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Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-03-27
Carruth and Glover.

Less than ten years ago a bright
young chap came near starving to
death writing numerous sketches in a
small South Dakota town, for while
Fred II. Carruth gave the Estelline
Bell national reputation it did not
give him a living. He went thence to
Sioux Falls and in company with Sam
It. Glover, now the wide-awake bus
mess manager of the Chicago Evening
Post, established the Dakota Bell
along the same line. The field was
too limited, however, and this Bell
soon tolled out while Carruth drifted
east. Now we hear of him on the
staff of Harper Bros. publications,
where as Hayden Carruth he is work.
ing the same vein Of humor with great
profit to his fame and purse, bound
volume of his sketches having been
issued. A host Of old friends through
out the north are more than
pleased to note his rapid progress up
the ladder.-Minneapolis Spectator.
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FIRE AT VOlCA.
Two of Volga's Prominent Merchants
Lose Everything. Some Insurance.


Lose Everything. some Insurance
Sunday morning at 200 o'clock Mrs.
II. S. Rowe arose from her bed to wait
on one Of her sick children, and smell
ling smoke called to her husband.
Mr.. Rowe jumped up quickly, and
opening the door found that the lower
portion Of the building, which was oc-
cupied by his general merchandise
store, was in flames. Hastily gather
ing few articles and catching the
children the family ran from the
building in their night clothes. The
alarm was given, but nothing could
save the building or any of the con-
tents, and the flames were communi-
Gated with H. p. Hanson's store, and
that building, with its stock of gro
ceries, books and notions and Mr..
HansOn'S household goods went up in
smoke in a very short time. The
flames spread to ThOs. Bishops barn,
and that structure was destroyed also.
During the fire the wind carried
sparks and burning embers for nearly
a quarter of a mile, and there was
great danger of other buildings going.
At one time some weeds near the
Touring mill caught fire, and but for
the timely discovery that might have
been burned along with other prop
erty.
| II. S. Rowe estimates his loss on
stock at $4,000, with insurance of
81, 800; household goods 1000, insured
for 1925.
VIM. Fisher building $1,000, no in
surance.
II. p. HanSOn's loss of stock covered
by insurance. Loss on building 5000,
insured at S400. No information re-
garding the loss on household goods.
Mr.. Hanson expects to rebuild as soon
as he can get the insurance adjusted
Thos. Bishops loss of barn about
500.
The cause Of the fire perhaps will
always remain unexplained.
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Slapped His Face.

Some days ago B. F. Roddle and
Lee Comstock were discussing the
question Of boodling aldermen. In de-
fense of his claim that there was more
truth than poetry in the accusation
CCmstock cited an instance when G..
F. Allen, present alderman of this
city and an aspirant for the office OF
city clerk. had endeavored to make a
dollar out of the city. COmstock' s
story is as follows; II acted as special
police Halloween night and the other
day went into Aliens office to get a
blank to make my bill out. Asked
Allen if he had the blanks and he said
nO-wanted to know what | wanted of
it-told him had not put in my bill
for special police work. He stated
that / ought to "whack up'-told him
couldn't, as the amount was only 81.
He wanted me to put in bill for So and
he would get it through and then l
could whack up 81 Of the amount.
Told him, no, it was not right. Allen
followed me out into the other room
and told me in a confidential tone
in dead earnest-that he would get
the bill through if l would put it in
for So and whack up with him."
Nothing more was said about the
matter until Mr.. Roddle heard that
Allen and his friends were circulating
the report that E. S. Lorimer had
been buying beer and telling another
falsehood to the effect that Mr.. Lori
mer was drunk on several occasions.
This caused Ben to turn his guns on
the Allen forces and he repeated the
statement made by COmstock. Allen
of course denied the statement and on
Saturday Comstock went to the Press
office with B. f. ROdGle. After some
hot words Allen called Comstock a
liar and Comstock slapped his face.
On Monday Allen swore out war
rant for Comstock's arrest and the
case came before Justice Brooke.
Comstock took change of venue and
Justice w. II. Cornell had the case
before him yesterday. Comstock plead
guilty to the charge of assault and
! was fined the costs Of suit.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-03-27
CITY CAUCUS.
The Usual Amount OF Excitement and Ill
Feeling Created.


1t will be cold day indeed when
Brookings has no excitement at the
annual city caucus. This year it
looked at first as though offices might
go begging, excepting that Of city
clerk, but when the time came there
was lively contest for aSsessorship
also.
K. K. Hemingway was chosen chair
man of the caucus, and Messrs. d. III.
Campbell and T. G. Orr acted as secre-
taries with Jas. +. Brooke and P. G.
Murphy as tellers. The engine room
of the city hall was packed and it re-
quired about ninety minutes to re-
ceive the pa votes which were cast.
1t took much longer time to count
the votes owing to the numerous NOM
lnees for the various Offices. The
gOOd-natured race for the mayOrship
between r. III. Williams and A. w.
Hyde was interesting, Mr.. Williams
receiving "a votes and DR.. Hyde 81.
AS neither. of the gentlemen were
working for the Office the votes show
that the gentlemen stand on an equal
footing.
There were nine contestants in the
race for aldermanic preferences, but
this was good natured also.
The nominations for city treasurer,
school treasurer and city justice were
made by acclamatiOn. 1t was evident
that those present had purpose in
view and when the moon looked down
on the city clerkship there were evil
dences Of "blud," likewise in the race
for assessor. In the latter case it was
sort Of grudge dating from last year,
not between the contestants, but be-
tween one of them and a former aspir-
ant for the office.
In the contest for city clerk G. F.
Allen took an unfair advantage of his
opponent, e. S. Lorimer, by having
his name printed on all the tickets,
| Willie MT. LOFllner ndu uO IlCheus
printed and was placed at great dis.
advantage, which should not have
been allowed. The ticket selected i:
as follows:
MayOr-A. w. Hyde.
Aldermen - Thos. Alton, w. Fl
Dinehart.
Treasurer-D. FL. Campbell.
Clerk-C. +. Allen.
ASSessOr-W. d. Allison.
City justice-James +. Brooke.
Police justice-W. Fl. Hawley.
Members Board Ed. - Geo. More
house, O. G. Oyloe.
School treasurer-Carl Johnson.
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Died.

Mrs. Juliet Pickett, aged Il years,
March 26, 1895 at o'clock a. M, at
the home of her son VIM. Pickett.
Funeral will occur at Aurora at 2p.
m. The cause of death was catarrhal
fever.
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E,AES4S PARTICIPATES.

The we'll for the Newton watcrworks
is now down 200 feet.
A nomadic Emporia youth created con-
sternation among his family by appear
ing at home the other day.
Prof Raymond's lectures on aesthetics
at Kansas university. are not expected to
have any effect on football hair.
The Wichita city council has become
jealous of the band which practices near
the council chamber, and wants it re-
moved.
A calf with two heads has been born
near Wichita. Even the cattle seem to
realize the necessity of disposiug of the
corn crop.
Wichita Eagle: Perhaps it was all
right for that Fort Scott bank to close,
out it was unkind to post the notice thai
the d. W. b. F. t.
The butchers war having BECOME Il
memory, things at Emporla~are con-
sidered peaceful enough for the forma-
ton of an art club.
A single railroad ticket was sold in
Atchison for 1851. OF course it was /
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pretty young woman who sold it and a
man who bought it.
There is only one woman in the Hutch
iuson reformatory and dozens of men.
It would be enough to make a society
girl delirieus with delight.
Treadweli, the Emporia burglar. is a
waiter on the tables at the penite ntiary.
If they don't watch him closely he will
use beefsteak to pry out with.
J. L. Werdman of Galesburg, Ill.,, and
g. D. Austin of Bridge'vater, Mass, both
owners of strings of pacing and trotting
horses, will train them at Wichita this
winter.
The Hawaiian band is going to play at
Independence. After seeing it local
sports may be better able TO solve the
nationality of Dummy" the base ball
pitcher.
trolley pole was knocked of by the cur
rent and lit on his feet. It is only after
people go into Atchison joints that they
can't keep their feet.
Warden Lynch evidently wants to put
convicts in close touch with morality. By
lis order allowing those who behave
we'll to grow moustaches, he hopes to
place virtue right under their noses.
When the seniors in Kansas Wesleyan
university out on the Saline prairies
adopt the cap and gown, if they do, they
will have to place an order for anchors
to keep the wind from sailing them away.
Lawrence Journal: The Santa Fe road
is to be sold in Topeka December ).
Some of the Kansas newspaper men
whose passes are not good on No 4 are
thinking of going up and buying the old
trap in.
Wichita considers it strange that a
woman came to that town the other day
and went away taking pains all the while
not to reveal her identity. The easy an
swer that she did not wish to be seen in
Wichita seems not 10 have been sug-
gested.
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EVERY new currency plan carries with
it an issue of bonds. At least every one
advanced by banker or government
official does. The remaining 70,0O0,000
people will be contented with the restor-
alton OF silver to its constitutional posi-
lion in the monetary system. The CAPT
talists want bonds for no reason except
that they will afford Il safe investment
for their idle capital. The government
officials want to do whatever the capital
lists desire because it is from that source
that they get the bulk of their campaign
funds and, receiving fixed salaries. the
the scarcer money becomes the more
they can buy with dollar. If the de-
moaetization of silver affected official
salaries as it has wages of common labor
ers there would not be nearly so many
advocates of the gold standard as there
are.
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In every scheme proposed by the bank
ers. the gold standard advocates. the pol
iticians, the central idea is the elimina-
ton of the greenbacks and treasury
notes This is done with a two fold pur-
pose; first, to get rid of them. if posi-
BILE, thereby contracting the currency to
that extent and making what is left more
valuable and more easily controlled and
manipulated; second, 10 place the people
on the defensive by engaging them in a
defense of this part of the currency to
that extent tina! they will be compelled
to abandon the silver issue. The money
ed classes are playing game for every
thing in sight They will destroy the
greenbacks and prevent the restoration
of silver, if they can, if they can't do
both they hope to accomplish at least one
Of these things now and then the other
will be easier.
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ATKLNooN.S SCHEME.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson in an address
before the American Bankers associa-
ton at Atlanta yesterday proceeded to
explain why "Ghe credit of the govern
ment notes has been impaired" This
will be the first intimatiou the public
has had that there mas been any impair
ment Of the credit of the government
notes.
OF course it is known that Mr.. Car :
Isle refuses to redeem them in silver
when it is demanded, but he is willing to
pay gold for them. and gold being very
good kind of money and the notes buy
ing just as much dollar for dollar as any
other kind of currency it Will be difficult
to understand where the impairment of
their credit comes in. But AIR. Atkin-
son says, their credit is impaired by the
fact that the government has incurred
debt of $500, 100000 for the purchase of
silver bullion under the Bland and Sher-
man laws.
This is news again. The PEOPLE
have been undsr tn 9 i'm pres sion that ali
the obligations incurred in purchas ing
silver bullion are represe nted ty bull
lion and coin in thu treasury, and that
the bullion purchased under these laws
not only did not cost the government a
cent, but that it has in reality been
source of profit, since much of it was
bought at price greatly below its coin
age value at which it is avail able for
the redemption of these notes. Yet Mr..
Atkinson says the community must pay
the debt. No doubt they must If he
and his colleagues who are gathered
together at Atlanta are permitted to do
the laundering.
He then proceeded to point the way
out of the trouble resulting from this
great indie t9dness. which is. to 60 some
hundreds of millions of dollars deep
er in debt by issuing bords
to that amount. That is, he
would have the government Obllterate
debt which only exists iii his mind by
creating real debt of much greater
proportions bearing interest
Having provided in his scheme for the
complete destruction Of the use of silver
as money Mr.. Atkinson says: "What
then shall the secretary do with the sill
yer? What will congress do with il?
Who can tell:" Since Eawsr1 Atkinson
has never been accused of being a fool
himself the only Interpretation that can
oe put on this siliisst Of all the gold Dug
speeches of the year is that he thinks the
people are fools.
Ills talk perhaps suited his audience.
md he is noted for trying to please his
employers. but 1t would rot mislead a
Kansas school boy. Yet the Sound
Money league will distribute it ali ever
the country.
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Daily average 9. 554.

This is the greatest showing the STATE JOUR-
MAI. has ever been able to make for period OF
any six months in its history.
This is a greater figure than was reached By
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894
The American Newspaper Directory, issued in
June. 1897. and coverln. the year 1894. gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Dahy
Capital for The year 1854, as only s,7i+. These
figures we're furnished by the publishers Of the
Capital. to the Directory, and are guaranteed TO
be correct by a forfeit OF 500. which win BIS
paid to any enc disproying their correctness.
The following figures. substantiated By sworn
statements in detail giving every issue for tho
first six months in Is 3. 1922 and 1895. shows ths
Topeka SAFE Jocl.SAL's
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WHO authorized the bankers to go
down to Atlanta and fix up financial
schemes for the government? What do
they know about the needs of the couu.
try more than other people do? They
know how TO look out for their own in
terests; so do the balance of the people.
The people elect a congress to look after
the monetary system of the country and
arrange it in manner beneficial to the
whole. country and not to suit few peo-
pie who happen to be in the business OF
loaning money.
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the LIQUID which Brooks had taken was
nitrate of amyl. Ii that is so, the pres
emf case is perhaps the first one report
ed of a man being killed by it. An au-
thority SAYS that no serious case of pois-
oning suffered by man by nitrate of
anvil has ever been known. The poison
is pale yellow liquid, very volatile. 1t
is taken to relieve spasms. such as hic-
coughs Its effect is to increase the ac-
ton of the heart. produce d sense of saf-
location, and induce muscular weakness.
Special pains taken in doing up lad
les waists Peerless Steam Laundry.
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y LITTLE paper at ST. Marys says tha;
two citizens Of that town deny their in
Iecviews with JOURNAL reporter re
lating to the diphtAer.a outbreak there.
y nevertheless, the interviews are correct.
Every ewspaper reporter is we'll ac-
quain; ed with .ho party who when his
interview appears ia prin-. jus; as he
said it, gets scared and saws ks lie"
The two s.. Marys men meationo d stated
to the Journal reporter just what he
printed-no matter what they may say
now after some of their townspeople
have ''got after them" What is there to
deny in the ) Ma1ys story: The schools
are closed, and there were thirteen
deaths, weren't there: As for the Capt.
tai it carefully hunts up bitter criticisms
of the JOURNAL. to publish in It's columns,
L revels in that sort of business. We
could publish page every day Of abuse
hurled at the Capital by the newspapers
of Kansas, but we refrain out of pity for
the poor old bankrupt concern. We
never kick a man when he's down.
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o,4o7
1880
9,3SA

Tie boast Of lie Topeka Capital tlia. it pays
more postage. than al other Topeka dailies
cembircd eaIy proves tie meageFne-s of its
l.eal circulation compared with thas OF the
SraTE jog I:HSI.--a7 TO postage IS paid OF any
Circulation within Topeka OF shawnea county.
The STAFF. IouRNA1's local circulation is far
snc away ahead Of ice combined circulation OF
all Tie othar Topeka Gai les.
ghe circulation Of lie Topeka Daily STATE
,Jo1-RSAI. in Tie town near by and Tributary to
1opesa is very large, rs The evening trains IN
various directions carry The STATE JOURNAL,
giving its readers the FRS; aai latest associated
Press and SAFE news of tho day.
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TOOK A NEW DRUG.
Probably the First Death Ever Caused by
Nisrate Of Anyl.

New YORK, Oct. IS.-A man who
registered at the Palace hotel. Newark,
as A. Brooks of New \ ork, andNto whom
room 81 was assigned, was found dead
there last evening,
Brooks body was on the bed and near
it lay small bottle containing what was
evidently some powerful poison. The
nan had taken the poison into his nos
trils by means of a paper funnel, having
placed the small end to his nostris and
stopped up his mouth with towel The
poison WAS neither ether nor laudan um.
County Physician Washington thought
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AS proof that political parties get
their cohesiveness largely from the
spoils system it is but necessary to notice
that whenever a party ge:s in hopeless
minority it divides. Instances of this
are afforded by the Democrats of Ne
and Texas
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WARDEN LYNCH is showing evidence
of having some ideas about his business
outside OF following the ruts and draw
ing his salary. There is doubtless room
for great improvement in prison methods
and il is encouraging to note that the
new warden is carrying some intelligence
into the business
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TIE department of state at Washing
ton has received an invitation to attend
the international exposition in Paris in
1900. The dispatch announcing the
fact does not state whether or not the
card is stamped mot Transferable" If
it is it will not be of any use to the re-
cipients
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FREEZE OUT APPLEYARD.

The Woolsn Mil Company VIII buy the
Machinery ss the Freight Sale.
All efforts to reorganizs the wooden
mill company have been abandoned and
nothing will be done at present.
The business will be allowed to rest
until the machinery which is in control
of the Santa Fe company is sold for the
freight and storage bill which will be in
December. The plan is for the wooden
mill company TO buy the machinery
when it is sold and put it into the build
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JOE KELLAA does not seem to value
his character so highly as the members
of the Topeka club did theirs. Perhaps
he thinks by placing the figure low it will
be paid without any litigation.
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IF the Chicago council Will hurry up
with its ordinance fer taxing horse meat
out OF the market the courts will have
time to decide the law Unconstitutional
before the HOLIDAYS
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Ing which was designed Tor It and oper-
ate tine mill.
This is to be done for the purpose of
getting a clear title to the machinery.
As it stands now VIM Appleyard is the
owner of the machinery and the company
can not agree with him about its use.
They will wait until it is sold for the
freight and then they will have a clear
title to it and Mr. Appleyard will no
longer be part of the wooden mill COM
pany.
snbscribs for the Daily srArEJouRnA1.
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Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

Dy its sworn detailed statement Of circulation
Ter the first half of the year 1895 it is shown TO
have a circulation, during the first six months
as stated, OF
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Ments,er tnaicarson1

CHICAGO. Oct 1S-For Kansas: Fair
tonight and Saturday; cooler northwest
winds.
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1O-4 all Wool Gray Blankets, 81 Or.
ia Ill Wool Gray Blanket, S..
l2-4 Tourist Blanket, So.

The finest colored Blanket we have
ever sold and az good as we sold last sea-
son at $1,000 They come in grays, tans,
browns and terra Gotta with fancy Dor
ders.
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Wonderful growth.

Tally average for 6est six
months Of 1923. ....
Daily average for agst siz
months 6 1924
pailY average for 3rss ST.
mouths Of 1895 ........
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The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-08

of these swindles works Is that Of o
working man who sent three shillings
abroad to a contest. A few days later
he received In reply a letter marked
Private" Ostensibly from an employe
OF the foreign concern which offered In
revenge" to supply the missing word
secretly for twenty %shillings. or about
IS. The deluded mechanic sent on the
money and received the word. Short
ly afterwards he got a letter from the
company. saying that he had won. and
that there were several hundred collars
standing to his credit. The only trouble
was. 80 the letter ran. that another com
petitor had lodged a complaint and
claimed two pounds. II he Gas willing
to buy the man out, sending two pounds
by postal, the prize money would be
forwarded TO him In full.
The working man started to pawn
clothing In order to raise the money
whcr a friend suggested to him TO have
the company send the prize money min
us the two pounds. lie wrote to that
effect. In answer came a letter stat
ing that he need not send the money, az
H. had all been settled. But they had
charge on their books against him for
''notarial and other costs of currency
amounting to Ave shinings. Would bt
send that over Immediately for ex,
ponses. Conndingly he did so. and never
bearu from the company afterwards.