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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-03-12
pfnerent KIND. Of Days.

Five kinds Of day are recognize,,
and It has been said that the word
''day" has no real meaning without an
adjective defining what kind CT a day
Is meant. There Is a civil day, the as
Economical day, the apparent solar day,
the mean solar day and the sidereal
day. The civil day begins a. the mid
night preceding mean noo and con-
ksts OF t~wenty-four hours counted aft
er IL o'clock. The astronomical day be-
gins twelve hours after the civil day,
or at the mean noon of the correspond
ing civil day. These hours are reck-
oned from 0 TO "a. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that while 10 hours II min
utes Jan. l astronomical time is also
10 hours II minutes Jan. ] civil time.
yet % hours II minutes Jan. ! astro-
nomical time is also 10 hours II MIN
utes a.. m. Jan. 2 civil time. There are
many anomalies growing out Of this
use of the civil day, and there are
many arguments In favor of using the
astronomical day. Ii is n of the re
forms which undoubtedly will come
some time.-London Standard.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-03-12

An open winter ought not to threaten
this country with an Ice famine, for
fight up in Greenland there is one
: block 10000 miles i'm area and a mile
and a half In thIckness- Cut into slabs.
the block wouk$ cover the United
States with frosting hundreds Of feet
deep.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01
Commissioners Proceedings

Adjourned session of the Board Of
County Commissioners Of Brookings
county, S. Oak.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Brookings county, South Dakota,
met in adjourned session at the Office
of the County Auditor, in the City of
Brookings, s. D., IN Tuesday, Janu-
airy 23d, 1906, at 1890 O'Clock a. m.
Members present, Chairman F. w.
Newton, and Commissioners Lewis
Johnson, Ole Erickson, o. G.. Oyloe
and james Pike, and the County
Auditor as clerk.
Board was called to order by the
chairman and proceeded to the consi-
deration of the drainage petition of A.
w. Hyde and others, filed with the
County Auditor, a bond with sufficient
sureties having been filed with and
approved by the County Auditor as
required by law, the board on motion
voted to personally inspect said pro-
posed drainage on Thursday, January
25th, 1906.
The Board then proceeded to the
consideration of the drainage petition
Of X. H. Williams and others, filed
with the County Auditor and a bond
with sufficient sureties having been
filed with and approved by the County
Auditor as required by law, the Board
On motion voted to personally inspect
said proposed drainage on Wednesday,
January 9th, 1906.
On motion the Board adjourned to
9 O'Clock a. M, January oath, 1906.
January Oath, Board met as per adj
journment, all members and clerk
present, the day vas spent in a per-
sonal inspection of the proposed drain
age petitioned for by R. H. Williams
and others, returning at 4:30 p. m,
Board on motion adjourned to 9o'clock
a. M, Of January 25th, 1906.
January 25th, 1906, Board met as
per adjournment, all members and
clerk present, the Board proceeded to
make a personal inspection OF the
proposed drainage petitioned for by A.
w. Hyde and others, and at 8 O'Clock
p. M, met at the Office Of the County
Auditor and reported that they had on
the 25th day of January, 1905, person
ally inspected the proposed route for
| drainage set forth and described in the
petition of A. w. Hyde and others and
in their opinion it being necessary to
have a complete survey of the pro-
posed drainage made by a competent
surveyor, moved that j. A. Hegeman
be selected to survey said proposed
route and proposed drainage petition.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01
Are the People Gullible?

The Dell Rapids Republican says:
"We find this gem in the last number
of the Brookings Press, which has be-
come a stalwart machine organ since
its mercurial editor got the postofice
at Brookings:
As one OF the issues sought to be
raised in this campaign, 1t is now
pretty thoroughly demonstrated that
there are no anti Roosevelt republicans
in South Dakota, but that every re-
publican is for the president and with
him in his fight for railroad regulation
and reform.
The machine papers must have a
mighty poor opinion OF the intelligence
of their readers. For six months prior
to the converting OF congress their
columns were filled with matter op-
posing rate regulation and designed
to discredit the presidents policy, but
the people gave abundant evidence o.
standing firmly in support of the pres.
dents policy for a "square DEAL" and
now that the campaign is on for this
years election the machine papers,
like their masters, the machine politi.
clans, are switching around and de.
claring for rate regulation. Unless
the people are far gullible than
we think they are, the machine papers
will have difficulty in finding any
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

The WATERFOWL Public Opinion
thinks Codington county ought to
demand something better than a state
Office from the next Republican con-
v%ention, because a state officer will
merely holdthe office for the salary and
will be of no benefit to the county
other than to draw an income. While
a congressman would be not only able
to serve the state at large but would be
in a position to get something good
for Watertown and Codington county.
If this holds good in Watertown why
does it not apply to Brookings county
as we'll. This county has not had so
many of the good things which have
been passed around to the various
towns where senators and congress
men have been from that it cannot ask
and receive more-just as much as
could Codington county. Let us take
a pointer from the Public Opinion
and have something of more value
than a state office holder. We car
have a congressman if we pull to-
gether and through that congressman
may also secure a public building OF
considerable importance.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

1t is difficult to tell anything clearly
and without prejudice when it con-
Germs the present state of politics in
South Dakota. The republicans in
this state are lined up at the present
time on a general ground ofprejudice.
The regular state organization has ar
ranged the politics of the state for a
series of years, and no man can make
an Independent 0 " without disturb
ing the grand scheme. Coe /. Craw-
ford was denounced last year, not be-
cause there was the slightest iota Of
an objection to him as a man in any
trifing particular, but because he dis
turbed the management of the chess
men on the board, and disturbed the
game as it was intended to be played
by the men who claimed to have the
right to move the puppets. The same
holds true of Philo Hall at the present
time. He is being opposed not be-
cause he has been a failure in his I'M
d~ertakings upsto the present time, but
because he has made such a splendid
success that it is known that he will
not be 4 pawn on the political chess
board Of the state. The men who are in
active sympathy with the the machine
will damn him if they can, the news
papers which are dependent upon in
surance statements, which are used as
a club to cove the weaker kneed
brethren of the press, will take up the
same hue and cry, and every influence
possible will be brought to bear to be-
smirch his name and defeat him at
the convention. This it is which we
denominate as a pity, and is a condi-
ton which cannot be denied. AIRING
ton Sun,
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ed for in said petition, and that said
surveyor be required to complete said
survey as 500 as practicable and file
the same with the County Auditor and
that said surveyor be instructed to
make said survey a complete survey
and to estimate the cost Of said pro-
posed drainage, setting forth the pro-
posed route, a description of the lands
through which it will pass and the
name of the owners of each tract so far
as the same appears in the Office Of the
Register of Deeds Of said County of
Brookings, and a description of all the
lands liable to be affected by said pro-
posed drainage, and to make a COM
CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGEl
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01
An Open Confession

John Holman, author of the ''honest
caucus law" and an ex-machinist OF
considerable note, has been giving
the Viborg Enterprise some informa-
ton that came from a contrite heart.
AS a member OF the last legislature, he
was allied to the machine element,
which he says was bound to defeat
any action IN support of the primary
election bill and the petition asking
that it be submitted to a vote OF the
people.
Mr.. Holman admits that he did
everything in his power to accomplish
the overthrow of the petition, but
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

general credit for assertions like that
of the Bookings Press, that "every
republican is for the president and
with him in his fight for railroad regu-
lation and REFORM" The DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde tactics of the machine
are palpable that v those who suffer
the intellectual hardship Of reading
machine papers exclusively ought to
be able to comprehend the Interior
motive back of the remarkably sudden
change from opposition to support of
the presidents rate policy"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

claims some credit for injecting a
little of the primary formula into the
caucu law prepared by him.
Mr.. Holman asked the Viborg paper
to state distinctly that he is now
against the machine and sis doing
everything in his power to destroy the
dictatorship of the big political boss
OF the state-Senator A. B. Kittredge."
The frank admission of Mr.. Hol-
man that the machine was bound to
defeat any action in support of the
primary petition contains nothing
new in the way of information, but it
may serve to strengthen the conviction
of some OF the doubling ones that the
organized committee OF the republican
party engineered the movement by
which the will of the people was over
thrown and the constitution Of the
state ignored.
1t is now known from the lips ofone
Of the conspirators that the combina-
ton that has for a dozen years con-
trolled elections, conventions and leg
islation stopped to the disreputable
business that will render the legisla-
ture of 1905 a reproach to the end Of
the generation that created it.
Mr.. Holman has separated himself
from the evil political associations
through which he was led astray and
is ready to make amends for the past
by assisting in the overthrow of the
machine. There is room for such men
in the ranks of the reformers.-Sioux
Falls Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

A public official who has had per-
sonal opportunity for years OF know
ing the pressure brought to bear, and
the constant demand for railroad
passes by people who look for some
one in official position OF with a.'pull'
to get it for them, said to this writer
not long ago that he was firmly con-
WINGED that the free railroad pass con-
stituted the greatest danger to the
public and government today. It's
subtle influence creeps unobserved in
to every community, and is little less
damaging and demoralizing than
wholesale bribery with money. The
people Of this state were given a great
object lesson during the capital cam
paign, but then the two great railway
systems of the state we're OppoSing each
other. What would it be with all the
influence Of the pass on n side? II
is a reasonable and just demand that
the practice baprohibited -Centcryille
Journal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

The boss and machine system in
politics is inevitably corrupt. Affairs
of the state involving vast interests,
dealing often directly with great in
vestments and business opportunities,
cannot be managed honestly unless
they are managed in the open, where
every one can see what is done, and
unless they are settled by public dis
cussion in which every voice can be
heard and the public car understand
what motives are observation-disclosures.
Never were truer words spoken.
When q party becomes so we'll "organ-
lied" that a United States Senator can
absolutely control a state legislature
and thereby subject his party to the
Just criticism Of fair-minded people
when seven members of that ''organi-
zation'' can meet in secret and perfect
plans to slaughter a gentleman whose
manhood, loyalty and party honor are
unGueStioned, it is time to call a halt.
''The boss and machine system in
politics is inevitably corrupt and
that is the only reason today that
there exists a division in the ranks OF
the Republican party of South Dakota.
Perhaps the people, who pay the bills,
are going to submit to the dictation of
bossism and machine tactics and per-
haps they will not. More likely there
will be a check placed on these high
handed methods. In this instance we
mean the secret meeting held in -Aber-
deem at which time seven machine
politicians declared that U. S. Senator
r. J. Gamble must be defeated.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

d. 1906, at 10 o'clock a. NJ, of said day, at the
Court Room of said Court, at Brookings in the
County of BroOkings, s.. II. have been appointed
as the time aud place for proving the will Of
the said petition for probate thereof and the
issuance of Il Letters T~cstamcntary therein, when
and where any person interested may appear
and contest the same.
Dated at BrookinEs, South Dakota, the End
day of January, \. d.. 1905.
by the Court:
FRED W. DRICKEN,
Judge of the County Court.
(SCa! of County Court
Attest:
+. +. ToUNGBURG,
Clerk of County Court.
Hall, Lawrence & Roddle,
Attorneys for Petitioner,
Brookings, South Dakota. 3J-3w
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IenneSSeednS
Warmly
Welcomed

The TenneSseean Jubilee
Singers met with q hearty
reception at Thomas opera
house, Tuesday evening,
when they made their first
appearance before a Chicago
Heights audience, under the
auspices of the High School
Athletic association. From
the first note to the closing
chorus, The Old Flag Never
Touched the Ground Boys"
the audience was charmed
and the members of the COM
pany were obliged to respond
to repeated encores. The
association is very much
pleased with the success Of
this, their first venture.
Prices, IS and IS cents.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

The Argus-Leader declares that Philo
Hall had no right to become a candi-
date for congress because a member OF
the Republican party in this county
was the first to announce his candi-
dacy. If that holds true, the Argus
Leader should denounce Sam Elrod
who has been guilty of announcing
himself a candidate for governor after
Coe /. Crawford had announced him
self.
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Jan. Feb. S.
Notice Of Hearing Of Petition
tor Letters OF Administration

... Ian. 23-Fob. s
Notice Of Hearing of Petition
tor Letters OF Admiuist ration
State of South Dakota,
fss IN County Court
County of Brookings.
In the matter of the estate of
Wilhemina LeDtz, Deceased.
The State of South Dakota sends Greeting to
Charles W.. H.. Lentz, Annie Haber, Elmer An
thony LentZ. Emil Lentz, Henry Lei,tz, Edward
LentZ and Theodore Lentz, heirs at law and
next of kin of Wilhemina Lentz, deceased, and
TO all whom these presents may come.
Notice is hereby given that Elmer Anthony
LentZ has filed with the Judge of this Court, a
petition praying tor Letters of Administration
of the Estate of Wilhrmina Lentz, deceased, and.
that Monday, the 10Th day of February, A. D.
1896, at = O'Clock p. NJ, of said day, being a day
of a regular term of this Court, to- wit: of the
January, 1906, Term, at the office of the Judge
OF this Court at the Court House in the City of
Brooklngs in the said County of Bookings, has
been set for hearing said petition, when and
where any person Interested may appear and
show cause why the said petition should not be
granted.
Dated at Brookings, s. Dak., this 22nd day of
January, A. ID. 1906.
FRED w. DRICKEN,
Judge OF the County Court.
-, (Seal of County Court
F.. i. YouYGBuRG, Clerk.
Hall, Lawrence d Roddle,
attorneys for Petitioner,
Brookings, South Dakota. 35-3w
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

Nearly every person present was
surprised that on such a stormy night
there should be so many interested
enough to leave the tireside to hear a
political speech. The Tribune states
the truth when it says ''tne opera
house was filled" and also that "the
meeting was q success" Had the
weather been fine the opera house
would not have been large enough to
accommodate the audience. Mr.. Craw-
ford was frequently applauded and as
has been stated before their attempt
to ridicule is of itself evidence that the
"machine'' has no other defense. 1t
is the ''machine" postmaster editor
who is guilty of pounding the tin pan
and throwing dust in hopes of divid-
ing the 'swarm."
1t might be we'll to add that the edi-
tors of the Tribune and Press are
brothers and would therefore be apt to
agree did the circumstances permit.
1t is feared that Charles anxiety to
retain the Brookings postofice for
another term warps his opinion some
what.
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tJan. II to Feb. 81
Notice 10 Creditors

State of South Dakota,)
Sss In County Court
County OF Brookings
In the Matter of the Estate
of Jane Ross, Notice to Creditors
Deceased
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned ad-
minlstrator of the estate of Jane Ross, Deceased
to the creditors and all persons having claims
against the said deceased to exhi il them with
the necessary vouchers within four months after
the first publication of this notice to said ad
ministrator, at his residence in the town of
Eureka in the County of Brookings and State of
Cheeyer & Cheever, at the CITY of Brookines,
Brookings County, South Dakota.
Dated at Brookings, South Dakota, thiss 9Th
Administrator OF the Estate Of Jane Ross. De
ceased.
Cheever & Cheever, Attorneys for Administra,
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lJan. II to Feb. 81
Notice to Creditors.

State OF South Dakota,
Sss In County Court
County of Bookings
In the Matter of the Estate
of Benjamin Franklin Notice to Creditors
Ross, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned ad-
ministratOr of the estate of Benjamin Franklin
Ross, Deceased, to the creditors and all persons
having claims against the said deceased to,ex-
four months after the first publication Of this
notice to said administrator ut his residence in
the town of Eureka in the County of Brookings
and State Of South Dakota, or at the Office of
his attorneys CheevPr q CheeNe r, at the City OF
Brookings, Brookings County, South Dakota.
Dated at Bookings, South Dakota, this Sth
day of January, 1906.
WILLIAM S. Ross,
Administ ator of the Estate of Benjamin Frank
lin Ross, Deceased.
Cheeyer & Cheeyer, Attorneys for Administra.
tor, Brookings, S. d.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

If you believethe people should have
had an opportunity to vote on the pri-
mary law-if you believe that state
legislatures should pass bills in accord
with the wishes of the people, say so,
openly aud frankly. If you believe
our educational institutions should be
free from low political intrigue say so,
feariessly and above board-line up on
one side or the other.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

The last time we heard of Charley he
was furnishing skim milk afidavits in
the campaign Of 1S9O.-Press.
Charley Allen ought to be ashamed
to talk about himself in such a man.
ner. The populists heard Of him for
several campaigns after 1880 when he
came up regularly to take his portion
of the populist campaign fund while
he posed as a republican.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01
tJan. II to March 81
Lease of CnmmOn school and
Endowment Lands

Notice is hereby given that on March %, 1906,
all Unbiased common school and endowment
lands in Brookings County, will be offered for
lease at public auction, between the hours of
ten o'clock a. m. and five o'clock D. M, at the
front door of the court house in said county.
Dated at Pierre, Jan. Sth, 1906.
CD. BACH,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

If you are not in favor of ring rule
and believe that the people know better
what they want than the bosses do
take sides.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-01

The "machine" did a dead wrong
act in cutting the throat of Senator
Gamble and by that unjust deal it will
lose nightly. -Elktou Record.
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(Jan. 25-Feb. 81
Notice of Time Appointed for
Approving Will, Etc.

In County Court.
County of B~rookings.
In the matter of the estate of
Charles A. Parsons, deceased
The State of South Dakota sends Greeting to
Eva Parsons, Brookings, s. D., Denzel Parsons,
Brookings, 8. D., Donald Parsons, Brookings,
8. D., and Estelle Parsons, Mendoza, Wisconsin,
heirs next of kin Of Charles A. Parsons, deceased
Pursuant to an order of said Court. made the
22nd day of January, A. D.. 1908, notice is hereby
given that Monday, the 18th day of FEBRUARY. A.
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If you are satisfied with II man
bossism then come out and advocate
bossism.
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Opinions Differ

B~rookings Press,
Jan. %, 1906
There were about
sixty-f We from
Bookings and $50
| from Nolga and
vicinity who at
tended the meeting
not a very big
crowd | didn't
think considering
the great ~notoriety
OF the speaker.
Y \ X x y = Y
They cannot be
stampeded by a
campaign of cheap
c~lap-trapand noise
and the local in
surgent machine
which is promis-
ing every county
office to from two
to half a dozen
men, is beginning
to realize that its
case is desperate.
This was demon
strated Saturday
night when MIR.
era wford wa s
brought into the
county to formally
open his cam
paign. In spite of
the fact that he
was brought into
the most friendly
community in the
county he did not
fill the seats of the
main floor of the
Volga opera house
with the assistance
OF the Brookings
DELEGATE o n a d
band.
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Volga Tribune,
Jan.25, 1906: Not
withstanding the
cold stormy wealth
er which prevailed
last Saturday night
the opera house
was filled to listen
to the address by
Hon. Coe. L. Craw-
ford. The Brook
ings band and a
lar ge delegation
came over on the
evening passenger,
tn having a
special Car. A.
Nyman, republic
can committeeman
from this city, was
chairman OF the
meeting and short
ly q fter eight
o'clock he intro
duced Mr.. Craw-
ford, who delivered
a very able and in
teresting address
along the lines of
political reform.
At the conclusion
of MIR. Crawford's
a d dress H o n.
Philo Hall was
called forand made
a few brief remarks.
The audience was
still anxious for
o and John G..
Jenkins was called
upon and stated
his position upon
the questions I'M
der d lScu n.
Taken altogether
the meeting was a
success. Mr.. Craw-
ford spent the day
in the city meeting
our citizens and
returned to Huron
on the passenger
Sunday morning.