Dakota farmers' leader., November 28, 1890, Image 8

About Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??

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EAILEOAD TIME-TABLES
Until further notice, trains on tlie C. M. & St.
P. Ry, ivill arrive and depart at Canton station
as follows:
GOING WEST.
No. 1, passenger Monday excepted, 11:00 A. m.
No. 3, passenger, Sunday excepted, 11:40 A. M.
No. 7, way freight 13:30 I', M.
GOING EAST.
No. 3, passenger, Sunday excepted, 3:45 A.
No. 4, passenger, Saturdays excepted,4:45 p.
No. 6, freight 2:50 P.
GOING N0UT1I,
No. 1, gassenger." 11:00 A. M.
No. 5, accommodation 11:80 A. M.
JJo. 6. freight ,,.,, 4 1U r. M.
GOING SOUTH.
"No. 4, piYSSengei'...,., I.: 4:45 P. M.
O. 6, freight :*o A. M.
For tickets and rates to all parts of the
United States and Canada, inquire at tiokct,
office W. V. HOWARD, Station Agent.
THE SEWS AMI'S!) II0J1E.
Ericlc Erickson, an enterprising, farmer
near Moc post office, has gone into the
business of buying hides for which he
pays cash, delivered at his place.
A. G. Noid has received a large and
varied assortment of Holiday goods
which he has already opened and placed
on sale at his establishment. He will
have something of interest to offer in Tnic
LEADEH next week.
THE LEADER wants a good correspon
dent at Beresford, Lennox, Eden and
Brooklyn. Also at Salinaand other places
in the north part of the county. Let the
friends of the paper respond to its wants
•and thus help to make it the best in the
state.
Rev. Tlios. Simmons, of the M. E.
church left the city Wednesday for Spen
cer. S. D., where he will assist Rev. Car
hart in revival work for ten days. The
pulpit of the Methodist church will be
filled by a minister from Parker next
Sunday.
The question of bonding the city for a
system of water works was submitted to
an election last Tuesday and carried al
most unamimously. The vota stood 225
for and 15 against. Work on the con
struction of the system will be commenc
ed as soon as the necessary preliminary
arrangements can be made,
S O. Fladager, from near Inwood,
called at this office Saturday and stated
that on the clay of election his wife lost a
ladies cloak between Lewis drug store
and Charley Reynold's place east of town.
Thr color is light brown, trimmed with
black trimmings. The finder will be re
warded by leaving the cloak at Charles
Christopher's store or the LEADEH office.
A Norway correspondent details the in
telligence of the marriage of O. H. Hus
tel and Miss Lena Larson, both of Nor
iv township. Mr. Hustel is a prosper
ous young man who richly deserves the
blessings bestowed upon him in the
choice of a youug lady like Miss Larson
as a life companion and TIIE LEADEH
takes pleasure in extending the happy
couple its heartiest congratulations and
best wishes.
TVm. Haw, residing a few miles west of
town, who has been sick all fall, was in
town for the first time in many weeks,
shaking hands with his many friends.
Mr. Haw has not yet fully recovered from
his illness, but his appearance in town
has revived hope in his recoverey and
Mr. Haw thinks that by good care he will
be able tr attend to business again next
spring. He has the best wishes of TIIE
LEADEH and his many friends to
strengthen his hope.
Attention is called to the call for
the regular meeting of the stock
holders, which has appeared in this
paper for the past two weeks. By mis
take the call states that the first Tuesday
in the month is on the Oth, whereas it
should read the second. Stockholders
will take notice of the fact and act ac
cordingly. The meeting will take place
at Canton, at 10 o'clock next Tuesday
morning. As there is a great deal of
business of much importance to the
paper to be disposed of, it is to be hoped
that every stockholder will be personally
present. According to provisions of the
by-laws, a majority af the stock must be
represented for the transaction of busi
ness and stockholders who caiinot be pre
sent are requested to seed in their
proxies.
District court convened a little before
noon Monday but no business was trans:
acted until after dinner owing to the fact
that some members of the jury failed to
arrive at the appointed hour. The case
of the state against Peter Gunderson, one
of the three boys who were indicted for
the robbery committed upon OlePeterson
near Canton, last March, was taken up.
A good share of the afternoon was con
sumed in the selection of a jurv.cThe ex
amination of witnesses was commenced
at three o'clock and continued during the
afternoon and evening and most of "Wed
nesday forenoon. Tlie case was submitted
to the jury at 11 o'clock Wednesday and
a verdict of guilty was brought in during
the afternoon. A motion for anew trial
has been filed in the case of Martin Gun
derson tried and convicted last week, but
it is expected that this will be denied.
He was sentenced Wednesday even
ing to ten years imprisonment. At
the time of going to press, tt is expected
that Ei1. "Warner v/ill give bonds and file
a motion for continuance till the January
term of court.
Patronize those who advertise in THE
FATOTE:
'.*
LKAPF.R. That should be the
motto of every stock holder in this paper
who is interested in tlie upbuilding and
success of this paper. [[Whereve all else
is equal, tlie stockholders and friends of
T:iK LEADEH should give their trade to
those who advertise in its columns and
thus help to support the paper. This
means a great deal for the stockholders
whose dollars will not be called for as
long as'the
.paper can support itself, and
it is no more than right. The adver
tisers of this paper should receive the
trade of men whose interests are in the
success of the paper, not only the stock
holders but others. Patronize those who
patronize you and those who encourage
your own efforts. Turn the cold shoulder
to the fellow that looks with a snear and
a curse upon the paper that supports
your principles.
THE F. M. B. 4. PLATFORM.
The Organized Fanners of Illinois Say
What Tliey Want and Won't Have.
At the recent convention of the Farm
ers' Mutual Benefit Association of Illi
nois, held in Springfield, a series of reso
lutions, of which fee substance follows,
was adopted:
That we are in favor of a uniform se
ries of text books for oar public schools,
and we demand that the state furnish
them to the school boards at cost.
We indorse the Australian system of
voting, and demand of oar nest legisla
ture proper enactments to carry the
same into fall force and effect through
out the state, and we are in favor of the
enactment of a law providing for the
election of all state officials by a direct
vote of the people, including the mem
bers of the state boards, the railroad
and warehouse commissioners and pub
lic grain inspectors.
We demand that passenger rates on
all the railroads in this state be reduced
to the amount of two cents per mile^nd
that freight charges be reduced by at
least one-third.
We declare our utter abhorrence of
all trusts, combines, pools and monopo
lies. We declare that it is a crime
against the individual to compel him to
do business against such combines.
We declare that we believe that the
board of equalization of taxes in this
state is unjustly influenced by, if not
in the pay of, the corporations of the
state, and we declare that the board
ought to be abolished. We believe that
the revenue laws of this state should 'be
entirely changed, and all state revenues
be raised by a tax on the gross receipts
of the corporations of the state. We be
lieve in a graduated income tax.
We declare the board of trade of the
city of Chicago to be a den of thieves,
and along with other similar institutions
we denounce them all as whited sepul
chers, full of dead men's bones—men
ruined by these gambling institutions—
and we further do declare our unaltera
ble purpose to never rest until our legis
lature has made gambling in farm prod
ucts a peual offense.
We oppose the issuance of a railroad
pass to any person whatever. We de
clare the practice to be fraught with all
manner of evil to the people of our state
at large, and to our legislators, judges
and other officials in particular.
The committee on national legislation
reported the following, which was
adopted:
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and that the circu
lating medium of the country shall be
issued by the government direct to the
people in sufficient volume to do the
business of the country on a cash basis,
and making all money so issued a legal
tender for the payment of all debts, both
public and private.
We demand that the taxes of the na
tional government be levied upon the
luxuries and-not the necessities of life,
and we are opposed to the system of tax
ing the many for the benefit of the few.
We demand an amendment to the con
stitution of the United States so that
the president, vice president. United
States senators and United States judges
shall be elected by a direct vote of the
people.
We demand the passage of laws pro
hibiting the alien ownership of land,
and that congress take early and just
steps to devise some plan to obtain all
lands now owned by aliens and foreign
syndicates, and that all lands now held
by railroads and other corporations in
excess of such as is actually used and
needed by tliem be reclaimed by the
government and held for actual settlers.
DIako Tour Own Prices*
Brother farmers of the United States,
we must have control of-making the price
of our produce and labor. To hold our
produce for that effect, to make it possi
ble for us to make a living, I refer you
to the two resolutions formed by the
committee on resolutions of the conven
tion held by the F. and L. U.'of Missouri,
Aug. 12,1890, but neither was adopted.
Brethren, does not the merchant wait
patiently for us to bring our produce to
the city, also pays his price for it, and
you buy goods from him at his own price?
The remedy for this is to do as the
merchant does—have your produce for
salo at all times, make your own price
and wait for the merchant to come and
buy it.
If the merchant is justified in making
bis own price are we not justified also
to give Mr. Merchant to understand that
wfe as farniers, and only we alone, have
the right to make the price of our pro
duce and labor?—Cor. Journal of Agri
culture.
Hyacinths in Glasses.
Glasses are on sale by bulb dealers.
Select solid, heavy bulbs, preferably of
the single kinds, which are best for the
purpose and bloom earliest. Fill each
glass with clear water to within one
eighth inch of the bulb when in its
place. Additions to the water for fer
tilizing are not required. Wrap the
glasses in cloth or paper and set in a
cool, dark closet. When the roots are
growing freely place in alight window.
Add water as required, but never more
than to come within one-eighth inch of
the bulb.—Exchange.
Practical Hints for tlie Lawn.
The groups of large trees will usually
be accompanied by shrubs to connect
them with the lawn: Rhododendrons
and other pendent evergreens are very
useful for such purpose, when the turf
being carried under them leaves no cut
ting line of border. Shrubs should not
be jaccwapaniedln^tho saime~5e3Ty such
flowers as require digging, the lin# of
border above mentioned destroying that
repose and that variety of form which
ought to characterize the former
Selecting Seed Potatoes.
We have much faith, says Rural New
Torker, that the yield of potatoes may
be much increased by selecting seed po
tatoes from the most productive biiia
By this selection a farmer on Long Isl
and has been enabled to use his own seed
of Early Ohio for upward of twenty
yean, and the crops are larger now thaa
when he first raised the variety.
WHO OWN8 THE FARM*
A twblem for John Smith, in the West,
and William, In the Xut
John Smith has a farm out in Colo
rado. He has a warrantee deed, bat he
is dependent on an irrigation company
for water, and this costs $3 per acre
every year. His farm can be worked
only by him subject to that charge, and
tiie irrigation company is landlord No.
1. He has to Bend his produce to mar
ket by rail. The average freight charges
are one-third of the value of the prod
uce. His warrantee deed does not run
against the railway company, which is
his landlord No. 2. He has to buy
groceries, clothing, implements, etc.
They come from distant markets at an
average freight charge of 20 per cent.,
which also goes to landlord No. 2.
The average tariff charges on John
Smith's groceries, clothing, implements,
etc., would be about 40 per cent, if all
these things came from abroad. The
American manufacturers put their prices
a little lower to hold the market, so that
the tariff charge on the gbods that he
buys averages about one-third, and the
tariff is John's landlord No. 3. Next
come the state and local politicians.
They have to be fed, and BO while they
come after the irrigation company, the
railroad company and the tariff, their
title is absolute against John Smith, and
he will have to pay or be evicted by due
process of law. The local politician is
landlord No. 4.
John Smith borrowed some money at
12 per cent, and a bonus with which to
make some needed improvements. For
this he gave a mortgage on the whole
farm, and the mortgagee, a man not to
be trifled with, is landlord No. 5. Now,
with the irrigation landlord taking $3 an
acre, the railroad landlord taking one
third of what he sells and one-fifth of
what he buys, the tariff landlord taking
one-third of what he buys, the local pol
itician dipping, his hand into the remain
der and the mortgagee taking 12 per
cent., it may be quite worth John
Smith's while to consider who owns the
farm.
John Smith's brother William re
mains on the old homestead in Connecti
cut. He has no irrigation landlord to
pay, but his crops are less certain than
John's. The landlord exacts so large a
share that he has to cut down an orchard
of grafted fruit and convert it into a
meadow because he cannot afford to
send apples sixty miles to New York, in
competition with those that come 600
miles from the west. The state, county
and town landlords take a portion each:
he has 6 per cent, to pay on that mort
gage he gave to John for his share of the
homestead, which John sold to James
Banker, and which Banker threatens to
foreclose because the farm is not worth
as much as it was then, and is growing
less valuable. William is careworn and
weary, but still he works early and late,
striving against the inevitable, and says
to himself so often that he really be
lieves it, "I own the old homestead."—
Edwin A. Carley ia Rural New Yorker.
Pleasant for Fanners.
W. W. Phelps, minister to Germany,
is home on a vacation, and is employing
his leisure in saying a few words in re
lation to the protection of American in
dustries. In a speech at a Republican
convention in New Jersey he said: "The
export of agricultural products must find
a limited and falling market, but the ex
port of manufactured articles must find
an increasing and permanent market.
The lowest grade of labor can raise corn,
wheat and pork. Ultimately we shall
lose foreign markets for our wheat, but
not for our wares."
Mr. Blaine months ago declared that
there was not a line in the McKinley
tariff bill that would produce a new
market for a bushel of wheat or a pound
of meat. Mr. Phelps, who has been
studying matters abroad, or at least ob
serving the condition of affairs, has come
to the conclusion that our agricultural
products sent abroad must find a "fall
ing market," because they will come in
competition with those produced by
"the lowest grade of labor" in the world.
As the prices in European markets
govern those in our own our farmers will
be compelled to send their products to a
"falling market" if they send them any
where. Manufactured articles, bow
ever, are to advance in price. The
farmer, therefore, is to lose in two ways.
He is to get less for what he raises and
to pay more for what he buys. Ho is
also comforted by the complimentary
statement that his is "the lowest grade
of labor."—Chicago Herald.
To Protect Themselves*
Broomcom raisers of this vicinity are
taking active steps with a view to build
ing large storage warehouses, in which
to hold their brush when the prices are
too low to be profitable. The movement
is in the shape of a combine to escape
from the oppression and misrepresenta
tion of middlemen, and it is proposed
that the farmer who holds any amount
of stock in the warehouse shall be al
lowed to store his crop and draw from
the association funds a reasonable ad
vance upon it-per ton. Rules and regu
lations have been adopted to make all
parties safe and to help each other out
of tight places financially, without com
pelling them to sell at forced low prices
to meet bank advances on growing oi
harvested crops.
Farmers who raise brush on a large
scale, and who have been to the eastern
markets with their crops this year, re
port that they have been shown letters
from middlemen in this section advising
the wholesalers not to be in a bit: hurry
to purchase direct as 'the crop~was a
heavy one, and by bearing down the
prices it could be purchased at much
lower figures than the opening ones.
There is also on foot at Mattoon a move
ment to build a large general warehouse
and factory.—Areola (Ills.) Dispatch.
Members of the Chicago board of
trade were stirred up recently over -the
resolutions adopted at a recent meeting
of the Fanners' Mutual Benefit associa
tion at Springfield. The resolutions-de
clared that the aforesaid board is **a den
of thieves," and some of the members
deny the allegation.
The Embattled Farmers.
The farmers of the United States are
up in arms. They are the bone and
sinew of the nation they produce the
largest share of its wealth, but they are
getting, they say, the smallest share for
themselves. The American fanner ia
steadily losing ground. His burdens
are heavier every year, and his gainsare
mora meager he is beginning to fear
that he may be urn king into a servile
condition. He has waited long for the
redress of his grievances he proposes to
wait no longer.
Whatever he can do by social com
binations or by united political action to
remove the disabilities under which he
is suffering he intends to do at once and
with all his might. There is no doubt
at all that the fanners of this country
are tremendously in earnest just now,
and they have reason to be. Beyond
question they are Buffering sorely. The
business of fanning has become, for
some reasons, extremely unprofitable.
With the hardest work and with the
sharpest economy the average farmer is
unable to make both ends meet. Every
year closes with debt, and the mortgage
grows till it devours the land.—Rev.
Washington Gladden in Forum.
Stand by low Friends.
A Tipton county (Ind.) farmer writes
his local paper concerning a most im
portant subject, and says to his brother
farmers:
You have plenty of good papers that
are advocating and working earnestly
for your interests, and the more support
you give them the better papers they
will be able to make, and the more influ
ence they will be able to wield in your
behalf. Then drop every one of these
partisan papers, and do it now, and take
papers that are taking your side of the
question. If you don't do it your efforts
to free yourselves from the yoke of op
pression will be a failure.
The next session of Ihe Ohio State
Grange will be lield at Toledo, com
mencing on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1890. Un
doubtedly this will be the most enthusi
astic and important session held since
the palmy days of 1870 to '75.—Grange
Bulletin.
X0TICH TO TOKjCIUa HE3.
Notice is hereby given to the
working men arid farmers of Canton and
vicinity, that their presence is desired at
a public meeting- to be held in the old
court' house on Saturday evening Dec.
i, at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose of or
ganizing an assembly of the Knights of
Labor in the city of Canton. All classes
of people, excepting bankers, lawyers
and saloon-keepers are eligible to
membership in tlie organization and re
spectfully requested to attend.
Bit OUDKK OF CV/MM1TTKE.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The stockholders of tiie South. Dakota
Farmers' Publishing Company, will hold
their regular annual meeting, at the old
court house in lite city of Canton, on the
first Tuesday in Dec.. (2nd day of th
month) at 10 o'eh ck a. m.. as ihe regular
business of the compnuy i'or this meeting
is very large, it is requested that all the
members be on hand psomply at the ap
pointed hour. A. J. Wiiin.E,
10. W. OWENS, President.
Secretary.
BT.K AYJSD,
From my farm six miles northeast of
Heivsford, 14 head of spring calves, em
bracing 8 heifers. and (i steers. .2 white
heifers in the lot. 2 red and one rone
heifers are marked in right ear. They
left my place about two weeks ago.
Anyone in posessien of information lead
ing to their recovery will oblge the un
dersigned to notify me either in person
or by mail. M. SMITH,
Business Locals.
A fine line of stationery and other
writing materials to be found at 'Helmey
& Kelman's,
On .Tail. 1, 1891, Hrfmey fc Kelman
will give away a 825 music box. Call
aud learn particulars.
If you intend to do some painting this
fall call at Helmey & Kelman's where you
will find a complet line- of paints etc.
Smokers! If you want a ioc
smoke for 5c call at 'Helmey &
Kelman's and try the Dan Webs
ter.
COM TOTED.
Highest price paid for corn.
C.B.Kennedy.
FOE SALE.
Eight high-grade, three year
old colts. J. A. Goding.
FOR SALE.
Poland China boar, eighteen
months old, a No. 1 animal will
sell cheap. YVM. HAW.
On Sec. 8, Canton, Tp.
Tuition, per week
Room rent
Beresford, S. D.
Contingent fee, per term
Canton,
NEW CLOTH
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—WE HA YE—
Opened aNew Clothing store in the store
room formerly occupied by W. C. Putnam.
New Firm, New Goods, New Prices.
Haying purchased our entire stock di
rect from he manufacturers, we will sell at
the very lowest figures, for spot cash. We
invite the public to call and examine our
stock and get our prices. We have no snide,
shoddy or shelf-worn stuff, at a fancy £rise.
We guarantee good goods at reasomlftle
prices, realizing that, in these days of ~nard
times, the clothing merchant as well as
other dealers, must content himself with a
close margin of profit.
Remember Us Before Buying.
Christopher & Olsen.
—DEALER IN-
We carry a complete stock of all kinds of Lumber, which we
purchase in the best market. We are prepared at all times to fur
nish as good grades for as little money as any other dealers. Our
stock of. coal is also complete and prices as low as they can be
made. We also carry Cord Wood, Stove Wood, Posts Lime,
Cement, etc.
Office and yard east of the city scales.
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE,
ANTHONY 0. TUYE, President.
Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota.
A Thoroughly cpuipped educational Institution. Maintains five
courses of study—College course Preparatory course Normal course Irf«]
course Common school course. Teaches English, Latin, Greek, Germa
Scandinavian languages. Conducted under the auspices of
THE UNITED BORWEGIAN LUTHERAB SHURGH.
$100. REWARD. $100.
E. WENDT,
—DEALER IN—
Dry Goods and
A Magnificent Stoek of Hew Goods.
—One Hundred Dollars—
I offer a reward of $100 to any person who will prove to me that there has ever
been brought to this city, as large a stock of dry goods as I have received this fallj
Nearly everything has been bought from the manufacturers at cash prices and WC"
will sell everything as cheap as the cheapest.
To encourage cash trade, we will give a fine large life-like portrait of yourself or
any member of your family, free with every $35 worth of goods bought at our store.
Mm
$ .50
.25
1.35-
MODS.
E. WENDT,
Opposite. OouiTt House,
Sonth Dakota]