The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-12

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Present Time.
ON A TENDER SUBJECT
Deacon Reeves Attempts to Show
Pierre's Accessibility but He
Fails Absolutely.
In the past week or two there has
been some discussion up in Brown
county among the newspapers CON
corning the accessibility of Pierre.
Deacon Reeves, of the Groton indie
pendent, is managing Pierre's cam
palgn IN that particular section, and
he is trying to convince the people
that they can 90 to Pierre with the
same ease that they can 20 to Mitch
ell, but the deacon, in relating his
fairy tale, does not take into consid-
Grafton the time tables of the Mill
waukee and NORTHWESTERN railroads.
Here is a paragraph which we quote
from the Independent concerning
Pierre's accessibility, and we want
to show MI. Reeves just how far
from right he is on the matter and
just how he misrepresents things to
help out the weakest kind of a cause:
by leaving Groton in the morn
ing, they arrive at Pierre about ,
O'Clock in the afternoon. They then
nave an opportunity to spend about
two hours at the state capital and
return to Aberdeen the same night:
or they can take a train early next
morning, spend a day at Huron, and
return to Aberdeen the second night;
OR they al spend 26 hours in Pierre
and return to Aberdeen the second
night. The difference in time taken
to make the trips to Pierre or to
mitchell is only a few hours, instead
OF DAYS as the Democrat would have
us believe.
The above paragraph was also
quoted in the columns of the Pierre
State-Register as further proof of
Pierre's alleged accessibility.
The facts IN the case are altogether
different than as presented by Dea-
con Reeves. Groton is on the Mil
waukee an North-Western roads. and
it is out of the question to get from
Groton to Pierre OF the latter road
within Il day or two. What the Gro
ton person does in this respect is APP
plicable to practically all that sec
ton of the state. A person leaves
Groton via the Milwaukee road at
5:3S a. 10. and reaches Wolsey at
GAP. There n takes the North
Western at 1895 and reaches Pierre
at 2:25 p. m. The return trip is
where the deacon is exceedingly
lame. He says ''then they have an
opportunity to spend about two hours
and return to Aberdeen the same
night" 1t is absolutely impossible
to do so. 1t is just 80 minutes until
the train starts out of Pierre again
for the east and a person would
have time barely to get up town,
much less to the capitol building,
before he would have to make tracks
for his train again, so it will be seen
the deacon is away off. AS to get
ting to Aberdeen the sam night, it
is another impossible feat and we
will show the deacon how it is so.
The afternoon TAIN leaves Pierre at
3 80 O'Clock; it reaches Wolsey at
UP p. ~, but there is no connec-
tion at that point for Aberdeen asin
the morning. as the Milwaukee pas
senger is due at Wlosey at SIP p. m.
So the Pierre passenger is required
to remain at Wolsey nearly twcnt-
four hours before he gets home .'thc
same dry That is bow Pierre is so
accessible.
With Mitchell the situation is en-
tirely different. The Groton man or
amy individual living in the northern
part OF the state, cast OF the Mil
waukcc line and in a great many
cases west, can improve on the time
of going to Pierre by coming TO
Mitchell to transact his capital bust
ness. The Groton or Milbank man.
or any town intervening can leave his
home in the morning hours and
reach Mitchell at IL o'clock. He has
four hours and a half in this town
to transact ihs business and can re-
turn home the same day. We do not
ask the people to take our word for
it but it is shown in the time table
Of the Milwaukee road. and that is
more than Deacon Reeves can show
up in his argmument of Pierrc's ac-
feasibility. OF course Pierre car
talk accessibility and tell all kinds