Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-12-12

bdo1C III Cu1lC odhi "o5co - oPs
to be permanent
You will az soon make your for
tune by repeating the multiplication
table as make yourself saint by
repeating the ten commandments.
Denver has $4,000 with which to
buy the republican national conven-
ton, Kansas City has $4,000 and a
hall, Chicago merely says, you
know me"
Where Harry K Thaw fell down
was in not having Evelyn shoot
Stanford White. She would have
been acquitted without the iury's
leaving the box.
William Jennings Bryan says that
that four years in the white house is
enough for any man. Also that
twelve years constant effort to get
there ought to qualify an applicant.
The voters who have come of age
since 1900 have Witnessed an era Of
prosperity aud been part Of it.
Mr. Bryan's idea that this class will
turn his old minority into a majority
is a strange delusion.
Mrs. Gould says that a 500 skirt,
$1,000 worth of hats and S2,6S0
worth of furs and waists are among
the things necessary to her life.
Somehow this kind of thing gives
one feeling of sympathy with
Howard.
Harry S. New, of Minneapolis,
was elected chairman of the national
republican committee to succeed
George b. Cortelyou, resigned, and
Chicago was selected as the city for
holding the next republican national
convention and June is was the date
set.
An annual tax of ST. on every
barrel of beer brewed in the United
States for the creation of a "per-
manent investment fund" of $50,
100000 yearly for the development
of the country's waterways, is the
proposal carried in joint resolu-
tion introduced in the house of
representatives Thursday by Mr.
Acheson, of Pennsylvania.
j. S. Newman, Montana visitor
to the International Live Stock expo
siticn at Chicago last week. was
given judgment for $500 against the
Great Northern Railway company
by Judge McEwan. He asked
81, 900 for damages to shipment of
200 sheep that starved and ate
the wool off each others Backs,
while being neglectfully transferred
by the defendant to st. Paul and
Chicago.
AS the result of Senator Kilt
redge's homestead bill, which allows
to those who have made first entry,
and failed through unavoidable COM
plications the right to make second
entry, over one thousand contest
cases have been laid aside by the
land department, awaiting the deter
of the matter by congress.
Many of these contested cases are in
South Dakota. This is one more
demonstration of the advantage it is
to have in Washington a man who
knows how to do things.
Lieutenant Governor Shober must
feel that he has wasted a lot of
He has abused the stall
warts in season and out of season,
and now he is turned down by his
own people, after having served but
one term. Mr.. Shober will take his
medicine, because he has to, but he
must realize that nobody in the
state appreciates his machine
whelp" editorials. 1t is long fare
well to the budding statesman from
Hyde county.
What nice thing it is to have
the state pay your hotel bills! This
is not contingent fund; it is simply
hotel bill fund. We are wonder
ing whether Mr.. Crawford will now
carry out his promise to sue his pre-
decessors for recovery Of the con.
tingent fund or whether he will add
i 20 his fast growing list of broken
pledges. Meanwhile the state con.
tinues 70 pay those hotel bills,