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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
1900 AT YANkToN.
Biggest in the Towns History, But ALI

are cared for.
Yankton, S. ID. July 19.-The largest
crowd Yankton eyer knew is here to-
day. Thousands We're left over from
last night and stood in line, the whole
night through. and at daylight this
morning more than 5000 weary. half
sick but determined people greeted the
dawn and We're the first 10 register
The office is NOW registering ABOUT
5000 people daily
1t was estimated that there were at
least 1000 strangers here today. BY
IL o'clock the several sections of the
Milwaukee and St Paul railroad had
brought in 4.500 people, according to
the reports from the railroad Offices
and the Northwestern during the day
brought in over 1000. The railroads
have abandoned all schedules and
bring in the trains as they can Not
single accident has taken place The
Milwaukee and St Faul railroad re-
ports that it has over 1000 people en-
route between Chicago and Yankton.
The town is crowded almost beyond
its capacity and it is estimated that be-
fore the END of the week the visitors TO
Yankton will be sleeping in the open
! air Nearly every residence in the city
Is taking roomers at 80 cents. Meals
are being served at the restaurants at
25 cents
The land office will close promptly at
8 o'clock Saturday night of this week
and after that hour no one can register.
The crowds are increasing daily and
each evening there is Il large number
standing in line who must stay there
throughout the night if they expect 10
get their names on the Registration
books. The force of clerks at the reg
fstration office has been Increased and
are working hard TO accommodate the
people The crowds are good natured
and orderly.
For time ii looked as though there
would be bread famine In the town
and many went without bread for
breakfast. An carly tram, however.
brought in a large consignment and re-
lieVed the stringency.
! All of the dry good boxes in towa
! have been sold for seats and amy old
kind OF a box now is eagerly bought FOR
80 cents. There are not enough chairs
! or boxes To accommodate the thuu-
sands. Many who have been standing
in line for some time and hold advdn-
tageous positions, sell their places FOR
various sums, receiving as nigh as 50.
I descriptions men who have ALREADY
registered are getting in line and then
Offering their places for sale to those
au%ious for a position.
All sorts and conditions OF people arc
here. Bankers with plenty of money
mingle with poor men who have 80
count every penny they spend and pnt
up with all sorts of hardships. ThoH-
sands ol women Intelligent wei
dressed and enthusiastic are here
People from every state in the union
and from the large cities as well as the
rural places and the farms have come
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
FEAR SCARCITY OF
HARVEST HANDS
South Dakota Puzzled How to
Reap lis Immense Crop
OF Small Grain.
PROSPECTS FOR YIELD
Reports Fronr Many Towns in as
Many Counties Show the condi-
ton of the Crops From a
farmers Viewpoint.

Sioux Fails, S. D.; Farmers fear
that harvest hands viii be scarce
this yeu owing to the rush to the
lands of the Rosebud reservation, and
that eNorbitant prices viii have To he
paid such help as can be secured.
should an emergency arise the wives
and daughters of many South Dakota
formers YiI again come to the rescue
oy volunteering to operate the header
boxes and moving machines.
II is safe 10 say that nothing but
Sumc unforeseen calamity such as u Sc
Nerc wind storm of wide extent can
now prevent south Dakota from rails
ing another Jumper crop.
Barley and rye has been rapidly rip
ene' by he extremely hot weather of
The past few days aud the harvesting
OF these grains is NOW In progress in
tho southern part of the state, and
win n continuance for q few days of
the not weather Will hccoine general in
tho northern portion also
The Yield Of corn and small grain in
solne localities may be short, due to a
lack Of moisture nj the critical period
of the growing seNson, but in the state
Eeucrtily crops OF ail Kinds promise one
If ihe largest yields IN the history of
the state l1al storms recently visited
Two ar three localities doing consider
able damage TO crops. bat these de-
StrUetiNe storms were confirmed as j.;
always the case TO limited areas
Wheat is rapidly heading Some
tields OF oats tre being cut bl the ex-
troue southern part of the state. Corn
Is naNing rapid progress and notwith-
san lin@ he unusually cool and back
ward spring has now attained nearly
lis accustomed growth for this period
of t'le growing season. # The weather
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
SLOCUM HEARING ON.
Weatherbcaten Life Preservers Are
Shown as Evidence

New York, July 2l.The hearing On
the General Slocum disaster before the
local bureau of steamboat inspectors.
which was adjourned from July ~, has
been resumed. Among the witnesses
examined was Captain William Hill
lery of the steamer Golden Rod, who
produced two of the life praservers
which We're taken from persons saved
from the Slocum They were old and
weather beaten, with holes in the ends
through which granu!ated cork sifte9
They were stamped on June 49, 1891.
Captain Hillery stated that he would
be willing to jump overheard with one
of the presewers on. He said that
when the work of rescue was going on
he saw five or six persons clinging to 81
single life pleserver
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
WELCOMED DEATH.
Norwald sirapleish Cites schopenhauer
To Justify His Suicide.

Paris. July 2l.-"What joy it is to
die" Death is the apotheosis of life
Such We're the phrases which Norwald
Shapleigh annotated in the books of
Schopenhauer and Baudalane before he
committed suicide in 9. room in the
Grand Hotel Dore, boulevard Mont
martre He is said to have been a
rephew of Ambassador Porter. Books
and letters found on the table reveal d
sad story of morbid sensitiveness,
brought on. it is said, by the use of
morphine.
Shapleigh arrived in Paris July and
asked for room in the Hotel Dore. He
at once confided to the woman in
charge that he had no money, having
lost it by gambling. He did not expect
TO receive his monthly allowance before
August . :,
AS he looked perfectly respectable he
was taken in, and, to the surprise of
the hotelkeeper, lie paid a week in ad-
vance. He said he came from ostend
and had been for some time at Weis-
baden. He had apparently no friends
in Paris, and looked melancholy. He
seemed to be in feeble health and spoke
but little.
Asked Mothers forgiveness.
Friday night he returned early and
shut himself in his room. Before carry
ing out his resolution to die he wrote !,
few lines to his mother asking her 20
forgive him for the worry ne would
cause her. telling her that he was tired
of life. He had read in books that
there was joy in death, and he hoped
to find it, as he found so little In life.
At 10 O'Clock. as he related himself.
he took sharp surgeons knife and
cut open the veins in his hands and
feet. He fingered all night. Toward
morning he tried 10 hasten the end by
swallowing aconite and strychnin1.
About noon his sufferings became in
supportabe. He called the walters and
rang bell. He Was too weak to open
the door and asked them to cal! Il doc
tor and enter by the balcony.
Shapleigh was found lying on the
floor with q pillow under his head A
doctor was summoned. Shapleigh was
calm and gave IA lucid account of all
he had done. and why he had done It.
| AT . O'Clock he swooned and never re-
| covered consciousness. AT 8 O'Clock his
| pulse ceased To beat.
Twenty-siN volumes were found in his
room annotated by him. nearly all of
| them treating Of eccentric and morbid
subjeCtS.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Armour Democrats

Armour, S. D., July lS--The demo-
Gratis of Armour precinct met in caucus
convention Thursday night at the court
house and elected the following dele
gates and alternates to the judicial.
senatorial, state and county conven-
tions which will be held at the court
house in this city tomorrow: Delegates
"A. ID. Mather, e. S. Johnson, j. p.
Hand, w. 2. Strain Henry Dilges, C.
III. Brown, l.. d. Wait, Ira Bun nett.
VIM. Moore. Alternates-G. Hand,
Wes. Poulson, Chas. Raben, j. Kelly,
Emmet Phelps, w. j. Herdman. j. l..
McGraw, Fred Ray, w. l.. Nelson.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
RUSH AT CHAMBERLAIN
'eonIe Are Nov Beginning to Come for
the Drawing, Which Begins
.Iuiu %

Chamberlain, S. d. July 21.-Three
Hundred and twenty-one registered for
the Rosebud drawing here this morning
before the departure of the enrIy train,
sud today's total bids fair TO be the
highest so far. The influx has already
commenced for the drawing which be
gins here July IS, ana more names win
likely b registered here this week
than up TO This time. The town is rap
idly filline up and boats are busy talk
ing people down the Missouri river TO
look over tile lands.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Good Rain at Aberdeen.

Aberdeen, S. D., July 1S.-A genera.
rain prevailed over the northern por-
tion of the state, and it is believed that
in portions which had become dry re-
Gently there will be much benefit. So
far as reports have been received here,
the rain extended from above the line
between the Dakotas to beyond the
center OF the state and from the Min
nesota line to the Missouri river. The
precipitation in Aberdeen for the TWEEN
ty-four hours was a fraction less than
AN inch.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Root confers With Presiden+

Oyster Bay. July 19.-After u confer
ence with President Roosevelt, which
tasted far into The night and was re-
sumed early today, former Secretary of
War Root left Sycamore Hill today for
New York on important business. De-
spite the intense heat the president aft
erwards began to dispose of mass OF.
official business
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
scavenger Law Ruled Out.

aberdeen, S. ID. July 21.-George ".
Williamson has received telegraphie in
formation that the supreme court of
the state of North Dakota has decided
the scavenger tax law of that state
unconstitutional, but the particular
points on which the decision was rend :
cred was not stated. The decision
grew out of a case to quiet title, and
Mir. Williamson, as attorney for the de-
fendant attacked the constitutionality
of the law. The law, which is known
rs the Wood law of '97, Is similar to
the South Dakota scavenger law.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
SUPERINTENDENT OF DRAWING
Sioux Falls Man Selected to Give Away
Rosebud Land

Sioux Falls, S. D., July lS-P f.
Sherman. a prominent wholesale farm
machinery and vehicle dealer of this
city, according 10 the announcement
made here, has been selected as one
of the three men who will superinteni
the drawing for farms in Rosebud
reservation, which commences at
Chamberlain July IS. w. A. Richards,
commissioner general of the land Of
fee, will be one of the members of the
board.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
ROSEBUD REGISTRATION
Total at Chamberlain Has Now Reached
2,53o-St. Elmo Town Lot
Sale Opens

Chamberlain. S. D., July 1e-Thurs-
day the total number registered at Cham
berlan for the Rosebud drawing was
$3.50 The work IS progressing quietly.
but is somewhat on the increase since
opening the places of registration earlier
In the morning. cutting down the wait in
the city by twenty-four hours.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

forth the present crop conditions
throughout the state:
Bangor-A severe hail storm swept
over the country south aud southwest
of Bangor Some of the finest wheat
ever raised in this part of the state
was destroyed.
Garletson- Roth corn and small
grain ;We suffering from the recent
prolonged wet spell.
Madison Farmers Visiting this city
report some damage done 10 barley
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Small Roaissration at Rnnns4ae1

Bonesteel, S. d. July l5.-Today is tie
smallest registration day in Ronesteel.
people being, apparently, afraid of Friday
and the 18th. Clerk McPaul insists Bone
steel will register 25Go0. The Northwest-
ern may be compelled to offer more rea-
sonable rate the last week
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

iNra win be a much better crop than it
WaS last year.
Some smut is reported in the vicinity
of claremont while in many places
around Langford the wheat fields are
Very weedy, due to the excessive rains
of the past month.
Reports From Many Towns.
The following reports accurately set
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
A BEREsFoRD DEATH.
Miss Sophia Toreeson Dead-Ma,
Breaks Both Lens.

Torgeson. sister of T. l.. Torgeson, a
prominent merchant of this city, died
here this morning.
Geo. Determan, a farmer six miles
north of here, fell from the top of his
barn. breaking both legs below the
knees.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

H. p. Packard of Redfeld. who has
just been elected as commander of the
G, A. r., depIr ment of South Dakota
is one of The best known business men,
and ore of the most popular citizens
OF the state. He was a private volun-
teer soldier of Company b, Fiftieth
New York engineer corps. He was
born in lS4a, and hence was only 16
Years old when the war broke out In
1868 Nh Packard moved to Minnesota
and in 1881 he went to Redffeld. where
he has since resided. He will make an
ideal commander. Mr.. Packard was
one of the first in his company to scale
the breastworks in front of Petersburg
in April, 1868. when General Lee was
driven from his stronghold.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

fields by recent heavy Winds where the
grain was sufficiently ripe to shell
Emery Winter wheat viii yield from
% 10 80 bushels per acre.
oacoma-I Lyman county has some OF
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
Miss Pauline Astor to Wee


London, July 4.Wiiliam Waldorf AS
tors newspaper, the Pail Mall Gazette
announces the engagement of his deugh-
ter Pauline to Captain II. H. Spender
Clay.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

Slippery Garter is handling things
smoothly, as usual, these days. He
has his coal oil sheets in Eastern Mon
tana shout for Lindsay at the top of
their voices while he is planning to
beat him with western man.
Chances are that Garter will not show
up around the convention, especially
if he has things fixed. In this way he
figures that he will hold Lindsay in
line.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

The Morgan and Rockefeller and other
corporation interests of Wall Street
give out the fact that Ex-Cabinet officer
Root, who is at present the attorney of
the Northern Surity Company, had
told them in secret that he would accept
the nomination for governor of New
York. 1t is republican consistency to
put the man who was chairman of their
national convention under the manage
ment of J. p. Morgan to get him the
nomination, as it will help the 6. o. p.
campaign out wonderfully. OF course
they. need some of that 6. o. p. ship
building combine money to buy their
way into offices, but all of Morgan S
money will avail them nothing when
the people find out what they are going
to use it for.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

1t is wonderful to see how much
silence is contained in republican ed
itorials regarding conditions as they
exist in the United States today. They
continue to harp on Parkerism as a
campaign issue and at the same time
they are complaining of the fact that
the democratic press is comparing the
two presidential nominees in an open
and upright manner which is greatly
to the disadvantage of Strenuous Teddy
and they call that making Roosevelt
ism the campaign issue. They take
delight in giving great deal of space
to the fact that the Chicago Chronicle
has come out in support of the republi-
can candidates, we do not say 'rc-
publican platform" as those are two
meaningless words, but they show I,
marked silence in regard to the New
York Herald, a paper that supported
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

When the cotton mill operatives of
Massachusetts, went on a strike the
congratulated his firm through the
press on the fact that their employees
had received such small wages before
the strike that it would be impossible
for them to stay out long for if they
did they would be sure to starve, as
their wages in the past would not per-
nit them to lay up anything to keep
them alive, consequently he expected
to starve them into submission in a
very short time. Are such conditions
conducive to harmony between the
laboring class of people and the mo-
nopolies that have flourished the past
eight years? OF course the republican
press will have the nerve to ask those
same laboring men to vote for con-
tinuation of these conditions. But it is
more than likely that the working
classes will show an intelligence and
independence that will surprise the ad-
herents of the one-man power and
when election day comes vote for their
independence, as their fore-fathers
fought for it over century ago, which
will give us government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the people,, "
and Alton B. Parker for president.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

The state central committee has
adopted the following standing rules
for the government of the convention:
First Delegates and alternate dele
gates shall be democratic residents of
the county they represent.
Second--In the absence of dele
gate and his alternate, majority Of
the delegation of that county shall be
entitled to cast the vote of the absentee.
Fourth-In case any county shall be
without any representation, either by
delegate or alternate, such county
shall not be entitled to vote.
Fifth--In the preliminary organiza-
ton of the convention the unit rule
shall not prevail, but the vote of each
delegate shall be counted in accordance
with his own views.
BY order of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
H. J. TOOMEY, Chairman.
THOMAS c. KURTZ, Secretary.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

We would like to have the republican
press explain to us how it is possible
for the coal operators of Kansas, Miss
ouri, Arkansas and Texas to reduce
the wages of their miners five per cent
during these prosperous republican
times. This cut affects about fifty thou
sand men.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18

Mr.. Mckinley in both of his campaigns
against Mr.. Brian, but has announced
its intention of supporting the demo-
cratic platform as it was drawn up by
the full convention at st. Louis, and
not by one man residing at Washing
ton who had full control of all political
wires between there and Chicago dur
ing the session of the republican con-
vention. Mr.. Root was sent to Chicago
as the attorney of the greatest railroad
combination that has ever existed, and
was made chirman of that gathering.
Under these conditions is it reasonable
to suppose that there were no others
who were being paid to work for the
United States, and at the same time
were being we'll paid by some large
corporation to follow the lead of Mr..
Root and do as he, being Strenuous
Teddy's mouthpiece, would dictate?
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-18
Democratic National Ticket
For President
ALTON b. PARKER, of New York
For e-President-
HENRY G. DAVIS, of West Virginia
Democratic State Convention
Helena, Mont, Aug, l, 1904.


At meeting of the democratic state
central committee, held in the city Of
Great Falls on the 18th day of May,
1904, it was ordered that democratic
state convention be called to meet in the
city of Helena, at p. m. on Wednes-
day, September IA, 1904, for the pur-
pose of nominating three presidential
electors, candidate for congress, gov
erner, lieutenant governor, secretary
of state, state auditor, state treasurer,
attorney general, superintendent OF
public instruction, chief justice of the
supreme court, and clerk of the SUI
preme court, and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly
come before democratic state conven-
ton.
The representation in the convention
will be apportioned among the several
counties as follows, the basis being one
delegate for each. 50 votes or major
fraction thereof cast for the democratic
candidate for congress in the election
Of 1902 and five delegates at large
from each county.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-07-07
Cured Of Chronic Diarrh6ea AZ.
ter Ten Years Of Suffering.

81 wish to say few words in
praise of Chamberlin's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
says Mrs. Matte Burge, of
MartinsviIle, Va. 81 suffered
from chronic diarrhoea for ten.
years and during that time tried
various medicines without obtain
ing any permanent relief, Las Z
summer one of children was taken
with colera morbus, and + pro-
cured . bottle of this reiii6l
Only two doses whre required 70
give her entire relief. / then o.
cided to try the medicine myself,
and did not use all of one bottle
before I was we'll and have never
since been troubled with that
complaint. One cahnot say too
much ia favor of that wonderful;
medicine; !" This remedy is for
s6ls by sll dealers.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-07-07
The Cost Of Living.

Government reports issued last
week announce that the cost of
living is reduced, because the
price of a maj..rity of the neces-
saries of life are cheaper. while
beef, mutton, lard, butter, corn,
wheat, oats and sugar and vege-
tables have gone up, other neces-
sites like pig-iron, leather, cop
per, tin spelter. and haircloth have
gone down. All that the work
man has to do now is to accustom
himself to making q dinner of
these last named materials. Rent
costs hin more than it did, but he
never could buy steam yatch OF
an automob3 31 s..t lowers or silk
underwear alap ~ to-day.
Lake Charles rxesa
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-07-07
IS IT BOIL WEEVIL?
<..tton in the Hill Neighbor-
hood Showing Symptoms.

M. w. A. Erskins Of the Hill
ttloment In ward three was here
Saturday and said tnat some
the cotton fields in that section
sve the appearance of being IN
.cted with boil weevil. Mr..
E1oel Nc Carly of Texas, who has
"a two crops in the weevil IN
! 1srtel district Of that state. was
fbe Hill community and ex-
E@nined the cotton. He could
III no weevil, but the cotton has
Isvsry appearance of being In
efed. There are numerous
nall insects in the cotton and
elrr. McC Carly said this same insect
eetled the boil weeyil in the
Sx.s fields, APPARENTLY being .
rerunner of the genuine weevil.
ia bug sting the squares which
raes them to shed from the
~ and he is of the opinion
Il is . specie of the weevil.
that the singing process is
ding more than a deposit Of
cecs from which the weevil is
1ched.
oDsiderable interest has been
used by the discovery and a
p lookout will be kept for
ker developments. It is said
II this turns out to be the
n;;ne w6evil it was brought
= ID hay from Texas.