Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-15

INTO the uitcn a soon as there y
room for them This looks as
if the ice was being cut.
Neither the sugar trust nor the
oil trust is doing anything to help
the beef trust out Of its embarras
sing situation in Chicago. This
corrcborates the popular opinion
that a trust has no soul.
One Of the beverages dispensed in
Indian Territory is popularly known
as Juno" When a furnished Chero-
kee darts behind the prescription
case and calls for Juno the requisi-
ton is understood 10 mean frewater,
Senator Tillman declares that he
admires the character Of Abraham
Lincoln. What he would have said
in 1861 can be imagined Perhaps
another forty years would mellow
his present opinions Of republican
ism.
Last year Oregon, Washington
aud Idaho shipped 100000, 900
feet Of lumber. but If they are slash
ing down their great forests without
regard TO principles Of forestry they
have no more reason to brag than
other spendthrifts.
The affairs Of the famous 500 per
cent Franklin syndicate, for which a
man named Miller did time in Sing
Sing, have just been closed up leg
ally, creditors getting 2S cents on
the dollar. This was to them like
getting money from home.
Nh. Dalzell, Of Pennsylvania or
rather, of the Pennsylyania-does
not like the way the house ran away
from him the other day. This will
teach Mr.. Dalzell not to sleep at the
switch when he has important rail
road interests intrusted to his ears.
New York's stock transfer law has
produced a revenue of S4,132,000 in
eight months, about double the esti-
mated value Of the law. Yet stocks
are being transferred and the pre-
dicted wholesale desertion Of New
York as a gambling center has not
happened.
Says NJ Taigny: at is impossi-
bic to maintain satisfactory relations
with a man like Castro. His chief
object Is to get money, no matter
from where or in what way" all of
which suggests that Mr.. Castro has
the Standard Oil temperament
strongly developed.
The Chicago Record Herald
reports a scientist saying the sun is
sinking. Congress should immed-
lately pass a law prohibiting the sun
from shrinking between Nov. | and
March 30. During the other months
might be as well to let him retire
a bit now and then.
The New York Life's payments to
Andy Hamilton "for services
total the astonishing sum of Sl,347,-
Wonder what he did with
all that! Probably, like Hi Henry
Rogers, he feels that it is none of
the public's business.
Ten years ago the first of Feb
ruary the per capita of circulation
was S2l.40. On the first Of this
month it was S31.SS-the largest in
our history. In populist times, it
was insisted that we needed a per
circulation Of $50. 1t seems
be coming to that pretty fast.
The fact that man wants little
here below and woman wants the
rest vas illustrated in a Chicago
court the other day when an appeal
ing little woman confessed that she
had unknowingly contracted a dual
marriage and that she wanted a
divorce from both OF her husbands
with alimony from each.
Within the last year Germany has
appropriated $S5, 900, 900 and France
$40, 100000 for canal Improvements.
Belgium, Austria Hungary and the
Netherlands will spend large sums