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WOPK FOR THE MILITIA. General Orders of Interest to tlie Nationul Ixtlitrds. neral Orders No. 2. ft a\leai-]y 1 us practicable the var- companies of the South Dakota tional Guard will begin target prac preparatory to the competitive litest, which will occur at such time ring the'fall as shall be designated Coloner R. J. Woods, chief of engin rs and ordinance, located at Sioux lis. The quarter-master general is reby instructed to issue to each com ny ammunition sufficient to make one ndred (100) rounds per man to be used practice, together with a sufficient uount to be used on the day of trial. Company commanders will alee requisition upon the quarter-mas general at once* for the amount re uired. IV. The chief of engineers and ordi ance will immediately notify battalion nd company commanders of the time nd place where the trial of the several ompanies will be held, and will specify detail the rules governing the same the end t.hat there shall be absolute airness in the trial. These rules will published and posted in each armory the inspection and information of all oncorned. V. The following prizes arc offered: 1. To the battalion making the best core on the day of trial, a banner val ued at not less tlian $50.00. To the company of each battalion taking the best scoro, a banner valued not less than $2o.U0. 3. To the member of each compary aaking the best score, a'marksman's _adge of gold and valued at not less (than $10.00. which will be the actual property.of tbe member securing it. VI. Battery "A" shall be entitled to iComuete for company and individual ['izes: and the quarter-master general v'ill issue to said company guns and am munition for practice and use in trial. {Captain Oldlield commanding will make {requisition accordingly. By order of the Governor and Com mander-in-Ohief. Gioo. A. Si LSI IV, Adjutant Genera!. Office of Chief of Kugineers and Ordi eiuance, S. 1). N. G., Sioux Falls, S. D., August 18, IS!):!. General Order No. 1. I. Tn compliance with General Order No. 2, dated Adjutant General's Office. Mitchell, South Dakota, August M, 1893, signed C. II. Sheldon, Governor, and Geo. A. Silsby, Adjutant General, the several companies of the South Da kota National Guard will at once begin target practice preparatory to the com petitive contest which will take place in October of this year. The dates on which each company's target practice will be inspected will be announced later. II. The company commanders will at once make requisition on the quarter master general for 100 rounds of cart ridges per man, to bo used in practice together with a sufficient amount to be used on the day of trial. III. The ranges shall be 100, .'!00 and 000 yards. The rules governing this contest shall be the same as prescribed by sections 22l. i'-Vl and iSS of 111 mil's Rille and Carbine Practice. IV. Company teams shall bo chosen to represent the company at the range at the day of the trial and shall consist of five men each. V. The award of individual prizes shall be determined by the best score, as shown by the records of the com pany's target practice this season, ex elusive of the team records on the day of trial. Members of regimental or battalion stall's, who reside at or near the town where the company is station ed, may participate in the target con tests. VI. No man who was not regularly enlisted in the South Dakota National Guard three months prior to the date of this orde- will be allowed to partici pate in the company team, or compete for individual prizes. VII. In making up the standing of the men for individual prizes any two scores of live consecutive shots, at the same range, may be taken for determin ing the percentage at that range. VIII. The following prizes are offered: 1. To the battalion making the best score, a banner valued at $50. 2. To the company of each battalion making the best score, a banner valued at $20. :i. To the member of each company making the best score, a banner valued at $10, which will be the actual prop erly of the member securing it. Battery A" will he entitled to com pet.v/^'y company and individual prizes. IX. Company commanders will see that targets are erected and markers' pits properly dug. It is recommended that stationary targets be used, and pits provided large enough to accommodate two markers comfortably, with means of easy ingress and egress. By order of It. Wool is, Chief of Engineers and Ordnance. A I'olitlc-lll Prediction. Alexandria Herald: Rev. Gliddon has decided to leave Mitchell and has accepted a call to the Congregational church of Telluride, Col. He will be a candidate for governor or congress out there next thing. And it need sui pi i^e no one if he is elected. CHAIRMANSHIPS. Speaker Crisp Announces the Hc»(ls of Committees In the House ot' Representatives. Bland Still at, the Head of Hie Com lniltce on Coin aire, Weights and Measures. Springer I'ulied Off the Ways and Means and Placed at the Head of Banking. WASHINGTON-, Aug. 22.—The speaker has announced the appointment of the following chairmen of committees: Elections—O'Ferrall (Va.) Ways and Means—vVilson (W. Va.) Appropriations—Sayers (Tex.) The Judiciary—Culberson (Tex.) Coinage, Weights and Measures— Bland (Mo.) Banking and Currency Springer (Ills.) Foreign —ffaivs—McCreary (Ky.) Interstate and Foreign Commerce— Wise (Va.) Itivers and Harbors— Blancliard (La.) Merchant Marine and Fisheries— Fitliian (Ills.) Agriculture —Hatch (Mo.) Military Affairs—O nth waite (O.) Naval Affairs—Cummings (N. Y.) Postoflices and Post Roads—Render Bon (N. C.) Public Lands—McRae (Ark.) Indian Affairs—Holman (Ind.) Terri tories—Wheeler (Ala.) Railways and Canals Catcliings (Miss.) Private Land Claims Pendleton (W. Va.) Manufactures—Page (R. I.) Mines and Mining—Weadock (Mich.) Public Buildings and Grounds— Bankliead (Ala.) 'Pacific Railroads—Railly (Pa.) Labor—McG-ann (Ills.) Militia—Form an (ills.) Patents—Covert (N. Y.) Pensions—Moses (Gil.) Claims—Lunn (N. C.) War Claims—lielizhoover (Pa.) Invalid Pensions—Martin (Ind.) District, of Columbia—Heard (Mo.) Revision of the Laws—Ellis (Ky.) Expenditure in the State Department —Lester (Va.) Expenditures in the Treasury De partment—Barwig (Wis.) Expenditures in War Department— Montgomery (Ky.) Expenditures in Navy Department— McMillan (Tenn.) Expenditures in Postoffice Depart ment—Oates (AJ a.) Expenditures in Interior Department Turner (Ga.) Expenditures in Department of Jus tice—Dunpliy (N. Y.) Expenditures in Department of Agri culture—Edmunds (Va.) Expenditures on Public Buildings— Crain (Tex.) Library—Fellows (N. Y.] Printing—Richardson (Tenn.) Civil Service—Deforest (Ccnn.) Election of President and Vice PreBi cent—Fitch (N. Y.) Alcoholic Liquor Traffic—English (N. J.) Immigration—Geissenheimer (N. J.) After the announcement of the com mittee appointments, on motion of Mr. Bland Saturday next was set apart for general debate instead of five minute debates on the repeal bill. Springer IVas Surprised. When asked for a statement as to the reasons which impelled the speaker to depose him from the chairmanship of the ways and means committee, Mr. Springer said: '•To say that I am surprised at my deposition from the chairmanship of the ways and means committee and ap pointed as chairman ot' the committee on banking and currency, is only a feeble expression of the truth. I had no intimation from the speaker what ever, as to his failure to reappoint as to his intention to make me chair man of the other committee. I go from the work to which I have given the best study of my life to a committee to the business of which I have given but little attention heretofore. I know nothing of the motives of the speaker or of the object that he had in view. He has assured me that he desired me to do that which was best for the country and the Democratic party Hope he is not mistaken, but opinions may differ. I do not care to make a further statement at this time. The Senate. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2a.—In tlie_ senate Mr. Morrill of Vermont asked and ob tained indefinite leave of absence on account of ill health. He then ad dressed the senate in favor of the bill reported from the finance committee last Friday to discontinue the purchase of silver bullion. ClilCVKljAND'S IliO.YI/fll. Tlie ('resident Said lo Belli Had Coir it ion Physically. ST. PAUL, Aucf. 22.—The Washington correspondent of The Pioneer Press, in the course of an article on the subject, Bays: Tuere have been many whisperings and insinuations regarding President Cleveland's condition. Many people assert on the authority of those who have recently seen the president that his health is far worse than people have been led to believe they claim, in fact, that the president is a very sick man. Some have gone so far as to speculate upon the succession of Vice President Stevenson. Just what is the matter with the president is hard to say. It is a faet that he suffers severely from rheumatism, and in order to stop the torturing pains he resorts to very strong medicines. This is generally known to be a fact and is a cause iu the breaking down of his health. THE WATER SUPPLY PROBLEM. EDITOR REPUBLICAN: You stated in your paper that I was in favor of a stand pipe system of water works. I believe, as the majority of our citizens do, that I still would like to know if there is any moisture in store for us be low the rock. We have never yet got anyone to go through, and to prove the fact that wfe are in the artesian basin by getting a well would be a bigger adver tisement to the world at large than would the stand pipe system. I believe the council has all these points in view by their persistency to try again and again, but we must look at the matter both ways. If it is not. possible for us to make a contract with some one to guarantee to go down deep enough to get a well of 1,000 feet or no pay, which the city council tried for a long time to do, we had better abandon the idea of a well and adopt the stand pipe system, which I know the council, would have no hesitency to do if they would go and investigate the latter system. But we have the pipe now for a well and that is the most of the expense and if we would stop educating Pennsylvania men to Dakota soil and try a man like George Summers, our home talent, I believe we could get a well that would not cost to excede $1,000 or $2,000,-as Mr. Sum mers has the staying qualities and the mechanical genius and has performed the most difficult feats in the big well he put down that has ever been done in the well business. I would be in favor of having it done close to the pump house beside tbe res ervoir, then no expense of moving or altering the mains would be necessary. It might be considerable cheaper than the stand pipe system, which would necessitate moving the plant to the new well, putting in a pumping engine and pump in the well and erecting the stand pipe, and the whole system complete would cost $7,000, which, of course, is not much compared with' the expense every city that over got a good system has had to expend. For instance, Can ton, South Dakota, has a water system that cost $20,4(iV), which includes water mains and everything connected with the system. Their stand pipe is 12 feet in diameter, 100 feet high and holds S4,(i02 gallons, and they claim has a pressure of !)0 pounds. The stand pipe cost $4,200 and the following is what they say in a recent letter to me. the Levees and Improvements of Mississippi River—Allen (Miss.) Education—Enloe (Tenn.) I am certain that artesian wells or anything else cannot come up to our water works system. Yours truly, L. T. WLRSTAO, City Clerk, Canton. S. D. .1. A. BllOWN, City Plumber. Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 1!).' Tlui University Campaign. President Graham of the Mitchell University has begun his active work in connection with the institution, and spent last Sunday morning in Woon socket, going to Alpena in the evening. He found the interest among prospec tive students quite active and there is an encouraging prospect of an increased attendance, especially with an easing up of the financial situation. Pres. Graham believes there will be a large attendance of self-supporting students this fall and he desires that all those families in town in which students can be accommodated with lodgings advise him at the earliest possible time, as it will have a bearing on the coming of this class of students. Mr. Hlancliarrs Report. The Plankinton Standard prints fig ures from Mr. Blanchard's report on the condition of Hart & Hatten's bank, and shows that the concern has been insolvent since January last, at which time it was $23,000 worse olT than noth ing, with the two ollicers owing it $40,000. after Of ECZEMA And yet lives in ignorance of the fact that a single applica tion of the CUT1CURA REME DIES, will, in the majority of cases, afford instant relief, per mit rest and sleep and point to a speedy, permanent, and economical cure, when the best physicians and all other rem edies fail. CUTICURA Works Wonders, and its cures of tor turing, disfiguring, and humil iating humors are the most wonderful ever recorded. Sold throughout tho world. Pivrmt Tm:o AND Cuk...Colli'., Hole props., Poston. All About tho Blood and SUin," m.-iiled free. 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There are a great many bargains in our stock which we can not mention for want of space. Try us and see how much cheaper we sell goods than our neighbors. P. T. McGOVERN, Agent for the Celebrated Reynolds Bros.'s Shoes/ Grand Offer. THE NORTHWESTERN AGRICULTURIST, THE WEEKLY CAPITAL Between August 1st and August 31st, 1893. This offer is positively for August only,and will not apply to subscriptions paid August 31 under any circumstances. Call at the office to see a sample copy of the Northwestern Agriculturist or send two two-cent stamps, four cents, to the Agriculturist Co., Minneapolis, Minn., for a sample copy. No sample copies free. The Northwestern Agriculturist for Aug ust contains a carefully prepared and elaborately illustrated description of the Farm Exhibits at the World's Fair of the states of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin, written expressly for this enterprising paper, together with special articles on all topics relating to Agriculture and the Northwest, prepared by the best known specialists. The Home Department is edited by "Aunt May," a woman of unusual abitity, and is espoeialy adapted to needs of women on our northwestern farms. Among oth er unique features is a Woman's History of a Dakota Farm Life by Mrs. Gussie Waterman of Elrod, South Dakota, written expressly for the Northwestern Agriculturist. This story is not a mere romance but it tells how a discouraged young wife on a Dakota claim was inspired by her aunt, who had had more experience, to make the best of her surroundings, and how bright that "best" became through fol lowing the practical suggestions. These suggestions are applicable to every farmer's wife in our locality. ••The Young Folks' Department is brim full of brightness in its short stories, games, puzzles, and jokes. But above all is the real vame of the agricultural instruc tion contained in this greatest of all farm papers. Remember you get all this for a.. Jfcli. owq paper at a reduced price, only if you pay us in Best for R. Hj!Ej 1 A N A A O 1 XJC3-TJST.