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pioneer |)rcss. J. A. BiiNliHeld. Proprietor. MILLER. iso oaroer nas a rigm to cnarge a man fifteen cents tor opinions that he doesn’t want. It really seems incongruous that there should be all this heat over the Alaskan matter. For reasons all oan understand, the Turk will probably never be an as similator or a gobbler. Georgia is engaged in confiscating all the oil in sight. This is a smooth way of reaching the octopus. A rural editor says chickens are worth 2 cents apiece in his town—but he doesn’t say how large the pieces are. An Irishman says that love sets the heart aching so deliciously there is no getting a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain. Fish being rich in phosphorus and phosphorus being the essential thing in making matches, it therefore stands to reason that girls should be partial to a fish diet. Senator Beveridge of Indiana, sup posed to be lost, has been heard from at Nagasaki. The public generally doesn’t know where Nagasaki is, but it is pleased to learn that Beveridge is there. One of the proverbial “long-felt wants” blds fair to be filled in the es tablshment of schools of domestic economy, which shall teach the arts of housekeeping and of caring for the welfare of family life. If young men are taught to provide the money need ed for maintenance of families, it seems desirable that young women should be taught, with equal care, how to apply it to the best advantage. Robert Evans, who has just arrived at Vancouver from the Atlin mining district, says that matters there are in a terrible condition, owing to British officialdom. He accuses the Canadian officials of corruption and running things for their own aggrandizement "The whole country,” says Evans, "has been set back by a policy of in capacity and hundreds of poor miners, whose claims have been buried in red tape, are in an absolutely starving con dition.” The Supreme Court of Indiana has rendered a far-reaching decision in a suit brought by citizens of Portland against a natural gas and oil com pany which, it was claimed, had en tered into an illegal combination to raise the price of its product. The plaintiffs were sustained, the decision —which, it is asserted, will apply to many trusts—being based on the com • mon-law point of “public policy.” “It is ap old and familiar maxim,” said the court, “that ‘competition is the life of trade'; and whatever act destroys com petition, or even relaxes it, upon the part of those who sustain relations to the public, is regarded by the law as Injurious to public interests, and is, therefore, deemed to be unlawful.” Every day that brings Admiral Dew ey nearer home also brings increased evidence of the great esteem in which he is held by his countrymen. Since Grant’s time no other man has ap proached this popularity. He stands quite alone, and the whole nation is getting ready to welcome him in Oc tober. In view of this indubitable fact, bow account for the paucity of the popular offering for the “Dewey home fund"? Stinginess never was a characteristic of the American people. But only $20,000 is forthcoming for the alleged object of the nation’s highest esteem. There is only one answer to this conundrum, which is that the peo ple take little stock in a ‘home fund” raised by public subscription. Ap parently it savors too much of passing the hat. The statements of the Fall River mills for the quarter ended July 30. this year, indicate that the long-de pressed cotton industry in New Eng land. especially that part of it located In Fall River, is coming In slowly, it is true, but surely for some of the bene fits of better times. In the first three months of the present year all the mills paid out $265,525 for dividends—a rata of 1.21 per cent on a capitalization of $22,023,000, as compared with .78 per cent for the preceding quarter. During the quarter in question all the mills are credited with having made money, though nine out of thirty-eight cor porations passed dividends—a fact that is explainable on the ground that they have decided to devote their earnings to the wiping out of debts or to the purchasing of new equipment. Unless present indications are incorrect the next quarter’s report will reveal a much healthier condition of affairs. Expert teachers Instruct at the Sioux Falls (S. Dak) Business College. Cat alogue free. S. DAK. PITH OF THE NEWS DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important liappeniuvs of the Pact Week Culled From the Tel- egraph iteporta The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Attracted Attention. Kid McCoy knocked out Jim Carter, heavy-weight champion of Alabama, in the fifth round at the Club theater at Joplin, Mo. Young Griffo, the once-famous Aus tralian pugilist, is dying in the Dunning (Ill.) insane asylum, where he was sent a few months ago. Fred Green of Toledo was given the decision over Johnny Lavack in a twenty-five-round contest at Mtilbury Park. Cleveland. Ohio. The fight went the limit and Green was awarded the decision on isrints. Accidental Happening!. The Sweld & Hill flouring mill at Medina. N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Loss. $50,000. Fire at Westchester, N. Y., destroyed St. Peter’s Episcopal church and most Of its contents. Loss, $200,000. George IL Barber, aged seventy eight. was struck by lightning and In stantly killed at Plattsburg, N. Y. Charles Howard Haven is dead at his home in Trenton. N. J., the result of a fall from a window. He was eighty-four years old. The widow of the la‘e anti-Semitic leader, Heinricl, was killed and three other persons were seriously injured at Berlin by the overturning of a ben zine motor car while it was being driven around a sharp corner. WanliiiiKton Tnllc. Minister Hunter advises the state department from Guatemala of the extension of the time of presenting the bonds which Guatemala is retiring until Oct. 31 next. Orders have been issued for competi tive examinations to be held Sept. 15 in each geographical department of the army for the promotion of enlisted men who desire to become lieutenants. Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has rendered a decision in which he holds that for dutiable pur|M>ses the value of the rupee of India is the value at which the consular cer'ificate which accompanies the Importation shows it passes current in India. The state department is advised from Yokohama of the formation of an American-Asiatic association there to safeguard the interests of American citizens ;p Japan, and to co-operate with similar associations In New York and throughout the Orient. The state department has received a valuable report from the United Sta’es consul at Che-foo, showing the general strides made by American trade throughout China. Summing up from numerous tables, he says: “It will not be long at this rate before the United States and Japan will supply the mar ket entirely unless we are shut out when Russia and Germany get their ports in order.” Peraoual. Alfred Behren, an American ex plorer, has been created a knight of the Legion of Honor at Paris. Dr. von Benda, a member of the reichstag, and former leader of the National Liberals, is dead. Herbert Herkemer, the artist, has been appointed a foreign knight of the order of merit for arts and science. The Toledo centennial commission has elected ex-Secretary of State Dan iel J. Ryan of Columbus, director gen eral of the Ohio centennial. Prof. Robert Wilhelm Everhard Bunsen, the chemist, is dead at Hei delberg. Germany, aged eighty-nine years. Lieut. Col. Egbert Savage, Thir teenth infantry, has l>een retired on hi 3 own application after thirty years’ service. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas, pastor of th? People’s church. Chicago, and Miss Vandelia Varnum. the well known lecturer, were married at Franklin viJ'e, N. Y. Gustave Charles Kiensbusch. a very wealthy tobacco merchant, known as “Baron” Kienbusch, dieci in New York, aged forty-nine years. He was born in Tennessee. F. M. Towar, chief of the corps of government engineers making a survey for a ship canal through the Des plaines and Illinois valley, died sud denly of heart disease at Jolie’, Hi. Dr. Nathaniel Wilson Ixdghton. pres ident of the Union board of veterans examiners, and a distinguishes! army surgeon of the Civil war. is dead at New York, aged sixty-seven years. Earthquake shocks, ac*comp:ini<*d by torrential rain, are reported from the central portion of Portugal. The pope* Is sending Mgr. Tarnissi, the internunc io of The Hague, on a «|MH*ial mission to St. Petersburg. The lord mayor of London has opened a fund for the relief of the vic tims of th? West Indian hurricane. ’flie extreme lowness of the Nile threatens the co’ton crops and the natives have b**t*n warned to sow early. The companionship of th? Or<le«* of St. Michael and st. George has been conferred upon E. B. 3. Maxse. Brit ish consul at Same a. Sporltna. Forel ix ii Criminal Record. Municipal corruption is unearthed at Cleveland. A regular army recruit murders two Denver policemen. A supposed anarchist in Paris shoots and wounds another in a street dis turbance. Grief over the loss of his wife led Nels Sorenson of Detroit to hang him self. Six children are left orphans. Paul Derouledennd other mem’oerH of the anti-Semite and Patriotic leagues are arrested in Paris for conspiring to upset the government. The Colorado A Southern passenger train was held up near Folsom, N. M., but the bandits were driven off. A mail clerk was shot in the jaw. Bruno Kirves, the Dayton murderer, was electrocuted in the annex of the ]>en.ltentlary at Columbus Ohio. He maintained his Innocence to the very last. James H. Beachinn. a negro charged with the murder of William Potsen Scott. a young society and business man of St. Ixrnls, was arrested in Sheffield, Ala. Five brutal assaults by a negro on white women occurnsl at Little K<»ck, Ark. Three mrip<*cts have been arrest ed. and if the right man is identified a lynching is extremely probable. Mrs. Henrlkka Bratsch. prominent In the Christian Catholic church, other wise known as “Zion" church, of which Dr. John Alexander Dowie is at the head, was fined sioo and costs at Chi cago for practicing medicine without a license. Martin J. Wiley, an engineer, was shot by his wife in front of his home in South Green street, Chicago. He died fhortly afterwards at the county hos pital. The woman’s life had lawn ren dered miserable by the ill-treatment of her husband. The Bridgeport (Conn.) police have arrested four notorious criminals who have operated all over the country. They are Arthur C. Webster, known as “St. Paul Tip.” who murdered Police man Nicholas Hunt of St. Louis in De cember, 1M97; Josep Curran, alias “Troy Joe,” a nitro glycerine and elec tric expert safe cracker; John Smith, alias “Sleepy John.” and Nick Stem mor, alias "Milwaukee Bed.” Otherwise. Naval Constructor Hobson raises three of the Spanish ships sunk by Dewey. A bronze badger, made of captured Spanish cannon, is to adorn the battle ship Wisconsin. The Order of Railway Telegraphers will s’ep Into new headquarters at St. Louis, Sept. 20. The Colorado smelters are starting up again and it is believed that the strikers will return to work. Lieut. Commander St .John, of the British navy, indignantly repudiates the report that he bad criticised Gen. Otis. Peter Millett, of Peter Millett & Co., warehousemen, has liletl a |x*tition in bankruptcy at New York. Liabilities, $1*1,101; no Natural gas in great quantities has been struck on the farm of Robert Lee. near Muscatine, lowa. The vein Is 170 feet below the surface. Conditions at the soldiers’ home at Hampton remain favorable, but the quarantine against the town of Phoe bus will not yet be removed. Reports that a combination of the leading cigar manufacturers in Key West, Tampa and Havana is being or ganized, are current in New York. Gov. Pingree has appointed a delega tion of sixteen to n present Michigan in the anti-trust convention in Chicago. Sept. 13-16. Gen. R. A. Alger heads the list. The Anti-imperialistic league has re ceived from Andrew Carnegie a check for SI,OOO with which to press forward tledr opposition to the administration’s policy. At Jersey City the organization of the Niles-Bement-Pond company. Just incorporated in New Jersey with a capital of $8,000,000, was completed by the election of officers. The proposed auto-inobile trip from Chicago to New York, for the ]>urpose of transmitting military correspond ence from Gen. Anderson to Gen. Mer ritt .has lieen postponed for one week or ten days. Glanders has broken out among ths government mules and horses at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., intended for ser vice In the Philippines, and there is much consternation among the army officials over the disease. Sig. Marconi, in his experiments with wireless telegrafihy at Dover, Eng., met with complete success, the mes sages passing through several miles of cliff upon whic h Dover castle stands, twelve miles across the sea. The first national convention of the Young People’s Christian Temperance union has been called to meet at Chi cago Sept. 27 ami 2S, organization to be effected on Frances Willard s bir h day in honor of her memory. <’>l. Charles Page Bryan. United State's minister to Brazil. In an impor tant communication to the Argentine and Brazilian press, asserts that the* United Stales wants nothing of South America but trade and harmony. J*- & of Chicago, who bid $177,759, were lowest bidders tor th.' heating and ventilating apparatus and electric works of the hospital building for the United States unmi grant station at Ellis island. N Y. As a result of the* difficulty in obtain ing iron ami steel Cramp & Sens have asked the Russian government for a short extension ef time on the ctuiser Aar agano, also for an extension on the* battl'*sh!p Retiee, now beliiu.Lg at t-luir yt-rd. COUTH DAKOTA. Pukwana reports a scarcry of dwell ing houses. A new grain elevator will Im* built at Arlington. It is estimated that this year's wool clip yielded South Dakota sheep rais ers s2<MM«m>. The Baptists at Clear Lake will, this fall, erect a handsome new residence fur their pas'or. Agnew. Thompson & Mears are building a new grain elevator at Ban croft. Clark county. Ground has been broken for the new $12.0(10 drill ball and gymnasium at the South Dakota Agricultural college a«t Brookings. A Des Moines. lowa, bridge company has been awarded the contract to con struct two new steel bridges in Bon Homme county. The Merchants State bank is the name of a new banking institu'lon at Freeman. Hutchinson county. John Schamber is president. Arrangements are being perfected for a race meeting and base ball tour nament at Kimball, Sept. 12 and 13. The purses will aggregate SSOO. John W. Carter of Watertown and William Kelly of Nebraska, who was vhltlng him. had to pay $12.50 each for killing four prairie chickens. Elkton is one of the South Dakota towns which is this season making sub stantial strides in the way of new buildings and other improvements. William Blankartz, a progressive Cook county frmer, is building a 10,- 000-bushel granary, and says he will have enough grain this fall to till it. Native grasshoppers are quite nu merous along the Missouri river in the southern portion of Brule county, and Lave done some damage to crops and trees. By a unanimous vote. Emery has de cided to incorporate as a town, and a special election has been called for Wednesday, Aug. Ki, to elect town of ficers. A stock company is in of formation by the business men of Clark, having for its object the con struction of a $3,660 opera house in that town. Some one who lias taken the trouble to keep a record, finds that, during a period of sixty days this summer. 266 head of live s’ock were killed in South Dakota by lightning. The agent of a Minneapolis company at Bowdle lias, since April 1 last, pur chased 32.1WJ6 pounds of butter and 8, 285 d< zen eggs at that fxdnt. paying therefor $4,677.66 in cash. Disbarment proceedings have been instituted against G. P. Harben of Scotland, ex-county judge of Bon Hom me county. The hearing has been set by the state supreme court for Sept. 6. Lightning rod fakirs swindled three Turner county farmers out of an ag gregate of S4BO. The farmers settled the matter rather than carry it into the courts, as the contracts had come into the hands of innocent purchasers, to whom the swindlers sold them. Paul Dekker has been bound over to appear before the circuit court in Hutchinson county, to answer to the charge of forging mortgages, upon which he drew money from the school fund of the county. The name of his mother-in-law was forged to one of the mortgage s. This is a grea* potato year in South Dakota, ami there evidently will be no limit to them. A Parker man. Oscar Elce, dug a hill in ids garden and got IOS potatoes, ranging in size from a marble up a goose egg. The vine was green and the potatoes growing when dug. Ted Whalen is one of the army of South Dakota farmers who are too busy making money to have the time or Inclinati* n to make complaints. He lives near Iroquois, ami tin* other day sold SBSO worth <<f <at tie. During the past year 1 e Ims received $450 from tlie sal • of milk to the Iroquois cream ery. Tlie annual meeting of tlie Oi l Se r tlers Association of Aurora county lias been postponed from Sept. 6 to Sept. 28, in hopes that tlie Aurora county boys in the First regimen*, South Da kota volunteers, will have returned from Manila by that time, so they can participate in and be a feature of the celebration. Some enterprising individual at tl»e town of White, Brookings county, Is engaged in manufacturing counterfeit dollars, many .of which have been passed on business men there. The counterfeits are fairly good. but the character of the metal used In them easily leads to their detection when examined closely. A report comes that a fakir In the vi cinity of Langford is selling the farm ers “goose wheat’ for seed. It is said to Im* a lM>autiful looking berry, but it will not make flour, nor is It market able. Most farmers an* familiar with goose wheat, but then* seems to be some who are not, as the fellow Is re ported to be selling a great deal of it. Lawrence county, with thirty-eight Inmates, continues to contribute the largest number of patients to the in sane asylum at Yankton. Minnehana second, with 29; Union has 21; Lin coln, IX and Brown IG, while Clay, (Lent. Spink and Turner have 15 each; Yankton 14; Day. 13; Pun Homme, 12: Beadle. Kingsbury and Lake, 11 each; Codington, 10. It cost Martin Wudel, a Hutchinson county farmer, the sum of $117.50 for violating the quarantine law. Many of the people of that county have a preju dice* against complying wl’h quaran tine regulations, and have for years, violated the law with Impunity.* The authorities Anally decided to make an example, and the arrest and conviction of Wudel was the result. Henry Enke of Lake Ben’on en the contract for building » bS£ batik block at Elkton, and in ’ S building in course of construction Fort Pierre boasts of being the onir town in the United States which is I Infested every summer with tram m the tow", fortunately, being vntlrS off their regular route. * Thus far this season Parker Imnk ment dealers have sold sixty-one bind ers and thirty-five mowers. Local deal" ers have also sold a total of lor> pounds of binding twine. The great demand for South Dakota farms still continues. Edward Gott helf, a Turner county farmer, who last spring purchased a farm for $2,200 a few days ago sold it for $3,000. Wolves have again become so nu merous in the region around the forks of the White river that the stockmen In the vicinity have organized and offer a bounty of $7 for every gray wolf killed in that territory. Tony, the ten-year-old son of A. W Markus, living a short distance from Waverly, Condington county, was dis covered dead by the side of a team partly unhitched, which he had been told to unhitch and put in the barn. Ben Morrison, who has filled the po sition of stock insiMMtor for the West ern South Dakota Stock Growers’ as sociation in Pierre for the past year, dropped dead while overseeing the loading of a special train of stock. Sisseton will finally secure the good hotel it has long desired. Mr. Fair child, of the firm of Fairchild & Mehe gan of Milbank, has purchased a site there and will construct a new forty room hotel. The building will be three stories high. Indian Commissioner Jones lias re ceived a request from the chief of the Crow Creek Sioux in South Dakota for permission to come to Washington to talk over some matters with him. He has asked them to postpone their trip, however, un'il some time in the fall, as lie will be out of town after next week. The llt.’le five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sedgwick had a miraculous ex cape from instant death near Kimball. She was run over by a wagon loaded with two tone of hay. The hind wheels of the wagon passed directly over the center of her btwly. She fell on the re mains of an old straw stack; had it teen on hard ground she would have lieen Ins antly crushed. A doctor was. called, but found the little one as sound as a dollar. The state board of equalization and assessment has completed its work, and while no exact figures can yet be secured, the raise was practically 30 per cent. The levy made was 32 mills on corporation property, which is fixed solely by the state, and on all other property the levy for state purposes is 2 mills for the general fund; 1.10 mills for bond interest: 1.10 mills for consti tutional bonds and sinking fund. A lone man burglarized four places in Waubay. In the saloon of .1. Flag stad he secured $5. a gobi watch, a gold ring and a revolver, and in the Halcon of Paul Roberts he secured SB. He next entered Barranger Bro.'s meat market, but was frightened away. He then entered the bank of M. Rexford, and passed to th? rear, where the fam ily reside. Mr. Rexford was awake and tired at the burglar, but missed him. The sta*e I ward of health has refused certificates to several applicants who wished to practice oesteopathy in this state. The applicants were graduates of schools of <s eopathy located at Kirksville. Me., and Minneapolis. The ground for refusing the certificates was tliat the schools mentioned are not reg ularly conducted schools of osteopathy, according to their own published rules, and for that reason are not schools of osteopathy In g< od repute, as required by the statutes < f SniFh Dakota. The state board of embalmers, at a meeting held :.r Sioux Falls, reorgan ized by (dieting Dr. F. 11. Files of Sioux Falls, president; E. Martin of Armour, vice president: Dr. A. E. Clough of Madison, secretary: Dr. A. 11. Rogers of Canton, treasurer. The latter is the new member recently ap pointed by Gov. Ix-e to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Henry Bill ion of Sioux Falls for irregularities. The board passed a resolution declar ing all acts of the original board prim to Aug. 15. illegal, and that all licenses issued to embalmers by the original b'ard wen* illegal and void. Au exam ination of applicants for licenses un- Ber the new embalming law Is set for Sept, in Sioux Falls. Another exam ination for the Black Hills district will be held at Lead on the same date. It Is believed the above action will straighten out the tangle in which the board Is Involved. William Dean and Herman Schulke, residents of Hamlin county, have dis covered, to their sorrow, that the new South Dakota game law, which is now one of the most stringent In the United State#, 1r not to Im* trifled with. They are the At at in the state to suffer under the section of the law. which provides that anyone seen driving or walking in the country with a dog or gun In their possession shall be presumed to have violated the law, and shall be punished by a tine an the confiscation of their weapons. In the case of Dean and Schulke, they were seen in country with their dogs nnd guns, but had not, so far as could be ascertained, killed any prairie chickens. W. L. Johnson, game warden of Codding ton county, made complaint against tin* two men. They were arrested by Sher iff KeWegan of Hamlin county, and taken before Justice Boswell at Cas tlewood for trial. The justice fined them sls each and costs, amounting in the aggregate to $25. which each of the men had to pay. . In addition to this, their shotguns were declared forfeited to the state, and will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. Cu A P New Y half an 1 two hunt done wii com mere says It I: plished j cal di file terted tl railway from Ge quicker ftyrn th will be i Cars v cities 1 loom, force vacuun jtet 1 man In izing e wonder jeered conven Civil E largest tn the Oberlin a caret with transpc at hani York t one-fot fastest mere ti procee< men oi and at was ea bill ty. Prof' In the a mod< judgmt (hank racut ] N. J. I attenti strict has cc limit c been a which of the qttlcke machii than t "I w hensio to whi Cap® : Smith could