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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
NORMAL coMMEhcEmENr.
Annual Exercises Held at Springfield
Il Last EVENING

~
Springfield. S. d. June 9.-The COM,
mencement exercises Of the state nor
NAL school here were held last even-j
ing The following program was given:i
"Ben-Hur Chariot Race" march, or.
chestra.
Invocation Rev. M, A. Martin.
Chorus, graduating class
(a) Gypsy Chorus ('Bohemian,
GirPD. (b)s Sigh No More LADIES'
(Glee). s9 a5s2s
:. Address Hon. M. F. Greeley. &
"Ni-Phrata Overture" orchestra 5ss.s
Presentation, OF diplomas. President,
Frazee. sls
"En Rigle," march, orchestra. s H 1,
Following are the graduates: y ~.
John Raymond Babb. Erving Elmer!
Baldridge. Emma Benesh, Hawleh
Franklin Colgrove, Ida Melvin Cooper
Fred Eugene Dawes, Charlotte JOSEF
phine Dempster, Francis Joseph Farley,i /,
Ray Fred Hildretn. Helen Hunt Hiil,i I
Wilbur Arthur Hitchcock, Mary Ami
Hughes, Era r. Keeling, Sadie Helen.
Lee, Orpha Mildred Pegley. Irene Yer-s
onica Quinn. Berenice Ether Walker
and Eva Josephine Wilson. i
Music Department
Gertrude Colburn, Helen Hunt Hillt
and Era r. Keeling.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
NASH WANTS PosTPoNEMENr.
Asks County Library Boards Not to
Meet Until AUGUST.

Pierre, June 12.-State Superin-
tendent Nash is sending out circular
letter to the county superintendents of
the meetings Of the country library
boards until about the first Of August
by which time the new book catalogue
will be out, and they will have better
lists from which to make selections.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16

vious engagement was Obliged to turn
down the offer. During the past sea-
son he has been with the Beauty
Doctor" company, singing with the
Imperial Four quartet. He has made
hit in all Of the large cities visited
Everywhere he is spoken of as a bassc
whom few excel
After visiting his parents here few
weeks Mr.. johnson will go to New
York to study until August. He will
then join the same company with
which he has been singing during the
past year.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
SINGING HIS WAY TO FAME.
vermiliion Young Man Who Is Making
HIT in Ope-a.

Vermillion. S. D.. June pa Yer
million young man who is singing his
way to fame is Mr.. Oliver johnson.
who is now in the city on a visit to
his parents for a few weeks. Mr..
Johnson left Vermillion about five
years ago. and since then has been
singing in some of the best opera COM
panies of the land.
Mr.. Johnson first came into prom
inence as basso when he was en-
gagged to sing with the Castle Square
Opera company. Last year he was
offered very lucrative situation with
the "Bostonians.' but owing to pre-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
PIERRE MEN INDICTED.
Are Charged with a Common offenss
of Recent Land Settlers by Fed
a,ai cr.y,d .i,rv

St. Paul, Mimi June 12-william T.
Horstell Of ST. Paul and Royal B..
Stearns of Pierre, s. D.. were arraigned
before the United States circuit court
this morning charged with conspiracy
to dcfraud the United States out Of
homestead lands. Both pleaded not
guilty. The indictments against them
were returned by the federal grand
jury yesterday They are charged with
making land entries for the purpose of
selling relinquishments.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
TO ESTABLISH wHlpplne POST
1cresfgord Authorities Would Advise
Such for a Wife Beater.

Beresford. S. D., June 1O.-owing to
the recent arrest of John Dyer, of this
place. on the charge of wife beating.
to provide whipping post for the
suitable punishment of others who may
be arrested on similar charge, In or
der that wife beating may be discour-
aged in this community Dyer was
found guilty of the charge against him,
and is now serving a term of forty
three days In the county Jail, which
VIII give him ample time to reflect on
the seriousness Of his crime.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
STATE CONVENTION.
Annual Meeting Of Christian Church
of South Dakota.

F<''tua1 WceI1HD OF CHTIStIan OhUrCh
Of South Dakota.
Highmore, S. D.. June 14-Beginnine
Wednesday evening last, and closing
last evening, the state convention Of
the Christian churches (disciples) met
at Highmore for their annual session.
About sevcnty-five delegates, lay and
ministerial, are in attendance from all
parts of the state. also Rev. c. w.
Muckley of Kansas City, Mo-, secretary
of the national church extension board
of that society: Rev Clemmens of De-
catur. Ill.,, in the interest of the char
table organization of the church, and
Miss Matte w. Burgess of Indianap-
Oils, Ind, who since 1892. with the ex-
ception of the past year or so, has been
engaged in missionary work in India.
The sessions were we'll attended and
great interest manifested.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
SOME GET MORE MONEY.
Change. in PostSs,.isstter.' saIarie. in
South Dakota oi.en Out.

Washington, June 9.-Under the annual
readjustment OF postmasters' salaries
these changes in South Dakota were an
nounced today: Increased Arlington, 81, 800
to Sl,4OO; Belle Fourche. l,40O to $500:
Brookings, S2,l0O to $500: Hot SPRING..
81. GOO to N.70O: Hurley, 3l.0o0 to 81. 100. De.
creased Elk Point and Groton, 1880 to
1l.5o0; Faulkton. $500 70 $3.50: Huron,
400 to $500.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
PIERRE COMPANY INCORPORATES
W"i Develop the Cement Resources
Near CITY.

Pierre. S. D., June 12-Articles of in
corporation have been filed for the
Pierre Cement, Brick and Oil company
with a capital of s5oO,o0O. The incorpo.
rators are j. L. Lockhart H. D. Jen-l
nings. S. G. Trine. Ellen Jenneings and
John B. Lockhart, all local parties. The
among them own about
two miles of the river front which con-
tains large deposits of cement shale,
and 1t is their purpose to develop the
property as rapidly as possible.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
DROWNED IN SMITH CREEK.
Henry Nelson Seized with cramp,
While BATHING.

Kimball, S. D.. June 12.-word ha.
Just been brought into kimball that
Henry Nelson. son OF Hans Nelsonn was
drowned while bathing in Smith creek,
twenty-one miles north of here De-
ceased was q years Of age and a fair
swimmer. An attack Of cramps was
thought to have disabled him and
caused his death.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
SHOT IN RESORT:
Sam Carr and Granville Thornton En-.
gage in Quarrel and Thornton
Wae KiIIed

Yankton. s. D.. June 14-sam Carr
and Granville Thorntol, both of this
place, engaged in quarrel in a negro
resort yesterday and as a result of a
revolver shot Thornton is dead. Carr
is being held for murder.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
SOUTH. DAKOTA BISHOP
Frederick F. johnson, of srookfield,
Massachusetts,, Is Given the

North Brookfield. Mass, June 12-Rev.
Frederick +. Johnson, who was today
elected bishop coadjutor of the South
Dakota missionary district, has been
in charge of Christ church here for
several months.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
TERROR TO CRIMINALS
DIES AT SAN FRANCISCO
BENJAMIN THORN, OLD-TIMER,
EXPIRES
Man Hunter Took Part in Many Excit-
ing Adventures in the Early Days
of CaIifornia-Liked to Drive Out
Professional Bad Men
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.-Benja-
min Thorn, one of the noted charac-
ters in the history of California, for
merly sheriff of Calaveras county, the
captor of many of the infamous GRIM
inals of the state, died here yesterday
morning.
In the days when the laws were
loose, when life was cheap and men
lived on the frontier stage of exist
ence, Thorn was the terror of the
criminal. He engaged in many man
hunts in California.
One of his early captures was that
of Tom Rivers, lieutenant of the no
torious Joaquin Vasquez, the bandit.
who was hanged at San Jose. "Alkali
Jim" was William Minor, stage robber
of early days, who operated In the
mining country, sent to prison by the
intrepid Thorn. Tommy" Brown, a
desperado who escaped from Folsom
penitentiary, was recaptured by the Of
ficer after a desperate battle in Gala
Veras county.
Thorn was at the front in the sue
cessful hunt in Fresno county for Will
liam Evans, the bandit who, with
George Sontag, killed Mitchell Tobey.
ger, ten years ago. Then BLACK
Bart" otherwise Charles e. Barton,
the poet stage robber, was another
criminal who was landed through the
work of the daring Thorn. Ben Thorn
was born in New York seventy-five
years ago and crossed the plains to
California in 1S49.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
LORD CURZ0N GIVES
REASON FOR RESIGNING
FORMER VIcERoY MAKES FRANK
STATEMENT
Retiring Official Says That There
Should Be Indestructible Subordi-
nation of the Military to the Civil
Authorities
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BOMBAY, Nov. 16.-At a banquet in
his honor here tonight Lord Curzon
Of Kedleston, the retiring viceroy of
India, made a frank avowal of the
reasons for his resignation. Beginning
with the declaration that he considered
the office of viceroy the noblest gift
of the British nation and that it ought
to be looked upon as a prize to be
awarded only to its greatest statesmen.
he said that it could not be supposed
that he would, without the strongest
reasons, resign a position which had
been the dream of his childhood and
the ambition of his manhood.
He resigned, he said on no personal
grounds, but in defense of two great
principles. First, that there should be
an indestructible subordination of the
military to the civil authority and,
second, the necessity of paying becom-
ing regard to the Indian authority in
determining the needs of India.
Lord Curzon contended that in sacri-
ficing himself in defense of these prin-
ciples he had the great preponderance
of Indian opinion behind him and pre-
dicted that, should the day ever come
when the viceroy would be treated as
the mere puppet of the home govern
ment, the justification for the post
would cease to exist.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
BY Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-Attorney
General Moody today made a state
ment with reference to pleas in bar
filed by the defendants in the indict-
ments against the beef packers pend
ing in the district court at Chicago.
The statement says:
"Ten separate pleas in bar have been
filed, each of them alleging facts
which, it is claimed, ought to bar the
government from proceeding further in
this case.
Eight of these pleas are based on
the alleged conduct of Mr.. Garfield
commissioner of corporations. in max
ing an investigation of the affairs OF
the defendants In pursuance of the
authority conferred upon him by law
and in special obedience to the reso-
luton of the house of Representatives
requiring him to make such investi-
cation.
1.-The attorney general asserts in the
most positive terms that none of the IN
was used before the grand jury and
further says that he is informed by
Mr.. Garfield and believes that at GER
tain stages of the investigation the
defendants declined to give informa-
ton unless they were put in a posi-
ton to obtain the immunity provided
by the act of congress and required
by the constitution of the United
States that when such instances oc-
Cured, acting after a conference with
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
ASKS CHRISTIANS TO
STOP KILLING JEWS
INTERCHURCH DELEGATES HEAR
APPEAL
Princeton University Professor Says
Churches Without Social Aim Are
Traitorous to Humanity-Avers
Ideal Society Is Coming
By Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Nov. 1O.-The report
of the executive committee before the
interchurch conference on federation
in Carnegie hall was the first business
taken up by that body today.
Rev. Wm Hayes Ward of New York,
chairman of the committee on comfy
federation and unity of the national
council of Congregational churches
and Rev. e. B. Sanford, secretary OF
the executive committee and general
secretary of the national federation OF
churches and Christian workers, ad-
dressed the convention.
Rev. DR.. w. H. Roberts of Philadel-
phia was elected chairman of the con-
ference. A secretary was appointed
for each church represented, Rev. Will
liam B. Noble of Los Angeles being
chosen for the Presbyterian church in
the United States.
Rev. Washington GLADDEN. presented
paper imploring the Russians as
Christians to cease from the massacre
of the Jews. The appeal was referred
to a committee
DR.. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton
university delivered an address tonight
on 'The ideal society,"" declaring that
federation of churches without So
cial aim would be traitorous to hu-
manity and an infidelity to God.
But when the ideal is come" he
continued, there will be no more
churches, there will be no law courts
police or enemies"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
Martial Law Will Be
Proclaimed
Move Sure to Provoke
BlOOdshed
General Strike Now Interpreted as
Meaning That Revolution and Not
Constitution Is object Of
Socialists
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 17.-The
situation here has assumed a highly
dangerous phase.
Witte, feeling himself deserted, this
afternoon recommended to the emperor
in order to prevent disastrous disorders
to declare martial law tomorrow.
In the present temper of the people
such provocation will be sure to
raise a storm, the end Of which no one
can foresee.
1t is significant that two regiments
of trusted dragons were drafted TO
st. Petersburg this morning.
Extreme pessimism and nervousness
are everywhere prevalent.
At present the general strike is inter-
preted as meaning that revolution
and not constitution is aimed at by
the Socialists.
A report is common that the officers
Of the guard petitioned the czar to
rescind his offer of constitution, under
taking to repress any troubles which
might follow.
Such course would surely set Russia
in flames of revolution from one end
to the other.
The last ship likely to leave ST. Pet
ersburg left at 1 o'clock. 1t was
crowded with refugees, mostly women
and children.
Ice is coming down the Neva and will
speedily close navigation.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
NO FOREIGNERS APPOINTED
Secretary Root Puts None but Amerl-
cans on Guard at Con-
suIates
Rv Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-Not a SIN
gle foreigner has been appointed 70
the American consular service abroad
since Secretary Root assumed office.
He feels that It Is his duty to put
none but Americans on guard"
Aside from the fact that foreigner
naturally might be expected to take
less interest than an American In the
development of our trade abroad, II
is felt that in time of political stress,
wherein relations might become
strained, no such test should be placed
upon the loyalty of the foreign con-
sular agent to his native country as
would be imposed by requiring him to
do his full duty to the country which
merely employs him.
So, although a number of vacancies
have occurred In these posts since Sec
retary Root assumed office, he has held
consistently to the policy above laid
down, and where 1t has not been pos
slble to find Americans to fill the va
oancies the offices have been allowed
to remain vacant. OF course, the va
cancies cannot continue indefinitely,
but the secretary hopes that, with the
pressure of the business world behind
him, congress will yield to his appeal
for more liberal compensation for these
small posts so as to enable him to send
out American officials.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
Attorney General Makes Statement That None Of
Information Obtained by Commissioner
Was Used Before Grand Jury
$1,000

the attorney general, Mr.. Garfield re-
Trained from pursuing the inquiry fur
ther and made no further attempt to
obtain information, documentary or
otherwise, along these lines.
After a full conference with Mr..
Garfield the answe, of the govern
gin, under the supervision of the at
torney general and with the assistance
of the district attorney and will be
taken to Chicago and filed in the court
there early next week.
THE seventh plea in bar urges that
the government unlawfully seized GER
tain papers of the defendants and
submitted them to the grand jury con-
trary to the rights conferred upon them
by the constitution. The government
denies that it obtained any papers 9TH
erwise than by the ordinary process OF
subpoena directly to the person who
had the custody of them.
1.-THE government admits the facts
but denies that they constitute a bar
to a criminal prosecution.
1.-THE answer prepared by the gov
ernment will raise a mixed issue of
law and fact to be determined, not by
the attorney general or the district
attorney, but by the court in which the
proceedings are pending.
1.-THE government will resist these
pleas in bar and urge a speedy trial of
them; but the attorney general refrains
from expressing any opinion upon the
case, as it would be obviously improper
for him to do so while the questions
are pending in the district court
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
SAYS FOOTBALL
IS PICS GAME
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY is
MERCILESS
State University Man Speaks Of Root
ers and Players In Terms of
contempt-DecIares Play
Is Degrading
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. t6.-Prof
George H. Howison of the department
of philosophy of the state university
has expressed before his class in eth
les his condemnation of football in the
following language:
THE spectacle of twenty-five men
wallowing in the dirt of a football
field inevitably suggests pigs rolling in
mire, while thousands of persons root
in grandstands at the spectacle pro-
vided on the field.
I'VE know what sort of animals
root Pigs root The pig idea is
pretty fully carried out in the foot
ball frenzy. 1t is all degrading, dis
heartening. 1t seems to represent the
supremacy of dirt and interest in brute
force and animalsm rampant.
People pay $3.50 apiece to see the
exhibition, and, perchance, to see one
of the pigs killed. Then it Is called
loyalty to college and an exhibition
of college spirit
1--WE are supposed as university men
to stand for scholarship and mental
effort, but when the roofing Is all for
pig-like exhibition provided by men
wallowing in the dirt our ideals seem
to have sadly degenerated."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
TlE-UP is COMPLETE
General Strike Movement Brings
About Crisis in Russia


About Crisis in Russia
by Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. II, 2:30 a..
m.-The Industrial tie-up in st. Peters,
burg yesterday was even more COM
plete than it was Wednesday. No
break has been manifested in the ranks
of the worSmen and strikes have
broken out at Moscow and Revel.
The factory strike at Moscow has as
sumed considerable proportions. Prob
ably $4,000 men are out.
The strikers forced the closing of the
Moscow railroad station early yester-
day, stopping outgoing traffic for Mos
COW, and at 10 O'Clock last night they
succeeded in closing the electric light
stations and in cutting off light from
the city.
Dispatches from Kusk, Poltava, Ria
zan, Samara and other provinces con-
tinue to report the spread of disorders,
which in PoltaVa are taking an anti
Jewish turn. However, the imperial
manifesto regarding the distribution of
the crown domains, which by siren
uous work was finished last night, will
be issued early this morning. and the
emperor and Count Witte hope it will
tend to pacify the peasants and have
an important tactical effect upon the
coming struggle with the socialists and
other anti-government forces in the
elections for the douma.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
GRANTS LAND CONCESSIONS
Gar Signs Manifesto Making Sweep
ing Terms With Peasants
Rv Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. II, 6 a. ma dis
patch from st. Petersburg to Reuters
Telegram company says that an i'm
perial manifesto granting land conces-
sions to the peasants was issued this
morning. BY it's terms the land re-
demption tax payments from January
IA, 1906, will be reduced by one-half
and from January IA, 1907, the pay
ments will be totally abolished.
At the same time the capital of the
Peasants bank is increased and the
bank is granted annual loan privileges
with the object of facilitating to the
utmost the purchase of lands by peas
ants.
1t is estimated that the amount of
taxation thus lifted from the peasants
by the manifesto will aggregate $40,-
100000, while the extension of the field
of operations of the Peasants banks
will enable vast tracts of crown and
private lands gradually to become the
property of the peasants.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
DEFENDANT FoRFEITs BAIL
New Yorker Indicted for illegal Voting
Falls to Appear for
Trial
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. ia sensation
was created In Justice Davis branch
of the supreme court this afternoon
when John Krup, indicted for Illegal
voting in the recent municipal elec-
tion, failed to appear for pleading and
his attorneys expressed Ignorance as
to his whereabouts. Earlier I'm the day
Krup's release had been secured un-
der increased bail
state Attorney General Mayer, who
was in court, was indignant at the
turn of affairs. Tonight the attorney
general made public this statement:
Every effort will be made to ascer-
tain who put up the $4,000 bail and who
employed counsel to defend Krup. The
failure of Krup to appear in court was
as fiagrant defiance of law as l ever
heard of. The disappearance of Krur
Is the best confirmation of the state
ment made by me in court urging that
his bail be increased. 1 believe there
were reasons apart from his own why
Krup did not appear.
IF this defendant has left town,
declared the attorney general, "I know
with whom he was last seen and will
know how to proceed l thought some
body must have been greatly interested
in Krup to put up $4,000 bail for him
just to secure his liberty for a few
hours"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
UNVEIL MEMORIAL WINDOWS
Impressive Ceremonies Are Held in
st. Petersburg Chapel at
Mare Island

VALLEJO, Cal, Nov. 16.-Seven
memorial windows were unveiled with
impressive ceremonies in st. Petersburg
chapel at Mare Island this morning,
the chaplain, Rev. McAllister, offlciat-
ing. There was a large congregation,
including Rear Admiral McCalla and
the officers Of various warships in the
harbor.
The subjects of the pictures and those
in whose names they were presented
are as follows:
"St. Luke" Surgeon Leonard Brown;
Charity" Mrs. Brown; "The Arch
angel" Civil Engineer Daniel Turner;
"St. Mark" Lieut.. Commander Cults;
"St. Peter" Rear Admiral Thomas H.
Stevens; "St Thomas" Rear Admiral
Thomas o. Selfridge; TRUTH" Rear
Admiral e. R. Calhoun.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-17
RUSSIAN PRETENDER ARISES
Agrarian Uprising of $4,000 Moujiks
Threatens Cars Throne
BY Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1, 5:45 p.
ma false emperor has suddenly
made his appearance near Penza and
already his followers number $4,000.
This is the startling report received
this afternoon in a dispatch from Sim
brisk.
Penza is in the heart of the vast re-
gion extending westward from the
Volga, where agrarian uprisings on a
large scale have been occurring, and
II the report turns out to be true that
the pretender to the throne has placed
himself at the head of the peasantry,
the government will soon face, besides
it's other troubles, a formidable agrar-
ian rebellion. 1t required a year to
suppress the famous rebellion led by
Pugaticheff, who impersonated the de-
throned and murdered Peter III in
the time of Catherine II.
That uprising was started In the
same region on the banks Of the Volga.