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tate STARTLED BY DAIRY TESTS. Tuberculosis Found In Herds Owned by State Institutions In South Da kota. AD. examination recently made of the dairy herds owned by the various state institutions disclosed conditions that are certain to produce a state wide sensation. All the officials con cerned refuse to talk for publication, but enough of the discoveries made in the tests of the milch cows has leaked out to startle the public. As a courtesy to the state the bu reau of animal industry, which is al lied with the agricultural department, consented to examine the herds at the South Dakota institutions, and Dr. J. P. Foster of Huron, formerly state veterinarian and now in the federal bureau, was detailed to conduct the tests. With an assistant he examined all the dairy cattle at the state peniten tiary in Sioux Falls, the asylum for the insane at Yankton, the institute for the blind at Gary, the reform school at Plankington and the insti tute for the feeble-minded at Red field. At the penitentiary seven out of thirty head were killed as diseased and at the hospital for the insane twelve out of sixty were slaughtered. The four cows at Gary were found to be healthy, but the results at Plank ington and Redfield have not been made known. The significance of these examina tions grows out of the unusual can the dairy herds of the htate institu tion have received, and the question is asked how many ordinary milch cows are healthy if those receiving unusual attention are in part diseased. Al! the cows killed seemed healthy to the ordinary observer, with sleek hair and plump sides. It is understood the tu beeulin test was chiefly employed in making the examinations, and in no case did those declared diseased fail to prove the diagnosis. The incident is likely to revive the agitation in South Dakota for regula tion and examination of dairy cattle. It is a remarkable fact, yet well es tablished by Nathan Strauss in his investigations of the subjec, that the finer the bn ed of the cow and the better her care, the more susceptible she becomes to tuberculosis. As South Dakota has been turning more and more to thoroughbred stock in the last few years, the condition of the dairy cattle of the state is a source of anxiety to the consumers o£ milk and butter. S. D. LAWS AROUSE PROTEST. Petitions Circulated for the Referen dum of Two More Measures. Two more laws are expected to go to the people through the referendum in case the petitions which are out secure the required number of signa tures. One of these is chapter 107, which gives the governor power to remove county and local officers for malfeasance in office, gross incom petency, drunkenness or habitual and willful neglect of official duty. The removal to be after hearing on the charges in case they are sustained. The other law which is to be car ried the referendum is chapter 211, which attempted to do away with the state board of embalmers. The em balmers say while that was the intent of the law, as it stands, it will pre vent the shipment of bodies between points in the state, or out of the state requiring all burials to be at the place where the death occurs. In the sales of the state lands in Spink county there appears to have been a good demand, as the sales amounted to $143,000. The state treasury has made a call for $95,000 of outstanding general fund warrants, calling all warrants up to register number 20,255, which clears up all such warrants up to April 9. This call leaves practically $60,000 of general fund warrants out. BOGUS INSPECTOR CAUGHT. S. D. Farmers Near Watertown Are Victims of Swindler. Several farmers in the vicinity of Watertown have been victimized by a man who says he is the state boiler inspector, and who calls himself A. F. Smith. He has visited various places and has collected fees for the alleged inspection of engines belonging to farmers. One farmer, who last week paid him $4, investigated and ascer tained that there is no such office as a state boiler inspector, and that no state inspection is authorized by state law. The result was that Smith was arrested and bound over to the circuit court in the sum of $300. Adjt. Gen. C. H. Bnglesby has is sued orders for the South Dakota Na tional Guard to go into camp at Camp Roosevelt, on the shores of Lake Kam peska, on July 6. WINS BRIDE AND TOWN LOT. Boyd Hall First Bridegrom in New Town of Bison, S. D. Boyd Hall, son of Shock Hall of Eixby, obtained a wife and a town lot in Bison, the new county seat of Perkins county. George Carr of Bi son oifered a valuable lot to the first bridegroom, and Hall, a prosperous •farmer in that vicinity, hurried hie marriage tu his betrothed, Miss Nettie Kirkpatrick of Ada, and secured the real estate prize. of Reports to the state land depart ment show that at the sale of state lands in Miner county the receipts amounted to over sixty thousand dol lars, the average selling price of the lands in that county being $44 an acre. The report of condition of the state treasury at the close of business April 30 showed $92,386 in the general fund $286,396 in the twine plant fund $63, 89C in the capitol building fund, and $307,969 in the interest and income fund for the benefits of schools of the state, to be distributed in June to the different counties. That real estate values are on the up grade in Stanley county is shown by many sales being made at about $20 an acre, but the highest holding for farm land near Fort Pierre is that of the Hemphill place, six miles out on the old Deadwood trail, which ia held at $50 acre, and to show that he means it the owner last week re fused an offer of $43 an acre for the place. Deadwood is to have a new up-to date A. D. T. system which will be installed by the Western Union. The same system in operation in the large Eastern cities is to be installed by men who will come to Deadwood from Omaha for the purpose. For some years past there has been no regular A. D. T. system at Deadwood, and the business interests will greatly ap preciate the change. An indication of the thrift of the Homestake miners, many of whom are depositors in this bank, is shown by the statement of the First National Bank of Lead, which now has on de posit a sum slightly in excess of one million dollars in its savings and time departments. The statement shows the bank to bo in better shape finan cially than at any time in its career, both the total assets and total depos its showing material increases. DECLARED DEAD BY COURT. 3ut Deadwood Man Who Dropped From Sight May Still Be Living. Although Richard Griffin may still 1)0 numbered among the living, offi cially he is recognized as dead. Rela tives of Griffin, who went to Alaska Jen years ago to seek a fortune, ap peared in the county court at Lead and offered evidence which resulted in Griffin being declared dead and his estate placed in probate. Until ten years ago Griffin was a resident of Lead. In 1898 he went to Alaska ,and three years later his wife here received a letter from him, saying he was ill and needed money to come home. She raised the funds, and when ready to send them found that Griffin had disappeared. Every effort was made to locate him through the officials of Seattle and Alaska towns, but to no avail, and hope was given up. His wife is now dead and only a niece survives. FRIGHTENING INDIANS. Authorities at Agency Mystified as to Identity of Demented Man. The authorities at the Crow Creek Indian agency are considerably mysti fied as to the identity of a strange and apparently demented man who for several days has been frightening the Indians on the reservation by his queer antics. It is believed he is an escaped inmate of some insane asy lum or some farmer who suddenly has become insane and wandered away from his home to the reservation. Thus far he has shown no violent tendencies, but the authorities fear he may become violent at any time and do injury to some of the residents of the reservation before he could b® taken captive. MANUAL TRAINING ABOLISHED. Deadwood's Boj.rd Finds That the Benefit Is Not Worth the Cost. By the unanimous action of the school board, manual training will he abolished in the Deadwood schools next year. The board decided that the expense of maintaining the course was too heavy in proportion to the re sults obtained, and the time now oc cupied in this course will be devoted to other studies. FIGHT ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT. Milwaukee and North-Western Roads Demand Referendum. W. G. Porter of Sioux Falls, repre senting the Milwaukee road, and A. K. Gardner of Huron, representing the North-Western road, filed the first ref erendum petition on the laws of last winter, presenting a petition with over twelve thousand names to refer the electric headlight law to the people at the next general election. Alfalfa West of the River. Reports in the local papers west of the river show that a large acreage is to be seeded to alfalfa this year. Ex periments in that forage last year have assured it as a crop for that sec tion of the state, and it will be made one of the principal crops. A Modern Sapphira. Chief Clerk—Here comes the lady who wrote those articles on "How I Live Regally on Six Dollars a Week." Satan—Put her over there with the other liars. SUPERINTENDENTS MEET. Session at Pierre One of the Most Suc cessful Ever Held. The three days' meeting of the county superintendents which was closed at Pierre is pronounced by the visitors to have been one of the most successful of such meetings ever held in the sttae. All the counties except Roberts, Hanson and Buffalo were represented, and the failure to re spond on the part of at least two of these was illness. Most of the time of the session was taken up in short discussions and interchange of ideas among ^^superintendents, of matters which they must meet in the everyday conduct of the affairs of their offic" One half day of the regular program was scattered the rest of the session to allow the superintendents to hear a talk on manual training, with the tools and materials for the work on hand to illustrate th etalk, and a num ber of them took advantage of the op portunity to get a little practical train ing in that line for themselves. Last week the visitors as guests of the city were taken in automobiles, and shown over the city generally,and taken out into the country for short rides to give them an opportunity to see what this part of the state looks like behind the hills which surround the city. Wednesday evening Judge Whiting of the supreme court deliv ered a lecture on school law, after which the superintenednts attended reception which was tendered to thorn at the home of State Superintendent Ustrad. The meeting was voted a success In every way, and all the vis itors went home feeling that their time had been well spent. STOCK SALE IS ASSAILED. Ole Brown of Minneapolis Involved in Mining Suit. The case of Henry O. Anderson vs. the Candia Mining syndicate has been before Judge Taylor in chambers for argument on a demurrer to the com plaint. AY hile the officials of the company are nearly all residents of Chicago, the main office is located in Huron. After its incorporation little was done to advance the interests of the com pany, it is alleged, and its stock was regarded as of little value. The properties of the company are located at Nome, Alaska. Finally one man became the owner of a large block of stock, and soon thereafter it devel oped that the proeprty was of im mense value, estimated at from $8, 000,000 to $10,000,000. Former stock holders, alleging the belief that fraud had been practiced, became anxious again to possess an interest in the syndicate, and brought suit, with that end in view, contending that the price paid for the stock was far below its real value. The principal subscribers for stock, as named in the proceedings, are A. J. Spute and G. J. Johnson, both of Denver. 626,000 shares each, and Ole Brown of Minneapolis, .$1,250,000 shares. Judge Taylor took the matter un der advisement, *nd will give an opin ion in a few days NOW SETTLED AT BISON. Commissioners Found It Necessary to Transact New Business at the New Capital. L. M. Simons, the attorney for Bi son, in the recent county seat con test in Perkins county, was in Pierre last week on his return home, and re ports all the officers of that county now settled at Bison, which is the county seat in fact, as well as theory. As a matter of novelty, when the final order was secured requiring the coun ty officials to move to the real county seat Simons found a man who just unloaded five yoke of work oxen at Lemmon, and secured his services in hauling the records to Bison. The team when strung out was a reminder of the old-time "bull trains" which handled freight to the Black Hills be fore that section of the state had any railroads. APPRAISEMENT BOARD Consists of Carl Gunderson, Henry Fielder and Frank Moulton. The appraisement board which has been selected to appraise the Indian lands to be opened on the Cheyenne River Indian reservation is Carl Gun derson, to represent the Indian depart ment Henry Fielder to represent the Indians, and Frank Moulton of Faulk ton as an outsider. Punderson has been in the Indian service as an al lotting agent for years, having just completed the allotting work on the Standing Rock reserve. Fielder is one of the progressive young Indians on the reservation, and Moulton is a prominent young man of Faulk coun ty. They will push the appraisement work as rapidly as possible to get ready for the drawing this fall. Harry C. Hoover, a Kansas City at torney, has filed with the secretary of state at Pierre articles of incorpo ration for the Missouri River Naviga tion company, with headquarters at Pierre and a capital stock of $5,000, OOO.The incorporators are J. B. Schmeltz, John F. Sykes and Harry C. Hoover of Kansas City and Philip Lawrence of Huron. Other Kansas City parties Interested are A. R. Grigs-' by and E. H. Wright. They propose to maintain a line of freight and pas senger steamers between Kansas City and Pierre. ANNUAL STATEMENT FOP the Year Ending December 31st, A. D. 1908, Of the condition and attars of the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, Organized under tlie laws of the State of #eV *ork' i^ade to the Commissioner or Insurance of the State of South Da fola pursuant to tlie laws thereof. 1 resident, Ellbridge G. Snow. Seere »l?-i ^-h^rles M. Tyner. incorporated. m' Commenced business, April 1,1 lS.tll. Home olftce, ot Cedar street, New York, N. Y. I. CAPITAL STOCK. Capital paid up in cash $3,000,000.00 l-edfeer assets Dec. 31, 1!)07.. ^,^,754.50 II. INCOME. Total premiums $10.:04,0."S.:!2 Interest received 'S0M5&18 (jrns.s rents lrom company's property, including for coiii occupancy l.H,741.07 Fiofit on sale or maturity of ledger assets SS,111.2:i From all other sources Total income SI 1,441!,S'Jl.SO III. DISBURSEMENTS. Net amount paid for losses.. $5,L'47,nCS 10 Advertising, printing, post age, telegraph, legal ex penses, express, etc 243,40:1.11 Paid Mot khoUlers for interest or dividends U00,000.00 Maps, underwriters' boards. lire department fees and expenses and inspection and surveys 2:tl.472.27 Commissions or brokerage... Salaries, etc., of officers, clerks, etc (5S5.^SU.r3 Rents, including: for com pany's occupancy Ill*,f22.08 Repairs and expenses on real estate :i(i.70n.0:{ Taxes, licenses and insur ance department fees SO'J.TUVJS Loss 011 sale or maturity of ledger assets 10l.t n4.!7 All other disbursements :17'J,17,S.4." Total disbursements $!t,S!»2.5i'i.!4 Balance $2.'t,SH4,12J.72 IV. LEDGER ASSISTS. Book value of real estate.... $l,54:i.SH2 0(i Mortgage loans on real es- t"1'' 07.s00.00 Book value of bonds and stocks 10.210,178.77 Cash in bank and in trust companies l,70r.,0i:t.7r Agents' balances !)l.'i.4(i!).('iO Bills receivable 1,440.40 Other ledger assets 2ii0l.'(K.O5 Total ledger assets 8114,122.72 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Market value of bonds and stocks over book value.... $l.lS1H,o:r..'iS Gross assets $2.VrS!iU-"8.10 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances So7.U0S.23 Book value of ledger assets over market value n(ir,(iil0.S2 Total ?ri(!.'!,(i.-i0.0r Total admitted assets $24,S.jt!.4!M.O."i V. LIABILITIES. Net losses and claims $1.01S,(!2I.S7 Total uii'.arned premiums lt,51ii.S87.00 State, county and municipal taxes ion, 000.00 Commissions, brokerage, etc., due or to become due 01:!.til Reinsurance premiums 4S4.12ii.mt All other liabilities Soo.iiiKUH) Total liabilities, except •ital $11.07^.077.54 Capit.il paid in cash it.uoii.ooo.oo Surplus over all liabilities... 0,882,821..11 Surplus as regards policy holders 12,882.821."il Total $24,S."i ,4»'J.O."i VI. RISKS AND PREMIUMS. In force Dec. HI, 1007 $1S),2.-K,217.00 "ng Written or renewed during year terminated .. ln.'iriri.do.") 01 Total S Deduct those expired and STATE OP SOUTH DAKOTA, DermvtT«nr of Insurance. Con1.po.'i Certificate of Authority. Wherens, 1 S2.G1 14.203.202. fil In force at end of year... ..f'io.mo.020.00 Deduct amount reinsured.... 1,741 .Itili.iK) Net amount in force $lS,rt o,4."4.)0 SOUTH DAKOTA BUSINESS DURING YEAR 1:10s. Risks written Premiums received Expenses incurred Looses paid Losses incurred Home Insurance Com- pan*, a 'Hon organized under the laws of N 3^ 1 ork, lias Hied in this oflice a swor.-i statement exhibiting its condi tion and business for the year ending Dec. 31, conformable to the re quirement S :he laws of this state regu lating: tlie bus'ness of insurance and, YVhereax, Tee said company has filed in this office duly .--ortified copy of its charter, with certificate of organization, in compliance with the requirements of the insurance .aw aforesaid: Now, therefore. I. O. S. Basford, Com missioner of Insurance of the State of South Dakota, pursuant to the provisions of s:tid laws, do hereby eertifv that the above viamed company is fully empow ered, through its authorized agents, to transact its appropriate business of Fire, Marine, Inland and Windstorm insurance in this state, according to the laws there of. until the 31st day of December. A. D. ltxio. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and .-nV.iil seal at Pierre, this r.th day of February, A. D. 1000. (Seal.) O S. BASFORD. Commissioner of Insurance. By I. A. Schubert, Chief Clerk. Portable Kentucky Distillery. It is claimed by the citizens of Caney Fork, in Adair county, that there has been a regular system of moonshining in that section for sev eral years. It is said that these vio lators of the law will set up a stiil and operate it for a few days, then tear up and move to another location. To carry out this plan successfully almost a dozen men. are interested and none of them ever makes or sells the product any greater length of time. The location now is near where sev eral months ago a man operated a "blind tiger" at the corner of Adair, Russell and Cumberland counties, and so successfully did he conduct his af fairs by selling whisky to an Adair county man in Russell county and vice versa that he might have kept on for years, so far as the strong arm of the law was concerned, but the citi zens took matters in their hands and persuaded him to leave. Sanguine. "How's t:mes?" inquired a tourist. "Oh, pretty tolerable,' responded the old native who was sitting on a stump. "I had some trees to cut down, but a cyclone come along and saved me the trouble." "Fine." "Yes, and then the lightning set Are to the brush pile and saved me the trouble of burnin' it." "Remarkable. But what are you do ing now?" "Oh, nothin' much. Jest waitin' for an earthquake to come along and shake the potatoes out of the ground." ANNUAL STATEMENT For the Year Ending December 31st, A. D. 1908, Of the condition and affairs of the HANOVER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Organized under the laws of the State of Isew ork, rrjade to the Total disbursements .. Commissioner of Insurance of the State of South Da !lui'suant to the laws thereof. President, R. Emory Warfield. Secre tary, Joseph MeCord. Incorporated, April, ls.Y_. Commenced business, April, 1852. Home office, 34 Pine St., New York, N. Y. I. CAPITAL) STOCK. Capital paid in cash $1,000,000.00 Ledger assets December 31st, 1W7 4,0rl,M7.S8 II. INCOME. Total premiums $2,'J0i 103.01 Interest received llo,.i07. SS Gross rents from company's property, including amount for company's own occu pancy 7!),71!7.S2 Increase in book value of ledger assets 2,3W.75 From all other sources 00,000.00 Total income 111. D1SRURSEM1CN Net losses Advertising, printing, post age, telegrams, legal ex penses, express, etc Paid stockholders for inter est or dividends Furniture, ures, und' writers' boards, tire de partment fees and ex penses POM- lissions or brokerage .. Salaries, fees, etc., of offi cers, clerks, etc Rents, including for com pany's occupancy Rep Irs and expenses on re .1 estate Thxes, licenses insurance department and other fees and expenses Decrease in book value of ledger assets All other disbursements $2.o 10,5(57.SO TS. $1,3118,330.04 47,1170.49 100,000.00 00,030.07 47S,1,")S.54 O 3 4 23,302.07 23,01),'). 10 103,882.45 30,102.r)0 ()(1,S7S,23 $2,573,381.41) Balance $4,024,713.75 IV. LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate... $!(0ti,f81.06 Mortgage loans 011 real es tate 3,500.00 Book value of bonds and stocks 2,013.555.80 Cash in company's office.... 3,850.45 Cash In bank and in trust companies 102,217.10 Agents' balances 305.003.10 Total ledger assets S4.024,713.75 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest accrued $25,817.70 Rents due and accrued 203.33 Total J20.111.08 Market value of real estate, over book value 222,801.1)4 Market value of bonds and stocks over book value... 115,381.11 Other non-ledger assets 7.000.04 Gross assets $1,307,001.47 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED Agents' balances $1,408.58 Total admitted assets $4,305,025.81) V. LIABILITIES. Net losses and claims $183,871.33 Total unearned premiums... 2,017.158.51 Taxes due or accrued 4lMi0o.lH) Commissions, brokerage, etc., due or to become due to agents and brokers 8,232.85 Return premiums and rein surance premiums 30,801.00 Total lfabllitles except cap ital $2,280,003.78 Capital paid In cash 1 .tKXl.OOii.OO Surplus over liabilities 1,100.502.11 Surplus as regards policy holders 2.100,502.11 Total $4,305,025.80 VI. PREMIUMS. In force December 31st, 31H»7. $4,274,712.74 Written or renewed during the year 3,047,518.05 Total $3,707.:!02.no us.: 182.21 2.'1.7WI.SS 42,207.31 30.41.",.02 Amount at risk 8,204] 180.00 Deduct those expired and terminated Tn force at end of yoi Deduct reinsured 11 losses paid Losses incurred .. Amount at risk .. $7,322,230.70 2,020,0(12.48 $4,305,208.31 501,232.3 Net in force $3,801,035.04 SOUTH DAKOTA BUSINESS DURING YEAR 11108. Risks written $832,110.00 Premiums received Ex lien ses 13.0118.37 3,814.10 8,371.80 7,381.83 STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, Department of Insurance. Company's Certificate of Authority. Whereas, The Hanover Fire Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, has filed in this oflice a sworn statement exhibiting its condition and business for the year end ing December 31, 1008, conformable to the requirements of tile laws of this state regulating the business of insurance and, Whereas. The said company has filed in tills office duly certified copy of its charter, with certificate uf organiza tion, in compliance with the requirements of the insurance lau af' f."iM'ri Now. therefore. I, O. S. Msford, Com missioner of Insurance ol" the State of South Dakota, pursuant to the provisions of said. laws, do hereby certify that the above named company is fully empow ered. through its authorized agents, to transact its appropriate business of Fira and Tornado Insurance in this state, ac cording to the laws thereof, until th# thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1000. In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set. mv hand and official seal at Pierre, this Kith day of Februarv. A. 1!W)D (Seal.) O. S. BASFORD, Commissioner of Insurance. By -A. Schubert. Chief Clerk. LONG-DELAYED PROPOSAL. French Story of Note In Bouquet That Wag for Years Unanswered. One of the longest delayed propo sals 011 record Is related in a French story of a shy young subaltern who was ordered away to the wars. Not daring to speak, he sent a nosegay of yellow roses to the girl he 1 oved, with a little note inside, begging her, If she returned his love, to wear one of the flowers i.i her breast that night at the ball. She appeared without it, and he went away broken hearted. Years afterward, when he was a lame old general, he again met his old love, now a white-haired widow. One day his old sweetheart gently asked him why he had never married. "Madam." he answered somewhat sternly, "you ought to know best. If you had not refused to answer that not in the bouquet of yellow roses I might have been a happier man." "The note in the bouquet?" she re Veated, growing pain. She opened an old cabinet and took out from a drawer a shriveled bou quet of what had been yellow roses, among whose leafless stalks lurked a sorap of paper yellow with age. "See! never had your note," she said, holding the bouquet up. "If. I had I would not have answered it as you fancied." "Then answer it now," said the gal lant old soldier. And the long-delayed proposal was accepted at last. 7Tr!»w« W|? GAUGE STATE WATER POWER :v v. a. United States Government Will Make Survey and Will Pay Half of Cost St. Paul, May 16.—The state drain age board met yesterday afternoon and gave its approval to the agree ment which Secretary of state Julius Schmahl and State Engineer Georgd Ralph entered into at Washington, from where they returned yesterday morning. They were successful in se 2uring the co-operation of the federal government to such an extent that it will pay half the cost ot the survey of the water power of the state. The legislature directed the drain age commission to make an inquiry into the value of the water power of the state. Under the agreement, all the work will be done by the liydrographic de partment of the department of the in terior, and the state will pay half the cost. The state drainage commission has appropriated $26,000 for the work. The department of the interior will 6end ten expert engineers within ten days to start surveying the water powers. The government will also establish fifty stations at which will be main tained stream gauges for a number of years to determine the volume and power of the water in the different streams. MAYOR HAS RIGHT TO FIRE. Court Says ex-Street Commissioner Can't Draw Salary. Grand Forks, N. D., May 16.—Judge C. F. Templeton yesterday decided Mayor J. D. Taylor had an absolute right to remove Michael Durick from the oflice of street commissioner, and the fact that the council failed to con firm the appointment of his successor, John Dunlap, did not affect the re moval. The decision was filed 111 suit for a writ of mandamus to re Q11 ire the payment of Durick's salary from April 22, the time of removal, to May 1. The mayor vetoed the coun cil's resolutions ordering Durick paid. EDMONDS AGAIN ON STAND. Wisconsin State Chairman Does Not Tell Anything Important. Madison, Wis., May 16.—Republican State Chairman E. A. Edmonds, who also was one of Senator Stephenson's managers during the primary cam paign, was again called before the senatorial primary investigating com mittee yesterday andlquestioned witli a view to clearing up some portions of his previous testimony which the com mittee did not quite understand. The examination did not bring out any thing important. TWENTY-EIGHT UNDER ARREST. Sioux City Saloon Men Charged With Selling L.iquor to Indians. Sioux City, May 16.—Using John C. Decora, a Winnebago Indian, as a de coy, T. E. Brent, a special government agent, secured evidence by means of which he yesterday caused the arrest of twenty-eight Sioux City liquor dealers 011 1,371,003.00 a a charge of selling whisky to Indians. The minimum penalty in each case is $200 fine and a year in the county jail. CASS LAKE FEASTS SOLONS. Legislators Entertained by Apprecia tive Constituents. Cass Lake, Minn., May 16. A re ception and banquet was given here last night in honor of Representative P. 11. McGarry of Walker and Senator D. M. Gunn of Grand Rapids. The oc casion was one of extending the ap preciation of the citizens ot Cass Lake Cor the interest they took in their be half at tho last session of the legisla ture. HELD TO GRAND JURY. Turssivainen, Alleged Slayer of Two Women, Has Hearing. Wadena, Minn., May 16. Peter Turssivainen, accused of the double murder of two women in Runeberg township and the burning of the house to covor the crime, was given a pre liminary hearing yesterday at Detroit. No new evidence was brought out. The prisoner was held without bail to await the action of the grand jury. Will Furnish Red Wing Power. Menomonie, Wis., May 16. The Chippewa Valley Railway, Light and Power company has entered into a contract with a local power company at Red Wing, Minn., by which the for mer company will supply from its plant in Menomonie electric power for lighting and manufacturing purposes at Red Wing. Suicide Wields Razor. Minneapolis, May 16.—Robert Pain, a boilermalcer, committed suicide at an early hour yesterday morning by cutting his throat. The aead man is known to have been remorseful lately over his indulgence in liquor. Kills Wife, Children and Self. Boylesville, 111., May 16. Henry Williamson, a well-to-do farmer living two miles east of here, killed his wife and two little children and then com mitted suicide yesterday. The cause of the tragedy is not known. Killed by His Playmate. Dubuque, Iowa, May 16.—Clarence Ellsworth, aged nine, who a week ago was struck on the face by a playmate with a ball bat, died yesterday of lock jaw, blood poisoning having developed' from the bruised 'fleshy ri 'KJ