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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13
Fable of Man and Rooster.

Once there was man who was awak-
ened every morning by the growing Of
his rooster This so provoked him that
at last, putting his head out OF the win
dow, he shouted: Miserable creature!
Is 1t not enough that you crow by day !?
Early every morning you crow and
trow until you cause the sun to rise
Then l have TO get up and work. II you
do not keep quiet in the morning shall
certainly wiring your neck" And so he
did, but too late he found that the sun
rose from other causes than the Growing
OF a rooster --Wasbington Star
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13

how came near drowning
twice and | won't try that way.
saw a man die OF pizen once and that
sickens me of that, and I'm sure
couldn't hit myself with q pistol"
1t was horrible day and slsepless
night for PEBBLES All was lost and
Simms would never forgive him for not
paying his debts with the loan. He
would record the mortgage and drive
his wife to despair.
He skunk out of his house in the
morning and by obscure streets made
his way to the wharf. hoping to sell
the Mary Jane. A man grasped him
by the arm. 1t was Comstock, the
last man he wished to see; for IN
doubtedly he owed him something.
81 congratulate you, Capt. PEBBLES"
said the broker. You are q man In q
hundred to sell wheat when all the
world was buying"
Sell it," gasped PEBBLES.
Eyes. you ordered me to sell 5000
September at 81 and I gave you your
sales ticket. Come down and I'll give
you check for $500"
PEBBLES tried to say something, but
only gurgled. 81 meant to buy" he
stammered. "but was thinking OF SELL
ing the Mary Jane"
II don't know that lady" said the
broker. come down and get your
money"
When he returned to the house Capt.
Marsh awaited him. "I'll take the Mary
Jane" said he.
And I'll take tenth interest and
command her" said PEBBLES
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13
VI, ESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD
Schedule In Efrect.June no. 1904


HAGERsTowN AND BALTIMORE.
Leave Hagerstowr at 90 a. m, 10 o. m and
81 o5 p. m.
Arrive at Hagentowr att 80 a.. N. I1fsp IN.
and 20 p. m.
East Mall, the only Sunday tram
Connection at Highheld for gettysburg, Hanovc
on Baltimore and Harrisburg Division.
HAeERsrowN AND CHERRY RUN.
Leave Hagerstown at 10 q. m. IL Sop. m s2s
p. m. daily
Arrive at Aagerstcwn At 20 a. m. 10 ,5 a. m.
HAGERsrowN AND cHAMsxHssuR1.
Leave Hagerstown at 30 .. NJ, IL 90 ~. N. ane
Arrive at Hagerstown OF a. N. % p m and
p. me
HAeERsTowN AND sHIPPENsBURG.
leave Hagestown at %, IL a. m. and Is p. m.
Arrive at Hagerstown at OF a. m. and xop. al
UAcur-oFF HAGERsrowH AND cHAMsERsBunG
Leave Hageistown at 20 p. m. Arrive at 8 90 D.
On. making connection nth B. & c. ". r. a. a
Qunsonia to and from baltimore.
These trans will run daily except Sunday.
SUNDAY TRAINS
Leave Hagersiown for waynesboro and intermcd,.
ate stations At z IS a. m. and 90 r. m and srpvt
at Hagerstown from Waynesboro and intermediate
points at Q 43 a. m. and o5 p N.
The Fast Mail from Balti arriving at Haqcrs
town at 30 a. N. and leaving for Baltimore at ~
p. m, being daily.
For Frederick leave Rager~fc-yn at o5 a. m. apc
&i2p. m Immediate connection at Bruceviile.
F. d. HOWELL. Genr. Pass. A.
B. Fl. GsISWOLI, Genr. Traffic Mgr.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13
BAI n,ssa,s
RAILROAD.
Ia eject Nay 18th. roo4
WEST BOUND.
TRAINS LEAVE MARINsBuRG.


No s. daily AZ z % p. N. for Cincinnati 10
ytiie, 81 Louis. Connects for Berkeley 8prfngs an
Komney except Sundays. at Grafton for Wksclne
No daily si Il S. m. for Pit,sbars and CHI
cago.
No. daily at - . N. Tor whseling. coiunb..
and Chicago
No: daily At II 0. m for cincinnar, Louisville
81 LOUIS. connects Tor Berk=isY Springs exestt
and St. Louis.
No. daily at II 30 p. N. for Pittsburg and caev.
land.
No. - daily except Sundays at ~ IN for cvp.
berland and intermediate stations. Con1@crs fe,
Berkeley springs.
EAST BOUND.
No. 10 daily AT a tor Washington and seits-
more.
No. : a, % m for Washington, Baltimore.
Philadelphia and New York. ConnecfS Tor Frederick
except Sunday.
No. daily al 10 % N for Washington, Bsitsmo,s
Philadelphia and New York. Connects for Lexink-
ton, Va and Hagsrstowu except Sunday and Fssz
more, Philadelphia and New York.
No. daily at = 81 m for Washington, BAIT
Philadelphia and New York.
No. 46 daily at ~ m for Washington, Baits-
more Philadelphia and New York.
No. IL daily "Duquesne Limited@ at II ~ n
York.
No. Is daily except Sundays at "a IS for Frederick,
baltimore, and all Intermediate stations old hDe
No. ~ daily except Sundays at l6 for washfue
ton and baitimore and all intermediate stanonk<
onnects for Frederick.
Express trains all vesdbuied and uIuminat d tn
{. '' 5. Sins, General n.a.Y g.iI,,n.,. -.
D. u. MARTIN, M'gr., Pass. Traffic. Baiso. Nd.
G. W, sANTMAN. Ticket AGENT. Marnnsbur "
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13

Go to Browns barber shop for a
good shave and up-to-date hair cut.
Trust Co. IS building. e-4.6t-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13

4 CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAYLRoAu
~ TIME TABLE.
In ERsct May 80. 1904.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13

Trains Mes. ?, s and no run daily serveep Ba
serstown and Harrisburg
Daily.
Daily except SUNDAY.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-08-13

Trains Nos. l., and log run daily between aa,r.s
burg and hsger town.
Daiiy.
Daily except Sufiay
NJ. o. KENNEDY, Vice Pres.' a Cent. Sup't
II A RIDDLE, ". 4. GARD, O. W. MARrrR
Genl Pass. Agt- Agent. Sup't.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

AS the time for election draws
near we want to ask the voters of
Day county a few questions. Do you
want to place the capital in a city
that is built upon a fat without a
possible chance of drainage? Do you
want to place the capital in a place
where the water is of an inferior
quality? Do you want to place tn e
the capital down in a quarter of the
state that already has eight out of
the fifteen public institutions of the
state? Do you want to place the
state officers and state records in a
building that does not belong to the
state and from which they can be
elected at the option of a single tax
payers Do you want the state to
be compelled almost Immediately to
build a capital buildings Do you
want to advertise to the world that
nearly all of the lands owned by the
State of South Dakota within it's
borders are worthlessf Do you want
to cripple the schools Of your state
by advertising that by far the great
est part of the school lands still
unsold are worthless? Do you want
to say to prospective home-seekers
that the vast amount Of the United
States land within your state, subject
70 homestead entry, is unfit for set
|tismsn.s II you want to do these
things then you will vote for Mitchell.
II you desire to have the capital
located in q beautiful situation upon
one Of the greatest. il not the great.
est, river in the United States; II
you would have it where there Is nat
ural drainage; il you would have II
supplied with the purest water in the
world; II you would leave Is ia one
half Of the state that now has
but the one public instution,
4 you would leave Il whore the stat<
|oInno6v he~ 49, xsx1~ A. A.s1ls~-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27
NOT THIS YEAR.

Harry Hunter, w. J.. Underwood
and j. F. Love, Milwaukee officials
who have been travelling overland
from Chamberlain to the Hills,
arrived in the city Sunday. Tom
Seeney and Chancey Wood, (both
strong supporters of Pierre) drove
them around the country. Monday,
they we're very much pleased with
what they saw. Notwithstanding
what the space writer's on the Sioux
City journal have been saying, these
gentlemen do not say the milwaukee,
will build across TO the Hills this
year. They are out, they claim, tc
get into closer touch with the roads
customers Rapid City Miner.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27
HUNTERS FAIRY r. r. WEB.

And now Hunter is hurricdly
hiking Hillward! Across the alleged
barren wastes, the asserted land OF
sage brush, cacti and gumbo knobs,
the proclaimed region of coyotes and
prairie dogs. the vast country
avowed to be by man despised and
by Godssforsaken. comes the Harry
Hunter. and as he cometh he string
eth out his fairy railway even as the
spider spineth its web and for a
purpose indentical.
He would the voter int
his fairy railroad web. He would
entrap the voters into supporting
Mitchell for the capital by a shallow
and, indeed, laughable pretense of
railway building,
Hunter evidently scorns the slow,
old fashioned methods. He IS a
veritable Johnny-on-the-spot with a
line from any old place at any old
time builds 'em while you wait.
Perchance he has a stand 10 with the
fairies, or is, perhaps, in league with
a genii, and has to express a wish
for even as great a thing as a rail
wax and 10, his desire is gratitied.
Aud hence, we are to have a fairy
line of railway Hunters Black
Hills Genii Line.
He has even gone SO far as to
assert that dirt will be flying before
election on the fairy line. There
will assurdely be none flying after
election. The Mitchell gang will
quit throwing dirt after election.
They deserve a rest. They have
thrown their dirty filings at the west
river country for several months,
and now to come into the country
and endeavor to gull the people by
their ~pretension of building a line
from Chamberlain, is nothing short
of adding insult to injury.-Sturgis
Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

We hoped that the campaign this
year was to be void of mud singing
and it has been so up to last week
when the populist paper of this city
saw fit to make an underhanded and
disreputable attack upon County
Treasurer Wickre. OF course the
World realizes that the campaign
against Mr., Wickre is hopeless and
is resorting to falsehood in the hope
of p~rejudicing the voters. The
article states that Mr.. Wickre has
refused ito collect delinquent per-
sonal taxes from some gentleman
saying that they e friends of his
and that it would be unnecessary
for them to pay their taxes until
after election. The writer of the
article knows that the statement is
absolutely and entirely false. The
records OF the county show that Mr..
Wickre the first year of his term
collected $2,777.59 and during the
nine and one-half months that have
passed of the second year he has
collected $2,059.65. The writer OF
that article can 60 to the court house
and go through the books and he
will find that Mr.. Wickre's record in
this regard exceeds the collections
of any other treasurer for the same
length of time. II the charges
made in the last issue Of the World
are true Mr.. Wickre has violated his
oath of Office and his bondsmen are
liable to the county. But the World
knows that its statements are abso.
lutely false. The World is a. scan
dial monger. Is guilty of the lowest
type Of SANDER. Why did il moi
publish the names of the friends
who had been 20 favoreds For the
simple aso that they knew Of
none such. The man that made the
statement is = liar and worse than
that he 10 coward or he would have
signed his name 70 the article and
such miserable. cowardly, lying
sneaking and unscrupulous tactic.
win only serve y increase Mr.
Wiekre's majority In this county.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

as the lands to be found anywhere
i'll any state in the Union; if you
would build up the schools of your
state by increasing the value of the
lands owned by them; if you would
assist in settling up the great public
domain across the Missouri river
with bona fide home-seekers, if you
would reduce rather than increase
your taxes, you will vote for Pierre.
Mitchell asks you as citizens of South
Dakota, to say by your votes, that
over 500. 900 acres of land in which
you, as citizens are part owners, is
worthless. Pierre asks you to say
by your votes that the lands Of your
state are productive and fertile. 1t
is oon up to you to make Your
decision. Look at the question as
you would at your own business and
Pierre will be. more than satisfied
with the result.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

Mitchells greatest argument is
the additional expense incurred by
carrying the members of the legisla-
ture to Pierre. The experts for
Mitchell have figured it out that
this expense costs the state, the
unnecessary amount of 500 a year.
Now the State Of South Dakota owns
lands adjacent to Pierre amounting
to over 5000 acres. Should the
voters of the state decide by their
ballots to emove the capital from
Pierre to Mitchell, they would GER
tainly ~depreciate the value of these
lands, at least a dollar per acre, or a
total on the whole amount of public
land, of over $500,00o. Now let us
look at the economy. The state
would gain by moving the legisla-
ture Mitchell, in a saving Of mileage
paid to the members, $40 a year.
The state would lose by a depreci-
alton in the value of it's own lands
100000. Now money loans readily
in this state at five per cent per
annum. Figure this for yourself,
and you will find that the interest
on the amount of money that the
state would lose upon its lands, in
one year, would pay the loss incur
ed, for the increased milage, for
nearly forty years. Where would
be the economy in such a trade
There is not a voter in the state
who would make such a deal for
himself and why should he make a
poorer business deal for the state
than he would countenance in his
own affairs? If you believe in the
strictest economy and the best bust
ness policy for the state, vote NO
the capital removal proposition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27
We heard a very good. convincing

We heard a very good, convincing
argument for Pierre the other day
when we were in Aberdeen. There
was a large crowd in the city, to
hear the music furnished by the cap
ital bands of Pierre and Mitchell,
and of course the topic of all con
versations was the capital question.
We were passing a small group OF
farmers engaged in earnest conver.
sation and being at leisure, stopped.
looked into a store window and
listened. One old gentleman put il
this way. "Well, Bill, you and
each have large families of boys and
it will not be long before they viii
want homes of their own. If we vote
the capital to Mitchell, they cannot
go down there and take up home.
steads, for the land is worth nearly
as much down there as it is here
We have not sufficient means to buy
them farms in this county. They
must 90 out TO Pierre and take
homesteads and we should leave the
capital out at Pierre to Increase the
value Of the lands that our son,
must file upon, if we would keer
them in South Dakota. Now, Bill
| have been out there, looked at the
lands and wherever il is farmeC
right just as good crops are raised
as in Brown county and my oldest
boy will be old enough, next spring
and as soon as he reaches twenty
one, he will have a homestead o.
his own across the river" Bill
said that was so and we passed
along knowing that there were two
votes for Pierre.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

Charles K. Anderson is proving
himself one of Ben Hoover's honest
men-he is staying bought. But
Charley is too much of an enthusi-
asst. His stories are too strong. He
told a gentleman Friday morning
that he had driven through a pas
ture near Pierre containing seven
square miles and that his horse
sank in the sand clear up to his
hooks all the way across and that
there was not sufficient grass upon
it to feed a yearling steer. The
gentleman told Charley that he was
well acquainted with the conditions
out there and it was one of the best
grazing countries on earth, and he
knew, for he was a practical farmer
a nan of years of experience, and
that anywhere grass would grow,
grain and corn would. 1t was a
hard blow for Charley but with his
imacculate gall he passed from this
gentleman to tell the same falsehood
to some other gentleman who was
not SO well posted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

One Of the arguments used by the
Mitchell supporters in this county
is that the people should vote for
Mitchell because the Milwaukee road
does the business of this county.
This argument is ridiculous. What
did the Milwaukee road ever do for
this county or any Of its people that
the road was not well paid for until
this yearf What are they doing
tlais years Giving a few free rides
to Mitchell and other places. What
are they doing this fort just with
The hope Of influencing the voters.
Do you hear Of any avowed Pierre
supporters getting free t~ransporta-
tions We guess not. Only those
that hopes are entertained Of infu-
enoing : given these free rides,
This spring VS. werc informed shs!
~ were 10 have q new depot this
yoar. Have We got Is? Not yet
w are told hat it will BE- built
- year. Next year the road vii
~ need the assistance Of the voter
"A fhe present deoot viii be founf
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27
STAND BY YOUR TICKET.

During the next two weeks repub-
licans every where, and especially in
those counties where the republican
majority is small, will be urged and
coaxed to vote for some n or two
individual candidates on the opposi-
ton because he is a good fellow"
or because Of some specific objection
to the republican opposed to him.
Every art and a~rtifice will be piled
to induce three or four republicans
in each precinct to vote for each of
the opposition whom the democratic
managers hope or care-to elect.
Don't do it. Don't vote for a
single one of them. The reasons
given you are not the real motives
behind the democratic solicitude.
What the democrat is after is your
vote. His eye is fixed on success,
total or partial, and he is simply
trying to "work" you.
Not many men are more compe-
tent to discuss the ~inadequacy of
scratching" as a cure for injudi-
cious nominations than is the writer.
He knows it does not work out, just
as the Indian knew that whiskey was
good for his sore foot-he's tried it,.
The theory is that you vote for the
best man, but the condition is that
you do not get any better men in
office nor any better officers, but do
get-beaten.
There are several reasons why a
republican should vote his local
ticket as straight as he does the
national or state ticket even
though every name on it is not the
one he would have put there. One
reason is that a split ticket is
footed in every little K roads,
democratic sheet as a democratic
victory. 1t is d~emoralizing to the
party. 1t gives the opposition a
lever for the next campaign by
claiming a second term for the men,
or man, elected.
Another good reason for taking
our local ticket like an orthodox
Jacksonian does his "inspiration"-
straight, is that every democrat put
into the court house is just one more
man paid a more or less fat salary
to plug for democracy. He gener-
ally has plenty of leisure, is brought
into contract with nearly every voter
in the county during the year and
has opportunities to do them favors
that strengthen his influence with
them, and he uses all these things
for the benefit Of his party.
Most republicans are such because
they believe the principles Of that
party are right, that its policies are
hoak FIR khA r-cunkrv eud xhok ~.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

tribute to a fund to employ demo
cratic workers to 90 out and poison
the public mind with democratic
heresies. To spend his time in
teaching that Roosevelt is an
unsafe man, a demogogue or a
tool of the trusts" to preach that
protection is robbery that patriotism
is militarism and disloyalty hodor-
able. A republican would spurn a
proposition to assist directly in hir-
ing men to teach such rot, yet that
is exactly what he is doing, indi-
rectly. when he votes "a democrat
a local office. - Howard Spirit
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

TIE freight rates reduced in this
county? Has the railroad ever
appeared to you as a phianlthropist!
Take the action of the road on its
lines north of Andover and south of
Bristol that shows how solicitous
they are for the welfare, com
fort and peace of mind of Day
county citizens. The company has
several stations on both branches.
Do they keep an operator in each Of
these stations so that the people ear
have the benefit of ~telegraphic COM
munication with the outside world !
You know that the company Las
taken out all the operators practi-
cally on both of these divisions. If
you live in Butler OF Pierpont and
have a dear one sick somewhere else
and you are telegraphed to come
you must wait to get the information
by letter from Andover. The
station of Langford last year did a
freight business of about $4,000
and the operator had a Western
Union business of about 500 per
month, yet the company arbitrarily
removed the operator and took the
instruments out of the building. Did
they give any reasonY Not a reason,
they own the station and control the
wires they do not have to explain.
People of Langford who would now
get the market reports must get
them by letter or telephone. If any
one dies someone must 90 to And
over or Britton to telegraph outside
relatives for the Western Union CON-
pany have a rule which forbids the
operator from taking messages over
the telephone. This is the brand of
philanthropy that the Milwaukee
railroad company deals in. The
road is not out here for the benefit
or convenience of the people, it is
out here for the financial benefit of
its stockholders and they are reap
ing a wonderful profit tor the reports
of the company show that the Hast
ings and Dakota branch of It's vast
system pays better than any and all
others. The voters of Day county
owe the Milwaukee railroad company
nothing. They have always paid
their fares and freight bills. What
have they got in return? In all the
great Milwaukee system there is not
a poorer outfit of trains, poorer ser
vice, poorer stations and less Jim
provements. When anyone tells you
you should vote for Mitchell because
you live on the Milwaukee railroad.
Ask him to show you anything that
the road has done for this county or
its residents without first having got
value received.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27


The Mitchell boomers ay that the
statement that many people are TAX
ing homesteads and settling on the
lands across the river is a Pierre
canard, yet almost every month the
United States postofice department
establishes some new postofice across
the river. This fact alone explodes
Mitchell's theory, for the United
States does not establish a postofice
until we have a sufficient number Of
patrons to warrant its existence. The
ISLANDERS of the Mitchell campaign
committee upon the western part OF
the state have all been proven false,
There is only one real reason fol-
moving the capital to Mitchell, that
is to increase the price of Mitchell
real estate at the expense of the
whole state. ~
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27
County Ticket

County Ticket
For register of deeds
Chris Grue
For treasurer
III. O. wickre
For clerk of court
Albert Smith
For superintendent of schools
J. III. HetIey
For Judge
John II. Lund
For auditor
Manson Rexfcrd
For states attorney
Frank Sears
Phillip Gross
For surveyor
Josephus Alley
For coroner
M. c. Schenecker
For justices of the peace
l.. w. Scripture
August Hoagland
H.O. Daien
L. w. Lewis
For constables
T.. w. Reick
]. r. Chapman
Herman Bury
Levi Faulkner
For commissioner Srd district
~NicklMoxness
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-27

BY locating the capital at Mitchell
you will put f~ifty-three per cent Of
public institutions in one eighth OF
the state. And leave two-thirds OF
tho state without a single public
institution.