The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-28
IN TOWN IN COUNTRY.
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT Happen I'M
THE COURSE OF A WEEK.

w. IL. Rowley went up to Miller
tuesday evening to look over the
country. He owns some land in thai
vicinity.
A new cement SIDE walk is beinL
laid on the west 81 se of the east side
school house block, an improvement,
that will be much appreciated by the
people have used that bad walk fol
some time.
A letter from +. NJ. White, who is
in st. Joseph's hospital at Sioux CITY
is to the effect that he is improving
nicely since his operation for appen-
dicitiss which occurred on Wednesday
of last week.
John Steinmetz came home from
Chamberlain Wednesday. He said
that some big fish are being caught
in the Missouri river since the rail-
road bridge was put in, and referred
to a cat fish that weighed % pounds
which was caught yesterday by Mayor
Sanford. 1t was fully two feet long.
DR.. Geo. p. Dix and his aged
mother came down from Aberdeen
on Wednesday, to make a visit of a
week or ten days among relatives and
friends. Mrs. Dix is enjoying very
good health for her years. and she
sand that she was very glad to get
back to Mitchell again. Mrs. Dix is
stopping with Mrs. II. ID. Prescott.
Captain Allison, the government
scout, spoke at the city hall Tuesday
evening on 'sCuster's Last Battle,''
ln which he gave a personal account
Of the affair. The captain is able to
happily entertain an audience with
the scenes in the days of the Indian
uprising and his history of the bat
tie i'm which Gen. Custer lost his life
was very interesting.
Rev. A. q. Shepherd, Of Nermil-
lion, and Rev. w. S. Shepherd. of
Watertown, were in town for a few
days visiting with relatives. and re-
turned home Wednesday. Their two
brothers, Horace and Ernest, are
both ill. The former is improving
since his operation, but Ernest is
said to be quite low with a disease
which seems to battle the skill of the
physicians and very little hope is en-
tertained for his recovery.
A Swede giving the name of Bran
stadt, got i'm town tuesday from Ra-
cine, Wis, and it wasn't long before
he was filed up with booze. He sat
down on the sidewalk late in the az
ternoon in front of the Mitchell Ma
tional bank and commenced to sing.
Finally he laid down on The side
walk and continued his musical re-
cital, which was listened to by a
large crowd that stood off at a re-
spectacle distance. Chief Keith took
charge of the Swede and placed him
in Jail. Wednesday he appeared
before Jutsice Mckinley and paid
the usual fine OF SIS.
Paul WEIGH unwittingly started a
fire Tuesday night at l0:30 O'Clock
that for a time5indicated that it was
going to be quite serious. Mrs. WEIGH
sent her son upstairs to bed at that
hour and he lit a match and applied it
to some inflammable material which
dropped OF the Garrett and then
caught lire on the couch He tried
to put out the flames before calling
his mother and by that time they
were spreading rapidly. The fire de-
partment responded to the alarm and
by carrying water in buckets to the
upper floor the flames We're extin-
guished. The damage will amount to
about S25.
There is no abatement OF the tray-
cling tourists who are coming this
way, and in the bunch are some who
are regular i'm the territory which
the cover. One of the men informed
The Republican that he has been
coming up through this country for
the past twelve years during the
harvest season, and inquired for
Charles Gordinier, who used to be on
the night force. In the motley crowd
are a number OF pretty good young
men, Judging from their talk Of the
homes they left behind. This class
OF fellows are out for a lark and af-
ter experiencing one harvest season
they say they will go back hcme
again.
w. E. Hitchcock, special repre-
sentative Of the London, Liverpool
and Globe Insurance Co., OF Omaha,
was IN the city on business with the
agent of the company, j. E. Wells.
Mr.. Hitchcock SAID he has been COM
ing here for the past nine years and
that he could not help notice the
steady improvement that has been
made in Mitchell in all those years.
He said that the many handsome