The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04

charts tpleces}, st4.2i6 prints earti and
1880 pieces OF music. The manu-
scripts have not been enumerated.
Awaiting a grouping of the manuscripts
into volumes. The law library contains
1861 volumes. The increase Of the
library the past year was 2+G2s books,
1893 maps and charts, So,55o prints,
q, 15s pieces of music.
Work of C~ntaloeuine.
There were 117.3os books cataiogued
during the year. The work Of ~reclassi-
fcation has been carried steadily for
ward, about 4So,o 600 volumes now be-
ing in the reclassifed section.
The report of the register of copy
rights shows that in the past year
there were 117,7H articles entered for
copyright. The receipts from the copy
right Office amounted to $50, 19s, the
expenditures to s75,592.56, showing a
balance of s4,6o5.44 In favor of the
ONCE.
Woman Called For Jury.
A woman was s~ubpoenaed for jury
service the other day for the first time
In the history of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia.
"M. F. Scott" was the name on the
| subpoena, a formidable looking docu-
ment issued in the name Of the presi-
dent of the United States. and when
| Miss Scott presented herself for jury
service the officials of the court were as
greatly astonished as she had been
when she received the summons. They
waived her at once. The mistake oc-
CURED because one of the bailiffs in
consulting the city directory for names
for jury service found that of NJ. F
Scott, manager" Miss Scott Is a pref
ty young woman, although she is a
manager, and will not again be called
on by the United States to do jury
duty.
Coinage Last Year.
The annual report of George L. Rob-
srts, director of the mint. shows that
the coinage was less during the last
year than for several years previous
owing chiefly to the exhaustion of the
stock of silver bullion.
The total Of domestic coinage was
67,371,035 pieces Of the value Of $780,
216, TAT. OF this $50, OOo, O97 was in gold
coin, S4,016,36S was in subsidiary sill
yer coin, S2,3O2,397 was in nickels and
$895,SS4 was in one CEN pieces. There
was also a coinage of 100000 pesos
In gold for the Mexican government,
100000 fractional silver pieces for the
government of Costa Rica, 100000
half balboa pieces for the government
Of Panama and 1,557,629 pesos and
1887 pieces in fractional silver coins
for the government Of the Philippine
Islands.
Inkstand For President.
A brass inkstand from French ma
chinery left ON the isthmus and a cane
Of black palm wood with a carved veg
etable ivory head have been presented
to President Roosevelt by Chairman
Shonts on behalf of the employees of
the isthmian canal commission.
The wooden base of the inkstand
was made from a railroad tie used
by the French in the early days OF
Panama canal construction.
Exposition In Washington.
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sier-
ras, left with the president a few
days ago a long written suggestion
that the burning of Washington in
1914 be celebrated In 1914 by m expo
sition in this city.
1--WE ought to have a big celebra-
tion," said Mr.. Miller, ito show the
world what we have done in a nun
dred years. We've built a capital and
a great city, and we have made the
greatest progress of any country in the
world. We ought 70 show the nations
of the earth just what we have done"
For Public Buildings.
Senator Hepburn proposes that the
government shall at once purchase all
the land between Pennsylvania ave
nue., the Mall. the Capitol grounds and
Fifteenth street and that as govern
ment buildings are needed they shall
be erected on this land. In the mean
time he proposes that the land shall be
cleared and added to the parking space
OF the city.
Senator Hepburn proposes that here
after all government buildings located
in this city shall be erected upon this
land and shall be of such harmonious
architecture and arrangement as to
make the government buildings a com
bination of all that is beautiful and
adequate to the wants of the service.
Area to BE Acquired.
A bill to accomplish this purpose has
been introduced in the senate by Mr..
Hepburn. The property to be purchas.
ed involves twenty-five squares and
five reservations that contain 2,O22,1 64
square feet of land. The government
now owns within the area indicated
land aggregating l,6S5.149 feet, com
prised in five squares, together with
the Haymarket square, the Center
Market square and streets and parks.
To Cost 100000
For this purchase the sum Of $1O,-