The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-09
SOUTH DAKoTE TOPICS

Dakota that many Of its newspaper men
have accumulated fortunes or laid the |
foundation for them, All seem to be
doing we'll. Most Of Them are in indie
pendent situations.
In one town Of less than 900 popula-
ton, which the writer recently visited,
the editor Of it's Leading Weekly-there
by common repute $4,000 or $40, 1000.
Less than a: dozen years ago he pur-
chased his paper and plant for about
$4,000. His material, type and machin-
cry are the best to be found. He owns
his Office building, which was erected in
accordance with his own plans and, as
might be supposed, it is almost a model.
He lives in a new and expensive resi-
dence. which has all the conveniences of
rlshed all the time and his paper is
filed with paid matter. Besides, he is
postmaster. The ordinary newspaper
job in the citiessdo 9 not appeal to this
editor.
Another publisher in South Dakota
who has made 500, 900 in the last ten
years started out with next to nothing
fresh from the state agricultural school
where he helped to pay his expenses by
working at odd spells on the college
-"A - Wv ~ 90 H liz .
the newspaper business, so far as South
Dakota Is concerned, at the psychologist
cal moment, and has been getting ahead
ever since. Now he has the best plant
in his part Of the state.
These two publishers are not in the
best towns Of the state and are not do
ing the business and haven't the in.
comes Of publishers in such towns as
Sioux Falls, Aberdeen, Huron and Nit
chp11 r.e- Tn tho oitioS NfGfha e vol Al, -.
some of the finest printing establish
ments to be found in the country any
where, have been built up and have
made their owners rich.
Many small towns have papers which
are mechanically as neat and editorial
~ as able and satisfactory a. the papers
IN thelarger fields. An editor in a town
Of only a.few hundred population told
me that his paper Melted him $1,000 last
year, and in the course of the CONVEX
sation [ learned that he had $50 acres
of land and no debts to, speak Of, This
editor, Of course, is rich, tho T doubt
If he has ever stopped to think Of IS in
that light. His town is neal two larg.
er ones from which he secures some ad-
vertising, SO that he may have a little
advantage over his brother whose loca-
tion is similar in size.
Luz CAC Cu1Co1 WIN LIDS p6TQdDS maze
the most money in the shortest time Is
Il. L. Hopkins of Watertown, who left
the tripod a few years ago to engage
in the land business. Mr.. Hopkins has
an unpromising newspaper field at
Henry in C%odingtona county, and it Is
suspected he developed his latent bust
ness Judgment and acumen by figuring
so many years upon how to make both
ends OF his newspaper business meet
| fNNnoyr h> Ic eoyl In ~ rr2-llsh1n m nnn
and to be piling up more right along
success from the start, but he made his
"killingo by having the nerve to loat
up with South Dakota acres and hang
ing to them like grim. death until tn
movement from the east begun. Since
then it has. been easy and the money
has just rolled in. ~
This story of prosperity is the sam,
all over the state. There may yet b.
a few too many papers, but as a gen
eral thing the field is not overdone AMI
publishing is on a solid basis. Their
are some printing plants that annual,
return to- their owners an income tina
approximates two-thirds or more of tn,
valuation placed upon such plants. Few
other lines Of business san equal this.
Judge AssW. Campbell Of Aberdeen
candidate for a. congressional nomina
ton, will go down I'd Sioux Falls wit,
I practically IT. t 'hsstgaG} PasklAE Of = a!
the party haeswonIdShardly have toslif
his hand to obtain the nomination IN
personal fight q be made upon hir
anywhere. He has been in public lift
on the bench; and in the state senate
dozen years Or more, and there is n
flaw in his record. The t1ssinsurgents
all over the state have a high opinio
Of him.. n if he is nominated at Siou
Falls it will be no hardship for the las
man of them to.supportshim. The judg
is a native of Wisconsin and; was edl
e Gated in the law at the state unive:
sity at Madison. He put out his shil
gle in Aberdeen in 1882.
Sincesh his retirement from%offce, TO
e mer Governor Herreid has fully ident
n fed himself with the professional an
social life Of Aberdeen. His law fir:
b is one of the leaders at the bar Of tt
state. For years the governor had bee
chatting to get, into the practice Of la
at some commanding point, and all h
ambition in this respect is now bei1
realized. The law Offices Of his fir
are among the handsomest and be
equipped in the west.
i The. insurgents make, war upt
: Senator%sKittredge for many allege
sins Of somission and commission, b,
one cannot recall any criticism
i: them of5shis work On. the Panama can
committee, of which he#is the RANKIN
N member. Called to thes&$White House
y the president recently, the senat
q. showed such, a remarkable familiari1
I with a subject so foreign to- his care
-, as an attorney at law that the pres
i. dent in surprise asked him if he pu
sued a course in civil engineering viii
vi at Yale. The senator replied in t.
tn negative and, still being pressed by Il
president, admitted that he had tri
e p to post himself thoroly in engineer
90 in the past two Or. three years VIII
90 studying the canal project.
! Friends Of the senator deny that |
til inclinations and tastes naturally ia
les him to- the corporation side Of prese1
&c g e day controversies. They say he is 8
solutelY true to his constituents. r
state is not railroad5ridden; on the &c
If trary the people are asking for. mc
of lines. The senator, his friends decla
ON would treat such interests impartial
tin In correspondence from Waterfowl
gave some space to5lOcal .reports II