Saturday news., May 29, 1908, Image 1

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CITY
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Hess & Rau get Coutract for Sewer.
for Catch Basins .were Opened
The meeting of the council last
Monday evening was not marked by
any great excitement, and outside
of the acceptance of Hess *& Rau'S
bid for sewer contracts and the
passing of sidewalk resolutions,
little of importance was done.
There were present His Honor,
Mayor Martin, in the chair, Alder
men Luck, Rainey, Hawley, Nel
son, Sheldon, Ryalls, Kreger and
Pritchard.
The minutes of the last regular
and special meetings were read and
approved.
PETITIONS.
A petition from the residents on
the north side of 2nd ave. south,
was read asking for cement side
ways to be built. Same was re
ferred to streets and alleys com
mittee.
Petitions were read from N. J.
Tregathon, Christ Kjos and Chas.
Martin asking for licenses to sell,
intoxicating liquors at retail.,
RESOLUTIONS PASSED.
The streets and alleys committee
having reported favorably, on the
sidewalks petitions referred to them
at the last meeting of the council
resolutions 3, 4, and 5. were intro
duced and passed secend and final
reading.
CATCH BASINS.
were three bids handed in. each ac
companied by certified check, bids
being as follows:
Stover Construction Co. offered
to do the work for cost plus 10 per
oent, based on cement construction,
provided the city would pay the
cost of the forms used in this mode
of construction.
Hess & Rau offered to, construct
20 or more or less catch basins at a
cost of $43.75 per catch basin.
Twenty catch basins based on this
bid would cost $875. This bid was
also figured on the basis of cement
construction.
Davis & Munt offered to con
struct twenty such catch basins for
$1052. This bid was figured on the
basis of pressed brick construction.
The question of the comparative
cost of brick and cement construc
tion was discussed by the council,
th& city engineer stating that in
his opinion cement construction
was just as good as brick construc
tion, quite as durable and much
cheaper, and he thot that it would
pay the city to put-in cement catch
basins. The forms referred to. in
the Stover .bid he figured would
cost about $50 each. This council
felt that If this matter of catch
basins was put thru it ought to be
done as soon as possible, owing to
the fact that labor would be scarcer
later than it is now. The matter
was referred to the sewer commit
tee. 3fi
'tEMENT TESTER.
The matter of the purchase of "a
cement tester was left in the hands
of the streets and alleys committee
with power to purchase if they
were satisfied with the machine.
BIDS FOR SEWERS.
Only one bid was received for
the sewers advertised to be con
structed. Hess made bids
as follows:
Sewer on Ontario street.. .$3920"00
Sewer on Boxelder street. .. 799 96
Sewer on Cedar and Kemp.. 884 00
L, ,G. HILL, M. D.
OCULIST
AURIST
:l
NOSE. ^iffeoAT
GLASSES F8TTEP
Firet Natiortal Bank B'ld'jr
4
Bids
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Sewer on Hopper street?H. 723 00
There was some discussion as to
the contractor leveling off the
street properly/after the laying of
sewers, and this led to the nearest
approach to a warm discussion
there was during the session. The
warmth arose, strange to say, over
the question of flooding with water
in order to cause the dirt to settle
aft§r the sewer had been put in.
Mr. Hess was present and spoke of
the disadvantages of the flooding
method. There was a good deal of
talk, but finally the matter was
satisfactorily settled and the con
tract was let to Hess & Rau and the
city attorney instructed to draw
the contract.
APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES.
The matter of judges for the
special election to be held this week
and next came up for consideration,
and the mayoiij£named judges for
the various wardsto act in that
capacity.
DECORATION DAY.
Alderman Rainey invited the
mayor and the council to take, part
in the proceedings on Memorial
day, and the mayor urged, upon
every' alderman present that* he
should try and be -present on that
day.
sx
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There was a question as to the ad
visability of opening the bids for
the construction of 20 catch basins
as advertised,but the council finally
decided that the sooner the matter
was settled the better, and. motion
was made to ppen thi bids i&iL. Lamrri
SUNDRY.
A s,
A proposal was made to allow
the chief of theKire department $50
extra year tb look after tne fire
alarm, or hire ^ome responsible
party to attend to it. The matter
was referred to the. fire and water
for .perm ssion to use the alley
back of the Grand hotel during the
building of the addition it is pro
posed to put on the rear of the
present structure. The permission
asked for was granted.
BILLS.
The following bills were read and
allowed:
N. W. School Sup. Co., crayon... 11 25
Hammond & Stevens, diplomas:. 12 50
(Jinn & Go.,commencement music ,5 50
G. W, Carpenter, surveying 5 00
Louis LaDou, dirt 10 00
E. A. Wilson, planting trees on
school grounds................ 382 50
Kampeska Mlg. Co., wood 1 iO
Ainsworth Mus. Co.,on now piano 65 00
Mrs. A. Weaver, sub. teacher 7 50
Mrs. Ed. Taylor, sub. teacher 7 50
Munger & Bennett, fgt. and dray 8 92
Ii. B. Parsons, salary 166 !7
Elizabeth Mayor, teacher's salary 80 00
Florence Stanton, teach, salary,. *^75 00
Amy Shively, teacher's salary.?? 75 00
Myrtle Shane, teacher's salary.. 75 00
Berdine Harris, teacher's salary. 75 00
John Shirlock, teacher's salary-,
"i- -. 85 00
Isabella Wood, teacher'ssBlaryJ'.S,'55 00
Evelyn Branvold, teacher's sal.. 60 00
Minette Miller, teacher's salary" 55 00
Maud Hastings, teacher's salary. .50 00
Emma LaDahl, teacher's salary. 55 00
Ada Minard, teacher's salary.. '55 00
Letha Rodolf, teacher's salary
.. 50 00
Sadie Garroutte. teacher's salary 55 00
Lois Ballou, teachers salary 55 00
Anna Clement, teacher's salary, 40 00
Mae Hanna, teicher's salary.... 56 50
Birch Wood, teacher's salary. 55 00
Grace Findley, teacher's Alary,/S. 50 00
M^riAtirin Crt Af\
Sadie McGowin. teacher's salary
Margaret Cogley, teacher's sal...
Wionifred Keegan, teacher's sal.
Miss Weills, teacher's jlary....
Miss Weaver, teacher's salary...
Mabel Pearson, teacher's salary
Miss Burns, teacher's salary..
Bernice Bailey, teacher's salary^
Maud Link, teacher's salary.....
tKiesow,
Cambern, do
do
W. W. Braman, do Z'A
A- Middleton, do
50 00
57 50
50 00
50 00
50 00
57 50
.49 00
55 00
50 00
90 00
40 00
40 00
,35 00
15 00
10 00
,10 00
-25 50
75 57
,42 93
P2 50
mz.m
45 33
2 10
35 50
38 50
18 40
T. R. Cunningham, janitor's sal
am Donnelly, janitor and team.
Otto Richter, janitor...
Orson Craig, janitor
Addison Atwater, janitor.....
Roy Watkins, janitor
Rex Adams, janitor
Election expenses
E. M. Barker, printing
John Keegan, salary to June 1st
Frank Elkins do
Wm. Olson, do
B. S. Crajg. do
F. W. Lyon,supplies. ..
Mlartm Belatti, work on fire alr'm
li Vetter. work on streets.......
C.H. Halstead, do/........
Erank Moran, do fe-, .... hf.
James Lavique, ddK .... (v,
Geo. Crozier, do *^453
Ed. McLear, do
Bruce Knight, do
Jake Feltman, do
Ed. Harkins, do
....h-. 51 00
.....v. „21 00
21 00
2 9 7 5
.....
ii 7 00
....& 13 15
9 65
!'.!!"Sl3 15
1 75
737 •.5 25
C. W. Stutenroth, witness feea., 2 20
On motion of Alderman Kaincy
the council then adjourned.
HOPKINS' REPLY TO SCHULL.
I am not a candidate fdr office.
It is true that I supported Mr.
Schull for office two years ago and
I wish publicly to apologize for
having done so. The woods are
full of men who supported Mr.
Schull tfro years ago w&q are not
doing so now. The reason is that
he has not made good. The rea
sons are to be found in abundance
in the Times of May 21. Mr. Schull
published a two column article of
slush and personal abuse in a recent
issue of Public Opinion and did not
write a word about his gambling
record. I do not believe the voters
of the county will accept personal
abuse, deliberate misrepresentation
and vituperation against men who
are not candidates for answers to
the serious charges which have
been made against Mr. Schu.ll. and
which can be substantiated to the
letter. ,As to his «ttem^%), muff
the statements as to his trying to
avoid meeting the ministers of the
city I will simply say that the best
answer to his weak attempt to
dodge is thr, fact that every one
of the ministers in -question is op
posing him with all their strength
and as proof of this I append a
signed statement of Rev. J. P.
Clyde, pastor of the Congregational
church of this city.
Signed. H. L. HOPKINS*.
REV. J. P.CLYDE'S STATEMENT.
"In my desird -to be more fair to
those with whom I. cannot agree in
important matters, I fcave my in
dorsement to the statement prepar
ed by Mr. Schull and appearing
over my signature in Public Opinion
While it is true it is put in the
most favorable terms possible for
Mr. Schull, I would have let it go
at that had he not abused my gen
erosity by his comments on the
statement. Instead of saying that
I did not make a second attempt to
see him, because of an opinion that
he. was not in sympathy with lis in
matters of law enforcement, I
should have said that we did not
try again BECAUSE OF POSITIVE
KNOWLEDGE BASED ON DEFI
NITE FApTSi ON DEEDS AND
SI'ATESIENTS OF- MR. SCHULL,
WHILE IN HIS PRESENT OFFICE,
THAT HE WAS MORE EAGER TO
PROTECT THAN TO PROSECUTE
THE MEN WHO WERE CARRY
ING ON THE WHOLESALE ROB
BERY IN THE GAMBLING
HOUSES OF THIS CITY.
"If Mr.( Schull would like to
know the ground for. this knowl
edge the evidence will be forth
coming. My conclusion that Mr.
Schull locked himself in his office
after we had made an appointment
by telephoning to see him is based
on circumstaneial evidence and is
therefore not absolute,but men have,
been hung on much slighter*evi
dence. However Mr. Schull virtu
ally admits in his article that he
was locked in his office at the time
of our call.
Signed J. P. CLYDE.
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Notice of Application for Permit
to Sell Intoxicating Liquors
NOTICE IS HEREBY" GIVEN, that
ChriBtopherson & Eck have this day
filed in my office an application for a
permit to sell intoxicating liquors at re
tail at Florence, lots 11- and 12, blk 14,
of the town of Florence, County of Cod
ington, and State of South Dakota, and
that said application will be heard by
the Town Board of said Florence on the
16th day of June, 1908, at 8 O'clock a. m.,
at the Imperial Lumber Co.'s office, at
which time any person or persons may
appear before said corporate authorities,
and {give any reason why such
license should not be received or permit
granted to sell intoxicating liquors at
retail,
Dated at Florence, S. D., May 28,1908.
W. C. Walsh.
•, Town Clerk.
First pub. May 29, last June 5..
•^lEAL ESTATE BARGAIN8
10 room house, modern Newly ro*
modeled
8 room house, wl&barn City water.
9 room house, with barn Close in.
9 room house, with. barn. 3. fine
lots, central location.
7 room cottage, new, well located.
7 room cottage, close in. Modern
and fine.
Good hotel at Willow Lakes.
A fine corner, 100x165 Cement side
walk, sewer and water.
Some .other choice lots and acre
property. „•,
Lots Jja J-aJuj ,Kam
peskal
Cottage at "SUlcresl" fop rent by
the week during the Summer months,
targe screened porch.
Can make terms to suit purchaser.
•—George W. Case,
^Granite Block,
PRIHJRT UW PUIZlt
Lyman County
Up
Against a Pe
cnliar Proposition.
lVll'1 I ,'vSV
DIVISION OCCURS IN JULY
Candidates for CommiMloners
Must B« Nominated at
Primaries in Jgnt.
tho
t-Ti •n
i. As the provisions vt the.-primary
election law are being applied fea
tures which were not thought of at
the time the law was passed are .mak
ing their appearance. Lyman and Un
ion,'Counties have dug up two of themj
In Lyman, under the primary law,':
it. 1% necessary to nominate their can
didates for connty commissioners at
une primaries -Another law re
the county .commliisioners &t
July meeting of -this year to
the county into commissioner
districts, based upon population.
en the former division ot the
county into commissioner districts
was.made most- of the population was
in east end of th^county and the
western end was sparsely settled.
No^i the settlement is as heavy in the
western end as it is in the eastern
ettd^and a new division into districts
on population will mean larger dis
tricts in tlr« eastern part of the Coun
ty a&d 'smaller in the western'part.
The question before the people'is how
to delect candidates in June when•
they will not know until July where
the district lines will he,
The proposition which- had: to be
met in Union county was in the filing
of the petitioh for the nomination for
the legislature by the Prohibitionists,
The primary law provides that sitch
petitions must contain not less than 3
per cent, nor more than 5 per cent of
the party votes at the last preceding
election. The Prohibitionists of Un
ion cast thirty-four votes at the last
«lection. On that basis one name on
a petition was a-fraetion below the
•required 8 per cent and two names
would'jfearry it a fraction above the 5
per 5c^t limitation and make the petl
tiojMfger flian is allowed by th.® la??.
•Tbe lietitlon was finally accepted with
two names, the county auditor holding
that tho traction oyer could not hurt
any one: under the circumstances.
TO SELL CROUCH LINE
of
Judge Signs Decree for Disposal
Property on June 22.
The long expected receiver's sale of
the Missouri River and Northwestern
railroad, known as the Crouch line,
operating between Rapid City and
Mystic, has been ordered, Judge Mc
Gee having signed a decree setting
the date of the sale for June 22.
The sale is granted upon the re
quest of the Cleveland Trust company
of Cleveland, O. It IS based on the
foreclosure of a mortgage on the road
securing a hond issue of $1,000,000.
Verne Crouch, one of the receivers,
resigned and C. O. Bailey was ap
pointed in his 'stead. He has placed
J. L. Soulb In chargo of the operating
of the road, which has.had a partic
ularly disastrous time since its open
ing two years ago.
The court has placed the upset price
Of the road at $350,000 and as there
are to be several bidders it Is thought
that the line will bring upward of
$500,000. It is forty miles in length
through a- cfopked byt( j^ituresuvo
canyon. 4#-
CHARGES LUMBER TRUST.
.Attorney General Wou& Oust Three
Companies.
After a detailed investigation of an
alleged combination of lumber com
panies at Webster Attorney General
S. W. Clark has commenced ouster
proceedings. He proposes to demand
the forfeiture of thslr charters.
The concerns Involved are the Lam
pfort Lumber company, the Williams
Bros. Lumber company and the John
W. Tuthill Lumber company. It is
contended that they have Joined in an
illegal combination to stifle- competi
tion and elevate prices.
Mr*. W. B. Sherrard Dead.
Mrs. Sherrard, wife of W. B. Sher
rard, superintendent of the South Da
kota Children's home in Slo.nx Falls,
is dead of ailments resulting from old
age. Herself and .husband originated
the idea of the children's home 1'
early days and she hail ,heen closel.
associated with her hi»band in the
work of the home since that time.
Store and Bank Burned,
puring a fortymlle gale Are broke
out the A. L. Vaix C^dei store, at
Mission -Hill and the store aod cqp
tents, together with the bank adjoin
ing, were completely deftroyed. The
Yankton firs "department waa'callei'
out and the balance of the town saved
after a determined light..
SHARPS ^AND
It is better to be rousted than forgotten.
Sis evideiitlythinka the
least she vvould like to-jsee*)^
hav^ one jgomiag
3rav?ford is a smooth talker—so-aye all "confidenqevinen."
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jpottompfe:
W: S, Glass will carry\Codington
Crawford thru on his shoulders.
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l|The Daily Public Opinion says it is no? a
right—it's mote like a tin whistle.
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The insurgents are looking pretty {h}ue around th*5 gills
feathers have commenced to stftnG up on-the fclick o^-their/tte
V?
In the language of the stereotyped typewrlter setit^twfei
the time for all great men to come to the aid of .ttielr'parte|"
S&Brother Kneedy is tyyip^ta butt in W drRW^some, t^^Sis|^fii!fe
is 690 lat»j-we haVe her engaged for several months ahead.
first thing Brother Kneedy ItnoWs Sis wi,|l kno^fe, the "soclii"bf^is
or him and then there will be, two "Sockl^we^" on the 'WmeS, -f
WWWWWW
When Adam got his apple-ihM®''ra# state it wwn't baff, after
But when Ev?e started in to #xperimentkwiijh apple gie there was t^|
in paradise., ,*t c--1
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'Mb
Sis, if you woniH&e good—be carefuf.^ iti 'ie^ndt
felltiw^for spending his o^n jnoriey even
personal taxes to the covtnty.T
If you want to cheat your grocer, rob your neighbor.' jand "b
your friend's wife get an Tartistief temperament.will «j|£u8e 'M
you from all your #jns.
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If Crawford should happen*mbe XJnited*State§f "Sen*
X. Way, the promoter, worn be the boy" with the' brass feollar jn
Sottth- Dakota, By the way, Way lifts beei\ in th§ state about one yeat
andrwants to run the politics of ^8B '^fc|te.
The Crawford band wagon bto^ down ttifr other &&$$$
sptoli» in W^itertown utlt will breaktitomi again
is a false prophet and the pteople of' the SSttttef -'sTe, *ft
pitfehmg
,.
Schull and Loucks aire'having a hard flgM^fdr'the stags' af^nfe
nomination on the, republican ticket. They b^m want to keep their ey^ fp
peeled or young Mark Sheafe, the democratic 'S»ndidatepi3^jtU sH® up
find grab the bone while they are fighting.
Herman Michaels and E. I. Lampy are Sit^ing:"a%Jcfi,
little race for the nomination of county aluditor on the jrepublican
ticket. They are both'good capable men and it is up to the voters to
take their-choice between a couple of good men,
WKensis is at Sioux Palls sometime in fiie near future inspecting^
the penitentiary and incidentally taking medical treatment she might
pick us out a nice airy cell. We hope she will use good judgment and
not locate us too close to her own cellar we may be making faces at
each other.
There is one good thing about Sister Hairoil roasting a fellow and
that is that it Is a sign ha amounts to something in a community. She
•neVer takes a shot at anyone unless she is jealous of him or he has re
fused to be bled by her. A roast by her is a mark of respectability to J.
any man in the community
riri
Crawford has come and ^one. The little handful of" insurgents hf*'
Watertown tried every available scheme to get out a crowd to hear him
shoot off his gas bag. By the aid of two of the best bands in the state
and a loud blare of trumpets thruout the residence part of the city,
enough stalwarts turnedfout to make him a fairly respectable audience!
His speech.was thg same old story, fighting imaginary rings, etc. As
a matter of fact, however, Crawford is now and always has been,'the
main tool of one of Jthe largest corporations in the state—the North
western railway. He is a goodj joily wind-jammer and puts us in mind
of those fellows who stand in a buggy on the streets and sell electric
liver pads for $5.00 apiece. After the fellow gets thru selling his
electric liver pads and catches all the suckers he can, he suddenly grabs
the'tfnes, whips up his horse and gets away with -the dough.
{o accuses
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GOAtS7??!yc:7yaASACi!x,
SIDEWALK, CURR JUTTEft, GOC^ERTw
BOILDINC *BLOCKS^
KIND
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ESTIMATES
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which he livesi So far as her vicious a^l
tacks injuring anyone is concerned it isijpraetically out of the question,
Her paper has only a little handful of takers and those who do take it
do not read it and those whof- do read it pay no attention to her wild
hallucinatios.
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M'mS^hiffre'W!e#pf,^^ tough on tlfe ^[6raldJ force to have to sit
up half the night and erase a couple of letters on the heading of the
roast they gave us laBt week. It probably took them several hours tt»
do this job. It shows how great the circulation of that'paper actually
is when they could erase and substitute other letters by hand on eadi.
papfer in the hope of kiSe^ing them from running into a direct criminal 1
libel suit. If the Saturday News .had to do that kind of erasing On
our paper we would be about three days late. But of course, it is
an easy matter when a paper -has only a couple or three hundred
circulation like the Herald. 'J