Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-01

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hours to spare he might run orel
and write a magazine article on The
true inwardness of Russian affairs il
Europe and Asia.
A bulletin issued Friday by the
interstate commerce commission
shows that during thsaJnonth of July
August and September last, l,O5a
persons were killed and 1885
injured among passengers and
employees of steam railroads in the
United States.
A lecturer on the Panama canal
says the French raised 1925. 900 900
for the work, spent a third of it in
actual labor, wasted a third and
stole the rest. Now let Uncle Sam
show the world how to get a dollars
worth for every dollar spent in that
noted locality.
Chinese merchants at Canton, are
protesting against additional taxes
imposed by a government that wants
to go into the railroad business. In
this country the money for the roads
is taken out of our hides without our
feeling it-perhaps because the air
is so dry.
Stephen Decatur, grandson Of
Commodore Decatur, who was in the
first class United States naval AGA
deny at Annapolis vas dismissed
from the navy by Secretary Bone
parte in conformity with the SEN
tence Of the court martial in his cast
on the charge of hazing.
There are some people in Sioux
Falls who have been opposed to the
payment of insurance premiums by
the city, but there are fewer now
than heretofore. The $4,000
which will be realized from the
insurance on the Lowell school,
will come in handy in the present
emergency.
At last accounts the populists and
democrats were lined up ''to a man"
against the organization. and the
organization was tickled to death
about it. 1t is just such things as
this which persuade those who
really want to see South Dakota
continue as a republican state to
stand together.
In the past six months taps have
been sounded over the graves of 49,
COG pensioners of the civil war.
according to a statement Of Pension
Commissioner Warner Friday. This
he says, is an evidence of the rapid
ity with which the veterans are being
diminished. The total number of
pensioners on Dec. 81, was 676,134.
The Rev. N. D. Hills plans to
reform politics by substituting for
the politicians now in office retired
bankers, merchants and financiers."
Such men, he thinks, will "make
politics dignifed." That's what is
the matter with the United States
senate. Too much dignity and no
initiative; or if there is any OF the
latter it is after everybody is worn
out and dead.
South Dakota is the only state in
the union which has erected a build
ing solely for the benefit of the live
stock interests. This building has
recently been completed at Mitchell
and is to be known as the South
Dakota live stock pavilion. 1t will
be dedicated at the Mitchell live
stock meeting, January 81. to Feb
ruary 2, and there should be many
South Dakota people there to see it.
Sergeant Fred Calhoun Pagan, Of
the Thirty-ninth company of coast
artillery, now statioted at Fort
McHenry, is the larges. man in
either the army or navy. He
weighs 280 pounds and is now sery-
ing his fifth enlistment Of three
years each. The sergeant is an
Englishman by birth, served two
years at the front in the Philippines