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'ir *k- Zjjjk :v- f§ I? Wk ky MM i V tt ri iifr r. i kx. t.*&HmMipsi, 1 •y* •ri't I MOST NPORTANT NEWSJFWOBLO •Hj Hap0enlnns of tfifc Week Condensed for Benefit of Busy Readers. TOLD iNAFEW WORDS KWIMII Culled From News of Moment 1ft All Parte of tho World—©* Interest to All tho People everywhere. S iSfj i ill iiii fin 1 Wasnirrgton Washington—Charles W. Pugsley of f'v Lincoln, Neb., editor of the Nebraska •.£" Farmer, took office as assistant secre i0i tary of agriculture. Washington—Dr. J. C. A. Everwijn, new minister from the Netherlands, was received by President Harding, tc whom he presented letters accrediting him to the post. Washington—dollection of the Sept. 15 installment of income and pro ts taxes reached Secretary A. W. Mel Ion's estimate of $500,000,000. The to tal was given as $526,201,9r8. Washington—Hearings before the senate finance committee on the tarh Mil will be resumed Nov. 1, Chairmai Bols Penrose announced. The agricul ture schedule will be considered first Washington—Appointment of a are cial committee of five scientists of the department of agriculture to consider the problem of land utilization was an nounced by Secretary H. C. Wallace. Washington—Invitations to the gov ernments of Belgium, Holland and Portugal to become members of the conference on Far Eastern subjects were being prepared today Sporting Denver, Colo—Charlie White of Chi cago knocked out Bobby Ward of St Paul in the fifth round of their sched uled ten round bout here. New York—Christy Mathewson, the "old master," who is now fighting tu berculosis at Saranac Lake, will get ,-^between $40,000 and $50,000 as a re sult of the testimonial game at the Polo grounds. Stamps— Kirsch, a Frenchman, set :m new world's speed record when he won the Deatsch cup in the airplane races here. He traveled 180 miles in one hour, four minutes and thirty-nine .and one-fifth seconds. New York—To* Rickard today sent a contract to Jess Willard for return Match with Jack Dempsey, to be hell •'-betweer u"" -tnd 1 hh. Jtr IA vAwd M» ut Tuly rMk. the state department. Washington American business conditions Improved decidedly in Sep tember, in the view of the Federal Reserve board, which made public jft distinctly optimisitic review of con* ditions for the month. Washington—The nation's gross ipublic debt increased $1,778,000 in Sep tember, according to figures made pub lic by the Treasury, which show the gross national debt on September 30 Ito have been $23,924,108,000. Washington—Director of the Budget C. O. Dawes was charged with "im pudent and insolent usurpation of leg islative authority" in cutting congres ^atonal appropriations, in a speech by Senator J. A. Reed, Missouri, on the pending tax bill. Washington—After radical drys had forced republican leaders to pledge that there would be no adjournment of ^the present session of congress until the antibeer bill is passed, the senate reached a unanimous consent agree ment to vote Oct. 14 on the German, Austrian and Hungarian puacj tre* tlM. 5. 1922, *n the United States, Canada or Mexico, nr uecn~c.. to make known e financial arrangements. New York—Babe Ruth, the Yankee slugger, surpassed his 1920 world's record by Ave home runs and made Jjoae more than double his 1919 record total Of twenty-nine. His grand total :4a league games in the past seven sea* fsoas Is ICS, of which 113 were made •M 1920 and 1911. New Yor*t By winning his set«nth feasant for the New York National league dub, Manager John J. McGraw tops all other managers in the num Ljtoer of championships. He was tied at .jtl* with Manager Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics until he piloted the lttl Giants out in front Dommtic Chiongo-rTwenty persons were to Jured, Ave seriously, when elevatev trains crashed on the Oak Park ele vated road here. A speeding express crashed into the rear of another train. New York—Accused of receiving aad dteposiag ot part of $1,500,000 in bonds stolen from the Toledo, Ohto, poetofflee last February, Jacob V^tMr, a silk merchant, was arrested tijr Mml agents. New York—Mayor Hylaa, unopposed, fgeiJved 147,11k votes for tLe mayor* iMf aomlnattoai of the democratic par* ^Mttfce primaries, the official canvass liewsl Tho total vote cast for the iMar eaedldates for the republican SMaatJoa was 175,909. C»eao N Ctrl Wanderer, who mur .1evetf ite wife, their unborn babe «4 a rafted dupe so he might re iSSM a tile of adventure, embarked na» the great adventure with a song «oh» Pal, Why Mer might have Hpni«iN of hi* doact wife xr iljilftrfti grim fsfiews which was jjjtsisttjv arai vm uiieA UaUNtewar. New York—The Supreme Court ol the United States will be asked to de termine whether the Bible can be legally excluded from the public schools. St. Louis—The Federal barge line on the Mississippi river, in the last five months carried 211,612 tons of freight at a saving to the public of 20 pel cent in rates. Chicago—The American Association yesterday closed what is declared by President T. J. Hickey to have been the most successful year in its history. All association attendance records were broken. Chicago—The United States coart of appeals reversed a decision of Judge A. B. Anderson at Indianapolis giving the K. W. Ignition company a verdict of approximately $2,000,000 against the Ford Motor company. Sacramento—Mrs. Emmet Digney of New York was elected national presi dent of the War Mothers of America and Mrs. A. E. Jones of North Dakota was re-elected treasurer of the na tional convention in session here. Chicago—Peter S. Grosscup, former United States judge who presided in many nationally famous cases, died at sea while e*n route to England. The jurist succumbed on board the Cunard liner Caronia a few days out from Mew York. Waco, Texas—The state of Texas upheld Sheriff Robert Buchanan and his deputies who engaged in a battle with Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at Lorena, 14 miles south of here. Satur day night, when the Klansmen refused to obey the sheriff's coder not fee pa rade. Northwest Moville, Iowa—After fatally tajur ng his wife when he tried to behead uer with a butcher's clever, W. D. Jlark, a farmer, hung himself to a raf -er in the haymow of his barn. Helena—The state public utilities ommission is hearing the petition of he street railway company for a 10 .-ent fare. Considerable opposition has aeveloped. The company has stated it must have a greater income or aban don service. Butte, jWont.—In an effort to broad en the commercial uses of copper to .elp the mining industry, now stag iant, the Anaconda Copper Mining .ompany has started experimental aanut'acture of copper shingles and jopper-zinc shingle nails. Des Moines—Governor Nate E. Ken iall issued a proclamation appealing .o Iowans to exert every effort to re .ieve unemployment in the state. It is onservatively estimated, he stated hat 50,000 men in the state, with farni les, are deprived of the ordinary neans of subsistence. Helena—Beginning this week, the Ireat Northern railway is granting a educed rate on Montana potatoes to astern points. The cut is 17 per cent .nd is to continue until further notice, is said it will greatly benefit Mon ana potato raisers and result in far eavier crop movements. roreign Deii*u—The reicustug passed the ,iil iuiuyiii^ the trei.y wLh .ue Unneu aiales. uuiy tue comma •lists voieu agamst tue measure. rans—Z.aro oi Constantinople, aged .46, and tne oldest man on earth, has .tarried ior tue lourih time. *i.8 -nest wiie is a Turnisa fc.n, aged 2a. uonuon—An JUxuutii£c ieiegraph .aiemeut says thai tuauionn de Val ra has accepted the invitation of rime Minister Lloyd Geoige to a omerence on the insn situation. Berlin—Dr. vermes, German food aimsier, will be appointed ambassa .or to Washington, it was deunuely -tated in majority socialist circles to ay. His early resignation from the ,a.binet was expected. Buenos Aires—The American steam -aip American Legion arrived here /ith a new record ox 15 days, 17 hours ad 40 minutes actual running time iom New York, with stops at Rio de aneiro and Montevideo. Rome—The Giornale de Italia says uat Charles E. Hugues, United Stages .ecretary ot state, will be the greatest aind, the most honest personality and ae most eminent iigure at the coming conference in Washington. Paris—Fire destroyed all but the vails of the new Magasinau-Prin* .emps, a department store building, .overing an entire block 200 by 2^0 eet, and valued at 25,000,000 francs, with stock estimated at 50,000,u00 rancs. London—M. Ponikovski, nerw Pol* .sh premier, has telegraphed Prime Minister Lloyd George that he had re ceived assurances that tne Polish gov ernment would try to'follow a pulley of peace and economic rehabilitation for Poland. Melilla, Morocco—Continuing their advance against the Moorish tribes aen, Spanish troops engaged the reb els along a front of 15 miles on the lains before Zeluan, Inflicting casu .lties in killed of more than 1,000 up* a the Moors. Paris—America's "unknown soldier," *ho will find honored sepulchre in he National cemetery at Arlington, Va., will be selected by a noncommis sioned officer from the American orces on the Rhine at Chalons-sur larne, Oct. 24. The body will leave lavre Oct. 25, on board the Uniied itates cruiser Olympia. Peking—China's delegation to the conference on limitation of armaments .*nd Far Eastern questions left this :ity for Shanghai on its way to Wash niton, intending to make the voyage tcross the Pacific on the steamer Hawkeye State. Helsingfors The Huvudstadsblatt reports that a large American steam bound for Petrograd with a ca of flour, has grounded in the gulf of Finland. The vessel Is likely to b# come a wreck, the newspaper says. Irene—Louis Porrer, twice prest Asat of tho Swiss confederation, la lead. It Is annonnced here. 1 HEWS OF THE STATE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OP TH1 WEEK IN CONDSNSS9 FORM. While the tenant farmer is not the problem in South Dakota that it is in older states, the figures given out by the state tax commission on returns of the present year show that the ratio of tenant farmers in the state is about three to two in favor of the land owner. But the rate is largely kept up by the high ratio of land own ers as against tenants in the newer sections of the state, with the tenant list showing a lead in many of the older counties of the state. The ac tual figures show 45,8^3 farms in the state operated by the owners, and 30,165 operated by tenants. THX HOtALD ADTAW01 Announcement has been made that the Northwestern railway company will discontinue the daily passenger train between Pierre and Gettysburg, the train Troin Wateitown coming west only to Gettysburg, and the only "ail connection from Pierre to Onida and Gettysburg being a mixed train. About 150 cars of potatoes have been shipped by the South Dakpta Po ta'o Growers Cooperative exchange Since the beginning of the shipping season. From now on about 100 cars a day will be shipped. About 90 per cent of the cars already shipped have one to points outside of the state. The cities of Deadwood and Lead soon will seek a rehearing in a case affecting gas rates in the two cities. The principal question is whether or not the private company can cease operations before the expiration or the period specified in their con tract. No trace has yet been found of Miss Mary Holmes who was adjudged insane several weeks ago and who during the fore part of September es caped from an attendant of the state hospital for the insane at Yankton, who had gone to take her to the asy lum. A movement to oa foot in Flan dreau for the erection of a club house and home for Robert E. Kelley post of the American legion. It is planned to erect a structure upon a tract or land now held by the government, which will be deeded to the legion. Vigilance committees to prevent bank robberies and to aid in captur ing yeggs and holdup men, are to be organized in every county in South Dakota within a short time, as a re *ult of a recent move of the South Dakota Bankers' association. At a recent meeting of the county commissioners of Faulk county the tax levies for the ensuing year were reduced $47,000 from those of last year. The road 'evy was cut to $104, 000, and there was no levy maue for the bridge fund. Forcing their way into a depart ment store at Arlington, thieves made away with $8,000 worth of merchan dise, practically all of which was clo thing. This is the largest burglary in that section in many years. Farmers of Yankton county are dis cussing the advisability of establish ing a uniform wage for cornpickers ,ome are in favor of paying three cents a bushel, while others are will ing to pay four. Coal at from $4.50 to $5.00 a ton I would sound good to the average res ident of the state, but that appears be the price at the mines In the northwestern part of the state. Preliminary steps to the organiza tion of a woman's auxiliary to Coding t:oi. county post of the American Le gion of Watertown, were taken at a neeting held there recently. At a meeting held at Verdon by farmers and business men a perma nent shipping association was formed, with the idea of putting community cooperation into effect. The Beresford city council has awarded the contract for installing a mammoth new engine to increase the capacity of the municipal electric light and power plant. Mobridge has been selected as the place for the annnual meeting of the Yellowstone Trail association this year. Nov. 9 is the date set for the meeting. At a special election held at Rut and bonds necessary to complete a new school building, now in course of construction, were voted. The Dell Rapids city council has low ered the appropriations for city funds from $30,980 for last year to $28,268 for the next 16 months. Practically an entire block of busi ness buildings at Bradley was de stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated it $105,000. Jefferson C. Heals has been nomi nated for the position of postmaster if Sioux Falls by President Harding The city of Beresford, it is estimat d, will this fall spend a total of $100, 000 for public Improvements. Sheep-killing dogs have recently saused great destruction on farms ol Miner county. For the first time in history there a a ra.lroad bridge across the s ooi'ri river ckinnel at Yankton. It is lot a regular standard guage railway, but a tramway built by the contract ors for the Meridian highway bridge at Yankton for carrying materials and equipment to the sites of the various piers unde- construction. It has been extended uatil now it reaches the Ne braska sandbar. Lester Senn of Frederick, was in lantly killed and John Flypat, also of Fre erick, was seriously Injured wfcen their ear collided with a truck •*=w- •SKSSm A great engineering project is now under way at Wolf Creek on the Cus ter Battlefield highway, west of Hridgewater. The course of the creek has been changed directly through a draw and a viaduct 150 fee? in length, the full width of the road, will span the creek. The approaches will be filled level with the bridge. The hills on each side of the draw will be cut dovn and wider ?d and when the whole is completed it wil be one of the finest pieces of construo tion work on the highway. Maxine Tretheway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Tretheway of Dead wood, died in a hospital as the result of burns received "vhile playing near her home. In some manner the little girl, v/ho was only 4 years old, pro cured some matches, and lighting them set fire to her clothing. Two jewelry sample trunks con taining watches and other jewelry worth nearly $20,000, were stolen fro*n the Northwestern railway station at Salem. Th trunks were in the pos session of ... L. Huer, a representa* e of the H. E. Murdock company of .^.nnea polls. Charging that racial prejudices aug mented by employes of the Indian ervice are barring the doors of the public schools to their children, the Lower Brule Sioux Indians have made an appeal to the commissioner of Indian affairs in Washington for re* lief. 9 The state fire marshal's department is sending out for posting over the state on "Fire Prevention Day," Oct. 9, a st iking poster showing firemen at work on a burning building, and calling upon the ple of the state to use more precaution in regard to fire Nearly 5,000 acres of school land are to be leased by the Davison coun ty commissioners at public auction. The land, according to the state law, s leased under five-year contracts, but the law provides that the rental shall not be less than $2 per year. At a meeting held by the county comissioners of Kingsbury county and the state highway commission, bids were opened for the construction of a highway between Iroquois and De Smet. The contact was awarded to a Sioux Falls contractor. The Tulare consolidated school dis trict has purchased two new true)— with passenger bodies, which will be used for hauling children to and from the consolidated school there. E&cb vehicle has a capacity of from 20 to 25 pupih. Farmers 1ft the vicinity of Madison have decided to pay three or fo cents per bushel to corn pickers this season. A large number of men can be used In Lake county when work in the cornfields gets under way. As the result of eating liver pills which are supposed to have contained a liberal quantity of strychnine, Mil dred Pearl Edison, the one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. 8. Edt son, of Watert vn, is dead. A total of 7,500 persons were in at tendance on the last day of the first annual fair of McPherson and Camp bell co'inties held in Eureka. Gov. McMaster was the chief speaker on 'he closing day. Residents in the vicinity of White Lake were frightened recently when an earthquake shock occurred there. The tremors were also felt in o I. *r towns west of the Missouri river, it s reported. Fred Brerton, a farmer in the vi cinity of Wetonka and a former rail road man, has invented a potato ditf er which bids fair to revolutionise the method of digging the crop. Genn Valley has organized a vigil* ance committee as a precaution in case of a visit from one of the numer ous gangs of burglars and robbers that are Infesting that territory. At a special election to be held in Winner October 11 bonds will be vot* ed on for the purchase of an engine to more fully equip the local electric light and power plant. It is officially announced that the attendanoe at the state normal school in Aberdeen this fall showj an in crease of 15 per cent over the attend ance one year ago. Fire which swept through the na tional forest reserve in Parmalee can yon, west of Lead, was brought under control after doing much damage to standing timber. The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Oldsen, living on a term near Oldham, was drowned as a result of falling into a pall of separated milk. Homer Ness, the lS-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ness, who re side near Fulton, fell Into a t£.nk of water and was drowned. Because of th" increase of burglary and other crimes in Aberdeen, busi ness men are demanding that the po .ce force be increased. Bids have been opened at Huron for the erection of a new school building which is to be bu.lt in that city at a cost ot about $50,000. The contract for a new $60,000 sew* ar system in Tyndall has been award ed to a 8ioux City contractor. More than 80,000 tourists visited the Black Hills this season, residents there have estimated. The state cement commission will hold a meeting at Mitchell, at which t'me it is expected the first steps will e taken to put the construct, on of a ement plant under way. The state tie an option on a tract just north of the Indian school near Rapid City, wh!ch is declared to be located on a 1 of practically Inexhaustible ce* ent material of a high class. Lake Winfred, a fine body of water nenr the town of Wlnfred, has been heavily stocked with black bass and will be be made a leading fishing re* •oft of that section. *7 if l:4mjjf*b- ft INTERNAL STRIFE MAY RUIN IRISH, SAYS DE VALERA Republican Leader Asserts That Unity Must Be Main tained to Make Suc cess Certain Dublin, Oct 6.— (By the Associated Press)—The principle of Irish unity was reiterated today by Eamonn de Valera. Irish republican leader, in an address. Ireland is naturally a unit, he de clared, and any attempt to depart from the whole nation as a unit woUid lead necessarily to political absurdi t.es. He asserted the dividing of lro~ land did not get rid of minority prob lems, but multiplied them. He aaid the unity ol Ireland was much a fundamental principle as seif-delerm lnation. adding that both were baaed upon right and justice. London, Oct. 6.— (By the Associat ed Press)—The Washington confer ence on armaments and far eastern questions took third pi&ce in the three important problems which factd the lintish cab.net at a council today. In official circles It was stated the three subjects which demand the gov ernment's attention are unemploy ment,, the lii^h situation and arma ment, but Oi' these unemployment is the more urgent officials are care ful to point out that the three sub jects are equally important but that the conditions surrounding unemploy ment demand the quickest relief pos sible. TROUBLE BREWS IN ZERO'S CAMP Washington, Oct. 6.—Urbain Led oux, who calls himself "Mr. Zero" and "the champion of the unemployed" saw half of his followers desert him today in front of the capitol. The labor auctioneer of Boston Common fame with his little army of unemployed, augmented by a sight seeing bus full of former service men frcm New York, appeared at the capi tol to ask Senators Wadsworth and Calder to obtain permission for use of national guarvi armories in New York as sleeping places for unemployed. The senators told Ledoux their re quest was a matter for state action. Then came the division in the ranks. Bud Taylor, leader of the new arrivals from New York, mounted the bus and addressed the men snhstaa tially as follows: MEYERS CASE IS TOLD BY DOCTORS Twin Falls. Ida., Oct. 6.—That Ed ward F. Meyer suffered an attack of typhoid fever and typhoid pneumonia in April 1913 and was treated by Dr. D. L. Alexander of Twin Falls, was stated on the witness stand by Dr. Alexander today in the trial of L.yda Meyer Southard, alleged poisoner of Meyer, her former husband. The admission is regarded as of Importance when coupled with other medical testimony to the efiect that the Widal test for typhoid might re sult in a positive reaction when ap plied to the blood of a person ever previously afflicted with typhoid. YANKEES WIN SECOND GAME IN WORLDS SERIES New York, Oct. 6.—(By the Associ ated Press)—The New York Ameri cans made world's series history to day, shutting cut the Giants 3 to 0 in the second game of the struggle, leav ing the New York Nationals rumess after eighteen innings of play in the first two days of the city clubs' con flict. They did it by level work on the bases and the best possible u&e of their few hits, supported throughout by the brilliant twirling of Waite Hoyt, their young right-handed star. The score was the same as in the first game yesterday. Hoyt allowing the Giants but two puny singles. TOWN TO HONOR VICTIM OF RIOT Waco, Tex., Oct. 6.—Lorena, the small McLennan county town which was the scene last Saturday night of a fight when Sheriff Bob Buchanan, attempted to halt a parade of Ku Klux Klansmen, will suspend business tomorrow and virtually its entire citi senship come here for the funeral of Louis Crow, a local laundry proprie tor, who died yesterday as a result of knife wounds received during the clash. FIND 26 BODIES IN RAIL TUNNEL Paris, Oct. 6.—Twenty-six dead have been recovered from the St. Lasare tunnel disaster, and the wreckage has been virtually cleared away. There are fragments of bod ies, which the rescuers and doctors have been unable to assemble there fore it is impossible to say at the present time what the complete death list numbers. Thirteen bodies have been Identified. SAYS MARKETING PUN DEFECTIVE Chicago, Oct. €.—The cooperative grain marketing plans put into effect last spring by the American Farm Bureau Federation aocording to the Grain Dealers' National association, have proved so impossible that the association no longer deems it neces sary to maintain its spec al legisla tive bureau in Chicago and will re move it to Toledo immediately, a statement tonight from the dealers' organisation said. BRUMflELD MAY NOT TESTIFY ON STAND Ttoeeburg, Ore., Oct. C.—Indica tions that counsel for Dr. R. M. Brumfield may not place him on the witness stand in his trial for murder ing Dennis Russell, laborer, were seen by court attaches today in questions the attorneys asked prospective jurors. Two more veniremen were accepted temporarily today, bringing the num ber in the jury box to nine tonight. Another special venire was cal ed to day. Spectators at the trial were few. 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