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•'Wf i-R 4 •0" f- fe I# •ifc ?Tf| P». •tfV !^*f .V »,&•* A German was once heard to remark, "Slmmp a gouple of dimes uud dftt look pack," when fed to "he FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1800. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY By mail, ri AND months By mail, 3 months By mail, 1 month By carrier, per week... .... COUNTY. THUMB OP BL BBCBiiTial By mail, 1 y^ar Two South Dakota boys have just graduated from West Point with honors -James Hauson and H. \Y. Sehull. The class at West Point has been graduated earlier this year in order that il may furnish ollioers for the army. They will have two months furlough before going into active service. The Argus-Leader thinks as long as we cau sell beef to the packing establish ments and make money out of it, we ought not to sny anythiug about the rUec or chemically poisoned beef furnished by these establishments to our soldiers aud the world at large. It thiuks for the sake of the money in it we ought to protect this diabolical busi ness by keepiug still and that Gen. Mita ought to be squelched in his effort to ex pose it. We are not built that way, Mr. Argus. Let the beef-packers and army cjutractors be made to furnish a decent and wholesome article let the effort {cost wnat it will. The soldiers at the front are just as good and possibly a little battter than some other people and ought to have as good as there is. If NloKinley'e luvestigatigating com mission was not a whitewoshing com mission why is it they could tind no trace of the putrid meat furnished the soldiers when 480 officers in command of men during the oampaign report to Gen. Miles that the meat was not fit to eat, the men could not eat it without be ing made sick and most of them did not eat it. Beth branches of congress have passed an amendment to the election law that permits the use of voting machines at national elections, and it is said the president will sign it. Voting ma chines have already been legalized in several states and their recent successful use in New York and elsewhere has prov ed their accuracy and convenience. Rochester was the first city to use them in 1896, but these were a failure. Worchester, Mass., tried the experiment with another apparatus which proved equally unsuccessful. A third invention was tried at Hornellsville with better results the returns being announced seven minutes after the polls were olosed. These machines were inanu faotured by the United States company of Jamestown, N. Y., Mi have been Presumably that was his leap." Try the latter version the coming spring in tke selection of your Stock Food. Be sure and see Pratts Food before you buy. The best «nd cheapest food to put your horses in condition for work and it 1-ays for iteelf many times in feeil and results CATTLE, HOGS, SHEEP & CHICKENS. For your own Medicine go to COOK & ODEE. Dailit Leader. -iii I*•-'.I'.) 11*! 1X0 35 10 TU ADVHKTIt*ERS. TH« lUtLT LBADBU MAKES a special laalare of jrulshiri: information concerning the adyantp gea and reeoufoea of the city of Madison and of the s: ite ai large entitling il to the patro-iagj of ad Tinker® oi efery class J. F. ST A 111., Fruirk-tor. (rov. Lee's message to the legislature on the Phillips interest mutter wherein he submitted Attorney (ieueral Pyle's reasons for not prosecuting Phillips and hisjowu controverting Pyle's position and showing how Phillips could be pros ecuted aud the interect oa state funds recovered to the state, received Bcant eourteey from that body. The republi cs in majority by a strict parly vote de cided to not even listen to the reading of tae meesaye and it was referred to the judiciary committee doubtless to be smothered. This may be the proper way to receive a state document and to treat the chief executive of the state, but it looks more like big boys play aud mani fests a contempt fur the people of South Dakot'itha! the party to which these legislators belong will have to answer for to the people of this state when they come befo e theui in the next campaign ssekmg their suffrages. There is always a hereafter to suobbery of this kind. ver- sion of "Look before i used satisfactorily for several years in that pluoe and also in Detroit IQ IS9T. Another successful machine ia manu factured at Hudson, Mich. A United States voting machine is now on exhibition at a hotel in Wash inton. The ballota are arranged on its face, with the names of the parties in horizontal rows and the candidates of each in columns below them. A voter who wishes to vote the straight ticket presses »t button over the name of the party to which he belongs. If he wishes to split his ticket he presses a button at the side of the name of each candidate for whom he desires to vote. The ma chine is about six feet high by twelve inches wide and can be placed in a booth three or four feet square. The mechan ism will not operate uutil the voter en ters the booth and closes the door be hind him,aud his vote will not be record ed until he leaves the booth aud closes the door. If he makes a mistake or chauges his mind he can amend his vote by pulling out the button he has pressed aud pushing in another. Like in a cash register, little disks snow the total number of voters that have entered the booth and the number of votes that have been cast for each candidate. There is an attachment which mades it impossible for auy one to vote for two candidates for the same ollice. If he attemsts to do so his vote will not be registered. On the closing of polls the judges of election by examining the disks cau ascertain at a glance the total number of votes oast and the number for each candidate. Unless he takes time to think the voter need not occupy the booth more than a minute. Governor Lee has received a draft from the general government for the benefit of the soldiers' home at Hot Springs. The amount, 87,233.30, is the largest received for any quarter for several years. New \ork World: A thick-and-thin supporter of AlcKinley says that "Gen Miles is no soldier his uniform ought to be stripped from him." The only true soidierB, it would appear, are Alger, who was court-martii led for desertion Cor biu, whose horse ran away with him out of the reach of danger, and Gen. Fal staff Shatter, who fought the battle cf Santiago eight miles in the rear. The average mean minimum tempera ture of the twenty daya of the recent cold snap at Watertown, 8. below zero. D., was 29} The city of Aberdeen has just pur chased its own electric light plant from the owner, Mr. Bartholomew, for 838, 000. Of this amount 83,500 is tote cash, the balanoe assumed debt. Mr. S. A. Fackler, editor of the Mfc anopy (Fla.) Hustler, with his wife and children, suffered terribly from La Grippe. One Minute Cough Cure WHS the only remedy that helped them. It aoted quiokly. Thousands of others use this remedy a speoific for La Grippe, and its exhausting after effects. COOK & ODEE. Fatality of Croup. Statistics show that thousM&e of in rants and children die yearly of mem braneous croup. We do not exaggrerate when we state that everyone of these in nocents could have been saved had Foley's Honey and Tar been given them in time. Can you afford to be without it your household? FIIANK SMITH. There Is no if About It. No question indeed with those who used it, but that Foley's Kidney Cure is absolutely reliable for all Kidney and Bladder diseases. FIJANK SMITH. TBE Mont Fata?DIMCM* It is not generally known that more adults die of Kidney trouble than of any other disease. Wnen the first symptoms of the disease appear, no time should be lost in taking Foley's Kidney Cure, which is guotABtaiMi money refunded FRANK SMITH. LOSS PLACED AT A MILLION. Machine Shop* at the Kaooklyn Nav.v Yard Destroyed NEW YORK. Feb. 17.—Over $1,000,000 worth of government property was de stroyed by fire which started in the large machine shop of the Brooklyn navy yard, known as machine shop No. 28, and the workings of the navy yard have received a serious set back. Many fine models and patterns of battleships, their parts and plans, have been de stroyed and some of them cannot be ob tained again except by going over the work mapped out in the beginning. The fire was first discovered at 0:o0 o'clock and four alarms turned in. The building was about 100 feet in width aud o2."» feet long. It was four stories in height and built of stone and brick. The wood of the inside was Thoroughly Saturated With Oil and the flames rapidly gained headway. They had completely enveloped the great machine shop when the firemen arrived and attention had to l»e paid to the foundry and other buildings in the vicinity. Several tunes the flames got a start on the foundry roof, but the lire men quickly put them out. A small corrugated iron building in the rear of the machine shop was burned, but the loss on this is insignificant. The loss to the building is placed at $300,000: that on the machinery and lathes in the building $400,000. The cost of the models and patterns is vari ously estimated, but officials in the yard put the total loss at a little over #1,000, 000. MR, BRYAN WAS THERE. Minnesota Democrat* Ha liquet Governor Lind aud Mayor (tray. MINNEAIMMS. Feb. 17.—The banquet given by the League of Democratic Clubs to Governor Lind and Mayor Gray was attended by GOO guests, among the distinguished ones being William J. Bryan. The speakers were Father Clearv, Mayor Gray. Fred Schilplin, Senators Baldwin and Stockwell. Hon. T. D. O'Brien. Governor Lind and W. J. Bryan. The banquet was interrupted at precisely U:40 o'clock, the (100 guests rising and drinking to the memory of the sailors of the United States navy who lost their lives in the blowing up of the Maine a year ago. ORDER MOKE HOATS. Moolttefeller Intert-tt* to Have Four New Lake IcmcN. CLEVELAND, ().. Feb. 17.—The Marine Review says: Orders for four very large steel freighters, two steamers of {i.vTiO gross tons each, and two tow barges of 7,»."»0 gross tons each, just placed by the Bessemer Steamship company (itock" feller interest) bring the number of con tracts for new vessels of all kinds on the (ireat Lakes up to :J(5. and the total val uation to $T». 109,000. With the twe other vessels for the sseiuer fleet— i ne at Cleveland and one at \W»st Supe rior—-already underway—the aggregate value of Rockefeller orders is fully $ 1, 0 if. MAKER HAI THE BEST OF IT Police Stop Hi* Fi^lit With onroy In the Seventh Itouiiil. H\RTFoiu. Conn.. Feb. 17.—Peter Maher of Ireland and Sto kings (Vmrov of Troy fought 2 minutes and 10 seconds of the seventh round in the Coliseum when Chief of Police Bill jumped upon the platform and ordered Charley White, the referee, to stop the fight. He did not act quickly and the chief stepied between the two men while sev eral policemen mounted th»- .stage. Maher had Conrov in the latter'* cor ner and was hitting him with both hands. Conrov tried to run away and held his hands to his face. He was ap parently helpless. Northwestern Flour Output. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 17.—The North western Miller reports the flour output last week at Minneapolis as as-Viso l»r rels. against 307,45."» the previous week, and in 1HIW. At Superior and Duluth the output was S7.:»so barrels, against 14,000 the week before, and 17,7"iO in 1M9N. The flour markets were quiet. Sales were much less than the output. Att t'ltlmatuni by Knglaad. BOMBAY, Feb. 17.—The Persian Gulf mail steamer, which has just arrived here, brings news that a British ultima tum was presented to the sultan of Oman on Saturday, owing to his having leased to France a coaling station on the coast of Oman, which is a semi independent state in Southeast Arabia. Oman is considered to be under British protection, as the sultan has been re ceiving subsidy from Great Britain, Famous as a Runner. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Lawrence E. Myers, the famous short distance run* ner, died suddenly in this city of pneu monia. He was born in Richmond, Va. His running records still stand, no ama teur or professional having equaled them. Myers has been an amateur champion of America at one distance oi another ever since 1879. He won 14 American championships, the Canadian cliampionships and 3 championship® tit More business men lose fortunes aod social standing by ill-health than all else combined. Rocky Mountain Tea will bring health aod prosperity. FRANK SMITH. La Grippe is again epidemic. Every precaution should bo taken to Hvoid it. Its specific cure is One Minute Cough Cure. A. J. Sheperd, Publisher Agri cultural Journal and Advertiser, Eldeo, Mo., says: "No one will be disappointed in using one Minute Cough Cure for La Grippe." Pleasant to take, quick to aot. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Rt. Hon. Sir William Cliitty, a lord justice of the British court of appeals, is dead. The first carload of copper bullion produced in Pima county, Ariz., has been shipped to New \ork. Lieutenant Edwin A. Harting, First South Dakota, was drowned at Manila while attempting to land a Hotchkws gun. Marie Wainwriglit Slaughter, known as Marie Wainwriglit, the actress, has tiled a petition in bankruptcy, with lia bilities of $1 l,0.»v. The steamers Bosnia. San Ignacio and Montevideo, with repatriated Spanish troops from Cuba, arrived Wednesday at Barcelona. Cadiz and Vigo, respec tively. President Jordan of Stanford univer sity has announced the appointment of Dr. John Caspar Branuer, head of the geology department, as vice president of the university. In all the schools of New York city the story of the blowing up of the Maine was told Wednesday and each teachei impressed on the youthful mind the im portance of the event and the impor tant happenings that followed. No Authority Over PtiHtnana. SAN FRANCISCO Feb. 17.—Attorney General Ford has filed an opiuicu with the railroad commissioners, in which he states that they have no authority over the Pullman Palace Car company. Ford contends that the company simply rents and furnishes cars to railway companies? and the board has not the power to reg ulate the (barges of the Imggage, ex press or coach companies. Dlacharged a Few (ienerala. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The war de partment has honorably discharged Major Generals Butler and Sumner and Brigadier Generals Kline, McKee, Lin coln. Wiley and Combs, all of the vol unteer arm v. Jennie—No man can love a girl with a white face and a red nose. Iiocky Moun tain Tea will make them change places, then you're all right. NERVTTA MEDICAL CO. Clinton A Jackson Sts., CHICAGO, •arfr, For Nale^liy COOK A OIKF. MadiMoii, days, 3 COOK & ODEE. ft insure a happy new year, keep the liver clear and the body vigorous by ue-| ing De Witt's Little Early Itinera, the famous little pills for constipation aod liver trouble*. 1U FRANK C. SMITH. Th^se are dangerous tiinee for the health. Croup, colds ano throat troubles lead rapidly to Consumption. A bottle of One Minut* Cough Cure used at the right time will preserve life, health and a large amount of money. Pleasant to take: children like it. COOK & ODER. A Mhort Mail Mtor.v. A Cohl. Neglect. Pneumouia. (Irief. Had Foley's Honey and Tar been used, this story would have had a happier end ing. FK A N K S I HERVHA Nesiarea VI~| AUITV LOT.T VIGOR AND (V)A.\HOUC Cure? Impotcncy.Nieht Kmis-ionsaiu" vnstimr diseases, all d'ects of self abuse, cr exec-3 ami inuin- cfo -ffiir C.XCC-.-J anu 111.1 g&'lLj cretion. AiH'rvoto.MH'ai iR -Ay pin!: ilo\v to Hint the u r. '-rio'v t-'P"llec,u't'krfan(5aciu-ekripile r,'st°r''s t1*- iire of youth. Hy mail oOc p-r tw»-: Oi»xe for with a written nurali te.'e to uro or reluiul tli money. "Indapo Made a well Man of Me in 30 days." This old. yet marvelous. Hindi* lleme'ly for men curi-s ail Kervnu* diseases, KaiiiiiK memory. Night emissions, Sleeplessness, Lost enenry, t'ic., t-ui-cl (.* overwork, past excesses or early uliusvs. Prevent insanity, enlarges shrunken orpins and restores amtntion and viicorosity in old or 3 nn*r within l'rieoll.(HI a package: ao Si* for$A.OO, with Kuarantee toon re or money refund ed. IMAPOeiin be had of druwisi named I*.- low.fir. If preferred, we will .send 11 prepaid *e,-ureir ieuled i.n receipt of price. Itook of VHIIU* FNT-. HINDOO KKMtilV CO., I'rop., hit-ago, ill. For Nalr by OOK A (ll)KR. Sladiaoii. M. I». VN lion looking for first-class JMeats, Fish, 'Fowl or Game call 011 OSCAK KOEHLEIi, the new proprietor of the CENTRAL MEAT MARKET. The very best meats, fresh and cured, always |in stock. Prompt and courteous attention to tbe wants of customers. OSCAR KOEHLEII, COAL. HUBBELL BBOS, I Are the only dealers in town I that sell 1 Lehigh Valley I 'iar^ C0a^- This coal is BRATEI) CELE- for the large amount of beat and small per cent of ash to the ton. TRY A TON. I: They also handle SPLINT COOK & ODEE. IIOCKINO 3 and ILLINOIS soft coal. £!Le.^®csl1- '™onb 53-2 A Full Line of WINE J*l WEITIHm MODil 5ocicty Women Ana.in fdct.nearly ail women who underdo & nervous stTAtn. compelled to regret fully w&tch the dTov* •ng pallor of tKeiT cheeks, the coming WTinkles and thinners that become moTe "u^tTtiiina (vtry daw this tin,,. „f on hand at the y How a Woman Suffers. Ullir ADVISORY OIMRTMIHT. For a'lvii-f in •»*,•# r. r: OLMORE PLAC] Competent man in charge. R. C. M'CALLISTER, HOWKU., INI., NOT.M. I will always irai*o Wine of "arjiui It has done me icore K'wd than all the niecli- cines I have ever taken in my lite. i? llrc«'tit'n*, HI it*l I IR *», i: K •, M.U.ir l»F'. It"' lEDIrntlO, Uiattvi.Mva, I.'I. the Change of Life, this Vegetable Wine i. a ble^sin^. WINE Uneeda Biscuit Every woman (knows th&t »ll-health a fatal enemy to beauty and that dood health g.ve^ to fh« plainest face an en attTactivenevk Pure blood and itrono werve* these are the »«tret of health and beauty. Everybody nwl. Un««d» BUcuit. Tho Invalid who r*-. qulrea nourlalimeni the luxl „f ,leUoat« UigoMion the worker of at :r! appetite, flinl tn Vnttdl BlftCUit lx)th anlatanc« and auatenanct*. Nwl| •verywlicre I.. duat Pro„f. mr ,iK,lt Dr.Williams* PinK do my own work rtnd «tnfrr» hcnrtpcl ntid infl'anc liolv J. ",y madf up my trv 1 bought the first |(„. A box nmlhalf „rrd '"fljh The AGEN I I I i leaae •end a book about tii^t^iscs to ttio ladlea whose nainea I enclose Mra. MINNIE STODOUILL It isn't necessary for a woman to Rive particulars. When she she has "female troubles", other women know what that meins. |. means days and nights of endless suMerini It means headaches no tongue can describe. It means that terrible bearing and dric, -j down in the lower aMom^n. It nuuns ai: ni/init backache, and sho.j» ache, and arm ache, and aches in the lower limbs. It means nerves o edge—the blues— despondency and loss of hope. It means debihut.rv drains that the doctors call kucurrlvej. It means martyrdom-5. -if. times even death seems prderable. And still Wine of Cardui will utter'. put se diseases and pains t-»r It lie cured thousands of c.i 5 when nothing else on earth wu To the huddin? woman, bride, to the wife, to the expect, mother, t« those going thru^j Druggists Sell Lar e Bottles for $1.00. To encourage the appetite Alway. freab. okv.IJ rid. •. U,r ,r"uhl'- «»'"t comm to woin'n l|T*H ncc^ wa*unaMr, I genuine 1 R°7. aruOdiits or «..«• Mr 11 much of the lit"* ,M,w,"r ,lcl,tr,bc- 1,1'Bnw 1 Ho nic nny ko«kI. Tlx" for Pule people. and waa Unrfitcd front theMflrt —SutkHeU{///,) Krforrf. wplctcly, and I am now rugged and atri'K package always bear* the full *tnt postpaid on receiot of w Dt Will.tro., Mtdumt Co.