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IttralcUAdvaitce By WILLIAM W. DOWMIB SOI Til DAKOTA A Boiling Down of the More Im portant Events Here and There Foreign The unionists gained another seat In the Southport division of Lancaster. Otherwise the few results before an nounced do not change the party strength. The newly elected members of parliament now stand: Unionists, 221 liberals, 202 laborites, 34 na tionalists, 69. President Madriz of Nicaragua is sued a proclamation giving the details of the causes which have led to a re newal of hostilities. He refers to the offers of peace made to the* revolution ists through Rear Admiral Kimball and their refusal to accept anything but complete recognition of the pro Visional government, and says ques tions must now be settled by arms. American shoe manufacturers are •taking extraordinary shipments on orders from their German agents, placed in anticipation of the enforce ment of Germany's general tariff against American importations on and •Iter February 7. A native runner who has arrived ffeom South Africa reports that Col. Roosevelt has killed three good bulls and two cows of the white rhinoceros family and considerable lesser game. The naturalists have collected many species of birds and mammals. According to a German consular re port the Kobe-Akashi Electric Rail way company, with a capital of $1, 600,000, has been formed to build an electric railway from Kobe, Japan, to Askashi. The first five utiles of the road is to be double track. Qsnaraf. Tbe postal savings bank bill has been introduced in the senate. If Ballinger is convicted it will be A victory for honesty and conserva tism. If acquitted it will be a vindi cation for a much abused man. Baron Komura gave assurance in the Japanese diet that relations with the Iftiited States were excellent. The management of the postofflce department was criticised by the man agement of the Butterick company. A letter from Guadalajara asserts that Conductor Cook, who is in jail la Guadalajara, is failing rapidly un der his close confinement. President Tail cabled to Emperor William of Germany a birthday greet iftg. Foodstuff exports last year fell off feeavily as compared with the previous jrear. General Paulino Godoy has been appointed injector general of the Nlcaraguan army. President Taft has decided to pay a •lsit to Albany and Rochester, N. Y., some time in March and in both towns will deliver addresses. Ezra Kendall, the comedian, died of Apoplexy in a sanitarium at Martins ville, Ind. The supreme court may delay an opinion on the corporation tax. That Harry Kendall Thaw is a bankrupt and that his estate is sub ject to the United States bankruptcy laws is held by Referee William B. Blair. Tbe senate committee on territories perfected the Beveridge measure to oreate a legislative council for Alaska. Congressman Smith of Iowa will be ft candidate for renomination. National Committeeman Taggart of Indianapolis, Ind., who was accident ally shot by W. H. Morton, while bunting, will lose tbe sight of the right •are. The senate committee on irrigation will report a bill providing for a $30, 000,000 bond issue to complete irriga tion projects. Armour says beef is high because 0 increased price of corn. American affairs are being promi nently headlined in the Chinese native newspapers. The speeches of Presi dent Taft and tbe hunting exploits of Col. Roosevelt are followed with in terest The petition of the American Fede ration of'Labor asking for an investi gation of the operations of the United States Steel corporation has been re ferred by President Taft to the com mittee on judiciary. The United States Banking com pany at Mexico City suspended fol lowing its failure to make the clear ing house settlement of the day's business. Joseph A. Graham, a widely known editor and author, died at his some in Salisbury, Md. He was widely known la tho we«' Cork oak, which grows to a large extent in Spain, is to be tried in the national forests here. All along tbe line tbe people are cutting out the meat ration, but the price does not come down. The "beef trust," so-called, Is to be prosecuted by the national govern ment. Millions in royalties to the govern ment from leases of Alaska coal lands was the proposition made by a Seattle man to a senate committee. Business needs of the nation are to bo discussed in annual conveJQtiQD national boards of trada*. The executive committee of the na tional education association an nounced that the forty-eighth annual convention would be held in Boston July 2 to 8, 1910. Senator Conger's exposing New York's state politics scandal is likely to win victory for direct primary sys tem. The British liberal party must de pend on the Irish to secure a ma jority in the house of commons. The twentieth ccntury limited on the New York Central web wrecked and two trainmen killed. There is dissatisfaction among house democrats with the leadership of Champ Clark. Chances favor the passage of the ship subsidy bill this session. The new comet is traveling more than 120 miles per second according to Prof. Winslov Upton of Brown uni versity. Special educational training for rail road men is advocated and predicted by J. Shirley Eaton. Irregularity in grand jury room may open the prison doors for Charles W. Morse, and F. Augustus Heinze may also benefit from a court ruling on this matter. In the memory of senators and representatives now in office, says a Washington dispatch, there never has been a time when the people were writing so many letters to members of congress about public affairs. Meat dealers are firm with their prices all over the country and the move now being made has in no wise affected the packers. The intensely colu weather in the east has saved eastern Pennsylvania from disastrous floods. It was stated by a high authority at Paris that no settlement has yet been reached regarding the Hankow Sze-Chuen railroad loan of $30,000,000. Ezra Kendal!, the lamous comedian, died of apoplexy in a sanitarium at Martinsville, Ind. President Taft is urging upon sen ators to "get busy" with the nation's affairs. The price of extra fancy creamery butter dropped to 30 cents a pound on the Elgin board of trade. It was a cut of six cents. Liberal forces in Great Britain have not abandoned hope of a substantial victory. Warner M. Van Norden, a rich New Yorker, was robbed on the street of $28,000, supposedly by two women. Investigations by the immigration commission were denounced in the house as a big junket. Mrs. Hetty Green has Joined tile anti-meat crusade because she says the price is too dear. Washington. Senator Penrose introduced a bill to amend the oleomargarine law in accordance with recommendations by associations of dairyman and grangers. The measure imposes on manu facturers of oleomargarine a special tax of $600 a year. The tax to be paid by wholesale dealers in uncolored oleomargarine is fixed at $200 and the tax assessed against retailers in a similar product is fixed at $6. Reports which reached Washington from foreign sources declared that Whitelaw Reid, ambassador to Great Britain, had been offered and had ac cepted an extension of two years of service as the representative of the United States at the court of St. James. Estimates made by officials of the postofflce department indicate 300, 000,000 one-cent pieces annually are taken by the rural letter carriers from letter boxes for the payment of post age on mail matter deposited. Com plaints against the practice have be come so widespread that the post office department has issued instruc tions to all postmasters at rural de livery office that after February 15, the practice will be discontinued. Detailed statements of exports of the United States during the calendar year 1909 have just been completed by the bureau of statistics of the de partment of commerce and labor. They show a reduction in the value of exports of nearly all the important agricultural products except cotton. As a result of the agitation against the increased cost of living, Represen tative Garner (rep. Pa.) introduced a bill in the house to repeal the duty on all cattle intended to be used as food. This is the first bill of the sort intro duced, but it is expected that a flood of similar measures will follow. Personal. Indictments were returned at Chi cago against men accused of com spiring to defraud the city. Governor Shallenberger of Ne braska declines to call an extra ses sion of the legislature. Congratulations poured in on Gomp ers on his sixtieth birthday. Friends of Brigadier General Smith of Fort Russell believe he will suc ceed to the command of the Depart ment of the Missouri when Brigadier General Charles Morton, now in com mand, retires from the service in March. Brigadier General Frederick Funston is in line for the command, but it is understood he does not care to be transferred and that Brigadier General Smith will get the place. The prediction was made that it will take nineteen years to finish the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry. There is still a possibility the lib erals will have a majority in com mons. Zelaya, former president of Nica ragua, is preparing to go to Belgium. Liona, Peru, arranged a special re ception for Hon. W. J. Bryan. The election of Gittord Pinchot to succeed Dr. Charles W. Eliot as presi dent of the National •onservaticn as sociation is announced. Iowa editors will hold their semi annual meeting at Boone, March 17. GLAV1S ON STAND FURNISHES COMMITTEE DOCU MENTARY EVIDENCE OF 'UNDERSTANDING* SCHWARTZ AS POLITICIAN Former South Dakotan as Chief of Field Service Wrote Several Letters That Figure in Investigation II. H. SCHWARTZ IS KNOWN HERE The H. H. Schwartz referred to so numerously In the Bal linger-Pinehot case below will he remembered by politicians in Sioux Falls. He was lor some time fore man of The Daily Press com posing rooms under Caldwell & Bliss. He then went into poMtics, being sent to the legislature by the populists, who later strongly accused him of selling them out in the matter of elect ing a United States senator at the time Kyle was chosen. Shortly after his return from Pierre Schwartz was appointed a special agent under the inter state commerce commission. Since that time he lias not been heard of in these parts un til now, when he seems to have been in the land office com bine—according to Glavis. **••••••••$•»•••••• Washington, Jan. 29—(Mavis con cluded his testimony before the Ballin ger-Pinchot investigating committer late today. He will be recalled Mon day for cross-examination by any per sons against whom he made charges. Glavis' statements deve oped an animus long existant between the land office and the forestry reau, and th" resentment the land office people felt when Glavis was called into "the for estry." Witness declared Representa tives McLachlan of California and Kinkaid of Nebraska, were interested in the Alaskan claims, and that Ba'. linger before being commissioner of the land office had been attorney for Kinkaid. Glavis asserted that Ballin ger suggested to him not to pursue the investigation against M''Lachlan, saying there w:is "too much of that thing in the past." When Glavis was asked if he thought Ballinger and Land Commis sioner Dennett were in league to do wrong in the Alaskan cases, he re plied: "Well, I thought the cases would be better perfected with them out of the way." "DENNETT WAS CROOKED" Glavis' attack seemed to center more today upon Denentt. He said he be came convinced in the summer of 19 '9 that Dennett "was crooked," and took steps to secure carbon copies of let ters Dennett was writing back to Washington. Several of these were introduced. One from Dennett to H. H. Schwartz chief of the field service, last July, said: "My Dear Schwartz—The worst sit uation on the line is the one 1 find here. Our friend Glavis has regarded me with suspicion, and after talking for a whi'" '-"ho-ved me your statement assigning the cral cases to Sheridan. .... Now I figure it is Glavis pre paring to make ac ushion for himself to fall back on, also putting himself In shape to have a great story in case It is Sheridan that does not make good and succeed in cancelling the Cunningham canes. "While he looks innocently at me I can see his heart is bad though why I cannot tell, except that he wanted to drag the cases out. He may b° sincere, of course, in his idea that he has not been given time nor oppor tunity. He asserts he will help Sher idan all he can. but it is not human nature—at least his nature. The at mosphere is not good at all. "That he is plaving the forestry there is no question: the Innocent look me gave me when I to'd him he was dragging In Shaw, etc., when there was no necessity, was heautifi'. He had also talked conservation very strongly. Glavis in talking conser vation is ugly and is preparing to be as unpleasant as he can—at least that is mv solution of the sitvuation. "Glavis professes the greatest friendship for you. I think you know him better than anyone else, and this is certainly the worst situa tion we have. He will make about 40 favorable and TOO unfavorable re ports: and the wav thiners will com mence t.o drop will be amusing." COAL ON THE BRAIN In the second letter of Dennett to Schwartz occurs this paragraph: "Glavis has these coal cases on the brain. Can't see anything but just one line. I have told him how it looked to us. and reminded him of the secvlce we have done for him and that it looks as if he was not return ing our favors by not standing by us as he ought. He has not aft"d as yu and I would in similar conditions. It looks a little like treason to me by ca^'rg In the forpstrv." There was also Introduced this statement hv Schwartz to Dennett: "The denavtment has a letter from Washington. Jan. 29—The agricul tural approbation bl'l occupied the attention of the house todav until an ea^ly adjournment was made neces sary by failure of the republican members to remain in the house in order to sustain Chairman Scott of the committee having charge of the measure. When the paragraph re'ating to control of the boM we»vil was reached it was evident that interested demo crats were present in large force, while Chairman Scott was nnab'e to as^mble a majority of the house. Th*» rnrrmHt^e on aerlcj ture b»d provided $215,000 for control of the the secretary of agriculture, originat ing in the forest service, asking for postponement of the Cunn'ngham hearings. Glavis wrote or wired him recently in the matter. Require Glav is to show copy of his letter to Shaw, I it being necessary to determine the motive behind agriculture's request for such long delay." Glavis explained that he understood Shaw would come to Seattle to co-op erate with him on the Cunningham claims, as several of them were in the forest reserves. This is how the forest bureau came into the contro versy officially. Another letter read was from Ballinger to Schwartz last July, saying: "I am just advised by Dennett of your telegram with reference to in crease in number of special agents in the excepted class. I desire that you, in making any of these appointments, in addition to the president being consulted, Postma.-ter General Hitch cock be also consulted, provided that appointees are not directly suggested by the president." SCHWARTZ AS ADVISER The last item read caused much laughter. It was from Schwartz, dated at Washington. Aug. 12, at the fime the report was being made upon Ballinger. and addressed to Special Agent McEnirv at Denver. It read: "Get into scareheads tonight, and the Associated Press of possible, that the secretary and commissioner have secured ^Mence showing unlawful combinations of several ind-^d coal entries: that the general land office is assigning its best coal engineers and lawyers to Seattle to assist in the coming trials that the commissioner of the land office, while in Denver, had expressed confidence that several hun dred entries would he cancelled that the government is making every ef fort to secure speedy act'on in the case, and coal entries in Alaska have now been suspended over four years that the government is anxious to clear the lands of bad entries, that it may get coal for ts cialing stations in the Pacific that special agents say the hearings will rwh some of the largest interests vet uncovered and fhat Billlnger has made it plain that he will stand behind them to the fin ish: that several railroad corpora tions owned by eastern capital are making efforts to delay hearings. hop ing the next congress will pass furth er legislation to permit greater con solidation, but it is the position of the commissioner that such entries as are fraudulent as the law now stands should be cancelled at once and crim inal liahilitv developed before the statute bars action. "Follow somewhat the above idea. I understand a slanderous -newspaper attack is about to be made on the com missioner of the land office, the secre tary of the interior, and Assistant Secretarv of the Interior Pierce in Alaska Coal. I wish to forestall. Treat the source of your informal ion as se cret, as I have consulted no one. "After putting this out I advise further to avoid interviews in this matter." TO USE MAGAZINES In the course of his testimony Glavis said: "Schwartz said he knew some maga zine people, and he thought it would be a good thing to get the story print ed, telling all tnat was done in the Alaska coal cases, and giving Ballin ger credit for the investigation. Then the secretary would feel better dis posed toward me." Concerning Dennett's visit to Seat tle last July. Glavis said: "I thought he was crooked and I asked the stenographer to take down all I said and all Dennett said to me." Glavis said he told Attorney Heney that the land office was hurrying him In the Alaska cases and exnected him to interview five hundred peop^ In sixty days. "In view of all I had heard about Dennett. I thought some thing was wrong," said GWivis. Glavis related how, in S 'okane. dur ing the conservation congress, he told Pinchot his troubles in connection with the coal land cases, and Pin chot advised him to go to the presi dent. He accordingly prepared a re port. took it to Beverly, and present ed it to Taft. He returned west from there and the next thing he knew he was dismissed from the service. Didn'* Know 'Jack's' Plans IflMshington, Jan. 29—Investigation Of charges against Ballinger and offi cials of the land office by Hitchcock of Nebraska, democrat, was resumed today before the house committee. A newspaper announcement was intro duced of a farewell banquet given "Jack" Ballinger before he left for the west. It concluded with the state ment that young Ballinger was leav ing the service for the purpose of be ginning law practice in Seattle, with the present Secretary Ballinger. Commissioner Dennett was asked if publication of such an account would warrant allowances to an employe who was about to sever his connection with the government. Dennett replied that he knew noth ing of the banquet, and reiterated that he did not know young Ballinger was about to resign. Still After Haskell Guthrie, Ok.. Jan. 29 Charging Governor Haskell and other state offi cers with violation of the state con stitution and laws of the state as to the manner In which public monrva are expended. Representative Varig, representing the republican minority, filed an affidavit in the low *r house of the legislature today. In general the charges against Haskell are that he "mismanaged public funds under his control, in whole or in par*. an1 has wilfully and designedly authoriz ed misappropriation of said "unds." boll weevil. Dickson of .Vjississ:-pi. offered an amendment to increase this to a half million. Chairman Scott, acknowledging the necessity for controlling the boll weevil pest. declared that the de partment of agriculture had been un able to devise a method for its ex termination. and that the ap ronria tion was ample to continue study of the subject. The m'nority had sWty-two votes for Dickinson's amendment, while the majority vote of f7 was less than a majority of the honse. After some narFamentary tactics the bouse adjourned. PARIS IS FLOODED DRIVING RAIN SINKS HOPE IN HEARTS OF SUFFERERS OF BELEAGUERED CAPITAL. CITY IS A MASS Of RUINS Army of Masons at Work Building Wall to Divert Waters.—J. P. Morgan Offers $50,000 to Be Used In Relief. Paris, France.—When the day broke over Paris anu the submerged prov inces surrounding, the prospect was a cheerless one. A heavy rain had set in and a gale of wind out of the north served to drive the flood to points which heretofore had escaped its in vasion. Wire Communication Difficult. Telegraph communication with the outside world is extremely defective, and at times wholly interrupted. There is no direct communication be tween this city and England, and mes sages for central Europe were divert ed through indirect routes. A great force of masons are still at work in the erection of a wall, which it was hoped would divert the flood from the historic Hotel Lam bert and the famous Hotel l'Auzum ad joining. Both of these houses were built in the seventeenth century, the Hotel I'Auzun having been purchased by the city ten years ago and made over as a museum of art. Rue St. Lazare Inundated. The Rue St. Lazare was inundated throughout its extent, the water hav ing found its way up through the sub way. The roof of the subway under the Place de l'Opera fell in during the night. The River Seine continues to rise early and lacked only a few inches of attaining the greatest flood max imum on record. This was in It 15, and when the country was without the modern barriers which are de signed to protect Paris and near-by points in such emergencies. The Esplanade des Invalides is a sheet of water. The turgid flood crept back almost to the Jardin du Luxem bourg, on the left bank, and invaded the Place de la Concorde, which was closed and guarded by soldiers, and the lower Champs Klysee, on the right bank. The Palais de Glace and other pleasure resorts and restaurants are surrounded, even the Place de l'Opera at the core of the city threatening to sink to the subway beneath. Taft Offers Sympathy. Washington, I). C. President Taft has sent a telegram to President Fallieries, of France, expressing the sympathy of the American people lor the flood sufferers of Paris, and has tendered him needed relief through the National Red Cross. The state de partment has also sent a telegram to Ambassador Bacon, asking whether Red Cross contributions for the relief o the flood sufferers in Paris and in the French provinces were needed and would be acceptable to the nation and people. President Taft's telegram to President Fallieries is as follows: "Is there any manner in which, through the national Red Cross or otherwise, appropriate expression could be made of the sympathetic dis tress with which the people and gov ernment of the United States learn of the reported calamities that floods are causing your beautiful and historic capital, as well as in the provinces of France? Meanwhile I offer you the sincerest sympathy and the most ar dent wishes that the cause of these disasters may soon abate." Brutal Policemen Dismissed. New York, N. Y.—Commissioner Baker of the police department dis missed three men from the force for brutal assaults upon citizens. In formed of this action, Mayor GayNor wrote the Commissioner as follows: "I am very much gratified by this prompt action. Let all such men on the force be treated in the same way. Let the whole force know once and for all that it will be deemed a great er offence to commit unlawful battery on a citizen, or unlawfully enter a house, than to let a criminal escape. COMET "A 1910" RETIRING. Photographs Show Sky Rover Travel* ing Away From Sun. Boston, Mass.—The bright rival of Venus in the western sky, the new comet discovered by a South African and officially known as "Comet A, 1910," is chivalrously retiring and leaving the star the fairest visibly EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO HE HAD LESS THAN 3 DOLLARS HE IS NOW ONE OF THE RICHEST FARMERS IN SASKATCHEWAN, CENTRAL CANADA. Arriving in Canada in 1891, Just eighteen years ago, E. A. Guillomin could speak but his native language. He is a Frenchman. He had but a little over two dollars In his pocket, thus being short over seven dollars of the ten dollars required to secure en try for a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. He eventually bor rowed the money and near Forget, Saskatchewan, he started life In Can ada on the homestead in which to-day he is the fortunate possessor of fifty quarter sections of land, or 8.000 acres. Now Mr. Guillomin did not acquire all these acres as a result altogether of his farming operations, which were extensive. He looked with satisfac tion upon what he was doing on his limited area, he was saving, careful, and had foresight. Surrounding land could be had for about $3.00 per acre, I and he continued buying as his sav ings would permit, until now he has fifty quarter sections, some of which he can sell at $25.00 per acre. Threshed Fifty Thousand Bushels. This year he was engaged in thresh ing on his place for 54 days. He threshed out 50,000 bushels of wheat, of which he sold 34,000 bushels, one I train load, at a price varying from 84 to 87 cents per bushel. He has on hand still 16,000 bushels. In addition to wheat he raised 30,000 bushels of oats, 7,000 bushels of barley and 500 bushels of flax. He owns 104 horses and a number of cattle, but since the construction of the railway he has been engaged chiefly in raising wheat. This year he bought his first thresh ing machine, paying for it the sum of $2,lt)0. He estimates that the nia- 1 At the Place Pereire the main drain exploded, flooding the subway and the workmen inside narrowly escaped with their lives. Another main broke emptying its contents into the base ment of the principal market and de stroying the entire reserve stock of provisions. Penetrates Heart of City. The devastation has now penetrat ed the very heart of Paris, the gorg ing rivers and sewers underneath lit erally blowing up the streets, while the area of the surface overflowed by the waters of the Seine had been doubled. Twelve of the 25 bridges over the river have been closed and the quays on either side from one end of the city to the other are either in undated or have been roped off as un safe. chine earned for him this fall $3,000, thus paying for itself in one season and leaving $900 to the good. The weather was very propitious for farm threshing, not a single day being lost in the two months which were spent in this work. The wheat averaged 23 bushels to the acre and graded No. 1 and No. 2 Northern. In the past nine years seven good crops have been har vested on this farm. For six succes sive years the returns were excellent, that is in the years 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906. In the two fol lowing years there was a partial fail ure. As the years have passed the quality of the buildings on the farm have been steadily improved, and are now as good as can be found in the district. About $10,000 has been in vested in this way by Mr. Guillomin. The farm consists of 6,880 acres, of which about 6,000 acres were under crop this season. Latest Coffee Roaster. The latest coffee roaster has a sta tionary inner cylinder and a rotating outer one of perforated steel, with space between for the coffee beans, and blades to insure thorough mixing and even roasting. Heat is applied to the inner cylinder by electric current. For sampling the roasting, a small cup is so arranged that on pressing a knob three or four beans are thrown out without stopping the cylinder. CLIP THIS OUT Renowned Doctor's Prescription for Rheumatism and Backache. "One ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla com pound one ounce Toris compound Add these to a half pint of good whis key: Take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bed time Shake the bot tle before using each time." Any drug gist has these ingredients in stock or will quickly get them from his whole sale house. This was published previ ously and hundreds here have been cured by it. Good results show after 1 the first few doses. This also acts as 1 a system builder, eventually restoring strength and vitality. Luck. "Does you believe it's lucky to see de new moon over yob right shoul der?" "Sho I does," replied Mr. Erastus Pinkney. "Dese here stormy days you's lucky to see any kind of a moon anyway."—Washington Star. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of| In Use For Over 30 Years. u ject in the heavens, according to pno tographs taken of the comet by the Harvard observations. The omel is now traveling away from the sun. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Impolite Papa. "Mamma, what makes papa make that funny noise?" "He's snoring, dear." "But you always tell me it ain't po lite to blow my noise out loud." Past tense indigestion. Present tense—WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT Ftt ture tensfl—good digestion. To act with common sense, accord ing to the moment is the best wisdom I know.—Horace Walpole. Welcome kisses! WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT makes all kisses sweet and welcome. Had yours? it might improve the pound cake to hit it with an ax. AUEN'S LUNG BALSAM wilt ctirp rot onlv a frush cold. Iut one of those stul born coughs that nRimilj hnng on lor months. Uiv« It a trial and prove its mxrth. '-'.".o. Mm and 81.00. Time cannot remove kindly act* from a grateful heart