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COULDX'T STOP. The Tote In the Senate on the Silver Bill Nut Taken According to Pros ni mine. TTTO O'clock Monday ns tlie Hour Set, but It Was Badly Ho laved. Great Interest In the Proceeding's and the Galleric? Were Filled Earl v. VYASHLVGTON, Oct. 31.—Monday was 6 field day in the senate. No More in terest has been manifest at any pre vious Etage of the long eight weeks struggle than was manifested wben the question at issue had been virtually de elded, when the battle had been waged and won, when the weapons of the op ponents of unconditional rejieal had been sheathed and the victorious forces were simply awaiting the final vote to register their triumph. The leaders of the opposing factions Delivered Their Valedictories to the country—from one side came the justification for the long opposition and the reasons for the ultimate surrender, from the other came the calm dis passionate statement o'.: the principles for which the majority had contended and the meanin? of the victory achieved. The public had ample warning of the great speeches J,to be delivered, and betore 11 o'clock the galleries were black with people sand the press gallery thronged with athe newspaper correspondents who -.have vigilantly watched this fiercely contested ba'tle from its outset. From the heavily upholstered diplomatic Fgallerv a number of the foreign mrnis ters looked down and listened. The scene on the floor was impres eive. Almost every seat was occupied, while 100 representatives from the lower house were ranged against the wall. A Doalh-I.ike St il Iness prevailed, broken only by the rise ana wfall of the voices of the speakers. The senate and tne galleries seemed awe stricken. Every one seemed .ieepiy af fected with tiie idea that the result of -ithis great parliamentary struggle about to be terminated was fraught with gigantic importance to the country and that the policy about to be inacgnrated -was for weal or for wue to tJT.'iuo.Ouu of -'people. On Saturday Senator Yoorhees had announced that he would endeavor to call for the final vote at 2 p. m. Mon day, but as it was known that the bill was sthl open to amedm-.m tiiere was much speculation as to what proposi tions might be launched at tne last minute by the silver men, who had nothing to lose and everything to gain by any sudden onslaughts on the re peal forces. The opening ind:catiuns .were not promising fur a vote at any hour as early as that anticipated iby Senator Voorhees. Several West era senators had expressed a desire to speak and as the time they would each ..consume was somewhat indefinite, the final vote seemed more likely 10 be de cayed until 4 or 5 o'clock in the after noon. Still there was manifest a stern .determination on the part of the re peal men to force a vote at the earliest hour possible consistent with the never-to-be-forgotten usages of senator ial courtesy. Mr. Morgan was the next speaker, and he concluned his remarks at 2:'j5. Mr. Vest was next recogniznl and held .the floor till 8:10, when Mr. (.ockrell, :hia colleague, spoke until 3:50. Fol lowing Mr. Cockrell Mr Carey zona and New Mexico it proposed to grant theui double the amount of land which wa« granted to the las: territor ies to be admitted. The reason for this is that these grant* are made for the pnrpose of establishing a fund for various institutions, and it is claimed that the lands which the three territories now knock-! ing at the door embrace are mostly, if not entirely, arid and fit for nothing until they are made valuable by a costly system of irrigation. The last six states admitted received as grants for the various state institn tions about 5)0,0iX) acres of land each. The three territories asking for admis sion think they will need at least 1,000,000 acres of land within their borders. 1 TO Tit AT ALL ALIKE. Bill III th« House Relating to the Kquat Division of Offices. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—A bill has just been introduced in the house which, in case of passage, will equalize the clerical and official force now com ing under civil service among all the several states cf the Union. The bill is in the form of an amendment to the ciril service law, and provides that the heads of departments shall report a list of their employes to the president, to gether with the congressional districts in which they are bona fide residents. It further provides that the president shall direct that all futureappointments to the civil service shall be made from the states and territories which are ba low their quotas until the service shall be equalized between all the states, ter ritories and districts By Congressional Distrii ts. Another clause of the bill directs that heads of departmems shall furnish an annual report to the president of the employes, classified according to con gressional districts, with the aggregates of salaries, and that the equality be tween the districts in the amounts of salaries paid snail be maintained as far as possible consistent with the interests of the service. It this bill shall become a law there will be a gradual change in the civil ervice that will rectily the partiality which has heretofore been shown in favor of the states contiguous to the national capital. More tnan one-half of the employes in the civil service of the country are from the Easiernstates contiguous to Washington. Mary land, Virginia and the District of Col umbia alone probably have as many As Ail the Oilier Slates Combined. There are people in every department credited to Minnesota and other far Western states who never passed the crest of the Allegheny mountains in their lives. There are whole families, including father, mother, sons and daughters, living here two or three generations past families of large wealth—every member of which holds some governmental place and prob ably credited to as many different states as there are members in the fam ily. The object of the bill is a right eous one, and will serve to give deserv ing men and women in the South and West some little show at the full breast of the mother country. It is a good idea to wean few who have "waxed fat and sleek" in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. 0 Wyoming was accorded a chance to explain his position. benate Routine. When the senate at 11 o'clock en tered upon the 13th week of the pres sed extraordinary session a roli call .showed the presence of 3a senators. When the consideration of the bill to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was resumed Mr. Hun ton, in a few words, defiued his position. saying he would vote for unconditional rrepeal and then stand ready to join with the friends of silver for a fight for that metal. Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania then read a statement as to his position and views on the repeal bill. At 5:15 p. m. Mr. Stewart offered an amennnient to the repeal bill, reducing the gold in gold coins 25 per cent, but accepted a negative verdict without calling Tor the ayes and nays. At 5:17 Mr. Pascoe offered his amend ment for the free coinage of silver, with a seignorage charge to be based upon the market price of silver. It was de feated on roll call by a vote of 2u yeas to 47 nays. At 5:20 general debate resumed and Mr. Jones of Nevada took the floor to conclude his speech in opposi ion to the bill. He will probably be followed by Peffer and Allen, which will consume some time. HANDICAPi'KD. S Territories May Xot bo Admitted on Account of Silver Views, N WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. —The house committee on territories has been busy isfor several weeks, whenever a quorum •.-appeared, in perfecting the bill tor the ••admission of Utah. It is thought that --.the adzuinatration has not wished to see the admission of these territories iapassed just now. The fact that the men vi Who will come to the senate and house sfrom all the proposed new states would be silver men has caused the pro moters of the statehood movement to "pause. In order to get around any each difficulty as this Delegate Joseph ."of New Mexico has proposed to have :the bill admitting his territory changed so that the admission will not become operative until ltttla. For Utah, An- The following vessels have been launched during the year and ate now being pushed to final completion: Columbia. Marblehead. Oiympia, Cin cinnati, Katalidin, Indiana. Massa chusetts and Minneapolis. The tug Mayflower and the gunboat Palos have leen sold during the year and their names stricken from the naval regis ter. Forty-sev-Mi vessels have been re paired at the different navy yards dur ing the year. 1 he United States is now the only great maritime country which does not possess an experimental tank, the Rus sians having remedied durini,* the past year tbeir deficiency in this r.-spjet. In concluding his report Mr. Hick boru makes a special mentio.i of the work accomplished by his predecessor during the decade in which lie notably and s. il:nlly administered the affairs of the bureau. The Cits*'. WASHINGTON, 0:t. 31.—At o'clock this afternoon arguments were com mence.l in the Hill-Farley cu.-e before a full bench in the supreme curr. Ex Senator Edwards arid all of tiie counsel are present. Senator Davis, who was formerly connected with the ease, was pie^ent wiit-n tlie arguments began. Hi-oki* All Records, 2* i-u" OKK, Oct. bl.—The steamer BOMC, which arrived Sunday from Liv erpool, made the passage in 9 days, 2 hours and 1 minute, breaking all previ ous records of freight steamers between tuese two ports. I Sale in Canada. LLLUNDALI-:, X. D., Oct. 31Sheriff Coleman returned from Fargo and a dispatch purporting to come from Moorliead that Barratt was held there piovestobea fake. Barratt is sup posed to be Canada by this time. iXt-" THE ARTESIAN WELL CONTRACT. The City Council BuQDd to Solve the Water .Supply Question. The water supply and a ptessureto so with it to make it available for all purposes has been a question of a vexa tious nature staring the city council in the face. The council has made var ious contracts with various well men who were positive that they could go through any substance with which they would come in contact, and the result has invariably been a deep hole full of iron. Considerable faith was placed in a firm that recently attempted an arte sian well here, and it was fully admitted that if they could not obtain a well the project was practically impossible. However, the council has faith that there Is plenty of water beneath and that there is one man on earth who can reach it. For some time the council has been in correspondence with H. A. Miles in regard to an artesian well pro ject and he finally made them a propo sition. Friday the council met to consider the matter. The well is to be SOU feet deep ana eight inches in diameter. Should he fail to get water at ¥00 feet he receives no compensation and places all pipe on top of the ground. Should he get a satisfactory tlow of water at BOO feet or iess he is to receive ST.50 per foot. The pipe is to be furnished by the city and taken out of the contract price. Mayor Welch. Attorney Mohr and Auditor Stearns were authorized to draw the contract between the council aud Mr. Miles. The contractor is given thirty days to begin work and allowed one year's time in which to complete his contract, but in neither case does he expect to use up the time limit and thinks he can be ready to begin work within ten days or two weeks at the farthest. Mr. Miles has been putting down artesian wells in Aurora and Brule counties with great success in every instance. He certainly under stands drilling wells in South Dakota and Knows the kind of material he has to contend with in drilling. The council has not fully decided whether they wili sink the well on the city property on Main street or locate it near the water wurks. They are of the opinion that in case only a flowing well is obtained the water can be better utilized nearer the water works, and it is quite probable that they wili decide to place it in that vicinity. TOOK HIM BY SURPRISE." Capt. NAVAL CONSTRUCTION*. Good Progress Has Been Made Dur ing the l'ast Year. WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.—Philip Hick born. the chief constructor of the navy, in his annua report to the secretary, repor:s that good progress has been made on vessels in course o: construc tion during the past year, although there has been some delay dr.e to the deferred deliveries of armor plates. During the past year, the following vessels have had their official trial trips, the result in all cases being satisfactory to the government trial board and de monstrating the abilities of our ship builders to turn out the highest grade of work -Monterey of 4.1'UU ions trial displacement the Detroit of 2 60S tons the New York S.4SU tous the Marc-bias l.OtiT tons and the Bancroft S3.' tons. Powers'* Birthday Mude the Occa sion uf a Happy iatheri!i£. When Capt. F. D. Powers came down after supper Saturday evening he little thought what a surprise was in store for him when he returned home. It was the captain's sixa -second birthday,' Co., which were occupied by the land but he attached no importance to that, I office under the Everitt-Singiser re as he had passed so many of them in gime from ]f-S5 to 1S?-S. and removal the course of his life. Mrs. Powers did will take place on Nov. 1. Under this not intend to allow this one to pass consolidation the rent of the office. which has always been paid by the offi cers themselves, will be borne by the government. without proper recognition, conse qently she invited about forty of the members of the G. A. R. and W. R. C. to come in and celebrate the occasion. On the return home of Capt. Powers There is more catarrh in this section one can judge of his surprise on open-I country than all other diseases ing the door and finding such a large Put company of friends. He recovered from i*4-ear!i his surprise in a few moments and wel- comed his guests heartiiv. The even- AUvertined Letter*. The following is a list of the letters remaining uncalled for in the Mitchell postoffice at the close of the week end ing October HO, 1898: Brown .1 H. Nanning Louis, Boswell Walter. Inman ArthurC, Cashen Mr H. Lile Mr F. Cowin E-toling. Miller Mr W E. Gardiner Mr\V M, Mitchell Michel de. Green. Mr Frank. Patterson James. 1 lie F.irn a regular monkey and parrot sort of time. First the lumber* fellows went to buying wheat and forced the market up several cents and have kept it there ev-! er since. Then the wheat buyers went into the lumber and coal business and put the prices down several notches and say they nropose to keep it there. Best Hock int.' Valley goes at *fj:30 a ton and lumber in proportion. When or where it will end no one knows, but in the meantime the farmers in that vi cinity injoy the situation. Fool Hall Kntliugiaftt*. A growing interest in the great game. of foot ball has sprung up among the athletic fraternity of Mitchell, and a| I large number of the heavyweights have expressed themselves as desirous of I being initiated into the mysteries of the sport. An eleven will probably be organized, which will on Thanksgiving: day play the University eleven. All' who would like to see some great fun on Thanksgiving day will attend a' meeting at the Commercial rooms in the Champcny block Monday evening! at o'clock. Ti., mmamm AMANDA H. BOWDLE, Pres. 1.1. SEAMAfi, ¥. Pres. OF MITCHELL, EIXTES A. BOYSEN & CO.'S LAND OFFICE REMOVAL. The Yankton District Will Soon He Con solidated with the .Mitchell Ottic«. The order for the consolidation of the Yankton land district with the Mitchell office has been promulgated, and within the next thirty days the records of the former ofiice will be removed to this town. The Yankton district comprises the counties of Yankton, Clay. Union, Lincoln. Turner. Hutchinson. Douglas. Charles Mix and Bon Homme, but only in a few of these is there any business left, and that largely of the nature of final proofs. To afford sufficient ac commodations for the additional rec ords the general land office has rented the rooms over the Mitchell Dry Goods t0£ether, and until the last few was a supposed to be incurable. For STea^ many ing was pleasantly spent" in con versa-j remedies. and by constantly failing to tion and about 10 o'clock refreshments were served, and soon after the guests departed, wishing Capt. Powers many more birthdays of a similar character. I KORKIGX. cure. nials. Wocknitz. Herr A. When calling for the above please say "advertised." If not called for in two weeks, they will be forwarded to the. dead letter office.' I J. W. BEATTIE. P. M- •r'* Inning. The wheat buyers Summit Signal: years doctors pronounced a disease, and prescribed local curf with. local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven ca tarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cur«, manufac tured by F. J. Cheney A: Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from ten drops to a teaspoonful It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to Send for circulars and testimo Address. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. O. tgV Sold by Druggists. Toe. MERCURIAL ^M^J^C. Jones,of Fulton, Ark.,sayso'. "About ten years ago Icon GSfifl traded a severe case of blooc poison. Leading physicians prescribec medicine after medicine, which I tool and lumb.-.T men at Wilmot are having without any relief. I also tried mercu rial and potash remedies, with unsuc RHEUMATISM jessful results, but which brought on at attack of mercurial rheumatism that made my life one of agony. After suf. jring four years I gave up all remedies md commenced using S. S. S. Aftei :aking several bottles, I was entirelj rured and able to resume work. BS3S9 is the greatest medicine foi BcCSS blood poisoning to-day on bhe market." Treatise on Blr»od and Skin Diseases mailed Eree. SWITT SFECITICCO., Atlanta, Ga. :USE: ORN BELT BAKING POWDER SPECIAL SALE ON For One Week from Monday, Oct. 30th! We must reduce our stock and propose to make prices that will do it. THE MITCHELL DRY GOODS CO. Agents for Thompson's Glove Fitting Corsets. THE SECURITY BANK Buys and Sells Wild Land and Improved Farms in Large and Small Tracts. Write or call on us. Overshoes are just more than selling. It keeps us busy picking out this line of goods. We warrant every pair of the Goodyear Glove Brand not lo crack. We handle Bay States and have Bos-! one clerk busy showing new stvles and :edge vareties in patterns. Ladies, we carry :are Rememberp AlH A HSOLl'TKhV PURE AND WHOLESOME! For sale by all Grocers si LT, RUGS C. W. GILLIS, the Bargain Fiend White Laundered shirts—away they go at 75c: only four sold Saturday fore noon. They are the cheapest ever brought to this city. They are no "Cheap John" goods but real New York muslin with pure linen bosom. We sell the unlaundered for 50c. Over twelve dozen already sold. al At Alex. Mitchell Good Outfits. Careful Drivers H. R. KIBBEE, Cashier, I. R. ATLEE, Asst. Cashier. SOUTH DAKOTA, ANK.IKTG-. LAND OLONIZATION, Security Bank Building, Mitchell, S. and wailing on customers. Our under wear trade is just fine. Our line of overshirts are great bar gains—can sell you a jersey at 50c that others ask 75c for. Our line of men's $3.00 shoes are sell ing fast. Many pair sold in the last week and everybody was surprised at the good shoes for so little money. If you wish a birthday present we have of oul' Xmas you f-'oods °Pen ca" wilh wi,Uer lmd tind 6omu tons on the way. Will make you great, prices on the Boston's when they Customer after customer left our arrive. store last week with their arms loaded Our stock of stamped linens keeps ""^lties among »oods- Tbe-V aU tlle sendinS the most complete line of fancy em-' bar£aias broidery silks in this city. We can ^"e are too busy to tell you every show almost every color imaginable. thing we have and all about it, but We do stamping on any kind of goods bring your ducats jilong and eet goods and we have just received 100 neiv pat- a*nowl- cheapness of our goods and neighbors in for more their real value. ,.. terns of the latest designs. Yours for bargains, We are kept busy opening new goods c. W. GILLIS. I E The Most Complete and Best Livery Stable in the State EaKt ot Alex Mitchell Motel. ke a S1,ecial 7 120 Main or .satisfaction or refund your money. Stnei' Barn. Reasonable Prices. Try Them. F. M0YER. Ihat we always carry a full line of Solid Gold Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, Watches and Clocks, Spectacles, Etc., Eighteen years experience ut tlie bench, live o. wl.icl. wan spent one ot the largest shops in ciiioago. A. HrPEHRSON, *'tche" s- At prices to suit all. ami to give 0. „a I Trim.