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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
tracks per ton $7.75.

j. +. Anderson. best Hooking Val
ley coal at sheds per tun SS.25; de-
livered any part of the city, SS.75.
Hubbard & Palmer best Hooking
Valley on track in city per ton, IS. 40:
best Hooking Valley at court house
per ton SIS. so :best Hooking Valley at
sheds per ton IS. 40; best Hocking
Valley in any part Of city per ton
IS. 80.
Davis & Daniels: best Hooking
Valley coal in car on track per ton.
$3.50; best Hooking Valley at sheds
per ton IS. so: best Hooking Valley
delivered court house per ton IS. 50:
best Hooking Valley delivered in any
part of the city per ton 81. 10.
Motion made and carried to award
contract fer furnishing coal to Door
the season to Peavey Elevator Co.,
as per bid.
The following bills were allowed:
Wendelboe & johnson, rig for
w Is DOdSOn, game warden. > 90
Alex Dumas, for painting
signs for county. ............ 3.25
Ethan Enterprise. teachers ex-
arGttatiOn notices.. a. so
j J Scheick, livery for county
commissioners. 200
Ole Helling, 6 days work for
county. 600
Mt Vernon News, county print
ing 103. rs
Mitchell Printing Co, county
printing 1925
Mitchell Printing Co., station
cry :. Is. 90
Fullerton Lumber Co, lumber
and pipes 10. rs
American Book Co, school books
for J II Ferris. 40. Sc
American Book Co, school
books for J II Ferris......... 5.64
Maynard, Merrill & Co. school
books for J II Ferris. 5.O4
CHM & Co, school books for J
ii $40
Motion made and carried to adj
journ to nine O'Clock Wednesday
morning.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11

days.
Motion made and carried to adjourn
sine die.
State OF South Dakota, County of
Dawson. SIS. L, O.. d.. Stearns.
county auditor Of said county do
hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct report
Of the proceedings Of the county com
missioners of said county at regular
session held Sept. ! and ,, 1909.
O, d. Stearns. County Auditor.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
Wednesday Morning.

Board called to order at 8 O'Clock.
Members present: S. J.. Moore.
Newell Blackman and W. H. Webster.
The clerk OF courts handed in a re-
QUESTION for 40 names to replenish
jury list required to be kept by clerk
of courts, and following names were
drawn by county commissioners from
the different townships, to-wit:
Perry township: H P Fields, ] W
Campbell.
Badger township: Geo Book, jr, L
T Eager.
Blendon township: G Il Kelsey,
ca Anthem. o W Nicholson.
Mt Vernon township: Jos K John
son, o o Storla, Fred Grieve.
Mt Vernon village: A Fl Getting
ham.
Beulah township: B H Strother, G
H Lawrence.
Mitchell townships: S a Holbrook.
r E Jones.
City Of Mitchell: VIM Nash, G e
Reeves, j W Cook, A J Curtis, G N
Vogus, W Walrath, James sGrace,
Elijah Tillotson. S B Sphinx, G W
Adams.
Prosper township: A Wittstruck,
Frank Carlson.
Libson township: G A Wright.
M S Kern.
-Union township: Julius REESE, J P
NicOlaisen, John L. Anderson.
Baker townships: j L Bourrett,
VIM Breer.
Tobin township: j II Hahn, o H
Dixon.
Rome township: Fred Giesen.
Chas Boreson, Joe Hull.
Ethan village: FW Cole.
Following bills were allowed:
G W Austin. repairs county Jail. Sc. IS
) Doty, draying for county. 1.75
q b Gross, petit juIOr........ 3.20
Ole Helllng, labor for county,. IA 90
W B Dodson, game warden.... ~ 90
e e Halphill, grading at court
house. 10 25
'oopNAtShs N"lt VI
Nick Bossea.. q 90
e Haynes, postage and ex-
20 90
Jacob Koch. salary jailer and
janitor for July. SO 90
r. E Halphill, labor at court
house.....:........... ........l3. -
W Abbey, salary county judge
for months OF July and Au-
0lSI IN Et
. StearnS, salary county au-
ditor for months of July and
200 90
y W Coursey salary county su-
p~erintendent and express for
July and August. ........ l9l 10
ii E Hitchcock, salary states
attorney Tor months Of July
and August. =. 100 90
Electric Co. lights for court
house and repairs for months
or July II Ga
j w Glltllan, II day
county commissioner. 80. 81 90
} w Gillian, 2 Gays COM
mittee Work............ s 90
J. W Giltillan, mileage.... , 70--14 70
W II Webster, , days
county commissioner. 500
W II Webster. , days COM
mittee work. 8 90
W II Webster, mileage. ! Bolt 30
Newell Blackman, , days
county commissioner. s 90
Newell Blackman 3 days
committee WOrk........ II 90
Newell Blackman. mileage , 4O--22 40
S } Moore, , days county
commissioner S 90
J Moore, 3 days COM
mite WOrk...... -. :. y OO--2O 90
Motion made and carried to adj
jOurn to ! 30 p. m.
Afternoon Session.
Board called to order at ! 30 D.. no.
Bid of Fred Bjodstrop for building
a bridge in Baker township between
sections IA and Is, for $27O. Motion
made and carried to let contract to
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
What a Lovely Ending!

Eogg-What allied the editor Of that
comic paper who died the other day?
Bing-I don't know. / think one Of
the doctors said he had been tickied to
death.-Chelsea Gazette.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
A Moving Sermon,

First Cricket-Where was the open
air service held this morning?
Second Cricket-In the onion bed;
and there wasn't a dry eye in the con
gregation.-Life.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
The Stock on Hand.

forelgner-Er-may l inquire, sir, if
you have a marriageable daughter?
Henpeck-l have not. But I shall
have a manageable wife-if you don't
mind waiting.-TOwn Topics.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
For Pa!

Little Willie proudly)--My pa knows
a few things.
Little Bob (contemptuously)-Ho, my
pa 0 fewer things than your pa
Smart Set.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
Dukes and Dukes.

Ralph-They are both duchesses?
Marie-Yes, but Mabel's duke cost
her ten millions, while Bessie's cost
only a million.
Ralph-Poor Bessie.-Puck.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
Sallie and Willie

Its funny about baldheaded men,
Willie. isn't it,"
"Why, how is that, SaIlie:'
"They all claim their condition is the
result of being patted on tie head for
being good boyS.'-Roller Monthly.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
WILL DEDICATE LIBRARY
CONTINUED from page By

Continued from page 3D.
for the purpose OF transferring Sc, 600
from the general fund to the city hall
fund. Both resolutions passed.
The ordinance concerning the loca-
ton Of hacks and drays was placed
on it's second reading and passed. A
change was made in the location of
drays from the west side of LawIer
street to the east side of the street.
The hacks will stand hereafter on the
south side Of Second street between
Main and Lawler. No further bust
ness appearing before the council an
adjournment was taken.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11

ting down the useless mileage paid
legislatures and state officers in trav-
cling to and from a capital located
many dreary hours ride from the
center of population.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
THE COM MISSlONERS MET
Made the Tax Levy for the Ensuing
Year and Appropriated Money
for County Exhibit.

Regular session of county commits
sionerS met as provided by law for
purpose of making tax levy for 1903
and to attend to other county, bust
ness.
Board called to order at $50 a. m.
Members present: S. J Moore, New
ell Blackman, W. H. Webster and j.
W. Giltillan.. and following business
was transacted.
Deferred tax levy until in after
noon.
Following bill was handed in by
board Of health and same was ordered
paid:
r c Warne, fumigating Car
.~penter family so. 10
X 9 Warne. fumigating
Pool family, -. .......7 .0O-l6. 10
S Cattrell, clerk Of courts. go. 5.S5
Report Of clerk of courts in the
matter of the insanity Of j. f. Bar
Tow was on motion accepted and fees
allowed as follows.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11

us Jones that kind of a MANI"
"Well, l should say so. Why, 1 can
rely on his getting the best Of me every
time be has an ."-Chicago
Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
Judue AIston's Words.

Secretary of State Heflln has another case on his docket This time 1t is Judge Aston, who is holding the Cir. cult court at Huntsville. To a jury that had accepted the popular theory that no white man should be hanged, he recently said;
 If the plea of self-defense which in this case was a mere shooting under ap- prehension of danger, is to be as easily maintained before the juries of this coun- try as was this defense. then human life will grow even cheaper in Madison county than 1t is today After agreeing upon that verdict that you have just returned. and before leaving your jury room, you should have written out a license to the red-handed manslayer. informing him that 1t was not against the laws of this coun- try for a man to shoot down his fellow man, if he could get up the slightest proof that he apprehended danger from the party slain. You should have then framed this and hung it upon the wall of your court house, that all might know that 1t is a mere travesty upon justice to try to bring the guilty manslayer to jus tice in this county "
 It appears that Madison county has been afflicted several years with homi- cides and that no convictions by petit juries have followed them. No doubt an unsound public sentiment exists there as elsewhere, and Judge Aston is not man to sit idly by and let the jury system be misused and discred ited. He evidently believes in sustain ing the jury system, holding it up to it's useful and necessary public office in the maintenance of law and order When juries become shields for mur. derers, then indeed have society and law and order fallen to the level of anarchy.
 The Age-Herald trusts that MT Heflln's defense of juries will not ex. tend to situations similar to that of Madison county. Judge Aston doubt. less did not overstate the case in Huntsville particle. He gave the jury a piece of his honest mind and clear head, and his words should sink into the hearts of all other juries in all other counties in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
John Temple Graves on LynchIna.

John Temple Graves stays in Geor- gia too much, where they have gov ernors who never take their respective eyes off their respective campaigns. Staying in Georgia leads him to say that lynching Is the remedy for rape, and that lynching cannot be stopped until the two races are separated. As the two races are plainly destined to live side by side to the end of time in this country, it follows that lynching even of the torch sort must go on in this country to the end of time.
 MT. Graves takes things pessimis- tically. He is altogether too Georgian. He does not look elsewhere. But for an uncalled for single hanging in an extreme corner of the state, under tho shadow of Tennessee and Georgia, not a case of lynch law would have occur red in Alabama this year, and when the guilty leaders of that mob, who shot down a brave sheriff, are tried it is safe to say there will not be another lynching in this state in the course of another year
 Now, what is possible under Gov ernor Jelks' administration in Alabama ought to be possible under Governor Terrells administration in Georgia, Governor Terrell may plead want of power, but the truth is he has all the power over sheriffs and solicitors that Governor Jelks possesses. The one is as much a high sheriff as the other.
 Let MT. Graves come over to Ala bams and study the situation. He will see that when prospective participants in lynching bees see that their frolic would be investigated and that they would be compelled to face indict- ments and trials, they suddenly lose all desire to become lynchers. What Georgia needs is a William Dorsey Jelks, and when she gets one an end will be put to lynching bees.
 "The mob conference" at Chautau-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
scHWAB AS A WARNING.
His Brief Career Due to a Lack of
 Mental Training.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Two years ago, on his election to the presidency of the monster United States Steel Corporation. Charles M. Schwab was one of the most widely envied men in this country. The newspapers were filled with stories of his rise from a poor boy in steel mill to eminence. the mill lion-dollar salary myth was invented for his glory, and for a time he replaced Carnegie or Morgan as a model in the dreams of ambitious young men all over the country. And now, after two short and troubled years of glory. MT. Schwab retires, the victim of a nervous break down.
 Mir Schwab has been loudly lauded as a graduate from the ranks, but it is highly probable that the very lack of long and systematic mental training helped to bring about his present deplora- ble situation. Breadth of outlook and in- tellectual background are needed to con- trol a great business If MT. Schwab had possessed a mind trained outside as well as inside the steel business it Is not un- likely that the work he undertook would have set more easily on his shoulders. A few rare men acquire these qualities while engaged in manual toll. but they are the men able to work by day and to study at night, and as boys they are intent upon something more than merely getting on at the business upon which they were em- ployed. The genius Is no model for the man of ordinary talents.
 The safest way to get up in the world is to make all the possible preparation on the lower rounds of the ladder. The moral of the Schwab retirement is to pre- pare with all possible care for the work you hope to do and then not to imagine because your ambition Is boundless, that your physical powers are also. Every man has his limit and the man who over steps it by work is not less foolish, though less wicked, than he who ruins himself by dissipation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13

States senate, who know him almost as well as the Advertiser does. They may not know as much about "calibre' and "statesmanship" as the Advertiser does. but such deficiencies" are not controlling Let tho Advertiser select any three of the democratic senators, or any five, or the whole number, and we will abide the result. This will settle the calibre-and-statesmanship issue.
 In another column of its calibre-and- statemanship edition the Advertiser prints the tariff islander that has here tofore been confined to republican or gans. This time the Brooklyn Eagle, which is hemaphroditic, fathers it. In substance, it charges that Senator Cor manman "emasculated"- the fa- vorite word of those afflicted with Gro veritis--the Wilson tariff bill. The democratic senators who were in the senate at the time, or who are mem bers of the senate at the present time, do not so understand the matter. They say he modified the Wilson bill so that it would not create a deficiency and thus indefinitely postpone tariff re- form. But the esteemed Advertiser probably holds that all senators are political fools of the Morgan sort.
 Let the proposed board of arbitra- tion, to be selected by the Advertiser acting alone, take the tariff question also, and The Age-Herald will again abide the result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
Rock IsIand-FriscO = seabOard.

No more important news has been published in this district in many q day than The Age-Herald presents this morning, showing that the Rock Island, the Frisco and the Seaboard have be- come to all intents and purposes one system, 21,0OO miles long, extending either actually or in near prospect from sea to sea. This change by which Frisco interests acquire control of the Seaboard brings into this dis trict great continental and even in- ternational line. The Rock Island alone, which is practically merged with the Frisco, extends from King Edwards realm at Winnipeg to Presi- dent Diaz's country. No one system can now absorb the railroad lines of this district, and the speedy approach of the Illinois Central over its own rails will render railroad transporta- tion all that can reasonably be desired, unless indeed we can invite this way the Gou,d system, which has already l. crossed the big river at Natchez. But the conditions now existing will sui flee until we have an Open Warrior and an open canal to the Tennessee, both of which loom up in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
THE GRASS WIDOW.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 'The origin of the term grass widow" said a philologist, Ifs puzzling. Some say 1t came from the Freneh-that it was originally grace widow that Is widow by grace or courtesy. Others say it de- rives from the old English custom of a man hanging out broom when his wife was away over night. To hang out the broom was common phrase. When the thing was done the meaning was that the house had been swept clear of the wife's presence, and the husbands s friends were to visit him and do as they pleased. In time, instead of hanging out broom. the husband came to hang out only a bunch of grass. Thus he grew to be called grass widower.' and his wife a grass widow p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
About Persons.

Horace Hood Jr., well-nknown news paper man of Montgomery, is registered at the Morris
 E. S. Bartram and wife of Selma are stopping at the Hillman.
 II. F. Harwell of Baltimore is regis tered at the Morris.
 T. J. Smith of opelika is at the Metro politan.
 c. J. Palmer of New York is at the Hillman.
 Dr. J. c. Walker of Maylene is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 M. Bauer of Boston is at the Morris.
 F. Mccleneghan of Knoxville is stop ping at the Morris.
 E. c. Selden of Eutaw is registered at the Morris.
 A. F. Wright of New York is stopping at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
THE PRoFLIeATE AMERICANS.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 But for the enormous sales of our pro- ducts abroad the United States could not support the immense drain of money in- to foreign countries. Nearly all of our 200 ,O00 miles of railway in the United States were built with money borrowed abroad, all of which must be returned with interest. Other immense undertak- ings in this country have been financed from abroad, which also creates heavy debt. Many thousands of wealthy Amer jeans are constantly travelling for pleas ure in European countries, and many of them dwell abroad from choice. All this creates a heavy drain of money to Europe. Add to these causes of outflow the thousand million dollars sent out last years for foreign products, not less than one-third of which sum was for articles of luxury and not of necessary use. and it is easy to see that this great pro- ductive country, the richest in natural resources on the globe, could not endure the drain but for the enormous amount of It's exports. Some of the most power full and populous countries of Europe cannot feed their people, and must im- port food which eve furnish. Our chief exports are cotton, grain. meats, petro- leum and timber. These are what save us from bankruptcy. Already the Am erican debt abroad is so great that Flu ropean fnanciers are expressing uneasi- ness lest the extravagant and extraordi- nary business speculations and profiigacy of the American people should bring on financial panic and commercial and in- dustrial depression.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
Business Center,

twentieth street between Second and Third avenue is already busy thorough fare but when the First National bank building is completed it will be about the most crowded street in Birmingham" :" said a merchant.
 Practically all the space in the sky scraper is spoken for and 1t is estimated that fully 15O0 people will be employed under it's ample roof Add to that num- Der 2Oo0 people who will visit the building on business and 1t is readily seen what a throng there will be.
 Some old, fogy persons there were who thought one sky-scraper would be enough for Birmingham for few years to come but by October three will be fitted up and it will not be a great while before a fourth under construction. If Atlanta can support several steel frame buildings Birmingham, the center of the busiest district in the whole south, will support several more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
New Strain of cotfnn.

The Chicago Journals Washington correspondent Is authority for the statement that Dr. Herbert J. Webber of the plant breeding bureau of the department of agriculture has by se- lection secured a strain of cotton which the boil weevil will not touch or ap- proach. It will be remembered that when root-rot attacked and destroyed sea island cotton species of that kind Of cotton was secured which root-roE would not attack, and in that way the industry was revived and again made profitable, and lands that would pro duce sea island cotton at once became salable at high prices.
 Dr. Webber offers his discovery to the world free from toll of any kind. He is a specialist employed by the government, and he Loyalty turns over to the government the results of his bIuQ1eS anu SlOIlSs AhC 6lOWlh5 OA enough seed of the new strain will be somewhat tedious, but Texas will be content If 1t can see way to over rome the pest that thrives on Paris green and London purple.
 True, the new strain may be better in the index than in the Texas fields, but it is very possible that remedy of the nature named has been found. Such a change saved the grape culture of France, as well as the sea island crop of cotton of this country, and there can be no radical and thorough remedy for the Mexican pest except along similar lines. Let us hope at any rate that the Webber report will be fully confirmed, and that strain of cotton has been secured which a boll-weevil cannot be induced to even test with his destructive and venom ous jaws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
Retail Trade.

August Is usually dull month with retail merchants and the current Au- gust Is no exception to the rule" said a Second avenue man. "We will have to walt until September 20, the next pay day, but when that date does come there will be vast sum of money turned loose. look for a brisk trade the last of septem- Der, and if October is not a record breaker in shopping trade, will be badly disappointed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
The Late II. c. Hanson.

H. c. Hanson, the well-known news paper man who died in Montgomery Tuesday. was at one time manager of the Macon Telegraph He was a brother of Maj. ]. F. Hanson chairman of the Gen. tral of Georgia railroad. and his remains were taken to Macon in prIvate car for interment
 The Macon Telegraph says:
 MT. Hanson labored many years of his life in the newspaper business, de- voting himself to the business depart ment, but he often felt and expressed himself to his friends that he ought to have engaged In editorlai worK. Those who have seen him occasionally turn from the business routine and take up the pen have agreed with him. His gift of epigrammaHc speech was unusually strong, and if he had gone into the edi- torial field of newspaper endeavor he would undoubtedly have excelled. MT Hanson had strong convictions and the courage of them. His was one of those natures that was not always in accord with popular notions, and therefore it brought more or less friction-friends and enemies. He had robust mentality and kind heart. He was not always under stood, but he was always following the lines marked out by his judgment and conscience. This is the conviction of one who was intimately associated with him for three years in the joint conduct of this paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13
VERDICT OF SUICIDE.
Marie Gordon's Mother Arrives In
 Chicago for Remains.

Chicago, August 12.-The coroner's jury at the inquest today over the remains of Marie Gordon of Montgomery, who died last night at the Auditorium hotel. returned a verdict finding that the wom- an committed suicide while Respondent by shooting herself.
 Mrs. Evander Lytle of Murfreesboro. Tenn, mother of the dead woman, arr rived early today and will take charge of the remains.