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P. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER,
*"* **,”©• TEMPLETON,
editor and Business Manager.
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Quai'antine on Lake Byron
District Lifted By County
Health Officer
Huron, S. D., Aug. • —(Special.)
•—The anthrax situation in this lo
cality is clearing up rapidly. Sat
ard^y tho county health officer. Dr.
Harry Sewell, lifted the quarantine
from Lake Bryon, 20 miles north of
hore. The lake has been banned and
all swimming has been prohibited
there for the past week or 10 days,
on account of fear of spreading an
thrax. With local officers feeling
they may relax their vigilance, it
" is generally believed that the dis
ease among tho stock In this section
Is effectively checked
Custer Battlefield Meet
At Sioux Falls, 8oon
Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. I ' (Spe
cial)—The fourth annual conven
tion of the Custer Battlefield High
way association will be held here,
September 20 and 21. The response
to tho address of welcome will bo
delivered by Lieutenant Governor
Gunderson, of Mitchell. The prin
cipal address of the day’s session
will bo delivered by Governor Me
Master.
Woman Who Murdered
Mother to Go on Trial
Mitchell, S. D„ Aug. 1 ' -(Spe
cial.)—Mrs. Mrytle Carter who on
June 6tl», shot and killed her aged
mother, Mrs. O. P. Busselle, and
wounded her sister, Miss Lela Bus
selle, at their home in Mitchell, will
go on trial at. tho August term of
the circuit court which opens next
Tuesday. The exact date when this
case will be tried will not be known
until after the court calendar Is ar
» ranged.
Mrs. Carter has been kept In sol
• Itary confinement at the,Davidson
county Jail ever since the shooting
occurred except for the one day
when she was taken to the city
hall a week after the shooting for
her preliminary trial which result
ed In the formal charge of murder
being placed against her. Another
charge oC shooting with intent to
kill was formerly filed against her
at the same time in connection with
the wounding of her sister.
Co-operative Elevator
Is Made Defendant
Huron, S. D„ Aug. '"'—(Special.)
—A case in circuit court, which it
Is expected will have considerable
hearing on co-operative agencies
In this state, was tried before
Judge Alva ES. Taylor and involved
the sum of $25,000, Including claim
ed interest. The case is an action
brought by the Halo, Owen Hartzell
company of Minneapolis against the
Bonilla Equity exchange and four
Of Its dihectors.
The plaintiff claims that four of
the directors of the* elevator at Bon
illa signed a contract Involving the
amount sued for and holds that they
are personally liable fnviduaily for
the shortage resulting when the ele
vator was caught In a slump. The
defendants claim that they signed
the contract, not as individuals,
but as officers of the company. It
Is claimed the total shortage will
amount to about $10,000. Testimony
was 'aken ij, -the hearing before
Judge Taylor and briefs will bo sub
mitted at a later date, it was an
nounced.
*\e»t Hat Which Waa
Hia Wealth Depository.
Aberdeen, S. D. Aug. -Walter
Abrahamson entered a plea of guilty
to a charge of intoxication. When he
was sworn to tell where he got his
Intoxicants, he refused to answer
questions put to him by the attorney
for the city, asserting that he could
not remember and he was remanded
to Jail to allow his memory to be re
freshed.
But he grew weary of life In jail
and decided to pay his fine and regain
his liberty, and after having done so,
he went to the Radlson hotel and ask
ed for the hat which he had dropped
In the hall when Tim Shimmers drove
him out.
Mr, Shimmers went to get the hat
for tbe man and discovered that it
had* disappeared. Inquiry revealed
that the house porter who cleans up
all the trash left about the hotel and
burns It In the furnace, had taken
that old hat from the gas Jet where
Mr. Shimmers had hung It and burned
U with other rubbish.
And then he confided to Mr. Shim
mers that tough luck was his, because
In the sweat band on the inside of
th»t hat had been placed for safe
keeping the only remaining $20 bill
which he had In the world.
B urines* Man Die*
While Playing Baseball
Cedar Rapids, la., Aug, -Ru
dolph Ceppl, proprietor of a grocery
store and meat market, dropped diead
here at 4 p. m., Sunday afternoon
from heart failure while playing
baseball with his children and friends
school, later graduated from Spirit
The Red Cross emergency hospital
■will this year be housed in the south
west corner of the new and commodi
ous public health building, which is
Just now - being completed, Here
all accident cases, as well as all
emergency cases of sickness, wlU
be attended to.
GREGORY COUNTY
Fairfax, 8. D-. Aug. *" (Special)—
Excessive fall rains nave delayed
threshing but have assured a splendid
corn crop, made fine tall pastures and
put the land In excellent condition for
fall plowing, much of which is already
done. Btock generally doing well.
Third erdp of alfalfa about ready to
harvest. Wild hay la being cut and
is a good crop.
A civil servFg gemination for
prospective cluAsC and carriers at
(.he Sioux City posrtoffloe will be
held at 9 o’clock, ftgtgwnber 16, at
the National Wgf > Training
■Hail
OMAHA’S WATER
SUPPLY NORMAL
City Authorities Say Fluid i
Again Fit To Drink—Boil
ing Still Urged
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 4.—Unless
something unlooked for happens, the
ban against use of city water for
drinking purposes will be lifted today,
according to a statement by Health
Commissioner A. 0. Pinto. Work of
clarifying and purging the mains fol
lowing t{ie breakdown of the filtering
system ten days ago has been com
pleted. Dr. Pin<b advises, however,
f'to keep boiling water until such
methods of purification is unneces
sary.”
SHORT MEASURE
TOGAS USERS
State Officers in Nebraska
Find Many Pumps Cheat
the Customer
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 4.—Following
the sates wide inspection of gasoline
pumps, Governor Bryan announced
that the states weights and measures
depatrment had inspected all gasoline
pumps and found that out of 80
pumps inspected 12 showed a short
age of about two percent in gas de
livered. One pump in this city show
ed a shortage of 10 per cent., acord
ing to the inspectors. It was con
demmed.
According to the department’s re
port only one pump in Lincoln aws
delivering more gas than Its guage
showed, tihis one giving about two
per cent, more gasoline than the
motorist paid for. The department
declined to make public the name of
the filling station operating this
pump.
Most Hoboes Novices
At Game, Officers 8ay.
Columbus, Neb., Sept. 4.—Police
a nd railroad detectives find that two
out of every three hoboes of the
thirty or forty who pass through
Columbus on the trains daily are
green hands nt the games. They say
it is easy to tell the green ones or
those who are bummlngforthesum
mersenson. The amateur always
picks out the easiest place to ride
and usually selects the moat danger
ous. Invariably the green youth
chooses a flat car loaded with lum
ber, where a light Jar of the train
may sometimes send heavy timbers
crashing down on him. On the other
hand the hardest or dirtiest places
are usually the safest. As many as
thirty-seven tramps are often lodged
in the city Jail at police headquar
ters here nightly and in the morning
are forced to buy tickets at the
station and ride out on “the cush
ions.”
Keith County Treasurer
lee at Paxton, Neb.
Ogallala. Neb., Sept. 4.—E. N. Mc
Namer, treasurer of Keith county, is
dead at his home at Paxton, follow
ing an Illness fro typhlod fever. He
was elected last November. A wld
dow and two children- survive hln^.
Union Pacific shop
Men Are to Parade.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 4.—Plans have
been completed for a rally of Union
Pacific railway employes here Sep
tember 15. Fifteen hundred Union
Pacific shop employes will march
In parade, it was announced while
special trains will bring otiher hun
dreds of the system’s employes, one
assemblage of 700 to arrive from
North Platte will ftu’lude a 75 piece
band. The city will be gaily decor
ated. The rally is in connection with
the Union Pacific's "safety first
campaign.
Lincoln County Eating Houses
Are to Be Inspected.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 4.—Governor
Bryan has directed the state agricul
tural department to inspect all eat
ing houses in Lincoln and at the
state fair grounds as to sanitary
condition. This action was taken,
according to the governor's order,
to protect state fair visiters. An in
vestigation will also be made by the
departmen into posible profiteering
in prices charged for meats during
the fair.
A little black dog lying by the side
of the curbing, was discovered by a
pretty yoyig lady stenographer as she
whs going to work one morning last
week. She saw that he was Injured and
called the humane society. In the
meantime, she gave the poor little fel
low a drink, and despite the fact that
both hind legs were broken he wagged
his tall for, "thank you."
Just another youngster’s “pal” run
over by a speeding auto!
Mount 1’leusant—J. B. Ward *>0
years old fell under a freight train
which he was attempting to board
and was Instantly killed. He Is be
lleyed to have worked on the steam
ship City of Grand Rapids, running out
of Chicago.
Dead Man Was Onea
Prominent In Omaha
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 4.—Tha body of
the man taken from the Missouri
river has been identified as John
Ramsey, one of a previously prom
inent Omaha family of that name
Ramsey left the confines of the Doug
las county poor farm last Sunday pre
sumably for a walk. Attendants at tha
hospital believe he drowned himself
in the river.
CENTER OF ODD FAMILY TANGLE.
' Hr^r. ^
Alice
“Prince.
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Charles Prince, New York art dealer, has filed suit against Joseph
Paterno, hip multimillionaire brotherinlaw, for $100,000 for alleged aliena
tion of the affections of Mrs. Alice Prince, Paterno’s sisterlnlaw. Paterno'*
wife says she has absolute faith in her husband and believes that he 1*
totally innocent of any wrongdoing with her young sister.
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Unemployed in New York.
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NEW YORK reports the discovery
of the first victim of unemploy
ment, the body of a man who had
apparently died of exposure and star
vation, huddled on a pier. The un
employed, congested in the cities, fall
Into three classes. There are the men
who honestly are hunting work, few
in numbers. There is the plain
“bum,” who follows the open roaa a
victim of the mania of restlessness.
He is willing to do odd jobs as he
drifts about the country, out does
not want steady work. And there is
the "wabbly,” who will beg, borrow
or steal, do anything except worlflf
An investigator for the New York
. Times, after disguising himself as a
tramp and living with the unem
ployed in Bryant park, tells what he
learned from observation and con
versations with them:
Possibly 10 per cent, of them are
workers out of jobs. They are un
skilled laborers and are very young,
ranging in age from 17 to 26 years.
They are the product of the good old,
yet recent, days when war labor was
scarce and wages high. It was then
that these youngsters first started to
work. They received and spent more
than the average salaried man. It
looked easy. They were led far from
home. They find themselves jobless
and penniless. These open air guests
uro me cr.ait iroin tne economic mill.
Nearly all -of them are from out of
town. Yet 90 per cent, of them are
bums or wabblies who-would nut work
If they could. ‘‘Most of us are here
because the graft is better,” one of
them explained frankly. “Take a fel
low and his girl, for instance. Ask
’em for a dime and he shells out a
quarter ’cause he don’t want 'er to
think he’s a piker. Get me?"
As for the municipal lodging house
It affords clean sheets, pillows, blan
kets and pajamas, supper and break
fast and a good hath—all for the ask
ing—that, and two hours’ work about
the place in the morning. “But they
don’t want It,” say the police. "They
ure bums by profession.
All of which was found to be true.
And these men are being encouraged
by the men and women who through
sickly sentimentality visit Bryant
Park at all hours and hand out every
thing from dohar bills to sandwiches.
One woman appears in Bryant Park
almost nightly with nuge baskets of
sandwiches. She feels it Is her Chris
tian duty. And the men laugh at her
for being “soft.”
Another woman appeared in the
center of the park early one evening
with a purse crammed full of $10
bills. After questioning several, she
separated the entire crowd of hun
dreds Into groups of three, handing
each group a $10 mill, saying that it
ould help them to sleep and eat for
three days, perhaps. Within two
hours after she had left Bryant park
nearly every one of her charities, us
she no doubt terms them, was hiking
toward Tenth avenue, there to ex
change his share of the money for
bootleg liquor.
One can find a nickel tossing con
test, polter, craps or put and take
games whenever the police are out
of sight. The "poor homeless boys"
patrol the side streets in gangs, beg
ging for money, which they spend
gambling. In stormy weather, when
the crowds around Bryant park are
thinned out, they extend operations
northward, along Broadway, and the
boundaries of Central park and up
and down Fifth avenue. They prowl
about in packs and prey only upon
the weak. Women, young girls and
aged men are accosted in the shad
ows and politely requested to "help
J*ho ex-service men,” drop "anything
at all” into a tin can or a hat held
by the leader, while the others form
a menacing background.
It is this situation that worries the
police and harms the chances of an
honest man looking for honest em
ployment. The police are worried at
the prospects of cold weather. They
themselves admit that cold weather
will make them desperate. They talk
in undertone, once set to talking, of
raiding lunchrooms for food and
stores for clothing. They possess an
acute desire to chare with the war
profiteer.
They trust no one. There may be
honor among thieves, but not among
tramps. If one goes to sleep with
his shoes on he will wake up bare
foot. When he "retires” for the night
lie puts his shoes on his hands and
ties them tightly so that the slight
est disturbance will awaken the
owner.
A police captain sent word up there
for 20 men to come down and accept
good positions. Two responded.
AgiXits of employment bureaus and
out-of-town corporations complain
that the men will not accept carfare
to a good Job. The men say this
sort of job is usually of the strike
breaking variety. ~
They are always willing to describe
their experiences in the army. Pos
sibly two out of 10 of the younger
men saw service in the army, and
half that number in the war. The
others, posing as veterans, wearing
official badges of the wounded or
honorably discharged, can be de
tect ed as imposters by the simple
process of cross-examination. In
variably, one will find that their cre
dentials have beerf either stolen or
bought.
xney au nave rougna ana coias.
As they lie stretched out here and
there on the grass, the scene is not
unlike a battlefield at night, with
all the stage properties and effects.
One hears gasps and groans,
snatches of songs, jests and epithets,
all muffled by the hum of the city,
the field alternately illuminated and
pitched in shadow by the cut and
dash flare of the electric signs on
surrounding buildings. When the
sandwiches appear there Is a rush of
feet, with a scuffling over the tram
pled grass as each one endeavors to
secure for himself the foremost posi
tion in the bread line.
It Was All the Lame.
From W roe's Writings.
Two doctors met one day, and one said
to the other; “I hear you operated on
Smith yesterday. What did vou do that
for?"
“Why. for $1,000."
"Yes, I know." replied the other; "but
what did you operuCe for?”
"Why”—with some impatience—“for
$1,000."
“Yes. yes. I know; but what I mean Is.
what did Smith have?”
"Why, I've told you twice already—
$1,000."
Couldn’t Tell It.
From Answer*. London.
He—Fannie, the taxi will be here In a
minute. Put on your evening gown
quick
Wife—Oon’t be funny. Wilfred, lt'» on.
Diplomacy.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
“I suppose Senator Snortsworthy has
had a great deal of experience in telling
disappointed constituents he couldn’t
get them a government Job.”
.’’Oh. yes. But the senator sends most
of them away in a more cheerful frame
of mind than you’d expect.”
“How does he do that?"
“He keeps a chart on his desk td show
them they couldn’t live on a govern
ment salary, anyhow.”
Niagara’s Lure.
From the Chicago News.
“Why do honeymooners go to Ni
agara?” aska a correspondent of The
Daily News. For one reason, it is nearer
than the Grand canyon or the moon.
Value of the
tW at tonal Crop Improvement Service.]
y-w-^HREE and one quarter billion
bushels of corn were raised in
the United States. This crop,
on more than a hundred million acres,
was worth more than two billion dollars.
The war period made enr corn worth
a little more money, but it is doubtful
if its purchasing power was as great.
Of course the great volume of this
crop is consumed on the farm.
For several years there has been a
constant struggle between feeders of
dairy cattle and growers of corn as a
money crop; one set of farmers accus
ing the other set of being profiteers.
Corn is now about at its pre-war
price and the problem now is to find
enough animals to feed, which at the
present price is the most profitable
way of handling this immense crop.
The surplus of corn which will be
handled through grain exchanges will
Jrobably be greater than ever before.,
t would be a very simple matter if
every farmer could feed all the come
he could raise and market it through
his animals, but when the price of hogs
went down after having been fed with
last year’s expensive crop of corn, the
farmer naturally went out of the hog
business and that price is now reflected
in the price of corn.
Somebody must own this com, and
farmers generally want to get their
money out of it. The commission man.
borrows the money from his bank,
after having hedged his purchase of
com in the country, and the farmer
gets his eash in hand, transferring all
risk of ownership to the new buyer.
No other commodity is handled so
well, so quickly or so economically as
grain under the present system.
Farmers’ organizations are planning
to hold the com on their own account
and market it through their own agen
cies, which may or may not be an im
provement oser this present system.
| The Wisdom of Years.
— A. B. Farquhar, in Collier’s Weekly.
The man who wrote this article for Collier'll Weekly, parts of which are
reprinted below, owns and actively manages a factory in Pennsylvania. Its
people were within earshot of the heavy guns at Gettysburg. After the bat
tle Mr. Farquhar went to see President Lincoln, and learned something which
he used ever since, and which he now passes along. Among the things which
Mr. Farquhar says here are two paragraphs which ought to be pasted on th» *
desk of every doubting man in America:
“The wise man knows that business is no parlor game. He does not fol
low the crowd. He maps his own course and does not bother much about
’conditions.' He makes his own conditions.”
“Hamilton Fish told me that the way to have credit is to keep all prom
ises exactly. ‘If you do that,’ he said, ‘for all people know, you may be worth
• billion dollars.’” Mr. Farquhar says:
I have been making farm implements for 65 years in York, Pa. These 65
years have carried me through nearly every important financial and political
crisis of the country; I have seen the country grow from a large and some
what clumsy child Into a powerful, lightly treading man. During my busi
ness lifetime I have never seen a period:
When the country, in the opinion of competent observers, was not going
to the dogs.
When the farmer was satisfied with the prices that he was getting for
his product or said that he was making money.
When the manufacturer and merchant were not complaining that what
was needed was a change in the administration and a chance to let prosperi
ty blossom.
When the man who put all his brains and energy into his affairs did not
make money according to the mount of brains and energy he had to put in.
When the workmen as a whole got less money than their work was worth
or when the good workman did not prosper and the lazy workman try some
method other than work to get a living.
When those who were happy and prospering did not make less noise than
those who were unhappy and failing.
When, excepting during the last two years, a man could make a good
living using less than a normal amount of brains.
When any resourceful and honest man, not a speculator, could not make
his own business conditions.
Now I am not going to tell how much better we used to arrange thing*
In the good old days. When I first started in business on my own account
just before the Civil war I had my house and my shop right together, and
although I worked regularly from 6 in the morning until 10 or 11 at night
and had the abundant strength and energy of youth, yet my biggest day’*
work did not then amount to as much in actual accomplishment as a couplo
of hours today. The amusing part is that today, because It is really so easy
to get things done, we are developing a notion that things ought to look aft
er themselves and that, because a small amount of work will bring a living
we ought to be able to get along without any work at all. We do not haye
to do so much work for ourselves today. Neither worker nor employer ha*
to use his hands as much, but it Is a blessed provision of nature that we still
must use our heads and perhaps we must use them a little harder.
With so much ease and comfort and convenience about us, I cannot get
myself worked up, or even more than mildly interested in the recurrent re
ports that business is band or business is good. I have so often received in
vitations for a general mourning over the economic death of the ceuntry—
and I have so often made plans to attend the services, only to be told, when
I had my sackcloth all ready and was looking around for the ashes, that the
facts of the death had been exaggerated and that the patient had spoiled all
of the funeral plans by going out shooting—that nowadays I chuck all of
these invitations into the wastebasket and do not bother to make prepara
tions. I know now that the funeral will never take place as advertised.
\ Neither can I find myself in profound sympathy with the tremendous
price losses which business and agriculture perennially have, for I have found
it exceedingly difficult as a rule to lose what I never had. Counting what
I might have had, I suppose I have personally lost at least a million dollars
and maybe two million by the other man saying “No,,” while had he been
In my way of thinking he would have said "Yes.” It is the old, old story and
hardly anyone ever sees the funny side of it. In fact, I think we are more
thoroughly doleful over the loss of what we never had than our actual losses.
Take, for instance, the farmer right now. He is calculating that if he
could get $3 or $4 for wheat and corresponding munificent prices for every
thing about the plaoe, he would make an indefinite number of billions of
dollars. But because no one will pay him those prices is he merely sighing
because a chance got away from him? No, not at all. He is mourning those
billions of dollars as an actual loss, as money that he had In his pocket and
dribbled out! I have never been able to convince a farmer that if he paid me
$20 for an article with wheat at $1 a bushel he was not paying me any more
when lie gave me $40 for the same thing with wheat at $2 a bushel. Being
a supremely human being, he wants my price to remain at $20 and his wheat
to go for $2, but that is a calculation that not only the farmer cannot makb
—hardly anyone makes it in his own affairs. _
Every village, every town, has its quota of people who are mourning the
loss of uncounted millions that they never had to lose; Wall street is full of
men who would, so they will tell you, be going about on expensive steam
yachts if only the market had not inconsiderately gone the wrong way. To
day what is bothering a great number of people is the loss of the money they
thought they, were going to make. , ..
Every man in legitimate business is well above his legitimate three-year
average. ___
A Swearing Ghost.
From the London Times.
An elderly woman complained to the
magistrate at Thames police court re
cently that there was a ghost at the
house In which she lodged, and that it
annoyed her. *‘I don’t know who it is,”
she said, "but It is a woman, and she
swears—uses the most awful language.
And then, It seems, some one has put a
battery on me, and It goes all over my
head and works all through me.”
The Magistrate — But metropolitan
magistrates have no Jurisdiction over
ghosts. There are, however, several so
cieties and eminent men with whom you
could get Into touch—for instance. Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver
Lodge. They take great interest in all
these matters.
The applicant (apparently much re
lieved).—Oh, thank you, sir.
Needless F.xertion.
From the New York Sun.
Jimmy’s mother was giving him a
gound (scolding about his unwashed
neck.
* "You know you haven’t washed your
Deck.” said his mother.
“Gee whiz!” said Jimmy, a note of
desperation creeping into his voice,
••ain’t I goin’ to wear a collar?'
The Attack.
From the Houston Post.
Gerald—I have a bone to pick with
sou.
Geraldine — Is that why you are
scratch lug your head?
Makes a Better Argument.
From the London Opinion.
"After being my fiancee for five years
she breaks the engagement and sends
back the ring."
"Well, that engagement ring has
doubled in value. Wouldn’t wonder If
Luck.
From Le Pole Meie (Paris).
“So your friend Caroline has lost her
husband?”
"Yes, and just during the very week
when the shops were advertising a spe
cial drive in mourning. She always was
a lucky thing!”
Your Touch.
I love your touch, it’s cool as rain.
And strong as it is fine;
I quite forget my life’s dark stain
When your clean hands touch mine.
—Le Baron Cooke, in Argosy.
Dress Reform.
From the Manchester Guardian.
How far rigour in dress has changed
in the present century! King Bdward
once noticed a colonel of the guards call
ing at Buckingham palace to write his
name in the book wearing a black jacket
suit, and sent him a kindly admonition.
Some years previously a well known
sporting baronet was scolded for com
ing into the royal enclosure at Asftot in
a short jacket. He appeared the next
day In the same offending garment, to
which he had tacked the outer sheet of
a newspaper, which gave him a ftUf
skirt. But the court was not amused.
