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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
HIT WRONG MAN.
:hivalrous New Yorker Swatted Man
Who Goo Gooed" His Own Wife.

VINO Zoo Gooed'' HIS OWN wife.
New York. April 16.-John r. F. Young,
esterday for assaulting John Caddle,
'uilder, on a Third avenue elevated train
arly this morning. Near the Sixty-sey-
nth street station the photographer stood
Up and struck the builder in the face.
They had been sitting alongside each
,ther.
Yes I struck him, judge; any gentle
nan would have done the same thing He
vas making goo goo eyes at woman
passenger, and I did not propose to let
nan insult woman who happened to be
Without a male escort" the prisoner said.
"I didn't insult any lady. This fellow
truck me without a word of warning. We.
lad NO dispute whatever. He just stood
Up and landed a blow on my face" re-
:ponded the builder.
'I saw him ogling woman who sat in
cross seat some distance away. He
:hirped to her to attract her attention
md acted like one of those mashers you
lear about went on the photographer.
'It was my wife who sat in the cross
ieat and was trying to call her atten-
ion to one of the pictures in the car"
Mr. Caddle explained.
II don't believe she Is your wife,
Young responded.
''Here she is,'' rejoined the builder as
le beckoned to woman who stepped
lpon the bridge and said she was Mrs.
>addle.
''Well, T only wanted to act the part of
chivalrous gentleman and protect wom-
m from insult the photographer de-
dared.
Magistrate Zeller said he thought the
photographer had acted hastily on good
Intentions and suggested that an apology
would be sufficient punishment. Young
pologized and the case was dismissed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
s. D. CROP BULLETIN.
Season Is Backward and Farm Work Is
Retarded,

Huron, S. D., April 16.-The United
States department of agriculture, cli-
mate and crop bulletin Of the weather
bureau, south Dakota section, says for
the week ending April 13, 1908:
The season is backward and farming
operations We're retarded by unfavor-
able conditions for early work.
Because of general and generous
rain and snow inI the second decade
that, together with alternate freezing
and thaWing weather, kept the soil in
the southern portion of the state too
wet to work, and the absence of suff1-
cient warmth elsewhere to free the
fields of frost, no seeding and but lit
tie preparatory field work was done
in March. Fall sown rye generally came
through the winter in good condition,
and there was no report Of any injury
to fruit tree or bushes by cold weather.
During the past two weeks field op-
ers.tions We're somewhat retarded by
fairly general rain or snow the first
week, and to some extent by subse-
quent light to moderate rains, that
kept considerable low and flat land too
wet to work, more especially in north
.ern districts. Considerable wind dur
ing the past week has, however, been
favorable for drying these lands
Wheat sowing is now well advanced
toward completion in the extreme
southeastern counties and is in prog
ress on high land in the. most northern
counties.
A considerable acreage Of oats, bar
ley and spelt2 has been sown in the
southeastern and some Black Hills
counties.
Considerable spring ploWing has been
done, and in some southeastern and
Black Hills counties preparation Of
ground for corn is in progress.
Fail sown rye is generally reported
in thrifty condition and showing very
good stand.
Grass has started well but has made
SLOW growth; except in the extreme
southeastern counties.
With seasonable warmth the out
look for prompt termination of spring.
sown small grains is very Hattering, as
the soil is generally amply moist for
this purpose. In the extreme southeast
.ern counties and also some Black Hills
localities, the earliest sown wheat Is
now nicely sprouting.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
COMPLY WITH LAW.
Roads Are Living UP to the Letter OF
the Interstate Act.

Chicago, April 16.-The manner in
which some western railroads are COM
,lying with the Interstate commerce
aw Is worrying their competitors.
Within the past two weeks several rail-
oads have filed with the Interstate
commerce commission and the Western
freight association notices that they
will make reduction on certain classes
# freight. The law requires three days
iotice Of a decrease in rates, and ten
lays notice of an increase. Open vio-
alton of the law is charged.
'"The only way to stop rate cutting,
aid a traffic official, "is for competing
Ines to make still deeper cut when
wer they find that any road has filed q
ow tariff on any special kind Of freight.
Tor example, If one road announced a
ate of Is cents per 100 pounds on lum-
Ter from Chicago to the Missouri river,
which is cents less than the normal
ate. let all competing lines immedi-
'tely reduce rates openly to 10 cents.'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
"The rabbit seems to be his
ideal citizen"
In part Mr.. Pentecost said:

In part Mr.. Pentecost said:
"Roosevelt's ideal person is one who
is ready to work, fight, suffer and have
children. He regards others as shirk-
ers and criminals.
ITO be married and have children if
you are intelligent and are sure you are
bringing your children into a desirable
world is well, but marriage and child
bearing as it now goes on among the
poor and ignorant is crime against
the race.
LAS people become more intelligent
they have fewer children, and venture
to say that after many people have had
children grown, if they had the ex-
perience to go over with again. they
would have none.
$50 long as conditions remain as they
are now it is foolish for working peo-
pie to marry, and still more foolish for
them to have children If they do marry,
for every child born to them is an
other slave of mine or MILL
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
uNHoRsE THE CAVALRY.
Dsadwood Troop Will Be Changed t.
Infantry Company.

Lead, S. D., April 16.-It has been
recommended by Colonel Patrlquin of
Lead, assistant adjutant general of the
South Dakota national guard, that
Troop a, cavalry, located at Deadwood,
be changed to an infantry company.
The recommendation is said to meet
the approval Of Adjutant General S. J..
Conklin, and it is likely the change will
be made as quickly as possible, the cav
airy equipment at Deadwood returned,
and infantry supplied. To supply a
cavalry troop it requires $4,000 worth
of property, and the change is being
made to avoid the risk of losing so
muCh property.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
MARKET GETS SUPPORT.
Northern Securities, However, Takes a
Further Drop to 95ll. 4

Northern Securities, However, Takes .
Further Drop to 95A.
New York, April 16.-The stock mar
ket was feverish and unsettled again
today. Influential support was accord
ed at the opening, however, and heavy
offerings were absorbed and prices bic
up determinedly as often as they fell
This had the effect of restoring con-
fdence and checking liquidation The
market steadied after the first hour
although Northern Securities had q
further decline to 95A.
Prices were well sustained during the
latter part Of the day and average the
level lifted except in few inactive
stocks. Near the close a rumor that
the Northern Securities case will be
compromised sent prices up with g
sush and the close was strong.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
WONDERFUL JEWEL CAVE.
Government May Set 1t Aside as Ma.
ticnal Reserve.

Custer, S. D., April 16.--The govern
meyN may set apart the land on which
is Situated the Jewel cave, sixteen
miles west "a Custer, as national re-
serve. Recent explorations have proven
that the cave is one of the most re-
markable underground vaults in the
world, containing miles of passages and
chambers, lined with glittering crystals.
1t is owned at present by Charles w.
and Frank MIchaud and Charles Bush.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
Marksmen at Kansas City.

Kansas City, April 1.-THE grand annua,
handicap at inanimate targets began to-
day at Blue River park. five miles east
of the city. Weather conditions are Inn
proving but far from perfect Nearly all
Of the 200 marksmen entered arrived this
morning and took part in the small events
this afternoon. The grand American han
dicap begins THURSDAY.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
JAIL BREAKERS CAUGHT
w. n. Crissman and Charles Dickerson
Taken at Sanborn for Escaping
From Estherville.

Sibley, Ia. April 16.-W.s H. Crissman
and Charles Dickerson, VINO broke jail
at Baskerville, were captured today at
Sanborn. In all five broke Jail and all
have been captured.
The men broke out of the Esther
vile Jail Saturday night, and descrip-
tions were at once sent out. Marshal
Stur of Sanborn recognized one by the
description and took him in. They
are held there awaiting the sheriff O.
Emmett county. ..-.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
REFUSE MEN A RAISE.

Worthern Pacific May Have Strike Of
Employees on It's Hands.
st. Paul, Mimi. April 16.-A. B. Gar
retson. grand chief conductor Of the o,
R. c.. and w. T. Newman Of the train
mems organization. who are conducting
negotiations with the Northern Pacific
for an increase in Its trainmen's wages
stated that unless the company recedes
from its position today they will return
to their homes and take poll of the
men on the question of strike. They
claim the company has refused the mer
what they say every other transconti-
mental road has allowed, and has re.
Jected all the mems concessions. To.
lay will develop decisive results.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
EDITOR is STRICKEN.
W. T. La Toilette Goes to Chicago for
Medical Treatment.

Chamberlain, S. D., April 1G.--W. T.
La Toilette, editor Of the Missouri VAL
ley Journal of this city, suffered slight
stroke of paralysis last week, and he
left this morning for medical examina-
ton at Chicago, and later will probably
visit either Colfax Springs, Ia, or Hot
Springs Ark
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
Gets Annapolis Appointment.

K!ttredge has dominated Charles L.
Hackett, Jr, of Parker for appoint
ment as cadet at the naval academy
at Annapolis. The appointee, who is
l9 years of age, is son Of c. F. Hack :
ett, the veteran editor Of the Parker
New Era. He will take his examina-
ton at Annapolis on the third Tues
day in June.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
SLUMP IN LONDON.

American Stocks Go Off, but Situation
Is Not Serious.
London, April 16.-Business on the
stock exchange today opened with a
strong declinei in Americans, which, how
ever, remained above parity. There
was no excitement and the transac-
tions were small. Opinion here is that
the Northern Securities decision will
not seriously affect values. g.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
ASKED TO EXPLAIN.

Germany Called on for Facts About De-
porting American Missionaries.
Washington, April 16.-The state de-
partment has asked the German gov
ernment for a statement Of facts con-
nected with the deportation from Isl
and of Ruk to Island Of Pcnate, an
other Of the Caroline group, of nuns
Der of native students Of an American
missionary establishment there The
matter was brought before the state
department formally by Rev Judson
Smith, secretary Of the American
board Of missions.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
CHASE is HOME.
Rich Young Man Found in French Asy-
Ium Reaches New York

New York, April 14.-Moses Fowler
Chase, a wealthy young man of Lafay-
cite, Ind, who was recently found in a
sanitarium near Paris by Consul General
Z Gowdy, reached here this morning on the
steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm from Cher
bourg. A tug was met by the steamer at
quarantine and Chase taken to Jersey
City, taking train for the west
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
DEAL is POSTPONED.

Will Not Take Place at Present.
3 New York. April 16.-Leading inter
ests In the Rock Island company an
nounced today the proposed purchase
of the st. Louis & San Francisco road
has been abandoned for the present
Negotiations may be resumed later The
same authority announces the failure
Of the plan has nothing to do with the
recent decision in the Northern Securi-
ties case.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
MUST NOTIFY MEN.
Workmen Who Take Places of Strikers
Are Entitled to Know 1t:

Denver, Colo, April i6.-The court of
appeals today handed down an opinion
holding the Denver Gas company liable
for damages in the suit Of William
Holschauser, who was shot by striking
employees of the company. The court
held employers must notify men taking
strikers places that a strike is on.
Holschauser declared he had been hired
without being told there was a strike.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
RABBIT THE IDEAL.
Hugh Pentecost Says Presidents Race
Suicide Notions Are Nonsense.

New York, April 16.-"President
Roosevelt's Nonsense About Race Sui
eide" was announced as the title of an
address by Hugh O. Pentecost in Lyric
hall yesterday. Speaking of the presi-
dents recent utterances on "race sui
eide" Mr.. Pentecost said:
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-17
DEPUTY COLLECTOR.
John @. Adams Catches This Plum in
South Dakota.

Sioux Falls, S. D., April 16.-Jo ohm c..
Adams a leading attorney Of Flandreau,
s. D.. was this afternoon appointed
deputy internal revenue collector for
the district of South Dakota to sue
ceed w. I. Howland, who recently ten
dered his resignation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

Austria's action in intercepting TO-
100000 cartridges ordered in Hungary,
for which Bulgarian money has been
paid to the. contractors.
The Turkish regular army, already
100000 strong in Macedonia, Is esti-
mated to contain at least 100000 fairly
drilled, we'll armed, strong and hardy
men, known as Nizam. Behind these
stand the Redifs, or reserves; the
Mustahfiz, or veterans, over 1000, 900
of them, who have passed through the
ranks-beside a horde Of barbaric ir-
regulars, who no man attempts to
number. Military service is compul-
sorry on all able-bodied Mohammedans
for six years In regular army, eight
years in the reserve and six years in
the veteran service. All Turks residing
in Constantinople and its suburb are
released; those who are infirm, who are
the sole support Of their families, or
who for any special reason may claim
exception are required to go through
from six to nine months drill in the
regular battalion in the first year Of
their service, and thirty days drill at
their homes every subsequent year,
and are also liable on emergency to be
called to join the regular army. Nom
Moslems are prohibited from entering
the military service, but, instead, pay
an exemption tax, which is levied alike
on males of all ages.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29
THE MAssAcREE IN TURKEY.

THE MASSACRE IN TURKEY.
How long, o slumbering conscience Of
the world,
Wrapt in thy dreams Of empire and
Of gold
How long shall this dread tale Of
blood be told
While all the banners Of thy wrath are
furrd?
OF Slaughtered babies--the f1rstlings
OF the fold
With nameless shame and terrors
manifold
And smoke of cot and temple upward
curpd?
Has greed Of gain and power thus
shackled thee,
Conscience Of man, vain Of thy free
control,
And boastful of the centuries star
ward flight?
What shall the judgment Of the Lord
God be
When He shall charge thee with thy
brothers soul
Shalt thou be numbered on the left
or right?
o. strange gray world, O world half
soul, half brute!
World with the prayer of sainthood
World where the songs Of angles has
been sung
Yet mute, dumb world, with all the
demons mute!
Loud-voiced enough thy toastings vain
to suit;
Loud-voiced enough when Glory's
chimes are rung,
When Fame's abroad and victor flags
are flung
These are thy blossoms and thy chosen
fruit.
Yet, think'st thou not, gray world,
With all thy power,
With all thy trumpetinFs Of old pre-
tense
That thou to Mercy ,west a mo-
ment's span?
1 tell thee that thou yet shall see the
hour
An hour Of dread-an hour Of recon-
pense,
And that stern hour shall know the
rights Of Man!
John Jerome Rooney, lii New York
Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

AZ At a recent dinner Of the Authors
club in London the bishop of Worcester
referred to what he called the one
event in his literary career. He had
once been accused Of wrongly using a
verb, and on turning up the word in
the new English distionary, he found
himself confronted by the very quota
ton in question from one Of his books
"a standing rebuke to him for his bad
grammar, as it was the only known in
stance of that particular use Of the
word.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

3J At the end Of the year 1902 the
Russian army had 1886 generals, Of
whom 129 were "polmije generalus"
(full-generals) 3s7 lieutenants-gen
and $40 major-generals. .'he average
age of these generals was sixty-nine
years for the full" generals, sixty-two
years for the lieutenant generals and
ffty-six years for the r-generals.
Fifty EIGHT per cent of all rhe generals
have seen active warfare and four Of
them are over ninety-years Of age.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29
COTTON AND FROST.
Gov. Hampton Said to Have subserib-
cd to CaIhoun's Dietum.

Gov. Hampton Said to Have Subserib-
cd to caIhoun's Diotum.
A correspondent writes to the Char
lotte Observer: Some days ago, par
ty of Mississippi and Louisiana cotton
planters at the Hot Springs, N. c., ho-
tel were discussing the cotton problem
of the south and whether the agita-
tion about raising the staple in Africa
would ever seriously affect the markets
of the world. A successful planter
from Texas parish, in Louisiana,
thought that Africa could not make
any material increase in the yield, for,
said he, John C. Calhoun and Gen.
Hampton were both Of the opinion
that cotton could not be produced
where the frost never fell, and I agree
with them that frost is necessary to
prepare the conditions for a healthy
cotton growth" Continuing, he said
that the sugar lands Of Louisiana
were the richest in the south, and yet
they could not successfully grow cot
ton. The question about frost and
fruition Of the plant was new one to
most Of the listeners and they did not
combat the assertion.
A very large and wealthy sugar
planter from New Orleans, and who
now Is also the owner of extensive
tracts Of land in Cuba, on being told
Of the discussion, attached but little
Importance to the proposition about
the fall Of frost. On one Of his plan
tations, Cuba, was a cotton tree sever
al years old. and the women had been
gathering the cotton for domestic use
as they needed it. On another plan
tation in Cuba, he had successfully
raised some sea island cotton and sent
1t to New York to a broker who pro-
nounced it worth 28 cents a pound
He had only, however, tried the expert
ment for one year. He said the rea-
the loamy sugar lands Of Louisiana
was because the worms and bugs seri-
ously interferred with the growth Of
the plant.
The Texas planter in this connec-
tion interposed a pertinent question
which yet remains unanswered: If
Cuba Is such a fine cotton country,
why was cotton not raised there dur
ing the four years Of the civil war,
when cotton was worth 81 pound?"
A Yazoo, Miss, planter volunteered
the statement that Mexico had grown
some cotton during the war, but could
In no way compete with the south, on
account Of the fact, as he believed
that there was insufficient frost to ar
rest the rank vegetation and bring
about a maturing Of the plant.
There seemed to be wide variance
Of views about this cotton and frost
question. A large commission mer-
chant from New Orleans, and one we'll
acquainted with the farming interests
Of his section, said that as sugar maxi
ing was no longer profitable, and had
but little future prospects in Louis
lana, he knew. personally Of a number
of sugar planters who had gone to
raising cotton in the sugar parishes,
and that cotton was looking exceedingly
we'll One friend had 200 acres and
another $50 acres Of as fine cotton as
could be found. The frost did not fall
there.
What about the cotton Of Egypt,
and does the frost fall in Egypt?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

"Jest want one thing more" said the
old man, IAN I can't make out whether
it's a sin or not. want to face Per
kins an Abe Tompkins. I'd give my
right arm to meet 'em an watch Their
faces when they heer about the rail-
road an the price yore pas land
fetched"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

SJ A French savant points out that
spiders webs improve the acoustic
properties of a room. He says he knew
in England hall that was ideal for the
conveyance Of sound. In an evil mo-
ment it was decided to clean the CELL
ings, and all the spiders were dislodged.
The hall was ruined as place for
speaking. The savant suggests that
cotton strings might be hung loosely
across ceilings to improve the sound
carrying properties Of the room.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

PROVIDENCE 1NTERvENED.-One OF
the most miraculous escapes from
death which ever occurred in this part
of the world happened this week at a
farm a few miles from Raleigh. Near
an old country barn stood a great oak,
which had died, but so recently that
it's withered leaves still furnished some
shade. In the porch Of the house sat
a mother while a little Negro nurse
rolled the mothers pretty baby back
and forth under the shade Of the shell
tering tree. Suddenly as the nurse
sang and the baby cooed, the tree fell,
burying in its wreck Of branches, child,
nurse and carriage. One big limb
pinned the girl to the earth by her
dress, but she was unhurt. Right and
left of the carriage big limbs were
broken off and driven deep into the
ground, while under sort of arch they
made was the baby in the carriage,
not in the least injured. The baby
was actually laughing.-F. A Olds, in
Charlotte Observer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-29

II The gold mined In Mexico Is now
approximately s25,000,000 annually.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-11-21
3S%S =
ALICE Of OLD /
VINCENNES
By MAURICE THOMPSON
Copyright i'OO by n. BOWENAkRmL COMPANY
Copyright 1905. by n. BOWENAERR1LL COMPANY

BY MAURICE THOMPSON

De ample space ror the dancers. Merry
groups lowered around the flaming
logs, while within the house a fiddle
sang its simple and ravishing tunes.
Everybody talked and laughed; it was
a lively racket Of clashing voices and
rhythmical feet
When the Roussillon party arrived 1,
attracted condensed attention. Its i'm.
portance, naturally OF the greatest in
the assembled popular mind, was en-
banced-as mathematicians would say,
to the nth poverty the gown Of Alice.
1t was resplendent indeed In the sim
pie, unaccustomed eyes upon which Il
flashed with a bun silken glory. Ma.
irons stared at II, maidens gazed with
fascinated and jealous vision, men
young and old let their eyes take fun
liberty. 1t was as IL a queen. arrayed
In n robe Of state, had entered that
dingy log edifice, an apparition OF daz-
zling and awe inspiring beauty. The
dancers swung together and stopped in
confusion. But she, fortified by n
woman's strongest bulwark, the sense
Of resplendency, appeared quite uncon.
scious Of herself
Little Adrienne, hanging in blissful
delight upon Rene's strong arm, felt
the stir of excitement and wondered
what was the matter, being too short to
see over the heads Of those around her.
what is It? What is it?" she cried,
tiptoeing and tugging at her compan-
ions sleeve. Tell me, Rene; tell me.
say"
Rene was gazing In dumb admiration
into which there swept powerful
anger, like breath OF fame. He recol-