PRESIDENT HOME
FROM UNG TRIP
Reaches Washington After
Tour of Country.
COSTS UNCLE SAN $20,000
Cxeetitlve Traveled More Than Thir
teen Thousand Miles and Is Said to
Have Addressed Three Million Peo
ple—Cost of Entertainment at the
Various Localities Visited Estimated
at
13,000,000.
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Washington. Nov. 11—At 8''"
Wednesday night President Tait
completed hia first long tour of tl.
States as president. So far as
Mr. Taft is concerned he is satisfied
with the result of his trip. He lia
tome into contact with the people of
the Middle and Far West and, while
some of his receptions have been of
«en
Uier unfriendly character, he has
able to present his views to the
people.
The Taft tour has carried the pres
ident over 12,7i5 miles by rail and
water and over 600 miles by auto
and practically 500 by stage or horse
drawn vehicle. It has cost the TJnit 1
States $20,000, which will come out of
the fund appropriated by congress for
bis traveling expenses The president
has made upward of 300 speeches from
platforms, rear vestibules of Us car
and open air.
Entertainments Cost $3,000,000.
The cost to the various localities
that have "entertained" him is very
large. A conservative estimate is
$3,000,000. For the little entertain
ment at Juarez, where he was the
guest of the president of Mexico for
that ''little dinner," the cost is de
clared to have been $500,000.
Ten. $15 and $20 a plate was
charged each one that attended the
several dinners given the president,
while at Los Angeles they struck the
record of hijfh figures, $2f. a plate.
Mr. Taft himself believes his trip
through the South has gained him
•atisfaetion and has made him many
friends among the people.
Me considers that he is now in
touch with the several elements in his
owi party and will be better prepared
to deal with all of the problems that
will come before him this winter dur
ing the session of congress.
Hss Many 8ouvenirs of Trip.
Vhe president returns with all man
Bar of souvenirs of the trip, ranging
ftom a golf trophy to a "great seal of
a city'' in solid gold. If Mrs. Taft
wants to know what happened on the
trip and what was most notable at
any of the banquets she has only to
rummage through the trophies which
clutter up the baggage car and she
can get a line on it.
The president's guards estimated
the number of persons he has talked
to on the present trip at 3,000,000.
The coolness of his greetings in the
West has been offset by the warmth
of the greeting in the South and his
friends assert that there was no rea
son to consider the Western recep
tion unfriendly, rather they charac
terise it as "educational" and as serv
ing to show the president where the
West stands on a number of prob
lems.
PLANS TRIP TO FAR NORTH
IMPORTERS WILL DINE LOEB
Functor* Intended as Endorsement of
Collector's Methods.
New York. Nov. 11.—Merchants of
New York have stamped with official
approval the drastic measures adopt
ed by William Loeb, Jr., collector of
Sup-
Captain Amundson Will Take
plies for Seven Years.
Chicago, Nov. 11.—Captafti Roaid
Amundson, the Norwegian explorer,
la on his way to Chicago from Chrlu
tlania to secure the largest store of
provisions ever carried by any expe
dition to the Far North. The supplies
are sufficient to last for seven years
for his crew of twelve. Captain
Amundson will start his "dash" for
fthe
frozen north in July.
Plans are being completed for the
f*ception and welcome of the hardy
explorer by the Chicago Geographic
society, while other plans are being
laid to bring Sir Ernest Shackleton
to the city early in the coming year.
Captain Amundson will arrive in
Chicago on Nov. 22.
III Health Cause of Act.
New York, Nov. 11.—Mrs. Marie L.
Estey. widow of widely known piano
manufacturer, committed suicide in
a boarding house here by inhaling
Illuminating gaB. The loss of her
fortune some years ago brought on a
tervous disorder and her 111 health Is
'iMlteved to have led to her act.
Higher Wages for Employes.
Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 10.—The wages
several thousand employes of tho
Bethlehem Steel company will be re
stored to the scale in vogue before the
1907 depression, according to an an
WILLIAM LOEB* JR.
the port of New Yofk, Id check swin
dling by Importers.
The Merchants' club, numbering in
its membership some of the most in
fluential importers in the city, have
arranged a dinner in Mr. Loeb's honor.
SEAL OF SECRECY ON
SUGAR FRAUD CASES
Order Follows Conference of
Government flllicials.
New fork, Nov. 11.—The seal of
secrecy has been put by the depart
ment heads at Washington cn all gov
eminent officials in New York con
nected with the investigation and
prosecution of the gigantic sugar
frauds. This new order followed
swlftl.v the conference of the Waldorf
Astoria hotei between Franklin Mac
Veagh, aecretary of the treasury, and
Collector Loeb. United States District
Attorney Wise and Special Prose
cutors Stimaon, Dtnisoo and W. Wick
ham Smith.
Wise has charge of the cases
against the officers and directors of
the sugar trust charged with violat
ing the criminal clause of the Sher
man anti-trust law. He has taken an
appeal from the decision of Judge
Holt, decided in the United States
circuit court Oct. 26, dismissing the
indictments against George E. Kissel
and Thomas B. Harned, who were
included in the blanket indictments
returned by the grand jury last June
against the trust and its officers and
directors. Kissel and Harned plead
ed the statute of limitations.
The appeal taken by District Attor
ney Wise will be carried immediately
to the supreme court at Washington
Upon the decision of that tribunal wil
depend the course the government will
take in the cases against John E
Parsons, Washington B. Thomas and
other officials of the sugar trust.
If the supreme court confirms the
opinion of Judge Holt In the cases of
Kissel and Harned the sugar trust
officials will plead the statute of lln
nations and thus put a sharp stop to
all criminal proceedings against them
selves and may block all trust prow
cutions.
WILL REFUSE WAGE DEMAND|
Railroad Managers Declare Against an
Increase.
Chicago. Nor 11—Railroad officer
have declared that no wage Increase.
will be granted their employes at this
time and that they do not expect seri
ous trouble. The demands of the men
were declared to have been present
ed at an inopportune lime, just as th
railroads are emerging from a period
of business depression, when earning
must be applied to equipment ttut
should have been purchased a
ago.
MAY MEAN ADVANCE IN PRICES
Lumbermen and Furniture Manufac
turers Meet at Chicago,
Chicago. Nov. 11.—With lumbermen
at the Congress hotel discussing raw
material and furniture men at the
Afiditorlum hotel considering the flu
ished product decided increase in
prices of furniture and its products
is probable, accoiding to membera
who attended both meetings.
"With raw material getting scarcer
each year," said Henry Johnson at
the lumbermen's gathering, "and la
bor high and .hard to get and a tariff
that is not to our liking prices are
fround to be higher for almost every
thing tiiat is made from lumber and
•ovnoement made by Charles M. 1 we are here to discuss that feature." I
Schwab, president of the company.
Wilkesbarre.
meti lost their
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IN C0LLSE11Y FIRE
Large Force Saves Few After
All Kilt's Wok,
Treasury Department Accepts Bottom
Duties in Case of Disagreement.
Washington, Nov. 11.—Under the
administration of Secretary of the
fftt
Pa., No?. 11—Nine
live? in ffie fire fol-
lowing an explosion in the Auchfn-1
closs colliery of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western .company at Nan
ticoke, near here. A large force of
men worked all night to rescue the
living men entombed. Several were
taken out severely injured. It is be
lieved that all the men have been ac
counted for. The fire is still burning,
but is under control.
LOWER RATES ARE FAVORED
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Detroit
With every Stewart there goesjwith it
a written guarantee bond that the stove
i§ perfect as to material and workman*
ship.
We are well pleased with our Steal
Range Sale the past ten days.
However we have two or three left
which you can buy at the sate price.
CRIST RENSCH,
The
Hardware Merchant
GliddenTour of 2600 miles.
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Last Year's Sensation U Jlif
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, THI RHDIY, NOVKWHKR 11. 1909
Trcasuo .,i u Wacli, the ou-toms offi
cials are iuu-i prating i tssiftcation
questions nrisfn- under the new tariff
in favor of lover duties rather than
higher oner. This is a distinct de
parture from tt- policy that long pre
vailed in the treasury department.
Secretary MaeVeagh takes the view
that the present law was downward
revision in theory. His own leanings
are also toward moderate duties. It
is supposed that President Taft takes
the same view, that in case of uncer
tainty it is better to give the public
the benefit of the doubt.
TO ESCAPE BEING RUN DOWN
Man Jumps Sev^tty Feet Pram Tres
tle and Lives.
Cleveland, tydf. 11.—Fred Dowler
of Port Hmon Mich., jumped seventy
feet from a railway trestle onto boul
ders to escape a train and was unin
jured.
James Olancey and James Harring
ton, also of Port Huron, did not jump.
Clancey was Killed Harrington was
probably fatally Injured.
The men wre walking along the
tracks of the Belt line and were cross
ing a trestle near Broadway when a
train ran them down.
S Passengers 30 Horse Power 10S Inch B&ic 32x3% Inch Tires Weight
Equipped 2150 lbs. 6000 now in use. Motor 4x4V2. Magneto, Gas Lamps,
Generator
and Tube Horn Included—Of Course. The Cw JL®d the
This Year s Standard CI
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THHtlE PROBABLY PERISHED
Mwvtity cf Victims of Auto Plunge
Established
Cliuago, Nov. 10.—Not content with
drafting the bottom of the river the
police hegaii to •cine it in an eftort to
find the bodies of the persons who
were drowned Sunday night when a
taxlcab plunged over the oj*m draw
of a bridge her# Into the Chicago
liver.
Despite f.irty-elglil hours spent in
Imaging the river and the recovery oi
Ihe auto n« a trace of any of th«
bodies has been fornd. Meanwhile
th« ta iiiies of .Max Cohen and Miss
Beatrice Shapiro have enlisted th
aid of the police in searching for
these two people, both of whom have
been missing since Sunday night.
it is practically certain that Walter
Kamp, chauffeur of the wrecked tax
icab, is one of the victims and the
police declared that all the circuit
stances indicated that Cohen and the
Shapiro girl were also drowned.
Kennedy s ssfate uarne.
New York. Nov 11.—Friends of
John Stewart Kennedy, whoae estat
was first put at $3P.'i0,00i and now
at $60,000,000, declare that it will be
$100,000,000. unless he made large dls
(ipfnra l.la
Stewart
HEATERS
We are not going into details about
these heaters, as they have been ot the
market 70 years, probably the oldest
stove and range factory in the world.
What we want you to know
is that we
have the
Largest Line
-s*#
of Heaters of any hardware store in
the city.
We have all sizes in three different
makes of the Stewart and
very close prices on them.
1909
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Beautiful Gifts
CHAS. B. KENNEDY
President
—THE
Madison State
COAL
AWAY
GEO. COOK, The Jeweler
To stimulate our trade from now until Jan. I, we
are going to give away to our customers the fol
lowing beautiful presents
1st Gift, A BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND RING
2nd Gift, LADIES or GENTS GOLD FILLED WAlti
3rd Gift, HAND PAINTED CHINA
4th Gift, CUT GLASS PIECES
These articles are now ett display 4ft 6W sfiow
window. We are making some extraordinary
prices on our Jewelry and Silverware all along
the line. Repair work has the same opportunity
to get these presents.
GEO. COOK, Th^Jewd«m
MADISON, S.
FARM 1LOANS
PHONE 234
We handle only the
best and deliver to
all parts of the city
JONES BROS. GRAIN CO.
Peter Marquart
MEMBER OF
OUR MOTTO
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W. G. MARQUART,
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Hie President
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Don't Permit the Coal to Run Out
for you will suffer much inconven
ience- We, of course, hurry your
order as much as possible, but
you run a risk.
TAKE TIME BY THE fOMIOCK
as regards your fuel- Our coal
will burn good, is free from all
foreign substances such as dirt,
slate, etc- and will throw out all
the heat you can stand for. Any
sise any quantity.
tmM W. Ketcham
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