Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-29
EVENTS.
Stolen from the Exchanges that
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they shudder over the details of a
Jolo fight would chuckle if our own
army had been defeated and des-
troyed.
1t is not much Of a consolation to
a man who complains of high prices
to be told that he can get a cement
tombstone at one tenth the cost of
granite.
The pure food bill prescribes that
what purports to be a pound pack
age must contain Is ounces Is the
status Of a strawberry box to be
oyerhauledY
Secretary Taft can have tae vacant
place on the supreme bench if he
wants it, but be will not give up his
present position while any of the
lids are fitting.
Gen. Conklin thinks that the men
who opposed the submission of the
primary law ought to be sent to the
p~enitentiary. Still he is trying to
send one of them back to the United
States senate.
Attorney General Hadley's gen
erous offer to call off the sheriff
while Rockefeller visits his grandson
must make Rockefeller, with all his
money, feel like a smooth two-bit
piece rejected at the bargain counter.
Cornstalks supply a fibre for
paper making, pith for the sides of
battle ships and material for the
manufacture of industrial alcohol.
Uncle Sans corn fields and cotton
fields within the last twenty years
have had a remarkable development
in by-products.
MHtNH
General Rennenkampf gives
notice that he will execute all of the
800 prisoners in his charge if any
more attempts are made on his life.
In case OF a successful attempt he
will presumably have left orders
with his ces to kill a few hun
dred innocent people.
A highwayman should exercise
discrimination in the selection of his
victims. A thug in Butte, Montana,
who was not very well acquainted,
made the mistake of holding up
Deputy Sheriff Wyman, a dead shot
and of the nerviest men in the
country. The highwayman reposes
in the morgue.
Tie cigarmaker onion of Worces-
ter, Mass, has adopted a regulation
fining every member SIS for every
cigarette smoked. The union has
discovered that it pays more benefits
to cigarette smokers than to any
other class OF men, and it has
adopted the new rule to protect the
unions treasury. This is rather
significant when one comes to think
it over.
An Omaha physician declares that
out Of 500 operations for appendi-
citis in Omaha hospitals in the past
year not 10 per cen were real cases.
THE appendicitis craze is in full
swing, but he says, "the profession
is not entirely to blame as the
people demand operations. The
people have a constitutional right to
know what is going on inside Of
them, and the surgeons have a GER
tain curiosity about it too"
The state food commissioner
travels on some Of. the roads on a
pass and he charges up to the state
only his actual outlay Of mileage.
The state makes from $1,000 to
"a, 800 q year by his 8 Of passes;
but il doesn't make anything from
Mr.. Hall, who travels on a pass and
collects from the state and declares
that any man who gets a chance to
take q pass and who doesn't is
"either q fool OF q demagogue."
In the last report Of the post
master general Is this strong Incl
dental argument for good roads;
The requirement precedent to the
establishment Of raral delivery shall
he q possible patronage Of one