The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-08
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
FRIDAY. JANUARY 8, 1904.
UnJusrLv ATTACKS M'TcrELt

amJusrLy ATTACKS MITCHELL
notwithstanding Editor Mcleod
sas one of tue. hardest workers in the
last legislature for the capital re-
Aoval bill, he is doing his best,
Through the Aberdeen News, to
Rcison the minds of the people IN
the northern part of the state
x8ainsL Mitchell. And with a sim
aleress of purpose most ::reprehensi-
Bile, he isn't particular as to the
neans of bringing it about. In
Tuesdays Issue of the News.he in
PRODUCES his subject by referring to
what he terms 'ssneering illusions to
3 buffalo hunt to be held OF the
range west OF Pierre" which he says
are particularly out of place in the
columns of any newspaper in.the
northern:part OF the state and. very
Articularly so In Brown county,"
This bit Of good-natured ioshing. Of
Herre over the proposed buffalo hunt
did noe originate with Mitchell, and
IL the newspapers in the vicinity Of
Aberdeen have been using the same
arguments Editor Mcleod did to get
tho .resubmission bill thr0ugh,.he
should have no fault to find.
1.-THE same ~sneeEing illusions have
Aeen made time and again by the
ame parties,n continues the News,
ssto ali that vast and important ter
Eitory lying north of the limits of
Dawson. county, and then 1T goes
sn to explain that it a for this
reason 1t did mot circulate the Mitch
Ell corn palace supplements a year
ago and this yeaI::only In Aberdeen,
-sbeing unwilling to give tacit sane
tion to the egotism and misinforma-
don which the....suppiement con-
Aained"
1t has remained..for the News, in
it, blind jealousy OF dts southern
neighbor, to. discover q matter OF an
objectionable nature for state wide
circulation in the corn palace sup
plements. Not one Of the %..newspap-
ers of the state who refused to cir
culate these supplements brought
this charge aEainst them, while sew
eenty- five newspapers circulated TO-
900 OF them. There was not a line
in the corn palace supplements this
year or last to which any rsasonable
man could object-no matter where
his location or vocation. The write
up OF the state was that comp1eben-
%siye.-and wide in its application that
the Pierre Capital-Jonrnal published
She introductory of over a column
under the mistaken idea that it was
original with the Argus-Leader-
which newspaper took it from. the
supplements published by itself a
few weeks previous. In the fifteen
hundred words Of that part of the
supplement to winch the News OBJ.
jects less than two hundred were given
to the corn palace and Mitchell-and
shat but to I'll out the space-and
none but one possessed with a morbid
desire to injure Mitchell and its en-
terprises could find an objectional
word In any Of it.
The News says that ttis years
corn palace supplement- referred to
Aberdeen at the extreme northern
point at which corn could be raised
successfully "the acme Of successful
corn culture being at Mitchell, o:
course, while the fact is that Grant
county, north of Aberdeen, is a great
corn producer" 1t is not of great
Importance that Grant county hap.
pens to lie south of Aberdeen instead
OF north of 1T. Rut 1t is of import
ance that the News is wiufully try
ing to prejudice its readers. The OBJ.
jectionable excerpt from the corn
palace supplements was taken yerbat-
i'm from a folder issued this year by
the O. M. s. st. Paul road:...in the
special interests OF South Dakota and
with no reference or %favoritism tc
any part OF 1t. What the supplement
cid say was this:
1t vas not believed that corn could
be 1aisdd successfully, and..fruit Gull
tnre was not thought of until a few
years ago Land offered at prices
from 50 so to $500 an acre was a drug
on the market. The same land is now
selling from $50 to 500 ar acre.
Now corn lis successfully grown as