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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
PRESS ASSOCIATION
TO TEST LIBEL Law
Members OF the Organization
in Favor Of Getting Case
Through the Courts.
NEWS FROM OVER STATE
Postmastyer at Canton Tenders His
Resisnation-Serious Loss Near
Volsa From Fire Set by
Engine.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 29.-The
South Dakota Press association has
taken the necessary steps to test the
South Dakota libel law, especially with
reference to the provision which it is
said permits suits against newspaper
publishers for criminal libel to be in
stituted in any county in which the is
sue containing the alleged libel cir
culates.
Clate r. Tinan. president of the South
Dakota Press association. while in
Sioux Falls. announced that E. p.
Wanzer, an attorney of Armour, had
virtually been engaged to represent the
press association in the matter Of the
libel suit instituted in the state circuit
court for this (Minnehaha) county,
against Thomas w. Taubman, editor OF
the Plankinton Herald, by +. L. Stew
ems, formerly banker at Plankinton,
but now resident of Minneapolis.
A postal card vote by the members
of the association on the question was
recently secured by President Tinan.
He received an aggregate of 101 replies.
OF these, 81 We're emphatically in favor
of the association appropriating money
from its treasury for the purpose Of
getting test case through the courts,
to determine whether or not a member
of the association was subject to a
paper circulates, or solely in the county
where his paper is published. Eight
members of the association We're op-
posed to appropriating money for the
purpose from the treasury of the Or
ganization.
The others who We're polled favor
the law being amended. but are willing
the Taubman case shall be carried to
the state supreme court. The general
sentiment of the members was opposed
to money being appropriated for the
defense of any MEMBER who might
get into trouble. fearing it might es-
tabIish bad precedent, but the present
case was regarded as an exceptional
one and of vital interest to every mem
Der of the association and newspaper
men in general.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
MURDER AT slssEToN.
Man Named Hanson Pounded to Deatl,
as He Slept.

ssseton, S. d.. Sept. 1.-The coroncr's
jury in the l.. NJ Hanson murder case
returned Il verdict of murder frors. a blow
on the head from the hands OF William
Fitzpatrick This ends the first chapter
of the most brutal crime ever committed
in this county.
On Tuesday night Hanson, the murdered
man, was found lying asleep on a bed in
y room adjoining candy store conducted
by Mrs. Fitzpatrick. Two little girls who
first saw MIN ran upon the street and told
their brother that drunken man was in
TIE house asleep upon the bed
The brother, instead of notifying the
police hunted up friend, Arthur Jour-
dtip, who went with him to the house
accompanied by the two girls. On enter
ing young Fitzpatrick lit light and hand
ing it to Jourdan, pulled off his coat aud
began to pound the sleeping man over the
head. He then pulled Hanson into the
alley and notified the police that he had
fixed a drunken Norwegian
TIE police went to the spot, and with
the assistance of the two boys who COM
mtted the crime, took Hanson to the sta
tion and called a doctor In the morning
Hanson was taken 10 the hotel where he
died
Fitzpatrick and Jourdain are lodged in
the county Jail to await trial. Citizens
are much exercised over the affair. and
but little sympathy is expressed for the
prisoners. The murdered man recently
fell heir to an estate of $4,000 and owned
a good farm and country store and as
far as known here was a respected citizen.
He leaves wife and several small chill
dren.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
Nebraska Crop Conditions.

Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. 1.-The Nebraska
weather and crop bureau says:
The past week has been warm. with
an excess of sunshine and generally a
Slight deficiency in rainfall. The mean
daily temperature averaged 2 degrees
above normal in western and northern
counties and just normal in southeast
ern.
Practically all of the rain of the
week occurred in general showers Sun
day afternoon and night The amount
was quite generally about or slightly
more than half an inch but in a few
places it exceeded an inch.
The dry, clear weather of the past
Week allowed rapid progress to be made
with having, threshing and plowing.
All farm work is unusually we'll ad
vanced for this season of the wear.
Stack threshing has progressed rapidly.
large proportion of the prairie hay
has been secured in unusually good
condition.
Corn has made very satisfactory
progress during tha week. The early
planted corn is maturing with gener-
ally promise of a good crop. Late
corn has suffered some from dry
weather and will require two to three
weeks without frost to mature
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
FARMERS ALL RAISE
MORE WINTER WHEAT
Are Advocating the Experiment
as a Substitute for the
Spring Variety.
TESTS HAVE MADE GOOD
One Farmer Near Vermillion Had
Planted 81 Acres of Winter Wheat
M!,;ch Yielded Average of
4aia Bushels.

Sioux Falls. S. D.. Sept. 1.-The
farmers of South Dakota, owing to the
injury by rust 20 the wheat fields of
the state. are earnestly considering the
advisability of embarking more gener-
ally in the RAISING of winter wheat as
a substitute for the spring variety.
Those few farmers who experimental
this season with winter wheat are so
we'll pleased with results that predic-
tionS are made that it is only a ques-
tion OF time until South Dakota will
be ciassed as a winter wheat state.
j. II. Summers. travelling representa-
tive of a local farm machinery and
vehicle house, reports that while he
was ut Nermilion recently a farmer
living near that place marketed his
winter wheat crop. From eighty-one
acres he received an average of forty
three and one-half bushels per acre.
The wheat gas marketed at a time
when the price was high. and the
farmer received $l03 per bushel for
the crop.
IN anticipation of the farmers sub
stitutfmg winter wheat for that of the
spring variety, the Great Northern I'M
plenent company OF this city has just
shipped in the first carload of winter
wheat drills ever brought to Sioux
Fails or South Dakota. Heretofore the
local houses have handled these ma
chiues only in small quantities. a full
carload never having been shipped into
the state until this time.
The farmers of the state have studied
the question sufficiently to know that
winter wheat must be put in with
drill, instead OF being sown like spring
wheat, or il will freeze out
Experiments have shown that winter
wheat which is drilled in between the
rows of standing corn does much better
than that put in on wheat oats, barley
OF other small grain stubble. When
the corn stalks are cut, the part that
remains in the ground holds the snow
and forms protection for the wheat
during the severe cold of winter.
Authorities agree that i'm this latitude
winter wheat does best if drilled into
the ground the latter part of August or
fore part OF September
1t has also been shown by eXperi-
ments made by South Dakota farmers
that winter wheat drilled i'm on small
grain stubble will yield only from fif-
teen to twenty bushels per acre, while
that drilled in on corn fields will yield
as much as forty bushels per acre or
over. The use of corn fields for winter
wheat also makes rotation in crop
which cannot help but preserve the
soil
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
NO 200" FOR THEM.
Canada Doesn't Fancy Being Annexed
as Tail to the New York
Aristocracy's Kite

Montreal. Que, Sept. 1.-The Sunday
Sun. the only English Sunday paper in
canada, says:
\"Those who prate about the duke of
Marlborough being one whose appoint
ment as governor general would be espe-
cially popular in Canada because he Is
married to an American lady. do not know
enough about Canada to keep them awake
of nights. The very fsct that his grace
has married a wife from the neighborins
republic will make him a less satisfactory
person to occupy Rideau hall than if he
were perfect stranger to this continent
To speak frankly, Canadians do not
want to be patronized by their friends
over the border. Perhaps courtesy. which
is often misunderstood, prevents our
speaking more emphatically upon this
subject If his grace of Marlborough
should visit Canada he will be sure OF a
most cordial welcome. AT the same time.
Canada does not want to have the vice
regal chair of this country made an annex
to New Yorks 400 or be patron:zed by
the Vanderblts. Perhaps others Will not
care to say this quite so bluntly, but
many think it,"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
Loss is Not Great.

Denver. Aug. 3o.-Depositors of the
defunct Fidelity Savings association
will probably realize between SIS and 95
cents on the dollar, according to the
estimates of Receiver r. H. Malone,
made today after reading the report of
the appraisers appointed by the court
to investigate the timber lands in Con-
cordia parish, Louisiana. to which the
association holds title
The appraisers value the lands at
$325,o0o. The lands represent to the FL
deity association an outlay of s214 900,
and there is a vender's lien of sl7l ,OOO
Receiver Malone is confident that the
associations assets will amount to
nearly 100000, the liabilities aggre-
eating s790,000 1t is the purpose of the
receiver to raise loan of s25OCO0 to
pay off the mortgage on the timber
lands and other pressing claims.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
LIGHT ON THE RUST QUESTION.
College Experiment Station Issues Bull
Ietin on the Disease,

Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 31.-The ex-
pertinent station of the South Dakota
Agricultural college at Brookings will
within Il few days issue Il press bull
letin upon wheat rusts that will be of
great interest to wheat growers, and
especially valuable at this time. The
bulletin describes the causes of the
disease, but is not able at this time
to suggest a sure preventive for the
trouble. or TO offer a cure for the rust,
which is caused by parasitic growth.
The bulletin states that the prevalence
of rust this year does not in any way
affect the probabilities next year; that
the wheat crop may. next year be af-
fected with the disease or may not,
largely depending upon weather condi-
tions at the critical period. Treatment
of the seed wheat is held to be totally
ineffective as a preventive of rust, for
the reason that the disease affects the
plant stem aud not the seed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
PRISONER ESCAPES
FROM COUNTY JAIL
Young Criminal Charged With
Raising a Bill Eludes Wig
ilance of Sheriff.
DnpHcIrc on,,oro pucr
PARASITE CAUSES RUST
Bulletin Issued From the Experimental
Station of the South Dakota
Agricultural College Throws
Light on the Disease.

Sioux Falls, S. d., Aug. 31.-As the
result of an attache of the sheriff's Of
flee in this city getting off his guard
for a moment, 7. H. Lawrence, who
was arrested some months ago by the
Cnited States authorities on the charge
of counterfeiting, made his escape from
the Minnehaha county Jail in this city.
Lawrence is about II years of age, of
light complexion, has blue eyes. brok
Ell nose. and is Very boyish in appear
ance. He is slim and weighs about 14O
pounds.
His offense consisted of raising a 81
bill to one of $40 denomination. He was
placed in the county Jail tor safe keep
ing pending action upon his case by a
United States grand jury, which will
convene at Deadwood next week.
1t appears he slipped into the corri-
dor of the Jail while meals were being
brought TO himself and other prisoners,
and hid in closet. and then when the
prison attache again returned with 9TH
er edibles made his escape from the
building. Not the slightest trace of
him can be found.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
WIRELESS MAKES GOOD
Japanese and Russians Prove 1t is In.
dispensible Adjunct in Naval
Warfare.

London, Aug. 31.-Wireless telegra.
ply has established itself as an indis-
pensabie adjunct to naval warfare. 1t
has proved invaluable to the japanese,
WHIP use it on all their warships. The
Russians also have made excellent use
of 1t, but with not so much success.
Wireless telegraphy played an inn
po1tant part in the engagement on
April 13, when the Petropavlovsll was
sunk. 1t was a wireless message from
a Japanese ship, Intercepted by the
Russian Nladivostok fleet. that enabled
the Gromoboi to sink two Japanese
Transports.
Again, wireless messages from Togo
warned kamimura of the escape of
the Port Arthur fleet.
Later the cruiser Tsushma. after its
flight with the Russian cruiser Novik,
was able 10 summon the cruiser Chi
tose 10 it's assistance.
The correspondent of the Times,
whose sdispatch boat. the Haiman, is
equipped with wireless telegraph in
struinents. gives an interesting record
of his experience with the system in
the present war
With wire mast 102 feet high he
has been able to transmit messages to
the land station at Wei Hal Wei from
distance Of from 100 to 210 miles at
sea. One message of 1000 words was
sent and received without bungled
word.
Received Fighting Messages.
The Times correspondent on the
Haiman always received both Russian
and Japanese messages, but as they
were in cipher he never understood
them, but they enabled him to estimate
the approximate distance of the vessels
of either belligerent.
One operator on the Haiman be-
came so expert that he could tell if a
Russian ship was at sea by listening
for the answering communication from
the shore. He could also detect wheth-
er Japanese messages We're being
transmitted by relay to the naval base
or whether Togos fleet itself was at
sea.
On April messages from Bundegi
island to Weihaiwei. $50 sea miles, were
sent and acknowledged.
During the engagement on April 13.
wherein the Petropavlovsk was sunk,
the Times boat did not use the wireless
till the battleships engaged With the
batteries. as it's use would have inter
fered with the wireless instrument on
both the Russian and Japanese war
ships. which the Haiman could hear
The Russians kept repeating the al
phabet over and over in order to queer
the japanese Instruments. The Times
correspondent believes that this fact
prevented Togo from coming up in time
to catch Makaroff outside
1t was only when the Russians
stopped the queering process in order to
receive message from the cruiser
Bryan that the Japanese decoy squad
ron was able to send it's message The
Haiman receiver took both the Japan
Hse and the Bavan messages.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
THOMAS coNDoN PARpoNED.
Governor Herreid Shows Mercy to
Hughes County Prisoner.

Pierre, S. D., Sept l,-Gioveanor Herrcid
has issued a pardon to Thomas Condon
who in 1900 was convicted in Hughes coun-
ty of assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill. His term would have en-
lired in January. 1906. The pardon was
unanimously recommended by the state
board of pardons aud by Judge Gaffy
The petition for pardon of Charles
Moody, sentenced from Sanborn county on
August %, 1901 for four years and SIN
months. on conviction for grand lar
ceny, was refused. Moody was convicted
of cattle stealing and his prison record is
not a good one.
FOR the first time since the law limiting
the annua! wolf bounty appropriation to
5000 was enacted the amount has been
oVerdrawn, and under the provisions of
the statute the 5000 annually appropri-
ated must be divided pro rata among the
holders of bounty certificates The total
amount asked for by certificate holders is
$S.lg8, and the appropriation distributed
among them pays them 81 cents on the
dollar of the full legal bounty.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
OVER ONE HUNDRED WELLS.
Edmunds County Has Abundance Of
the Remarkable Gushers.


Aberdeen. S. D., Aug. 31.-Edmunds
county is becoming one of the best wa
tered counties in the state, thanks to
the artesian we'll system. Real estate
men of that county report that over
140 artesian wells are now in active op
GRAFTON there and that three to five
week are being drilled. Some LOO foot
wells have been drilled in eighty-five
hours. Twenty or more farmers in the
county have made artificial ponds from
the surplus water from their wells, and
have stocked the ponds With fish from
the government fisheries. Wild ducks
have nested along the banks of these
lakes or ponds in large numbers. and
that sectiors of the state is fast becom-
ing a sportsman's paradise, due solely
to the artesian water supply and the
enterprise of the farmers.
The Aberdeen Coal company has let
the contract for sinking the shaft on
the recently discovered coal deposits
in the southern part of the county to
h. T. Davis of Loyalton, AN expert in
such work. The contract calls for the
completion of the shaft by october l.
Charles Abrams OF Houghton, while
in this city. made the charge that for
ty-two prairie chickens had been
shipped from that station by Aberdeen
hunters, whose names he gave. He aft
erward denied knowing the names of
the hunters. but the game warden is
investigating and arrests may follow.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
South Dakota as Fruit State.

Salem, S. D., Aug. 31.-South Dakota
is attracting attention as a fruit coun-
try, all fruit raised being of extra quail
ity. The big Hurley apple orchard with
Its thousands of bushels, takes the
lead, and there are lots of farmers over
the state this year who will gather
from 25 to 200 bushels of apples and
crabs. Joseph Gapp, Oscar Currier and
F. I. jackson of McCook county will
harvest from 100 to 200 bushels each.
w. D. Hillman of Miner county reports
that he will have about 125 bushels, and
p. A. Desmond and John Folkerts Of
Hanson county each have a heavy yield
of fine fruit. Tame grapes are also now
on the list of possibilities for this sec
tionsof the state.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
NEW BANK AT HARTFORD.
1t Will Be Established Soon in a Hand
Nau Rlool<

Hartford, S. D., Aug. S1.-w w.
Phillips of Sioux Falls has just pur-
chased fine corner lot on Main street
here and will erect fine brick or stone
building 6SxS0, two or three stories. A
new state bank will be established.
Reports are coming from different
parts Of the county that leaves, not
only of the maple variety, but others
are falling from the trees. All of them
are covered With sort of parasite
which saps the life of the leaf. Some
are simply small insects and others
seem to form a sort of net on the under
Sida nf no loaf
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
A COUP BY THE RUSSIANS.
Regiment Got in Japanese Rear ana
Did Fearful Execution

Mukden. Aug. 31-In the fighting Au-
gust 26 the One Hundred and Thirty
ninth Saraisk regiment, with a battery.
executed particularly successful
flanking movement on the Japanese ex-
treme right. The Russians, unper-
ceived, got in the rear of the Japanese,
whole columns of whom We're moved
down before they We're able to extricate
themselves. All eye witnesses agree in
admiring the fanatical bravery Of the
Japanese Many of the wounded com
mitted suicide rather than fall into the
hands of the Russians.
An additional detachment of 600 Rus
sian wounded was sent northward Sun
day
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
WILL NOT CALL IT OFF
Strikers in chicaso Are Weakening,
But Decline to Give Up
the Strunole

Chicago, Sept 1.-The executive
board of the butcher workmen, at
meeting today voted not to call off the
strike, but to continue the struggle un-
til the strikers are accorded an hon
orable adjustment" About 200 union
Workmen returned to the stock yards
this morning and were given work.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
BUY WAR STUFF IN AMERICA.
japanese Agents Said to Be Loading
Field Artillery and ShranneL

Fieio SFSilieTy ana Shrapnei.
Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 29.-There are
rumors here of secret expedition to
Japan with field artillery. Ammunition
is said to have been purchased through
japanese war emissaries from the Union
Metallic Cartridge company and the Amer
lean and British Manufacturing company
of this city.
Niscount Yataro Mishima and Shro
Tsuda. who represent themselves as
agents of Japan, came here today from
Fitchburs. Mass, where they are reported
to have purchased large quantity of
shrapnel she'll from the Putnam Machine
company of that place.
The story comes from Stratford Shore,
a town five miles north of here, to the
effect that a steamer capable of ocean
navigation has been seen at anchor in the
sound near that port. 1t is believed that
the expedition will start from here and
leave by way of Montauk point for Japan.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
Small Wreck Near Salem,

Salem, S. D., Aug. 29.-The north
bound passenger over the Chicago and
Northwestern ran into an open switch
in the Salem yards and crashed into the
engine of freight train. disabling both
engines The mail clerk was the only
person injured. he being thrown against
a glass door and receiving injuries on
the face. Relief engines We're sent
from Huron
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
SERIOUS Loss BY FIRE.
Spark From Threshins Engine Burns

Up Several Stacks of Grain.
volga, S. d., Aug. 29.-Two farmers
In this locality suffered heavy losses
by fire day or two since. While
threshing on the Andrew Lee farm four
miles southwest of town the outfit,
owned by James Reipma, caught fire
from a spark from the engine. and be-
fore the fire could be eXtinguished the
separator. three stacks of barley and
some other property was consumed.
Loss $l.500; no insurance.
Oslo township, together with its con-
tents, consisting of harness, grain
farm tools. etc, and fifteen tons of
hay, We're destroyed by fire. No insur-
ance. Children playing with matches
caused the fire.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
Oil Fields Fire Cannot Spread.

Crowley, La. Aug. 26.-The fire which
started in the Morse oil fields yesterday
is still burning, but cannot spread fur
ther. Oil is being burned worth s4OO
per hour. The loss by Saturday morn
Ing will amount to $780,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
Death oil John Cook.

Ethan, S. D., Sept. John Cook, for
many years farmer living west Of
this place. lately living in Mitchell.
died OF lung fever at his home on the
30th. Mr.. Cook is we'll known through
out the county. having served as sheriff
for two terms, from 1895 to 1899.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
BAD CROWD WITH CIRCUS
Police Will Be on the Lookout When
Barnum G. Bailey Appear Here
Sentember 10

Dubuque. Ia. Sept Lou Hart. a
colored employe of the Barnum & Bal
ley show, was killed by Smoky" Jones.
another colored employee. here last
night. The skull was crushed with a
tent stake
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
MAY QUIT THE TICKE:.
Rumor That Two Iowa Democratic
Candidates Will Refuse to

Des Moines. la, Sept. 1.-An indefi-
nate rumor is ailoat here that two
nominees on the democratic state ticket
have Withdrawn from the ticket No
accurate information can be gathered.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
100 PEOPLE PERISH.
Five Hundred More Are Rendered
Homeless by Great Fire in
Philippine

Manila, Aug. 29.-The city of BinanA
Letguna province. island of Luzon, was
destroyed by fire. One hundred per-
sons pershed and 500 We're rendered
aomeless. Loss, 5000, 900.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-02
JOHNSON IN MINNESOTA
Democrats of the North Star State
Will Name ST. Peter Man

state democratic convention met at
noon today it was settled that John A.
Johnson. editor of the ST. Peter Herald
and former state senator, would be
nominated for governor.