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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-03-17
FARMERS SAVED
IMMENSE sum
YEARS OPERATION SAVED
THEM $4,000, 900.

Pierre, March 17.-The South Da-
kota state hail law furnished protec-
tion on 3,950,667 acres during the
season of 1919, assuming a liability
of more than $39,0OO,0O0.
There was paid for this amount of
insurance $1,294,O59.68.
The rates in effect in South Dakota
prior to the passage of the state hail
law ranged from Is cents per acre for
$40 of protection in the most favor
able sections of the state, to $1.25
per acre in the Black Hills, while the
rate for state hail insurance ranges
from 35 cents to As cents in the
same zones.
If the state hail fund had not been
in operation last year and the acre.
age covered by the state hail fund
had been carried at the rate charged
in the most favorable zone, or rs
cents for $40 of protection, the farm
ers would have had to pay for that
protection $2,963,O00, therefore by
patronizing the state hail fund they
saved themselves on the acres cov-
cred $1,294,O59.68.
To this can be added the surplus
left from paying the 1919 losses of
100000, or saving to the farmers
of the state of $2,i94,059.
1t is regarded as worth while to
keep all this saving within the state.
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Two Enter Pen;
One Gets Liberty

Sioux Falls, March 17.-South Da-
kota's state penitentiary gained two
new residents Saturday and lost one.
Sheriff Elliot of Brown county,
brought down a pair. They are A..
C. Powell, who must serve 18 months
on a charge OF obtaining money under
false pretenses, and George Master,
who has an eight months sentence
for grand larceny.
But E. B. Smith, q former Brown
county man, gets the freedom that
the other two relinQuished. For he
was paroled Saturday on account OF
good behavior. after serving a por-
tion of his sentence and will return
to his home.
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LEONARD WOOD
SPEAKS ON FRIDAY
COMMITTEES HAVE PERFECTED
ALL ARRANGEMENTS FOR
ENTERTAINING PARTY.

Entire preparedness for the CON-
ing of Leonard Wood and the peo-
pie accompanying him bespeaks for
the committee having the matter in
charge quick action and satisfactory
arrangements in every particular.
General Wood comes here on Fri
day by way of Woonsocket, where he
is to be met by welcoming delega-
tioh OF the reception committee. His
last speech before reaching Madison
will be made at Mitchell on Thursday
evening.
The train to which will be attached
the special car bearing Leonard
Wood, his wife and other ladies and
gentlemen, who are travelling over
the state, will reach this city at 9:O5
a. m. Friday. Immediately after
leaving the~coach the party will be
taken in charge of by the large re-
ception committee and will be escort
ed to the Lake Park hotel for break
fast. Our municipal band has been
asked to head the march. Those who
are entertaining for the distinguished
people are 10 breakfast with the par
ty. More than 25 promi,ent citi-
zens, including both sexes compose
the committee of welcome and into
their hands is committed the success
of the important event just ahead.
Following the breakfast, which
will conclude in about As minutes,
the diners will repair to the high
school auditorium, where General
Wood will address the assembled
electors at 1880 sharp. That there
will be throng pf It to hear the
frank discussion rent issues
cannot be doubted fol ntire sec
tion has been thorough. billed, even
as far west as Woonsocket and north
to Bryant. People in this immediate
vicinity are certain to flock to Mad
ison in hundreds, and perhaps by
thousands, to hear the presidential
candidate, who won so brilliant vic
tory in the recent preferential pri-
maries in Minnesota.
One striking feature of the coming
event is the fact that many people
who favor Lowden or Johnson are
just active members of the reception
as those who favor Mr.. Wood. They
all feel that it is quite an honor for
Madison to entertain so august a per-
son as General Wood and his esteem
able wife, hence harmony prevails in
all camps.
Following the speech at the high
school auditorium public reception
will be rendered the Wood party.
At that time all will brave an oppor-
tunity to get acquainted with the. en-
tire candidatorial delegation.
The Wood party will go by train
to Brookings at the conclusion Of the
visit to this place.
Every voter in Lake county should
come to Madison on Friday and as
sist in extending a warm welcome to
the man SO high in republican favor.
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Sunken Treasurer
Raided BY Vessels

n
London, March 17.-Sunken treas
ure worth 5O,000,O00 pounds has
been raised since the war began
around the British Isles.
The Restorer and the Reliant, two
salvaging vessels that were brought
by q British concern from the Ameri-
can navy, have q new device. an OK
avetylene flame which is worked un-
der water for cutting holes in the
sides of submerged vessels.
Each ship has Is electric pumps
capable of pumping 1000 gallons Of
water an hour and carries two d.
vers. search lights, line throwing
guns. electric welding plants, rock
drills and other accessories. Each
diver II equipped with . telephone.
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BERLIN SUFFERS
BY CONDITIONS
COMPLETE PARALYSIS IN CAPI.
tai OF GERMANY CAUSES
INCONVENIENCES.

Berlin, March 17.-No world capi-
tai probably ever before experienced
such a complete paralysis of all it's
living and commercial facilities as
Berlin did yesterday. The Hotel Ad-
Ion made heroic efforts to provide
food for the American, British and
French missions and newspaper cor
respondents but it gave up the task
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning when
the last of the kitchen force walked
out, leaving foreigners to shift for
themselves. It was a common spec
tacle subsequently to see frock coat
ed diplomatists returning to the hotel
from foraging expeditions carrying
brown paper parcels. food stuffs. oil
stoves and other necessities.
Guests of the hotel, warned that
the water would be shut off at noon
filled the bath tubs and wash stands
but defective shoppers gradually le,
out the precious fluid and the guests
thereafter had to rely on wines and
table water. Men who are usually
shaved by BARRIERS are in an apollo
getic mood tonight and il the strike
continues the male population will
soon be bearded.
The city this afternoon had the ap.
pearance of another Sunday holiday
sauntering crowds filling Inter Der
Linden. At intervals troops with
bands and accompanied by artillery
and machine guns paraded through
the streets.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-03-17
BLACK HILLS
ICE CAVE
ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE
WORLD NEAR .ENGLEWOOD.

Lead, March 17.-Among the won
ders to be seen in the Black Hills of
South Dakota is the ice cave located
one mile from Englewood, near the
famous Spearfish canyon. The cave
is considered such freak that the
current number of the Ladies Home
Journal contains the following de-
scription of it written by Miss Har-
riet F. Dewey of Lead, s. D.:
Located about ten miles from
Lead, South Dakota, close to little
railroad station called Englewood, is
one of the strangest phenomena in
the world. 1t is cave of natural
ice-"natural ice" because the ice it
self is a product of nature-not made
by man. The cave, which is really
a drift, was dug by a prospector in
search of gold about 20 years ago.
He did not find gold enough to pay
him for the effort, however, and
abandoned the drift.
1.-THE drift runs back into the
mountain for a distance of rs or 100
feet. is six or seven feet wide and, in
winter, about six feet high.
"All during the hot summer
months this drift is filled with beau
tiful. clear. solid ice, the ice on the
walls being a foot thick in some
places, while on the floor of the drift
it is from one foot to three feet or
more thick, SO that a man has to
crawl on hands and knees to get into
the cave.
Beautiful icicles, clear as crystal
and as long and as thick as mans
arm, hang from the roof.
Just when the ice began to form
is not known, but it was discovered
soon after the abandonment of the
drift.
1.-The cause of it's formation, too, is
almost mystery and the only explain
able reason is that some chemical &C
tion takes place from the warm outer
air coming in contact with minerals,
or chemicals, in the drift, which
freezes the water, ever present In
mines and mine drifts.
"The farmers and other residents
living in the immediate vicinity OF
this wonderful cave appreciate its
convenience as an ice plant rather
than as curiosity, for they get their
summers supply of ice there, costing
them nothing but their time and la
bor-rather an advantage in the days
of the H. C.. of l..
"The hotter the weather outside
of the drift the more solid is the ice
inside of it ,and when the thermome-
ter registers 81 degrees above zero
in the shade, you can sit within ten
feet of the mouth of the cave and get
stiff and blue with cold in few mo-
ments. l know, because have tried
it.
"In the winter this strange phe-
nomenon reverses itself; the ice dis.
appears entirely and green grass
grows all around the opening, grass
as green as in May or June"
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PLEADS GUILTY
TO GEM THEFT
JOSEPH FOURNIER, ALIAS COL
MNS, WILL SERVE TIME FOR
EXPERIENCE AT ETHAN.

Sioux Falls, March l7.-Joseph
Fournier, alias Collins, brought to
Sioux Falls some time ago by q depu-
ty United States marshal from Cleve-
land, Ohio, where he was arrested,
was taken before Judge ]. d. Elliott
in federal court where he pleaded
guilty to charge of larceny and was
sentenced to six yeoars in the govern
ment prison at Leavenworth.
Fournier's case has been one of
wide interest because of the game
which he played. He was relief ex-
press agent at Ethan, s. D., last sum-
mer. while the regular agent was
away. During his brief stay in that
position, 1t Is said, he wrote to sew
eral jewelry firms in Chicago, using
q special letterhead bearing the ad-
dress Of the Anderson Commission
company of Ethan, asking them to
send diamonds to the Anderson COM
pany c. O. D. In one Of his letters
he stated that his daughter had seen
q certain diamond in the jewelers. g
window and had taken fancy to it.
1t was his intention. he stated, to
make her q present of the stone and
asked that 1t be sent. When the dia-
monds, which totaled about $4,000
in value. arrived. he appropriated
them and skipped the country. 1t was
alleged. BENJAMIN F. Durand was
first taken up by the authorities In
connection with the case but was able
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TELLS OF NEW
HIGHWAY PLANS
CUSTER SECRETARY DESCRIBES
STER RATTLEFTlTLD
SCENIC ROADS.

Sioux City. March 17.-Plans for
the Custer Battlefield Scenic high
way, which is marked through Sioux
City. were presented to the eA:ecu-
tive committee of the Chamber OF
Commerce, members of the good
roads committee and representatives
from Sloan and Whiting, in an ad-
dress by d. ID. Fisher, secretary Of the
Chamber of Commerce Of Sheridan,
Wyo., and secretary of the highway
association.
The highway covers about 1900
miles and runs through 104 towns
and cities between Omaha and Gla-
cier Falls. 1t has been indors.ad by
the government and designated as
state and federal road throughout the
entire route, according to Mr.. Fis her.
The organization of the high way
association is now complete as far as
Sioux City with the exception of
Sioux Falls, where Mr.. Fisher will
speak March -. Information bureaus
for tourists have been Established
all along the route and cainping
SAOuuuS lOI LdVCACIb u0vC OSSAA
opened. Sheridan. Wyo., has spent
|$3,4o0 in camping grounds for tour
lists. Mr.. Fisher has spoken In 50
towns. The highway association Nyill
spend $1,000 for marking and $50 O0
for publicity.
1--WE claim that this highway is oi
the most historical interest OF any ar
the country" said Mr.. Fisher. eft
will be just as big q thing for Sioux
City as it il Tor Sheridan. The route
is all open, q practical route with not
more than three miles Of sand alone
the entire way. There is not q grade
from here 70 Great Falls, Mont, more
than ~ per cent At Spearfish yct
can pitch your tent on the cam pins
ground and catch trout not more thar
50 feet sway"
South Dakota, he said, has sub
scribed 100000 to the highw ~
Wyoming. $1.600.000: Montana, -.
900. .0eO. and will vote on $16, 600,
90 more In April.
Bsla Stoddard OF Sloan, willard
Whiting, Mayor r. w. Gibson. e. ~
Cassidy and Win G. Whiting Of Whit
ing, we1ss pressult at the meeting.
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Work On Survey
Of Dam Project

Mobridge, March 17.-Promoters
of the Missouri river dam project
south of this city have been given a.
suranceg that the proposition will re-
ceive the attention Of the state legis-
lature at the special session, which
will probably be called in May.
It il understood that the session
will not be called until the engineers
who are making q careful survey Of
the river, finish their investigation.
While NO definite idea has been
given, 1t IL understood that the state
engineers will favor the Hobridge
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-03-17
Labor Candidate
Wins In st. Paul

st. Paul, March 17.-William Ma
honey, labor candidate, received a
majority vote for the nomination for
mayor in the city primaries, the final
returns showed.
Mayor Hodgeson also was nomi-
mated and Gilbert Gutterson was
eliminated. The returns were as fol-
lows:
Mahoney, 10,903; Hodgeson, g.
999, and Gutterson, 1882.
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to prove an alibf and was later re-

to prove an alibf and was later re-
leased. a.
Finally Investigators of the bureau
Of investigation sot on the trail Of
Fourier and located him at Cleve-
land. He maintained that it was a
case Of mistaken identity and because
of his brief stay at Ethan there was
some difficulty In proving him to be
the man wanted. When this was fin
ally proved he confessed to the theft
and asked to be allowed to plead
guilty. He was brought to Sioux Falls
on February "a and since that time
has been confined in the county Jail.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-03-17
Irish independence
Laid On Table

Washington, March 1.-THE SEN
ate today laid on the table, the ques-
tion of Irish independence, along with
the whole question of self determina-
tion for subject peoples, tabling the
Owen reservation to the treaty.
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Federal Income Tax
Until 1922

Washington, March 17.-Federal
income taxes cannot be reduced until
after 1922. Secretary of the Treasury
Houston informed the house ways
and means committee.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-03-17
Bismarck Turns Down
NOn-Partisan League

Bismarck, N. D., March 1.-THE
forces opposed to the nonpartisan
league took Bismarck by landslide
in yesterdays primary. favoring Gun
der Olsen as national committeeman.
Hiram johnson was endorsed over
whelmingly. No country pricincts
have yet reported.
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site for the dam because Of the shale
beds upon which the foundation can
be laid, whereas other prospective
sites have only a sand bed.
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Daily Market Report


Minneapolis, March 17.-Corn:
Prices 161c higher; offerings light
er; demand good. No. yellow
closed at $1.53@1.65; No. 3 mixed.
$1.51 @ 1853.
Oats: Market up with futures;
No. 3 whites mainly 60 Sc over May.
No. 3 white closed at 88h 090hc;
No. 4 white oats 1t S5H 0S7Hc.
Rye: Market about unchanged
relatively; No. 2 at IN 04c over
May. No. 2 rye closed at $1.71A O
l.72N.
Barley: Market firm to &c higher
demand good, especially for medium
mailing grades. Prices closed a
$1.3301.56.
Barley: Market firm to &c higher;
demand good, especially for medium
mailing grades. Prices closed q
$1.33 q 1.56.
Sioux City Livestock
Sioux City, March 17.-Top fel
back to $14.S0 and the bulk Of tn,
sales ran from $3.50 014.60.
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Won CAPP RESIGNS
REVOLUTIONARY HEAD
THREAT OF SOVIET REPUBLI-
CANS AND ATTACK THE
CAUSE.

Paris, March 17.-Threats of an
immediate establishment of a soviet
republic and an attack on Berlin was
responsible for the decision of DR..
Wolfgang Won Kapp and General
LuettwitZ to resign as head of the
revolutionary government, according
to Berlin dispatch received by way
of Frankfort.
The decision of the counter revo-
lutionists leaders to resign uncondi-
tionally followed an ultimatum de-
livered by Deputies Cohn and Dau-
max. The ultimatum declared that
unless both men resigned and with
drew the Luettwitz troops by 9
o'clock Tuesday night, the workmen
would proclaim soviet republic and
attack the city.
The workmen in the districts of
Weissensee, Reichendorff and Span
dau were reported fully armed and
ready to carry out the threat of the
deputies.
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London, March IA news
agency dispatch via Copenhagen says
the independent socialists and COM
munists in Berlin have proclaimed a
'matum to DR.. Won Kapp, head of the
revolutionary government.
Dir. Won Kapp replied by establish
ing martial law, the dispatch said.
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The Hague, March 17.-Several
prominent Germans arrived in auto
mobiles at Amerongen yesterday for
visit with the former kaiser but
were not admitted despite repeated
attempts to see him, it has been re-
ported.
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Mayence, France, March 17.-Mar-
shall Foch and the allied comman-
ders have decided that allied forces
now along the Rhine are sufficient to
meet any emergency caused by the
German revolution. Marshal Foch
has returned to Paris.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Nitti Replies to
Critics of Italy
Charges Falsehoods as to
Financial Status and
Attitude to Germans

san RENO. April 81 tBy The Asso-
ciated ress).-Premer Nitti Of Italy,
speaking to-day with reference to that
country's policy toward Germany. Aus
tria and Jugo-Slavia, and also upon the
financial situation Of Italy, charged that
campaign Of falsehood is being con-
Quoted against mis- country.
"The dissemination OF false news
detrimental to Italy is an abominable
thing Premier Nitti said. at is a
veritablc campaign of lbelous false
hoods. BY whom is it promoted? Many
telegrars which claim to have come
from Italy prove TO have been sent from
reighbcring countries by persons who
have not lived in Italy and who are
acting in the interests Of unknown par
ties.
"No country Of the European Cont
nent is sounder than Italy. The ex-
change is absolutely unfair and does
not in any way correspond TO our real
what will be Italy's position in the
world
Strong ar Other Nations
Italy now Is making q magnificent
effort at reconytruction. She is suffer
try emerging from the war, but she is
rot less strong than any other country.
Yet here, even in this connection, is
campaign Of false news.
Italian exchange il not merely the
>Esplt Of the economic situation, but Of
exaggerated anxiety abroad generated
by false news. | must not make any
comparisons, but what other country
hAs given such great proof Of conf
tenee in itself? Our last loan in few
days produced 10000, 900 900 lire. u
this not proof OF confidence and force
We count on our own resources
alone, but Tor this very reason italy
must not be deprived III credit ard we
'aagt be enabled 20 oDtain Al least that
minimum Of coal. iron and raw mate }
rials 1ndispengGDle 10 us. There arc
tts7kss and disorders In italy, but are
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22
Tom Lawson, Broker,
Fined $1,000 in Boston
Arrested Recently. He Pleaded
Guilty to Illegally Advertise
ino M;ninr Stocks

BOSTON, April 21.-Thomas ". Law
son and l.. c. Van Ripper, brokers, were
fined $1,000 each in the Municipal
Court day for violation Of the state
statute concerning the advertisement
Of mining stocks. Lawson and Van
Ripper, together with several curb
brokers, we're arrested recently in the
campaign of Attorney General j. Wes-
ton Allen against illegal advertising of
stocks.
Lawson pleaded guilty to the com
plaint. which contained thirteen counts
He was fined 500 on each Of ten
counts and three were placed on file.
The complaint against Van Rper con-
tanned ten counts, to which he pleaded
guilty, and he was also fined S100 on
each count. Attorney General Allen
urged Jail sentence, or the maximum
fine of $500 for Lawson.
William r. Fitzgerald was fined $400
and George L. Ware 500 on similar
charges. Several others who have been
convicted, or have pleaded guilty previ-
ously, have been fined S100 each. Ev-
erctt C. Tarr and Daniel E. Samuel
withdrew appeals and paid fines Of
S400 each previously imposed.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-22

and the total 10 about equally a;v,s.s
between the two financial centers ,.sec
Baron Takahashi's message. a. n
cially translated at the Jsr.r"ns ns
Financial Commission here, foilors.
AT present there is reseA. 7
against the wartime prosperity wh;csS
lasted Tor FIVE years, and this il -hss
everybody might have expected. ass
Japan Has Plenty of Gold
Although some merchants. ~,
carelessly increased their bushes. "no =.
TOOK advantage of the prosperitv a -"
sulting from the war, have becom. s- ;s
volved into difficulties to soms das..n' .n'
there is no widespread bankruptcy vot
so the condition cannot be called
panic. 'ied
"As the gold holdings in Jap.n 49,.
abundant and unprecedentedly l.rns
tnere IS neither reason nor neeessitv
States" ''eu
Mr.. Den was in receipt of .noth..
cable sent from Toxic yesterday wh;sh
described the latest conditions thera
The stock exchanges, which wsrs
closed last week for q second t;ms
within the present month, on acconns
of the inability Of brokers to put nm
additional margins, are still clossg
but negotiations have been started ~
form mediation committee to decids
disputes between the longs and shorts
as to prices.
American bankers express the view
that the excess of imports over ex.
ports in Japan during the last threa
months was caused in part by ths
Chinese boycott against Japanese
goods