Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-31

country Is attracted 10 the abound.
ing prosperity of South Dakota
somebody has to try to offset it by
suggesting Pettigrew for governor
| A petition by Mrs. Clara S. Hay,
widow of the late Secretary John
Hay, for the probate of Mr.. Hays
will was filed in the probate court.
The petition states that Mr.. HAY
left property, real and personal, to
the value of more than $25n,OOO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert G. Depp, of
Hickory Run, Ya., with the appear
ance OF twins yesterday, are the
parents of twenty three children.
The parents are only 40 years old
and have been married eighteen
years. Depp is railroad section
foreman.
1t is now rumored that scandal is
soon to break loose in the treasury
department in connection with
tobacco duties. 1t would seem that
the grafters had been touched UP
enough during the past two years to
put temporary stop to the crooked
work. A few punches in the peni-
tertiary may be necessary to clarity
the treasury atmosphere.
In compliance with a new anti
cigarette law in Indiana, railroad
companies operating in that state
have ceased to sell cigarettes on
trains passing through it's borders.
There is now in prospect a contest
to determine whether the companies
may sell intoxicants on dining and
buffet cars, without having license
for every county in the state through
which they pass.
United Stat es Assayer Fred Wing,
in charge Of the Seattle assay office,
has made the statement that his
estimate Of the gold output of Nome
for the season of 1905 will be S10,-
100000. This amount will be the
record for Nome and will exceed
output of last year by $4,000, 900.
VIZ. Wing bases his estimate on the
amount of gold which has been sent
from Nome SO far this year.
A private railroad car built at the
governments order for President
Lincoln, and used from 1868 to 1865
has been offered to Lincoln Park,
Chicago, but as yet the park com
missioners have indicated no interest
in the proposition, The car has
been the centre of Lincoln exhi-
bits" at various expositions. After
having been used by the martyred
president during the war days, it
was also used for the conveyance of
his remains from Washington to
Springfield.
Senator Burton, of Kansas, asserts
his innocence of the new charges
brought against him. Perhaps he
is innocent. 1t is certainly to be
hoped that he is, and that he will
succeed in proving his innocence in
the minds of the public as well as to
the satisfaction of his friends. But
a simple denial of wrong doing by a
senator will no longer suffice to
clear him in the minds of the public,
since Senator Mitchell's sensational
assertion of innocence on the floor
of the senate.
The burning at the stake of Tom
Williams, a negro, for attacking a
white woman, was commended at the
state convention of negro Baptists
in session at Dallas, Texas. Rev.
Mr.. Jacksou,of Dallas, declared that
if any action were taken by the con-
vention in reference to the lynching
"a resolution should be passed CON-
mending the whites. Other pastors
asserted the negroes aided the whites
| in the capture Of Williams. Every
law abiding negro was said TO be in
favor Of lynch law in cases Of the
kind.
The finding Of the census authori-
ties, as set out in recent bulletin,
that the birth rate in the United
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