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3e (T & H%' 3y -e. *+«t' 4^ Philip, oyron CWV*/^y*-'W'v^WC -V' 1* 'V •f* If^' f: f'"'\ ,iAr fe &V O«e*SS3©S©G©fc'3D0C5»e®#fi,« e 9 C. I. MJLLKTT, Fiw A, ,T. RUN K KR. V. Pu i S —«—MMf nifw^rrrric.' IH A. MI.LLEK Mttnapcr. Philip Hisirdwcaf© &©• WHOLESALE i)nf IMSTftIL Hardware, IrrpSemerjr*, Vehicles and IVSachinerp. WH I W I llll1 I'll 111II1li11 II •!II IlilM nl Always Receives Filing's, Hears.Final tends to fill J/md Office. im:inex V tm—9i E A A ::W' «v\. B€3l mber, sash doors, building paper, r«b croid, farm Imp lories its, ^rsd mschiriO .oil. We handle the Emer o i Plows and* Corri Cultivators, have in stock a few' s-.-iof light and heavy harness wh 'i Will be soltl ait a' 1 ar •"-5- Wc 11 Dak. re prepared: to furnish. you with buildmg'materi:d. SlibtTlit yOHF ©StiilllStOS to us before placing your i is e &i!9. J.J. COUGHLIN, A\GR Cio'w UNTIED STATES At D, 7 ri 3, 111c-1• at •%^VVWNyVVlW^W^'WVV^t'!i-'ViVt1 ®G'3®* w, iJ Paid up Capital $17500.00 If you have funds which are temporary idle bring them to this bank. They will here draw iuterest u kit the require ed length of time. We will pay your taxes if you will giv? us a description of your property, Philip, S. W e e do Y o u If and you want a good mealcooked right served right just step into the Lone Star Restaurant C. A. Haddkn, Prop., Railroad Street, East of Depot You will find •k': iave" to'show energ^r I. o st^.til it. who 1» To a paper n .f j'ate would :"#G2?a 5 0« 9 Z HO oe&«003 ©•«.!•: A MICHAEL, f'.WALDEN. e ^gWjHFgpp., $ & o e e €5? & e 0 1 e e e fine line of wines liquors and cigars flow on sale at the Gold Medal Saloon. iMMMk The Bad River News IIII LLP, STANLEY (').. S. D. a. W. PRE'vViTT, Publisher ALVIN WAGGONER, Editor. Entem cond Class matter March 25 W, at tue postofflce at Philip, South f)a under art of Congress, an*h 3,1870. There are a few general types men, and- they never vary. V'lien yon eofne to think of ii i here are about as many different I tads of people ir. 1 •,i ii 11• :x* re'in Peking. (r, thing may be said everlasting cimlit of We are sn active peoi r.n.vone-" go Is our money e West. tnd if ho will enough, at Cliicago Trilntfiti r»isjjisu»v'» 1 ^lowing slate for the consid eration of the Democratic brethren: For president, John Johnson, of Minnesota for vice president,'Ton Johnson of Ohio platform, ther 'w too much Johnson. a. state dairy commissi^, is the main-spring in a movement to .secure higher freight rates on milk and cream. He is a college professor and of course, knows a lot of things about freight rates that the ordinary clodhopper can not undei stand. The commission er, with the usual logic of the Crawford administration of which he .is a part', argues that a high rate is a good thing for a man who milks cows, the railroad, the creamery and" the man who con sumes the butter. A person gift ed. with only ordinary, intelligence can ^ee that the proposed arrange nient is a good thing for the rail road that it cannot very material ly atl'ect the creamery but it takes the professors wisdom to see the manner in which the -thing works out beneficially for both producer aid "i- B-r also. The -r» [©dtui i: tiry rises conc ,i the whereabout^ oi' the gentlema:: I'.dditional 'phistie '.' looks as naturally C. Peckham. freiglr i s- ce tl rail producer to-take 'is I'oi or the (-'"!:•Mv.ei' pay rnoi butter. i»ie. it 'ioosn't. the prol'cr.sor. And t':.e knows. •'1 The i'niirot'd Comu:is.sio •'•5^ .jf.-,- is to come from the pvocdure adopted is And, on the other hand, it may be well to remember, too, that it Is just as poasiblc for the public to An Englishman in an article that .4,.reared recently in the Saturday Evening Post laments the fact that we have no leisure- class in America. Well, we've got a pret ty considerable colored population, 'i iisappearanca of Brother McKinley, the Ottumwa editor, from our midst and from his creditors, brings to mind the diverting tale of a young mm in a ed overcofft,--who came -1»* dui 1 back East, years ago, anl started a bank'." T: the course of time he departed. All he left wjis the sign on the front door and that was pnir-ted on. Ueru contcftipliiiiry" got*' rers- ustic about the "architec ture of Use claim shack.*' Never pjindv brother, we'll have architec ture kouietimc, marble monuments anil the like—when our country's as dead as yours. For the pres ent we subscribe the doctrine of the everlasting usefulness of tliin&s The editor of the Nrws is'nt the least bit humiliated by the confess ion that for architecture he wouldn't trade the Fort Pierre Creamery. for the hiost ruined ruii io Kurope. rhc r.r: v lay the pen"enginrer- i) the N r.v in his rambles came across a twenty acre field corn that will produce a yield of forty bii.-' tQ %ho -a-ere, 'This !:.•!•! i-. p.- ver, something of an e^repticv. j^or every -•!•.. field in Stanl':.' ei-unty there is a bur red thousand rcres of practically unbroken'^ virgin prairie. The owner of this field has been in the country seventeen "years, and, by this time probably knows n thing or two about farming in western South Dakota. Tie has {4ive.11 the soil a fair show. lie -has given some thought to the selection of his seed, and has planted anil cul tivated his crop intelligently. All of which leads us to remark that occasionally a person comes to Stanley county, breaks a five acre patch, plants the seed along the seams of the sod, and when he fails to husk a thousand bushels of corn, corners a great big, sicken ing disappointment that finally, sends him hiking back to Kalania-' zoo, denouncing the country in profane terms at every jump. And it was ever thus with the quitter. Gradually it will dawn on the minds of some people that a few o i of this hlate hits ordered piwjoeiigor rates reduced to cents per mile. This is in line with the action taken by the legislatures and com mission in other states. The roads of South Dakota do not propose to submit to the reduction until the Supreme Court has de cided against their contention. An injunction will be sought and the proposed rate will not become ef fcctive for some timo in any event. The roads contend that they have been operating for many years in this state at a positive loss and the enforcement of the reduced rate at this time will amount to practical ly a confiscation of theirproporty. The whole problem of railroad rates is a complicated one, and the ordinary man is not overburdened with knowledge on the subject. The public has been stabbing pret ty blindly, it is believed, at the evil of oppressive rates during the past two years. Much has been accomplished in several states, but whether any permanent good parts, o 9 9 e on tap, +-U+Ud--i method of extremely doubtful. The question, however, continues to grow in public import ance. Someday it will receive a consideration and a solution reached that will- do equal I justice betweca the people and the railroads, fn the meantime it may be well to remember that our railroads are a part of that great financial-system of w country made odorous by re investiga tion anl exposure and that they lire likely not wholly without sin The Public Land Laws The other day President Koose velt at Iveokuk paid his respects totlie present public land laws, a subject of considerable interest JLo the inhabitants of this locality. The following is:an extract from his. speech: The one object in. all our land laws should be to favor the actual settler, the actual homrmuUcr, who comes to dwell upon the kind" and there to bring up his children after him. The government should part with its title to the land only to the actual home-maker—not to 'the profit-maker, who does not care to make a home. The land' should be sold outright in quantiti ties sufficient for decent home No tein porary prospe ri ty of 'fij\y tor tue ratiror im.m-i r, class of men.could- iu the sligutest the public le,gr(-e work for yon one o 2 at least, of western South Dakota are practically in the same condition as when the coun try came from the hands of the Creator. This does not mean modern and improved farms. Well hardly! In a great liook the per formance of some rather remark able tasks are credited to the Divine liuler of this universe, but i e e v e e a e a- o e n and uptodate farm, there is no record of the fact. No it takes two or three generations of hust ling, digging farmers to make an improved farm. It was so in Illi nois and Iowa and it will be so in South Dakota. Do not misunder stand us. We would not decry the efforts of anyone. No one recog nizes more clearly than the pen engineer that the sod corn patch has its place in the economic de velopment of every new country, but the fact remains that this is 110 fair test of the producing power of the soil. Give the soil a fair: show. If you don't someone else will. And the success of these other and more industrious farm ers who come after you will be your everlasting shamei -,-t. s*"' 1 V1*' n'. AA'ill F. E. Sherwin, Pres. K. A. Bielsk rr idlJllttCBMftlenM st atone for failure on our part to shape the laws so- that they may the permanent good of the home-mafer, Now in many stated, w lie re the ritln fall" is-'Iigltt" it is simply absurdity to expect any man'to live, still less to bwng up a family, on one hundred and sixty acres* Where irrigation is not applicable and the land can only be used for grazing, it may be that cannot run more thati steer to ten acres, and it is not necessary to be much of a mathematician in order to see that where such is the case a homestead of one hundred and sixty: ivcros will not. go far toward the support of a family, in some way 01 the iP^a other we must provide for the use ot the public range under conditions which shall inure primarily to the •benefit of actu:d..s--ttlers on*' or near ir, and which, shall prevent its being wa'stfetft'-' i rrj r-1 R./ yOU I* ^i. TO STATfcT'A The president's remarks lends color to the rumor that has been afloat for several months to the effect that Congress will be asked at its next session to pass an act materially increasing the size of the homestead that may be enter ed under the public land laws. Anyway it\s pretty evident from the president's utterances on the subject ami .from other sources that the public land laws arc slat*, ed for a -geinferal overhauling.H' may mean a 640 acre homestead, as the Chairman"ot*"4he-- Senate Committee on Public I^ands sug gests.'" It will likely mean that, Willi an increase of the acreage allowed-as a-. homjestead, there will conric an extension of the-time of residence necessary before "com mutation-.proofs may be oli'ered. But whatever it means, there will, in.ftn,v event1 likely come soon a promulgation of a new public liind act, in ma^y essentials differ ent from the law that worked so well in Illinois and Iowa three quarters of a century ago—a law that will bo adopted to the condi tions now obtaining i v the m crIW arid states* hreshmg 'la—: v.ishiiig threshing duij: should notify me at once. Pric for grain 4 and5» cents, unbour. 5 and 6 cents, flax and millet 10' IVrm* «t,riet.lv c.-vih. A. Poll* Time to date way, a gouu cicun CONTEST, f^OUR CONTEST DEFENDED, TO SELL West-L ami iVhiin (/liice Pierre, Tranch. Philip. $ "l. tj-.'-inn'i. 1 Tim snftvi. sage or shampoo call on LAMB. e«ee*-*©©a ?.e€®s©ci*®«®©©®©»«se»8e©8s©©e©a©3®®©©®®$®ei^ I MCLAHE AND HARRELL, be found all kinds of Hardware. PuinN. )ils, Machin ery, Wagons, etc. Everything that is hardware establishment. Give us a call. PHILIP, S D. First Stat© Bank ©f Philip, PAID u? CAPITAL w o i* lCJin^CCTpplj^l lljjlljllilllil 'r 1'r kept at an up-to-date Frank Sherwin, V. Pres. Cashier. $10,000. PHILIP, so. DAK. In Clothing boots anil shoes Groceries, Dry goods and all general supplies. New goods A. P. Hartzell, Smith, ie Northwestern Hote and: Bakery, Is iiovs? pi?spai?(2d to S2i?ve you -with all kinds of good things to eat. PHILIP, S. D. i s YOU LA MB, i 8. D. i