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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

The only way to stop that grating
i'm the legislature, governor is to stop
the legislature, A body elected by ana
for graft naturally cannot be anything
but a bunch of grafters.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

1t seems that Admiral Bob Evans did
not go to Kingston after all. Perhaps
he thought there We're pyrotechnics
enough there without his verbal explo-
cia
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

The cat show opened yesterday. 1t
wasn't a good day for cats; but what
a bully enc it would have been for a
duck show.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

doc" Houghton had to be restrained
from talking in the meeting Of the gas
consumers the other night. Sounds
natural, doesn't it?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

A Cuban editor has been badly
thrashed by an irate reader, thus again
demonstrating the Cuban fitness for
statehood.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

The middle west is covered with a
blanket of ice and snow, If YOU don't
like this weather you might go there
and freeze to death.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

The council has officially begun to
probe the gas question. Let us hope
that it will get an answer before sum
1ner comes again.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Spokane, Wash, usually has rainy
weather but it is zero there. You can
get there in two days if you don't care
for this sort of winter.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

When in doubt, predict showers. Thus
the weather man is almost always right
in his guesses.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Isn't it going a little too strong when
the gas company asphyXiates its own
employees?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

SO it seems, after all that the Har-
riman bunch has pulled the wool over
the city in those tunnel franchises.
What else did anyone expect?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

AS to Old Sol, it may be advisable TO
couple him with that character in
Dickens, of whom it was said: There
amt no sich pusson.'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

All that is needed to add to the mis-
cry is a failure of the electric hghts
about town.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

About one more good missionary tour
and Long Beach will be as ANXIOUS lor
consolidation as is San Pedro.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

The man who would give a house
warming party these days would be-
come immensely popular all of a sud-
den.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Every report from the Jamaica
earthquake shows a worse condition of
affairs AS a winter resort its days are
past
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

If YOU don't like this weather go to
Havre, Mont, where it is "a below
zero.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

If it is any satisfaction it may be
mentioned that there can be no 1rost
while the rains keep up.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

1t may be all right to dump Los An
geles' garbage in the ocean, but what
have the beach towns to say about it?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

The gasless stove, it may be added,
is not blamable on Mr.. Burbank along
with all the other LESS" Inventions
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

1t must be a pretty bad Legislature
when Governor Gillett has TO re-
pudiate it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Yes. Behymer had a concert billed
for last night. That accounts for the
downpour
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

wouldn't this rainy weather make
Hatfield feel funny?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

San Pedro's coming in becomes more
of a certainty every day.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Funny that the Swami couldn't see
that $3.50 fine coming to him.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Another argument for good streets:
This last shower.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

OF course it's raining there's a
circus about to open at Venice.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

When it comes to making good on his
rain predictions Wollaber is wonder.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Ninety days in Jail would just about
cure some of these fake mediums.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

retary Shaw presented with his COM
pliments, Build for the future-build
t.;s,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Everything you want you will find in
the classified page-a modern encyclo-
pedia One cent a word
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18
Population of Los Angeles. Isl ,463

The Swami has been swatted.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18
WHY my LADY" REALLY SHINES THIS WINTER

Tip Dainty slippers
Brilliant spangles
Front Kansas Clty Star
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18
Pl-LineS and Pick-UpS
Where's the s,,n9

don't believe there is a sun.
I never see IL shine;
One reads about It, off and on
But eyes give proof to mine
II there's a sun behind these olopds
Why has IL never shone?
Instead, the rain falls ali tho tip,o
The while the breezes moan.
Perhaps you're telling me the truth.
There is a sun, maybe;
but from Missouri have come
credit what see.
h,a ahe editor of a Michigan paper opens
chs bs Urtice with prayers. Next, the
III VIII be closing 1t with swears.
od ne ~. Hon. j. f. Onion has been elect
TO- w congress from Texas, and many
tears How accordingly. '
tuition and 800 new wjdows WY yyh, opnstiI SUI
make the most trouble f,rstp WIN
An Apology
Sharles Garter finds fault with our
s.ateinent In last weeks paper that no
was drunk etc, when he slashed a
razor at Carl johnson. cutting his coat
amu .hat IL was all done without in,
~ Wv IlhTIIl, OF something IN
that erect. We understand he asn't
real drunk But If he did IL all withs
out any malicious intent ii would oniv
change the character of the state in.
stitution he ought to be sent to.-Weat
Lafayette (o) Indicator.
A New York suicide left a note saw
ing that life was only a rarebit dream.
SO 1t is, In New York.
Palm-When do we realize this high
er life?
er right now?
Even death loves a shining mark
but no one loves the easy mark.
Bostons mayor has misquoted En-
erson in speech, and Beantown has
repudiated him.
Orange-Does that parrot talk well7
Lemon-Sure; uses nothing but polly
syllables. Po"'
~ would be easy to economize in or
der to get married If economy ceased
then. But
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

,,,t,nr ,sia mas q new shah, a. new consti-
make thn thu SUI ouo new widows. Which will
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18
Only the Necessities

Plus Ziezlmeier made a trim to Tit-
tlefork Sunday for provisions. but
failed to find any. Same old story
each year, the merchants say that they
are all out of flour, meat, butter, etc.
but have an abundant supply of tooth
picks and other necessary articles
International Falls (Minn) Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

oa ne ~. Hon j. f. Onion has been elect
tears S9onsress from Texas, and many
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

b,s me editor of a Michigan paper opens
sho,,ce zee zee, with prayers. Next, the
III VIII De closing 1t with swears.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

There'd be lots more fool killers if
suicide were not a crime
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18
The Gas

An Illinois judge says the whisky
jug Is deadly Full or empty?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Very. necessary it is to shine If you
would be a belle of the ball.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18
PHIL JOYCE

The star-Thsres dispute about my
rank. others in the second. Now, how
would you designate II?
The RiYal-I? Oh! I'd simply designate
II as rankl
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

IL would be easy to economize in or
der to get married If economy ceased
then. But
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-18

Orange-Does that parrot talk well?
syllables. P0"'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
Most Unreasonable

Detroit Journal: The demands of
the European workingmen are be-
coming unreasonable nowadays. 1t Is
only a few days ago that the Paris
walters struck for the privilege of
wearing a mustache, and until the
dispute is settled the boulevardier
will have to carry his own drinks out
to the little tables under the trees.
Now it is the turn of the st. Peters,
burg bakers. They have been accus-
toned to working night and day,
stopping only to sleep over the ovens
for a few hours. Hearing that the
bakers of Moscow had sercured the
right to take a bath once a month
and a sleeping place outside the
bakehouse, the st. Petersburg men
went on a strike, too. These demands
are regarded merely as a prelude to
a demand for the right to wash every
morning before going to work, and
the employers are determined to re-
sist to the uttermOSt.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
ELECTRIC LINE TO MITCHELL
Charles Mix County Capitalists With
Armour Men Plan an Electric
Road to Mitchell

There are a party of men living
down at Wagner and Armour who
are interesting themselves in an cleo
trio line of road from Wagner to
Mitchell and a corporation has been
formed with the idea of building the
line some time in the future. The
company is made of men living in the
southern part of the state, and is
composed of the following gentle
men: A. HI. Pease and John Absher,
of Wagner, John Stransky, of Puk-
wanna, Albert Amundson, of Lake
Andes, E. P. Wanser, Of Armour.
The company is said to be incorpor-
ated with a capital of 100000.
Up to the present time no effort
has been made to place any stock of
the company in Mitchell, and knowl-
edge of the railroad coming here is
rather limited. When the matter is
presented to Mitchell people by the
parties interested doubtless some
thing will be doing.
J The headquarters of the company
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
MITCHELL WON THE DEBATE
Judges on Debate Gave Mitchell IL
Unanimous Verdict Against the
Nermillion Team

The most glorious news came up
from Vermillion Friday night about
1920 o'clock when the information
was telephoned that Mitchell had
Won the debate over the state uni
versity, the judges rendering a unan-
imous decision in favor of the de-
baters of Dakota Wesleyan Univer-
sity.
The subject under discussion was
"Pesolved, That American cities
should find the solution of their
stree railway problem in municipal
ownership"
In the debate Mitchell had the af-
firmative and was represented by
Roscoe f. Satterlee, James E. Dob
son and Sidney Graham. Vermillion
chose the negative side of the propo-
sition and was represented by
Messrs. Duggan, Lyon and Bail.
The judges We're DR.. j. w. Heston,
president of the Madison normal
SCllool, IlOl. n. Il. ldylOf, OIL huron,
and Prof. Woodburn, of Canton.
Mitchell's debaters have been
working exceedingly hard on their
side of the debate, and with the diff
ficult side OF the proposition, it be-
ing less popular, the debaters had to
put forth the greater effort. The
whole town rejoices over the victory
and when the news was received late
in the evening, the University stu
dents spent an hour or more in re-
joicing over the victory.
Last year Mitchell and Vermillion
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
HAVE AWARDED CONTRACT
Mitchell Furniture Co. Gave Work to
John Slater, Stone Work to
Scheurenbrand

Friday afternoon the officers OF
the Mitchell Furniture Co. we're en-
gagged in the work of opening the
bids for the construction of their
wholesale house, which is to be To-
Gated on Railroad street, on the al
ley lots, between Main street and
Lawler street. The contract for the
carpenter work was awarded to John
Slater, whose bid was $4,1OO, and
the stone work was awarded to Gott-
.lieb Schehrenbrad for $4,000. The
dimensions of the building will be
10Sx73 feet, two stories nigh with
basement. The basement will be con-
structed of granite, and the upper
stories will be built of cement blocks.
manufactured by Mr.. Scheurenbrand.
1t will be a very imposing structure.
The location of the building will at
ford the company a good place in
which to do business, and it will
be an easy matter to construct a
switch from the Milwaukee tracks up
to the wholesale house.
Mr.. Broadbent stated that work
would commence on the excavation
for the basement the first of next
week and the work would be push
ed on the building as fast as posi-
HE
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17

question under discussion was the
municipal ownership Of street rail
ways, OF which Mitchell had the
Affirmative and Nermillion the
negative.
James Dobson for Mitchell opened
the debate, and in his constructive
hrgc rent showed the cause Tor action
against the present system of street
RAILWAYS on account of the great
corruption in cities caused bv the
granting OF franchises to corporations.
He also showed that the present
system was unsatisfactory, because
OF the poor service and high rates.
HIS main argument, other than that,
was that private street railways we're
natural m%onopolies and one could not
make anything else of them, aud the
solution was in doing away with
monopplies by cities refusing to
grant franchises.
MIR. Duggan was the first speaker
for Vermillion and sh owed that the
introduction OF municipal ownership
would be impraclicable in tits
country, because OF the debt limit
which prohibited most cities from
bonhing themselves to a certain
extent and this would prevent cities
FROM purchasing the railways.
Sydney Graham appeared as
Mitcnell's second speaker. He
shovel that municipal ownership
would reduce rates on street railways
and give better service, and proved
his contention by our experience
with municipal water, gas and
cleo ric light plants. lie showed the
reduction in rate that had been
brought about by this system.
Mr.. Bail was Vermilllon's second
speaker. He said that the solution
of our municipal corruption could be
found in more strict regulation, and
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17

cited the Massachusetts street rail-
way commission to Show what
regulation could do along this line.
lie also showed failures Of municipal
owhe ship in this country.
Roscoe Satterlee was the last
speaker for Mitchell. He shovel
that regulation of sire t railways
was impractical and could not be
made effective. and that municipal
Ownership has proved successful in
Engl md and Germany. 1t has been
a financial saving to the people. and
that it will eli inmate corruption in
American cities to a great extent.
Mr.. Lyon appeared us the last
speaker for Velmlllion. He spe t
most OF Ills time i'm answering Mitcn-
ellis arguments aud reinforced their
argument concerning the Massachu-
setts railway commission. and en-
deavored to show that some of the
facts concerning England. we're not
authentic because the officials covered
up the facts in their r. ports lie also
referred to the more strict enforce
ment OF the regulations which, lie
claimed. would solve existing evils
IN municipal politics in the United
i States.
In rebuttal Vernilllon made her
poorest showing. and made the
sweeping aud unsupported charge
that Mitchell had not answered Their
facts. The dehate,s did not use al,
of the time AZ tn ir command ano
caught the fancy of the audience
with a nun her of jokes winch were
sprung at the Mitchell drhaters, bu,
did not find much favor with the
judges. They still ccntended tina,
regulation would be the solution q
our street railway. system.
The rebnttal made by Mitchell W!
Continued on Page 10.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17

are located at Wagner, and the line
will run direct to Mitchell, with a
branch line to Armour and Lake An
des. The distance is 65 miles, and
the company figures that it can
handle a great amount of freight and
passenger business. With their cleo
trio line running through the country
the possibilities of furnishing light
and power to farmers along the way
will be great. Further developments
of the company will be watched with
interest.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
Reminders From History

Kansas City Star: Standard Oil
stands pat" for rebates. 1t has fall
en- back on the Constitution In
this it can point to many iIust,:ous
precedents-the Bourbon aristrocra-
cy of France, George III of England,
the southern shareholders, the Rus
sian grand dukes, etc. If this kind OF
company pleases the Standard on
company, 1t is its privilege to choose
and to keep it, even in the light Of
the results. which history records a.
attending that kind Of behavior.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
CAPITAL IS NOW 100000
Mitchell National Banks Capital Has
Been Increased to a Much Great
err Sum

A month Or two ago, The Republic
ali announced that ths Mitchell Ma
tional bank had decided to ilcreas.
it,; capital stock from $4,000 to
100000.
Friday the bank recei;ed it's e
tificate from the treasure department
at Washington increasing its capita:
stock to 800, 900, and thu stock has
now all been issued.
This is making a magnificent
showing for this splendid banking
Institution of Mitchell, ar! not on
~ - atrons, bu. ,'a -,.,- il ttn-
e"al will be please To ronIratulule
the "irk on it's Increased cunilali-
zation. AS a further evidence of
greater development, at the call
made by the treasury department
the Mitchell National showed a de-
post of $1,O37,5O1.63, an amount
that indicates it's high standing in
this community.
The Mitchell National is showing
it's appreciation Of the business in
terests of Mitchell by erecting a mag
nificent home into which it will
move in the course of a month or
six weeks.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
Welcomed the Debatcrs

Satul lay afternoon the University
closed TO welcome Satterleet, Dobson
and Gr%.a.ln on their arrival from
Vermillion. With the faculty mem
bers leading the procession, the
student body formed into line and
marched down to the Milwaukee de-
pot, and when the train from the
south arrived the air was rent with
college yells, hurrahs and a genera.
rejoicing ensued over the victory
that the young men had won for the
University.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
That Was the Question Debated by
Mitchell and vermillion in
Which Mitchell Won.

The debate between Mitchell and
VermllIion, which occurred at Ver-
million last Friday evening was "A
splendid su ecess in all features. The
affair was held in the University
chapel, and it was crowded to the
limit. Vermillion people stood by
their debaters manfulIy in the way
OF cheers and applause and the
Mitchell contingent had but little
chance along that line. President
Gault OF the State U~niversity pre-
sided during the evening. The
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17

held a debate and it was won by the
local university, and a second vic
tory places the school on a high
plane on the debating proposition.
Vermillicn. however, will get even
in a couple of weeks when they come
up to the athletic contests. where
their athletes shine.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17
WILL Be DONE IN JULY
Indications Point to the Fact That
the Milwaukee Road Will be
Finished at That Time

Visions of a trip across the Sioux
reservation by rail to the Black Hills
country by the latter part of July
are not overdrawn, according to the
information that IN from the
front OF the railroad extension push
ers of the Milwaukee road. The most
encouraging kind of a report comes
from the west as to the speed that
is being made by the tracklayers on
the Milwaukee system. Up to the
present time the track has been laid
for a distance of SO miles west of
Murdo, and they are sticking to their
work with the determination to fin
ish laying the rails into Rapid City
by the middle of July or perhaps a
little later than that. The men are
working from both ends and the
meeting out on the reservation will
be a most happy one when the two
railroad gangs come together.
The roadbed has been practically
graded through to the Hills country,
and there is nothing left to do but
to lay the ties and rails and fix the
roadbed up in the best shape posi-
BILE until it is graveled.
Several trains are at work gravel
ing the roadbed through to the Hills
and it is the intention to have this
part of the work done within as
short a time as possible after the rails
fave been laid. The company owns
%trainload after trainload has been
hauled to surface the track. An I'M
fortunate accident happened to the
gravel loader a few days ago, when
it toppled over from it's excessive
weight when crossing a poor piece
Of track. and several davs were lost
i'll getting the ,oa Ter back on the
most approved fashion.
1t is understood that the Milwau-
kee officials are planning on running
a special train through to the Hills
country Immediately on the compile
ton of the road and give the people
of this section an opportunity to
cross the great re ;srvat,oh in the
approved fashion.
The towns along the extension
are being built up fast and settlers
are pouring into the country by the
thousands, hundreds of carloads of
immigrant goods having been ship
ped into that country this spring.
There does not seem to be the least
question as to the successful future
of the reservation country, at least
thousands of people are casting their
all on the outcome. After several
years of successful crops as far west
as farming has been carried on, it
is only a matter of sufficient moisture
to produce the crop, and any coun-
try is liable to run short on that.
With that country opened up so
thoroughly it is going to give Mitch
ell a splendid opportunity to expand
along several lines and the indica-
lions point to the fact that Mitchell
will rise to the occasion of getting
the wholesale houses which will sup
ply that entire western country.
With wholesale houses located here
t%wenty-four hours time can be saved
in supplying the wants of those west
ern merchants and that is what they
will insist on and what they are en-
titled to. The movement toward Sc
curing wholesale houses for Mitchell
is being greatly accelerated this
spring, one having been secured al
ready and others are much more
than problematical.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-03

cotton placed on the north bank of the river here between the Iron Mountain and Rock Island railroad bridges, ready to be loaded on the Brown Sunday night. The cotton will be moved today and tomorrow from the Gulf compress in Ar genta, where it is now stored.
 The work of loading will be start ed as soon as the Brown arrives ill port and the steamer will be loaded and ready for the doWn-river trip by Monday morning. Several thousand bales Of cotton will be taken out of Little Rock. At Pine Bluff about 900 bales will be se- cured on the down-river trip. The entire cargo will be taken to Mem- phis.
 It is the intention of the Pine Bluff party to remain on the boat. The trip will be novel one and for nearly the entire party the first that they have ever made np the river to Little Rock.
 Entertainment will be provided for the guests on the boat Sunday night It is expected that hum dreds of Little Rock people will visit the Brown while she is in port Sunday night.
 The $. s. Brown is one of the largest on the Mississippi river. It is very seldom that she copies up the Arkansas river ow- ing to her size and draft. At present the river is high and there is no doubt that the boat will be able to come up as far as Little Rock The Brown will be in charge of Capt. Ed Rowland Sr., a member of the Arkansas River Packet com- pany, which owns the steamer Brown.
 The Lucille Rowland, also owned by the Arkansas River Packet com pany, which has visited Little Rock three times in the past three weeks, securing a cargo of cotton for Mem- phis each time, is now at Pine Bluff, having arrived here yesterday. The Rowland will secure a cargo of ,0O0 bales of cotton there and will leave at noon today for the down. river trip to Memphis. The Rowland will not come to Little Rock this week.