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rim £&<•. §$s 'fee 4"?'M W S 5'4IS JP Bkrre free fl)ress 1 8® Sjtwqk&L m&mr A. C. :^'ir- ^ibrrb rv.ws.ivi •. ••. SOUTH DAKOTA EPITOME OF EVENTS ^PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY 8UBJECT&. ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What la Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foralgn Countries. Washington. The Joint resolution admitting Ari sjteona and New Mexico to immediate statehood, but withholding the ap proval of the constitutions of both un '£$ Jtil the people have voted on the pro losed amendment, passed the house by a viva voce vote. No roll call was demanded on the final vote. To enable John Hays Hammond to carry out hlB commission as special SiAftmbaBsador of the United States at ifih^the coronation of King George, Judge Barnard Thomas, of the district court, ordered the postponement until No jffvember of further proceedings in the piease of John D. Sully against Mrs. Hammond. Information as to what steps had been taken for the criminal prosecu tion of the officers of the Standard Oil company under the recent deci sion of the supreme court was de manded of the attorney general by the senate which adopted, without debate, a resolution of inquiry offered by Senator Pomerene. Governor Shafroth, of Colorado, is in Washington to protest to the presi dent and the war department against the abolition of the department of the Colorado, with headquarters in Den ver. Even Bhouid the heads of the department be maintained at Denver under the new scheme of organization It would mean an office force of only seven men, it was explained. Senator Frye, after forty-one years of continuous service in congress, left Washington for bis home In Maine because of his failing health. With his usual optimism, the venerable senator, said: "I am going back to the Maine air, and a good rest will put -short order." Sen ator Frye, some time ago, resigned as president pro tempore of the senate. General. Bids for the $50,000,000 of 3 per cent Panama bonds are coming in ^lively. Foreign diplomats at Mexico City v* have taken steps to safeguard resi dents. President Taft denied the applica- ?'tlon for pardon on behalf of Bankers W&tah and Morse. |M| Secretary MacVeagh is accused of ^reversing the order imposing a 20 per cent duty on creosote. According to the Carnegie endow ''l-'ment fund for international peace the fc^woHd, will be educated in Interna tional law as to how the law may be j..extended. •'%& York's magnificent public library w^s formally dedicated. The Prussian diet passed the sec- _J$L ond. reading of the government's bill pi'-^5®! lega,l8,*g cremation. Earnings of express companies are Jieing scrutinized by the Interstate ..commerce commission. An amendment by Senator Root to the reciprocity agreement was op g^V-jKwed as likely to be fatal. ||y$? Insurrectos are keeping up the -fight, apparently not knowiug that .^rmistlce has been declared. -4L*-Follette. declares the Lorimer 'case must be pushed out of the sen ate at all hazards. Tlie Reformed church is not to be in effecting a union with Pres byterian denomination. The ^general synod of the Reformed fehurch Of Ihe United States elected James I. Good of Dayton, O., presi dent. The minority of the senate com V* mlttee on privileges and elections op- poses any change in elections. Attorney General Wickersham ^brought fault at New York tor the dls v»oli^tion of the alleged lumber trust., lburiin 8kow, a patient at the state Insane asylum at Lincoln, Neb., stran jledCharles Brookoian. a fellow in itiate. *Jpresident Taft withdrew from all fornis Of disposition 2,650 acres of Trclan4!^Wyoming to be reserved for xwxat&inetion mid classification with eapect to their coat value. A resolution urging Philippine neu tinllty on tbe ground that the people pf the Island* Are being exploited by fiofi-resldentgrabbers, was introduced house, claim *to' having •i$roirf{^ice ?ream eater of the r,~ Henry. J, Heine Mexican rebels effected the capture of many towns in the state of Sina loa. Andrew Carnegie and falmly sailed for their summer vacation in. Scot land. Two resolutions were o"ore? in the senate to reinvestigate the Lorimer election. A reign of riot and pillage followed the capture of the town of Pachuca by Mexican rebels. The Christian Herald has forward ed M.000 more for the relief of Chi nese famine sufferers. Excesses on the part of irresponsi ble Mexican rebels are expected with the declaration of pcacc. It is said reciprocity has made Taft popular in the cities, but farmers are yelling "bloody murder." If peace fails in Mexico the invest ment of the capital city and Chihua hua will start immediately. The interstate commerce commis sion was instructed to take jurisdic tion over railroads in Alaska. The house voted favorably on the resolution for admission of Arizona and New Mexico to statehood. The Gideons, a religious organiza tion, last Sunday placed 1,400 free bibles in the hotels of Omaha. The birth rate in New York City for the first three months of the year was 28.11 per 1,000, the largest on rec ord. There was a demonstration at Mex ico City because of the delay of Presi dent Diaz in tendering his resigna tion. Miss Grace Dexter Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan, will be married June 7th to Richard Har greaves, of Lincoln. Congressman Longworth says that at birth a man has his choice between a bald head and brains. His own choice, he says, is apparent. Announcement was made by the In corporators of the national McKinley birthplace association that Joseph G. Butley, Jr., Youngstown, O., was elected president. Annie Parros, nineteen years old, was suffocated and a property loss estimated at $300,000 was sustained by fire caused by the explosion of gas in a dairy lunch room at Pittsburg. One thousand delegates attended the fourth national convention of the United Presbyterian men's movement in the First Presbyterian church at Pittsburg. At Washington Miss Zelda M. Strik er, an orphan, aged 18, and strikingly beautiful, was married to Sadaske Fuj ita, steward on the United States ship Dolphin and old enough to be her father. The romance began in 1906, when the bride was a little girl. J. M. ParkB, former financial secre tary of the Los Angeles Iron Workers' union, and Bart J. Connors, a former Alaskan ironworker, were arrested at Los Angeles on a charge of placing dynamite under the hall of records, which waB 'i&|uf!|d opposite $3$*rrz?^3~~ww'~~ pniwtiMt wrecked there last Sep tember. Efforts were made to avert a strike of the firemen on the Southern rail way at a conference at Washington between officials of the railway and representatives of the nineteen local organizations of the brotherhood oi locomotive firemen. The geographical survey has Issued a bulletin giving derivations of names of American cities. Chicago, says the bulletin, is Ojibwa Indian "She Kag-Ong," signifying "wild onion place," from a root form implying "a bad smell." The Order' of Railway Conductors has increased the salary of its presi dent to $8,500, senior vice president and general secretary to $5,000 each, and other vice presidents to $4,500. Lieutenant Colonel Beverly W. Dunn, inventor of dunnite, has resign ed from the army because President Taft declined to grant him retirement to continue his work with explosives. The Countess Szechnyi, formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, has given $50,000 to the city's poor in Budapest in return for the city's agreement not to lay street car tracks in front of her palace. The annual meeting of the trans Mississippi commercial congress set for September next, will be held in Kansas City, instead of Oklahoma City. President Taft has signed the pro clamation establishing the Harney Na tional forest in South Dakota. It em braces 583,820 acres formerly con tained in the Black Hills forest and 58,727 acres taken from the public domain. The Texas railroad commission has filed forfeiture of charter suit against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail way, alleging bankruptcy. Railroads operating in central pas senger association territory, including the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, are permitted, by an order issued by the interstate commerce commission, to exact higher passen ger fares for interstate than for intra state business where state legisla tures or state commissions have es tablished a two-cent-a-mile rate. a In a speech at London, Premier LaUrier expressed amazement at the ^pressed -fear. ..of, ..Canadian., annexa tlon. Robert T. Lincoln hast resigned as president of the Pullman' company. The contempt charges against Gom- revived. 5V, 'a*' £_ June fi has^ Settled as the da# for t)t« fight. between Billy Papke and ^gPr-^Mliy«n, British middle weight champion, ylt wtiV ^ke Place IK &6iidon. /_uSi| !f 'V Viscount Morley moved^ the second In the home leading Of th* veto DIAZ OUT AT LAST ACCEPTANCE OF RESIGNATION BY CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES AL MOST UNANIMOUS. fa 4 Slillfe#' CORRAL ALSO RESIGNS Aged General Says He Is Unable to Discover Own Culpability.—De la Barra Chosen Provisional ,v,vc.r\. President. ..... Mexico City, Mexico. President Porfirio Diaz, in a letter read by the president of the chamber of deputies resigned the presidency. Everyone had expected an uproar and demonstration when ths-. announce ment should be made, but within the chamber the words announcing the event were followed by a dead silence. The deputies seemed awed by what had taken place. In the packed streets, however, news (hat Diaz was at last no more the president was the signal for wild shouting and manifestations. There was no violence nor no destruction of property. It is the first time in 30 years that the people of Mexico have k" been given the opportunity to shout with impunity the name of their choice for the presidency. Provisional President de la Barra acknowledged his elevation to that high office in an open letter to the Mexican people. In it he declares he will not be a candidate for either pres ident or vice president when the gen eral election is called. On the motion to accept the presi dent's resignation, 167 deputies voted aye, while two of them did not ex press themselves. In similar fashion the resignation of Vice President Ramon Corral, now in France, was unanimously accepted, and similarly Francisco Leon de la Barra, late ambassador to Washing ton, was chosen provisional president. Of scarcely less interest in the popu lar mind was the practical assumption of military control of the federal dis trict by Alfredo Robles Dominguez, Madero's personal representative. Senor Dominguez stated that he can bring 5,000 organized rebel troops into the city within three hours. President^ Diaz' Letter. President Diaz' in his letter of resig nation, addressed to the chamber of deputies, says: "I do not know of any fact imputable to me which could have caused this social phenomenon, but, permitting though not admitting that I may be unwittingly culpable, such a possibility makes me the least able to reason out and decide my own culpa bility." Diaz Is Eulogized. The one dramatic speech of the day was made by Deputy Jose Aspe. In introducing the president's letter of resignation, Deputy Aspe made one of the most brilliant oratorical efforts with which the chamber has ever rung. His voice was repeatedly drowned by applause and the floor fairly shook with the dmonstration which followed his peroration. The speaker admitted that General Diaz had been called to account for his errors by a people who had pro gressed faster than the author of their progress had realized, but he declared the good that General Diaz had done his country would live forever in his tory and outweigh his mistakes. FIGHTING IS RENEWED. Madero Issues Orders to Attack Sal tillo. .'f, •, Juarez, Mexico. A resumption of hostilities in the state of Coahuila was ordered. Francisco I. Madero, Jr., gave instructions for the insurrecto forces in that state to advance on Saltillo, the capital, a city of 24,000 population, with a view of taking it from the federals and forcibly estab lishlog the provisional government, there"." DAILY MARKET REPORT. 97%c Sept., 95%c No. 1 northern, 99c No. 2 northern, 98%c No. 1 duruin, 89c fto. 3' corn, &2%c No. 3. white oats, 33c barley, malting, 94c No. 2 rye, 90c No 1 flax, $2.34. Duluth, May 26, Wheat, July, 99%c Sept., 93% No. 1 northern, 99%c No. 1 durum, 89%c. 8outtt St. Paul, May 26. Cattle—. Steers. $5.0006.25 cows, $3.2503.85 adxtm, $3.6506.00 hogs. $5.4506.00 CACTUS PLANT 25 FEET HIGH c\& Is of Great Use to tils' Planters oi Jamaica for Making 11 Kingston, Jamaica.—The "Dildo," cactus native to Jamaica, and attain ing a height of 25 feet, is shown in the accompanying illustration. It has an important economic value and is of great use to the planters for ma king fences to keep out small stock and thieves from preying on their fields. This plant contains a pithy sub stance which is used by the natives as a tonic for the hair. The heart of old plants is used for eertain kinds of A 25-Foot Cactus. cabinet work. There are between 500 and 600 different species of the cac tus family and the actual number probably greatly exceeds this. They are without exception natives of Amer ica and their extraordinary forms con stitute a remarkable feature in the vegetation of the warmer regions. All of them have fleshy stems, often very soft and juicy, and in numerous In stances suitable for good. Most of them are leafless, only a few species having true leaves. Instead of leaves most of the cacti have clusters of hairs or thorn. The whole organization of the cac tus adapts it to withstand long droughts. They vegetate vigorously during a part of the year when mois ture Is available and then rest for a long time. Some of the cacti family grow on high mountains reaching nearly to the limit of the snow, while others thrive only In torrid districts. The plants of this botanical order are a great boon to the natives of the dis tricts In which they grow, generally regions destitute of water. The stems of many of the varieties contain a wholesome juice of which both men and livestock avail themselves, and some species produce a pleasant fruit. The cultivation of edible cactus is still in the experimental stage. TO REGULATE HUMAN GROWTH English Scientist Says Gland Located in the Skull Controls Our Stature and Weight. Chicago.—Anyone who wishes to regulate his natural altitude above sea level needs only to have his pituitary gland attended to. At least that is what Prof. Arthur Keith of London says, and his statements have been corroborated by a number of Chica go's foremost physicians. The pitui tary gland Is the first in importance of the principal ductless glands of the {vthing Location of the Gland. body, which include the typhoid^and adrenolin glands and a portion of the pancreas. The juices secreted by this gland, according to Chicago physi cians, largely control the growth of the bones of the body. When the se cretion is plentiful the bones grow to an abnormal size, but when it is com paratively small in quantity the growth of the bones is retarded. When the secretion is caused to flow freely, say physicians, a rapid development of the bones is the result. Thus, when a boy or girl is 111 for some time with a fever, the diseased condition of the body causes the pituitary, gland to be come unusually active with the result that the sick person "grows like a veed." Green for French soldiers. Paris.—It is ani^puQcetl that the minister for war has decided to make an experiment with a new uniform at the September maneuvers. A spe cial committee has chosen a uniform of a greyish-green color as being less conspicuous agidnst a French land scape thq.n the red trousers and blue coat now'ln service. The new unl fprrn #hf be served out to at least a mimnnt for the eauperimenL r' vi fu WASHINGTON.—Probably There are always two in the base ment of the executive offices, where there is a large door leading from the Btreet for the reception of sup plies. There is always a policeman at the kitchen entrance. Two men in livery, not policemen, guard the main entrance into the White House at the north portico. In the daytime there is a policeman in the east room and one each at both stairways that lead rIE In the counterfeiting of paper money there are three methods used, copy ing by hand, photographic reproduc tion, and the raising of genuine bills from lower to higher denominations. It takes a good man a whole day to NOT many men have had the varied and adventurous life led by Mrs. Louise E. Bliss of Sheridan, Wyo., who has just applied for a pension on the grounds that, dressed as a man, she served four years in the federal army as a member of Company G, Sixty third infantry, from Illinois, from 1861 to 1865. Mrs. Bliss is now an old woman, with white hair and wrinkled face, and is almost destitute. In one cheek she bears the scar left by a bul let fired at Vicksburg a long gash across the upper left arm is a me mento of Corinth and a Confederate saber. According to the story told by Mrs. Bliss to the pension agent, and sworn to by her. she was living in Illinois at Jonesboro, when the war broke out. She was enthusiastic and 9 jfs, WAR on the mosquito as well as on the house fly has been declared by the department of agriculture. As a disseminator of disease the mos quito is branded as being as great a menace to humanity as the fly. IA O. Howard, chief of the bureau of ento mology, has issued a bulletin on the protection of. communities from mos quitoes. rle lays stress on the ne cessity of abolishing breeding places Qf ths inscct poet. "Where the rain barrel and rain wa ter tank are necessary they should be screened. The waste places in the Immediate vicinity of a hnusA should be carefully searched for tin cans, bot ties and wooden or tin boxes in which water can accumulate, and all such receptacles should be destroyed or car ried away. The roof gutters should be carefully examined to make sure that they are not clogged so as to al low the water to accumulate. "The chicken pans In the poultry yard, the water In the troughs for do mestic anln&ls, the water cap of the (rtttfisteM are all ^places in whltii The White House Is Closely Guarded no other building In America is so well po liced as the White House. It takes 42 men to do it daily. If any mis chievous stranger should seek en trance, he would not get far. Twenty four men guard the outside of the building and 18 the Inside. Eight are tD the executive offices. Fourteen guard the White House within and without at night. The number of men enumerated does not Include the se cret service men who guard the per son of the president and who are some times in service to guard the mem bers of the president's family. Every door in- the White House has its po liceman constantly on guard. Bankers Quick to Detect Bad exact chance of any one per son having a bad piece of money Is hard to determine, for the reason that no one, not even the secret serv ice, knows at any one time just how much counterfeit currency is in circu lation. But from years of experience the government agents at Washington have figured out that In paper money the proportion of bad to good is about $1 to $100,000, and in coin somewhere between $2 and $3 to $100,000. The larger the coin or bill to be counterfeited the greater the danger of detection and the need of a more expensive plant. The commonest way of making spurious money is the turn ing out of base metal coins—but the operation is expensive. Silver, for in stance, cannot be successfully cast. Base coins with silver in them must therefore be struck off in a steel die— a die representing days of work on the part of an expert engraver. Then there must be a powerful press to make the impressions. Woman Soldier Now Seeks a Pension Uncle Sam Warns Against Mosquitoes to th© private apartments of the president and his family on the upper floor. There is a policeman always In the basement, the entrance to which is from the east wing of the mansion. At night a policeman guards the base ment corridor of the interior, another the corridor of the main floor and an other the corridor of the upper private floor. Outside there is constant vigilance in front and in the rear, if the White House may be conceived as having any rear. The south front is as beau tiful as the north front and indeed more so. That the White House should have to be thus carefully guarded may seem strange to Americans whose chief ex ecutive is after all only a democrat who is a citizen temporarily, holding a high public office. But it is neces sary. Three Presidents have been assassinated, although nope ever at the White House. It would seem none ever could be because of the vigilance kept there. But a fierce light play3 upon the White House and the occupants of it. especially the president. It attracts all kinds of people, and cranks are ever danger ous. Many is the one apprehended before he has gone far. And in Ihia land of liberty there are also other people who have dangerous ideas cen tering on the life of the chief mag istrate. If he cannot tell at first glance whether the money is bad, he consults two monthly counterfeiting magazines and usually finds what he is after. The magazine people co-operate with the secret service. And the next tell er or cashier who gets the mate ol the note knows right off what the counterfeit is. patriotic and wanted to join the army, but of course could not do so in skirts. So she cut oft her hair, obtained a suit of men's clothing and applied for en listment. In the excitement and hurry of the early days of enlist ment, when there were thousands of applicants, the disguised girl was pass ed and found herself a member of Col. McCowan's regiment, the Sixty-third infantry. She was assigned to Com pany under Captain Richardson. After drilling and being otherwise "whipped" into line, the Sixty-third started south, and with it went the girl soldier. For four years she stood the strain of army and camp life, tak ing her "medicine" as It came to her, and in all ways being treated as were the other soldiers of the regi ment. Just before the war ended the true sex of the young soldier became known to a comrade, and immediately after being mustered out of the serv ice because of the termination of hos tilities, she married John Sibler, who had served in the same company and regiment with her throughout the war. these pests of mosquitoes will breed. "In slightly marshy ground a favor ite breeding place is the footprints of cattle and horses, in one country village, which contains many small vegetable gardens in clay soil, during a rainy season mosquitoes were found breeding abundantly In. the water ac cumulating in the furrows. "Even in the Souse these mosqui toes breed in many places. Where the water in flower vases is not frequently changed mosquitoes will breed. Their will breed in water pitchers in unused guest rooms. Public dumps are great breeding places, because here accumu late old bottles, cans, boxes, bits of tin or iron vessels and other objects in which water may- accumulate for tiaw." .. & *, Money (HATHA! I'VE DIS COVERED A COUNTER FEIT BILL -THEY CAN'T ^FQOl ME change one bill. Fives raised to tens are the most frequent offenders of this sort. The workman thus makes $5. And yet in spite of all care and all precautions, counterfeiters are event ually run to earth. Why? Three rea sons: Bank, secret service and system. In the long run most money in circu lation comes into the hands of some bank. And there the counterfeit, good or bad, eventually meets Its downfall. Tellers and cashiers han dle so much currency that they seem tc be gifted with second sight. PUli S] NO Hu, ^gre .1 an( tiiit tha D„ Hu anx pull tax Son tlK Bu est Li Ca Hiu for 19( the the as ur VBi aib-i at pei urn Hi sai no Hii ajri ehi yle piiii thu iren ten Aiio de lies esi tn.1 wii CO yo So N Hi gr