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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14
stockmen's Saddles and Harness.
Manufactured by the old, responsible nrm Of
HERMANN H. HEISER.

1928 and 30 Blake Street, Denver. Colo.
Are unsurpassed In quality. Parties In need
Of Saddles and Harness goods. will find the
above nrm prompt and reliable In every re-
spect. Prices are the lowest In the state
quality Of goods considered. Send for their
new Catalogue.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14
THE JOKERs' CORNER.
SOME UP-To-DATk READING
FOR OUR LEAN READERS.

The YslIsw DOG - Honest Willie and
How Ne Wiped Out . Dsbt-Why the
GREAT rrsGsdian Bsosms Aissnsd-
with shS Wits.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14

cornetlstf Yeast-Yes, he lives within gun.
shot Of me; "Well. you must be a fright
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14

Young Duff never talk abont thinRs
that do not understand. Old Ruff-Realiy,
you must be the most reticent young man In
the city, f'
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14

LITTLE CHILD's
deep love was
given.
Unfettered from
It's tiny heart,
To a dog, not great
or noble.
Or beautiful In
any part:
A yellow dog.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14

Friends Of Fitzbueh Lee. the new consult
general to Cuba. declare that he COM
pounded the first real mint julep that Pres
ident Cleveland ever drank.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14

I belieye my prompt use OF Piso's Cure
prevented quick consumption.-Mrs. Lucy
Wallace, Marquette, Kans., Dec. IL, 1905.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14

II tho Baby Il Cutting Teeth,
8s sure and usc that old and vslltried remedy Mns
Wnlow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children rcething
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14
Well

take Hoods sarsaparilla. Soon appetite
came back; the sores commenced to heal.
Ny limbs Strengthened out and threw
away my crutches. am now stout and
hearty and am farming, whereas four
years ago was . cripple. =! gladly rec
ommcnd Hoods Sarsaparilla." URBAN
HAMMOND, Table Grove, Illinois.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-05-14
What Not going
east this summer

q. W. vALLEny, Genera, Agent, Denver.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

ly below this figure this year,
the present advance in other lands
in the state will very likely raise
the total average on future sales.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

by virtue of a warrant from that pub
| lie. 1T, like him, agrees in securing
its commission, to treat all alike, and
the state in granting this privilege ex-
pressly reserves the right to require
impartiality and reasonable fees. as it
does in the case of a peace officer.
This is the common law, universally
admitted and sustained by the courts
Do the railroads obey it? Do they i'm
pose only reasonable charges in South
Dakota? Do they not crush private
elevators by allowing drawbacks to the
elevator combine? Do they not ruin
our wholesalers by charging them
greater freight rates thsn outside
wholesale men pay? Do they not pre-
vent the turning of our raw material
into finished products in our own fac
tories, in order to secure long haul of
the product to an outside manufactury
and long haul back, thus forcing the
people to pay heavily for an entire
lY unnecessary journey? Are not their
charges far greater than in states pos
sessiug adequate laws?
The questions will be fully ans
wered in succeeding articles, fortified by
unquestioned statistics and authorities.
Assuming the Indictment proven, what
is the remedy? The roads defy the
common law because there is no state
machinery clothed with sufficient au
thority to enforce it, They treated
Iowa as they treated South Dakota.
But Iowa made desperate byoppression
passed her famous law. That statute
merely conferred on the railraad COM
missioners the power to fix rates just
alike to the railroads and to the peo-
pie, to abolish Determinations and en-
force respectable service.
1t did not injure the railroads. 1t
did not decrease their total profits.
But it did vastly increase the wealth
of the state, and it unquestionably pro-
noted the building of more roads. Not
Il railroad was injured, but the people
prospered and their prosperity attract
ed more railroads.
Shall not South Dakota follow this
example? Today the common law can
not be enforced, for the commissioners
are not clothed with adequate power,
and no individual can risk the huge
cost of protracted litigation. Under
the Iowa law the courts protect the
roads from unjust rulings, but upon
them rests the burden of proof. Under
our system they are free to plumber.
Under the Iowa law the people are pro-
tected and SO are the roads.
A. d. MACDONALD
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04
IS A RAILROAD LAW DESIRABLE j?

Are the railroads robbing South Da-
kota for the benefit of other states? If
so, shall South Dakota permit the abuse
to continue? Shall the people control
their servants, the railroads, or shall
the servants control them?
This is the paramount issue in state
affairs this wear. 1t is not partisan
question. 1t is between the producers.
the merchants, the manufacturers on
Que hand and the foreign corporation
on the other.
No other state issue compares in i'm
portance to the farmer, the merchants,
and through them to people of all pur-
suits. 1t is worth while for every vo-
ter to study carefully, and having
formed his Judgment, to require that
his represea tatives in convention and
on legislative and state tickets agree
to carry out his will.
| The question is simple if one will ex-
anime the facts. Railroads differ from
all other corporations, from all other
commercial enterprises, in this: They
are public servants. They must trans
act their business not for their private
enrichment but for the public good.
All authorities agree that railroads
are merely highways, as rightly under
the authority Of the state as the COM
mon wagon roads. The state not de-
string to build these highways delegates
its power to corporations, permitting
them to charge tolls sufficient to fully
cover risk, interest, cost of operation
and a fair profit, but requiring them
to act otherwise solely in the interest
of all the people, as would the state it.
self
Tney have no right to impose ex-
horbitant charges. A merchant NAV
ask thousand dollars for bushel OF
potatoes. 1t is his own; but railroad
must ask only reasonable profit on its
investment.
They have no right 10 build up one
state or town or individual at the ex.
pense Of another. A storekeeper may
sell to one man at half the price he
charges another, and though by so do
ing he enriches one and ruins the 9th
ler. no one can interfere. His goods are
his to keep or sell or give away. Blu
railroad has no more right to dis
criminate among customers than has
, ! sheriff. IT serves the public ~ he does
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

hCCp SllVSl oS1SS ttlSS ouI VI luSll
seats, but the silver men do not
entirely accept his denial, and
say that they are going to take
steps which will stop any such
scheme as that, even if every sill
yer delegate has to stay out of
the convention to do it. This
question is arousing the greatest
interest interest among the poll
ticians of all parties, in Washing
ion, and doubtless as much else
where. 1t is generally believed
the silver men will have a ma
jority of that convention, but
there is much doubt as to whether
that majority will exercise its
power by the adoption of an out
and out free coinage platform,
and more that a silver man will
head the the ticket nominated. A
majority can make the platform,
but unless the old rule is changed
it will require two-thirds to nomi-
nate.
The decision of the supreme
court, that the sugar bounty mon
ey which was held up by Comp
troller Bowler should be paid.
would have been much more salts
factory if it had settled for once
and all the question of the consti-
tutionality of the sugar bounty.
1t merely decided that the money
appropriated by congress must be
paid, which will put about S.
25O,OOO in circulation, and left
the more important question still
open to dispute. 1t seems, how
ever, TO haye put an end to the
absurd idea that a minor treasury
official has more authority than
congress and the president, and
for that reason has been thank
fully received by many who will
not get any of the sugar bounty
money.
A service pension bill giving
every man who served 90 days So
a month and one cent a month
additional for each day served in
excess of ninety, has been favor
ably reported to the house. 1t
1t will not be acted upon this ses-
sion: 1t is estimated that it will
cost between twenty-five and thir-
ty millions a year to carry out
out this bill.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04
Advices from the capital Of the

Advices from the capital Of the
state state that the sale Of school
lands for this year are light as
compared with former years.
The total sales for this year were
but 1850 acres, which brought
practically Sl5 per acre. The
total amounts due and received
from the counties in which there
were sales this year are: Bon
Hon1me $3.50, Brookings S1,040,
Codington $500, Deuel. S3,S00,
Fall River 81, 200, Hanlin 5000,
Hutchinson 81, 433, Lake $3.50,
Lincoln So, $40, Minnehaha 81, ,OS0
Moody $3.50, Turner $1,000,
Union So, 800, Yankton $3.50;
making a total Of $33, 463. One
fourth of this amount is cash
down, the balance in future pay
ments, at the same rate of inter
est as the money loaned from the
school fund. The sales Of this
year bring the grand total of the
common school fund up to ST.
44,933.49. Up to the present
year the there have beer
no sales of any lands excep1
common school, but this season
$50 acres of normal school lands
we're sold in Fall River county a
s1o per acre. The average price;
so far secured for school lands il
the state is about S14 per acre
and whils this average was slight
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

The presidents veto of the riv-
er and harbor bill--which has
since been passed by the house,
was a wise act on his part. The
idea of a congressman's voting
millions of dollars for needless
and oftines foolish Improvements is
just because it will give some of
his constituents a job and an op-
portunity to make a little mouey,
is a pernicious one, and halt in
this direction should be called.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

The yellow fever has COM
menced its work in the reduction
Of the Spanish forces in Cuba, and
the time is drawing near when
the independence of the people
will have to be acknowledged.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

Kate Field, who has been prom
inent in newspaper work for a
number of years, died recently at
Honolulu, where she has been
spending the winter as CORE
spondent of the Chicago Times
Herald.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

The past ten days have been a
period of exces sive storm S
throughout Missouri and Illinois,
the equal Of which is unknown in
the history of the country.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

The excessive rains in north
western Minnesota have greatly
discouraged the farmers in that
locality.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

Commodore S. B. Coulson was
buried at Yankton last Thursday,
having died from blood poison
ing, the result of being bitten on
the finger by DR.. Coney of YanlS-
ton.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

Judge Jones of the Sioux Falls
circuit has declared the noxious
weed law unconstitutional.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

Wiggins, the Canada weather
prophet, says that cyclones and
droughts are caused by telegraph
and telephone wires, wire fences,
etc.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

Mark M. (Brickl Pomeroy died
at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y,
last Saturday.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. May 30, 1896.

|
ate on record in favor of giving
the Treasury S25, 100000 year
additional revenue. by putting an
additional tax of IS cents a bar
rel on beer, and if they had all
been in their seats the end of the
attempt might have been differ
ent. When Senator Dubois Of
fered the beer tax amendment to
the filled cheese bill Senator Sher-
man moved to lay it on the table,
and the motion was defeated by a
vote of 80 to Is. The expiration
of the morning hour" prevented
Senator Dubois following up his
advantage, and the next day the
senate voted down the amend
ment, "a to II. There was some
odd voting in this business. For
instance, Senator Hansbrougl1 vo-
ted against tabling the amend
lnent one day, and the next day
voted against the amendment it
self; Senator Vest stated after
he had voted for the amendment
that if it had passed he would
have voted against the amend
ed bill as a whole, and Sena-
ator Faulkner voted against tab
ling the amendment and then
against the amendment. This
indicates to a certainty that this
session of congress will not pro-
vide any additional revenue for
the government.
The senate will pass Mr.. But
ler's bill prohibiting the further
issue of bonds without the con-
sent of congress, but it will not
be allowed to come up in the
house at this session. it is only
because it is known that it has
no show in the house that it's op-
ponents have not tried to talk it
to death in the senate.
There may be very lively time
in congress when President CleYe-
land sends in the veto message he
is now preparing on the river and
harbor bill, if it be the sort of
document expected, and fight
may be started which may delay
adjournment. According to the
opinion of nearly all the
prominent members of BIO t h
branches of congress, the river
and harbor bill will be passed
over the veto.
Party lines were not drawn il
the vote by which the house
passed bill repeating that clause
Of the present tariff law which
provides for the admission free O.
duty of foreign alcohol which i:
to be used in the arts or rnanufac
lures. 104 republicans, Sc demo
Gratis and 5 populists voted fo1
the repeal bill, and 60republican:
and 9 democrats voted against it
Owing to defects iii the clause i
had never been enforced ant
claims were simply being pilee
up against the treasury for re
bate of duty paid on alcohol
Secretary Carlisle asked for re
peal and his request was endorsed
by the house ways and mean
committee. Whether the bill vii
get through the senate is yet ;
question, although it has been Civ
en- a place on the programme pre-
pared by the steering committees
, The silver democrats have full,
determined, they say, that the.
shall not be kept out of the con
troll of the Chicago convention b.
any manipulation by the nation
/ al committee of the contested del
t egations, and notice to that et
/ feet has been served on Chairma
5 Harrity of that committee, VIII
is now in Washington. Mr.. Har
5 rity denies that his committee ha
/ any intention of trying to use il
/, authority in making up the ten
/. porsry roll OF this convention
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

1t now looks as though the sill
verites would control the Chicago
convention.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04

Geo. D. Perkins was renomina-
ted for congress on the first ballot
by Iowa republicans
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-06-04
Col. ]. P. Sanford, the noted
lecturer, is dead.

The prohibition party has split
on the silver and woman suffrage
questions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23

bic and receiving a proportion or 'pecuie OF MS
earnings prisoner may be allowed 10 WORK lo'
his own profit provided that he pays over 10 '"e
Government a sum to represent the snare IL c'a'"''
In his profits.
This apparently just and logical proVis'o" oe-
comes "A method by which the prisoner WHO mas
private funds can manage to evade many vi .ne
dIsagrceable features OF prison life ana pass MS
sentence under conditions OF comfort far superior
TO those Of the poorer criminal. SUCH prisoner
might for instance. say that he was poet OF
literary man: he might buy pens. INK ana paper
and work at his literary compositions AT his o"n
pleasure paying, of course. to the OoVerh"en.
whatever was agreed upon. His own funds "ouiu
also supply his 'pecue." with which ne might puy
extra diet from very full list which inciudes sucn
articles as ragouts. ham. eggs fruit, MIX saau'
figs wine etc. Convicted prisoners all wear the
prison dress unless specially exempted
Prisoners for political offences or condemned for
,nfraction Of the press laws are treated much the
same as untricd prisoners. They get no petter
diet than the ordinary prisoner; but, IKE him.
they can purchase additions to their diet. There
is no definition OF n political prisoner. but each
law which makes any act penal specifies II 1t is
intended that the offender shall be placed In this
class Speaking broadly. n man who incltes to
violence by speeches writing would be treated
as guilty Of political offence. while the man VINO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23
NOW BiRBEpS APE UtDC

ago" said the big barber. Il started In I'm an
Eighth-ayc shop as a brush boy ] worked there
for five six months just brushing and handing
hats and turning hot water and OFF One day a
customer said to me. Amt you using yet p
Won't nobody give me chance; they're frald TO.
says l. lie big. good-naturcd fellow. Next
time | come In. he says, you try It on me-
so got hold of a razor and sfrcpped II all my
spare minutes until the second day after that
stretch the akin light with your finger. of the
BARRIERS told me- and take good. long stroke.
When h. came In and sat down got him lathercd
ana started in as had been told. but forgot
about thu point OF the ana after my first long
strok" there nice little streak of blood all the
length Of his cheek. guess he expected IT, though.
fOI he laughed and told me 10 20 and got over
his face once and regular man finished him up.
That first shave
but most customers in a good shop aren't so
Ohligng. lou don't Offcn get any chs nee 'r"~e
ccpt to practise other BARRIERS So most boys
learn Tho trade IA East Side shops where people
get cheap shnves and amt particular. Often the
young barber doesn't get anything but his expert
ence for the fir. few months; or he may pay the
boss much for the use OF chair, keeping all the
money he earns over and above his rent for him
self That's done In lots OF East Side shops"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23

heads OF condemned prisoners al out 10 be hanged.
Yet there many OF The convicis who appreciate
the mask hideous and humlliating though its ap-
pearance is. For they realize that It serves what
must seem 10 them useful purpose, since II pre-
vents them from being recognized by their fellow
convicts Some of them hone After their restosa-
ton 10 liberty to succeed In living down their
criminal past and work out for themselves Dy
honest labor "A respectable ana even influential po-
sition in society. To such these IT Is OF the
utmost importance that they should not be recos-
nized by their former fellow cnvicts. who might
be tempted 20 blackmail them under threats Of
divulgng the past to the people among whom the
lot OF the reformed convict il cast
Broadly speaking. the following rules may be said
20 be In force In all the prisons Of Continental
Europe save those OF Russia: Work H. optional
with untricd prisoners. They wear their own
clothes may feed themselves and write ana re-
ceve visits under rules subject 20 the approval Of
the judicial authority at whose dspos ton they are
held Convicted prisoners compelled TO work
each prisoner following his own trade II practical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23
THE KiTSER'S BLiCKIE-NlN.
TIE NICKNAME GIVEN by THE bthLiN TIVE
TO HERR Won rvCANrs. AND WHY
1T FITS HIM.

Emperor Williams blacke-man ~ INC -
name which the good people OF Berlin nave 80.
% tIerr Won Iucanus the principal private seer"
tary of His Majesty. This nickname .,,,ov,o,
he no, only 10 the somewhat s~ar'hy 'oHp'ao"
-, ,hls d,gn,tarv and TO the fac, that almost ao'e
o,,ory ,ba Kaiscr's suite he wears ih' Nl"o~ "'
Goa, OF a civilian all the others "Ws o' -
the Army and Navy but also in consequent - -
,nvariable selection by his Imperial master " 80
vev 10 statesmen who have ccas'n 10 l'
demands for their resignation OF h"'"' -,
,ber dismissal II was he who convey'h 7" f'''
Rismarck tho Emperors request, ana ht'''"
peremptory command. for the sntr'n"'' - =.
Chancellorship. In March. 1890 II was ne 'o' ~"
was sent ask Count Caprivi Tor MS '', :,
and there has not been single Ministerial head I.
fall in the last four years-the last was VIM. "
Baron Won Berepsch three weeks ago--"here 'i''.
coo, ruco,us has not been the Imperial emissav
OF evil tidings. ,,,.,
Tho perl,ners declare that Emperor Niil'a"
ptched upon Won Lucanus FOR these particular y00'
I'm consequence OF his being the son OF h''0e'
stadt druggist and as such more likely 70 oe p'V
fcicnt I'm the OF sugar. coating bitter pi'.s Ia, 90
any mere military officer. He owes his patent ol "a a
bIlitv TO the late Emperor Frederick. VINO NV -
high opinion OF his intelligence, ana II Is Nal
note that he first TO the fore a. an inn9shnc s
member OF tn Imperial household "h"i ans
Uismarck's power as Chancellor began - "aist
lie is man OF about nifty years OF age. ana ssshns
for a quarter OF a century I'm the Ministry Of Puo,,
Worship II was. however an expert IN - -
matters and an ntelligent assistant IN 'ne ard
ganization OF the Imperial Museum OF science s and
goodwill OF the late Emperor. and particularly -
Empress Frederick. . .,ss
tied with preparing most OF the sensible speee..es
that the Emperor sometimes makes 10y way .ot,As
the rank OF privy councillor. which entities III" "
he addressed as Your Excellency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23

had a fair sample last week." ne added "of the
unreasonable rider. A man got at Forty second
St: After paying his fare he asked:
Can be transferred at Eighty-sxth-st to
Astoria ferry?
Yes said I.
9 DO we make close connecticut" he asked
Yes, SIR answered.
DO the cars connect closely with the ferry
boat? WY
Il don't know
Well, I should think you would know that
4" But do not
you're insolent and I'll report you
II said nothing and took my stand on the pla,
form. When reached Eighty -sixth.st the ma,
Jumped out. and ! could see him talking exci,edv
TO the starter after | had received my signal
Right. Harlem That was a clear case OF crnnk
and there are hundreds Of them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23
IN OLD WORLD PRISONS.
ABSOLUTE ISOLATION OF CONVlC1S ONE
OF THE CHIEF FEATURES.
pAvENEY's INQUIRY FOR PARNEl.i, AN l,LusIkA-
TON OF THE sYsTEM-TIIE TREAD
MILL. ANr TIE CRANK.
There is something pathetIc about the intimate

MlI.L AM THE CRANK.
There is something pathetic about the intimation
contained In the dispatches TO the effect that the
"dynamiter' Daveney. being released from
Portland Prison last Monday. after serving thir-
teen years of his life sentence inquired after Par
NELL and absolutely ignorant of the death OF
the great Irish leader. 1t is almost impossible to
conceive the fact that men living In densely
populated and civilized country can be so com
plecly cut off from the outer world as to possess
no inkling Of what IL going on around them Yet
that Is one of the chief aims pursued by the prison
authorities OF the Old World In their the mere
loss OF liberty and compulsory labor are Inadequate
punishment and the deprivation of even the faint
est know ledge of what il happening beyond the
prison walls constitutes the necessary and indis-
pensable complement TO the penalty. IL Is the
same all over Europe and only the other day the
Belgian newspapers contained a graphic descrp-
ton OF the establishment manifested by an aged