The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-11
FAIR CAUSES TROUBLE
CIate Tinan Hands Out some bras
ling Talk to Mitchell and
Fair Promoters. @
Fair Promoters.

ling Talk TO Mitchell and
Fair Promoters. ~
Clate Tinan is redhot uhoef eus
~Icollar and he let off a large quanlAey
of steam this week in his hlnpal.
|Graphic, and the basis OF TINS e4pAo-
sion is due to the fact that DAWSON
county fair dates lap over a coupe
days on the fair dates at klmDall.
There has been much letter Wrlt1nS
going on between Secretary Nichols
and Editor LaFollette and the presl-
dent of the Brule county lair assocla-
tion, and from the tone OF Brer. IL
mans article it does not appear tnat
the situation is any better.
We do not believe that local pro-
moters ever had the least thought
OF butting in on the Brule county
dates, and if they had been known
certainly other dates would haye
been selected. There is not the least
probability of the Dawson county
enterprise drawing a cents worth OF
patronage away from Kimball and
there w surely horses enough to 80
around for the two events. We trust
Brer. Tinan will overlook the first of
tense and not charge it up to the
Icity, which it is bending all its energy
lon the orn palace proposition.
Here is what Brer. Tinan has to
say about the fair dates:
President j. j. Winn of the Brule
county fair association has declared
war Oh Mitchell and it's corn palace
because Of the Dawson county fair
being same dates as the Brule county
fair, and there a been some hot ex-
change of correspondence between
Mr.. Winn and Editor LaFollette Of
Mitchell and Secretary NichoA
the Dawson county fair-thoughA-
letters from the last two to Mr.. Win
have been courteous and concilatorsj
in tone and explanation. They say
that the Dawson county fair is thu
project of some half-dozen men y6s
own the race track grounds andl&hat
the fair is purely a county iAstitu-
ton; no effort is being made to make
it other than such except to get
horses there from adjoining counties.
That's enough-that's a plenty to
make every man connected with the
Brule county fair hot under the COL
lar.
when the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
|inton-Kimball circuit was organized
last winter it was with the idea a
guaranteeing a good field of hors
at each town, and the purses wei
doubled accordingly. In SO doins
the week of the fair at Huron wal
left open and for two reasons. frs.
to give that undertaking a clear field
and second to make it possible 10 get
some of the horses that would be en-
tered at the state fair. Now come1
Mitchell and Dawson county fan
the week Immediately following t
Huron fair and Immediately prece
ing the Plankinton fair for the SON
purpose of gathering in the field OF
horses that the Brule county fair had
a right to believe and expected would
come to Kimball that week. .
"The assurance on the part Of Sec,
rotary Nichols corroborated by Editor
|LaFollette. that the undertaking is
not a Mitchell affair and Mitchell
should not be held responsible as
such, but on the other hand the work
'of a half-dozen owners of the fair
g ound in Mitchell, does not help
matters SO far as the effect on the
speed entries at the Brule county fair
go. MI. Nichols writes that he never
knew that Brule county was going to
have a fair until he learned\ of Il
while at the recent carnival in dam1
berlan and that they had plannedN
the Dawson county affair last DeceN
Der. He also states that A. A. B1
ton. secretary of the Aurora cqAnsyy
fair is one of the stockholdersh the
Mitchell race track and is Interested
in the Mitchell fair Of September 49,
l6 and II. Mr.. Boyton's represents
ttves were present at Stickney whln
the final arrangements were made for
the
ton circuit. II the Dawson county
fair was brewing since last December.
why did he not say SO then and therel
and arrange the dates so that the
half-dozen men responsible for the1
Mitchell function could have thei3
little boss trot without interfering
with the dates of the other towns
that have been hewing wood and card
rying water for Mitchell and its cord
palace since Gale was a pup? ThN
dates of September z. 8. 9. 10. ii