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GREAT WARSHIP
TAKESJOWATER
The
Battleship Arkansas
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Launched at Camden.
MONSTER FIGHTING SHIP
VmmI Pronounced to
Bo tho Moot
Formidable Vessel in Gun Power of
Any Now Afloat—Governor Dona
ghoy of Arkansas Not Present Be
cauoo of Controveroy With Navy De
partment Over tHH Oato #f tHe
Launching.
Philadelphia, Jan. 16.—Splashed
with the traditional bottle of cham
pagne the battleship Arkansas, the
largest warship ever constructed in
this country, was launched from the
yards of the New York Shipbuilding
company at Camden, N. J. Miss Mary
Macon, daughter of Representative
Robert B. Macon of Helena, Ark., was
tike sponsor for the ship.
There was one unusual feature to
the launching, the absence of an offi
cial delegation representing the state
government of Arkansas. The failure
of Governor Donaghey or other official
representatives to attend was due to
controversy between the governor
and the navy department at "Washing
ton over the date of the launching, the
governor wanting the launching post
poned so that the state could make
adequate arrangements to send an of
ficial party.
There was, however, quite a large
delegation of Arkansana present. It
Included Representative and Mrs. Ma
con and other members of the Arkan
•as congressional delegation all of
whom had been invited by the ship
building company. The navy depart
m«nt was officially represented by
Beekman Winthrop, assistant seen
tary of the navy, and a long list of
rear admirals and other officers. Ther«
was also a large delegation at cam
gressraen from other states.
Quests Entertained at Luncheon.
Following the launching the officials
of the company entertained the guest#
at a luncheon spread in one of the
big buildings of the plant.
The principal dimensions of the lat
est and largest addition to the navy
are: Length over all, 562 feet beam
over armor, 93 feet 2% inches draft,
feet, 6 Inches displacement, 26,000
tons
The contract for the ship calls for a
•peed of 20% knots an hour.
When complete the Arkansas will
have the greatest guu power In broad
side fire of any ship afloat. The main
armament will consist of twelve
twelve-lncn breechloading guns mount
ed In six heavy armor protected tur
rets. For defense against torpedo
boat attacks there will be a battery
of twenty-one five-inch rapid Are guns.
There will also be two submerged tor
pedo tubeB and ten Bmall guns. The
total weight of broadside tire will be
about 11,000 pounds. The armor belts
will have an average thickness of
three inches.
The Arkansas will be turbine driven
and will Lave 28,000 horsepower. The
vessel will be fitted for a flagship and
her complement will consist of eighty
five officers and 1,030 men.
The keel of the Arkansas was laid
last January and at present the ship
it about €0 per cent completed.
ARE INDICTED FOR PERJURY
Four Members of Auditing Committee
of New York Bank.
New York, Jan. 16.-—The four mem
bers of the auditing committee of the
Washington Savings bank, one of the
Robin institutions which was recent
ly closed, were Indicted charge
of perjury.
The men are Charles K. Lezow,
William YoungB, Thomas G. Mur
phy, assistant postmaster of New
York, and Dr. Harry James.
It is alleged the men certified, July
t9, in the bank's semi-annual state
ment, thai they bad examined All the
books of the bank, whereas they hsd
not done so.
UPHELD BY THE COURTS
Psy-as-You-Enter cars Declared Legal
in Rhodg Island.
Providence, R. I., Jan. 16.—The su
preme court of Rhode Island has de
cided that it is "reasonable regula
tion" that passengers be required to
Insert nickels In the automatic fare
collectors used by street car com
panies In pay-as-you-enter cars.
The question arose in a suit brought
by a passenger against the railroad
company for being put off a car after
he had refused to put his fare in the
hand register. It is believed that this
Is the first time this question has been
tWiowBtrr.
DR. SIMON FLEXNER.
Head of Rockefeller Research
Institute is Seriously III.
FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
Nearly Quarter of a Million In Hands
of Cherry Relief Committee.
Springfield, III., Jan. 16.—Widows
and children of miners who were killed
in the Cherry mine disaster of Nov
18, 1909, have received $54,594 from
the Cherry relief fund, according to
the report of Secretary Duncan Mc
Donald of the Cherry relief fund com
mission.
The report in detail shows that six
children of the miners who were killed
have since died and eleven bpnefi
claries have gone to Europe. Six of
the 142 widows who lived at Cherry
Just after the accident have remarried
and -only 102 reside in the village at
present. The sum of $244,593 remains
in the hands of the commission to be
paid to the widows and children of the
dead miners.
GIVES UP BATTLE
WITH SNOWDRIFTS
Western Pacific Orbs Trains
ft Return to Frisca
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 16.—With
hundreds of men battling with the
snow chocked passages of the Sierras
In an effort to keep the railroad lines
clear and bring relief to the stalled
overland passenger and mail trains all
the resources of the Southern Pacific
and Western Pacific companies are be
ing brought to bear In fighting the
worst snow storm in the mountain
districts in the last twenty years.
All east and westbound trains are
moving on the Southern Pacific tracks
through thr Sierras and the snow
sheds, which were damaged by the
heavy fall of snow the last two days,
had been temporarily repaired.
Realizing the impossibility of forc
ing a passage through snowdrifts of
six and eight feet depth the Western
Pacific railroad officials ordered its
stalled eastbound overland trains at
Belden and Oroville to return to San
Francisco and annulled the overland
at San Francisco, which was ready to
depart for the East.
SLtET STORM STOPS TRAFFIC
Telegraph, Telephone and Trolley
Wires Out of Commission.
Kansas City, Jan. 1C.—Sleet which
has been falling during the last twen
ty-four hours has covered Kansas City
streets with great cakes of ice.
Many telegraph, telephone and trol
i«y
wires are out of commission, be
ing broken by their icy burdens. Kail
road and street car schedules are far
behind as a consequence. Many per
sons hTave been injured by falling on
Icy pavements.
Twenty-five prisoners, in charge of
the jailer, Joseph McGrath, started up
the hill from the Kansas City (Kan.)
jail to the stone quarry chained In
pairs. About half the ascent had been
accomplished when the first member
of the first squad slipped. He dragged
down his mate and soon twenty-five
men, balls and chains were rolling
down the hill.
They tried again with the same re
sult, and then again, but it was no
use, bo they all went back to spejafl
the 4»jr in the Jail.
Carrie Nation Critically III.
Eureka Springs, Ark Jan. 14.—Mrs.
Carrie Nation, the pioneer Kansas sa
loon smasher, suffered a nervous col
lapse in her home here. Her condi
tion was such that Mrs. Nation ex
pressed the fear that her career as
temperance lecturer and the active
ttemy of Intoxicants is end«i.
PLAN INCLUDES
CEifflAL BANK
Senator Aldrich ft Intro*
duce Financial Bill.
LAST ACT OF HIS CAREER
Rhode Island Solon Hopes to Secure
Adoption of His Measure Before the
Close of the Present Session, When
He Retires From Public Life—Idea
a Modification of the System Now in
Force in England.
Washington, Jan. 16.—Senator A3
dricli will soon, it is said, introduce In
the senate a bill embodying his per
sonal plan for the reorganization of
the national finances before the dose
of the present session of congress.
This plan pruvides for a modified cen
tral bank system which is designed
to make available the business credit
of the country as a basis for currency,
but which will not enter Into competi
tion in the general bauking business
of national, state or private banks.
The senator from Rhode Island has
determined on this step as the best
method of educating the business
world and acquainting it with the con
clusions he lias been led to draw from
the extensive investigations of the na
tional monetary commission.
Whether or not members of that
commission will subscribe with
marked unanimity to the views of the
senator from Rhode Island, who Is its
chairman, remains to be determined
Mr. Aldrich, while regarding the
proposed measure as of vast impor
tance to the stability of the nation's
finances and while, perhaps, measur
ably proud of the system he has de
vised. is wholly open to suggestion
and his purpose in presenting the bill
at this session is the better acquaint
ance of the business world with the
conclusions he has reached and the
plan he has devised and which Is, of
course, least in harmony with the de
ductions of a majority of the commis
sion. If those interested in the sub
ject as members of the commission or
as bankers and business men can sug
gest improvements Mr. Aldrich will
welcome such suggestions most cor
dially.
Features of His Plan.
The plan of a central bank, modeled
after the Bank of England, was found
to possess practically insuperable ob
jections, but Mr. Aldrich will propose
a modification of that plan, a bank
which will possess a large capital,
which will issue currency in times of
emergency and which will probably,
in the course of time, replace the ex
isting national bank notes, which will
accumulate a surplus and which will
exercise a certain supervisory power
over the banking and fiscal affairs of
the entire country, similar to that
which has been exercised by the clear
ing house associations in those cities
large enough to maintain such institu
tions.
To facilitate the exercise of that
supervision which is regarded as es
sential to the proper utilization of the
credit of the commercial institutions,
and which Includes a check on fren
zied finance and madcap banking, Mr.
Aldrich proposes the division of the
country into fifteen districts, each of
which will choose a director to sit on
the board of what Mr. Aldrich terms
"the central banking mechanism," and
this directorate, which will be aug
mented by certain of the federal fiscal
officers, will control the affairs of the
central mechanism, as well as pass on
such questions as may be referred to
It by the several districts
DEBATE ON THE ARMY BfU
Agitation for Increased National De
fense Reaches Congress.
Washington, Ji.n. 16.—The agitation
for an increased national
defense
reached the floor of the house in the
debate on the army appropriation
bill when Representative Hull (Rep.
la.), chairman of the house committee
on military affairs, declared that the
present strength of the coast artillery
corps will be unable to man more
than one-third of our present coast de
fense guns in war time.
Hull made this statement in sup
porting an appropriation of $300,000
1uttuuc\
the IOI SUPPLY
nig
"dummy" guns and ammunition for
coast artillery militia in the various
states.
The appropriation was retained in
the bill.
Famous Druce Witness Dead.
New York, Jan. 14.—Robert Cald
well, tjie "great American affidavit
maker, who figured as the principal
witness In the famous Druce will case
in England, is dead here after an ill
ness of mere than two years. He died
In the city insane asylum on Wards
Island, to wl.ich he was admitted In
Wl.
She ifta&ison IDatln fcakr.
MADISON. SOUTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16. 1911
JAMES A. PATTEN.
Former Speculator the Re
cipient of Novel Proposal
TO PASS ON GRAIN
AND STOCK BUSINESS
Proposed That Church Mem
bers Act as Jul} i
Chicago, Jan. 16.—A lay Jury of his
peers, as represented by his fellow
parishioners in :he First Presbyterian
church of Bvanston, to pass on
whether the operations of James A.
Patten, the multimillionaire, and oth
ers on the Chicago board of trade can
be classed as common gambling or
legitimate business is a proposal
which has been laid before the former
grain and cottor broker.
Following the launching of a suit
for $5,000,000 against the millionaire
retired operator by Dr. Paul Burmas
ter, president of the Chicago Anti
Gambling league, it Is now suggested
that the legitimacy of lower La Salle
street be settled as between man and
man—courts and flae legal interpreta
tions ignored. The following letter
was mailed to Mr. Patten:
"Dear Sir—On behalf of my client,
Dr. Paul Burmaster, I extend to you
an invitation to take the negative of
this question: 'Is there gambling in
La Salle street, dressed in reputable
clothes?' Would suggest that the de
bate be held in the First Presbyterian
church at Evanston, 111. Trusting that
I may be favored with an early reply,
I remain, respectfully yours, Robert
R. Mix."
ALL RUSH TO THE STREETS
Chicago Firs Empties Hotels and
Theaters.
Chicago, Jan. 16.—Fire in a four
story building at 111 Madison street
caused alarm in two nickle theaters
and two hotels in the vicinity.
The audiences In both theaters were
quickly dismissed and many guests
at the Morrison and Crant hotels
rushed into the street No one was In
jured.
The loss was about $150,000, the
most of which was suffered by the Al
exander Cassriel company, gold and
•liver refiners.
WOULD END ALL STRIKES
Greater Power to State Departments
of Labor Advocated.
New York, Jan. 16.—At the closing
session of the National Civic Federa
tion resolutions were adopted advo
cating the extension of the Erdman
act to include all interstate public
utilities, especially telegraph and tele
phone companies, and advocating ex
tended powers to all state departments
of labor so that compulsory arbitra
tion might be brought about.
SAILORS PLAN BIG STRIKE
Aim Is to Make It Worldwide if De
mands Are Refused.
London, Jan. 16.—A strike of sail
ors, affecting every English port, is
threatened, to begin nuxt May.
It is the intention to make the
strike worldwide if possible.
The men not only want more pay,
bat desire the establishment of a con
ciliation board to have complete
charge of all disputes that may arise
In the future.
Sleet and Rain Cripple Wirea.
Chicago, Jan. 16.—Telephone and
telegraph companies found their serv
ice severely crippled in Iowa, Western
Illinois and Southern Minnesota. Sleet
and rain which swept across the coun
try also delayed to some extent train
(grviot.
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MRS. JOHN 0. SCHENK.
Woman on Trial for Alleged
Poisoning of Her Husband.
EXPLOSION KILLS ENGINEER
Panic on Steamer When Bottle ef
Chemicals Is Dropped.
Ban Francisco, Jan. 16.—A bottle
chemical compound, dropped by or
crushed in the pocket of John O. Nor
bon, a well known mining engineer, is
believed to have caused an explosion
on the Southern Pacific ferryboat
Berkeley, bringing instant death to
Norbon, £tr'ci: !y injuring two other
men and creating a panic among the
2,000 passengers.
Norbon was identified by a letter In
his pocket and a notebook which con
tained a list of explosive chemicals
These chemicals are thought to have
been carried in a compound on Nor
ton's person.
Plague Reaches Chinees Capital.
Peking, Jan. 16.—One death from
bubonic plague In this city was report
ed to the officials. The government Is
being urged to institute a five days'
quarantine of first clas passengers at
the great wall until observation camps
can b- established at Harbin, Mukden
and Shanhikv.an, and to prohibit sec
ond and third class passenger traflc
from Manhuria.
Sixth Victim of Wreck.
Batavia, N. Y., Jan. 16.—H. H. Cade
of Chicago died at a hospital here
from injuries received in the collision
on the New York Central railroad.
This makes the death list six.
Look for the Bee Hi**.
On the pacakge when you buy Foley's
Honey and Tar fir coughs and colds.
None genuine without the Bee Hive.
Remember the name, Foley's Honey and
Tar and reject any substitute. Sold by
all druggists.
Kill
More Than Wild
Received Highest Award World's Pure
Food Exposition, Chicago, 1907
CALUMET
BAKING POWDER
Beasts.
The number of people killed yearly
by wild beasts don't approach the vast
number killed by disease geroas. No
life in safe from their attacks. They're
in sir, water, dust, even food. But
grand protection in afforded by Eleotrio
Bitters, which destroy sad dispel those
deadly disease germs from the system.
That's why chills, fever and qgue, all
malarial and many blood di—MSS jri#ld
promptly to this wonderful blood puri
fier. Try them and enjoy the glerioua
health and new strength theyll five
Money bad* it Qfifr
Oo at all druggists.
frfrs. Housewjfp
Forget
your prejudice
for just one
baking
favorite baking powder
for just once. Forget for a day that it :s "the kind mother ased."
Dispense with the idea that there is "nothing else just as good." It
may have served you admirably for years. But just remember, other
things have improved since grandmother's time. So why not baking powder?
Get from your grocer today a can of Calumet Baking Powder. Bake a batch of
biscuits, a cake or your favorite pastry. If the baking does not come out just as
good, or better, than usual. If it is not as light, sweet and de
delicious. If it does not prove up to your high standard in every
respect, providing of course you have in every other way exer
cised your usual methods, take the can of Calumet back to the
grocer and get your money. This is our first step in making
friends for Calumet The continued good result!, the parity,
the economy in both cost and use will hold them.
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TTHE STRENGTH OF A BANK
A depends, not on the size of its
(footings, but on the Kind of Assets
•vhich it carries to cover its liabilities*
To give strength these assets must be
easily convertible into Cash under
#tress of circumstances and without
depreciation.
This bank has never striven for Size
#t the risk of soundness.
%e seek first of all to invest every
tnny of our depositors' money where
be safe and available in time of
fieed. Our twenty-six years of steady
jltfid consistent growth are gratifying
4o us only because they have been
irears of Conservative Growth.
JVny bank can transact your everyday
Ranking business well enough when
i% are good and money is easy, but
bank to tie to is the one that has
Ihe Assets to enable it to do well by you in
ithe times of financial stringency which are
hound to come around about every so often.
Vue to our large cash reserve and the class
^f Assets which we carry, This Bank Can
-ay A Claim to Your Patronage Which
Others Can.
»a customer of a bank you have the
jht to know what your money is being
invested in. The figures of a bank state*
tinent fail to tell you that.
*Come in and let us spread out before your
Very eyes some of the reasons why you will
be
safest
to bank with "the old reliable."
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