The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-05-26

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itsler Peters barn, Mitchell. serg
e tses 5000 taf iiyec COLI. stood last
year o. Looms.
! .4I.# T.. lotlard feesisa ms tom-
lHs u. f1a rsda} 80 ..c waIdrn OF
I4sts9u county from Governor Elrud.
Nj cllaia appointed ~. II. @aal
andl..c x Getcheil as citY wardefs
Captain CoIlard has made a very enl-
Client warden in tue past year and
watenc the Niol4tors Of Tie lIN
closely.
j.. II. Murphy and VIM. II. Har-
rison of Chicago, wole iq the city
over night, guests at The Widmann
Mr., Murphy is the manager for Al
lanson Co. which controls the lunch
counter and restaurant system of tile
Milwaukee road, and Mr.. Harrison is
one of the oldest conductors Oh the
Milwaukee system, and has the run
OF the Pioneer Limited out of Cni-
cagO to Milwaukee.
h. A. Gale, of Mason City, Iowa.
was in the city and was driven over
the residence portion of Mitchell by
ID. NJ. Tiffany. an old friend. Mr..
Gale owns a ranch of about $500
acres out near P~laukinton on which
he has 500 head of stock. He en-
pressed the opinion that South Dako-
TIA, so far as he could see, was a bet
ter state than Iowa. which is some
thing OF a confession for AN iowa
man to make. He said farmers i'm
his section have had a mighty poor
time of it in the past four or live
; yeats,
over loo students and people OF
Mitchell Departed on tie early morn-
ing tlaih via the Milwaukee road
Wednesday for Aankton to attend
the athletIe and o%ratorical contests,
which began tUere TO-DAY. The oya-
|totieal contest was held iast even
ing aud all hopes are Gentered in
Tanners winning. The athletic con-
; tests viii he concluded thus At
teFnoon and the students win relutn
5 home Oh The 10 O'Clock passenger.
Ile base ball team win 20 TO Yer
million Saturday for a game of base
ball with the state university team.
Sheriff Cook is expected to arrive
III Mitchell today with j. IL. Frank
I lin who is wanted ON the charge of
enlightenment. He was arrested out
I in Idaho and iIeld until the sheriff
Y arrived there. Franklin was the
former ageut fol- the Singer Sewing
9 Ma .hine Co., having a large tern
l tory in this section, and he succeeded
in collecting ABOUT $4,000 of the COM
pany's money which he failed to turn
. in, and several months ago he ski tipped
e the country. The machine company
put detectives on his track and final
Q ly landed the embezzler.
Saturday morning the Omaha rail-
= road will RON n OF its cheap excur-
sions to st. Paul and Minneapolis.
the train leaving Mitchell at $50 a..
+ IN the fare for the round trip being
d 81. There are many sights OF inter
+ est to he seen i'm and around the
Twin Cities. a side trip that is par
d ticuIarly good being a journey to TT.
5 Smelling. Two games of professional
ball in the American association can
be seen Sunday afternoon in both
! cities Passengers can return Sum
luu avn,,jn,r N, 1,oyn tl,o ,itioc
Monday morning, reaching Mitchell
in the evening.
An effort was made Wednesday to
ii retain the grounds OF the Dri5ing
J. Park Association and prevent them
d from being disposed of into residence
lots When it came to a show down
10 raise 81. 600 for the purchase OF
the grounds and the expense that
would necessarily follow to restore
the grand stand and horse sheds
enough persons could not be interest.
ed to take stock in the enterprise
So all hopes are gon OF MITCHELL;
having another race track in some
time. 1t is true there is not much
:, profit in conducting a race meeting.
hut nevertheless it is rather disap.
pointing to be without a place tt
i have one
re Six Of the delegates to the athletic
he and oratorical conventions held at
Y Yankton Wednesday evening left tina,
'e morning as representatives of the
University. 1t has been foul or five
years since these contests were hello
in Mitchell and the idea was Sug'
y pested tn the committee to try to Sc
/, cure it for Micthell next year. but
~ one Of the members said that e
l.. athletic grounds were to be estab'
lished for the University immediate,
ly south of the buildings and thaI
the grounds could not be put in shap.
: for the meet in one season, the mair
]. difficulty being the erection of F;