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UNCLE SAM'S i WOMEN US IIPPLERS
OPENING ROSEBUD RESERVATION
EYE IS BUSY
STEADILY DIRECTED TOWARD
ALLEGED WHEAT CORNER
British Reformers Present Some
Startling Facts.
CAUSES MARKtD FLURRY j
It Is Charged That Sixty Per Cent of
Supply Is Held By Or.e Clique
—Federal Agerts Are Inves-
tigating Rumor
Most Remarkable Development of All
Is Way in Which Those F<"om
Middle Class Patronize the
Public Houses.
Chicago—Any man or set of men
who buy so much grain that the price
is held out cf line or out of reach
of buyers may be considered as act-
ing in restraint of trade. That is the
basis upon which, in the opinion of
President Merrill cf the Chicago
board of trade, Washington agents
are orking in tfie investigation of
an alleged corner in wheat centered
at Chicago and extending from Du-
luth and Minneapolis to the seaboard.
Although declaring that no investi-
gation of the board of trade itself is
under way, to the best of his under-
standing, Mr. Merrill said:
"I do know that the federal agents
who were in La Salle street Thursday
went to the northwestern markets on
Wednesday. This makes it look as
if the department of justice at Wash-
ington considered there was some
understanding between big wheat
owners here and at other large cen-
ters. So far as the board of trade
as an organization i3 concerned, all
is serene."
Rumors were current that a former
stenographer of the weight master's
office of the board had given evidence
to the government. According to re-
ports, the source of which was not
disclosed, 60 per cent of the country s
wheat supply is controlled by an il-
legal Combination of speculators and
17,000,000 bushels of the total hold-
ings of the clique are in Chicago
grain elevators.
Threats that warehouse receipts for
millions of bushels in store here might
be seized as evidence in a conspiracy
had a paralyzing effect on the ex-
change. The last few minutes of
trading the market broke nearly 2
cents from top figures and closed
in a whirl of excited selling within
1-4 cent of the lowest point of the
d'ay, 95 3-8c for December.
A statement was made that the
Armour Grain company, perfected a
deal by which millions of bushels
were transferred to a group of mill-
ing inter°pts, the millers, it was said,
being allowed to receive the grain
from the Armour warehouse when
convenient.
One theory is that the government
proceedings were originally started
with a view to heading off such a
mammoth transaction.
ACTOR KYRLE BELLEW
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Famous Stage Artist and Explorer
Succumbs at Salt Lake City-
Body Bacfc to New York
Salt Lake City, Utah—Kyrle Bel-
lew, oue of the foremost actors on
the English-speaking stage, author
and explorer, died here shortly after
6 o'clock Thursday morning of pneu-
monia.
Mr. Bellew became ill a week a?r
and although a portion of his Sal
Lake City engagement was cancelled
his condition was not considerei
alarming until Tuesday mornin-
The body will be taken to New Yor
accompanied by menibe.rs of th
"Mollusc" company in which Mr. Be
lew was playing.
In addition to his successes ps a r
mantle actor, Mr Bellew was a drt
matist and adapter.
London.—Odco more the ultra tem-
perance lolk ol England are "appalled
by the growth ol the diinking haDit
among society women, and as it iiius
were not bad enough the Band ol
Hope conference at Swansea is fairly
agbast at the increase ol tippling
among women oi the middle classes
Samuel Manger, one time postmas-
ter general ot Australia, wnile depor
lng the lact that the society woman
drinks, says that as a rule she is care-
ful—not from any particular morality,
but as a matter of expediency and to
preserve her looks—and that, more-
over. she usually confines herself to
choice wines and liquors. It Is trie
•middle class woman who has become
the "dram drinker."
Quoting the vicar of a select resi-
dential London suburb. Mr Manger
declares the reverend gentleman said:
"11 only you could see into the draw-
ing-rooms of my well-to-do parishion-
ers you would find in 75 per cent of
them women, in many cases young
girls, sitting round playing bridge,
smoking and drinking whisky and
Soda
"Go into any restaurant patronized
by the middle classes," said Mr Man
ger. "and you will see well-dressed
women and even young girls drinking
spirits, not only at dinner, but at
luncheon."
As if this were not sufficiently
shocking, the announcement is made
that "the most remarkable develop-
ment of all is the way In which mid-
dle-class women patronize public
houses." In London we are told the
womenkind of- even professional and
business men make free use of the
"pubs.'' while thirty years ago the
upper middle class woman rarely
touched wtnes, and spirits not at all.
and would have been ashamed of her-
self if seen in a public house.
According to the reformers, this re-
markable change in the customs and
tastes of the middle class women Is
the outgrowth of the practice of din-
ing at restaurants Society set the
fashion of restaurant meals and the
middle class women followed their ex
ample, finding in whisky and soda at
the "pub" a convenient medium be
tween the expense of wine and the
plebeanism of beer
The hotel smoking lounge too. we
ar4 told, has made dram drinkers of
many women Formerly, according
to the temperance folk, if a man stay
lng at a hotel wanted to smoke he
went to the smoking room, but now he
joins the ladies In the lounge and If
he feels Inclined to have a drink he
naturally asks bis fair companions to
Join him, and the modern woman
makes no bones about asking for a
"peg" or a "whisky and "
After declaring that drunkenness In
a woman is much harder to cure than
in a man Mr Manger announces that
of 3.031 persons admitted to inebriate
reformatories during the last few
years no fewer than 2.54S were worn
en.
Discover New Diamond.
New York.—Australian diamonds are
tfe latest novelty In the Maiden lane
jewelry district They are declared
experts to be of fine quality linn-
Ireds of these diamonds were obtained
n the space of a few hours In an ex-
Inct volcano In the northern part of
•Jew South Wales, and were extract-
d from the loam by the primitive
'ethed of hand sifting the sands in
tub of water. About twenty specl-
ens were sent here for private exhl-
lit ion.
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OCTOBER 24, under the direction of
of the interior, the lands of the
awarded to settlers by lot. There we
ot Gregory. S D., where the drawing
ful people from all parts of the coun
some of these would-be land owners
low, Mr. Witten and the great tent w
who could not find sleeping quarters
James W Witten of the department
Rosebud Indian reservation were
re 18,014 registrations, and the town
took place, was thronged with hope-
try. Our illustration shows, above,
in the main street of Gregory, and be-
hich he put up to accommodate those
in the town.
FORTUNE IN STRANDED WHALE
Monster Struggles Desperately to Free
Itself From Shoals Into Which
High Tide Carried 't.
Atlantic City, N J—A 60 toot whale,
weighing seven or eight tons, churned
the sea into foam ofr Fourth street,
Ocean City, the other morning as it
struggled desperately to tre«  Itselt
from the shoals into which he had
been carried at high tide by the
waves Spray was dashed up 3U and
40 leet as the whale whipped the sea
with sweeps ot his powertul tail, and
for three hours, while the tide was
tailing, hundreds ol persons watched
the mammal's dying struggles
Surtmen lrom the Ocean City lite
saving station rushed their cratt into
the water and cautiously ventured
near, but rowed away In Iright as tne
monster threshed about wildly I'hey
hovered close until the whaie weak
ened lrom his struggles
Then, as the whale, after a last des-
perate convulsion, surrendered, the
government men roped him He was
dead when the men anchored his car-
cass to the sands to prevent the sea
at high tide from wresting their prize
from them
Low tide at noon enabled the
throngs to crowd about the whale and
photograph and examine the giant ol
the ocean. He was pronounced to be
of the bowhead sperm lamtly. whose
value tor oil is In the hundreds ot
dollars
The life savers, who held that his
body is their property through dis
covery and carture, will sell the car
cass to a syndicate, which plans to
exhibit It in one of the metropolitan
allies.
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Engineers measured the mammal
and declared that his bulk would in-
dicate the weight as more than seven
tons, but he was a smaller stranger
from the Arctic seas than the one
which was cast up dead on the strand
about eighteen years ugo in almost
the same place
HIS WEDDING FEE EELATED
Clergyman Receives $20 Check Twen-
ty Years After Performing Cere-
mony—Was Short of Funds.
New York.— Kev Horace L) Kerrts,
now pastor of a churcn in North Salem
and twenty years ago in charge ot a
congregation at Quogue, L. I., has just
received a tee ot $20 lor a wedding
that he performed at ljuogue twenty
years ago The couple whom he mar-
ried are now living in Manhattan At
that time of the marriage the bride-
groom said he was short ot funds and
! asked the minister to wait lor his ree,
promising to send it as soon as he
i could
Mr Ferris forgot all about the wed-
ding long ago He was astonished a
tew days ago to receive a check for
$20, accompanied by a letter express-
ing the writer's regret at having kept
him waiting so long It was only by
consulting his old records that the
clergyman was able to recall the cere-
mony.
Fudge to Balky Horse.
Boston, Mass.—A. pretty schoolgirl
plentliully supplied with hotne-mdde
ludge broke up a traffic blockade when
she led a balky horse candy and got
Dobbin to move on by following her.
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