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THE MITCHELL CAPITAL.
PAGES 5 TO 8.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1895.
W1LTSE-
The Photographer.
Ward McAlister, leader of the "Four
Hundred" in New York, died of a vul
gar, cosmopolitan case of grip.
Some one has introduced a bill in our
state senate to tax shot guns and rifles.
It should include fish-hooks and rat
traps.
Will anyone dare dispute the asser
tion that South Dakota is capable of
being made a great potato growing
country?
The Pioneer Press denies that Knute
NeUon voted for the Mills bill. We are
glad to find that he did not. We guess
Knute is all right.
Will anyone dispute the assertion
that gold and silver are and have been
produced about in the same relative
ratio throughout the history of the
world?
We may well distrust financiers who
would hare out scads of paper money,
all redeemable in gold coin which is
too scarce to meet the demands put
upon it.
House bill No. 187, introduced by
Representative Colvin, of Mitchell,
would hold" railroads more rigidly ac
countable for injury to employes and
passengers.
According to Senator Teller, the
thing needful is an administration that
has the sand to pay some of its obliga
tions in silver. If the government
would not discriminate against silver
money, perhaps other people would not
be so shy of it.
News dispatches of today indicate
that a new bond issue of $100,000,000
will be floated within a day or two.
The president says the loans are to
Iteep up the gold reserve. But the
would seem to be in part to meet rnn
ning expenses.
Senator Vest is a pretty staunch sil
ver man and if he will not 6implv stop
at the "parting of the ways," as he hab
done before, but join western Republi
cans of that metallic faith, he will see a
silver lining in the financial clouds
much sooner than otherwise.
The lynchers of Barrett Scott, it de
velops, were an organized band of vigi
lantes, whose avowed purpose was to
prevent lawlessness. They would evi
dently have a nice distinction made be
tween themselves,as murderers and se
cret assassins, and their victim as E
brazen robber.
These are times of misnomers. Ad
vocates of gold and silver coin, pro
duced from American mines, by Amer
.can skill, are called inflationists. Those
who want our currency to rest upon
the assets of banks of issue, government
bonds etc., call themselves ''sound
money men."
There are two classes of financiers
this country. Both would replenish
the currency, buo one would do so by
means of the smelter and quartz mill
and the other the pulp mill. The
"sound money" crew belong to the lat
*ter class. All they want is a pulp mill
and an interest coupon.
Senator Sherman says: "We have,
touched the point where we are being
told that no relief will be given to the
country until we concede the free
coinage of silver."
That, you see, is the way it looks to
those who want to build up a financial
system on what the country owes and
who would perpetuate it by a prolon
gation of the borrowing process. Bu
suppose the other side were to pu# in
word and say, per contra, that we have
reached a point where we are told that
no relief will be given until we concede
the policy of issuing' i?nld bonds.
The sinking of the steamer Elbe, in
the North Sea, whereby about 300 lives
were lost, is one of the most painfully
sad calamities which ever befall man*
kind, by reason of the utter helpless
ness of those who see the solitary bark
that carries them sinking and such in
evitable fate closing over them. Such
a catastrophe finds victims from all
over the world. Mrs. Connors, from
Spearfish, S. D., and Mrs. Hoffman and
little boy, of Grand Island, Neb., were
among those whose graves must forever
remain unmarked in the watery realm
which never gives up its dead.
NOTHINtt «AINKI IIV OltSTKUOTION.
We hope the Republican silver men
in oongress will pursue no stubborn
policy of obstruction on the financial
question. There is nothing to gain by
such a course. Furthermore, obstruc
tion methods would throw upon their
party the responsibility for" non-actior.
Let the Democrats have their day und
let them have the full benefit of their
majority and assume the responsibility
for tbe result. The case is extraordi-
nary when obstruction is justifiable.
The time is not far in the future when
silver Republicans can stand up in the
councils of their own party and de
mand concessions that will count. Ob
streperousness now will not win friends,
which is,or should be/a part of the mis
sion of every silver Republican.
SUUAR BEETS AND IRRIGATION.
It is better to get industries establish
ed by subsidy and bounty than not to
get them at all. Six years ago, Neb
raska offered a bounty on sugar produc
ed in the state from beets. Under the
inducement thus offered, the Oxnards
established two factories for the manu
facture of beet sugar, investing a mil
lion dollars in same, locating one at
Grand Island and the other at Norfolk.
A Populist legislature subsequently re
pealed the bounty, the cry being that
it protected the manufacturer, but not
the beet grower. The present legisla
ture of that state is considering a
similar bill in both houses, to provide
for the re-enactment of the bounty.
But it provides that no bounty shall be
paid on sugar made from beets for
which less than $5 per ton are paid by
the manufacturer. The bounty is to be
specific and is fixed in the bill at one
cent yer pound on sugar produced
within the state from home grown beets.
Heretofore the manufacturers in that
state have been, heavy producers of
beets themselves. The proposed act
with-holds the bounty from them on
sugar made from beets of their own
raising.
The industry has attained much im
portance in that state. Those who
have the skill and industry to grow
beets make money at it. Beets at $5
per ton are considered a source of good
profits. A good yield is about five tons
per acre, making the proceeds $25 per
acre. Beets area tuber with long tap
roots and they endure a drouth better
than cereals. Then the small acreage
on which a big crop of beets caa be
rown makes irrigation practicable and
compararatively easy.
The fact that Nebraska is evidently
returning to a system which brought
those industries to the state is in the
nature of an endorsement of the plan
after having tried it.
We believe that irrigation, in the
artesian belt of South Dakota, can be
made to foster the growing of such
profitable commodities as sugar beets._
celery, potatoes, onions and small fruit.
To those who turn up their noses at
anything of smaller proportions than
300 acres of wheat, these words will be
of no consequence. But we are sure
they will appeal to a great many who
appreciate the value of a good soil,
highly cultivated and planted to the
things that command a ready market.
Perhaps it is not at present practica
ble for this state to offer a sugar boun
ty, though such a proposition may meet
with favor in the future. We call at
tention to the-beet sugar business in
Nebraska to show there are more ways
of bringing money into the state than
the hazardous business of raising wheat.
We have a better soil than Nebraska
and one that is capable of producing a
large surplus of potatoes, onions, sugar
beets, cabbage and small fruit. Thous
ands of dollars go out of South Dakota
every week for these same articles. If
they are good enough to send money
out after, why wouldn't they answer the
purpose of bringing a little money back
to us?
As to irrigation, that is simply a
question of water and its distribution
over the land. If you have water, you
can irrigate. If not, you can't. If rain
water is necessary to the growth of
vegetation, why will not well water
answer the purpose when the rain does
n't come? The last time the writer was
in Arizona there had not been a drop of
rain for nine months, but the water
came galloping down the irrigation
canals from the mountains and the
crops were immense. Our artesian
water has its source in the mountain
snows, and while it acqnires some alka
line substances in its flow so far, that
property will not injure the plant life if
you rigate by absorption instead of by
flooding. If the rains come, all right.
If they do not, we should be prepared to
irrigate. A good crop raised by a little
Irrigation, enabling people to pay their
bills, will not hurt the reputation of the
state so much as an immense wheat field
attached to the rain-belt theory which
holds good only one year in five, result
ing in no crop and no money.
ANOTHER MINNEAPOLIS BLAZE.
Warehouse of tlie Moline Flow Company
Entirely Destroyed.
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 4.—The Moline
Plow and Agricultural Implement com
pany, at Fourth street and Third avenue
north, received a baptism of fire •which
resulted in the total ruin of the immense
and valuable stock of the company and
the complete wrecking of the big build
ing. The structure is a 4-story brick,
86x150, and all four floors stocked with
valuable and heavy farm machinery, of
the newest and most modern make. The
loss will probably figure up above
$100,000.
Pefeated Kaffir Rebels,
LISBON, Feb. 4.—Au official dispatch
received here from Lourenzo Marquez,
Deiagca bay, says that a force of 900
Portuguese troops, commanded by Ma
jors Riberio and Xavier, supported by
the gunboats, defeated the native rebels
on Tuesday last
on the right bank of the
Incomati river and drove them back in
disorder-
NEWS FROM PIERRE-
Routine of Now Bills—New Judicial Dis
tricts—An Indian Cairn—Temper
ance Workers.
The Equal Suffrage Issue.-Memorial
Congress—Interesting Batch of
Routine News.
To Investigate Office of Commissioner of
School and Pubiic Lands—Kquai Suf
frage to be Sumittod to Vote
--Taylor's AITairs.
PIERRE, Jan. 31.—Bills similar to
the one introduced by Mr. Reid, ex
empting new railroads from taxation
for five years, are unconstitutional and
cannot pass.
Tho senate railroad committee re
commended the bill for acquiring by
condemnation sites for grain warehouses
along right-of-way. This was to make
a way for locating a warehouse in cases
where sites cannotbeotherwisesecured.
Senator Foote's bill appropriates $12,
250 for printing the Journals of the two
houses, the session laws,and other mat
ter.
The bill by Senator Bennett,of Clark,
fixes salaries of railro'ad commissioners
at $1,200 each and that of clerks at $800.
Representative Russell's bill defines
a public road and makes a road a public
highway after having been in use five
years.
New Judicial Districts.
A bill was introduced yesterday mak
ing three judicial districts out of the
Third and Fifth. The three districts
will then be made up as follows: First,
Brown, Day, Marshall, Roberts and
Grant Second, Spink, Clark, Coding
ton and Deuel Third. Beadle, Kings
bury, Brookings and Hamlin. The
object is to giye adequate court facili
ties to this important section of the
state. At present, not only is the ter
ritory too large for two judges, but the
traveling facilities are not convenient.
Will Allow the Claim.
The senate judiciary committee has
decided to report favorably the claim
of Frank Stanton, $3,800, for boading
52 men and 100 horses during the In
dian out break in 1890. It seems during
that uprising Gov. Mellette appointed
H. M. Day, then living at Rayid City,
colonel, to raise two volunteer com
panies for the protection of the life and
property of the settlers. Col. Day took
a company of 52 to the front, and they
were boarded by Frank Stanton, who
has not yet been paid for the service
rendered. Two years ago a bill passed
the senate, but was lost in the house at
the close of the session.
Want Couuty Dlttpcusai-lef).
Mrs. Cranmer and Mrs. Simmons, of
the W. C. T. U., arrived this morning
and, notwithstanding the passage of
the resubmission bill, they are not dis
posed to cease their efforts in behalf of
temperance. They will use their in
fluence to secure the passage of a bill,
for county dispensaries, for the sale of
liquor for medical and mechanical pur
poses. They will also work for the
passage of a constitutional amendment
giving women the right of suffrage.
Many resubmissionists expressed a
willingness to vote for such a measure.
PIEHUE, Feb. 2.—This is the day on
which comes up the question of the ad
option of the constitutional amendment
to give women the right of suffrage.
Mrs. Cranmer, of the W. C. T. U. is
leading the fight and it is being opposed
ly many of the resubmissionists. It is
believed it will pass the senate, but
there are doubts about its passing the
house.
Memorial to Congress*
Under suspension of rules yesterday
both houses passed resolutions provid
ing for the appointment of a committee
of three from each house, whose duty
shall be to draft a memorial to con
gress, asking that body to pass some
act at once which will tend to restore
prosperty to ,the country. These are
the committeemen: Senators Kings
bury, Foote and Doran Representatives
Dickover, Glass and Dowdell. Doran
and Dowdell are Populists.
Routine Worji.
The committee on insurance leported
against house bill 56. a maximum rate
bill, and favorably on senate bill 30, a
mutual-insurance bill. The committee
on surgery and pharmacy reported
favorably on bill 128, which allows the
granting of licenses to graduates of the
pharmacy class of the agricultural col
lege. The speaker attached his sig
nature to senate bills 1 atd 70, which
have passed the house. The governor
informed the house that he had signed
the bill allowing a special issue of war
rants.
The house committee on railroads
postponed for one week the hearing of
the railroad attorneys, to give .the
jobbers of the state a chance to hear,
and answer what they have to say.
The jobbers claim the proposed bill is
fair and just and beneficial and are ap
pealing to all the shipping and jobbing'
interests to come to ther support.
'J*he senate joint resolution favoring,
a constitutional amendment was de
feated yesterday in the senate, r-
The bill wlrioh was for tho purpose
of relieving sheriffs of the duty of tak
ing prisoners to the penitentiary, after
they have been sentenced, was reported
unfavorably and the report sustained.
The house has passed a bill cutting
down the fees of county sheriffs for
the work of gathering in ballot boxes.
This is in line with the cutting down
process in other respects.
Senate reported favorably on bill
providing that commissioner of labor
and statistics shall take charge of the
.census this year. By constitutional
provision the census must be taken
every ten years, beginning with 1895.
The senate has reported farvorably
on Senator Kingsbury's bill, providing
for a commission to make investigations
as to what can be done in the way of
turning the waters of the Missouri, to
the eastward in the southern part o'
North I akota. It is to act in conjunc
tion with similar commission from
North Dakota.
It seems probable that Senator Kings
bury's bill for a revenue commission to
report on what species of property is
escaping taxation will become a law.
Mr^Kelley's bill requiring bondsmen
on official bonds to give ten days notice
for county, and twenty days for a state
officer of intention to transfer real prop
erty missed favorable consideration
yesterday by the narrow margin of 21
to 22. The discussion Was full of inter
est and the worthlessness of the late
state treasurer's bond was alluded to
as evidence that some sort of bond that
binds would be in order.
The bill introduced some time ago
making it a misdemeanor for public
officers to have necessary printing done
by offices outside of the state, it is be
lieved will become a law. This was
introduced at the instance of the
printers and newspaper men, who have
so often been provoked by the fact that
county and state officers send their
work outside of the state.
The resubmissioniots are figuring on
a modification.of the penalties which
attach to the present enforcement act
of prohibition. The object is to make
it easier for those who might within
the next two years get into the law's
cluches. And yet they approach the
matter a little timidly.
PIERRE, Feb. 2.—The senate, under
suspension of rules, passed the bouse
joint resolution providing for an inves
tigation of the office of the commis
sioner of school and public lands, as to
its conduct under Maj. Ruth's manage
ment. The investigating committee
for this duty are Senators Kennedy,
Foote and Crawford.
For Equal SSuil'raffP.
The senate resolution submitting wo
man suffrage to a vote of the people
passed without a dessenting vote.
Bills were also passed providing that
the state statistician take the census:
that bodies of persons dying in charita
ble institutions may be dissected that
persons working in public buildings
may have power to file lien.
In the house Mr. Dowdell introduced
a naeasure to prevent prize fighting in
the state and providing that spectators
of such fights may be fined and the
fighters may be 89nt to the penitentiary
Attorney General Crawford has re
turned from his visit to Chicago, where
he had frequent interviews with John
T. McChesne.y of New York, Taylor's
principal mdsman. and Lawyer Ten
nuy, who advised Taylor through De
cember.
He learned that about, the 1st of that
month Taylor had called on McChesney
and appealed to him to raise $50,000 to
help him make up the shortage, which
amounted to $150,000. McChesney sue
ceeded in doing so on security amount
ing to several times that .sum furnished
by Taylor,
In the meantime Taylor discovered
that this would not help him clear out
and proposed to Tennev to rob the Red
field bank of $100,000 to pay the state
•m
Right Arm Paralyzed
Saved from St. Vitus Dance.
"Our daughter, Blanche, now fif
teen years of age. had been terribly
afflicted with nervousness, and had
lost, the entire use of her right arm.
We feared St. Vitus dance, and tried
the best physicians, with no benefit.
She has taken three bottles of Dr.
Miles' Nervine and has gained
pounds. Her nervousness and symp
toms of St, Yltua dance are entirelj
gone, she attends school regularly.
and has recovered complete use ol!
her arm. her appetite is splendid."
Mils, R. 15, BULLOCK,
Can supply you-
BrlGbton, N. y.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Cures.
Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold on a positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All aruggists sell itat$1.6 bottles for$3, or
It will lie se nt, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the L)r. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
I AM NOW A
MAN!
It will pay you to watch this
space. It belongs to SMITH &
CONYES, the Leading Clothiers.
L. O. GALE,
Is Headquarters
FOR EVERYTHING
Usually Found in a
DRUG, JEWELRY, BOOK
AND MUSIC STORE.
Occupy a Store 25x142 Feet. Each Department is Com lete.
Prices low sis tlie lowest.
Do not delay in ordering your
Chicago, Oct. 5.1898.
11was
troubled with emissions
and varicocele, and had been
sexually weak for seven years.
Daring the last four years I
tried every remedy that was sold AS HE WAS.
and got no relief for
any
of my
troubles until I took CA LTHOS—It curcd and
restored me and I am now a man,"
(Extract from OD« of Iboauutdt or
letters rerrWrd by n».]
Address VQN MOHL
SEED GRAIN!
HUBBARD & PALMER
Corn and oats for sale at lowest prices. Near Omaha pot.
CO.,
On McChesney's demand he gathered
all the money possible at Chicago.
Tenney persuded him to not commit
this other act, and then Taylor threat
ened to commit suicide. When Tenney
dissuaded him from this he decided to
run away but would not go until his
friend Benedict agreed to accompany
him.
When McChesney returned from St.
Paul, where he had gone to raise the
loan, Taylor was gone. The latter
took with him only 115,000, having used
the $200,000 which he collected in
December to pay certain private obli
gations—$10,000 to Tenney and $2,500
for his wife.
ORIENTAL STSAM 3 H!P.
Great NorPwrti Stil to Have ('o'lijiletod
Arrangements for Its Line.
PORTLAND, Or., Fob. 5.—Receiver
McNeill, of the Oregon Navigation, has
made final arrangements for a line of
steamers to China and Japan. The
Northern is a party to the deal. The
contracting parties are McNeill & Dav
idge, the British Columbia agents of
Samuels, Samuels & Co., of Yokohama.
Pavidge will be here Wednesday to
formally sign the oontraot. Arrange
ments have been made not only with the
Great Northern, but also with lines east
of St. Paul, establishing a through all
rail route, as well as by way of the
Great Northern's lake line. The Great
Northern at first tried to build up a line
from the sound country, but competition
from the Northern Pacific and Canadian
Pacific lines was too great hence the of
ficials of th&t road readily joined with
Receiver McNeill. The service for the
present will be monthly, and will be in
augurated as soon as the contract is
signed,
Hcjecte4 the Chinese Envoys.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Secretary
Gresham has received a cablegram from
Minister Dunn, at Tokio, confirming
the Associated Press report of the re
jection of the Chinese peace commission
ers by the Japanese, on the ground that
their credentials were defective, in not
granting them plenary
powers.
No word
whatever had been received up to 10:80
We will send you the mar
velous French preparation
CALTHOS free, by sealed
mail, and a legal guarantee
that CALTHOS will
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All Dischargee and
O I lit Emissions*
Alinp Spermatorrhea. Varl*
vUltb
coeeie. and
AsHEre. RESTORE iMt vi(.r.
UseitSfpay if satisfied.
Sole American Agents,
Cincinnati, O.
a. in. regarding the reported capture of
a part of the force of the United States
steamer Concord.
Revenues Will Exceed Expenses*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Secretary Car­
lisle submitted a letter of information to
the senate which dissipates the gloomy
forbodings as to the lack of revenue to
carry on the government. It is in re
sponse to a resolution of inquiry adopted
last week. He states that the revenues
of the government from all sourceawill
exceed ordinary expenditures by |32,
463,023.
SENATOR CLARK.
The New Legislator From Wyoming Can
Be Counted for Bimetallism.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—C. D. Clark, lately
elected senator from Wyoming, was in
Chicago on his way to Washington to
take his seat. He will arrive at the na
tional capital not later than Thursday
next and will at once take the oath of
office. In the new Wyoming senator,
the silver men in congress will find a
strong advocate, and his vote can be
counted upon as against the recommend
ations of the president's recent message.
Against a Big Bond Issue.
"Sentiment among Wyoming people,"
Mr. Clark said, "is strongly against a
large issue of bonds to maintain a gold
standard. They want some practical
steps taken now towards bimetallism
and will oppose any movement which
will simply fasten the single money
standard upon the country.'' Mr.
Clark expressed himself strongly on the
subject of selling bonds at the present
time to maintain what he terms the
"monometallism of gold."
Regarding the new senators from,,the
West, Mr. Clark noted a great change
from wliat was once the almost univer
sal custom of the new states ^Vest of the
Rockies. Nearly, if not all the senators
elected this year, lie said, are poor men.
In no single exception were the senators
millionaires, or elected by the influence
of money.
An Apt Answer.
Rubinstein once declared to some one
lhat he was descended from one of tha
ornsarlers who accompanied Richard
Cceur de Lion to Palestine. "On the
piano presumably," was the smiling re
sponse—San Francisco Argonaut