The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-12-29
IN FOREIGN LANDS
Judge Trip, Of Yankton, Gave Some
Very Fine Views of Samoa in His
Illustrated Lecture.
Judge Smith Had Four Divorce Gases
Saturday and DEGREES We're Grant
ed in Each Instance.
Eastern Star Chapter Vill Start Out
the New Year With New Officers
Just Installed.
JUDGE TRIPP ON SAMOA.
The Judge Gave a fine Lecture Oh
Some of the New. Possessions
of This Country.


One of the most interesting, enter
tanning and instructive lectures to which
Mitchell audience has listened to in
some time was that given by Judge
Bartlett Tripp at the opera house last
evening, aud the people who were
present were enthusiastic over the fine
lecture and views. In introducing the
lecturer Judge Smith took occasion to
refer pleasantly to the prominence of
Judge Trip and of his recent associe-
tion with the commission which made
the peace treaty in Samoa. Judge
Tripp, he said, was too we'll known to
Mitchell people to need much of an
Introduction. Before showing any of
the views Judge Tripp took occasion to
tell his hearers something of the coun-
try, portion OF which bad just become
! attached to the United States. In
speaking of the natives of the island he
said that they were the finest speci-
mems of physical manhood he had ever
seen and that they were intelligent to
a remarkable degree. The stature OF
the people was impressive, but very
few Of them standing less than six feet
in height. The natives, he said, were
passionate in their natures but were
not at all revengeful, as was demon
strated when the opposing factions in
that country were brought together in
peace. The climate of Samoa
was delightful but it is not at all
healthy, as would be judged from the
fact that 80 many people die in the
course of year, the death rate being
heavier than in any other country.
Judge Trip did no. believe in com.
mercial way the island would ever be
of much benefit to this country, but az
a stragetic point the United States was
fortunate in coming into possession of a
portion of the island and in the distri.
button of the parts to the three coun-
tries he believed that this country
Jared better than any of the foreign
powers.
Taking up the views the judge gave
q large mum ber of pictures of the coun.
try and of the people and the explana.
tions which went with them was indeed
! interesting. The types of the men and
women were shown and their natures
and characteristics explained. The
: harbor of Pango Pango, that portion
of the country belonging to the United
, States, was shown in its entirety, and
which revealed the natural defense o.
, towering rocks, making it fully al
imoregnable as that of Gibraltor. The
closing part of Judge Tripp's lecture
i. was a reference to the great novelist
Robert Stevenson, whose home was il
Samao, where he died few years ago
, and lies buried on the top Of high
} mountain in tomb constructed by tn.
, Samoans, as respect OF the veneratior
in which he was held. We are glad t
have had the pleasure of fastening t,
Judge Tripp in his lecture, which wa
3 made more than ordinarily interesting
| from the fact that the learned gentle
uan covered the very ground upo,
I which his lecture was based. Judg,
r Tripp returned to Yankton Saturda,
: and after giving his lecture in on,
8 or two other places be will make tri]
to the Pacific coast on some matters O
business