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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

S. Z. Sage. III the Sibley (Iowa)
Herald says: 'H. J. Loucks, who
was the Father of populism in
South Dakota, and for more than
ten years led the movement in the
state, and for a while was presi-
dent of the National Alliance
with headquarters at Washing
ton, has formally renounced pop
.ulism and aligned himself with re-
publicanism. At the state con-
vention in Mitchell, Mr.. Loucks'
announcement to that effect was
read to the assembled delegates
and the reception it met was cleo.
trical throughout the assemblage.
The slump Of the reform move
nent into the hands of political
gamblers, tricksters and game
sters, together with the inaugural
ton of practical reforms by the
republicans are among the fac
tors that have lead Mr.. Loucks
to this step. He admits that free
silver is as dead as a sn.e1t and
that fusion and the corrupt re-
suits therefron1 have killed all
that was once good in populism..
This writer had the pleasure of
battling in South Dakota with
Loucks for ten years on these sub
jects, and several years ago pre-
dicted the very same thing he
now admits. AS a factor in Re-
publican success and the doom
of demofusion, the thousands who
follow Mr.. Loucks back into the
fold will put South Dakota safely
into the Republican column, and
will within two years make of it
one Of the banner states for sound
money, protection and reciprocity.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15
COMMISSIONERS ROCEEDlNGs.

oaiee of County Auditor, Turner Co.
South DakotaPark cr, S. D., Sept. 5.
1898: Board Of county commissioners
met pursuant to statute. Members
present: ! II Newly, chairman; J ]
Graber, a 7 Kaufman, S G Nelson and
j Sargent, also the county auditor.
This being a legal holiday. the board
adjourned until 800 u N September 6,
1893. | FL Newly,
Attest: Chairman.
Jos T Graber.
Auditor.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

If Chairman Kidd is correct in
his statement that the success Of
the demo-pop party depends very
much upon the enthusiasm with
which their first speakers are re-
ceived, it is evident that at least
SO far as Turner county is. con-
cerned their campaign may as
well be dropped;
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

Anarchists appear to e brather
active in the old world. The EN-
press of Austria has been assas-
sinated and attempts have been
made upon the lives of the Car
of Russia and the young Queen of
Holland. UNEASY rests the head
that wears crown.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

Only one legislator Hinck1ey,
fusionist, Of Bead1e Co. voted
against the railroad law two
years ago, and yet the fusionlsts
have the gall to say that the re
publicans are opposed to the law.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

With Kirk Philips in the gov
errors chair this state will not
be run by the whims of private
secretary.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

Col. Grigsby and his Rough
Riders will be home IN time to
vote this fall: and it is barely
possible that some members of
that regiment may take hand
in, campaigning to keep
their hand in.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

The populists and democrats Of
Lincoln county couldn't get to-
gether, and consequently there
will be three county tickets over
there this fall.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

Aside from her colonies and
navy the war cost Spain 1874, 800, !
600 in cold cash.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

1t is said that H. T.. Loucks is
to take the stump against the
nominees of the three-leaded
Aberdeen convention.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-09-15

Continued on page eight.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Piq Iron Production.

Tie production of pig iron is steadily ris ng. There were on October nine more furnaces in operation than there were one month before One more charcoal, one more anthracite, and seven more bitumn- ous, furnaces were put in operation dur ng the month of September. There are now IA bituminous furnaces in blast and their weekly capacity is 191 S19 tons, as against 1S4, ,926 tons one month previous. The total weekly capacity of all furnaces in opera ton October was 219,643 tons, aga nst 212,- 70S on September 1-showing gain of 6,Si5 tons a week in production. The high water mark of last February is 229, ,S23 tons, and it is probable that it will be exceeded this year.
 The Alabama situat on was not greatly changed in September. There were nine teen bituminous furnaces in blast in each month, but the weekly capacity fell from 19,711 tons on September to 19S96 tons on October l. There were besides two char coal furnaces in operation in the state having weekly capac.ty of 765 tons. This district still holds fourth place in the list of producing districts.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
PER CAPITA DRESS SUITS
From the Nashville American.


 The editor of the Charleston News and Courier his memory inspired and freshened by reading description of the destruction of the home of Elliott F Shepard, in New York, tells a tale on Colonel Pat Walsh, of Augusta; Captain Evan P. Howell, of At lanta, and Colonel Charles O'Brien Cowardin, of Richmond Shepard was at the time the autocrat of the old New York Associated Press, and had the gentlemen named to dinner with him at his palatial Fifth avenue home. It seems they found themselves without their dress suits, not expecting courtesies which would require their use, and were in a dreadful quandary accordingly. But, passing down Canal street, they spied a msit clothing artist, one O'Shea by name, who supplied them with suits for the evening at s per capita Decked in this hired finery they attended Shepard's dinner, and had a delightful evening. "The builders may transform the house, says the News and Courier, 'but they cannot efface from the memory of Captain Howell and his associates tn ede- lights of the occasion upon which they ap- peared in O'Sheas suits at cost of three dollars per capita"
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Production, Value

The number of coke ovens in the country at the close of the last year was 47,66S, of which Pennsylvania had 26,910; West Vir- ginia, S,404; Alabama, 5,365 Tennessee, r. 94S; Virginia, 1,45S; Colorado, 1273; the re- mainder 2,315 being widely distributed in the scattering states. In these figures are included the bi-product ovens. Pennsyl- vania had 1S0 to-Hoffman, 70 Semet-Sol- way, 90 Newton-Chambers, and Slocum, ovens, and Colorado had 36 gas retorts Alabama reported the building of 120 Semet- Solvay ovens, the only neY~ constructions in the form of improved ovens, reported during the year.
 In the Alabama ovens during the year 902 310 tons of unwashed, and 12O,2i0 tons of washed run-of-mines, and 91,2OO tons of un- washed and 1,3S7 ,545 tons of washed slack, coal were used. More washed coal was burned into coke in this state, than in all the other states.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
sCHLEY,s REPUTATION IS SAFE

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 The published synopsis of the report of the board of navigators on the position of the ships in the Santiago naval battle prac- tically eliminated the Brooklyn as factor in the fight and belittled Rear Admiral Schley's serivces.
 Now comes from Washington an un- qualified denial of the accuracy of the re- port. It is asserted that the board of navI- gation did nothing but determine the posi- tions of the ships during the battle. No opinions were expressed nor deductions drawn as to the work of the ships in the battle.
 But with the denial of the navigators re- port is revived the old story that Rear Ad- miral Schley was guilty of carelessness and neglect in searching for Cervera, and was about to run away from Santiago when checked by an order from Washington.
 In the light of the known facts as to the Brooklyn's work and Rear Admiral Schley's conduct, these reports are absurd, but it is evident that the persistent and mali cious enemies of the Santiago hero, close to official circles, are trying by twisting records in the navy department to break him down and damage his reputation.
 Schley's reputation is safe. It rests on a brilliant record of service The scars of the Brooklyn and the wounds inflicted by her guns on the enemy, which the naval experts discovered on the Spanish ships, show the part the Brooklyn played in the fight. They speak louder than all the tongues of envy and malice.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Big Melons

Alexander City Outlook: Jack Frost has not nipped the vine but he is dangerously near and the Outlook has concluded to close it's contest for the biggest watermelon raised in Tallapoosa and Coosa counties during the past season. The champion melon was raised by Mr. Levi Johnson and sons of Coosa county. It weighed 541a pounds. Such melon is hard to beat at any season. They raised quite a number of these heavy weights. Tallapoosa's biggest melon was raised by MT Harve Sewell of this beat. His heavy weight tipped the beam at 51 pounds, and was luscious mel on indeed. The honors were about evenly divided between the two counties. Those besides the winners deserve special honor able mention, and were Messrs. J. M. Hay nie of Brooksville, who raised fine melon weighing 43A pounds, and MT. Ed Temple ton, of this beat, who presented us with one weighing 441a pounds.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
HE WHIPPED DEWEY

New York letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The only man who ever whipped Admiral George Dewey was nominated for congress last night by the republicans of the Hudson county district, New Jersey, just over the still waters. Major Panghorn editor and orator. is the name of the man who claims this honor. He birehed the hero of Manila bay while the latter was his pupil in a backwoods school near Montpelier, Vt, half a century ago. On that occasion, Dewey was the leader of a band of rebels. He took up his position in tree, and when the schoolmaster ordered him to come down. he told him to go to blazes." After the little rebel did get off his perch he led a band of unruly scholars up to the teach CTS desk and told him that they proposed to give him the best licking he ever had Then the young fighter shot out his right, and in return received stinging blow from a rawhide yielded by the master Dewey, after being deserted by his followers, was forced to surrender, but not until he had received a thorough trouncing. The ad- niral and the major have been warm friends ever since, and the former not so very long ago confessed that the whipping made a man of him. The nations naval hero is a splendid example of the truth of the oft-quoted maxim, Spare the rod and spoil the child.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Stock-Raisinq and Cotton.

The St. Louis Live Stock Reporter dis cusses at considerable length the compara- tive merits of stock and cotton as indus tries in the south. It admits that the plant CTS cannot readily jump from one line of business to the other. "It takes money" adds the Reporter, "to buy live stock, and it takes time, labor and material to turn a cotton farm into even partial use as stock farm.''
 And yet the Reporter is confident that stock-raising 'is becoming more and more a business south and east of the Mississippi and it is finding a place without causing any violent displacement of any other in- dustry. There are thousands of different their farming operations and what one can do successfully another cannot do at a.i, notwithstanding appearances indicate much the same conditions in both cases. But stock raising is a growing industry and it will continue to grow The extent to which live stock raising is becoming southern industry is best eXemplhed by stating that in nine months of the present year Ala bama, Louisiana and Mississippi combined have sent 1,200 cars of cattle direct to the market at St. Louis besides those that went to other markets and half as many more to people of Texas and the Indian Terri tory. The significance of this statement re- quires explanation and is given in the as- sertion that in ten years gone by a dozen cars of cattle has been a liberal yearly run to St. Louis from the three states narned."
 The history of all states is that stock raising does not diminish crop raising, and this history promises to be repeated in the three states mentioned It was once thought in Texas that increased farming
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
The Probate Judges

Montgomery Journal: The governors of flee and that of the secretary of state are busy sending out commissions to the sixty six probate judges in this state the term of each of whom begins November B. The secretary of state collects the fees for all commissions, and they are registered in his office. The most important and lucrative probate judgeships are those of Jefferson and Montgomery. The former is said to pays $12O0O or $15,0O0 a year, and tn chatter about $S,00O $lO00O. But out of these sums the judges have to pay heavy office expenses, which leave them barely decent salaries. In some counties the pay of pro- bate judges is small For examples, Lown- des county pays about $200 a month, Butler about $50 and Chiffon $125 Dallas and Mobile pay very well.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
MIsTAKEs oF A PARTIsAN PREsIpEN1 2

From the New York Journal.
 President McKineys course in taking the stump for the republican party in several western states will not result in the advan. tase to his party which he hoped. It is no overstatement to say that his western tour has been in every sense of the phrase an electioneering device. He has not been content with that advantage which always results to a party by the exhibition to the voters of president of it's political faith. He has not, like some of his predeces- sors, confined himself in his public utter ances to graceful speeches incapable of partisan construction. Instead he has made addresses which have been frankly political, defending and eulogizing his adminstra- tion on all points of political attack.
 He has taken with him on his junket four cabinet officers who, in their turn, have been quite as frankly partisan.
 That which is more discreditable to the president than this, however, is that he should have taken advantage of his power to force MT. Bryan's complete relinqush- ment of all political activity at the very time when this presidential stumping tour is in progress.
 The friends of MT. Bryan, the men who
 
 with him welded 65OO0OO voters into solid phalanx two years ago, have been anxious for his leadership in this falls campaigns He is soldier-a soldier, indeed, to whom Mckinley denied any opportunity to win distinction, but still soldier from whom not one word of complaint, or criticism has come since he donned the uniform That Nebraska should be carried by the demo- crats is of importance to Colonel Bryan and the cause he represents.
 Was it, then, the part of political decency, was it compatible with the loftiness of character which should attach to the in cumbent of the presidential office, that the president should order Colonel Bryan to his camp in Florida and straightway go to stump Nebraska against him?
 President McKineys obvious effort to keep MT Bryan out of the political field was indicative of a small and petty mind. His own invasion of the field which he closed to his adversary is a blot on the presi- dency.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18

gains, owing to bitter factional fights. In llis section Clinton county Is the worst, and 1t is very bad from a republican stand- point.
 In southern New York the republicans are losing ground, particularly in Chemung, Schuyler and Tompkins counties. In cen- tral New York there Is a bad state of af- fairs. This extends over Onondaga and Madison counties Farther west, in Monroe county, a big slump will occur, unless the situation improves, and Erie county will be as great battle ground as Kings county is today So too, in the senate district comprising the counties of Niagara, Or leans and Genesee. Senator Ellsworth is a dead weight to the republicans, and the outlook is not good for the republican party.
 At the gait it is going the republican machine seems to be making a democratic majority.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Annexation Collections.

A suburb that is absolutely dependent for it's prosperity upon a central town can not fairly say that it will not join that central town, contributing it's proportion of taxes and reaping it's share of benefits. A spirit of fair play commands that all who are jointly interested, all who are in one boat, so to speak, should come togeth- CT and pull together for the good of all concerned.
 But if public spirit and fair play and patriotism be put aside, it Is even then impossible for any suburban district to say that 1t would lose money by joining the central city. and paying, possibly, a tax of one dollar on each $1OO of assessed valuation. The property owner who would under such circumstances pay a city tax of one dollar instead of fifty cents, or pos sibly nothing at all, would simply have good bargain,
 Let us take the average piece of city or suburban property, and call it worth in the market s1 900. It would be would be as-
 
 owner would pay in the case of annexation $25O more-in a few cases $500 more, in taxes This is what the average taxpayer would pay for annexation.
 Now what would the average taxpayer secure in return? He would secure better hea1th because the valley would in the long run be made sound and sanitary; he would secure in every instance but one better schools; he would secure fire pro- lection that would cut down his insurance premiums; he would secure police protec- ton, even if the guardians of the peace rode by on bicycles or on horseback; he would secure better parks and means of nter-communication; and he would secure innumerabe other benefits that would flow from cooperation and consoldation-from joint efforts, instead of the disjointed work of a dozen uneconomical and inefficient municipalities. Let the average taxpayer who pays $2.50 more, or $5 more year, sit down and compute his gains and put the aggregate against the increased tax, for that is his only loss. When he has done this, he will cease to talk against consolidation, if he ever has talked in that way.
 The much mooted point that the sub urbanite would in case of annexation have to assist in paying Birminghams present debt is misleading. When the citizen pays his annual city tax, which is limited by the state constitution to one dollar on each S1OO of assessed valuation, he does all the public-debt paying that he can be called upon to do. No one will be asked to pay more than that, and the current talk rela- tive to Birmingham's debt is very empty and very senseless. Public debts are not paid in the manner suggested.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18

operations would reduce stock raising, but experiences proves that the interests are mutually beneficial. the largest farm crops and the heaviest marketing of live stock going together.
 The live stock situation, too, is changed. Formerly only fattened and finished beef cattle could be praStably marketed, where as now there is a demand for the young and crude cattle of the south Happily, says the Reporter. the reduced supplies of other fields have led to a demand for "stock" cattle just when cotton raising is in the dumps on account of low prices.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
RooseYelt's Canvass Tagging

From the New York Herald, October IA.
 That Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's can- vass for the governorship is tagging is ad- mitted by republicans with alarm and her. aided by democrats with joy. To all out ward signs the republican campaign is at standstill. To all outward signs it has been at standstill since the Saratoga conven- ton.
 The day Colonel Roosevelt was nominated his election was regarded by the public as certain and the republican state commit tee decided to keep him "bottled up. doubt arose when the Syracuse convention adjourned, and it was seen that Judge Van Wyck, against whose reputation and char acter nothing could be said, had been nomi- mated for governor and that each of the other state candidates had been located in some doubtful section to fan the fires of republican disaffection.
 The democrats have been making ag gressive campaign. The party has suddenly become united, and that union is quite as perfect as in 1892. This unity exists throughout the state, and is very complete in the city. The exhibition of Judge Gay nor, Edward M. Shepard and Hugh Me- Laughlin on the same platform is one of the many evidences of this. The demo- crats are claiming S0,000 plurality for Van Wyck in New York county, 1S00O in Kings, and 2,O00 in Richmond. This means 10000 to be overcome on the city line.
 How badly the republican campaign is tagging is shown by the fact that the re- publican county committee here has not done a thing. The chairman, MT. Quigg, is an invalid and Is interested in his own re- election to congress. The only activity is in his own district, where twenty meetings q night are being arranged. Colonel Roose- velut's friends are beginning to say that if Tammany does not get 80,000 in this county it won't be the machines fault.
 It was the knowledge of these things in this city that made much of yesterdays betting even. And it is no answer to this for republicans to say the betting is for political effect.
 Information from up the state shows that the situation there is no better The Albany correspondent of the Herald likens the republican indifference this year to that which prevailed among the democrats in 1888, when Harrison carried the state against Cleveland. The canal scandal has disgusted many republican farmers and in the cities there is discomfort among the Germans. There is a lack of interest in both parties in the interior, but the republ- cans must be the losers from this. The situation is bad in Westchester, Rockland, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Rensselaer,, and, in fact, along the entire Hudson valley. In the Lake Champlain country, as the situation is today, the democrats will make heavy
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
The Pine Belt
H1sA

St. Stephens News: John Dykes, a resi- dent of this county, living about four miles northwest of St. Stephens, brought to town Saturday evening last the carcass of a three-year old buck deer which he killed near his home. MT. Dykes says he has seen several deer in his neighborhood this son, but would not hunt or kill them until allowed to do so regarding the game-law. The news of the first venison'' enthused the local sports to Johnnie, get your gun.'
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Got a Gator

Gadsden Times-News: J. s. Thomson and l.. w. Dismukes called at our office Wednesday morning with an alligator which they had captured early that morning in Big Wills creek a mile below Gadsden. Mr. Thomson and MT. Dis mukes were crossing the bridge when they saw the alligator in the edge of the water and got out and soon captured him. The gator is about one year old and is 2614 inches long and is in a healthy condition. It is the first of the kind ever captured here.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
STOCK EXCHANGE SEATS

New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Another healthy speculative straw is tha fact that the ruling price for stock ex. change seats now is s25,O00. which is the highest quotation in more than five years. The low price was s14,500, about two years ago. The advance is ascribed to the inl- provement that has taken place in the Wall street game.
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Calculating in Al bama.

The government statistieian, who has try, has compiled the figures that relate to the manufacture of coke in 1897. The figures show that Alabama is easily the third coke state in the union and is crowd inc West Virginia for second place. The first ten in the matter of production are'
The age-herald., 1898-10-18
Keeps People Out

Sheffield Reaper: The lack of respecta- ble school system is the great barrier to immigration. There is no sense for Ala bamians to blind themselves to a fact which the outside world knows only too well for any good for Alabama