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n OW &• rt: *v«tW LIP I IN KANSAS TB!f WO! RAINFALL IHtTND- ATK8 TOWN OP BFRUNCi- TON, K4H* stock and automobiles on its crest as it smashed through the main part of town. A score of business houses were inundated. Burlington, Jfarch 24.—One girl known dead, four others missing, property damage now estimated at two million dollars is the toll of the cloudburst that flooded this during the night. —o w TO SOLDIERS* BONUS BILL PASSES THE HOUSE BY A VOTE OF 883 TO TO. Washington, March 24.—The sol-j diers' bonus bill shunted to the sen-j ate after a triumphant 333 to 70 vote in the house must have action i n e u e o y o e e o a s will try embarrassing tactics against the republicans. Arrival of the bill! in the senate will be a signal for starting action. The republicans will be asked some pertinent questions by Senator Harrisburf* Mississippi, democrat. Washington, March 24.—Clearing the way for the ratification of the four-power Paciffc treaty, the admin istration forces in the senate today swept down to defeat the proposed amendments and reservations. On the first vote, the Robinson amend-! ment, binding the four signatory 1 powers to refrain from entering into secret treaty agreements of under standings with any other powers dur ing the life of the present treaty was rejected 32 to 61. The next vote was on agreeing to article one of the treaty. ingly adopted by a vote of 75 to 15 o— It was overwhelm-'8aid' Grain Growers Break Up In Row ^jQhicago, March 24.—Ti* Bnltea States Grain prowers, incorporated, largest farmers' co-operative organi sation in the world, was split wide open today. The first annual con vention broke up in a fight, with the resignation of the three Illinois di rectors and announcement of the re fusal of the North Dakota director to serve. Protests were made against alleged steam roller tactics. o Labor Troubles I n E n a n mi 11 ii London, March 24.—Forty seven labor unions comprising more than six hundred thousand workers affil iated with the engineers now locked out have voted overwhelmingly to reject employers' terms, it was an nounced. The engineering lockout map be extended as a result of this to million worker*. Veteran At DeSmet, Is Given Pension Hi leBmet, March 24.—Joe Teaman, SpainIsh-American war veteran, has just received notice that he has been granted a pension from the govern ment for his service in tfyat war and that he will receive 1 pension was made long ago and it I has taken much correspondence and probf to settle the claim, the govern ment has made payment of $216 as the amount due Mr. Yeaman to date. Burlington, Kans., March 24.—! Pour persons are dead and one mil Jion dollars property damage was the toll esimated early today from a! cloudburst that in the night sent a1 five foot wall of water through the principal business streets in Burling ton. In some places water ten feet' deep swirled through the streets. Rain that literally fell in sheets and totalled more than ten inches had inundated practially all of the busi ness section early today. The wall Cleveland, March 24.—Danger of of water came into town from Rock a split in the ranks of the United Creek a so-called dry stream. It mine workers of America was averted swept away twenty-five or more today. Frank Farrington, president dwellings and carried wrekage, live-' of the Illinois miners, who has been He received this amount in one lump he was one of the old Company E,1 going to the service from DeSmet and serving throughout tltt paign, a period of months. ILLINOIS WILL THIS RBLEAVW IPROSPtXTIVVE WEAK IN RANKS OF MINE WORKERS. holding out for separate state wage negotiations with the operators, threatening an internal break in the union, told members of the mine policy committee meeting here that Illinois miners would strike with other bituimnouB workers April 1. Indianapolis, March 24.—The six were It was overwhelm turnB lection o $18 a i W month in «fc» total* tte examination for'ataoe been changed to Yiiaft. 4*1* city i hour day and five dav week demand low's job and sets up certain claims of five hundred thousand coal mln ers ordered to strike April 1 will be i dropped as their first peace overture if bituminous mine owners consent lo an interstate wage conference, ac I cording to the belief expressed *1oday at the headquarter* of i Mine workers. controversy. the United I0NSU IN TAX RETURNS GREAT FALLING OFF FROM 01. COMBS AND PROFITS. Washington, D. C., March 23.—On the basis of reported collection of income and profits taxes of the March* 15 installment, a shortage of $200,000,000 in the estimated rev enues from these sources for the cal- 1740,000'000installment'Itome while re~ from^the March tj now indicate the total for the year will be $1,540,000,000. i Final reports on receipts for f?£i |il*n March will not be in hand before the end of the month, officials said. but reports received from collectors so far indicate that not more than $400,000,000 will be received as compared with approximately $728.-! The expected shortage of revenue, high officials asserted, would retard the treasury's program for continu- take care of any proposed bonus le gislation calling npflA tft* treasury for financing. n Donates Valuable! 1 v rimn Marflr A Valuable tot 'lftrgey of papers, including the files'"0"" "ave neither 1 1 n e w s a e n e i n a k e and Miner counties between 1882 and 1888, have been donated to the state department of history by the estate of the late Chas. B. Kennedy. They include many papers, which have since ceased to exist, and some which even the old settlers are un able to recall. The Diana Sentinel and the Milwaukee Herald among this class. Milwaukee has v .i- •y-v PECTS BRIGHTEN COUNTRY DISTRICTS, Vlf^AGHS AMD TOWNS TURNING STRONG FOR INCUMBENT In proportion to the slum in the Egan boom there has come a birght ening of prospects for W. H. Mc Master' who is bringing to a close his campaign tour over the state in the interest of his re-election. With the primary only four days away and with the Egan campaign material worn threadbare from constant re petition Mr. McMaster emerges the general favorite of a large part of the state's population. The Egan boom lacks crispness, staying qaulities and a finish that might otherwise be the trump card in the hot closing contest. Mr. Egan's criticisms of the state admin istration is purely and unquestion ably an effort to secure a state job. not that the state needs Mr. Egan for a governor, but because Mr. Egan is ambitious of employment that throws him into the public limelight, a position much coveted by him. In other words, he wants the other fel- to attain that end. He realizes as well as eighty per cent, of the popu- lation realize that there are no .real meritorious appraisal. Washington, March 24.—Ways of The democratic candidate, Mr. averting the coal strike set for April Cr ill stands in a peculiar relation to 1 was discussed at a meeting of the shadings of other stripes of poll President Harding and cabinet to- tics. If it must be that McMaster day. President Harding feels that I can not get the nomination, Egan a strike at this time would seriously can be easily defeated at the next interfere with business revival apd election for the outstanding reason is anxious for settlement of ffeojthat all republicans and democrats who believe in a dependable man for 'governor will unite their strength, repudiate Egan and throw the elec tion to Mr. Crill, who, to say the {between now and least, is for more preferable than Rmibh declared in a candidate sailing under republican banners yet attacking in toto a re publican state administration satis factory to the people of all counties. Mr. Egan has a big guess coming if he thinks the people of South Da- (in endar year 1922 was estimated today premier candidate for the gov by the treasury. Original estimates of revenues from income and profits taxes for the calendar year, high officials ernorship. As the majority com ment of the press constitutes the real guage of the people's opinion it is safe to conclude that Mr. Egan is election meet certain defeat at To Their South Dakota Home Yifriaa, March 24.—-C&arles 000,000 for the corresponding quar-, tlrown, who with his family moved ruary, 10,763. ter last year. The shortage, officials said, was due entirely to the business depres sion during 1921, the year upon which the taxes are due. ing the reduction of the public debt,! name of the family is spelled. Thej as appropriations made on the basis farm which is called Laggertorp con of bwdget estimates would have to tains many acres of valuable timber Ll v Newspaper Piles ress. MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24,1922. Iwas TO FE STRIKE ATSJ. EXPECT COAL 8ays are pay lhey specific state issues, except the qual-! *roup are and are of ifications of the two men in the race Kaniaztion, which has voted to go out for ttie governorship and when com- on A,,ril aa a parisons are made on that basis Mr.jof operators in reducing the Egan suffers from a difference of!*aKrs without kota are going to reject Mr. McMas-, demands." ter*s and give him the reins. Noth- Mr. Roush said that the state mine ing could be more preposterous or property is fenced and that if the ridiculous. men are left unmolested there is Each candidate has presented a i little possibility of trouble. How full line of arguments and the vot- {ever, he declared, should outside in ers understand just what each fluences get to working among the stands for. The press of the state I men, a general feeling of dissatis has analyzed everything'offered to faction might be stirred up which date and are pretty well convinced would breed difficulty. of the worthiness and dependability! At. present there are about 40 of each candidate and they do err far employed at the mine which recognizing in W. H. McMaster ing between daily. to Waderstad, Sweden, about a year. These totals, Mr. Husband ago has returned to his home near could be compared with the They report that times are harder ..J in Sweden than in America, due t0 act A%u are. i & ••k,, 5% v Qearby S w e K u na- money Mr endlt n Falls Into Hot Water :r i I s S a e W *r- Hiarch c&h '.17* tinued practice of mothers of setting by leaving another baby boy, boiling water on the floor while lit- Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are children play about* caused Ml" the proud parents of (plan* ««r i. iv- itmiiiU'iniM iwwMiawwiw*' Immigration Is Greatly Reduced Waahington, March 24. Immi gration restriction resulting from the enforcement of the quota law pass ed in 1921, was illustrated today in a report prepared by Immigration Commissioner Husband, showing that during January, 1922, aliens ad J'Jmitted Vivian. For 25 years Mr. Brown I bers admitted during January, 1921 had worked and planned—always when 66,696 aliens came in with the end in view that he should with February of the saflM year eventually establish his family on! when the total was 58,303. the ancestral possessions of the! o Bhruns, as the old Swedish military be met by further government bor- land. rowing to provide the funds. I After Just one year in the oldj I^es Moines, la., March 24.—R. N. Secretary Mellon was understood country, the Brown family has re- Holsaple of the Iowa Anti-Saloon to regard the drop in tax receipts as turned eager to be back in America' league Joined in the early campaign making it all the more difficult to and willing to sacrifice the prestige, Wednesday, when he sent out letters given in Sweden by their inherit- to all aspirants to the city council ancc. In their section of Sweden all, demanding that they go on record farm and household work is still in favor of porhibitlon and agreeing done by hand, and until they tried if elected, to pass a resolution de it the Browns had not realized the daring prohibition as a "benefit to effect of a backward step "covering the land." Unless the candidates several generations of human prog- totalled 15,928, and in Feb- answer favorably within 24 hours, something dire will happen, one is tod to infer. mini i I S o k Makes Two Visits Davenport, la., March 14.—Ir.' t£}: k i 3 PUSH NEW TRAIL jother painful accident in Aberdeen, When Gladys Marie White, the 2-year 4ld daughter of Mrs. Anna White severely scalded when she back-1 ed into a pail oT boiling water, im-! merging her entire body. The child was playing with a companion in the! basement of the White home, while her mother was washing a few gar-' inents. Mrs. White lifted a pail of pf^ HIGHWAY FROM TWIN CI steaming water from the boiler and set it on thl floor. Gladys took a toy away fr|m her playmate and la i jerking it, dipped backwards tato the pail. .MEN AT YVES' *irec^ors WILL QUIT WHKX NATIONAL WALKOUT IS CALLHD action consulting the union heads. Until last fall the state owned mine was operated on the open shop ban is, according to the superintendent, but pressure was brought to bear by the miners which made it necossary to recognize the union. In keeping with the times and the general wage reductions in progress throughout the country in all branches of work, wages at the state mine will unquestionably be reduced next fall," Mr. speaking of the situation at the mine. "If this thing lmist be settled it might just as well be settled now and for good. I be lieve we will be able to cope with the situation at Haynee, but we will go only as far as public sentiment TIES THROUGH SOUTH DA KOTA TO POL\TS IN WEST. Watertown, March 24.—At a me ing held here by boosters of the pro posed short-cut automobile highwiv from the Twin Cities directly wt to Watertown across South Dakc'.i »n an air line to the Black Hill nd on westward to the Yellowsto national park, a temporary organb tion was perfected. March 24«~-8outlt Bftko- At the meeting representatives ta's state owned coal mine stands in'were present from Frankfort, Dn a fair way to feel the effects of the,land, Revillo, S. D., and from Clara threatened miner's strike and to: City, Montevideo, Madison, Dawson have work temporarily suspended,: and Hutchinson, Minn. A tempor according to E. O. Roush, superin-jary board of directors was elected, tendent, who has been in Pierre this'with one member form each town week. While the men employed by! ship in the two states represented at the state at the mine, Mr. Roush the meeting. satisfied with their present. o u s a n i v i n conditions, Permanent interstate officers an are to 1,6 e'ec,e^ Reno, said, num- Demands Record On and U OT Question at 'first annual meeting, which will ti held at Madison, Minn., on June I When the trail will be named, consti tution and by-laws adopted and th»j route of the trail completed in de tail. the most popular suggested name t« Poetically all union men the new highway was the Arrow affiliated with the western Trail, but this has not been adopt.-d. miners national or- the naming ol the trail being l.-tt to the first annual meeting on Jon. first. It was agreed that east of Wat i town the new trail should exten.l eastward on%the Kranzberg road miles into Deuel county, then noni. on the King of Trails automobile highway to Revillo, and east 11 mil es to the South Dakota-Minnesota boundary line, where a connection will be made with the Mlnneso'i federal aid highway. The new auto highway Is expected to become one of the most popular for tourists in the northwest. —o Predicts «SVave i Of men is load- S During the informal discussions Prosperity New York, March 24.—The conn try needs a little more "Come on. let's go," spirit and a little less "Thou shalt not". That is Will Hays, new command er-in-chlef of the motion picture in dustry and former postmaster gen eral, summed up the business situa tion as he sees it today. ahead of us," he told the New Yi council of the American Associatmi of Advertising Agencies at its lunch s eon, "but there is impending the greatest feviv&l the world has seen." V seven and eight cars e v e Make Reno Less Popular Is Scheme March 24.—An initiative petition changing the residence quirements of the Nevada divorce law from six months to a year lias.1* been placed in circulation by Bishop George Hunting of the Episcopal church of Nevada. The petition a s 3 Daily Market Report H/ttlXSOTT MARlQEfr. At 3 p. m. today, corn, 41c bar ley, 42c oats, 26c. tfbineapolis Grain MurkmL Minneapolis, March 24.—Corn.— Steady to l-2c lower No. 3 yellow 9 and 9 l-2c under Chicago May demand 'air to good. No. 2 yellow closed at 51 1-4 and 51 3-4c. No. 2 mixed at 49 3-4 aid 50 l-4c. Oats.—Steady demand good, of ferings light No. 3 white 1-2 and lc over May. No. 3 whites closed at 32 1-8 and 32 5-8c. No. 4 whites at 30 5-8 and 31 5-8c. Rye.—Unchanged No. 2 at 1-2 and 2c /tver May demand good ex cept for thin. No. 2 rjm closed at 9« 3-4 and 94 3-4c. Barley.—Strong to lc higher for I medium grades, offerings small. Pri #s closed at 48 and 61c. |WRT',r" Slow Qltf Live Stork made a nlgth call at the Joe Sioux City, March 24. -Tfte best Harrison residence Saturday night hog price of the day was $9.75 and and left a baby boy. the bulk of all sales ranged at $9.50 Becoming generous, the stork vis- and $9.70. Mixed heavies sold at ited the Harrison home again Mon-|$9.25 and $9.50. Packer outs sold at day evening and completed his work! $8.25 and $8.75. There were not enough pigs on sale to make a mar now, ket. The native pigs are quoted at $1.60 M.76 •**r\ V. been sent to all parishes in the stat* 2 The petition must be filed not later than December and must have lOijE per cent of the total vote cast fur IVlUltlllUIWIUIItlltlHHIIIMtllllttlMIIHIIiaillltMIIIIIIIIIUIHIIIIIIIIINIIIIIItllllUIIINIlI state supreme court justice at the last election. Spartrtlng Oera East River Sterling Egg ,r A GOOD BANK— Co-operates with its customers for its pros perity depends on their prosperity. CO-OPERATION— This bank has dealt for about forty years with those en- 1 S if*Red in developing the fundamental resources of the na tion, and has confidence in the strength of the land and the 1 enterprise of her people. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK There are tremendous problems I JjillllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllJI putt of he told the New Yit'I 2 S Manufacturers of Peerless Ice Cream and Soft Drtnks Highest Market Price Paid for Cream PHONE 2341 MADISON, S. 0. THE TEST OF ALL u: 1:-. With customers for mutual welfare is the constant aim of THE DAKOTA STATE BANK MADISON, & & ^IIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHI'lUIIIIIIUIIUIIlUflliiiliiliiiiiHiiiiiHHiiiHHiiiiiiiiiHUlilHinHHIHI 1 Fundamental Resources S America is endowed by nature with many sails, and many 5 resources. She is fundamentally Bound in her institutions and firmly entrenched in her possession of the basic easen s tiala of life and happiness. From her mountains and plains, her forests and sea coasts, spring those things that are s needed by the world. Prosperity, like the tide, rises and 5 ebbs, but the wealth of this country is the wealth that en E dure8 and cannot be long depreciated by surface influences. fEOERAL s ^. Bank MADISON, S\ D. E O E S A K L- A O Y I The Madison Creamery Proprietor* Makers of High Grade Butter" Soft Coal Oak and Maple Wood Scra&ton Har*! Goal Hayes-Lucas Lumber €o. Phone 2343 L. H. BLAGEN, Agent coal coal Large and Small Briquets Kentucky Lump Splint Lump Coke IIMIIttlMIMtlHIIIHIflllll ••f.i 1 W. KfTCHAM SOFT 2338 .. v.. A X- i 1 i i i.**V i', Lw k ». "3PV» affjwKf ff* i': i An iWiltlltiH.IWtlm'UMli tMg'ffrl. n S Jjt f: H'J-!. 2 1