Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-07-02
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

generation. This tenderness on the
subject of posterity is unique.
A bill has been introduced in the
Russian duma to increase the pay of
members to 5000 and to provide a
fine of $3.50 for every day mem.
Der is absent without having been
excused. If the car keeps on he
will make duma timber as scarce in
Russia as vice presidential candi-
dates in this country.
BY the explosion of a torpedo
under the hull of the monitor Florida
a hole was opened in which fifteen
men could enter at one time, and
yet the bulkhead construction pre-.
vented the ship from sinking. The
turret guns were still available for
action. The Florida ought to be
classed among the fighters without
further question.
Long introductions when a man
has speech to make are bore said
former Senator John G. Spooner.
81 have had all kinds, but the most
satisfactory one in my career was
that of German Mayor of small
town in my state, Wisconsin. l
was to make political address and
the opera house was crowded. When
it CAME time to begin the mayor got
up. Mine friends, he said, Il hat
asked been to introduce Senator
Spooner,. who is to make a speech,
yes. Veil, hat did so, und he will
now do So"
The telegraphic dispatches from
Manila announce that an infam ma
tory anti American circular has been
issued anonymously. cit bears the
cabalistic signs CT the old Katipunan
society,"" says the report, "and
denounces the Americans, saying
they have brought tyranny instead
of liberty, and that their purpose is
to rob and enslave the Filipinos. 1t
calls the benevolent assimilators
shameless, dishonest, drunken
thieves, attacks the morality of the
American women, and accuses the
government of Graft"
When a train load of cattle sold
in Omaha last week for $4,000,
being exactly IS per hundred pounds
for every steer on board, the buyers
for the South Omaha packing houses
said. "They were among the finest
ever brought to this market and
were fattened on mixture of corn
and alfalfa" The great packers
have recognized that the alfalfa fed
cattle are of superior quality and
are doing all that they can to
encourage feeders to mix the great
proteid food with corn in such pro-
portion as will enable the stock to
utilize all the carbohydrates and oil
in the corn These they cannot use
without waste unless protein ration
is given as a neutralizer. To encour-
age feeders to take up the balanced
ration as the best for cattle, the
packers are to have exhibits at the
National Corn exhibition to be held
in Omaha next December, and will
show in the cuts of meat the super.
iority of that from alfalfa corn fed
steers. 1t will be one of the most
interesting exhibits ever shown at
any exposition and the expense will
be entirely paid by the packers.
Mr.. Crawford's first appearance
in national politics resembles his
first appearance in state politics,
showing that the man has not
changed the least in all these twenty
years. AS member of the COM
mittee on resolutions he agreed to
the majority vote and signed it with
the other members OF the committee
and when it came up for adoption
greatly to the surprise Of the COM
mittee and its chargin the gentle
man from South Dakota violated his
agreement and demanded that the
vote on certain planks in the plat
form be separated and then he cast
his vote against the planks which he
had agreed to in the committee.
The eastern papers are very severe
in their condemnation of the Huron
man and 60 to the extent of wonder.
ing what kind of a man South Dakota
has sent out to take the place of the