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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01
Sale of Inherited Indian Lands

Sealed bids for the following
described tracts of inherited indian lands
will bee received by the United States
Indian agent at Sisseton Agency, South
Dakota, up to IL o'clock noon of Novem-
Der "a, 1904:
East u southeast u section Is and south
west = southwest y section q and south
west a southeast u section % township
l23range 50.
G. Il. Jackson,
u. S. Indian Agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01

sryour account has been standing q
lcng t1me. Mr.. Dukey."
Then eivs Il : seat. my dear
Uhears."
VERY glad to. sfr: shaIl we make 4
= yeceiptr~-London Tit-Btts.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01
Sale of Indian Lands.
Li,1lv "a

(july 2S-Oct 20
Sealed bids for the following described
of inherited Indian lands will he
by the United States Indian
agent at Sisseton agency, South Dakota.
to II O'Clock noon of October 9th, 1904,
Sc u NV "a sec. 80, twp. l23 range %. Sc
"A sec /, twp ~ range 50.
G.. b. Jackson,
u. :. Indian Agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01

Teacher-Johnnie, IL you were a man
and had 5000 and wanted to buy a
$4,000 house. what would you needf
Johnnie-A rich wife.-Et. Louis Re-
public.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01

Sealed bids for the following described
uf Inherited Indian lands will be
gtcPiNed hy the United States Indian
ntont a. &isseton agency. South Dakota,
up.tpI2 pclorf 400 of November II, 1904:
r>W u gekttpM 4, township ~. range So.
Very Respectfully.
q. B. jackson.
Us. Indian Agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01
Sale of Indian Lands.

lsept 1-dec II
sealed bids for the following described
tracts of inherited Indian lands will be
received by the United States Indian
agent at Sissetou gency south Dakota,
up to II o'clock noon of December LIST. 1904
Southeast "A southwest "a section %
township 13 range 50.
{. b. Jackson,
Us Indian Agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01
Sale of Indian Lands.
Guly 2l-oct 20,

Guly 2l-oct 2O
Sealed bids for the following described
tract of inherited Indian lands will he
by the United States Indian
agent at Sisset0n az ucy, South Dakota,
to T. o'clock noon Of October 10Th, 1894:
r y sw a section and II " nw d section g,
township 123 range re.
c. r.. Jackson,
T.. :. Indian Agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01
Legislative Ticket.

For representatives
John Ewald
5. l.. Potter
Paul +. Zafft
For senators 32nd district.
K. c. Toy, Day county
Richard Williams, Marshal count
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01


For congressman
Chas. II. Burke
Eben w. Martin
For governor
Samuel II. Elrod
For lieutenant governor
J. +. McDougall
For secretary of state
David Wipf
For treasurer
c. b. Collins
For auditor
j. H.. Halliday
For state superintendent
George w. Nash
For land commissioner
G.. ]. Bach
For attorney general
Philo Hall
For railroad commissioner,
w. G. Smith.
For judges of the supreme court
Dighton Corson
Howard G.. Fuller
Dick Haney
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01

For Judge Fifth judicial circuit.
James H.. Mccoy
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-01
REPUBLICAN TICKETS
President THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Vice President c. w. FAIRBAN
National Ticket

National Ticket
For presidential electors
II. s Morris
II. II. Cuisine
J. J. Anderson
ID. X. Evans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
NEARLY KILLS BROTHER
One Spillman Fractures An
others Skull With Revolver.

AS the result of a fight between
James and John Spillman, brothers,
which occurred at 7:30 o'clock last
night, James Spillman is at Keith
hospital suffering from SEVERAL severe
injuries on the head. He was pounded
over the head with the butt of a re-
vo1ver by John Spillfnan, his brother
The light occurred at the home of John
Spillman, 1925 Madison street, where
James boarded. After the fight, in
which James was severely beaten, he
walked to Kansas avenue and a police
man took him to DR.. H. H. Keith for
treatment. After an examination DE-
Keith sent the man to the hospital,
where an operation for the removal of
parts of the fractured skull was per-
formed at noon today. The victim of
the assault is in a serious condition.
The cause of the fight between the
brothers is not known to any degree of
stories of the affair. John Spillman
certainty, as they tell vastly different
says that his brother came home drunk
and started in to make a disturbance.
He subsidized for while, but again be-
came violent while seated at the sup
per table. He arose from his chair
and grabbed me by the throat said
John Spillman in telling his version of
the story, land was choking me when
1 drew my pistol and struck him sew
eral times over the head"
nothing to warrant the attack, which
was without warning or excuse. 4
was sitting at the table eating supper
when John came up behind me and be-
gan to beat me over the head" he says.
He knocked me off the chair and
down on the floor. As soon as I could
get away I ran from the house.
The Spillman brothers are both fore
men with the L. E. Myers Construction
company, and were in charge of the
building of the street railway bridge
over the Kaw river.
John Spillman was released on bond
this morning. He says that he had no
idea his brother was so seriously in
jured The weapon which he used in
beating up his brother was 80 caliber
automatic pistol. a small weapon, but
the wounds looked like they might
have been made with a Ratchet. Mrs.
John Spillman, who saw the fight, cor
roborated the statement made by her
husband to the effect that the blows
were struck in self-defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
JAYHAWKER JoTs-

Lawrence complains of dirty streets.
In the Second district fight the Law
renee World rushes in where angels fear
The bowlers are about to declare their
tournament at Abilene off since the town
went dry"
The first robins have reached Chanute.
They flew up from Oklahoma looking for
a place to nest.
If the thief can be located who stole
load of stone at Abilene he will be put
on the rock pile.
An Allen county man who sued for s1o,-
600 was given $50 damages by the jury.
The costs were $500
Prairie dogs are so thick around Scott
men employed to help him kill the little
pests.
The last election in Topeka shows that
the majority of the men favor an open
town. Prohibition carries only when the
women vote.
The latest addition to the CherryvaIe
4OJ Is a baritone singer from Italy. He
broke into the church choir the first
night he struck town.
The railroads have granted a rate for
the state Populist convention. Will this
have tendency to tone down The Great
Red Dragon" speeches?
magnetic healer VINO has "Leen do
ing northwest Kansas announces from
Clay Center that he is we'll pleased with
the people whom he has met.
The Manhattan experimental college has
put peach limb buds to soak but they re-
apple sauce and blackberry jam
Editor Hoch admits that his fight on
Henry Allen savorS a trif1e of machine
methods. He promises to travel in the
straight and narrow path hereafter.
A thief entered a Wichita home while
the residents were at church and carried
away gold watch and SO. To be added
to the loss was liberal tip to the con-
tribution box.
IAN Atchison jointist cooks sauerkraut
every morning for free lunch" says the
Globe. He claims Dutchman can smell
sauerkraut a block, and will follow the
odor to it's source
The Salina whistle sounded the alarm
just as the barber had one side of a fire.
mans whiskers shaved. In the novels the
fire would have completed the job, but as
a fact three hours later he was being re-
1atherPd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
COURT NOTES.
sentence

Suit for divorce has been commenced
in the district court by Elizabeth Reed
against John Reed. She alleges neglect
and cruelty.
The case against Lincoln Payne in
the city court where he is under a
charge of breaking into a freight car
on the Union Pacific tracks in North
Topeka, has been continued until
March II.
A complaint has been filed in the city
court by Phoebe DeVine charging
Isaac Manning with disturbing her
peace. The parties live on East First
street and are negroes. Mrs. DeVine
claims that Manning called her vulgar
names.
Joe Bollock and John Alderman, resi-
dents of Little Russia, were fined $5
apiece and costs in the city court this
morning on an old fighting case which
has been pending in the court since
early in January.
A complaint has been filed by w. B.
Bryant against John McComb and his
wife for disturbance of the peace. All
the parties are colored and live on East
Thirteenth street.
Two cases have been brought in the
city court by girls employed in an east
side hotel charging two young Santa
Fe shopmen with a statutory offense.
The girls are Pearl Knott, aged 16, and
Millie Phillips, aged Is. Oscar Jamison
is the defendant in the first case and
Frank Gray in the second.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
THE MAN WHO FAILED.

Just where the trail bent around a
grove of cottonwoods 1 came I'D with
man who was also on horseback.
From the first glance at him I was
satisfied that he was not a peaceful
traveller, and was somewhat prepa red
TO hear him call out:
Halt and hands up or I'll blow your
head OFF,
halted. Of course. but presently no.
ticed that he was considerably a eita ted
and that the pistol in his hand was
shaking as If he had the ague. l asked
what l could do for him. and he re-
Piled:
You can get right down and shell
out them fifty dollars you drew at the
bank in Carson yesterday Don't deny
that you got the money, for 1 was
right there and saw it. Hand it over
at once"
Il haven't got it," I replied.
Don't you lie to mel If you don't
hand it over I'll shoot you off your
horse and go through you. Shell out,
and there won't be no shooting"
bad drawn the sum of fifty dollars
the day before, as he said, and did not
doubt that he was in the bank at the
time. I had, howver, paid out thai
sum and ten dollars additional for the
horse under me, and was then heading
for Stockton with less than two dol
lars in my purse. I explained the mat
ter to him in a few words. but he in
sisted that I get down while he went
through me. He was so nervous and
agitated that I took him for an anna
teur at the business, and said:
Please be careful Of that gun
From the way you act don't believe
you ever held a man up before"
That's dead fact, stranger" he
replied as he finally got his fingers ON
the change in my vest pocket and
backed off,
We'll, you'll never make a success of
IL TIL you work up more nerve. You
nave the look of hard case, but YOU
are trembling like a boy about to he
whipped. If I had a pistol you would
stand no Show at all. Be careful. II
savT-
He held the pistol in his left hand
and as I called out he stepped hack
and accidentally pulled the trigger
The bullet entered the top of his right
loot, and with yell of pain and terror
he sank down and whimpered for fiva
minutes without a break. I cut this
boot off. bound up his hurt as hest +
could and got him on his horse. He
was half-crying all the time but when
L headed him for Carson to get tba
services of a surgeon heeased i'm
long enough to say.
stranger, youIl find your money
on the grass. and I want Won 70 a.,
cept this gun as present from me
warded for?" NC
But I want you to take IT To 70.
member me by. Keep it with vo,, dsv
anu ana. night Look at it every few min
uteS, and every time YOU look 81 a.
say to yourself that it once beIonped
TO a loop-eared, knock-kneed. Irvota -
a kuss. who started out to he = ht.-t,
way robber and was overcome Nv
caiamity: and from this time on he's
going into the Sunday-schoo7 f,,1s,nass
and live an honest life ana be,5a-,s'5
to himP-M. Quad 0i nc"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02

is all That such should not only be
the state of the public mind, but that
this state of mind should be accented
as a matter of course, is a phenome
non well worthy of the serious consid-
GRAFTON of every thoughtful citizen, and
especially of every member of the
bench and the bar. How much is it
doing to undermine the fundamental
notions of the American people on the
subject of crime-that is. of all those
kinds of crime that may be practiced
by respectable persons? When the
verdict of a jury in such cases is ha-
bitualiy looked upon as merely a pre-
Jude to series of technical maneuvers,
what becomes of the solemnity of
conviction? Convictions are still fatal
enough in the case of the poor and
friencless-the people who are not
armed with either the money or the
personal connection to enable them to
play the game; but does that mend
matters? Is it well for the people to
feel that a millionaire rascal like But
Ter of St. Louis is pretty sure to find
a wav out" while one who commits
vulgar theft has to be content with
the simple common-sense judgment of
twelve honest men in the jury box?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
POINTED PARAoRAPHs.
[From the Chicago News.

ltTom the Chicago News.
A woman is never too good to be true.
If you would get up with the lark go
to bed without one
Worry is as useless as it is to tell
people not to worry.
Sometimes little learning saves a
man from jury duty.
A swallow of brandy often turns out
to be a bird of i'll omen.
It's case of quick consumption with
the man who bolts his food.
If a man is satisfied with one meal a
day he can afford to write poetry.
A woman uses a glass to color her
nose. ---'
A few spinsters have been disapuoint-
ed in love-also a great many married
women. 90 -
When a man is unable to make a Iiv-
ing at anything else he is eligible for n
government job.
A woman's idea of mutual pleasure is
10 spend the money her husband earns
by the sweat of his brow
During courtship a girl thinks mar
rage is a haven of rest in which She
VIII be free from all worry and care
After marriage she has another think
coming. n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
Most men vote their prejudice, and
call 1t their judgment.
The cursing of oneself, which some
people engage in, neither hurts nor does
good.
1t has been our experience that a man
often admires a women without want
ing to marry her.
When a man precedes a story with a
little laugh, the chances are that it isn't
going to be worth listening to.
Newspaper reporters are abused a
great deal, especially by people who
come around afterward, and borrow
their nerve.
After a woman has had her thirty
fifth birthday she really should stop
saying, when 1 am married." and say.
Had I ever married"
All the girls who invent new ways
of spelling their names do not live in
town: Katie living in the country west
of Atchison spells her name with a c.
It's a mighty good husband who takes
his wife to matinee.
We want to say this to the credit of
the woman who builds the fires in the
mornings: she doesn't take time in
dressing to run ribbons through her I'M
dergarments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
POLICE JOTTINCS.
g The Foorce Seems to Be
Stricken With Spring Fever.
Even the Nonunion Joints Are
Not MOlested.
HTan TMmI II nKIr
HAD A LITTLE MILL.
An Imitation of the Sharkey,
MunrOe Fight.
The Two COmbatants Finally
Land in Jail.

The police force seems to be stricken
with Spring fever. It is not quite time
to spring Spring fever, but that is
about the only answer for their lang
uor. They made the regular monthly
Shift yesterday, so now the night men
sleep at night and the day men in the
day time Anyway, they are all asleep.
They refuse even to pinch the non
union joints. Some of them have been
taking a correspondence course in How
to Sleep Standing Up One policeman,
who has been patroling Kansas avenue,
the business district. for the past two
months, was greatly shocked yester-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS.
Will Nominate a City Ticket This
Spring.

This evening the Democrats will hold
their ward caucuses to nominate candi-
dates for the city council and board of
education. The caucuses will be held at
the following places, beginning at s
o'clock:
First ward, No fire station; Second
ward, Democratic Flambeau club hall,
232 Kansas avenue; Third ward, J. M.
Padgett's office. S31 Kansas avenue;
Fourth ward, Throop hotel; Fifth ward,
David Overmyer's home, Eleventh and
Quincy: Sixth ward. H. P. Miller's
home, 613 Lane street.
It is only in the Second ward that the
Democrats have any really serious in
tentions. There it is all cut and dried
that E. B. Snyder will be nominated for
a second term.
George Young, the well known and
popular First ward Democrat who has
been considered as a possible Democrat
ic candidate in North Topeka, has de-
clined to make the race, and it is quite
likely that the Democrats will make no
serious effort to beat DIR. L. A. Ryder
in that ward.
In the other wards of the city, a
Democratic caucus is always more or
less of a joke, and if candidates are
nominated it will be merely for the sake
of appearances, and not with any ex-
pectation of beating the Republicans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
WILL THEY STAY coNv1crEDp
IFrom the Baltimore News.l

LFrom the Baltimore News.
The jury in the case of Machen, Lor-
enz, and the two Groffs, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the United States
government in the purchase of supplies
for the postoffice department has
found all four men guilty OF course. a
motion has been made for a new trial
and of course everybody knows that
the governments work in the case
hard as it has been. is only as yet in
what may, without exaggeration. be
called the initial stage The very fact
that all four of the men were found
guilty, although the prosecuting attor-
ney practically gave up the case
against one of them. is not irupossibIv
an indication of the prevalence of the
feeling that a conviction in the FIRST
instance is a comparatively harmless
occurrence. It may not be so but If is
by no means impossible that the idea
may have operated in the minds of the
Jurors that if there was anything wrong
about the verdict against Samuel A.
Croft the higher courts would set If
aside
We have no desire to enter into the
merits of the case against these mon
or against any one, two or three of
them But in the instance of a trial
which has been so prominent. which
involves so high an ex-oficial as
Machen. and which is part of a pro-
ceeding that has cut a large figure in
national politics. it is worth while to note
that when verdict is announced. there
is not a man, woman or child in Ameri-
ca, accustomed to reading the papers.
who regards the verdict as substantial
~ equivalent to the imposing of actual
punishment upon the Offenders, in the
shape of a term of Imprisonment. It
is simply one point lost in the game.
the odds against Machen and the rest
are somewhat heavier than before. that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
STANDS BY POLYGaMY.
Head OF Mormon Church Still
Believes in It.

Washington. March 2.-During the
progress OF the Smoot hearing Presi-
dent Smith stated that Notwithstanding
the second revelation stopping
polygamy he believed the first revela-
ton permitting it was correct.
Il can not help my belief" he said,
senator Dubois remarked: 81 notice
tnat you say many thousands rejected
the doctrine of plural marriages. Do
plural marriages or that they declared
against the doctrine?"
Mr.. Smith answered again that many
thousands in the church had declared
against the principle of plural marriage
as given to the church in a revelation
from Joseph Smith, jr., to bring out the
effect of refusing to subscribe to the
teachings Of the church. Mr.. Hoar ask
ed a number of questions and Mr.
Smith said:
The principle of revelation is the
fundamental principle of the church, -
Have you received such a revela-
ton from God?" asked Mr.. Taylor.
L never said I had received a reve-
lation except that God has shown me
that Mormonism is Gods divine truth"
How has God shown you that" ask
ed Mr.. Burrows.
BY inspiration"
Mr.. Smith described the accepted
tASOIy OF the feVelaIlOn OF the pr1n-
ciple Of polygamy to Joseph Smith,
saying that an angel in black had ap-
peared unto him. He said revelations
had not come to him in that form. but
that he had received direct revela-
ton from God by inspiration.
At this point Mr. Bailey said he as
sumed that all Of the testimony being
brought out in regard to the revelation
of the Mormon church had some sound
relation to the influence the church had
in civil affairs and that unless he was
assured of that he should object.
For my part" he said, Il do not
think congress has anything to do with
religious affairs and would like to know
the purpose of the direction that has
been taken in the proceedings
Mr.. Taylor answered that the prosecu-
ton would attempt to show that the
church directed affairs of state politics,
and in fact all matters and consequent
ly the method of procedure was neces-
sary. No further objection was made
The committee adjourned until p. m,
and Mr.. Burrows announced that here
after the hearings would be held every
day unel concluded, beginning at 1920
o'clock. An executive session of the
was ordered to determine on
certain lines of conducting the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02
WILL DO SOME PAVING.
Work on City Contracts to Be Com
menced Soon.

The work of paving will be resumed
next week, provided the warm weather
continues.
City Engineer McCabe said today: IT
will have Maxwell commence to grade
out for the pavement on the east side of
Kansas avenue, south of Tenth street,
next Monday. The work of paving on
Jefferson street between Eighth and
Tenth can commence at any time. The
sand is all ready and the brick are on
the ground. There is nothing for the
contractors to do but to lay the brick,
and they will probably start in at once"
There are only two estimates to be
presented to the city council next Mon
day night for paving. They amount to
about $500 for brick which have been
delivered during the past month.