Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-18

OUT ~ 10 pain tndC ne ureu then
because they were branded Stalwarts
instead of Insurgents.
Two of the new battleships lack
the requisite number of men. The
government cannot recruit soldiers
while harvest hands ere getting SD
a day.
Senator Knox remarks that his
presidential boom is not being
withered by the hot weather; but
this, no doubt, is because it is so
green.
One of the transcontinental rail
roads reports increased net earnings
of S935,000 for May. Glimpses of
a silver lining to rate regulation are
frequent.
For the first time in its history
Manila has gone six months without
a case of infectious disease. Credit
American sanitary science with
another triumph.
Fourteen japanese laborers, says
a report from Washington, are 'at
large somewhere in the United
States" The yellow journals will
now see Uncle Sans immediate
finish.
The women of Muscatine, Iowa,
have formed a club and the mem
bers agree to wear no hat which
costs more than So. 1t is safe to
say that no milliner is a charter
member
4 big surplus in the national
treasury in 1908 will take the starch
out of the democratic orators. No
democrat has ever been able to
make much Roadway against this
sort of an argument.
A democrat may be defined as an
opponent of everything proposed by
the republican party, and who
enjoys high prosperity as result
of almost invariably getting licked
in national elections.
The assistant secretary of agri-
culture favors the corn tassel for
the national flower. If the size of
what it represents is test it has 10
competitor, but there are better
blossoms for bouquet.
Rev. DR.. Esper, of st. Joseph,
who discovered the downright immor-
atty of the Teddy BEAR" has
leaped into sudden limelight fame
that years of earnest and honest
endeavor would hardly bring.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has made ruling that negroes
must have as good Accommodations on
trains as white men when they pay
the same price. This is enough to
make Tillman throw an extra fit
A Finlander attempted to commit
suicide because his wife was too
busy in the Finnish diet to attend
to her home duties. Perhaps he
tried to cook his own meals and
found that he had a finish diet of
his own.
While Milwaukee was preparing
to entertain the sheriffs' association
& a Cream City policeman was robbed
Of his clothes and money at Cincin-
natl. This is one of those things
that tempt one to apply the term
Il poetic justice"
Col Watterson declares that ga
democrat is not a socialist, nor a
populist, nor federalist." If not
populistic the party made queer
flop in 1896, had relapse in 1900,
and is threatened with another
attack next year.
The women of Nelson county,
Virginia, are raising money to, raise
a monument to the memory of Estes,
the man whom Judge Loving was
acquitted of numbering 1t is get
ting SO the public is never sure
whether man is hero or william.
For collecting $4,000 life insur.
ance where no lawsuit was involved,
q New York lawyer charged widow
$1,036.79, and the court ordered
him to put it all back but 5000. But
IL did not order the arrest of the
lawyer. What is the matter with
our courts?
The reform legislature of South
Dakota failed to pass law govern
ing interest on public funds and the