Sturgis advertiser., September 19, 1888, Image 1

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CORNER^
^GROCERY
FRANCIS BLOCK.
Being now
nicely located in
Handsome New Store
Waare thus enabled better than ever to attend-to your wants, assuringyou a
As well aaflrst-olasB goods,- at all times. We wish to cstU Special attentiontooiir
CANNED GOODS,
DRIED FRUITS,
w'A* CANDIES,
CIGARS, TOBACCOS,
MEATS, FLOUR, ETC.
Tmstlng our friends appreciate a nice clean Grocery, we
respectfully invite a share of your patronage.
Yours Respectfully-,
MONHEIIMl'
CHARLES H. MUELLER,
Successor to Mueller & Hannan,
Druggist and Optician
DRUGS, STATIONERY and FIELD GLASSES.
Prescriptions a Specialty. Open at all Hours.
E. T. MARSHALL,
Blacksmith and Wheelwright,
Back of Valcan corner, on Junction Avenm
STURGIS DAKOTA.
Having secdMd the and wheelwright in the
Slack Hills, and having the best and most modem facilities, I am prepared to do
.Jbetter- work on shorter notice and for less money than anyone in Sturgis.
For Agricultural Implements,
ft" %ch as Seeders, Plows and Harrows,
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VEGETABLES,
BEOS.
WENKE
Ta-ls.es ultie Lead.
GLIDDEN AND OMAHA BARB WIRE
Always in Stools..
Hardware, Stoves and Tinware
Faints, oils, glass, doors, sash, crockery, glassware, lamps, etc.
'Ccepir mi Sheet Iron Work
A SPECIALTY.
KEFFELER-^
FALL STOCK,
Main Street, y Stuxgi©, DaJc,
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Ladies and
Children
CALL
THS APPEAL OF SAK07A.
We print elsewhere the petition made
by the people of Dakota to President
Cleveland for a special message to con
gress upon the admission of North and
South Dakota as states. It is brief, but
eloquent with facts. It seems hardly
credible that a great commonwealth like
this should have been kept so long in
territorial long-clothes, and the wonder
is that any political party should have
had the'audacity to deny it its rights for
so long a time. It is hardly necessary
to rehearse the claims of one or both sec
tions of Dakota to statehood. The fig
ures are an old story by this time, or
would be if it were not that every timo
they are brought before the public they
must be revised to keep pace with the
marvelous growth of the territory. In
population, in wealth, in the intelligence
of its people, in the universal diffusion
of education, Dakota is already a great
state far surpassing a number of the old
er states. Yet its only representation
upon the floor of congress is a delegate,
who may speak, but cannot vote.
This petition places President Cleve
land in on awkard position. He cannot
send a special message to congress urg
ing the admission of either one or two
states with the name of Dakota without
passing a silent condemnation upon the
course of his party for many years past:
The sole obstaole to recognition of the
rights of Dakota has been the democrat
ic house of representatives. The senate
has twice passed a bill for the admission
of South Dakota, but the democrats of
the house have stubbornly refused to
pass it because they believed the new
state would be republican. There was
an implied promise before the last presi
dential election that if the admission of
the state should be postponed until after
that election there would be no opposi
tion to its admission in time to vote in
the presidential election of 1888. This
pledge has been violated. The election
is upon us, and Dakota is still out
oi
the union. No more shameful denial
of the rights of a free people has ever
been seen in our history. There is but
one effectual way of righting this wrong.
Every voter who believes it is a crime to
withhold representation from a state—
for it is a state—should vote for a repub
lican member of congress in November.
A republican house of representatives
means the prompt admission of Dakota.
—New York Tribune.-
The stirring appeal- ofcJfefrandkised
Dakota to President Cleveland, slaking
that he send a special message to con
gress recommending the admission of
two states is having an educating effect
upon the people of the eastern states.
It has been published in nearly all the
metropolitan dailies of the country, with
editorial comment usually, and is thus
provoking such discussion as will serve
to enlighten public opinion as to the sin
gular impropriety of Americans recom
mending the policy of home rule justice
to Great Britian, while pursuing a policy
of even greater outrage toward a com
monwealth within the borders of the
United States.
The New York Tribune of recent date
publishes the appeal, accompanied by an
editorial elsewhere reproduced, which, it
is to be hoped, embodies the sentiments
of people in the eastern states. It might
have gone further, and pointed out that
the people of Dakota are of the same
flesh and blood of the people in the east,
who by removal to the prairies of Dako
ta have taken upon themselves the hard
ships incident to a frontier country, in
spired by the reasonable hope that they
could rely upon just and fair treatment
at the hands of the national authorities.
The attitude of the democratic party to
ward the great territory is the very em
bodiment of political tyranny, and comes
primarily from the solid south. The
rrima for which she is disfranchised is
casting a republican ijoritv, It would
VOLUME 2, NO. 38. STURGIS, DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1©, 1888. $2 PER ANNlM
CLOSING OUTSSALE
OF JtkSJL*
SUMMER GOODS
To be aoM ^t
In order to make room for the
Large Fall Stock Now En Route.
AND
SlIEriL fi
almost seem that the southern democrat
ic members of congress were struggling
to make a union with them odious to
every northern commonwealth.
The appeal to Mr. Cleveland to use
the influence of his name in securing jus
tice to Dakota will be fruitless, for Mr.
Cleveland just now ia thinking more
about the chances of his re-election to
the presidency than anything else and
he is morally certain that if both Dako
tas are admitted to their rightful place
in the union their electoral votes would
be cast for- General Harrison. But the
appeal is educational, and will be widely
printed and commented upon, and if the
republicans should succeed in securing
a majority of the house in the next con
gress, there will be no question that the
democratic party will be compelled to
see two new states added to the union
galaxy.—Minneapolis Tribune.
Hurrah for tlxe Bandana I
The red bandana has appeared in a
new use in the service of the democratic
campaign. Down in Arkansaw, in the
election last week, a party of democrats,
with their" faces masked with red ban
danas, marched up to the polls in one
county in broad daylight and seized the
ballot box, in which there was a large
labor-union majority, and destroyed it.
Then they opened another box, into
which none but democrats were suffered
to deposit a ballot.—Sioux City Journal.
True Republicanism.
The Dakota republican platform dif
fers from the national platform upon the
tariff issue, and the democratic school
master finds us very inconsistent. Cor
rect Inconsistency is a virtue, and in
dependence cur highest claim to a place
in the republican party. A blind and
unconditional subscription to every let
ter and form of a platform is not one of
tfie tenets of the republican party. Uni
versal acquiescence in every utterance
and action of the majority of the republi
can party is not the test of republican
ism. We differ, and our difference is
proof of our republicanism. There are
essentials and non-essentials. In the for
mer, unity in the latter, liberty. Da
kota republicans can differ from the
Michigan republicans on the issue of
free lumber and still be good republicans.
They can differ with New York republi
cans on free salt and still co-operate with
them. It is not all of political economy,
free lumber and free salt. We can argue
for either or both, and still be good re
publicans.—Pioneer Press.
Hot Dead—Neither Sleeping.
The Aberdeen Republican in comment
ing on the departure of the delegates
home from the Waterfcown convention
says: There is always a swearing train
which lenves every political convention,
loaded with the defeated class and their
defeated warriors. Upon this
historic funeral train -were two defunct
senators, Moody and Edgerton two cold
and lifeless ex-delegates, Pettigrew and
Gifford, and Kanouse, late congressman
of the late spectral state, etc.
"Defunct." "Cold and lifeless." Those
terms are hardly applicable. The gen
tlemen mentioned above, if they ABE po
litically dead, are the liveliest political
corses we have ever had the privilege of
gazing upon. The Northerners are try
ing to make themselves believe these
politicians are dead. Thej are like a
small boy in the dark—whistling to keep
up courage. Like Banquo's ghost, how
ever, the disembodied political spirits
and the "spectral state" "will not down"
and how it does worry the -"kids."
The man, who is to reform the world,
is not yet born. Take things as you find
them, make the best of them and keep
your own doorstep clean.—Ex.
It is stated that the Cass county re
publicans will bolt the regular ticket in
that county because Edwards of the Far
go Argus is at the head for councilman.
An extremely foolish proceeding in this,
the presidential vmil.
GKST A BARGAIN. ,,
OOPP'S LAND REVIEW.
Mr. Hoimnn's bill to suspend the op
eration of the public land laws, which
formed the subject of my last letter, has
not yet emereged from the room of the
committee on public lands, where it was
sent at the timo of its introduction.
Whether it will be passed by the
house of representatives or not is 'an
open question, some members expressing
the opinion that it will, while others as
sert the contrary. One member of the
committee is strongly inclined to the
opinion that the bill will be defeated in
the committee room, and those having
the interests of the great northwest at
heart should hope that bis opinion will
prove correct.
A case was .decided by the assistant
secretary of the interior a few days ago
which illustrates the theory that it is
good faith that counts in perfecting en
tries under the pre-emption and home
stead laws.
Lafayette Grim, of the Niobrara land
district, Nebraska, filed his declaratory
statement May 25, 1886, alleging settle
ment the day before. He established an
actual residence on the land with his
family June 1, "following.
On January 11, 1887—seven months
and ten days from beginning residence—
he submitted his proof and offered pay
ment for the land, the proof showing
that his family had been oontinously up
on the land from the date when the resi
dence thereon was first established, but
that Grim had personally been absent
from the land at work for two months
during the time. The total valuation of
improvements was 835.
The register and receiver rejeoted the
proof and refused to allow him to enter
the land on the ground that his improve
ments were so meagre and because the
law does not permit absence from the
land during the six months proceeding
proof. This decision was affirmed by
commissioner (Sparks) of the general
land office, and the filing was held for
cancellation.
On appeal, Mr. Muldrow, acting sec
retary of the interior, found that the im
provements, as described by the claimant
and his witnesses, were quite as good as
those usually madj| by pre-emption
claimants, and that the furnishing of his
house indicated an intention to make a
permanent home, and that the valuation
of the improvements at 835 was very
modest so, in view of the evident good
faith of the claimant, he ordered the final
papers to issue.
From this it is to be inferred that the
department will not permit the fixing of
a minimun of improvements, and that
offioers in passing upon the snffioency of
proof must "use discretion, and act in
cach case in accorance with the law and
the facts so that justice may be done to
all in other words, they must, like the
Mikado, in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta,
"let the punishment fit the crime."
HENBX
CAPITAL
$50,000.
Legitimate
Banking
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AllitsBranches
A. H. BOWMAN.
Sturgis,
COPP.
N.
Tie Size of Our Boms Markets.
The internal commerce of the United
States is greater than the entire foreign,
commerce of Great Britain, Frrnce, Ger
many, Russia, Holland, Belgium and
Austria-Hungary. Why, a single rail
road system in.this country, (that of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company) carries,
more tonnage and traffic in a year than
do all the ships of Great Britain.
Great Britain's foreign commerce equals
about one-sixth of our domestic com
merce. While the commerce of England
increased 21 per cent in ten years and
the commerce of the whole world aver
aged together increased 26 per cent in
ten years, the commerce of the United
States increased 68 per cent in the same
ten years. Where is the great need or
value of a foreign market for us?—[Con
gressman McKiuley of Ohio, in the
House, May 18, 1888.]
The democrats are trying to pick a
flaw in the legislative record of Matthews.
So far it ib not a glitteun^- success.
First National Bank
STURGIS, DAKOTA.
Boai'd or IDireotoro.
D. A. ICcPherson, president First National bank. Dead wood W. K. Btobbins, roiirnd .tanker,
York: R. C. Lake, prowident Firnt National bank, Knpid it.v harloa Fmncin, capitalist*., v
Sturgie: F. M. AUoii, chairman of board coonty commissioner**, Sturgia: W. B,
JonoH, merchant Henry E. Bailey, ro ronf ntative of the Corbin Bank
mg company of New York, liapiri ity Jans
Offioers.
,D. A. MTHEBSON, Fnddent. .,
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Dimension and
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CHA0. FKANCIB, Vico-Presidenfc.
Black Hills Plaster Co.
Hannfactaren oC-aad Dealers is
Plaster Paris, Land Plaster, Eta
LUMBER,
which includes every variety of
Building Material, such as Dimen
sions, Flooring-, Sheeting, Shing
les, Siding, Etc.
Yards and Mill near Tilford, D. T*
All Orders will Beeeive Prompt Attention.
Iron, Wood and Chain Pumps 1
Iron Pipes, Brasa, Steam -and Water Fittings, IloeX),
Packing, &c.
Gun and Locksmith
Sewing Machines Repaired.
Agent for U. 8. Wind Engine and Pomp Co. Standard'
Poinping and General Wind Jlillg, X«eed Grinders,
€orn Shellers.
Etc.
GEO.
LOTS LOTS
ONE UNDIVIDED HALF INTEREST in U» -OOMSTOCfiS ADDITTOji
to BTUBGH8 CITY, containing
S3S lOtS,
in AheMOST DESIRABLE location of any of the Additions to fills 6Ry, iift' ad
joins the grounds «ccapied by the
RAILROAD DEPOT,
6n the'NORTH and EAST sides. THIS IS A BARGAIN. For partienhafc"''
call on or addraat
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$1,500.
Interest Paid
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Time Deposits.
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cashier Bank of Speartiah J. J. Davenport,
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