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1 Vv fu": c*.'#v4 -rf/7 t#&:•?.:.:•••'«£ i" *£f»Vh£f ST *& *4 «. *J fW,* t-^ -.-zg'll'% &•' -t v? N 'V* VOL. XXVIII If interested, address tv *-V -r {i 1, r^\Trv*f*r'* k•grew 9 x*"" M* **,- DR. W. C. HULL Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist All dlseaSDS of domestic aniraalo successful ly treated. Injuries skillfully handled and cured where a cure can be effected. PI F,It It E. S. I IIEIESy^B Of mm-- wis$i Steifesv-S Pepsin and Iron Tablets TONIC AND DIGESTIVE• Digest what You Eat. Make Rich Red Blood. YOU FEEL STRONGER EVERY DAY At Vll Druggists or hy Mail, Postpaid 50c Per Box H. M. STRAIGHT & CO. PIERRE SOUTH DAKOTA NEBRSKA MILITARY ACADEMY I N O N A MILITARY BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS Splendid fireproof buildiugs fiity acres campus prepares for college or business one teacher for every ten boys. Special instruction given to boys who don't fit in public school classes. Back work easily made up. No of cadets limited to 100. Catalag sent free for the asking. Phone: Otfice, /-8-6 A. Residence, 2-3-8 F. 33 No Vacation. Call or write Pierre Business University W, PIERRE, SO. DAK. GROUND FEED .S jftaivswsc pf'^fTT, yr*T? *, -*, V-w-. D. D. HAY WARD, Superintendent LINCOLN, NEBRASKA WM. C. NOTMEYER PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE AND INSURANCE. Have several well located city homes for sale on easy terms, might consider an exchange. What have you to offer? ,"*} ie Keynote OF THIS STORE Everything in our store is of good quality. Our goods will surely appeal to those who appreciate right tilings. We make a point of buying, nothing below a price which will insure good quality in FRESH GROCERIES FRUITS AND PROVISIONS You will find here a full line of goods, including all goods offered by any dealer anywhere. I sell upon a pos itive guarantee that goods are right. F. E. BRTTIN Phone 2-3-3 The Leading Grocer. Fresh and Entirely Free from Inferior Grain A full linu of all other kinds of feed carried in stock. Give us a trial, PIERRE HAY & FEED COMPANY Phone 1-2-3 Pierre. DR. HATTIE JOHNSON OSTEOPATHIC 1'HYSICIAN All chronic and acute cases treated successfully. VVomens and child rens diseases a specialty. Suite 3 Hyde Block After Scfioof What? Why not learn Shorthand or Bookkeeping ENTER ANY TIME •r«s»~ Si? A 'i 'MZ a gives better results *in most "cases "than ^whore^^ain easier digested less required. We have it in any form or mixture, prepared in our own mill. c: lf *T "I S4*vr?'v tr? It takes the Canadians as long to explain an election as it does us. The eruption of Mount Etna is be coming more intense and a panic pre vails at Calania, Sicily. The weather man got mixed in his dates and sent his June rains in Sep tember otherwise he is doing very well. Walworth county is to have a new court house, built at an estimated cost of $50,000. Brick is to be used in its construction. Every county fair that has been held in the state so far has been a big success. This is incontrovertible proof that South Dakota is highly prospering. Sugar's reached the highest price in 20 years. Now watch the preserv ers soak it to us next winter on the ground that the sugar trust wasn't "reasonable." The entry of "Dick" Richards in the South Dakota senatorial race makes sure there will be nothing poky about the peacemaking.—Sioux City Journal. The next annual meeting of the society of state engineers, will be held at this city some time in next year, at a date to be fixed by the exe cutive board of that society. Many men of all nationalities will wonder, no doubt, how two diplom ats can talk over one subject for two months without committing them selves until the last moment to any thing definite. The state board of pharmacy will meet in Aberdeen on October 11 and 15. Candidates for registration will be examined at thai time, as well as any business which may come up be fore the board. Charles N. Cooper, of Lemmon, S. D., as his next friend, announces that R. O. Richards, of Huron, will be an insurgent candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator Gamble, of Yankton. The Twenty-seventh company of coast artillery practicing with the ten-inch guns at Battry Cranston, in the Presidio military reservation, San Francisco, hit a moving target at ten thousands yard six times with six shots. A contract for the construction of the three dams and eight and a half miles of canals on the Flathead, Mon tana, irrigation project, awarded to a Prosser (Wash.) firm, has been ap proved by Acting Secretary of the In terior Adams. If the arid plains of Colorado can be made to produce profitable crops by scientific farming why should any sane person for one moment doubt that this fertile land, with its more abundant rainfall, will develop into a rich agricultural region With the defeat of the reciprocity pact by the Canadians all of those tine paper railroads which were built a few weeks ago from Aberdeen, Watertown and LeBeau into the Canadian northwest fade from view. But it was fun while it lasted. The old, old town of Wheeler, plat ted in territorial dayB, is liable to lose the seat of Charles Mix county. Citizens of Lake Andes are circulat ing a petition asking for a special election on county seat location, and they believe they can win because Wheeler is not on a railroad. With sugar already well on the way to 8 cents a pound, Claus Spreckles, of the Federal Sugar Refining Com pany, comes along with information that the prices are likely to go still higher. Mr. Spreckels is a competi tor of the Sugar trust, but this has not prevented his company selling sugar at the advanced rates. $8 'to'jS, Judge Loomis C. Cull, register of the United States land office at Rapid City, formally announced his candi dacy for the republican nomination for governor at the Clay county fair at VermiJHon on Wednesday. It is also asserted he will resign his posi tion in the land office in order to de vote his time to his candidacy, and to avoid any embarrassment that might result from his candidacy while holding his present position. SWV' SiiSfl 1* ,-il .JL. ^ib* T1 ^.5®3CSJS PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1911. MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS In far away Spring Lake, New Jer sey, there was an important meeting of the governors of the states, and tne freedom of the speech marked a most pleasing afid gratifying epoch in public meetings. Up to a very recent date, about all such meetings did was to get off grand speeches about the great man in the white house and the unexampled prosperity of this nation under the benign in fluence of the protective police. But this meeting dealt in real live issues, ahd men spoke fearlessly on the most important questions of the day, suph as the trust questions, the usurpa tion of legislative powers by the su preme court, and the robbery of the people by transportation charges to make dividends on water stock of railroad companies. In fact, the bold and agressive stands of the fore most governors of the nation was prefaced a year ago by Gov. Good row Wilson and appears to have paved the way for the patriotic stand of the present meeting. The boldest and most formal ad dress of the meeting was that of Governor Aldrich of Nebraska. Gov ernor Aldrich not only attacked the supreme court on its invasion of legislative rights, but proved his case. Week before last, in the far east, a dispatch, carried by the Associated Press, stated that Governor Vessey had declared for Taft for president. LANDS AND IRRIGATION In looking into the matter of tracts which are subject to irrigation in the Missouri valley in the counties of Hughes, Sully and Stanley, it is found that in Hughes county there are seventy-seven sections which lie within one mile of the Missouri, much of which is river bottom land. In Stanley there are sixty-five sec tions within a mile of the river which are within the boundaries of small irrigation plants. In Sully county there are forty-five such sections. This means that there is 118,000 acres of land within a mile of the Missouri which could be placed under irriga tion by small pumping plants. To this could be added many more acres along the valleys of Cheyenne and Bad rivers in Stanley county, with the creeks tributary to those streams. In Hughes county the valleys of Medicine and Chapelle creeks could furnish a number more acres and in Sully county the Okobojo valley opens up a large territory which could be so worked through small dams along the stream to hold the Hood waters in reserve. THE TARIFF TO THE FORE Canadian farmers did not share the idea of the Americans along the bor der in regard to the reciprocity treaty. Americans feared that if it was en acted Canadian wheat would pour in, Canadian farmers get higher prices than they had been receiving, but Americans less in the face of this competition. The men over the bor der, however, didn't think so and they all turned out on election dajr to vote against ratifying the pact. Here in the states the idea has pre vailed that the Canadians were eager for the treaty because many insisted that all the advantage lay with the northern neighbor. What a strange situation is thus developed wherein the nation considered least likely to enjoy immediate gain is the only one willing to permit tne operation of the measure. The effect of the vote Thursday was to nullify the action of the speci al session of congress, to halt all arguments pro and con upon the good or bad effect upon American farmers and to remove one of the most vital issues of the forthcoming campaign. This resolves the next presidential campaign into another contest over the tariff. The United States has en acted reciprocity and Canada has voted it down. Having the last word it is due to stay down for some time. The. tariff thereupon comes to tne front. 'J&ft is pinning faith to the tariff /commission, depending upon that bodyfor scientific revision. It is not likely that it will report at the next session of congress in view of the near approach of election but it may be forced into action. The peopla, nevertheless, will look for something, and they will not be satisfied with anything less than downward revision. •v Forsaking reciprocity and its prom ise of lessened living cost for tLe millions of people in this nation, all eyes will.be centered upon the tariff commission looking to it for relief.— Aberdeen American. rr-rf Bfe# PUBLIC LANDS CONVENTION Denver, Colo., Sept 24.—That the people of the western states will understand the subject of conserva tion as never before, as a consequence of the public lands convention to be held here September 28 to October 8, is the prediction made by the com mittee having the event in charge. President Taft will aedress the delegates on the morning of the last day. Others who have accepted in vitations to speak include Governors Aldrich of Nebraska and Vessey of South Dakota, former Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, and former United States Senator Henry M. Teller. THE CANADIAN VIEW POINT It may be asserted—and no one will really challenge the statement— that the Minnesota and North Dakota farmer, on the average, gets at least 10 cants a bushel more for his wheat than the Manitoba farmer does. Nor is there any real conflict of opinion as to the reason for this difference in price. The Canadian price is fixed by the price in the Liverpool market, less the handling and carrying. The United States price is deter mined by the competition of the Unit ed States mills for hard spring wheat, an insufficient quantity of which is' grown to meet their demands. Beerbohm's reports of London show that for the last six years not a single cargo of American hard spring wheat has arrived in England. Hard wheat prices in Canada are therefore export prices. Those in the United Stages are the prices fixed bv a brisk home demand and an insuffi c.nnt snnnlv As Senator Gronna said in his speech in the United States Senate: "Canadian wheat will displace a large part of the winter wheat which is now mixed with the Northwestern hard wheat for milling purposes, and the states producing winter wheat will be compelled to find a market for most of the product abroad, in stead of exporting only the surplus as at present."—Winnipeg Free Press PROGRESSIVES TO MEET The first conference of progressive republicans "to consider plans for gaiuing control of the republican national convention next year" will be held in Chicago on October 16 ac cording to an announcement to day by Walter L. Houser, chairman of the rrogressive republican cam paign committee. An invitation has been extended broadcast to progressives to meet in Chicago "to consider the present sit uation and to plan the future." At this conference the presidential boom of Senator Robert M. LaFol lette is expected formally to be launched. SWEET CLOVER PROFITABLE T. J. Steele of Sioux City, one of the owners of the Steele & Goudy ranch in western Sully county, feels confident that one of the coming for age plants of the northwest is eweet clover. This plant, which has been spreading over the Missouri valley, making a heavy growth wherever it has secured a foothold, regardless of adverse weather conditions, and showing an ability to thrive on the prairie with but little rainfall, has been looked upon as a pest to be ex terminated if possible. But Mr! Steele says it has been proven to him by tests that if it is handled as is al falfa, cutting it while tender and be fore it becomes woody, it makes one of the best of stock foods, and that it can be grown is shown by its rank growth wherever it has secured a start. It is said to be just as good for hogs as for cattle, and Mr. Steele is hunting for a supply of the seed to start afield of it on his Sully county ranch and give it a test. It is a fod der for which stock must acquire a taste, but when they once take it, they eat it greedly. ARPRAISED IN TRACTS The field force or the state land de partment, which is looking after the classification of lands which are to be leased for agricultural purposes next spring, are making topographi cal plats, down to ten acre tracts where the forty acre tracts are not such as to be completely available for agricultural purposes. This phase of the work is being pushed by the department so far as the land in the territory to be covered in agricultural leases are concerned, with the view of ultimately placing such topographi cal plats of all the lands owned by the Btate, in the department. This would put the department in position to estimate lease or selling values at any time from the plats in the office. lftwB Nbir NO. 21 WIDESPREAD UNREST IN EUROPE Food riots in Vienna a renewal of the nihilistic reign of terror ill Rus sia a tremendous railroad strike barely settled in Englvnd before an other breaks out in Ireland a genial strike proclaimed in several of Spain's leading cities, with serious possibil ity that it may go to the entire coun try Germany and France held back from war, in considerable part, be cause of the German government's fear to offend unduly the sentiment of the socialists—these area few of the Bymptoms of unrest which a single day's dispatches bring. The cost of living, we are con stantly assured and reassured, is more a burden upon the toiling masses all over the world than at any previous epoch. The year is not proving one of good crops. The world's outturn of the great staples is disappointing. Beyond this is the universal disaf fection with social and eoonomic con ditions. People do not accept dis tressing circumstances nowadays as inevitable. They are not content with the scriptural assurance that the meek shall inherit the earth. To be told that "the poor ye have al ways with you" is not fully satis factory guarantee of the divine origin and approval of poverty as an insti tution. Instead of accepting whatever is as inevitable, the masses of the world's workers are questioning almost everything that is. They are seek ing to answer the riddle of the social sphinx and they have at least deter mined purpose to keep on trying till they see their way out of the desert. Great Britain manages somehow to go about the »f adju«tinr to conditions in a more orderly regular way than any other country. Practical solialism is getting farther in Britain than anywhere else, and it is doing so, of course, because Brit ain has a form of government that most readily and securely responds to the pressure from the millions of plain people. Beyond that, Brit ain also has an aristocracy thatMs rather more intelligent than any other European country possesses. This does not mean the titled aristo cracy, but the community of people with culture, brains and real capac ity to help direct the course of affairs. This is accumulating evidence that the people will be just as patriotic in support of their own government as they will in support of a government imposed upon them. Perhaps that is something which England under stands better than the rest of Europe. WHO'S WHO In the meeting of progressive re publicans in Mitchell today the regu lar state organization of the progres sive league wiii discuss the candidacy of Taft and LaFollette, but it is not likely that the session will endorse either the meeting of its action of the recent session in Huron. Ab may always be expected from the republicans of South Dakota they are divided. When stalwart and pro gressive bury their hatchet the in surgents themselves develop factions and this is the situation at the pres ent time. Of the Richards and anti-Richards tribes, each desires to bo known as the original LaFollette crowd in thts state and each hopes to make his as sertion Btick. The Mitchell meeting promises to be a test of the strength of the ant is. PUBLIC CUPS MUST GO The state board of health, at its meeting this week, adopted a resolu tion ordering the taking out of public drinking cups on all trains and in all railway stations in this state, the or der to go into effect on the fifteenth of October. This will mean that the cheap paper cups will more than like ly be on sale in all trains and stations and the traveler who does not carry an individual cup must make a pur chase of one before he can secure a drink. CHILDREN WANDER FAR In the absence of their father-.from home, the four-year-old son and two year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Novae, living near Elbon, Stanley county, escaped the vigilance of the mother Thursday evening and wand ered out onto the prairie." They were soon missed, and a frantic search on the part of the'mother was hurriedly made, without flnduig the children. The neighbors, Vent »iled"os^lsr help, but no trace of the little wand erers was to be foundt until daylight when they were found juleep on ,(tie prairie about a half mile from home, and apparently none the worsij k-',