fol
the country girls club which has ir
previous years been housed in, The
voorhees, dormitory for girls at Hur
on college. There has been dormi
tory built and used by the boys clut
for several years past, and the new
one for the girls is a similar building
Immediately to the north of the dor
mitory for the boys. 1t is construct
ed along similar lines, being Ions
ma arrow building two stories higi
| with spacious wards on each floor To-
| the placing of double rows OF cots
The new building will accommodate
| in the neighborhood of 200 girls.
Premium lists for the 1920 fai
have been printed and are on hant
at the secretary's office. Many cop
les of them were mailed out to vari
Gus parts of the state by the office
in force.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
SURE HARDING
Be PRESIDENT
CHRISTOPHERSON SAYS THAT
COUNTRY DEMANDS NEW
ADMINISTRATION.

Sioux Falls, July 6,-After a trip
across the country in his automobile,
Congressman Charles A. Christopher
son of Sioux Falls arrived home at
midnight last night with his wife and
child. They had been two weeks on
the drive from Washington, coming
by way of Buffalo and Chicago and
spending two days at Lake Okoboji,
la. Congressman Christopherson will
not return to the capital until De-
cember when he goes for the short
session of congress.
Before coming across the country
in his car, the CONGRESSMAN attended
the republican convention last month
at Chicago and was highly gratified
at the result. Certainly the plat
form and the high character and abil-
ity of Senator Harding presage a tre-
mendous republican victory in No
vember," said Congressman Chris
topherson today, but republicans
while certain of victory if the right
course is followed, must beware of
over confidence. The country needs
and demands a change of admins
tration and Senator Harding is the
man to give us wise administration
of constructive policies but it means
that all men and women who believe
this way must do their part to bring
about this result in November and
not let someone else put it across.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06

Returning from the chautauqua
grounds at near o'clock last eve
ming after an extremely busy day
carrying passengers to the big Fourth
of July celebration at the lake, the
chautauqua train struck light Ford
truck while making a crossing near
the old creamery in the southeast
part of town. There were three men
in the car when the fatal crash came.
They were Hans Hegdahl, aged
about 35 years and a workman on
the state road just east of town; :;
John Erickson, % years old, also an
employe of the highway commission,
and a man named Iverson, who also
worked with the road crew.
Hegdahl and Erickson died from
injuries received in the accident, the
I former passing away at the Madison
hospital at 9:10 p. m. yesterday and
the latter at 3:45 a. m. today. The
first mentioned sustained a crushed
skull Erickson received a deadly
blow over the right eye and bad
bruise at the base of the skull on the
right side of the head. The remains
of both are now in charge of Under
taker A. G.. Hallenbeck.
Charles A. Laughlin, who lives
near the crossing where the collision
occurred was an eye witness TO the
| ira gic affair that so sadly concluded
a big celebration event at the Lake
M I oh CO. W
the train coming from the chauta y
! qua grounds and also beheld the Ford
| truck with it's three occupants in
what appeared to be a headlong dasa
| to make the crossing before the train
could reach them. Erickson
driving and Iverson stood in the real
| end of the truck. Mr.. Laughlin was
| on his way to the pasture to milk his
| COW when he saw the danger to the
men in the Ford. He heard IversOr
cry, stop, jack" just as he jumped
| to the ground, but observed that tht
driver did not seem to heed tha'
! warning. Erickson kept up the speed
and just got the machine on thu
! crossing when the engine struck the
car amidships, spilling the two mcr
on one side of the road bed and the
wrecked machine on the other. The
two injured men fell close together
stunned and helpless.
/ People had been coming and goin}
over the fatal crossing all day anC
| Just at the time of the accident seY
eral loads of people were in sigh
of what was transpiring.
After the crash came, the traii
stopped and crowd collected on th'
spot. The injured men were place.
aboard the train and brought TO thu
city. They were taken to the hos
pital, where an examination was in
stituted. 1t was discovered that
aside from the wounds mentioned
above no marks or bruises could b.
found on the bodies.
, Mr.. Hegdahl's mother, Mrs. NJ
Hegdahl, resides in the eastern par
of the city. Iverson came here from
Norway only six years ago. The tim
for the funeral services has not ye
been set.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06

ture without covering or without
being hidden in ans way.
Two of the boys went to the pas
ture after the cows and when they
returned home brought with them
four of the caps. Thinking that they
were some sort of gunpowder frag-
ment which they could light and get
away before the explosion. Howard
set the four on the cement sidewalk
in front of the house and with his
brothers and sisters standing close
by struck a match and applied it.
The explosion which followed
brought Mr.. and Mrs. Ideker from the
barn where they were milking. An
ambulance was called from Sioux
Falls and the four most seriously
hurt brought to the Moe hospital.
Two girls, age IL and IL, who were
slightly in the background escaped
with a few crate5es.
Howard, Il tnought, may lose the
sight of his right eye. His entire
body is a mass of holes where the
metal parts of the caps and sand
from the sidewalk were blown into
the flesh. 1t was nearly two hours
before his wounds were cleaned out
and bandaged,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
LOCATE SCENE
INDIAN BATTLE
SLIM BUTTES BATTLEFIELD, FA.
NOUS SINCE 1876, DEFINITE
LY ESTABLISHED.

Belle Fourche, July 6.-W. M.
Camp of Chicago, historian of the fa-
nous Seventh United States cavalry
General Clusters old regiment
has definitely located the battle
ground made famous by the battle of
Slim Buttes, where about $50 troops
of the fifth cavalry under Captain
Mills were attacked by hostile Sioux
Indians shortly after the battle of the
Little Big Horn river on June 20
1875, When General Custer and the
greater part of his command was
wiped out by hordes of Sioux In
dians.
1t has been decided to erect mon.
ument on the site of the Slim Buttes
battle. Through the efforts OF Mr.
Camp the monument has been made
and will be erected with suitable GER
emonies during the latter part of this
month.
Mr.. Camp has definitely located
the battle-ground near the w. w
Mitchell ranch in the Slim Buttes
country north of the Black Hills.
1t is expected that General Charles
King, the noted author of Milwaukee
who was wounded during the fight
Mr.. Camp and other prominent mer
from the east will be present ant
have charge of the setting of tn
monument and it's dedication will
appropriate exercises.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06

charged with stealing an automobile
in Mobridge during baseball game.
The thieves got four-hour lead
car, but the owner and w. j. Ahearn,
U. S. Indian commissioner at Mo-
bridge, and a deputy sheriff travelled
faster than they, and the men were
arrested just after they registered at
a hotel at Ipswich.
1t is believed the men stole the cal
to raise some money to aid Min.
neapolis girl, who telegraphed one OF
the men that she needed S25 at once
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
GOV. cox OF OHIO,
IS NOMINATED
DEMOCRATS PICK A CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT ON THE
FORTY FOURTH BALLOT.

San Francisco July 6.-Governor
Cox was nominated as the demo-
cratic candidate for president on the
forty-fourth ballot, with 1924 votes,
which was made unanimous. The re-
suit of the forty-fourth ballot was as
follows: Cox, 1924; McAdoo, 267;
Davis, So; Owens, "a; Colby, / !;
Glass, IL ". Absent, 5.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
To Dip Fifty
Thousand Cattle

FIT. Pierre, July 6.-The state live
stock sanitary board having declared
this county to be an "area infected
with scabies' it is now the duty of
every cattle owner within the county
to dip his stock.
The county agent is cooperating
with the board in seeing that this
work is done.
Fifty thousand head will be dipped
in the next 80 days.
Nicotine dip is being used and the
dipping is done in six county and
some eight or ten private watts.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06

Dayton, Ohio, July 6.-Governor
Cox, who was nominated for presi-
dent by the democrats today, said he
would accept the honor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
Thrown Into
Charged Fence

washington Springs, July Con
De Jon, business man of this place,
was found unconscious about four
miles west of town.
His auto, which was found tangled
in a wire fence just off the roadside
is believed to have struck the fence
when it was heavily charged with
electricity and DeJong is thought to
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06

have been thrown from his car by the
force of the contact.
His body is severely burned in
places, bearing out this theory,
though the man himself, apparently
remembers nothing of the accident.
At the hospital it is said DeLong
is resting easier and probably will
recover.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
Government May Take
Over Coal Supplies

st. Paul, July 6.-Ralph Wheeler,
returned from Washington after a
conference with the interstate COM
merce commission, declared that un-
less that body prevents fuel famine
in the northwest, the government
may take over coal supplies and dis.
tributiOn.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-07-06
Capture Two
Automobile Thieves

Aberdeen, July 6.-Following a
6O-mile chase over the Yellowstone
trail from Mobridge to Ipswich, Wal
worth. county authorities captured
Otto Woellhaf and Albert Griggs,
Evening star., 1920-06-16

to be demolished and no roads or
railroads to be constructed within the
zone for movement of mobile bat
teries.
Greece and Turkey are prohibited
from constructing any new wireless
stations within the zone, all present
ones to be taken over by the allied
powers.
These regulations are to be enforced
chiefly with naval forces and a force
Of special police, recruited within the
zone and commanded by foreign Of
naval air forces and guard ships of
and Italy may deem necessary.
Other Authority to Commission.
In addition to the general laws per-
tanning to the administration of the
Straits. the commission is further
charged with execution of any works
considered necessary for the improve
ment of the channels and the ap-
proa ches to harbors, the lighting and
buoying of channels. control Of pilot
age, towage. anchorage and all mat
ters relating to wrecks, salvage and
lighterage.
Maintenance of the ports of Con-
stantinople and Haida Pasha as ports
of international concern, where the
citizens, goods and flags of all coun-
tries belonging to the league of ma
tions shall enjoy complete freedom, is
also placed within the control of the
commission, which shall provide at
the two ports free zones for the erec-
ton and use Of warehouses.
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They are not any more the friend
OF labor than the csar in Russia"
An amendment to the report, Of
fered by Joseph D. Cannon of New
York. which urged the government
to cease it's activities in upholding
the blockade" OF Russia. and protest.
ed against supplying munitions to
nations at war with Russia, was de-
feated unanimously.
Secretary Colby's Telegram.
The telegram from Secretary Of
State Colby said:
There Is no licensed or regular
trading between the United States
and Russia at present. There have
been, as you may know. several con-
ferences on the subject of the re-
moval of restrictions against trading
with Russia. These conferences have
has been carefully observed by this
government. They have so far been
void of result. The soviet Govern
ment is insistent upon political rec
ognition as condition precedent to
a renewal of any commercial contact.
while this government has no de-
sire to interfere with the internal
affairs of the Russian people or to
suggest the kind of government that
they should have. the existing regime
in Russia does not represent the will
or consent of any considerable pro-
portion Of the Russian people. 1t
nious and trustfui relations. whether
of nations or of Individuals. and is
based upon the neEation OF honor
and good faith and every usage and
convention underlying the structure
of international law"
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1t would be unreasonable to construe
the act as providing that one who
has rendered less than fifteen years
service may be retained in the service
beyond the age of retirement regard
less of his efficiency, while one who
has rendered fifteen years or more
service before reaching the age Of re-
tirement can be retained beyond that
age only If efficient and then only for
a limited period.
Il have no doubt. therefore. that un-
der section 6 every employe of the
classes enumerated In section 1 is au-
tomatically separated from the serv-
Ice upon arriving at the age of retire
ment. regardless of his length of serv-
ice, unless by certification of the head
of his department and the approval
of the Civil Service Commission he Is
continued in the service, as provided
in said section 6. Those who have
rendered fifteen years or more serv-
ice are entitled to an annuity under
section /, and those who have render
ed less service are not.
For the above reasons your uues-
ton must be answered in the affirma-
tive. Respectfully.
"A. MITCHELL PALMER,
Attorney General"
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PETW0RTH TO ASK
THURSTON Be KEPT
Committee Will Wait on
Board of Education This
Afternoon.

Following action taken by the Pet
worth Citizens Association last night
committee of five will wait on the
board of education this afternoon,
when 1t holds its regular meeting.
and will ask that the board recede
from it's position and continue Ernest
tendent of schools until Congress
shall have had time to act on the
report of the select committee of the
Senate that Investigated the school
system of the District.
The committee which will wait on
the board includes Jesse c. Suter.
Horace J. Phelps. l.. H. Dewey. w. c.
Duvall and G. NJ. HILL The resolu-
tion which they will present was
drawn up and introduced by Mr..
Suter. and was adopted after some
discussion. and after a substitute res
olution criticsing the school board
had been defeated
Commends MIR. Thurston.
The resolution commends Supt.
Thurston for his cable and efficient
administration of his office, particu-
larly during the trying period of the
late war emergency. Continuing, 1t
says in reference to the announce
ment of the board, that it will not
re-elect Mr. Thurston:
while we recognize fully the legal
right of the board to take such
action, and while we accord to the
board members full credit for hon
esty of purpose. still we feel that. in
of the community, the board should,
in a spirit of true democracy. recede
from It's position and continue Mr..
Thurston in office. at least until such
time as Congress shall have had op-
portunity to act"
Asks Federation Not to Dodge.
Another resolution was introduced
by Mr.. Suter calling on the Federation
of Citizens Associations to take cog
nizance of the school situation. and
not to dodge" the issue by parlia-
mentary tactics The resolution pro-
voked considerable discussion and
eventually was tabled by a vote of 26
to FL.
A report by J. B. Smith. chairman of
the committee which audited the
accounts incident to the recent mem
tion of the service of John F. New
port and George L. Cary, and was
adopted by unanimous vote.
An informal talk on the zoning
system Of regulating the erection of
buildings in Washington was given
by Maj. Powell, executive officer of
the zoning commission, who illus
trated the proposed program of the
commission with several maps.
II. C. l.. Remedies Given.
Miss Dora Simpkins. of the Depart
ment's work to reduce living costs
ment's work to reduce living costs,
and the ways in which the citizens Of
Washington could cooperate in keep
gin prices from going higher
A letter was read from Isaac c.
Ellis. a member Of the association
who is now auditor Of the Republic
of Liberia. describing conditions on
the Gold Coast
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MUST ACCEPT FREIGHT
INDEPENDENTLY HAULED

NEW YORK, June 16.-Walter g.
Merritt Of the law committee Of the
Merchants Association has warned
shipping interests that legal action
would be instituted against compa-
MES refusing to handle freight hauled
by Independent truckmen OF the citi-
zens' transportation committee, NOV
ing freight tied up by transportation
strikers here.
The warning was in response to
indications" that q number Of COM
panies do not wish to become In
volved with Independent truckmen.
by their union employees.
Col. Frederick A. Moliter. direct
ing operations Of the independent
trucks, said fifty trucks were in OPP
GRAFTON today. carting at least 200 tons
Of freight from wharves.
The strikers are marking time until
the return of labor leaders from
Washington and the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor convention at Mon
treal, according to John r. Riley,
president Of the district council Of the
international Longshoremen's Associa-
ton.
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Continued from First Page)
financial stabilization of railway COM
panies.
Thus the government concentrated
attention upon details and neglected
almost wholly the real function Of the
carriers. which is to give service to
the shippers"
Gives Coal Production Figures.
Mr.. Cushing cited the following fig
ures bearing on the coal production
of the nation:
Since the 1st of April we have
records of the production during nine
weeks. The bituminous output OF
this year compared with last has
been: 1920. S0.521 600 tons: 1919 72.-
$4,000 tons; gain, 100000 tons.
The average weekly production
since April 1st has been: 1920. s.
$4,000 tons: 1919. S,090,9 tons; gain,
S55.S0O tons.
has. accordingly. shown a gain of
3,7OS.450 tons. Last year, with the
smaller production, we had accumu-
lated sufficient storage to help tide
US over the worst miners strike in
history. Running ah1ad. now, Of
production of last year, ] cannot be
lieve the current statements that we
are running headlong into a dread
full shortage of coal.
Demand for 1O,3OO.OOO Tons n Week.
Il know what is being said on the
other side of the question. / do
not believe it. The fact is that we
have a demand which if 1t were
spread in equal monthly proportions
over the year would call for a pro-
duction of 1o,sO0.000 tons per week.
The fact that for nine weeks We have
been getting weekly average Of
only S,946,700 tons, indicates that We
are accumulating a shortage at the
rate of 1,353,000 tons per week. That
would be bad if it were to continue
until the end of the year.
The fact is that we have never, in
peace times. had a serious bituminous
coal shortage. Yet never. in peace
coal in equal monthly installments
We have always fallen much below
our present level Of production In
summer and then made up the short
age-or seeming shortage-in the
fall months. That is what we did
last year. We are going to have less
of q shortage to make UP this fall
we are moving now 100000 tons Of
coal more to market per month than
we did year ago.
"The plain and simple fact is that
we have other and proper uses for
open top cars in the summer. Those
uses disappear In the fall. The cars
then revert to the coal trade and
production naturally grows in re-
sponse. That allows coal production
to equal demand at the time OF use"
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NO MEXICANS EMPLOYED
DURING DOCK STRIKE

GALVESTON. Tex. June 16.-No
Mexicans imported for work as strike-
breakers. incident to the strike Of
longshoremen on the docks here could
be found in search yesterday, Ralph
Soape, secretary to Gov. Hobby said.
in commenting on charges by Frank
L. Morrison. secretary Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. Mr.. Soape
said he interviewed a number Of Mexi-
Some were American born. he said.
Troops on duty here probably will
not be withdrawn in the imm ediate
future, he said, although the number
will be reduced in ten days.