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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-01

COMEAN STATED ENT
NESS TRANSACTED IN TT
OF SOUTH DAKOTA DUR
YEAR.
Whole amount of premiums
received in Or from the State
of South Dakota during the
year
Amount paid for losses in
South Dakota during year.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-01
S14,217.os
1O4,O47.e0
1s2,e7e.6s

$3.559,O0S.0o
OF B(ISI-
HE STATH
RING THE
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-01

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
9TH day Of February. A. D. 1903.
(Seal.l CHAS. KAPPEL,
Notary Public, Richmond Co.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-01
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

Insurance Department.
I, H. c.. shober. Commissioner of In
surance IF the State of South Dakota, do
hereby certify thai the above is a true
copy of the original Statement now on
file at this office.
In witness whereof. 1 have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of this
office at Pierre, this 18th day OF Febru-
airy. 1903.
(SealJ II. c. SHOBER,
ConmiSsioner or Insurance
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

The average stenographer in these
days might as well be bookkeeper.
Loeb wasn't average; and he has had
luck. He soon became Bishop Doane's
secretary. When he was % he was
made official stenographer of the as
sembly; in session intervals he worked
as reporter for Albany papers.
1t was as reporter that Mr.. Roose-
Welt first saw Loeb in the fall of 1898
during the campaign that made him
governor of New York. In Albany Mr.
Loeb became the governors secretary.
He continued in that capacity during
the presidential campaign. II was i'm
perative; the president is not rich
man, but the public interest in his ca
reer brought in such an extra ordinary
amount of mail that the secretary was
an indispensable luxury"
Then came the shooting of Mr.. Nc
Kinley and his death. The experience
of Mr.. Cortelyou, his ability and pres
ence of mind, We're never better shown
than in that trying week in Buffalo.
The presidents secretary and Mr.
Root, secretary of war, together man
aged verything. 1t is now possible to
place Mr.. Cortelyou where his gifts
can be independently used. Mr.. Loeb
follows the line of promotion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

made by Mayor Van Wyck commission
er of police 1t was under him, a flesh
less skeleton of man supposed to issue
orders from his Office, that the big,
virile, foul-mouthed, corrupt, shrewd
Devery ruled the police of New York
for it's shame.
Murphy was famous. The Sun SAID
of him, dead, that 'few Irishmen haG
been more unremitting in their en-
deavors to bring disgrace upon their
country and their fellow countrymen."
Murphy was undes Indictment for D
larceny when the civil war broke out.
He enlisted, which was enough in those
days to put the Indictment to sleep. He
was dishonorably dismissed from the
army, the finding being approved by
Lincoln, Grant, Meade and Stanton.
Yet for almost 3Oyears he was an Office
holder in this city, where the worst
was known of -assemblyman,s state
senator, president of the board Of
health, and as such conspicuous in
''hold-ups'' of moneyed corporations,
and finally police commissioner and
endorser of the mighty and piquant
deviltry of Devery.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

slight elevation or some kind of a
mountain, and the point of the divide
where some of the waters run toward
the Mediterranean and some toward
the Atlantic has, an altitude of about
1000 feet.
A variety of vegetable life in the
desert is also reported, which, but for
the disorders and depredations of the
country, could and would sustain a
much larger population. Numerous
varieties of herbs and wood is spoken
of as being not uncommon; goats and
sheep We're seen grazing and other
animals were not infrequently report
ed. Water, also, is not as uncommon
US it is supposed; though at times it
is not to be found for great distances,
there are places where it rains and
where the water is permanent and
contains fish.
Another popular idea that is re-
futed isthat the Sahara is uninhabited
The desert is dotted with numerous
GASES, which are centers of permanent
population, the total being not far
from 100000 to 100000. But the
greatest obstacles in the way of
Saharan progress are the natives of
the desert, the Arabs and Berbers, and
chiefly those known under the name
of Tuaregs. They naturally antago-
nize Europeans, largely upon religion
grounds, and their predatory habits
and plundering proclisities are well
known.
To put an end, therefore, to the bar
barism of the whole country and de-
velop it, many Frenchmen advocate
the building of the Trans-Saharan rail-
road. Such a road, they declare, would
put an end to permanent local war
fare, it would check the Ara bian slave
trade, it would abolish the rule of the
fanatical Mahdis and among the most
important reasons it would bind the
French, colonies to the mother country
in most satisfactory manner.
JAMES BRISTOL GREENE.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

appeared as Johnny" Carroll, the
well-hated Tammany leader, who
earned opprobrium from most of the
"boys" by getting Mayor Van WycI
into the ice trust scandal. However
Mr.. Carroll has acquired something
like $2,000,0OO in politics and business
and Fan afford house among the
swells. He tore down the old Drown
stone front" on the lot and expended
something like 100000 in putting up q
siX-story american basement" in the
best style, spending some $7,400 upon
each front foot of his plot. 1t ought to
be fine house for that; and il is. Fine
enough, at any rate, SO that Mrs. Hunt
ington made repeated efforts to get
the place back again and has now
bought it for some 100000, repre-
sex ting pretty profit.
Another item: James Henry Smith.
"the silent man Of Wall street." has
bought part of the Hotel Langham site
for u private residence. 1t will cost
him probably $1,O0O,O00 for house and
land, for an INSIDE residence upon
SO feet of frontage.
The same silent millionaire wild
build on the west side OF Central park
a 100000 squash court" and gy1nna-
SUM. 1t will be for ladies' use in part
The old Knickerbocker Athletic club
gymnasium, scene of the Moline ux
plottings and later cause in part Of
Brewer Ballantine's failure, has been
sold for hotel for $55O,OOO Society
women were negotiating for it for "a
women's gymnasium. 1t is thought
that they will build another. The
purposes. but tits not enough.
The athletic woman is no! often long
in town, but when she is she must have
her exercise, if it does come high.
OWEN I,ANGDON.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

To past generations the great Sahara
desert always has been a barren waste
of sand, entirely worthless as a place
of residence and unfit for any com
mercial purposes. This popular belief
has been rudely shaken by the obser-
walton of M. Foureau, French explor-
er, recently published, of an expedition
headed by him, which made the trip
from Algeria to Lake Tchad, covering
between 1900 and 1,60O miles on the
journey and occupying almost 16
months.
The information gathered by NJ
Foureau is of especial interest to
france, as it is but few years ago
that an agreement wa s. made with Eng
land whereby the colonies of Algeria
Tunis, Senegal. French Guinea, the
Ivory Coast, Dahomey and the Congo
were united on their hinterland,
through the Sahara, into vast Afri-
can France, territorially some IS times
larger than the mother country.
France, therefore, has now practically
her most important colonies at her
door-the Mediterranean only inter-
vening-England's statesmen agree
ing in the popular belief at the time
that the Sahara was nothing but a
limitless sea of sand and entirely I'M
fit as connecting link between these
colonies. The criticism heaped on the
English officials by the press of that
country at the time seems, from a
British standpoint, to be entirely de-
served.
The exploring party endured many
| dangers and hardships before accom-
plishing their journey, but the data
they have furnished. substantiated by
photographs, have dispelled the popu-
lar idea regarding the desert. The rec
ords and illustrations show predom-
nance of high ground, many high
ridges and plateaus, large quantities
of quartz and granite rocks and i'm
pressive gorges and canyons. Almost
all of the photographs show some
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04
THE PIGEON HOST CORES IN THE GERMAN ARMY.

Photography was pressed into the sery-
Use of this pigeon post, the messages
being photographed on minute films of
collodion, which were SO light that a
single bird could carry 10000 words.
1t was calculated that if all the mes
sages carried by pigeons during the
siege had been written out in ordinary
handwriting, they would have filled 500
good-siZed volumes.
At the present time Germany is far
beyond other countries in the military
use of pigeons. There is big loft
at Cologne of about 400 or 600 pigeons,
which is in direct communication with
Berlin and there are similar lofts at
all the big fortresses. 1t is generally
reckcned that 200 birds are needed for
one section--that is to say, for birds
required to fly in one direction only
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

40 per cent. on the capital invested,
and yet the highest price the clerk at
the desk ever receives from one person
for nights lodging is 25 cents, while
the great majority pay but from 10 to
Is cents.
In the levee district of the South
side there is so-culled hotel where
the prevailing price for bed is but
five cents, yet its proprietor lives on
one of the finest boulevards i'll the
city, in fine home upon whichihe pays
the taxes, and which this five-cent lodg-
ing house has paid for. The guests at
his hotel lie in rows on the floor with
dirty comfort for covering.
One of the most peculiar of the
city's lodging houses is patrcnized by
the lake sailors, and its beds consist
of hammocis, for each of which a
nightly charge of ten cents is made.
During the summer season there are
comparatively few fresh water sail
ors who sleep in hammocks, but in the
winter this particular lodging house,
kept by an old manof-wars man, is
patronized by hundreds of them, and
out of it the host has amassed quite
a snug fortune, though he sleeps in one
of his own hammocks in the room with
his guests.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

Torrance was that of four military
pigeons which flew from Lisbon to
Paris-a distance OF 900 miles.
The Germans have greatly improved
the training of the birds. The men
carry them on the march for many
miles, so that they be used in ctuaI
warfare for carrying messages from
the advance guard back to the base
The pigeons are carried by mounted
men in a kind of breast pocket, while
the men are also equipped with a fold
ing tield-cage. This cage is used when
the birds need to be fed, or to give them
Il rest, ana can afterwards be folded
up and carried on the back. The men
grow very fond of their charges, and
the birds in their turn become very
attached to their military masters,
MAY OWEN.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04
USE OF THE PIGEON POST
1t Has Proven OF Great Value in Time
OF Mar-In Use in the German Army

Though pigeon post was established
at Ladysmith during the siege, there
vas no military pigeon establishment
IN South Africa, and the birds were pri-
waite property. Neither England nor
the United States have taken up
pigeons for postal service, but nearly
every European nation has realized the
usefulness of the birds. Germany, Aus
tria, France, Russia, Italy and Portugal
have their military pigeon posts. 1t
was the Franco-German war that first
opened the eyes of military authori-
ties to the possibilities of this method
of sending messages. During the siege
of Paris no fewer than 100000 official
dispatches were sent by pigeon post,
as well as 100000 private messages
and 100000 francs in postal orders.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

as uduy- lilleS VI
asphalted streets as are to be found in
indianapolis and Washington. Observ-
ers say that there are in use on ready
for use in Chicago not more than 20
per cent. of the number of wheels that
were in evidence when the League of
American Wheelmen had run its MEM
bership up to the 100000 mark.
Recently in making repairs on big
highway the city officials took up and
destroyed costly asphalt strip that
had been put down to satisfy the thou
sands Of wheelmen. with that strip
went the last vestige of the street inn
provements made to catch the cyclist
VOTE" remarked Il politician. '"rhe
courts have decided that the rider of
the wheel must take his chances on the
highways with those who guide other
vehicles, and as a man nowadays only
uses wheel as he would his automo-
bile, buggy or light wagon, to get from
place to place with rapidity, we look
for no more specia! privileges to the
wheel riding classes"
Although Chicago is no longer
paradise for Wheels" as it. was once
called, the factories annually turn out
very large number of machines, built
on close margins, for the trade of the
country, which apparentlyhas suffered
little diminution.
WRIGHT A PATTERSON. /,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04
Archbishop Quigley

Archbishop Gulgley. Alter days OIL pa
tient labor he settled tso satisfactorily
that there has never since that time
arisen the least sign of disturbance or
grievance on either the part of employ
us or employees.
At Buffalo Bishop Quigley was recog-
nized as the arch enemy of social de-
mocray. Organized labor has few, if
any, better friends than he, but he
does not believe social democracy
should, be allowed place in labor's
ranks.
Though one of the most ardent Cath
olics this country has ever produced,
yet Bishop Quigiey numbers among his
warmest friends practically every Pro-
testant minister of Buffalo. While liv-
ing there he met with them in their
gatherings, he visited them at their
homes, and they, in turn, We're always
welcome at his home. This friendship
with the ministers of Protestant de-
nominations began when as priest
Bishop Quigley took charge of his first
parish. 1t was in Attica, N. Y. The
Catholics and Methodists were the two
denominations represented by churches
in the town. Both were miniature
places of worship, both congregations
were poor, and both pastors had to
care for their own churches, clean
them, heat them, and prepare the fuel
with which they We're heated. They
cut the wood together, and divided it
after it was ready for the stove. The
act is typical of the new archbishop of
Chicago. He is too big to be narrow,
too broad-minded to be guilty of re-
ligious intolerance.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

and an additional $50 birds for each
new section. Thus loft of 500 pigeons
is necessary for communication in
three directions. In the case of siege,
and allowing for accidents, military au-
thorities regard an establishment of
200 pigeons as sufficient to keep up
communication with the outside world
for six months. The number of pige ons
tossed" for each message would be
three, and this would allow for two
messagesa week for 26 weeks. tits the
general opinion of most military au-
thorities that 100 miles should be about
the limit of distance which bird
should be called upon to fly; but in
clear weather pigeons'have been known
to cover 200 miles at the rate of nearly
80 miles an hour. y noteworthy per-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

doubt If there is any which has about
it so much of the old aspect, old names,
old surroundings.
The church stands at the head of a
lane that, presently Strengthening out
and becoming fine wide boulevard,
is known as Bushwick avenue. "Bos-
Wyck' was one of the early Dutch set
Elements that fringed the nearer water
ways about Manhattan. 1t stood Just
at the head of Boswick creek.
Here are. the strange features: The
church building is fairly new-half a
century or so. In the yard, now used
as a Sunday school building, is the
town hall or session house of the Bos-
wyck settlement. 1t is of the same age
built in 1858. Town, church, farming
settlement, all started together.
About the church live more than a
dozen families that date back to its
foundation or very soon thereafter.
Less than mile away is the Suydam
house, Scared by British soldiers DUR
ing the revolution. 1t is but short
time since Adrian NJ Suydam died on
the land his forbears had owned for
sevengenerations, in the house they had
occupied for four. The Meekers, Cou-
enhovens, Van Dusens, Van Voorsts
still own their farms in the lowlands
leading down to the creek. Their long
rooted, low-browed houses line the way
at one point on Flushing avenue, itself
named for the Dutch Vlissingen.
ic,o G al !
centenarians, but the comfortably old;
like Mrs. van Camper, 81; Miss Cecilia
Worden, 81, and her young sister Jo-
hanna, rs; Mrs. Banta, Sc; Mrs. van
Worst, 81; Mrs. van Dusen, IS. These
and others almost as long in the land
i've amid the acres used by their an
cestors. in many cases under the same
roofs.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

COlullleTco u e :
partment. Less is
known of the
young man who
takes his place as
t h e presidents
secretary.
William Loeb,
Jr., was born in
Albany of the
humblest parent
age 80 years ago.
He became as a
mere boy a stenog-
rapher. 1t is the
m o S t thankless
task in the world.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

1uleS lo1 JouHS Id
dies; number of orphan and infant
asylums, industrial schools, day nur-
series, boys homes, etc. Altogether
nearly $4,000 children are brought di-
rectly under Catholic care in these vari-
Gus institutions every day. To this i'm
and bishops.
When in 1914 the first Catholic bish-
op of Chicago was appointed, and on
May 5 of that year reached Chicago
after journey of II days from New
York, he found but one small church
So, and which wasI then uncompleted.
and less than 200 Catholic families to
administer to. efgures given above
represent growth of SO years, and
during that SO years the church in Chi
cago suffered heavily from the destruc-
ton of the city by fire, the property
loss of the church at that time amount
ing to more than $1,000,000.
Rev. William Quarter was the first
Catholic bishop of Chicago, and was
consecrated in Baltimore on March 10,
1914, after which he made the journey
to Chicego by way of New York. The
archdiocese in Chicago was created in
1880 with Archbishop Feehan as the
first archbishop. At that time the
church numbered $4,000 communt-
cants. Archbishop Feehan died last
year, and left his successor the care of
1 O0n ntS n fif viii h
but little more than 100000 people.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

began his work as
the head of the
Catholic church in
this C t y, h a S
achieved, national
fame as an arbi-
traitor of labor dis
putes. In 1899,
while bishop o f
Buffalo, it fell to
his lot to be called
upon to settle one
of the most bit
ter strikes t h e
the country ever
knew that o +
the longshoremen.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

end. The men who
formerly promot-
ed the road events
in which nearly
800 cyclists used
to compete for the
list of prizes as
long as a jobbers
roster of customs
ers, have, come to
the decision that
the wheel in the
big city will never
again be so gener-
ally used as it was
several seasons
ago until the mu-
llicipality $ uc-
ceed.s in making
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

q shriveled atomy of 9spounds.
Murphy WAS man of "withouts."
His most conspicuous lack in recent
years was stomach; rare operatio
aad been performed upon him, entire
y removing that organ For years
ue had been fed through tube. Only
liquid food was possible; his meals
dad constantly to be repeated. Yet the
man enjoyed life, clung to it to the
ast; and, marvellous to relate, was
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

the light for a
law that will regulate this nuisance
into the state legislature, and are
meeting with determined opposition.
No other city in America is so dis
figured by billboards as Chicago. The
immense wooden signs occupy vacant
lots everywhere throughout the city.
The boulevards are fairly lined with
them, and the owners of abutting prop
erty seem powerless to prevent their
erection.
For two years the high fence sur
rounding the new post office served as
an immense billboard, on which were
advertised almost every imaginable
commodity. That fence proved ver-
liable gold mine to those who con-
trolled it during that time.
The billboard, like many other
things, was imported to New York
from Chicago. The beautiful palisades
of the Hudson, just above New York
city, had been kept clear of this form
of Disagreement until the advent in
that city of a firm of Chicago mer-
chants. They did business in the typi-
cal Chicago way, without regard to
New Works precedent, and they found
a way to display their mammoth and
unsightly signs where others had never
attempted to go. To-day the only
thing that mars the beauty of the
palisades of the Hudson are the un-
slightly signs Of this firm of Chicago
merchants.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

finds a little corner
where time stands
still withal. There
is such a corner in
this city.
Within a few days
the old Bushwick
church of Dutch
Reformed faith,
will celebrate it's
two hundred and
fftieth ami v e T.
sary. There. may
be in the whole
country a dozen
church organiza-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

tells of Chicago
make Il III UGH
smaller p G Fl t
than the ten-t ent
lodging house. Ev-
cry winter pro YES
a harvest for This
class of hosteirN
and the one. Just
closing has been
no exception TO
the general TT lie.
The winter seas ON
brings to the CITY
a heavy floating
population, wsl o
seek the lodging
house as t,ne
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

pflSeS more than
10000 S q Il a I e
miles, a n d i n
cludes not only
Chicago, but the
entire north e r n
section o + t h e
state. In Chicago
alone the church
C | a i m s 100000
commune a n t S;
252 churches with
resident prizes in
addition to so mis-
sions and chapels;
166 pa + o C h i a |
schools, eight col
leges' and acade-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

from the masons'
trowcls.
Mrs. Coils P
Huntington has a
splendid Italian
palace at the cor
ner of Fifth ave
hue and Fifty-sev.
enth street. To
the eastward she
sold a little while
ago one lot of land
fronting upon the
side street. 1t is
supposed that she
W a S surprised
,ybon tho b11I,oy
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

known to no one,
a woman tremu-
lous and old and
red-e y e d w j t h
wee pi n G., w a S
present I o pa y
tribute to a man
not worth it. She
was Mrs. Murphy,
who had not seen
her husband for 80
years. She h a d
last looked upon
him as a giant of
$50 pounds, strong
and virile; she be-
Loll ~ r
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04

~ oNSs
Several We a r S
ago the old John
street Method S t
church, with it's
memories of Wes-
ley and the earli-
est Method i S t S,
celebrated it's CEN
tennial very re-
spectacle ant i q
uity for a Metho-
dist church.
The downtown
subway diggings'
have in more than