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'€|a s P^NjIrV fl: jpv k ••ft &. I r.' If tf •. ry '1 if i i. I i t' s i~% it, FROM MANY POINTS EVENTS OF TMK WICK HELD TO A PEW LINES. MED FOR DUCK PERUSAL —I Nnaiyil, Political} Foreign and Other Intelligence lnt«resting the General Reader*. •engress probably will assemble in «*tra session about May 2% it Is ru mored at Washington. Legislation lo make the Grand Can yea ef Arizona a national park reser vatiea has been completed by con gress. e Federal farm loan bonds may now fee bpught from each of the twelve laaft'bunks under A new treasury policy. u Demoblization of tbe Tenth division at tfump Funston, Kansas, with the exception of regular army men, has fcegffn. The peace conference at Paris, led fcy President Wilson, extended an in vitation to Russia to cease its wild ways, behave itself and enter the cou ,gress. Faur hundred and *lsty persons ""•were ilruwiinl wheu the French steam er Xhnproi (Chuproi?) struck a mine la Messina strait and sank la four Minutes. I Ike Montana stock growers' asso etirtten went on record against govern ,|uM ownership and operation of live Stodk facilities as proposed by the fHMMa bill. Accordlig to the provisional eenstl taiiMi of the new Irish republic, now frefere tbe "Dail Eireann," legislative /^•wers are to be vested in deputies alecked from existing parliamentary «enNituencies. By unanimous vote the Idaho state Seaafte passed u bill which masses it u MNjr punishable by imprisonment up to ten years to hoist ur display the ied flag in the state. a July 4, 1910, was set by the labor egress at Chicago as the date for nation-wide strike of every branch of organized labor as a protest against tho Imprisonment of Thomas J. The South Dakota supreme court fcae made public an order restraining telephone companies in the state from putting into effect the increased toll rate* recently ordered by Postmaster •eeerul Burleson. teoreased shipping facilities ao that Mf bo possible to send American IMM home at the rate of 3W.000 to a month, have be« arranged far hy Edward N. Hurley, chairman «f Nw ahipping board. Sitter feeling .growing out of the of yellow paint on the barns and of Ward Turner, Iowa farmer, to the probable fatal shooting of Ba—Is Flynn, 34, by Turner, In the Brit atreet of Maquoketa. Hearty five thousand American flght Mut sea aboard four great transports miffd at New York iast Sunday from ttl Rattle fields of Europe. Several the returning soldiers sick or wounded. Secretary of War Baker has made that the proposed army ro fttkm and an agreement to stay oa it for at least a year, meana ao national guard organisations he had In any of the atates. ipH notification from British au tkealties that foot and mouth disease kM fccoken out again in England tho IMUM of animal industry has can ceiled aH permits for importation of cattle, sbeep and swine from that •aly one more big war loan drive la planned by tbe treasury depart Hi at according to a statement made hy Secretary Glass. This will be the victory liberty loan, to be floated pratafcly the last three weeks in Apt, and will not be more than $C. SS»JSOO,OOO. rr ,f- a. At a brilliant luncheon fit Ltixem tafflg palace at Paris, tendered in his lUWer, President Wilson declared "that Ifce peril of France. If it continues, srflf he the peril of the world, and •aly Franee mast organise against hut the world must organise Sit to 70.000 German W« abendoeed by the withdrawing ate being loaded on freight Mow f«r shipment to the wmm In connec the next loan campaigu. e e, a Mince tato bf Poet master lmcame effective these, atates lining orders V It# beea Is- ^President Wilson, at Paris, has sent tri massage to the Brnzilian govern ment expressing his deep regret at the d'tith of President A Ives. flThe Chicago, board of education voted to name the next public sch»ol building in the city In honor of Colonel Theodore ltoosevelt. Negotiations for the .purchase hy a number of Lincoln men of the fran chise of tbe Denver club of the West ern league are being conducted. New Zealand's casualties in the wa.r toralted r7,«32, of whom only forty* flive were taken prisoner by the eneuiy. The number killed was 10,500. Speaker Champ park in the house of representatives at Washington de clared during at debate that ever.v American soldier in ltussia and the rest of Europe should be withdrawn. Secretary Baker has directed Iliat enlisted men upon being discharged from the service may retain the safety razor, comb, shaving brush, steel mirror and towels issued to each man. The Iowa Federation of Woman's clubs and labor organizations say the legislature will pass the bill providing for a ten-hour day for women with a maximum of tifty-t'our hours per week. •. A mob at Hillsboro. Tex., took BnijiK Williams, a negro, to the corner of the public square and burned him to death for the murder of Mrs. George Wells and her child December 2, 1918. a That Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois, will be attorney general, suc ceeding T. W. Gregory, resigned, if Swretary of War Baker also resigns, was the prediction of Lewis' friends in congress. The hog price agreement policy of the food administration will be con tinued despite nttacks on the present scale of $17.30 in the face of the pres ent surplus. F. S. Snyder, head of the meat division, announced. President Wilson has sent an auto graphed copy of his famous fourteen [mints set out on official White House note paper to be sold on behalf of a fund for the dependenU of Bi-ili«ih soldier and sailor journalists. General .Tohn Pershing, the Ameri can commander in chief, has been called to Paris, and it is expected that he will be the military member of the American representative of the joint commission to parley with llussia. I The Nassau county. New York, grand Jury, failed to indict Mrs. Marie Augustine LeKaudy, who shot and killed her millionaire husband, the ec. centric Jacques LeBaudy. at I heir home in Westbury, early this month. Tbe death of Prince John, youngest son of King George of England, came so ^quic&ly and unexpectedly thai thsre was no time for the nurses who wetc with him, to summon the king and Queen Mary to bis bedside be fore he expired. Livestock on farms and ratigwt of the country on January 1 was valued at f8,KW,2W (KW in an estimate made public by the Department of Agricul ture. This is an increase of 54G, 006,000 over their value a year ago. American delegates to the peace conference favor a thorough in vestigation to fix responsibility for tbe war—that no culprit might escape and that punishment might bo meted out to all those sharing the guilt, from the kaiser dewn. Word has reached Washington ftiut Captain James Norman Hall pt Col fax, Iowa, a member of the famous Lafayette escadrllle and later attiicit ed to the American air forces in France and who waa driven down wounded behind the German lines i. »t May. has returned to France fr*m Germnny. e e e M. Notilens, French ambassador, who has just returned to Paris from Russia, regards the holshevist power as an enemy of the entente and os hav ing been responsible for the Itussian defection from the allies. "Until the regime fails." he Is quoted as saying, "Europe will continue to be exposed to the severest risks of agitation and war." Medical theories regarding Spanish Influenza were turned topsy-turvy by an announcement from the office of the government public health service at San Francisco stating that fifty navy men from Goat Island were ex posed to influenza In every possible way In a test conducted by the gov ernment. To the surprise of the doc* tor* not one%contracted tbe disease. Two officers, a captain and a first I leu ten niit, were arrested, and three overseas soldiers tried by summary court-martial as the result of a riot which occurred at Dee Moines When the city traffic officer arrested ft aol dier for disorderly conduct. The see ate fees adopted the resolu tion of Henntor Phetaa, California, to chapfe the eaate of Sequoia national park to Koowerelt perk. In honor ef the formr preetdeet. V" v.' POOR FARMcR EXTINCT MENNO MAN SHOWS WHAT CAN BE OONE ON SMALL V PIECE. The experience of Henry Kost, ef Menno, demonstrates what can be ac complished on the average South Da kota farm during these days of high prices for farm products. He owns a ranch in Hand county, which is be ing looked after by another man on shares. Kost made a profit of more than 9500 on flax from 40 arres, for which he paid |4 per acre for break ing and $3 per acre for seed flax, the more than |500 profit representing only one half the crop. One-third of the oats from 40 acres gave him a profit of $4f0, and. in addition, he sold a number of cattle in the fall from the ranch, for which be received $125.25 per head. His third interest In the corn crop raised on the ranch in 1918 alone brought him more cash per acre than he paid for the land five or six years ago. Freeman college, which was started some years ago, and which has been accounted one of the smaller colleges of the state, promises to be developed Into one of the leading educational in stitutions of the state. A movement has been inaugurated to raise a fund of $100,000 for the enlargement of the college. It is reported that acores of farmers of the Freeman territory stand ready to donate 11,000 each to the college fund, and other wealthv men of the city and surrounding coun try will do equally as well. The pres ent college buildings have become in adequate for the increasing number of students, and hence the determination to Increase the building capacity and enlarge the scope of the college. Amos B. Kellogg, secretary of the Rapid City Commercial club, has sug gested a plan whereby Rapid City can erect a memorial to the soldiers and sailors who served in the war from that city and at the same time give the city's youth something for which they have great need. He has sug gested that instead of erecting a me morial in the form of a monument the city build a community building, to be conducted something after the form of a Y. M. C. A. Rapid City has had need for such an institution and now that plans are being made for the erection of a suitable me morial such a plan might be followed out. Harnessing the wind and the util ization of the unlimited power of prairie breezes is the plan which a young rancher of Ziebach county claims to have evolved in the way of a motor for travel. His machine is driven by a wind engine so construct ed as to regulate the amount of power developed by the engine and geared to his wagon so as to allow him to travel against the wind as well as with It. If his claims of what he can do with the machine prove np on tetts he has a motive power which coats him nothing and all he needs Mrs. Jens Johnson, a prominent resident of the Bereaford territory, has been made the defendant in a $20,000 damage suit which has been Instituted In the state circuit court by Aldrick Larson, a wealthy farmer of the vicinity. The damage suit is the outgrowth of the arrest some months ago of Larson on the charge that he might have been responsible for the tragic death of Albert Johnson, a &oy. son of the woman who is made the defendant in the damage suit. A movement has been inaugurated at Bancroft for the erection of a pub lic school building. The present school facilities have become Inade quate for the Increasing number of children of school age, and increesed facilities have become Imperative. It la hoped that a special election oaa be held in the spring to vote upon the proposition of issuing the neces sary bonds. At a special election held at Hart ford, bonds to the amount of 112,600 were voted for the extension of the waterworks system. Only five votes were cast In opposition. The proposi tlon was voted on last summer and carried by a good majority, but the company which, had agreed to pur chase the bonds found a technical ir regularity in the calling of tbe elec tlon, and therefore it Anally was de termlned to hold the second election. Several farmers in the western part of the state have tried raising broom corn and all appear to make a success of it, but the best record yet shown Is that of a farmer near Presho, who put in eight acres the laBt year and got $312 an acre for his crop. As land in that section can be bought at from 940 to $50 an acre, a return sucb as that makes .farming In that aection profitable. ••large flock of robins has appear ed on the atatehouse grounds the past week. Many robins winter In the cedar thickets on the islands in the Missouri river and get out into the open when the weather Is mild. A movement has been inaugurated hy the bualaees mea and other real dents of Britten for the erection of an auditorium or pavilion. In which to hold aales of live stock and exhi bitions of various kinds. The pro posed building will have a seating ca pacity of 2.000. Half a million fleeces wfre sold from 8outh Dakota sheep last year, aad the number of animate waa In ereaaed by 121.000. Better breeding, housing aid feed, he aaye. will gtve the farmers ef the state a quarter million dollars more profit «H HXXAU AOTAKOI for his "joy rides" is to watch tbe ... ... wind to see that It is not too etronglj Permitted, a banner show would have been held this year, partly because the state newspapers had given the meeting an unusual and effective amount of publicity. The story of a munificent Christmas present has been made known by the beneficiary, who is F. G. McLaughlin, a veteran of the civil war and mem ber of the Battle Mountain National sanitarium at Hot Springs. At a sale held at the sanitarium December 24 disposition was made of clothing and other personal property left in tbe in stitution by members who had died or had left the aanitaiium within the preceding six months without giving directions as to their effects. Mr. Mc Laughlin purchased eeveral bundlee of clothing, which are made up in discriminately, without regard to tbe former ownership. One one bundle, which he bought for 65 cents, was a vest, and in a pocket Mr. McLaughlin found postal notes and government bonds to the amount of $1,035. The person to whom they were issued has never been a resident of the sani-i tarium. Mr. McLaughlin will adver tise for information concerning the original owner, but in the event that no legal right to the money can be established it will lawfully be his. Mr. McLaughlia is a bachelor, who came from Minneapolis six years ago to take a homestead in this vicinity. He later became a member of the na tional sanitarium. The volume ef the cream shipments from the weetern part of South Da kota is in part indicated hy the ship ments which went through Pierre over the Northwestern railway for the six months from June 1 to December 1 iast year. In that time there were 22,777 10-galloa cans handled, 1.659 eight-gallon caas and 1,667 five-gallon cans. This meaas that 250,000 gal lons. or in exact figures 249,457 gal lons of cream were sent out on the ono line, and probably more has gone out over the other branches of rail way operating in the western part of the state. While the price on cream varies according to Ihe season, and quality of the pnsduct. It would be hard to estimate what the dairy farm ers along the Northwestern line re ceived for cream shipments, but it is conservative to say It was $760,000 fat the six moaths period. Louis LaFlamme. ef Belle Fourche, recently was advised of the death in France of Murdie William Woodward, his step-son. death resulting from pneumonia. Last June, when he was only 18 years old. Woodward volun teered and later was sent to France. Mr. LaFlamme now is advised that after entering the military service the young maa took out a $10,000 policy in the government's insurance depart ment, payable to LaFlamme's daugh ter, Cora Agnes LaFlamme. 12 years old. Through his thoughtfulness the girl is assured of a good education and a comfortable home. Young Woodward was assigaed to duty in the signal corps. On account ef the influenza, the executive board of the South Dakota Corn and Qrala Growers association has decided to postpone until next year the annual meeting and school which was scheduled to be held at Watertown on February 4 to 6. The membership of the association very largely concurs in this decision. Had Ole Marquardt Is one of the most extensive and successful trappers in the Lake Nordea couatry. In SO days ho trapped 1,300 muskrats aad sev eral mink and skunks. The furs from the animals trapped during the 30 days will bring him a return of abont $1,800. He is caring for 400 traps and the duty oC looking after them takes all his time. It is expected the furs procured by him during the sea son will net him several thousand dol lars. Recently the new municipal water works system at Brittoa was com pleted and it now has been placed in operation. It provides the residents with an ampls supply of water for do mestic sad fire protection purpoees. One of the features of the new system is an Immense elevated tank from which the water is run late the mains. The hose and other eqnlment has been purehased for the volunteer firO de partment. which will be reorganized. Among the men who have done un usually well In South Dakota during the last year are the farm laborers, this'being due to the record breaking prices paid them for their work. One of them who visited Miller stated that he commenced working for a farmer last July, and that he already had saved $800. Another young man who also ie employed in the vicinity of Miller said he had saved $700 dur^ ing the same period. There are 357 teachera in South Dakota who are graduates or former students of the University of South Dakota. Aside from the graduates teaching In colleges and schools out side the state the best available records at the university show that there are 78 superintendents or prin cipals of schools and 16 county sup erintendents in South Dakota who are graduates or farnMr students of the university. The snnnal meeting of the Huron Contmerclal club Is to he held Febru ary 4, according to an announcement by John LongstalT, secretary. The present plan Is to serve a banquet to all members aad to brla$ some speak er of note to Huron to address the gathering. Bonds in the sum of $16,000 tor the installation of a mualclpal electric light system were authorised to he iasned at a speeial election held at Columbia. Only tree votee were cast in opposition. The system win he la* stalled at the earRest peeelble data COURT BARS RATES JUSTICE MoCOY ISSUES TEMPO RARY INJUNCTION. DOESN'T INCLUDE BUILDINGS Decision Made In Case of State of South Dakota va. American Rail way Express Company. Pierre.—A temporary injunction was ordered by the supreme court in San opinion by Justice McCoy against the putting into effect on intrastate traffic of advanced interstate express rates. This decision was made in the case of the state against the American Railway Express company and an order was issued December 28. pend ing an order to show cause why the injunction should not be issued. Arguments were presented with the chief counsel for the express com pany presenting their case. Good Roads Committee. The most enthusiastic body in the legislature is the joint house and sen ate committee on highways. They have high hopes of providing this state with some real roads within the next two years. They are calling for all highway bills from members, that they may sort out the berU in all of them and combine these with their own ideas in a committee bill. They favor bonding the state for roads, pos sibly to the rull legal extent possible for the legislature now, upto $7,000. 000 or $8,000,000 and with this much money and federal aid offered they feel that they would do something. The plan is to have the money ex pended under the direction of a new highway commission, including the state highway engineer and the gover nor as ex-offlcio head and to put in trunk highways, hard surfaced where possible, throughout the state. If this doesn't furnish enough cash, they would raise the automobile tax in a flat or graduated scale, probably ex empting motor vehicles from other taxation. It is the expressed feeling of the committee that this ie a time for development of truck transporta tion if the state is to be developed, and the sooner a start is made the better it will bo for the state for all time to come. Women to Vote. Tbe first Opportunity which will be opened to women of South Dakota to exercise their full fraachlee rights will come in special elections to bo held at. different points within the next few weeks where the issuance of school bonds and other school mat ters will be put up for action on the part of the voters. In Lyman county one school district is to vote on bonds for a new school building, and the discussions along that line are ad dressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Voter." At Hurley, in Turner county, the issue in a consolidated school district of the town of Hurley, and the township sur rounding it, in which the newly en franchised women voters will have just as much to say about the issues as the male voters. Provide State Hail Insurance. The first measure to be introduced covering the constitutional amend ments adopted by the people last fall is ready to be presented in the shape of a bill to provide for a system of state hail insurance. The bill places the work in control of the state in surance department and carries $50, 000 to put it into effect. The general plan is a division of tbe state into districts for rating purposes, the list ing of crop acreage by assessors, col lection of the premium rate by the county treasurer, with the general taxes and a maximuAi of $10 per acre payment on any loss. Want World-Wide Prohibition. South Dakota claims the record of being the first of the United States to take any action in its legislature toward world-wide prohibition. A ^resolution was introduced in the house by Representative Stoddard, of Turn er county, memorializing congress to use every effort to get this included in the league of nations agreement. Final action was deferred until the resolutions advocating a league of na tions comes up January 30, Free ^rom Lobbyists. The South Dakota legislature was without a registered lobbyist to disturb the serenity of its deliberations for several days the first of this week, for probably the first time in its history. Now J. C. Denison. representing the South Dakota Corn and Grain Grow ers' association, is signed up as boost ing legislation regarding a state soil and crop survey, and E. E. Hunt is here to take care of the interests of the Anti-Saloon league. Weights and Meaaures. Among the laws to be proposed early in the session is one changing tbe present act relating to standard weights and measures. The proposed measure would bring tbe state law more nearly into conformity with the federal law than it now stands. An other set which will be put in in the house before long Is one amending the law prescribing what is a legal boundary fence. An act with this same end in vlow was scrapped over in the session of last year, taking up a couple of days la each house. HITS M'ADOO'S PLAN SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATORS DISAPPOINTED BY VOTE OF 82 TO 14. Pierre.—The McAdoo plan of five* year government ownership of fall roads and public utilities was voted down in the house by a vote of 82 to 14. Best, of Beadle, offered this amendment to the resolution calling upon congress to lower rates and sup ported it with the assertion that gov ernment ownership had not been givea a fair trial, accusing those in chargo of its administration of being so prejudiced in favor of private owner ship that they would not give their best services. The resolution car* ried unamended. House Chairmen Announced. Chairmen of house committees re ported are: Charitable institutions, SvluiHz, of Kingsbury commission governed cities, Parliman, of Miaae liaha counties, Ruden, of Hamilton drainage. Sunde, of Lake federal re lation.?, Kickords, of Hanson fish aa4 game, Gill, of Brookings immigra tion. Rounds, of Jackson Indian a£» fairs, Melami. of Roberts insurance^ Berdahl, of Minnehaha live stoek. Birch, of Grant municipal corpora* tions. Mace, of Gregory penal in stitutions, Graff, of Minnehaha print* ing, Bessler, of Minnehaha railroads. Miller, of Daviflson public lands, Hoffman, of Perkins temperance, Woodford, of Spink water power andl irrigation, Grace, of Buffalo ways and means, Stenning, of Clark. State to Bond Officials. Bonding of state and county and local officers through a state bend* ing department working through tha insurance commissioner, is carried in a bill by Representative Nordenese, of Day county. Twenty-five thousand dollars is appropriated to start tha work, and provision is made to retal* premiums paid in tbe fund till $I#0,» 000 backing shall be secured. Kill Bill Ne. 1. House bill No. 1 did not get far, meeting its fate at the hands of the committee on taxation, which decide# that its members were not in favor of changing the regulation requiring county treasurer to list state taxes separately on the tax receipts handed out. When that law was enacted the charge was made that it was a po litical measure, but apparently that class of politics is popular enough to stand. Chiropractors Seek Chance. It was the chiropractic bit! of two years ago which started the congres sional boom of Orville Kinehart, of Rapid City, and the issue is back again this session, the leaders of that organization being already on iho ground to push their right to practico in this state. The bills of the state tax commission will be urged early In the session to allow the assessment work of this year to be conducted un der the new prevision. The leading features of the bills will be a registra tion tax in lieu of all other taxes for mortgages, a straight 3-mill tax in lieu of all other taxes for moneys and credits and homes exempted from taxation up to $2,000. Expressions among members show a wide diver gence of view on all the plans. Pure Food Bill Up. A continuation of the pure food regulation of the federal war conser vation rules, by state enactment, ir. the chief thing to be sought by tbe food and drug department at the present session. The conservation features will not be touched upon, hut pure foods will. That department also will ask for a bill regulating tho classification and sale of eggs. Com pulsory candling will be Included, with classification into firsts, seconds, rots and broken eggs. One feature of this is to protect the customer another to protect the farmer from the un scrupulous commission man who might class all eggs that fall to show up first class as rots, with a loss to the producer, whereas the commission man is able to get a little profit out of them just the same. Protests New Phone Rates. A protest against the proposed new telephone toll rates fixed by the post master general is voiced In a resolu tion by Senator Helm in which he asks that no such rates be put Into effect in this state until the state rail way commission has had an oppor tunity tp investigate into and pass upon the question of the reasonable ness of such change. He alleges that the change will result In materially increased rates on the toll service in the state. y«.» State's Attorneys Organize. State's attorneys organized an as sociation, naming Attorney General Payne presideat P. A. Zollman, of Davidson, vice president, and Will lam Cleland, of Clay, secretary. The adopted resolutions Indorsing the work of the state sheriff. Propose New Gsms Law. An act to be proposed wtieh will be of interest to sportsmen ef the state will be one providing a state fishing license—putting it in with the bird bunting license, and charging only the present fee ef $1, but pot ting part of the burden upon the fish ermen. Sportsmen msy then, hew ever, be permitted more game Ashlar, with a possibility of a year round open season for trout in the Blnek Hills at least, if aot for all game Sik in the lakes la the eastern part 9t the state. 1