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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

AT a recent third party love feast w.
%. Farmer of Texas was cheered to the
echo when he said:
LII the government can take IS cents
worth OF silver, stamp it and make it q
dollar, it can take a piece of paper.
stamp it and make it worth 100 cents.
and that's what we propose to do.
Gradually but surely the third party
apostles are getting around to the fiat
platform which the people of this coun-
try have several times condemned.
This government cannot take rs cents
worth OF silver and make it worth 100
cents any more than it can take three
pecks Of wheat and make them worth q
bushel. If all the nations of the earth
were to unite on an arbitrary standard
OF value, the fiat proposition might
stand for awhile; but, even then, the
irresistible natural laws of trade and
supply and demand would have to be
taken into account. When the silver
dollar was first coined it contained 90
cents worth of silver, but the mere fact
that the stamp of the government has
not been able to keep it at that value
even with limited coinage is one of the
strongest arguments against the possi-
bllity OF this nation by itself trying to
put silver on an equality with gold.
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WRECKED BY DYNAMITE,
A Kansas City Man Feels the Fury Of .
Woman ScOrned,

A Kansas City Man Feels the Fury Of q
Woman Scorned.
KANSAS Cry, Aug. 12.-Richard M.
Juvenal's- residence in Kansas City,
Kan, was wrecked by an explosion of
dynamite late in The night. There were
in the house at the time Juvenal. his
wife and her sister. Mrs. Ricketts, and
her three children. Mrs. Ricketts, was
struck by falling picture and received
severe scalp wound. The other occu-
pants received q severe shaking up, but
fortunately escaped any serious injury.
The explosion was loud one and its
force was felt fully ten blocks away,
many windows being broken.
From all accounts the deliberate at
tempt to blow up the residence was
made by a woman, as she was seen to
enter and leave by the front gate, a few
minutes before the explosion occurred.
Mr.. Juvenal, who has been twice mar
rled, said that while he was getting a
divorce from his first wife he kept COM
pany with Miss Pfaffman and that when
she learned he had married again she
sent him threatening letters to blow up
his residence. Miss Pfaffman, who is
suspected, has not yet been located by
the police.
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Building and Loan Association Officers
Get Away with a Large Amount
of Cash.
The Concern Did an Immense Business.
Victims Located in All Parts
of tho Country.
Two Men Who Got Away Believed to
Have Taken Most of the Money
with Them.

CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-Alfred Downing,
N. H. Tollman and three young women
clerks, occupants of the office of the
National Capital Savings Building and
Loan association of North America,
room IS Roolsery building, were ar
rested by United States Ma1shals Hitch
cock, Allen and Charles, and the entire
epistolary contents of the place taken to
the Office of United States District At
torney Milch,ist. Downing and Toll
man were taken before United States
Commissioner Poyne charged with u.s.
ing the United States mails for fraudu-
lent purposes, and placed under $4,000
bonds for a hearing Thursday. Aug. 20.
The three clerks, Misses Downing, Bar
tholomew and Wadley, were notified
that they were wanted as witnesses at
the hearing. 1t is charged that the men
who have been conducting this associa-
tion have swindled thousands of people
from every state in the Union and taken
in from 100000 to $3.50, 900 and given
not one penny in return. There are
still two men at liberty, they having
disappeared severa! weeks ago. These
two men, it is believed, got away with
most of the funds.
The Mode of Operation.
The association sold shares for so
cents each with payment of $l1.O5
each month for ninety-siX months, at
the end of which tune $4,000 loan
would be paid for. There was men,
bership of $50, an appraisement fee of
$40 and $45 for three months payment
in advance. The books of the associa-
tion show that its agents in all the states
were active, but the most active were
in Omaha, Denver, Des Mcines, Port
land, Me-, Galveston, Olympia, San
Francisco and Minneapolis. Up to
within several months ago the associa-
tion did big business in Philadelphia,
where, however, the authorities got
after the manager and drove him away.
One of the peculiar features of the case
is the Endorsement of the scheme by the
Bradstreet and Dun agencies. The
officers of both these agencies examined
the association and its affairs. but the
evidences of prosperity were so great
that the agents made favorable reports.
Indiana, Kentucky. Ohio. Pennsylva-
mia, New York and the Southern states
were worked, but the bulk of the VIC
Tins live in states west of the Missis-
sippi.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
The Downtrodden Farmer

Minneapolis Journal: The State
(Alliance organ) calls the farmer the
''pack horse of modern speculative ge-
MUS" "the slave of circumstances fixed
by cunning knaves;;" the prisoner to
poverty and misfortune" The Minne-
sofa farmer as he gamers his grain and
contemplates his broad acres and bank
account, finds it difficult to realize that
he is the party intended to answer to
the above description. But of course he
must be; these self-constituted "farm-
er's friends" who make their living by
preaching that kind of doctrine admit it
and it must be so.
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the state board of charities and was
eiected as a Republican to fill vacancy
IN the fifty-frst congress bv 10000
against 2,olO scattering votes. He was
also candidate for reelection to con-
gress: last fall but was defeated by a
Union Labor man. He may be expec-
TED, therefore, to denounce the party
Which has bestowed on him far more
than one mans share of political prefer
ment, and which he did not see fit to
leave until he had failed to secure fur
ther honors. Mr.. Kelly has cultivated
an appetite for Office which we fear
even the broad, green pastures of the
new party in Kansas may not suffice to
satiate.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Argus-Leader: The great exodus of
thinking men which began seven years
ago from the Republican to the Demo-
cratic party has been steadily growing.
The st. Paul Globe enumerates the fol-
lowing Democrats who are ex-Republi-
cans: Gov. Campbell of Ohio, Gov.
Boies of Iowa, Gov. Palmer of Illinois,
Gov. Gray of Indiana, j. F. Andrew,
Josiah Quincy, Sherman Hoar and G.
F. Adams of Massachusetts, and among
the old war horses Lyman Trumbull,
Carl SchurZ, Frank Blair, ]. r. Doolit-
tie, G. w. Julian and Andrew Curtin.
Heavens! What an imposing array!
Fourteen in all! And in nearly every
instance each got what he joined the
Democratic party for, an office. But
what reflection on that party this
prompt recognition of back number Re
publicans is! And what bald misstate-
ment it is to say that this remarkable
exodus began but seven years ago. But
the most consoling fact of all is that the
Republican party still has its Harrison,
its Blaine, its Sherman, it's Allison. its
DepeW, It's Mckinley, It's Reed, It's Man
derson. its Alger, its Hawley, its broad,
progressive statesmen almost without
number, no one of whom bases his
claim to recognition on the fact that he
is an ex-Democrat. No progressive
party but moves too rapidly for some Of
its members and when they drop out
what is more natural than that they
should fall right back into the front
rank of the less progressive organiza-
tion, while their places are taken by
the Dollivers, the Wolcotts the Spoon
ers, the Pettigrews, and the hundreds
of other younger Republicans that have
come into prominence since this Won
derful exodus began.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The spectacle of eX-President Hayes
marching in the G. A. r. ranks at De-
troit and receiving continued ovation
down the line is far more forcible and
satisfactory exposition of what an ex-
chief magistrate should be in private
life than the recent labored deliverance
OF ex-President Cleveland at a New
England clam bake. Since his retire
ment from the presidency Mr.. Hayes
has been model of digniied and hon
orable citizenship, doing no posing to
keep himself in the eye of the public,
and yet holding a place in the esteem
of the whole people of which any man
might be proud.
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victim.

Argus-Leader: Is it not a little sing
ular that the only portions of the Nc
Kinley bill which the Republican Or
gans praise are its free trade features?
Not half so singular as the fact that the
anti-protection papers expect the sup
porters OF the Mckinley bill to praise
it for what the former allege it to be
instead OF for what it actually is. The
measure has been persistently and NAL
iciously misrepresented, and now that
discussion is bringing out its real merits
and refuting the lies about it, its ene-
mics are naturally disconnected.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Alliance Congressman Tillman of
South Carolina calls Alliance Senator
PETER a back number chicken thief be-
cause the latter favors the third party
movement and the sub-treasuy plan.
The third party, he says, is projected
by political assassins and t-throats,
and if the Caucasian race was divided
by it, "hell would yawn to receive it,
That is in the south, of course In the
north the third party is to be a glorious
factor in bringing about the reforms
which Tillman and his ilk are fighting
for, and hell will probably yawn for any
honest Alliance member who believes
that there is no need of such movement.
How do our stalwart farmer friends like
this little scheme fostered purely in the
interest of the Bourbon democracy?
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
sALFouR's IDEA.
His Reasons for Fa voring Local Govern-
ment for Ireland.

ment for Ireland.
LONDON, Aug. 1s.-In his speech at
Plymouth Chief Secretary Balfour out
lined the ideas of local government
which the government proposed to en-
body in bill. He repudiated the view
expressed by Mr., Morley that it was a
small home rule bill. He argued that
local government should not be with
held from Ireland for two reasons-the
first a sentimental one, because it had
already been given to England and
Scotland; the second because it had
been repeatedly promised to Ireland. 1t
would be madness to allow councils to
administer the funds Of any class not
represented in such councils by CON
trolling voice. Such permission would
convert them into engines of tyranny
and oppression. Mr.. Balfour exonor-
ated his opponents from the charge of
obstructing his measures for the benefit
of Ireland.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

MIR. Kelly Of Kansas, whose conver-
sion to third partyism is exciting some
comment, has record which entities
him to place in the front rank of lead
efshlp in the new organization. He has
served one term as q member of the
lower house of the state legislature:
was director of the state penitentiary;
was receiver of the United States land
once at Topeka; then assistant assessor
OF internal revenue; later treasurer of
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
Insurgents Are Elnted.

NEW YORK, Aug. IA cable dis
patch to The Herald from Iquique says
the insurgents are greatly elated and
feel confident of victory over the Balma-
cedians in the coming expedition against
the South. The troops are inspired
with a fervor that is unmistakable and
look upon their cause as just and right
eous. The men in the feet are similarly
actuated and think that God is on their
side. The utmost unanimity prevails
among the leaders OF the Congressional
party.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The constitutionality OF that part OF
the New York law on the death penalty
which forbids the publication of ac-
counts of executions is to be fully tested,
the editor of nearly every newspaper in
New York City having been indicted
for its violation. The evident object of
this prohibitory clause was to prevent
the new method of legal killing from be-
ing discredited by sensational accounts
OF its working before it had been fairly
tested, but as the papers in question all
had full reports of the affair, imagina-
ton supplying what fact lacked, the
failure of the law in its object will
doubtless result in its early repeal, even
though it may not be considered as con-
troverting the constitutional rights of
the press.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
RAN INTO A FREIGHT.
A Grand Rapids and Indiana Train
Wrecked 1.-Two Killad

Fort WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 1s.-The
fast passenger train No. s, running on
the Grand Rapids, and due here from
the south at 2:1O a. m., ran into a
freight at the Briant siding, about
forty-five miles south of this city at
1880 a. m. The freight was backed onto
the siding from the main track at the
time. Engine No. 45, on which Engineer
Daniel Dick and Fireman Thomas
Brown were at their posts of duty, and
the baggage and express car behind it
were ditched, but the remaining coaches
remained on the track undamaged, with
the passengers uninjured beyond the
severe shock. The engine toppled over
on its side Immediately after the crash,
and as tie monster machine went
over, the engineer and fireman both
jumped from the cab. Engineer Dick
was found dead a few moments later,
his body being crushed under the ten
der. Fireman Brown was found crushed
and bleeding in the debris unconscious,
but alive. He was internally injured,
and died at O'clock.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

One "Major Hendershott, who had
achieved sort of cheap reputation in
the two Dakotas, as "the drummer boy
of the Rappahannock," and who has
been in the postal service ON both the
Milwaukee and Northern Pacific lines,
has had his pretensions pretty etfectually
punctured. AT the Detroit encamp-
ment it was proven beyond question
that he was not what he had long pre-
tended to be. but had stolen another
mans thunder-and drumstick reputa-
tion.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Conceding for the sake of argument
that prohibition is an absolute failure
in South Dakota, what have its oppon-
ents to offer in its stead that the great
majority of the people who are opposed
to the old time saloon dominion can ac-
cept? 1t must of necessity be an en-
tire new plan OF restriction and regula-
tion, for no one of those in operation
outside of prohibition states is relative
ly more successful and etficacious than
prohibition itself.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
Arrested for Bribery.

BosToN. Aug. IA few days since
it was announced that Superintendent
of Streets Carter had received a letter
from contractor of this city in which
the contractor offered him 10 per cent.
of the value of all the contracts
awarded him for city work through the
superintendents influence. The matter
was reported to the mayor who caused
q warrant to be issued fer the arrest of
the writer on the charge of attempted
bribery. The name of the offender is
James A. Colpon, of Charleston.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The judicial bench of the state seems
to need fumigation if we may give Gre
dence to rumors from the Watertown
and Rapid City districts. And up in
Hand county the Independents are try
ing to GUST a states attorney whom they
elected last fall. AS all three parties
are involved in these scandals there is
no chance to make political capital out
of them, which in itself is reason for
three-cornered congratulation.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
OFFICIALS IMPLICATED.
Denver Defraudod Out of <ao, 900 by g
Treasurer Place and othcrs.

Denver Defroudel Out of Ss26, 900 by ex-
Treasurer Place and Others.
DENVER, Aug. 12.-The committee
which has been investigating the office
of city treasurer for the past ten weeks,
has filed its report with Mayor Rogers.
The report is very voluminous and
shows that the city has been defrauded
out of SEQ, 1885. The alleged frauds
occurred during the administration of
ex-City Treasurer Place and the alleged
crookedness consisted in the raising
and altering of bills and vouchers for
supplies furnished the city by various
merchants. The report is said to impli-
cate every member of the old city ad-
ministration except ex-Mayor Londoner
as well as several prominent business
men. The report will be placed in the
hands Of the grand jury for action.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Watertown News: We are surprised
that the editor of the Argus-Leader,
who claims to be an expert in political
economy, should SO tumble together in
his arguments articles on which there
is revenue tariff with those on which
there is q protective tariff. He no
doubt thinks the ignorant Dakota edi-
tors can be imposed upon.
You ought not to be surprised at any
amount Of inconsistency from that
source when the tariff is involved. 1t
is largely the result of trying to make
college bred theories fit the practical,
every day side of life. Just as we had
cornered the esteemed and erudite
AL. on its own proposition that the
tariff becomes tax by being added to
the price of the protected article, it
shifts its position as follows:
The actual cost of manufacturing
WIRE nails is about IL cents per pound.
sell in the market for less than 2 cents
the home manufacturers would be
compelled to sell at a reasonable figure.
Ihat is purely an assumption and
takes no account of the fact that. grant
ing the figures to be correct, the alleged
big profit has to be divided between the
manufacturer and the retail dealer,
Perhaps by reducing the wages of
American laboring men sufficiently
these prices might be lowered but we
doubt if even the AL. is willing to ad-
wise that course. Itis passing strange
that our free trade friends will insist on
charging the Mckinley bill iwith all
the economic ills the body polite is
heir to but will not allow for a moment
any item to be entered upon the credit
side of the sheet. Do they know by
actual perusal of that measure that it
places more articles on the free list
than any tariff measure ever enacted
and that it embodies more nearly than
any preceding law the principle of true
protection?
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The threatened famine in Europe and
Asia may be a temporary benefit to this
country but in the long run no part of
the world can suffer without affecting
every other part, so closely are we re-
lated. One of the first effects of such a
calamity abroad will be the influx of
emigrants to this country by the thou
sands where they come singly now.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The esteemed editor of the Water
town Public Opinion furnishes the fol-
lowing pen sketch of his own lively
personality:
The college-bred editor has been hay
ing much said of him in many of the
state papers of late. What the people
that read want is an editor that gets
there now, regardless of what he has
been in earlier days. That's what
commits
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The competition between the great
sleeping car lines, together with the
suits for damages against them by the
railroads in their clutches, and the
probable strike of the half paid porters,
who are authorized to prey upon the
public in order to live at all, ought to
result in working reform in one of the
most outrageous systems of extortion of
which the long suffering public is the
victim.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Hon. j. S. Clarkson was the guest of
President Harrison at Cape May. What
a picnic that offers to the correspondent
who has been slowly dying of midsum-
mer ennui, which even revival of the
Noble resignation fake has not served
to mitigate.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
Alexis in Paris.

LONDON, Aug. 12.-The Grand Duke
Alexis, of Russia, arrived in Paris
quietly. recognized only by few people
at the station. The Times correspond
ent says that the object of the grand
duke in not arriving the previous dav.
when great demonstration had been
arranged, was to avoid the formal re-
ception and show Germany that Russia
Is not fully committed to an alliance
with France.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
Lost u Barge orLumber.

WINNIPEG, Aug. 12.-The steamer
Red River arrived at West Selsirk and
reports that Friday night dur.
ing heavy gale at Elk island her val
uahle barge with l75, 700 feet OF lumber
vas vas lost. Three men barely escaped
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The Letcher Blade celebrates it's en-
trance upon its tenth year of existence
by charging. The Blade is one of the
striking examples of a nonpareil news
paper in small plea town-with all
respect to the town, which is not small
in energy and life if not very large in
size. The Blade, also, has fine coun-
ty field in which to do business.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
Want. e1innenpoli. Players.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 11.-On learning that
tho Minneapolis club had disbanded
President Won der Abe, of the st. Louis
club, Immediately telegraphed to sew
eral players Of the disbanded team with
q view Of securing their services. Mr..
Won der Abe says that without doubt
there will be two leagues playing ball
under tile National agreement next
season.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

South Dakota's notoriety as a refuge
for the unhappily welded promises to be
short-lived, thanks to Judge Aiken's
recent common sense decision and to
the fact that attempts have been made
to procure fraudulent divorces under
our lax laws. This state needs no such
disreputable advertising.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The elevator muddle in North Dakota
looks very much like an attempt to do
too much by legislation-and of course
the farmers will get the worst OF it, al
though intended to be the chief bene-
ficiaries of the new law.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Huron citizens claim to possess the
same power which Annie Abbott is
giving exhibitions of. Pity they hadn't
discovered this fact last fall-they
could have carried whole counties for
the capital.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Editor Caldwell of the Sioux Falls
Press evidently believes that the editor
lis entitled to voice in political affairs
before the convention as we'll as the
right to do the heavy work afterward.
Being out of politics, 'Cal's' views are
the more weighty because disinterested.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

If not out OF order to say a kind word
for an outside enterprise we would make
bold to remark that the Minneapolis
Exposition, which usually attracts quite
q number of visitors from this part of
the state, will open on the 2Gth inst
but what are we doing for our own state
fair?
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14
Wa hburn stnrm Lo.se..

WAsHBuRN, Wis, Aug. 1.-THE loss
on Professor Williams circus as re-
suit of the tornado Saturday afternoon
was 1000. on J. Froseth's building and
furniture $4,000 on other buildings &1s,-
OOa, and on the Wisconsin Fuel com
pany's coal dock $4,000.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

Wardall told the people of Topeka
the other day that eve are sure of
South Dakota 1t does look brighter
for the Independents the longer Alonzo
|stavs aWay
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-08-14

The state board of equalization has
Increased the assessment of the Wes-
tern Union company by $4,000 over
That of last year. The total assessment
Is S223. .62O.