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THE KENTUCKY VOLCANO
Proves to Have Been a Moonshine Still,
Located on Top Of Sugar
Loaf Mountain.

Moorehead, KY, JAM. 16.-An allase
volcano in the mountains of Rowan coun.
ty Is nothing more than a moonshine still,
and the mountaineers are greatly amused
at the scare that has been made over. it
by the outside world. Morton Clark, a
noted moonshiner. who has had a still Cor
years at the foot of Sugar Loaf mountain,
having been broken up some time since
by the revenue officials, concluded to To-
cate his still under this ridge. which is
some four miles from Sugar Loaf noun
tain. He etnered a mall stream from
the valley below and found that there
was a cave from which the creek issued.
He found that the "fissure" extended
straight up to the top Of the ridge, acting
nicely for a chimney. When the atten-
ton of the country was directed to the
mountain and the curious began to flock
to the place and watch the smoke issue
from the %crevasse. he drew his fires and
ioined the crowd in wondering what 1t
meant, but yesterday he told a friend the
secret Of the volcano"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
NEW A ORDINANCE
Chicago Council Passes One After al
All Niaht Session.

Chicago. Jan. 21.-The city council
after an all night session passed TIL
theater building ordinance. The rel
suit is much more stringent measured
than a been prepared by the special
committee on theaters. The mattel
of when the theaters will be allowed I'd
reopen will be acted upon by the coun!
Gil tonight.
The most important matters settled
in the ordinance are:
In nontireproof buildings the Lowest
bank of seats annot be higher than
the street level. In fireproof theaters
they cannot be more than 10 feet above
the level. No gallery seats can have q
rise of more than IS inches between
rows of seats.
Cross-aisles must be provided foi
every fifteen rows of seats on the
ground floor and every nine rows il
the balconies or galleries. These
cross-aisles must run directly to exits
In h rear of all the banks of seats
ing directly to fir~e-escapes or eme1,-
gency exits.
Other Amendments.
Other amendments. some to cure
verbal mistakes and others to change
the ordinance In smaller particulars
We're adopted, but the temper of the
council was to make the measure more
stringent, ana InOSe winch passed Were
all in that direction.
Chief of Police O'Neill testified al
the Iroquois inquest today that while
the law requires a license to be pro-
cured by theaters before giving a per-
Torrance, it was not under the juris-
diction of his department to see that
the license was 80 procured.
Building Commissioner Williams told
of a conference with the mayor and
heads of departments in which he was
told to cut down expenses as much us
possible in every direction.
Theater managers take extremely
pessimistic views of the situation Great.
ed by the action of the city council
which has finally adopted a stringent
theater law. Announcement is made
today at nearly every playhouse that
under the new ordinance there is nc
hope of continuing in business. The
retroactive provisions of the measur
put the older theaters beyond hope OF
again opening their doors. In the
modern theaters the Improvements anl
alterations required will make it i'm.
possible, managers say, to operate Will
profit. Without galleries it is claimed
no theater in Chicago can more than
DAY expenses.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
DEEPEN MISSISSIPPI.
Proposal for a six-Foot Channel
Low Water, st. Paul to Cairo.
Is Made.

Washington, Jan. 2O.-A six-foor
channel in the Mississippi river at low
water from st. Paul and Minneapolis
to Cairo. a distance OF 1000 miles, Ia
be completed by the time the Panama
canal is put into operation. is the prof.
mittee on rivers and harbors today by
"a delegation consisting of Governor
Van SAINT of Minnesota, Ellis H. Usher
of Lacrosse, Captain Alonzo Bryson o4
Davenport, Frank Galenne of st. Louis
and Lewis b. Boswell OF Quincy. The
total cost is estimated at $4,000, 900.
Governor Van SAINT told the committee
fifty cities were directly Interested and
that $4,000, 900 people would be bene-
flied through assurance of river COM
petition in transportation. The COM
nittee o no action in the matter.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
WAS HUMAN BLOOD.
Biological Test, First Used in eechtet
Trial, Establishes important
Point.

Allentown, Pa, Jan. 2O.-In the t,1a,
of Mrs. Catherine BechteI, as access
sorry to the murder of her daughter
Mabel. DR.. John Lear, biological expert
in Muhlenberg college today testified
he had made three tests of the stains on
various articles found in the Bechtel
home, microscopic, chemical and biolo-
gical. He said this vas the first appli-
cation of the biological test in an Amer
lean court, although it been ac-
cepted as practical in all European
courts. In making his tests Professor
Lear said he used two rabbits, into
which he injected human blood. The
stains on the articles, he said. were
shown by all tests to he blood. but it
was only by the biological test that he
could determine that it was human
blood.
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GET SEVEN YEARS.
Four ouimby Bank Robbers Plead
Guilty and Take Their Mcdi-
cine at Cherokee.

Cherokee, Ia, JAM. 2O-The fon'
Quimby bank robbers pleaded guilty
here this afternoon and were sentenced
by Judge Wakefield TO seven years each
in the penitentiary.
The men. Abner Hicks. Elmer Dun-
ming. John Wicks and Charles White,
waived arraignment this afternoon and
pleaded guilty. 1t had been supposed
that Hicks and Dunning, the W.
caught near Sheldon with money
wrapped in Quimby bank papers. on
their person, would plead guilty, but
there was some surprise that the other
two should do SO. White and Weeks
We're captured in Kansas City.
The Quimby bank was robbie o.
$1,000 on the night of December 10.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
|SAYS EDUCATION
IS NEGROES CURSE
Such is the Keynote OF Gov,
ernor vardaman's 'naug-
uraI Address.
Hands NOT MIND
FOR Education of the Mind inspires
the Wish for Social Equality,
Which Is the Beginning of
the Criminal Path.

jackson, Miss, IAN. 21.-In his in
pugural address delivered today Gov
arnol Nardaman declared the growing
tendency OF the negro was to commit
;riminal assaults on white women was
nothing more nor less than the mani
lestation OF a racial desire for social
equality. In strong terms he declared
inat education is the curse of the negro
tace and urged amendment to the state
constitution hat will place the dis
trihution of the common school fund
solely within the power of the -legisla-
lare. The governor also declares the
.eopte of the nation should rise up and
amendment. Continuing the discussion
of the negro question he says:
AS a race he is deteriorating moral
" every day. Time has demonstrated
that he is more criminal as a free man
han as a slave. He is increasing
In ~criminality with frightful rapidly, be
ing one-third more criminal in 1890
than he was in 1880.
IIliteracy and Crime.
The startling facts revealed by the
census show hat those who can read
and write are more criminal than the
Nliterates; which is true of no other
element of our population. I am advised
hat the minimum of illiteracy among
negroes is found in New England,
where it is 21.7 per cent. The maximum
Is found in the black belt of Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina, where
1t is 65.T per cent; and yet the negro
In New England is four and one-half
lines more criminal, hundred for hun
Gred. than he is in the black belt. In
the south, in Mississippi particularly. L
know he is growing worse every year.
You can scarcely pick up a news
paper whose pages are not ~blackened
with accounts of an uncomfortable
irime committed by negro brutes. and
this crime, 1 Van to impress upon you,
Is but Il manifestation of the Negroes
aspiration for social equality, nco
aged largely by the character of free
education in vogue, which the state is
levying tribute upon the white people
20 maintain"
Remedies Proposed.
The better class of negroes is moi
responsible for his terrible condition
Flor for the criminal tendency of their
hace. Nor do I wish to b. understood
rs censuring them for it. / am not
sensuring anybody, nor am I inspired
by ill-will for the negro, but I am sim
ply calling attention to a most unfor-
tunate and uncomfortable condition of
affairs. What shall be done about it?
My own idea is hat the character
of education for the negro ought to be
changed. If after years of earnest eff
fort and expenditure of fabulous sums
of money to educate his head we have
only succeeded in making a criminal
out of him and imperiling his useful
ness and efficiency as a laborer, wisdom
would suggest that we make another
prove him by educating his hand and
his heart. This must be the moral sub
stratum upon which to build, or you
cannot max a desirable citizen"
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MArTERNI is WINNER.
He Defeats MacVicar in the Primarie
for Mayor of Des Moines.

Des Moines, Ia. Jan. 20.-The re-
publican primaries held here yes
terday for the purpose of Sc
lecting a candidate for mayor of
Des Moines resulted in a victory for
George Mattern against ex-mayor ohm
MacVicar. The result will give Mat
tern SO delegates against SO for Mac
Vicar.
MacVicar charges fraud and may
contest the nomination.
In the third precinct of the Sixth
ward a bold attempt resulted in the
stealing of tn ballots. Van Sittert. n
of he judges, emptied his revolver in
he direction of the ballot thieves. hgq
without result.
The Mattern men controlled the or
ganization and ex-Mayor MacVican
openely charged that the nomination
was stolen from him.
Several fights look place during tna
day.
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WANTS TO BE SENATOR.
1t is Said Bryan is Ambitious to Sue
ceedDietrich

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 21.-William Jen-
ninss Bryan wants the place in the
United States senate which Charles
II. Dietrich is to cave. The informa-
ton came today from Bryan's closest
friends, the leaders of the democratic
party in that state. Mr.. Bryan has not
expressed the wish publicly. An eff
fort to learn the details and scope OF
his plan met with the statement that
he must decline to discuss the sub
ject.
Possibly Mr.. Bryan wishes to seem
that his friends and not he are
o%riginators of the plan. 1t is sig
the state capitol the man closest to
him and most influential in the party
begins disseminating information that
energies must be directed to electine
u democratic legislature in order to
give Mr.. Bryan the senatorial toga.
The Chosen Issues.
The issues on which Mr.. Bryan will.
make his fight are two. Railway
taxation and domination and the kind
of republicanism Dietrich stands for.
The upheaval is at hand, say the demo-
1T possible in the present situation
brought about by the tyranny of the
railroads and the faint of the Dietrich
scandal to make both branches Of the
Legislature safely democratic.
1t has already been settled that the
democratic state convention will be
held in September. 1t has also been
settled that a delegation will be sent
to st. Louis with Bryan as chairman,
|indorsing Bryan and Organism the
same as in 1896.
1t is admitted that while there are
hopes of a situation in the convention
which will result in the nomination of
Mr.. Bryan, there is no such eXpecta-
ticn, and Mr.. Bryan wants the work
of recognizing in the state COM
menced as soc as the convention is
over, so that the democrats may carry
Lee Herdman, clerk Of the supreme
court, the highest salaried position in
the stae, and one of the most infuen-
tial men in the party, vouches for Mr..
Bryan's senatorial ambition.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
osfauit;nu Agent srouoht BACK

Sioux Falls, 8. D., Jan. O-John Wen
CERT, the Sioux Falls man who surrendered
himself TO the Kansas City authorities
= few days 8 after contrasting tina he
was . defaulter, IL expected to reach
sioux Falls the middle Of the week. w.
l.. Goebel. representing the Val Blatz
Brewing company. OF which Wengert has
been local agent during the past two
years, secured a warrant for Wengert's
arrest and Deputy Sheriff Crooks Is now
EN- route to Kansas City after the prison.
er. The officials OF the company still de-
cline to make public the amount of Wen
gert's shortage, but 1t Is believed it will
prove quite heavy. Wengert's father, who
is a wealthy retired brewer residing at
Independence. Ia, may, 1t is thought, aid
in getting his son out OF his present diff
Rcf11fv ff2e
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Louisiana Primaries.

New Orleans, Jan. 21.-'fhe first gen
eral primary ever held in Louisiana for
nomination of a full der ocratic state
ticket and members of the Legislature
is in progress today throughout the
state, with good weather generally pre-
vaillng and with promises of a heavy
vote. The opposing candidates for gov
fernor are eN-Judge N. c. Blanchard.
who represented Louisiana in
for many years, and General Leon Jas
tremski, consul to Peru under Mr..
Cleveland. Senator Murphy j.. Foster
and former Senator Frank b. Jones are
opposing each other for the nomina-
ton for United States senator. The
campaign has been in progress since
September and has been bitterly
OUGHT.
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100000 DESTITUTE.
Great Army of Unfortunates, Homeless
and Without Food, in Mace
donna.

Boston. Jan. 19.-The latest reports
to the American board from the relief
centers in Macedonia show that there
are now 100, 900 persons homeless, with
out means Of support for the winter.
The Turkish government Is affording
some relief. and funds are coming from
America and ENGLAND.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
FIRE AT SUNNY SLOPE.
stannard Farm Loses Eighty Thre
Head of It's Most Valuable Here
fords in Flames.
a expense

Emporia, Kan, Jan. 21.-Eighty-
three head of highbred Hereford cattle
burned to death today in a barn on the
Sunny Slope ranch, owned by &. a.
Stannard. Many of the cattle which
took the prizes ut the International
Stock show last fall We're bred from,
the animals that burned. The loss il
$3.50
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Mitehen Names cemmittse

Indianapolis. Ind, Jan. 19.-At the
opening of the convention of United
Mine Workers of America today, Presi-
lent Mitchell announced the standing
committees 1t was announced the Gre
iential committee would be able to re-
port probably tomorrow.
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Temporary injunction Granted.

Sioux Falls. S. D., Jan. 20.-A temparor,
injunction restraining the city authorities
from paying a warrant for $4,000 which
was recently authorized by the council to
be issued In aid of the construction of a
railroad from Sioux Falls to Madison, has
been granted by Judge Jones. Of the
state circuit court IN this city. Those
who procured the injunction contend that
Jones has fixed Saturday, January %, as
the date for the hearing to determine
whether the temporary injunction shall be
made permanent or be dissolved.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
THREE DEAD, TWO Dying
Collision Between Wild Freight Cars
and a Work Train at
Deor;a ~

Peoria, 5an. 2O.--A string of cars on
the Iowa Central broke away from 4
switch engine today and rushed dow
a hill at fearful speed, and collided witls
a work train just outside the city linn
it's. The dead:
ALLEN Z. HIRE.
PETER JOHNSON.
ALBERT SWARTZ.
They We're car repairers, all OF Peoria.
John Neil n e. H. Truman, botn of
Monmouth. section men. were probably
fatally injured.
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RUSSIA is SORE
Realize. That the United States ans
England Must Be Reekoned
With in the East,

New York, jan. 21.-A cable from st
Petersburg
England's pro-Japanese policy is
citSs1g the serious attention OF political
circles here. 1t is being realized full.
today that Russia has not to do Will
Japan SO much as with England, M
that h AnglO-Japanese alliance Is thu
bottom of all the present trouble, ane
h C is now loudly heard of the ut
terances Of those far-seeing poiticiani
who at the moment the Anglo-Japa'
neSe alliance was announced, pro
claimed that this political coup mean
a war against Russia, as destroying TIT
balance of power in the far east.
1t is urged by many politicians tina
the time has come for Russia to re
taliate for the pin prick policy of fin
land by a demonstration towards tn
Indian frontier, and also by agisres
sive political tactics in Persia. In dip
lomattc circles also, where indication
are eagerly sought as to how the poltt
ical straws are pointing, much inter
est is aroused concerning the very ba,
quarter of an hour the British am
bassador recently had when calling
upon Count Lamsdorff. The latter
reception of Sir Charles Scot was o
the most frigid order. This fully con
firms what I have now repeated,
drawn attention to. namely the intens'
irritation in the highest quarters
against England. The same angr,
sentiment is, however, today being eN'
tended freely toward America.
News Casts Down Hopes.
Telegrams from Washington an,
Toxic. published Monday morning, cas-
a wet blanket on the hopes raised here
1t is an open secret here that the Jap
anese reply is distinctly negative. am
that il is in an extremely courteous
tone, only equaled by the tirmness o
spirit Which characterizes 1t.
The foreign Office and all the prin
cipals are so engrossed in the mix tina
it is well night impossible TO get wore
from them, and the various agencies
for correspondence are treated to thu
stereotyped official phrases, such a:
that the reply is being carefully con
sidered." The fact it is being so con
sidered implies that diplomacy is Still
being used.
1t is stated hat their majesties AM
the ministers are not active. The car
advisors have been instructed to worl
"amour propre'' OF both countries cal
be saved; but complications and polit
ical entanglements seem beyond Tn
powers of anyone to find a solution.
The Game Is UP.
I find many taking the view that th'
game is up. The BIZ Viedomosti says
IF reports from Washington and from
the japanese ministers, to the effec
that the japanese reply to the Russiai
government contained an out-and-ou
refusal to entertain the proposals o
Russia, and further that the Japanes.
counter propositions are Unacceptable,
to Russia, are true, then it means war
But the stock exchange organ says
eve will not give way to peSSimiSn
until we are officially informed of III,
failure of negotiations"
A telegram printed this evening. say,
ing hat Admiral AleXieff had resolved
to remain at Port Arthur in case o
war, does not serve to restore conf
dence.
Report Is Deniec.
ST. Petersburg. Jan. 19.-There is n,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
AGENTS Are Named

Washington, Jan. 19.-The president
today sent to the senate the following
nominations:
Consul General-Fleming d. Ches.
hire of New York, at Mukden, China.
Consuls-James w. Davidson q
Minnesota, at Antung, China; Edwii
V. Morgan of New York. at DalnN
China.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
CHANGE HEADQUARTERS.
Two Lumber Companies Have Made
Canton = Central Point.

Canton, S. d., Jan. 21.-The Mutual
Lumber company, with headquarters
at Sioux Falls. and the Kranz Bros. e.
Bowman people of Minneapolis, have
completed arrangements to make this
city their headquarters. They are two
OF the most extensive numbering con-
Germs that do business iH this part of
The country. The Mutual company will.
place their general home office here
and the Kranz-Bowman company will
establish their headquarters here for
their South Dakota business. Both
companies declare their intention to
add many new yards to their lines in
this state this season by purchasing
acme in places where they are already
established and by starting new ones in
towns that OFFER the proper induces
nentS,
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Sixteen Pa.sed ORGANIZATIONS.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. JAM. 20.-It is an>
hounced by the member of the state
board OF medical examiners that sixteen
Of the ~twenty-four applicants for c%ertif1-
meeting OF the board in Sioux Falls last
week, successfully passed their examina-
lions and are eligible to practice medicine
In the state.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
Eree and East Goinu.

Pierre, 8. D., an. 2l.-The Gas Belt
Land and Abstract company has just
finished filing their last bunch of land
seekers. some fifty in number, and they
all went home this morning, a happy
lot indeed. The company expects about
sixty more In on Wednesday morning.
IL some OF Mitchell's friends who are
sdep!oring the barren waste west of
the river could zee the homesteaders
hooking out there at the rate OF about
100 q week, they might possibly change
their view II the situation.
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Mssts Death as a Free Man

Pierre. 8. D., Jan. 21.-Quincy Ed
wards Of Deadwood, who was convict
ed Of forgery and sentenced to a term
OF one year and seven months in the
state p~enitentlary at Sioux Falls, has
been granted 9 pardon by Governor
Herreid Of account OF serious illness.
Edwards has tuberculosis.
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Msstinp Of School Officers.

Huron, 9. D., Jan. 21.-At a meeting
of township school officers here yester-
day, for Beadle county. eighty or more
were present. L. s. Du Bots, county
superintendent OF schools, had charge
made by State Superintendent Geo.
w. Nash OF Canton; Prof. McClenon,
president Of the State Teachers assoc
citation; Prot. Manuel. OF the Huron
city schools, and others. Among topics
discussed were wages of teachers, re-
ports, transportation, school libraries,
compulsory education, improvement of
schools, etc. The gathering was of
much interest m profit. Similar meet
ings are being held by Superintendent
Nash throughout the state.
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Cooperative Elevator Company.
Wakonda, 8. D., Jam. M.--A successful
meeting was held here for the organiza-
uon OF a farmers, cooperative elevatoe
company. Officers and directors for the
elsuipg year were elected.
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Report Is peniec.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 19.-There is na
truth in the statement that a personal
interview between the czar and Japan
csc Minister Kurino had been arranged
ar ave-. WAS ontemplated
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Bridaewater CoupIe Wed.

B~ridsswater Couple Wed.
Salem, 3. d., Jan. 21.-Chester w.
Agnew and Miss Gertrude e. Ballinger,
of B~ridgewater,s We're united in malri-
age at Salem, Probate Judge George e..
Todd performing the