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Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06

had 5000 given them to start with, but boys who have started fair with a we'll earned dollar or two. Men who have acquired fame have never been thrust into popularity by puffs begged or paid for, or given in friendly spirit. They have out-stretched their own bands and touched the public heart. Men who win, love their own wooing, and I never knew man to fall as signally as one who induced his affectionate grandmother to speak a word for him.
 Whether you work for fame, for love, for money, or for anything else, work with your own hands, heart and brain. Say. "I will," and some day you will conquer. Never let any man have it to say, I have dragged you up. Too many friends sometimes hurt a man more than none at all.
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06
AMENDMENTS, P.L. &R. BOX RENTS.
 October 13, 1906.

Order N0. I29I.
 Paragraph 2, Section 348, Pos tai Laws and Regulations, is amended to read as follows:
 "Box rents must be collected at the beginning of each quarter for the entire quarter, but no longer. Ten days before the last day of each quarter postmasters are re- quired to place a bill Con Form 1888 or 15383) bearing the date of the last day of the quarter in each rented box. If boxholder fails to renew his right to his box on or before the last day of a quarter the box shall then be closed and offered for rent and the mail will be placed in the general delivery"
 F. H. HITCHCOCK,
 Acting Postmaster General.
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06

The man who handles the local department of newspaper learns after due experience not to expect even briefly expressed thanks from a column of pleasant things, but he knoweth as surely as cometh the winter that a single line in which there is an unintentional re-
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06

What are you doing for your towni If you have no confidence in the growth and improvement of the town and country in which you live how on earth do you ex- pect other people to move among you and cause the country to de- velop and grow for your benefit.
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06
NOTICE OF SALE.

l have 3 good mules, l wagon, l moving machine, rake, 1 stalk cutter and other farming imple- ments that I wish to dispose of. Terms reasonable. One half cash and balance good security or note. t. f. J. P. COLEMAN.
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06

In any city where the majority of its citizens are home owners, one will find pretty homes and happy satisfied people. They are always on the alert for the best interest of the town and its moral welfare. Where this is not so, such an interest is not displayed.
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06
FOR SALE.

One acre of land, with dwell ing house, barn and out houses. Also some thirty or forty fruit trees on same. House contains five rooms with good porch. Is situated one block from the new school building. Location, high and dry with good we'll water.
 J. DYE.
Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06

presentation will cause some one to be heard frem as if from 8 house top. And we may add that when he has made pleasant mention 999 times of some person place or thing but on the thousandth time fails to do so, he must not expect to be forgotten. The omission may have been from accident, or even an entire lack of knowledge. It matters not. The simple fact remains and he will be judged by that.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
FERRETS BALK AT
ARTIFICIAL RATS

Muncie, Ind. Dec. 2o.-A ferret that
refused longer to be fooled by i;nita-
ton rats and the prospects of alluring
fish heads and other things that failed
to materialize when ii completed it's
Job according to specifications, broke
UP, temporarily, the Improvement work
of the Central Union Telephone COM
pany in the business district by going,
On strike.
The ferret had been trained to go
through the company's underground
conduits from one street corner to the
next, With a light cord fastened to it's
neck. to which was attached Il cable,
that later was drawn by w%orkInen tho
entire length. No other way of LAYING
The cables was known, and as the sup
ply of rats, one of which was usually
sent through the conduit just ahead of
the ferret, was exhausted, the
did not know what to do.
Finally a hurry-up message to a liv-
cry barn resulted in obtaining a new
supply of rodents n the ferret re-.
turned to york.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
A CLEAN R
ANTICIPATING PROBE

Chicago. Dec. l9.-stirred to activity
by the threatened investigation the
Chicago railroads are making a Hur-
culean effort to clean up the yards and
relieve the car shortage. Increased
forces are carrying on the biggest
housekeeping in years.
Empty Cars Idle.
Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 1.-The Jour-
mai says:
"A systematic inspection of the ter
minal railroad yards here shows that
there are 5000 empty freight cars
standing idle in the Kansas City yards
because the railroads lave not suffi-
cient motive power TO move them.
There are not less than LOCO loaded
cars standing in the yards here and
the dates of loading some OF them
showed that they had been ready to
move for TWO weeks. There is no short
age of cars here, but a shortage OF en-
gines.
AT sedalia, Mo. there are PSI empty
freight cars by actual count and at
Springfield there are $40. AT Topeka,
Kan, there are more thsn 900 empty
cars in the yards: ut Wichita about 200,
and at Hutchinson about sc cars"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
ROCKEEELLEn'S CHURCH
SEEKS FGaElG. PASTOR

London, Dec. 20.-Witn . view TO re-
tanning the services for England of Rev.
Charles j. f. Aked, o VI Pembroke
chapel. Liverpool, but who is consider
nag accepting the pastorate on the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church. New York, the
pulpit OF a London church has been
offered him.
the Morning Leader a y it regrets
Aked's apparent inclination to accept
the American passionate and combats
lis belief that he will have more innu-
ence in america han in England.
The paper declares that in New York
Or Akej via be merely a dornas1ic
chaplain TO the Standard Oil trust and
Mr.. Rockefeller's pastor, and no man
in New York can live down that"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
GIRLS BODY, HACKED,
CHARRED, in BARREL

Hazelton, Pa, Dec. 2o.-The charred
body of Il young woman has been found
on the mountain between here and Eb-
ervale. A slipper, combs and the frame
of a woman's hat We're picked up neal.
the spot where the body lay.
Under the boy We're three wire hoops
such as are used on barrels. 1t is the
belief of the police that the woman
vas murdered and then placed in the
barrel and burned.
This theory is strengthened by the
odor of kerosene neal the place. The
identity of the woman has not been es-
\tablished.
A post-mortem examination revealed
the fact that an aX or Ratchet was used,
in chopping around the neck TO enable
the murderer to get the head into the,
barrel. The legs We're also broker so
they could be forced in.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
SEVENTH GIRL BABY
TOO MUCH FOR father
He spurns the Child Which Is
Advertised for Adoption
and Taken.

Denver, Colo. Dec. 20,-Already the
father of six girls INC hopins hat the
next arrival would be a boy, James Ar
thur Hart. according to his wife. be
came angered when she gave him an
other girl and took it from her when
it was 3 days old and left the child all
night in a cold room.
The oldest of the six children is but
Is, and the Wife lain Hart says be-S
fore the birth of the seventh that it
had better be q boy, for he was tired,
of girls. He waited, and there was no
bound for his anger and hatred whens
his wife delivered him another girl.
He began to quarrel and heaDed'
abuse on everybody. the family says,
N began wishing the little one was
dead. AS soon as the mother was able
to leave her bed she inserted this adj
Nertisement in q paper:
For adoption, bright, healthy baby
Girl
\ Denver woman has adopted the
seventh -irl.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
NORTHERN PACIFIC
INCREASE PLAN TOLD

New York, Dec. 19.-The expected.
financial plan OF the Northern Pacific
Railway company is made public. 1t
provides for an increase in The capital
special meeting of the stockholders is
called for January I to authorize the
proposal.
The right to subscribe $685. coo, ooo of
the new stock at par in proportion to.
their respective holdings OF the present.
stock is to De offered TO shareholders OF
record December 81.
The plan contclnpyates the immediate
issue OF So, 000,0G0 of new stock. the
payment of which win be distributed
over a longer period than that allowed
the subscribers to the Great Northern's
$60.G00.9G0 of new stock. and I per cent.
interest Will be allowed on the pay
tents
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
WOMEN RESCUED IN
N|CHTCLOTHES FROM
APARTMENTS ABLAzE
Chicago Families Driven
Into Street at 2 O'clock
This Morning.
licago, Dec. 2o.-Fifty families

Chicago. Dec. 2o.-Fifty families, in
Guiding many women and children,
were driven from their homes at > a.
n. today by fire that swept the big
apartment building at Seventy-third
and Nincent's road.
A number of women cla in night
robes We're stifled by smok in the cor
ridors of the buildings and narrowly
escaped being smothered.
Som We're carried into the street in
.. half fainting condition.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
National Capital Notes.

The senate passed the Ha%nsbrough
resolution ordering q probe of the har-'
Nester trust by the commensurate de-
partment.
Representative Hardwick. Georgia,
introduces a bill to make all railroads
install the block signal system and TO
license all railway t~elegraphers.
In debating the Indian appropriation
bill carrying owe $4,000, COO. Represent
,ative Sherman declares the red man is
not dying off 10 any great extent any
more, ond is on earth, racially steak-
ling. to stay.
The following Iowa editors commit
tee is here in connection with proposed
copyright legislation and postal law
changes: Sidney Foster. Des Moines;
Major S. w. Ratllbun, Marion; ". T..
Parrot. Waterloo.
TIL bin forDidding corporation CON
~'tributiols to campaign funds is ar end
ed 50 as TO make it optional for The
court to send the offending corporations
10 Jail for not more than tlselye
months. The maximum fine is $1,000.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
AUTHOR OF ALICE OF
OLD V|NCENNES is
DECLARED INSANE
Brother Tells Jury Mental faint
Runs in Family---Son
on Trial.

Tacoma, Wash, Dec. 19.-Wiliam H.
Thompson, an attorney, addressing the
jury before which his son, Chester
Thompson. is on trial for the murder OF
Judge Emery, said that q faint of in
sanity ran through his own family.
The attorney said that his brother
Thomas was insane throughout his life
and unable to read and write. Con.
tInuing, the lawyer said:
My brother Maurice, a man of splen-
did intellect, a literary toiler, author of
Alice of Old Nincennes,' was q sufferer
from insanity two years."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
BOau3 E5EAT LABELS
CHARGED IN ARREST

New York. Dec. 2Q.-John II. Walker.
preparer of meat extracts. was arrested
yesterday by : secret service agent on.
a charge. OF having used counterfeit
United Seates meat inspection labels ON
The arrest was the first kind since
the act providing that all meat or meat
products G7ust bear q label showing
they have Seen inspected by govera-
Ment ins,.Sc.9.s Uc;.t INTO eEfect July /.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
Rather g. III JAIL
THAN PAY ALIM CMY

Kokomo. Ind. Dec. 2o.-Imprisoned in
the Howard county jail for contempt of
court i'll refusing to comply with an
order issued by Judge Harness COM
manding him 10 pay alinony to his
divorced Wife, Charles Allison. after
three months behind the bars. stiu de-
clares he Eever will obey the COURTS
mandate even if the result OF his dis
obedience is imprisonment M ehe rest
Of his lifetime.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
SNAKES IN STOCKING,
CHRISTMAS SHOCKING
Fond Father Brings Some
Funny Things for Xmas Day
From Far Away.

Revere. Mass, Dec. 2o.-when the
four children of MIR. and Mrs. Cyrus
j. Brownell take their stockings down
from the chimney corner on Christmas.
four little wriggling boa constructors
one in each stocking will greet them.
That they will be delighted is the fa-
Tiers belief. He is a dealer in snakes,
and has brought them from Calcutta
especially as Christmas presents for the
children.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
GIRL BECOMES CRAZY
ON FOREIGN MISSIONS
Spends s4oo, 900, Becomes a
Pauper and Now Goes to
the Poorhousc.

Warsaw, Ind, Dec. 2o.-Elizal Hayei
has become a maniac on the subject OF
foreign missions. She has recently
been giving to them, starving herself
to do so, and is now compelled to go
to the poor house. In all she parted
with $400, coo for the cause.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
KANSAS PRESS AGENT
FAVORED BY HOCH

Hoch has taken up the suggestion that
Kansas ought to nave a press agent
and q recommendation will be made.
in his message of a plan 10 make an
appropriation SO that an advertising,
agent can be placed under the direction
Of the secretary of the board of agri--
culture.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
MORE FE NAL RIOTERS
ELECT To GO To JAIL.

London. Dec. 20. Eleven more le-.
male s~uifragists today elected 10 spend
Christmas in Jail rather than pay small
fines for creating disturbances Within
the precincts of the house o. commons
last night.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
MILLION LOAN VOTED
EOR .tAMESTOwN kGIR.

Washington. ID. C., Dec. 20.-The sem
ate today pessed the urgency deficiency
appropriation bill enacted by the house
Saturday. The government loan OF ST.
r000, 600 to the Jamestown Exposition,
company is authorized by a bill passed,
lby the senate today
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
ENTOMBED MAN NOW
8 FEET FROM LIBERTY

Bakersfield. Cal, Dec. 2o.-The rescue
force at the Edison works still has
eight feet to go before Hicks. the en-
ton1bed miner, can be reached. The
work is of a dangerous character and
proceeds slowly.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
ASKS AID FOR SMALL
Al COLnI RiCTlI I Ed

Washington, d. c.. Dec. Ex-senator,
Hansbrough today introduced an
amendment to the free alcohol law, au-
thorizing the commissioner of internal
revenue to make special arrangements
for denaturing alcohol distilled by per-
sons in such small quantities as not to,
justify the additional xpense of an,
individual warehouse for each distiller,
as required by the law.
1t is the opinion of Mr.. Hansbrough
that. if adopted, the amendment will'
admit the installation by individuals or
groups of farmers of agricultural and
produce stills. now in successful use in,
Germany and that much official red
tape which he says is now necessary
will be dom ava with without danger
of imposition or fraud, and at the same
time give the farmers advantages with
respect to the manufacture of alcohol
to be denasurized for light, heat and
power purposes which it was originally
proposed they would have.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
As4ksao's Cansal il roaoaailt
Saws Warshfps Net Fto-
ceed to San Francisco.
ciTes MAINE DISASTER
Roosevelt la Special Message to Con
aness Tfsnsrntts Meseei7s
Report On She California
Schoe! Question.
UNCLE SANS DUTY
If POLlCE Of FRISCO
EAlL fN TTEi IS.

.ff therefore, the police pe~er
; OF san francisco Is not slitlelent t2
; meet the %siIuation and guard and
: nreteet JanarSse resident in san
: I5raUciseo. 10 hem under CTR
> treaty gicll Japan we SuaFatste
!. fun ara ueffec1 protection Tor r3eE
: persons and property Lnen, Il s.eI1s
: TO me, il * clearly the datS 81 lae
: fsderaI government tq aneEd suea
: protection. All considerations WR41
mag move i nat!61, evers e95sia-
: er2tioa CT duty in tha PRESERVATION
; oil our treaty obligations. every e2a-
: sideratiou prompted oE nlg8 YRS
; ar more 81 close f~riea3sh6- with lhe
: empire Of Japan. wo9lG uulte N De
; maadtng. IL seerls 20 me. OF the
: United States government ana al
: its people. the fullest projection ND
the highest consideration l9c lne
: subjects OF Japan. para
: graph IN Secretary Metc2tt Fepsft
; 10 which President Roosevelt speel-
: ally calls the attention OF conSle7s-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
FOUR BROTHERS ARE
EECrHERS-lN-LA@

Petersburg. IND. Dee. 2o.--Nvar-
ner Carlisle and Miss Margaret
O'Brien have been unite1 in mar
riage. making the fourth brother in
the Carlisle family to seek a bride
isle married the eldest OtIsIie.l girl
iii i1SaS. Mashinaton Carlisle mar
lied Mesa O'Rrieu in 1892. AID Fred
,sariiste, of ifriIsh ,o.tA.ib.l
rlaimcG Ellen O'Brier..
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21

NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
New York. Dec. 2o.-Money strong
at 1897. per cent.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
SOUTH DAKOTA is
AETER SOME CANNON

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Washington, d. c.. Dec. Ex-senator
Kittredge, of South Dakota, has intro
duced the following bills:
To authorize the secretary of war tt
furnish the state of South Dakota with
two 3-inch wrought iron muzle-loading
cannon for exhibition
Granting a pension of $50 to George
w. Cooke. late first lieutenant of Com
Iany C, Twelfth regiment of Iowa coll
unteer infantry.
For the relief Of Rathburn, Beatty &
Co, of Webster. who claim that govern
,nent officers illegally quarantined their
cattle in the Chicago stock yards re-
Gently. They ask $1,000 damages.
For $4,000 for a fish culture station
at Dell Rapids and S150,000 for the
enlargement of the Sioux Falls federal
building.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-21
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rtsf 4V an# sr77s gfns. sad
gssfl tegr g.rs are sr5-ffsgI tltev tura
4baftt and s.4v WHAT t4e use TO Ia 0e
eas and qualifications Ufeb0ut mea
t is n consistent pf RS on t4a
part OF tfa army to ae liza ITSELF
he Continued. irsf Tor. us ana taen
for gans. There is mo and t8 iI.f
Sc1ator Warren sae tH8t ae
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-16
FAIR WINTER TRADE.
Early Orders for Farm Mares Feature
the Leading Weeks Demand.

Chicago, Jan. 15.-Fair winter trade
characterized the movement of horses
for the week. Estimated receipts ag-
gregate 2,289 arrivals, against 2,071 for
the previous week, 1854 for the same
week last year and 2,026 for the corre-
spending week in 1904. The total re-
ceipts for January to date total A.
800, against 1926 for the correspond
ing period last year, making gain for
the month of 124 arrivals as compared
with the same dates in January, 1905.
The mild weather has toned the de-
mand for farm and southern chunks
and orders for these commercial
classes are broader than the supply
Farm mares are active at s75@115 and
upward to S125, and small southern
ers were brisk at s60@110, with bulk
of sales at s70@90 Big feeders are
in urgent request at s150@1S0 and up
ward, principal orders being executed
by Ohio and Pennsylvania dealers
The mild weather operates unfavor-
ably on demand for prime drafters
this class moving slow at $160@21C
for good to choice, a decline of 5000
from average prices in December
Drivers are moderately active at $150@
$50 and upward with bulk of sales fol
good to choice at s150@250. Wagon
horses are free sellers on eastern ac-
count at s100@14O. At the above
prices good clearance of the weeks
receipts is reported.
Horse Gossip.
The following dealers and shippers
arrived with consignments of horses:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-16
Homeseekers and Settlers.

To points in Nebraska, Colorado,
Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian
Territory, Oklahoma, Texas and Louis
lana, the Iowa Central Railway has
placed on sale for January is,
February and 90 round trip and one
way tickets at extremely low rates for
benefit of homeseekers and settlers.
One way tickets at two dollars higher
than half fare. Round trip tickets at
three-fourths of the regular one way
rate; limit twenty-one days.
Twenty-one day tickets are on sale
first and third Tuesdays to points in
other states in the southeast, west and
northwest, at one fare plus $500 for
round trip.
Don't fail to call on Iowa Central
agents for full particulars as to rates,
ETC., or address A. B. Cults, G. P. & T.
A., Minneapolis, MINI.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-16
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Editor Courier

Editor Courier.
AS voter and taxpayer I would
like to present my views to readers
of the Courier, upon the Crossley pri-
mary election bill which is tnow be-
fore the Iowa legislature. In my opin-
ion this bill will prove a bad one for
Iowa if it ever becomes a law, just
as the primary laws in neighboring
states have proved unsatisfactory. AL
though it is urged as an aid to hon
est elections I believe it will aid dis
honesty and, instead Of giving the
nominations to the choice of the larg-
er portion Of the people of the county,
will give them to men who represent
only a small share Of the voters of
the party in each county.
of our smaller outlying townships
should become a candidate for nomin-
alton wanted by man living In OF
tumwa. What would be more simple
than the methods the Ottumwa man
could employ to prevent the nomina.
ton of the country resident The OF
tumwa man would have the support of
his ward and of several others in the
city, while the man from, say, Cass
township, would have only his own
township to count upon as certain.
The Ottumwa man. If he feared that
his opponent could control the ma.
jority of the votes outside of the city
and, possibly a portion of those in
the city, could easily secure some
friends in two or three other outlying
townships to stand as candidates for
the nomination They would natur
ally draw the majority of the votes to
their respective townships and the
Cass township man, even though he
might, in convention, have secured
majority of the votes and though he
might be the logical and popular man
for the place, would stand no chance
whatever of getting the nomination.
This is simply one example, as l see
/ it of the manner in which the nomina
lions could be controlled by the men
living in the larger towns and cities
in every county. l believe I am right
in holding this opinion, for there are
counties in Iowa where such condi
lions exist. On the other hand, the
convention, with its majority rule, re
suits in the nomination of the strong
est man for the offices. The strongest
man is the choice of the larger por.
tion of the party. whether he may be
from city precinct or an outlying
township.
The primary election system gives
no opportunity for vote for a sec