Dakota farmers' leader., April 09, 1891, Image 1

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

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VOL.1. NUMBER 42.
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jl Christopher & Olson,
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We have just received the finest line of
5 ready made clothing, that you ever put you
eyg^on, and our goods are sold at the
Closest Margin Possible.
Every man can convince himself of the
benefit of our system, and the truth of our
We are anxious to convince you and
can only do so with a trial, or a personal ex-
amination of our good.
We are not occupying a small place in
We are wide awake and at the TOP of
Our bargains are striking hard, and our
prices cutting deep in the flesh, of long
Our styles the latest, coupled with our
cut prices will peal the scales from the eyes
of the people, till our bargains will shine
like the sun irresistible.
Christopher & Olson,
—Proprietors of—
ito (toe Price
cash clotting tee.
Main Street, one door South of First Na­
tional Bank,
Canton, South Dakota.
HE GALLS ON THEM TOR AID.
A Man Who Had no Need of an Independent Last
Fall But now Calls on Him for Snpport.
"Republicans, Democrats, Indepen
dents, I would be pleased to have you
call at my new warehouse, Beresford,
S. D., and I will show you as fine a class
of machinery, etc."
This is a circular which Gust A. John
son has been sending out to the farmers
in the vicinity of Beresford. Why does
he call on the Independents to show them
his fine machinery? No, he wants them
to help him make a living.
But what did he do before election?
Did he say he would be pleased to have
the independents call on him then, so
that he might explain to them that their
platform was wrong? No, but he paced
the streets of Beresford shaking his fists
in the air, and declaring that there was
not an honest man in the independent
ranks, and that Loucks, Leavitt, etc.,
would soon go to the insane asylum.
Mr. Johnson evidently thinks his con
dition will be made better by sending out
this circular, then there would be as
much sense in ealling him dishonest as to
say the independents were dishonest, as
he does, because they believe a.change in
politics will better their condition.
If lie thinks it is dishonest for the
farmers to do anything to help them
selves prosper, how can he expect to sell
them any machinery.
If he persists in calling them dishonest
he will soon find what a difference it will
make in the sale of his machiuery.
You see he does not only say that the
independent party is dishonest but that
every person in it is dishonest.
Now would it not be a good thing for
Mr. Johnson, if the independents would
start a warehouse of farm implements so
that Mr. Johnson, would not have to
trade with those dishonest independents.
Mr. Warner spent a few hours in the
city on Thursday.
Another car of emigrants from Ridge
way, la., arrived at our depot this week.
Ole Olson by the looks of things, in
tends to help improve the country, as he
has received a lot of horses, cattle and
farm machinery. We wish him success.
Our town is booming. The farmers
are shipping out several cars of grain
this week. Jas. Madden is doing the
business for the company now.
E. W. Mass is rushing out the hay to
the Nebraska folks. He has some fine
hay yet to sell.
Our new lumber yard will begin to re
ceive lumber this week and intends to
keep lumber, stone, brick and all that is
generaly kept in connection with a lum
ber yard.
A sociable at R. O. Donahue's was well
attended Friday evening and a good time
reported.
Our old friend Jerry Woodley was in
town on business Thursday, and reports
everything lively in his part of the coun
ty.
Elmer-Bradfield was in the city this
week buying onion sets. He catches onto
married life readily.
Our agents little girl has been quite
sick for the last week, but we understand
is better again and in a fair way to be
out soon.
Mr. Henry says business is picking up
and keeps him busy and the grip has
about done him up besides.
H. J. Frank will buy stock at this
place hereafter and farmers should give
Mr. Frank a show, being a new man in
the business. He expects to pay good
prices.
A. J. Leavitt was down from Sioux
Falls this week on important business.
Mrs. A. P. Wilcox has gone to visit
her father in Iowa, who is very ill.
Our lyceum closed last Saturday even
ing with a splendid play. Miss Dickman
played her part splendid.
We are sorry to pen the death of Mr.
and Mrs. G. M. Burrett's little daughter.
We are in sympathy with the bereaved
family.
F. A. Leavitt is home and looking well
and hearty.
Chas. Bates and Son has arrived from
Iowa and will make their future home at
Worthing-. They bring some very lint
horses with them awl we expect to fix up
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AN INDEPENDENT.
WOKTHIHG WAIFS.
The Correspondent From Worthing Gives us Some
Interesting Items.
Farmers sticking right at business and
have a large crop sown already.
Plenty of lagrippe reported throughout.
"VVm. Pelton is about to complete his
new postofHce.
W. Dick is painting his new dwelling
also putting in a large crop.
Dr. Rosenbaum, of Canton, had been
called a number of times last week to see
our sick folks some are better while
some are dangerously ill.
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A Faithful LEADER in the Cause of Eoonomy and Reform, the Defender of Truth and Justice, the Foe of Fraud and Corruption.
CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL, 9, 1891.
a track and have several fast horses
training here for the state fair at Sioux
Falls this fall. We welcome Mr. Bates
and his son and still there is room.
BBOOKLYN PARAGRAPHS.
A Batch of News From onr Regular Correspondent of
Brooklyn
Seeding has been delayed in this vicin
ity on account of frosts.
The Scandinavians of Brooklyn are
erecting a fine church.
Messrs Carlson and Morse purchased
80 acres each of school section No. ic.
Mr. Burrows who died, in Delaware
township last Friday, was buried, Sun
day, at Bonine's grave yard.
Henry Cassavan has been in bed for
about a week suffering from rheumatism.
F. H. Knack started for Sioux City
last Monday.
One of Mr. Bertsch's horses ran into a
barbwire fence and was badly cut.
Smuggling Opium and Chinamen.
Julian Ralph tells us in Harper's Maga
zine how opium and Chinese are smug
gled into the United States in propor
tions that are a comiSent on official bar
ring out at once*of cheap Chinese labor
and expensive Chinese drugs. The smug
gling goes on extensively through British
Columbia. Of the boundary lines the
United States and Canada are mutually
supposed to police Mr. Ralph writes:
Whoever would understand it must know
that the entire northern boundary of our na
tion, from the Lake of tho Woods to the Pacific
coast, is a gigantic wilderness. The prairie,
tho plains ot the western provinces and tho
thick clustenfed mountains of British Columbia
are repeated in our Minnesota, North Dakota,
Montana, Idaho and "Wellington. Geological
ly and naturally there is no difference between
the countries the boundary line is an arbitrary
mark. At intervals of a mile apart this other
wise intangible division is
established by means
of surveyors' "monuments" that are imbedded
in the earth, and stand slightly above it, each
marked "B. A." on one side and "U. S. A." on
the other.
There are few settlements on tho line—al
most none—and the whole region is practically
known to men only as they cross it by the
watercourses in canoes, or the far apart trails
of the great grass plateaus and of the valleys
between the mountains. There is no port of it
over which a Chinaman may not pass into our
country without fear of hinderance. There are
scarcely any parts of it where he maynot walk
boldly across it at high noon. Indeed tho same
Is measurably the case ap .along our northern
boundary—even upon the St. Lawrence—where
smuggling has always been a means of liveli
hood whenever varying tariffs made it remu
-v
Chinese cross the border from Canada
into the Stated at the rate of 1,500 a
year, which is not a great number, ex
cept when we remember that it is pro
hibited them to come at all. It is
through the endless waters of the bays
and inlets of Paget sound that most of
them arrive. Bat six yean ago British
Columbia contained 18^)00 Chinamen.
Today there are between 7,000 and 8,000.
Where are the other 11,000? Most of
them have got into the United States by
hook and crook. Of the opium smug
gling Mr. Ralph says:
Thw an thirty or forty linns of Chinamen
manwfartnring It constantly in the two British
Colombian cities, and one firm—not the largest
admitted to me that they produce from two
bundn-t to three hmndred pounds a month.
There it scarcely a devisable manner at con
cealment of the little cans in which the opium
fcputup that is not practiced in smuggling
this article over ocr border. It comes in barrels
of beer. In women's bustles, in trunks, in sach
ets, trader the loose shirts ot sailors, in boat
loads by night, in every conceivable way. By
coQutdon with steamboat and steamship cap
tains, and through corrupt officials in oar own
country, the greatest profits are made possible.
Tho Next Great Novelist.
Where is he? "When will he come? The
world has waited years, but he does not
appear. Or will the next great novelist
perhaps be a woman? When George
Eliot's literary lamp went out, the last
really great English writer of fic
tion disappeared. We have had none
since. Hugh Conway came, but he was
a flashlight. Then came Rider Hag
another flash from the camera,
and then darkness. Will Rudyard Sip
ling be only a will-o'-the-wisp, too?
Come to think, no nation has any
great novelist now except Russia, semi
barbaric Russia. Tolstoi alone of living
miters of fiction can touch the hearts
of all men, making them weep, smile or
curse, according to their nature and
up. Germany has none, France
1MM had none since Victor Hugo. In
there is such a dearth of ab
sents that now in sheer self de
people are going back to the old
Dickens and Thackeray. Even
the taste for Cfcrida has palled on the
popolar appetite, are told by book
setters.
We want raaUy gnat novelist, oae
will unllast at least fear
one who will wake all
soul and inflaenrw hm
his life, who will make him
laugh and cry, and wonder and medi
tate and dieaxa. Shall we ever have
aoch an American novelist?
HUBON, S. 1)., Feb. 10.—The Ctncagv
and Northwestem railway have extended
the time of half-freight rates on feed,
grain and fuel for needy people in South
Dakota until March 10. The rate was
given last fall, but as many w'Jl need
additional feed and coal, and also grain
SOT seed, the company has made tfce
above extension of time.
city, and the
GOODS!
GOODS!
GOODS!
L. B. STRAW CO.,
CLOTHIERS,
Have purchased
The Largest Stock of gents
Fmhiog Ms
A Complete Line of all Kinds
That has ever been brought to this
Lowest Prices!
L. 9. STRAW & co.
Canton, gouth Dakota.
$1.00 PER ANNUM
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