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The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02
NEW PUBLIC PRINTER.
AT THLRTY.FOUR YEARS OF AGE
HE HEADS THE BIGGEST PRINT
SHOP IN THE WORLD.
His Office Pays Out Annually Over
Four and a Half Million Dollars in
Wages-Is One OF the Presidents
Youngest.

At the head of the biggest printing
office in the world at the age of "a
That is the position in which Charles
A. Stillings finds himself to-day. When
the Hon. Frank w. Palmer resigned
from the Office of Public Printer last
summer, President Roosevelt found
himself facing the necessity Of making
ono of the most important appoint
ments that had ever fallen to his lot
TO consider. The printing required for
the United States Government is SO
voluminous and of such diversified de-
tail that it is necessary to operate the
enormous plant in which the printing
is produced. in the most perfect way.
At the head of this great printery the
President knew he must place a man
who would be manly among men,
strong of character, quick of decision
and with a thorough grasp Of every
detail OIL the printing business in
everyone of its many branches. Many
men backed by strong political infiu-
ence were presented to the President
for his consideration in making the
appointment for Public Printer, but
none seemed to be possessed of all of
the necessary qualifications, until his
attention was directed to a progres-
siye young man whose knowledge of
the printing business covered the en-
tire field and who had had practical
experience in Boston, Philadelphia and
Washington-one Charles A. Stillings.
And SO, after a thorough examination
into Mr.. Sullings' commercial career,
the President, finding that Mr.. Still
lings' ability was just what he had
been looking for, appointed him as the
executive head OF the Government
Printing Office The Senate promptly
confirmed the Presidents appointment
and so Mr.. Stillings has become the
active head of the establishment.
A brief idea of the volume Of busi
ness conducted by the Government
Printing Office may be obtained from
the following figures. Last year they
paid in wages to its various employees
the sum of $4,616, ,7S1.70 and nearly
three millions more were spent for
various supplies, including paper. new
machinery and maintenance of the
plant Every dollar of this great sum
Is expended under the check of the
Public Printer and 1t is evident that
much wisdom is needed in handling
money where SO large an amount is in
volved.
Mr.. Stillings is especially fitted by
training, inclination, and ability for
the position. He forms an attractive
addition to the ranks of the young men
with whom President Roosevelt has
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02

Charles A. StilIings, the New
Public Printer.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02
An Lmproviscd Excuse.

Tommy was absent from school for
one entire day. But he brought a note
of excuse the next morning, which
would prove that he had been detained
at home legitimately The writing was
hardly that of a feminine hand, and the
note appeared to have been written la
boriously. Furthermore, the penman-
ship seemed to be strangely familiar to
his teacher The note read as follows
"Dear Teacher: Please excuse Tom
my for not coming to stool yistidy, he
couldn't come. ! tore my pants. Yours
truly, Mrs. Mulligan."
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02

surrounded himself in the administra-
tion of the Government affairs. He re-
ceived his education in the Phillips
Grammar School and the English High
School at Boston. After leaving school
he entered his fathers printing office,
where he received a varied and thor
ough experience in all branches of the
trade, finally working up to the posi-
ton of general manager and later be-
coming sales manager of the Griffith
Sullings Press, an organization which
took over the business formerly con-
Quoted by Mr.. Stillings, Sr.
In all of Mr.. Stillings transactions
he has shown an unusual aptitude for
organization, and possessing a marked
degree of personal magnetism has
drawn into a close friendship with
himself many men of dignity and posi-
tion. Mr.. Stillings is Mason, having
attained the honors of the thirty-sec-
ond degree of the Scottish Rite, and is
also a Mystic Shriner.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02
Revolutionary Russia.

Like the Stuarts of Great Britain
and the Bourbons of France. the
reigning dynasty of Russia goes from
| blunder to blunder. Such a revolution
as is in progress throughout Euro
pean Russia cannot be suppressed by
the sword. The thing to have done
was to make concessions to the spirit
of liberty when the agitation began.
Grants that would have been
rejected with scorn to-day as wholly
insufficient.
The revolution is strikingly like that
Of France, and there will be no stop
ping it The proletariat has fought
and tasted blood. Suppose they sup
press the revolt in Moscow? 1t will
break out at some other point-in Po-
land, or Lithuania, or Finland or
elsewhere between the Baltic and the
Black seas. The army will be kept on
the jump. and its loyalty put to the su.
premest test Then, when order has
been shot into the nation. and reigns
everywhere as 1t once did at Warsaw,
the revolution will break out afresh in
Moscow or somewhere else, and it will
all have to be done over. again.
Before the thing is finished Russia
Will be republic; not free republic,
but revolutionary republic guided by
Cromwell or a Napoleon. And If such
should be her destiny. she will be a
mighty ugly customer in a quarrel with
a neighbor, just as England was in the
middle os :ae seventeenth century. Just
as France was al the close of the eight
eenth century.
FG- full 100 years republicanism
has been driving autocracy TO the wall
in Europe. France is a pretty good re-
public and getting better every day.
The Kaiser of the great German EN-.
pire has in the Reichstag a partner in
the government, ofttimes very med.
dlesome and a very obstinate partner
at that. The Cortez holds the purse of
Spain, and Italy is a constitutional
monarchy. Austria-Hungary has a leg.
islature. and the Scandinavian peo-
pies have enjoyed liberty for ages.
Russia is rousing from the slumber of
centuries and she cannot be put to
sleep again. There will be battle and
blood and terror, but it will end in a
republican, least, in a legislature
and then Russia will begin the new
lesson of learning what liberty is and
what to do with it.
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DOn'f Ask Again.

An amusing incident is related Of
Nat Goodwin. the actor Not long ago
Goodwin was standing on the corner
Of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street,
New York City. where three car lines
converge, when seedy-looking indi-
vidual, apparently from the country,
approached him Questioningly.
Il want to go to the Brooklyn
Bridge" he said, looking in perplexity
at the cars rushing in six different di.
rections.
Very WELL" said Goodwin, severely
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could not help thinking to myself
whether 1t might not be possible some
day or other to awaken the people of
4 the Mississippi valley to a realization
Of the fact that forestry is problem
extending from New Orleans TO the con-
tnental divide Of the Rocky mountains
on the west. to Canada on the north
and to the crest OF the Alleghanies on
the cast where the Ohio river has its
source; and that failure and destruc-
ton are inevitable IL it shall be ex-
ptctcd In the years to come to control
that great flood by Increasing the
leNecs TO protect the sugarbowl of the
nation. The time Will come when they
cannot build them higher and the
country Will revert to a swamp condi-
ton and be as desolatc as 1t is today
where the St Francis basin Is covered
with water through which you may
look down and see the tops of trees
you going to prevent thatl
This great problem OF forestry, is
not alone matter OF sentiment 1t
IS just as much cold blooded ques-
ton OF business. The speakers who
preceded me have spoken upon the i'm
portauce of forestry to mining. I
have listened with much interest to
their masterly discussion on the rela-
tOn of forestry to mining, and 1t
brought more fOrcIbly than ever to my
mind the conviction that the whole
country and those engaged in all its
industries are fast coming to recoS-
nizc the Importance of forestry. /
regret that we cannot include the
lower house Of congress. They do not
seem to have yet walked up to it
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02

Here lies the body of Mary Ann,
Her head on the bosom of Abraham.
It's pleasant and sweet for Mary ANN,
But mighty tough for Abraham.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02

the timber and the land and the young
growth and everything for $3.50 an
acre. Taking the value OF that timber
at what the stumpage actually sold for
upon some of the government land in
Minnesota, $l5.06 an acre, the govern
ment has lost Si0.OO0,O00 by that pro-
ceeding. But the stumpage on the g.
100000 acres located during the last
two years was much more valuable
than that And If the government had
managed Its timber land business as
any business man or any man OF
sense would have managed 1t we
might just as well as not have realized
S1O,00O,OO0 from that stumpage and
have had our young forest trees plant
ed in southern California and the sur
plul leLt over. lAuplAuse.l
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, How to Get Things Done.

I am not going to take up your time
with any further dissertations upon
the Importance of forestry. But I want
to offer some practical suggestions as
to what we should do to get what we
want done. l listened with the great
est interest and pleasure to the presi-
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02
A Few Suppositions.

We are told that there is going to be
a dehrit this year in the treasury OF
the United States of S22.OOO,0OO. If
we had not thrown away that S1O,0O0,-
900 we could have covered that deficit
at least twice over and still have had
money LEFT in the treasury. In other
words the public lands committee Of
the house has thrown away over
s7o,O0oo0O OF the peoples money in
the last two years II We should put
this total loss at only s50,000.0O0 for
the two years II has amounted to over
s2,000,00O a month or about $4,000 a
day.
Now suppose some enterprislng and
ingenious person had succeeded in
tunneling under the United States
treasury and cut hole into the vaults
and carried off $4,000 a day. Don't
you suppose We could get the people
of the United States to wake up the
public lands committee II 1t required
some action by 1t TO stop that steal
ing? That is exactly what is going
on; for IL the house public lands com
mittee does nothing in this session of
congress (and it has already voted To
do nothing) the loss TO this country
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-02-02
Four Million Dollar Loss.

Tn other words, as a result of the
5aiiherote delay OF the public lands
Committee of the house. instead OF
having the value of the stumpage from
RAT q OoO 900 acres OF timber in the
national treasury we have parted with
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school Notes.

The program given by the Fresh
men Of the Fl. s. last Friday was we'll
received by all who heard it. A mu-
steal number hgrthe Freshman arches-
ira was heartily encored Margaret
Mangan. piano, Delbert Barr, violin,
and Raphael Eslick, cornet, were the
members. The humorous literary pa
per hy Pat Hand contained some very
well writted jokes.
A Washington program will be CIV
en- next Thursday afternoon by a part
Of Miss walkers sth grade. Patrons
Of the room are invited to come and
bear 1T.
The boys at the gym are rejoicing
10 the use Of new vanlting pole and
jumping standards made hy Mr.. Nor
riS. II any material shows up an
effort viii be made to have track
team. We have invitations already
TO meets at Yankton college. Msrn-
InesIie college and for a dual meet
with yermillion II. S. The latter is
pretty certain TO be accepted. The
Others viii depend on the develop
ment OF material for the different
events.
Mike Mahan tested a Fahrenheit
thermometer graduated to $50 degrees
TO see fit would 60 up to the boiling
point IL went up all right.
Miss Bartholomew has again re-
eeived her appointment as member OF
the state examining board which
meets at Pierre the week OF our spring
vacation.
One ri the great needs OF the III. Il.
just now is an encyclopedia. Tie
board intends TO purchase set of the
international, the best published, and
which costs In the neighborhood OF
sl0l as soon as funds are available for
Ii. If there is some good friend OF
education who has a set OF any good
encyclopedias which he would donate,
such gift would be most thankfully
received.
A game OF basket ball will be played
soon. possibly Friday night, with the
Little Giants Of the Sioux City Y. nj.
c. A. Look out for further announce
Inents. This team defeated the S. c.
III. $. End team last week by 14-12 and
we're defeated by them earlier in the
season. Tt will be a close game and
the last OF the season in Elk Point.
The girls teams, the Reds and Whites
viii play OF their tie also, each hav-
ing won one game. Come ont and
lend your support 10 the games.
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brother, ard 4 tine company ofs.ssiunny
comedians, ana pretty girls, and The
equipment Il said to be One the
Mgkado" II Gilbert and Sullivan y
master piece aud the company support
ing Me. Riggs numbers some ~ ahow
people,
The snnM thai fell the psst week has
been "a occasion 81 joliitcaiioa with
nanny people 81 Elk Point. Master
Phi Comfy had merry load ont sleigh
rldlfg one evening Mesdames Hon
man and Erieson gathered 40 Il jolly
company for ride, Saturday after
noon. The spirit 81 the hour came up.
% sons " our young :adies, who took
their ride In horseless hob. Saiur-
day evening purity OF girls made the
night air ring with their songs ana
laughter undoubtedlS there were
other parties thai failed 10 receive
Que nosice.
The ssraby club, twslve 10 number,
and an tqaal uumber Of girls, had q
party Ii llonor Of George Washington
Il the home 81 Rev and Mrs. T. J.
Woodcock, last evening. The house
was decorated. IS was fitting for the
oec sslon. with red. Waite and blue and
with tha Americas Gag. Carios Ia the
shape q wAr relies we're alsoa feature
0I the decorations. The chief amuse.
nssnt was The testing of the i've senses.
\ series III articles were arranged.
and i brief Eisnce accorded TO each
guest, then ths names OF the articles
We're to 81 written b. each guest. The
hearing vas tested By sounds from
musical Instruments 10 an adjoining
roam: BIZ tasting ny placing 81 the
Articles on the torgue: the feeling by
Ice touching, when biindfolded, of
variuns articles, ami the smelling by
taking whiffs from bottles. All the
close shs correct Est was read, and
much nerritnen1 derived from The
mistakes inside The girls were given
ona hall 81 enmical story, and the
hogs he other. matching the parts
enabiiog each boy 10 End the one ii was
hts privilege II escort to supper. A
d4inAy supper was served and each one
latt With the wish That these soclaIs
might come often
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spring comes. May pe he dis, needs
sharpening and nov i the time 70
look after these things

Ralph Riggs and his connie opera com
panv win play In elk Point At the Hem
Rim Opera House, FL b. Goth, In Gilbert Il
suHivan's THE MiKado." The Jap--
nese costumes are said 10 be very rich
and costly, and the company support
ing Mr.. Riggs In this musical Offering
Is said 10 be full Of comedians VINO are
funny and pretty girls who can sing
and dance cleyerly. a notable member
of the Riggs company il Master Bud
Riggs. who Is said to be equally as
CLEVER as comedian and singer as bis
talented brother, Ralph This will be-
1 the largest and best company we will
/ have this season. Seats are now on
l SALE 75c and soc fer reserved and 35c
Z and 25e Tor admission.
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$500 Rcwnra. 500 !.

The readers 81 this paper will be
pleased 10 learn that there ii vt least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able 20 cure ID All It's stages and
Thai IA Caaarrh Halls Catarrh Cure
y Tho only positive cure now known 10
the medical fraternity Datarrh being
constitutional diseaSe REQUIRES ]
constitutional treatment. Halls ca
taffh Cure il taken internally. antinc
directly upon the Hood aud mucous
surfaces of She system, thereby de.
stroying The f0undagsoa III the disease.
sKnd giving the patient strength bv
building up the constitution and As.
stsIsng nature Iii doing It's work. The
prpprietors have ~ much faith ii Ia
curative pc &ers that they offer one
hundred dollars FOR any case that II
fails 70 enru. SaEd for iistof tes&lmu.
mails
ADDRESS i. j.. HENEy u uo
oled0. %.
Sold III druggists, 7sc
Take Halls Famlly pills for co..
Akiph1lon
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MI. Nervick sold hIa lat cattle last
week TO Scott Bros.
Char. Peterson returned from Coh,.
RADIO last Thursday.
Vim. Crogstad has sent on Tor y
thoroughbred Holstein bull
Mrs Lava and Marie .lamkgaarsl and
Mrs. A.. r. Svesgan called on IA rs
Ellie stene one day last week
". q Johnson q Bic Springs bougha
two sows and yearling noar, All full
blood Poland Chinas. III q NJ. Stubbez
last week.
Remember tho Farmers sastltnte
February Is and March 1sx. al Elk
Point. Everybody should ATTEND III.
You can pay your taxes and atsend the
meeting With one trip
Nov Is the time to clean your grain
thoroughly and also traak IL for smut.
20 you VIII be ready U go u work whes.
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LOCAL ne VS.


chris nrnrss isa honeseeker ont Il
tse siaules s'usaiy ferioo,
Mis- MAID liter visited Il III il
Ats I. lows WsausAla,
Bsskes hsll Rflday night ~ =
YNme y me " asan. Girls gam also
OLA claueeirpn want III ID ihs
country urrpadng Msller Tuesday
looking for Land
Rem mber he pvstnr supper hv the
snsll M The Rector CLUB Is Waodman
hasl tonight
!. n Rsish y Axroa. lows. visited
over sunaay with bis sister. Ars. Nellie
Hoffman. 10 ahls city
NlIss AIMS Hayes has gone 10
Chamberlain 10 begin residence On her
hpTns Lead III Lyman county
Il. Dillon, Who was formerly em.
pIoyed II his Office but now 81 Woon.
socket, u p spent Sunday With
friends here
Come ont and see The boys play
bsaket bali LIST game 81 the Session
Ala at K Point. AdmissinD 30. Laales
md children I5o
Filter Peterson left Thursday lar
points ~ Oeeeoa and cegIforusa where
BIZ rxfecss u viii snung friends
Tos abput TWO months.
Nhe Lstlle Giants ssas sbs sloax
CIV niQh school Aecana team hg Two
points They beas ~ hi two points
can TIE Little Giants beMt ass Come
ousnn3 see
Misses Wasaf#ll. veruska. Anna
RYAN, Mvasss 1856 X aaN. Oaa Bsnkln,
Byron Ala Charles Rsanaery. ana
Alfred Ioesrnll aalendsa sha danes ~
] lIsfsoa ) ssufaey nlghg
A editor laages touseAt Iors
Mitchell ~ attend the annnal meetu9
81 fne state pfssS exs citation. ri has
beasl nam Der 81 years since the news
pApar h5ga have met ID MITCHELL
The ola pSEena on sale biils saial prs
vAll ii III 6slURasn oglloe II Sc Ior lhe
lifsl hundred aud 50 cents per hundred
Tus !! additional Why pay y II s.
extra ahen sou Cad Ret pettef blli
Iof lQss noues
Mr. and Mrs. d Wood uere the
RaesAA " A aad klfs I n, CRU over
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Hr@. Edmnnd Braueaa i.


M sAn ,al HFu isAu died at m a.
night, Saturday, Fob u. 1906. Kate
MArK pzse MAS bara IA Wyoming
eeunsy, il innesola. Feb. 2. 1850. The
next year with her p4rsats she came
70 9 SuEh Dtkpsa which has besn her
huns SINCE then Ftvc years ago she
wAs united la marriage 10 Edmund
BrnneAu E'st1eeu months ago William
ltssweh came - the home. h il
1 brlgnt happy LAD % gladden. = faith
ur1s proud hearl. About The same
lime evlaence oI consumption appear
ed + 81 summer MIR. Bennean look
his wsse 10 Colorado. driving through,
but lae trip WAS vain. The disease
eoukinued 81 rayagss and for shree
weeks Sua decline WAS very rapid until
he essses ly fcls asleep This makes
sne Laird death Ia lha family within q
year A year ago the dry after Mrs.
5raneaps death. her fathe~, Mr. Mao
KeAzle. Mho had bscn one 81 the
county commissioners. died. Last O.to-
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her. Mn. Brnneau's sister Ida, Mrs
Chas. Beavers, also died. The sorely
afflicted mother, with the husband,
mtrissered unto her in her closing
hours
The funeral services we're held Mon
day, Feb. ia, At 1880 o'clock, ~ the
late home 10 Civil Bend, conducted By
aav. Thos. J. WoodOock. A ver5
large assemblage At the house and an
us.a escort ID The cemetery attested
the high regard 10 which the deceased
and the family are held
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0ls dollar year for The Chicago
Weekly later Ocean, $50 year ior
tEe COURIER, Or both, BY our lecent
special arrangement. sl.75. for tifty-
two weeks u genuine news from lar
and near.
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petit Jury.

Yesterday the petit jury for the
March term Of the circuit court Of
this county was drawn. Court will
convene on Monday March 18th at 10
a m. when the jury must be present.
Following are the names Of the jury:
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paid no heed. but went running down the
yard toward a gate which opened directly
over high bluff-like bank, which dipped
Into swiftly flowing river below. Sid
ney, supposing the gate to be latch 1. sat
still. watching the lively little cousin
without any concern. But when the child
reached the gate he gave 1t a push with
his two chubby hands and II readily flew
open. Out ran the child. all unmindful of
the danger before him. In another In
slant the edge of the soft clay bank gave
way under the little ones weight. and to
Sidney's CONSERVATION the child fell for
ward and disappeared.
With scream Of "Helpi help! Totty's
In the rlyerl'' Sidney ran wildly across
the yard, followed by Rover. At the
edge Of the bank he looked over and saw
the little figure of his cousin struggling In
fragile bunch of driftwood which was
caught against some old tree roots In the
water. Sidney saw broken place In the
bank, less steep than the place where
he stood, and ran there, letting himself
down just as the crowd from the house
brought by his wild cries of help-as-
sembled.
But fully several seconds before Sidney
reached the edge of the river old Rover.
seeing the child In distress In the drift
wood, leaped from the high bank and
dashed into the water, swimming rapidly
toward him. And he was just In time,
for at the very moment when he reached
the little Totty the driftwood had fallen
apart and the child. with screams to rent
the air. went rolling into the whirling
river. But scarcely had his body touched
the water when Rover had hold of the
little pink Bingham frock, near the neck.
and lifting his head with a desperate eff
fort he put forth the best that was In
him and swan to the shore.
The baby's father had thrown himself
over the steep bank and reached the spot,
where Rover swan to shore, In time to
lift the child In his arms. Then he ran