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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
BURGLARS MAKE
$4,000 HAUL
Enter j. c. Cantonwine's Store
at Armour and Take For
tune in Currency.

Armour. s. D., Sept. 22.-The safe in
the hardware n general store of j.
c. %Cantonwine. of this place, was burg
larized last night and $4,000 in cur
rency, $4,000 in gold and $500 in silver
taken without injury to the safe or
disturbance to anything else in tho
building.
This Is the largest haul made from
any establishment in the history of
the county and probably the largest
In the history of the state, and there
is much speculation as to how outside
parties could have known of the large
amount in the safe and the fact that
the safe was not blown. but unlocked,
adds to The mystery surrounding the
event.
Unlocked the Safe.
Mr.. Cantonwine, who claims that he
is in the habit of carrying large surns
OF money as his own depositor, says
that he locked his safe, which is of the
Hall variety, at the close of business
last night and turned on the combina-
ton which is known only to himself,
so far as he knows. When he came to
his place of business this morning the
safe door was open and the money o
There were some papers lying about the
safe on the floor, but otherwise there
was no evidence of disorder. Mr..
Cantonwine also shows the place where
the burglars made their entrance to the
store, but there is nothing TO show that
locks were broken in the successful at
tempt.
1t is not known what the result will
be to the business of Mr.. C~antonwine,
as the money represents a large por-
ton OF his gross business for the sea-
on. He is offering a reward OF $1,000
for the apprehension of the guilty par
ties, but there are no present clues,
as there nave been no suspicious char
acters here recently who could have
secured the combination to the safe.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
MRS. MACKAY N
OUT AS %SUFFRAGETTE

II. Mackay unfurled today her
as the leader in this country Of the
woman suffrage cause. After a no.
vitiate, during which she has studied
exhaustively h economic problems Of
her sex, she has publicly subscribed her
faith and pledged her support to its
doctrines.
Although it has been limited for soma
time that Mrs. Mackay Endorsed the
tenets Of suffrage, it was not until to-
day that she made public %nnounc
ment Of her conversion. She did so in
the Roslyn public school. where Mrs.
Blatch, the s%uffragist, had been inyitad
to give an address.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
BLACK DOLLS WILL
MAKE NEGRO "KlDS"
HAPPY AT XMAS

Lexington, KY, Sept. 24.-At a meet
ing Of the National Colcred Baptist as
ISOLATION the following resolution was
passed:
whereas. u publishing board is
prepared to supply a long felt need In
q factory for negro dolls; and
whereas, Our people for nearly half
q century, because of uncomely, de-
formed features OF negro dolls, have
spent thousands of dollars for white
dolls for Christmas, etc; therefore be it
"Resolved. That we do here n now
give our Endorsement and hearty ap-
prevail to a negr doll factory and not
only urge the patronage of the people
of our churches as Baptists, but of the
race at large throughout the United
States"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
BACK TO WASHINGTON

Oyster Bay. Sept. 24.-Mr. Roosevelt's
ANAL summer vacation during his pres
n term OF office az president came to
an end this morning when. with his
family and members Of the White
House executive stan. he departed
amid cheers from a throng of residents
for Washington.
In several respects this has been an
exceptional vacation for the president.
He has entertained at Sycamore Hill
more visitors than before and at the
same time a done much more work
than on previous vacations.
He returns to Washington in splen.
did health and much benefited by his
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
AT 70, TWICE WIDOW,
MARRIES YOUTH OF &c.

New York. Sept: 24.-Mrs. Anna @.
Ross DePeyster. 20 years old. and al
ready twice q widow. was married at
her country home In Johnston today to
Ernest Bolton. 26 years old, an insur-
ance broker. The marriage was a sur
prise to Mrs. DePeyster's friends, both
on account Of the youth OF the BRIDE
groom and Mrs. DePeyster's advanced
age. It IL said Mr.. and Mrs. Bolton
had frequently been seen together in
the the latter's pew at st. Ignatius
church and elsewhere. Mrs. Bolton is
. prominent philanthropist and church
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
uP'rENT
MEETING; PANIC

Danville, KY, Sept. 2s.-seven people
were shot, several dangerously, at a big
tent meeting at Moreland last night.
The shooting took place inside the tent
as the large crowd was beginning to
leave.
Just what started the shooting has
not developed. Hundreds Of men. wom-
and children were more or less dam
gerouslS hurt in the panic that ensued.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
AviAToRs CAN'T GET
INSURANCE ON LIVES

Washington, Sept: 21.-several days
made application to a Washington in
surance agent for a life policy in favor
OF Orville Wright. The agency applied
in the regular a to the home ONCE
Today the agent received a letter from
the officials saying:
w cannot write a policy in favor
Of Mr.. Wright or any one else in his
line Of work. We consider the hazard
too great at this time, but it is nos
sible that in the future aerial nayi-
cation will reach a development which
may change this VIEW"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
COMMITS SUICIDE AT "a

New York. Sept. 23.-For some inex-
plicable reason Silver WE'LL. a 1~4-year-old
school boy. committed suicide by banging
in the cellar of his home In Monn.
Vernon. The last heard Of him he was
whistling u tune. When he failed to come
upstairs his father went to the cellar and
found him hanging from a cross beam.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
WEALTHY YANKEE WIDOW
WEBS PORTUGAL PRINCE

Paris, Sept. 2S.--The report is pub-
lished here that Prince Miguel, Of Bra
anZ the eldest son Of Don Miguel.
the pretender to the throne of Portu-
gal. was secretly married to Mrs. Sam
uel Sloan Chauncey. a rich American
widow
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
CHOLERA VICTIMS FOR
ONE DAY, NEARLY 200

81. Petersburg. Sept. 24.-Up to noon
today the municipal hospitals reported
for the preceding "a hours. AT cholera
cases and 176 deaths. There 10 a total
u 1857 patients In The various hos
'pitals.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
II DEATHS FROM
CHOLERA IN MANILA

Manila. Sept. 22.-Between 8 O'CLOCK
this morning and Z o'clock this even
ing thirty-eight cases of cholera and
seventeen deaths from disease were
reported in the city. Among the cases
are two Americans. r. H. Howard and
w. A. Davis.
The authorities are not discouraged
BY the apparent rapid spread Of The
disease and are confident the outhreap
will speedily be controlled.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25

Redding, Conn. Sept. 22.-Two burglars
who broke into the residence OF Samuel l..
Clemens Glark I'wain) IN Redding iata
Thursday night We're captured yesterday
on a New Haven railroad train between
Bethel and Redding after a desperate
fight. IN which Deputy Sheriff Banks, o,
Redding. was shot in the leg. The pris.
eners are believed TO be professional,
crooks who came here from New Yorl
for the express purpose of entering the
Clemens villa.
Miss Lyon. Mr.. Clemens secretary, was
aroused about midnight by the sound OF
breaking glass. She found the lining
room lighted and thai the sideboard, with
Its silver. was missing from it's customary
place. Through an open window she saw
two men riflins the sideboard, which had
been carried out into the garden. Miss
Lyon summoned Mr.. Cleminens and but.
Ter telephoned for the sheriff and neigh
bors. The burglars meanwhile had fled
with the silver, but they were captured on
a train here after a fierce fight in which
the sheriff was wound twice and one OF
the men shot himself in the head. The
silver vas recovered.
MIR. Clemens had Just moved here from
New York.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
M'cLEARY's RESIGNATION
ACCEPTED BY PRESIDENT

washington. D. c., Sept. 22.-Post-
master General Meyer today announced
the resignation September 10 Of Second
Assistant Postmaster General lanes
T. McCleary. Of Minnesota, which Was
accepted by the president, effective
September 15. Today McCieary re.
cetved he republican nomination for
congress from the Second Minnesota
congressional district.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25

u company has been formed In En-
rope for the purpose Of erecting and
operating hrst class hotels in various
cities and towns Of Greece.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
HANGED For MURDERS

Kingston, Mo-, Sept. 23-Albert D,,-
ley was hanged here ahis morning for
the murder Of his wife, brother and
baby at their farm a year ago.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
BUSH Hires

Port Arthur, Ont, Sept. 21-An dan
ger from bush fires which have threat
ened this district have been averted
by the arrival of rain last night and TO-
day.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25

Tho $50, 900, 900 odd IONS of coal mined
in the United States each year. if piled
together. would make a cube havine
sides ia Yards long.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25
MARK twain GETS
BACK HIS SILVER;
BURGLARS CAUGHT
Henceforth, He Will Have Moth
ing But Plated Ware in
the House.
TWAIN POSTS NOTICE.

Notlce-To the next burglar:
There is nothing but plated ware in
this house now and ~henceforth.
You will find il in thar brass thing
in the dining room over the corner
; by the basket of kittens. If you
van the basket put the Kittens in
; the brass thing. Dc not make noise
; it disturbs the family. You, will find
rubbers in the front hall by that
thing which has the umbrellas in it.
; chiffonier | think obey call it. or
pergola, or something Hike that.
Please close the door. Your truly,
Clemens.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25

Rising young men don't lie abea late.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-09-25

"He isn't bad looking. and perhaps
1t would be nice to meet q real Punch.:'
h declared with an approving nod Of
her pretty blonde head.
The Brunswick news., 1908-08-30

The company shall have a right on
meter rates 10 charge such consumer
a minimum of one dollar and fifty
cents ($1.5O) per month. 1t being
understood that such minimum charge
applies only where consumer does
not use one dollar and fifty cents
(s15O) worth of water per month.
Consumers shall furnish and install
their own meters.
The daily consumption Of water to
be fixed by averaging meter reading at
end Of each month or quarter (wheth-
Ter readings shall be monthly or quar-
terly to be at option OF company
The company shall have the right
to require from each consumer an
advance deposit (for the month or
quarter according to the plan of read
ing meters which may be adopted by
the company not to exceed a suffi-
cient amount to cover the minimum
quantity of consumption provided in
this Schedule for maximum rates.
RATES FOR ELECTRICITY FOR
LIGHTING PURPOSES.
The rates for electricity for lighting
purposes shall be eleven cents Q1c)
per one thousand watts. provided that
discounts on consumption exceeding
five ($500) dollars per month shall be
allowed as follows:
The Brunswick news., 1908-08-30

The terms of said proposed con-
tract are as follows:
STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY OF GLYNN.
This Agreement made and entered
into on this the 2zd day OF August
Nineteen Hundred and Eight dsos sl
bv and between the mayor. and coun-
Gil Of the city Of Brunswidf, Georgia,
a municipal corporation cHeated and
aw,s,irg under the laws of Bald state,
-S,or-.,rst+er for conveniendA styled
and referred to as The and
Mutual Llght and Water 'any' q
corporation existing andeF s laVs
The Brunswick news., 1908-08-30

BRUNSWICK, Ca, Aug. "a, 1908.
Notice of election to be held in
the city Of Brunswick, Georgia,
on the 2eth day of September,
1908, to determine the question Of
authorizing the mayor and council. .
of the city Of Brunswick, Georgia,
to enter into a contract with the
Mutual Light and Water company
for the furnishing of water, gas
and electricity to said city.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06

The revenus problem win be n Of
the serious questions before the coming
short session of congress. With a re-
publican administration elected to sue
coed President Roosevelt, IL will not be
necessary to defer any Of the pressing
public questions TO the consideration
of the new congress and the revenue
question is one demanding immediate
attention.
The charge of extravaganza against
the present republican administration
is not borne out by the records and
the question of revenues is one en-
tirely separate from legitimate expen-
ditures. The appropriations for the
present fiscal year are only about
$40, 600, 900 in excess of the expendi-
lures of last year, a very small amount
in view of the fact that the last con-
gress passed both a public building bill
and a river and harbor bill. 1t shows,
in fact, a retrenchment in every other
department Of the government. The
decrease in revenues is due solely to
a falling off in internal revenue re-
ceipts and the customs duties, the lat
ter being caused by the general bust
ness depression.
A veal ago the treasury deficit stood
at S3,656,00O. At the end of the fiscal
year, on June 80, it had increased to
$59,655,00O and is now about $1O2,-
900, 900. Fortunately, the increase
now being recorded in imports prom
ises to materially reduce this figure
before the end of the present fiscal
year, on June 80. 1909, but there is
nothing to indicate any growth of in
ternal evenue receipts. To what ex-
tent the decrease in these receipts is
due to the prohibition movement in
the west and south is not clear, but
it is reasonable to suppose that the dis
tillery operations have been restricted
somewhat, pending election results in
the various states. Some increase in
business may now be expected, but the
officials are beginning to believe that
the consumption of liquors is decreas-
ing and that the former receipts from
internal revenue may hardly be ex-
pected again.
In view of the conditions, the COM
ing congress will have to at least ex-
ercise greatest care in the matter of
appropriations, even If it does not take
the initial step toward plans for in
~creasing the national revenues.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06
PERSONAL NOTES.

Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, who has been
much talked about as a possible successor
to President Eliot of Harvard, Is very
in favor of athletics and competition OF
all kinds in colleges. He was himself a
formidable mile runner thirty-odd years
ago.
Thackor B. Pandya of Baroda, India, has
arrived in America and will enroll as a
student at Columbia university. He is a
graduate of Baroda college, where he
taught for two years and held office as
Inspector of public education OF Baroda-
He will study American politics while here.
Two more Americans have been made
knights by the pope-knights commanders
of the Order of 81. Gregory. These are
Morgan ]. O'Brien. rmerly justice of the
New York supreme court. and Eugene A..
Philbin, formerly district attorney In New
York. There are three others in the arch
diocese-John D. Crimmins. DR.. Thomas
Adds Emmett and Thomas NJ. Mulry.
Boston's monument to the late P. A..
Collins, unveiled last Monday, is a great
shaft fifteen feet high, surmounted by a
bust Of Mr.. Collins. On the west side Of
the shaft is a massive figure of Erin rest
ing on a harp. symbolic of the land Of
Mayor Collins birth. On the opposite side,
facing the east. is the allegorical figure
of Columbia, the Land Of his adoption.
Nearly all the queens of Europe are con-
slant smokers, The dowager empress Of
Russia smokes a. enormous number of
cigarettes every day, but her sister, Queen
Alexandra, has never been known 10 smoke
even one. This may have come from hav-
ing, as It were, grown up under the eye Of
o. 80 Il. wu-a9 Nha lat In
the world to countenance such a habit. The
Tsarina, previous to her marriage, had
never smoked, but 1t is not surprising that
she took up the habit, for, II anyone needs
something soothing to the nerves, it must
be she.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06

tribes OF them were wholly lost. The
Bryan democrats have had a similar
experience.
These instances and the fact that
Moses people wandered in the wilder
ness for a generation give some color
to the democratic claim that the most
distinguished character of antiquity
was a democrat, but there are other
episodes in the career of Moses that
do not bear out the democratic claims.
Moses was the original emancipation,
who struck the shackles off the limbs
of bondsmen Of his time. The history
of the section of the United States
south Of Mason and Dixon's line fur
nish proof that such is not democratic
doctrine. 1t is recorded, too, that
Moses struck a rock and got water,
while the democracy of today has been
striking rocks and getting Standard
oil.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06
Facing the Future
Chicago Tribune.


There she is. Behold her, and Judge
for yourselves. There Is her history; the
WORLD knows It by heart. The past at
least is secure"
we5ster's famous eulogy of Massachu-
sets might well be used in the present
hour Of the republican party. Its history
Is the history of tho United States during
the last half century. All the world knows
1t. As It faces the future It can do so
with satisfaction over its achievements
and with a certain confidence born OF tri-
umphant accomplishment in years gone by.
The past at least is secure,
Tn republican party came into being as
the expre ssion Of earnest patriots who were
determined to prevent the further extension
OF slavery into the territories. The logic of
events made 1t the leader of the larger
movement for human freedom. The at
tempt of the dominant wing of the demo-
cratic party to destroy the United States
placed apo the new party the RESPONSE
bility for the saving OF the union. The
exigencies Of civil war compelled 1t to
adopt a policy which resulted in a wide ex-
tension of federal authority in contrast
with the older notion Of state rights.
Emancipation was necessarily followed by
constitutional amendments securing free
dom and civil and political rights for a
downtrodden race. Even in the midst of
battles 1t planned a wise homestead policy
and the building of a railroad across the
continent for the greater glory Of the new
United States which appeared after the
smoke of conflict had rolled away.
Advocating the protection Of American
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06
THE END OF 4 SCANDAL.

Panama canal affairs figured in the
official actions of two nations last
week. At Washington. those in charge
of affairs on the isthmus, after a most
searching inquiry, acquitted Colonel
George w. Goethals, who is in charge
of construction, of the charge of I'M
fairness in the award of contracts. The
charge was made by an unsuccessful
bidder and was circulated by the demo-
cratic campaign committee for political
purposes. Colonel Goethals' exonera-
ton was complete and emphatic.
The other canal affair was an appli-
cation in the French courts for the
winding up OF the affairs of the old
French Panama Canal commission, the
operations of which was n of
Frances greatest scandals two decades
age. The reports show that 22S,000
French creditors will share in the
division of $154,0O0 which is all that
remains of the millions on millions
that we're poured by the French people
into the Panama canal scheme.
No one now charges Count de Les
seps with intent to defraud the French
people with his Panama canal scheme.
He had reached his dotage before his
bubble was formally foated. Time
has demonstrated that his engineering
plans were faulty and impossible of
completion, but he believed in them
and the French people and the French
people accepted his plans and poured
out their savings on the assurance that
the canal would be completed in eight
years from the organization of the
company. When the bubble burst. M.
de Lesseps and his board of directors
we're fined and imprisoned on charge
of ~defrauding the investors. The
record shows n of waste. extrava-
gance and hopeless ignorance Of the
engineering problems involved. Vege-
tation sprang up IN the canal route.
Engines, expensive machinery and a
vast quantity of material were allowed
to 20 to waste and ruin until the
United States came along, bought the
concessions from the French and
started toward speedy completion the
interoceanic canal which has been the
dream of centuries,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06
Is There u PARALLEL


James G. Blaine once said to Colonel A.
K. Mcclure; II am the Henry Clay of the
republican party; I can never be president"
With even greater justice w. ]. Bryan may
regard himself as the democratic Henry
Clay. These are the only two men to be
thrice defeated for the presidency.
Clay was first a candidate in 1924, when
he was a years old-eleven years older thar
Bryan in 1896. He was fourth In the cleo
toral colleges and j. Q, Adams got the de-
cision when the contest was thrown into the
house of representatives. In 1882 Clay ran
against Jackson. but got only forty-nine
votes to his opponents 2ls. His third and
final contest was against Polk In 1874, when
he was beaten by sixty-five In the cleo
toral colleges.
1t was an affecting scene at Ashland,
Clay's home. when the Kentucky electors
sent a committee to condole with him. At
the close of the chairman's address the de-
feated leader responded: II heartily thank
you, sir, for your friendly wishes for my
happiness In the retirement which hence
forth best becomes me-"
THE retirement" VIII the parallel hold
goodT Clay was then 81. Bryan is only as.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-06


industries and the related protection Of
American labor, Il secured also the re-
sumption OF specie payments and stood
like a rock for sound money against all
sorts Of threatened financial bills. Brought
face to face with the new and formidable
problems OF the Spanish American war, 1t
never wavered, but led the country for
ward along the highway OF destiny, de-
spite the jeremiads OF those who talked Of
imperialism and un-American policies. IL
in all these notable forward movements II
increased the tendency toward centralisa-
ton OF power. It did nothing more than
keep step with the trend Of the times. It
found its reward in the support of the
earth OF the United States as a world
power.
with such a record the republican party
may safely be trusted with the important
responsibilities which face 1t and which the
people have insisted that It continue to
bear. The regulation of railroads and
trusts, the conservation of natural and ma
tional resources, the completion Of the
Panama canal, the better organization OF
machinery for the preservation of health
and the fighting Of disease, the wise adj
mlnistration Of colonial dependencies and
other great tasks await 1t. The past has
its wonderful story OF accomplishment.
That is why the people have decided to
leave it to the republican party ito main
tain the policies, perpetuate the blessings
and make secure the achievements of a
greater America"