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A. d. Stevens, Twp. Clerk.
Railroad Gossip

Yankton Press and Dakotan: 1t
may be safely expected hat South
Dakota will furnish the ground for a
railroad construction contract of
large proportions during the present
season and probably extend INTO the
future. While the old time rivalry
exists between the Milwaukee and
Northwestern, a rivalry keen enough
to keep both companies figuring out
how to checkmate their able and willy
adversary, the Milwaukee has met a
new rival in the giant North Pacific
railroad which has begun the invas-
ion of the Milwaukee's commercial
domain in earnest, and there is no
telling no where the giant will stop.
It is going after the Pacific coast bust
ness that the Milwaukee's new lines
have been constructed to control, so
much is evident from the statements
made recently by the Tribune Of Bis
marck, a semi-official N. P. journal
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John n, Grow, Petitioner.
T. j. Spangler, Atty. for Petitioner.
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telling some loose stones would be
removed from the ruts to add to the
Disagreement of the roadside; some
mud would be scooped into The low
places; some 'thank-you-ma'am
erected to break the grades on the
%declivities, and the job would be
called done for another twelve month.
Methods have somewhat improved
since those days, but except where
they are under the direction of ex-
perts, good roads are still unknown
in the country places. New York has
set a good example, and like Georgia,
she has made provision under certain
conditions for utilizing her iail in
mates in carrying on the work.
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Nosious Weed Notice.

In accordance with the provisions
of 3176 revised code, to prov 70 for
the destruction of n%oXious weeds,
in this state, the board of supervisors
of Lisbon township have orderei and
hereby give notice that every per-
son and every corporation own
ing or occupying land in the
said township of Lisbon shall,
between the first day of June,
1909 and the thirty-irst day of
August 1909, destroy all weeds of
the kinds known as Canada thistle
and cookie burr growing upon the
land that he, she or they may occupy,
and that said weeds shall be pulled
and destroyed and the said lands
kept free from said weeds in such a
manner as to effectually prevent their
bearing seed during the period above
specified. All persons not complying
with this notice will be prosecuted in
accordance with the provisions of
said act. BY order of the township
board of supervisors.
j. M. Schmidt,
Chairman.
A. d. Stevens, Twp. Clerk.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-20

Over in the baseball world there
are some queer things happening in
the matter of securing players for
the teams in the National and Ameri-
can leagues. Salary is a big ques-
ton when it comes to securing an
especially desirable ball player. Take
the Chicago National team for eN-
ample. This team is shy what is re-
garded as the best catcher in the
United States, Johnny King. 1t is
. matter of salary with King and the
management of the Chicago club is
trying to temporize with the ball
player to get him back for a smaller
sum. Mr.. Killing says he will not
play ball with the Chicagos unless
they hand him out the munifcent
salary Of $4,000 for the years work.
Think OF 100000 to do a job that
sportsmen years ago would have been
glad to do for $40 a month-but the
point Is that Mr.. Killing stands at the
head of the sport in that capacity.
Ten thousand dollars a year is some
thing. It is $4,000 more a year than
the United States senators get. and
the baseball players only work about
four hours . day-he has his rail-
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GOOD ROADS AND STATE AID
New Works Plan for Sharing Cost of
Highway improvements.

Boston Transcript: The good
roads movement is spreading to such
an extent all over the country chat
the new highway code of the state If
New York will possess almost ma
tional interest. BY this new law 1926
acts or parts of acts relating to high
ways outside of cities and incorpo-
rated villages have been repealed.
The new measure will go into effect
the first of next November, when the
town superintendent take office and
1t Is expected to revolutionize the
control of the-state. The state bears
the whole expense OF it's own high
ways. Country roads are to be paid
for by the towns, with the aid of the
state, will pay for their own thorough
fares. State aid runs through the
entire system, and thereby the state
assumes the authority of deciding as
to the final plan of construction and
maintenance of every highway with
in its boundaries.
This plan is based upon the doubt
less warran:able theory that the
state authorities with their larger re-
sources and the Capitalization of adj
ministrative power a employ more
experienced and capable engineers,
make better selection of road ma
terial and carry out the work more
economically. 1t will probably cost
the rural districts more. but as a re-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-20
UNIVERSITY NOTES

Bessie Hodge 'OS, now principal
of the high school at Alexandria was
visiting friends at the University last
Saturday.
Arrangements have practically
been completed for the banquet which
will be served to the Senior class
by the Juniors in the basement of
the Methodist church Friday evening.
These b%anquets are always an i'm
portant event in the school and the
one this time will me sure up TO
the standard set in previous years.
The May morning Breakfast serv-
ed Tuesday morning at the Residence
of President Kerfoot was lars ~ at
tended by the students and fs!enGs
of the University. The Y. w. c. i,
who had charge of the affair viii &C.
the proceeds to sending dc!
gates to the summer conferenu
which is held at Cascade. Colorado.
Miss Mabel Smith, instructor in
elocution, left this morning for Kan
sas where she will give a recital in a
school where she was formerly a
teacher.
Frank Johnson of Aberdeen, and a
Former student was visiting friends
in Mitchell and at the University the
first of the week.
Guy Cook '0S, passed through the
city Wednesday on his way to Sioux
City where his sister is now in a
hospital. He will probably visit in
Mitchell about Commencement time.
No definite action of the faculty
has yet been taken in regard to a
special train to the state meet at
Huron next week, although it looks
at this time as if the athletes and
orator will &c to the meet unaccom-
panied by a large portion of tn stu
dent body, something that has not
occurred for the last six years.
The Inauguration of DR.. Kerfoot
as president of the University Will
be held OH Wednesday, June llinth.
At this time suitable exercises win
be held and several addresses made,
one of them by DR.. Kerfoot.
On Saturday next the girls gym
nasium classes will hold a track
a,ao ~ tbo Jr,;rorc;4,, o+bloti, G,1l
We do not know whether or not all
of the usual athletic events Will be
| pulled off but there will be at least
enough that the spectators my
know they are seeing "a track NEE.
A basketball game will also be
4 played in conjunction with the meet.
Quite a few former students and
| relatives of those now in school are
in the city for the purpose of attend
ing the May Festival. The Festival
has come to be as much of an oceas-
ion for the gathering of the friends
of the school as Commencement time
This morning in the basement oil
the M. E. church the men of Mitchell
and throughout the state were en-.
%tertained at a breakfast. On this oc
casion a number of lots on the south
side belonging to the University were
sold, the money for which viii bt
used to complete the payment OF the
debt. When this debt is once cleared
up the campaign for the new SYM.
nasium will start.
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which says without qualification that
the road will be built from Mandan
to Sioux City by a long sweep around
the west side of the Missouri river
for the purpose of obtaining a south
ern feeder in the rich South Dakota
farming regions while at the same
time they will be able to deliver the
Milwaukee a solar-plexus blow in re-
talliation for the invasion of N. P.
territory in the north. An authority
nearer home, the News of Mobridge.
claims that the extension designs
crossing the Missouri to the east side
at that point and building to Sioux
City through Milwaukee territory
wherever it will hit the hardest. One
reason that favors the Mobridge plan
is that it would offer more opportu-
mites for competition with the Mil
Waukee than would a line to Sioux
city west of the Missouri which must
traverse a large territory now under
the railway sovereignty of the North
western. 1t is the beginning of a
great contest and may lead to re-
su is OF great Importance to the peo-
pie OF this state not now looked for.
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summons

State of South Dakota, Fourth
judicial Circuit. SIS.
In the circuit court in and for
Dawson county.
p. ]. Callan, Plaintiff, VS.. James
Allingham, Defendant.
The state of South Dakota sends
greeting:
To the above named defendant.
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer tho complaint of
the above named plaintiff which will
be filed in the office of the clerk Of
the circuit court, in and for Dawson
county, sou.h Dakota, .on the 18th
day Of May. 1909, and to serv2 a COPY
of your answer upon the subscribers,
at their Office in The Mitchell National
bank building, in the city Of Mitch
ell, county of Dawson, state of South
Dakota, within thirty days after the
service of this upon You,
exclusive of the day of such service,
and if YOU fail TO answer said COM
plant within that time. the plaintiff
will apply to the court fer the relief
demanded in said complain.
Dated at Mitchell, South Dakota,
this LIST day of May, 1909.
Preston & Hannett,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
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Notice.

State of South Dakota, County of
Dawson. SIS.
In Circuit Court, Fourth judicial
Circuit.
In the matter of the petition of
John N. Grow, for the discharge of
record, of two certain mortgages,
hereinafter described.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice, is hereby given that, at the
chambers of the circuit court, in and
for Dawson county, in the court
house, in Mitchell, in said Dawson
county, on the 10th day of March,
1909, at the hour of 10 O'Clock. a. M,
or as soon thereafter as counsel can
be heard, the undersigned. John n.
Grow, will make application before
SAID court for an order discharging
the following described mortgages of
record, to-wit: One mortgage given
by Charles e. Brown and wife to
Miles c. Morgan, for $4,000, on lot
10, block 2, of the original plat of
the town, now city, of Mitchell, Davi-
son county, South Dakota, and one
mortgage given by the same mort
gagors to the same mortgage, for
$4,000, on the same property, all as
in such cases made and provided by
statute.
Dated May 10th, 1909.
John n. Grow, Petitioner.
I. j. Spangler, Atty. for Petitioner.
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Eiehth Grade Examination.

The. Eighth grade examination will
be held on Tuesday and Wednesday
May rs and 26 at Mitchell. Mt. Yer
non, Ethan and LOOMS. Each pupil
may choose the place most conven-
lent for writing the examination. Be
on time.
o. E. Browne, Co. supt. Schools.
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-GTHAN.

Ethan, May l6.-JameS COughlin
one of the prominent business men
of Carthage, S. d. visited with the
family of w. II. Trow the last of
the week, Mr.. Coughlin has two sons
located at Wagner, whom he had
spent the past three weeks with, and
was just on his way back home.
Lewis Black an oldtime resident
of this vicinity arrived on Saturday
from Browntown. Wis, for a few
days visit with old friends.
Mrs. Sargent, of Vermillion, ar
rived Saturday for a short visit with
her daughter, Mrs. J. w. Bryant. Mr..
Sargent will come a few days later.
The Ladies Aid of the M. e.
church will meet on Wednesday.
May 10, with Mrs. Alfred Dodd. A
large attendance is desired. Supper
will be served for Tho SIN OF .5cts.
Mrs. Jake Fergen and children of
Parkston visited this week at the
home of her parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Matt Schmitz.
Mrs. Esley Meyer visited her par
ents at White Lake recently.
The contest for the gold medal, in
Tobey's hall Saturday evening vas
fairly we'll attended. The medal was
voted to Bruce Price. A few musical
numbers We're presented and coffee
and cake served, which was greatly
enjoyed. There were S contestants.
There are 13 contestants names
presented already in the piano con-
test here.
Wedding bells will ring in June
for more than happy couple in
Ethan.
Mrs. R. Gammill has gone west OF
the Missouri river to visit the fam.
lily of her son.
Elmer Barker has gone to Canada
again. He is anticipating trading
his property here for real estate
there.
John Tyler's new piano arrived
and it certainly is a beauty, as view.
ed by competent judges.
John Coyne, of Milwaukee. Wis.
is here visiting his brothers, Ton
and Mike.
Mr.. Kinney and daughter. of siou,
Falls, are visiting at the John Gle
ment home.
Byron swartz and Lawson Wrigh.
OF Parkston, were in Ethan Sunday
Mrs. Clements is visiting relative.
at Emery this week. She accompan
led her father home.
Henry Nearhood left last Frida,
for st. Cloud, MINI. to. make an ex
-
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ETHAN.

Ethan, May 19.-Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph See (nee Miss Edith Annis)
of Wendt. S. D., arrived Monday for
a short visit with relatives and
friends.
Invitations are out for the we'd
ding of Miss Myrtle Tobin and Leo
nard King on Wednesday, June 2, at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Tob-
in.
Quite a number from here will at
tend the Musical Festival in Mitchell
today and tomorrow.
A. G. Drake is expected home
from Canada, Wednesday,, May 10.
M. A. Bracha has started the ball
rolling by having his cement walk
put down. All property owners on
Main street are ordered to put them
in. w. A. Mutziger will do the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Bracha went
to Mitchell Tuesday.
Mr., McKeel's new house is going
up very rapidly.
Misses Clara and Jessie Tremaine
and Anna Mortensen Went down to
Parkston Monday night on the
freight and returned on the 1o:45
passenger.
w. Barnard. of Mitchell, was in
town Tuesday.
Miss Anna Tobey. of Emery. was
visiting at the home of her aunt.
Mrs. John Clement, this week.
Miss Edith Trow went to Mitchell
Wednesday to attend the May Musi.
cial Festival.
MI. Grosz seems to be kept quite
busy repairing automobiles in his re.
pair shop.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-20

The friends of Theodore Roosevelt
In New York are putting up a fine
Job on him while he is away in Afri-
ca. These friends are talking of the
plan to make him mayor of New
York. This job would give Mr..
Roosevelt more room for his strenu-
osity then when he was president, for
In the case of mayor of New York he
would be In close touch with the peo-
pie he would be governing and 1T is
likely that he would demonstrate a
few things under those conditions.
or course Mr.. Roosevelt hasn't had
q chance to know what his friends
are doing for him in his absence. and
the plan might be a strong interfer-
ence With his possible desire to go
to the United States senate. In either
capacity Mr.. Roosevelt would be in
a position to stir up things.
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Mitchell Grain Market.

May 1s-wheat, No. 2, $1.11; No.
3, $1.09; rejected, $1.04: velvet chaf
$1:11; durum. &c; fax, $1.51; oats,
soc; corn. Coo; barley, 55c; rye, CSC.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-20
HERITAGE OF SOUTH DAKOTA

The wise move on the part of the
makers of the constitution of South
Dakota in setting apart school lands
In all counties of the state to pro-
vide for the ma%intainence of the
schools of the state, is receiving
much commentator from adjoining
states, which have to a certain de-
gree the same beneficent system, al
though not any such a degree as holds
good in this state. The accumulation
of wealth for the use of the schools
OF the state is, going to amount to
an immense sum In the future, II
even today the money that is appor-
toned to the various cities and towns
is reaching a large amount. The
Omaha Bee makes the following COM
ment on the manner in which the
schools of this state are to be bene-
s-Atted In the years to come by the
Increase Of these funds:
South Dakota authorities can
YOTGCaEL LuS IAllC Uh LLS iSoA ANoAS
when all the money necessary for
the conduct OF the schools of the
state will be had from the school en-
dowment funds without the levying
of a tax upon the people. The money
will come from rentals of unsold
school lands and interest on invested
funds derived from the sale of school
lands. South Dakota has followed the
policy of selling school lands only in
n%ortions OF the state in which they
have reached their approximate final
values, those in the newer portions
being retained and leased, The result
has been the maximum of money for
the schools without materially check
ing the growth of the state by keep
Ing lands off the market really de-
manded for cultivation.
South Dakota, being settled later,
prontted by the early mistakes Oh
Kansas, Nebraska and other states,
which in the early day sold their
6CnOOI lauuS III GuS oHoh
sections at low figures, because NO
one was ~farseeing enough in that day
10 conceive that the immense public
domain would soon be exhausted and
that farm lands would by this time be
worth from $50 to $500 per acre,
When the light dawned Nebraska
Aooy, tee rnrnnininp lands Off the
market, thereby largely Increasing
its permanent school fund until the
income now produces approximately
100000 yearly for u public
schools.
"It is doubtful if the men who
framed the law setting aside for the
school sections sixteen and thirty-siN
In each township Of the public do
main dreamed Of the immense herit.
aye they were bequeathing to the
children Of the country. No such mag
nificent endowment to education has
ever been given since the world be
gan. and the west is showing its APP,
probation by a most liberal support
for the public schools, the per capita
expenditures for education being fal
In excess of the older states with the
resultant low ratio of illiteracy. What
this generous policy has wrought can.
not be computed and its future use
fitness can only be guessed at
Ss
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1909-09-17
TREBLE KAPITEL.
garden.

Anton havde set de myrdede M9llerfolks Lig; men
Lise var bleven hindret deri. Hun havde dog hort alt, hvad
der af Anton og de andre med saa megen Cru var fortalt,
og hun var den eneste af dem allie, som havde set Nor
derens fele Ansigt. Denne Begivenhed havde hsj Grad
rystet og beveget dem begge. De havde holdt meget at
de gamle, venlige Mellerfolk, der i Sardeleshed havde
yndet den lille Lise og ofte gjort hende lyksalig medDuk-
ker og andre Smaagaver. l Forh9ret havde Lise gredt
heftigt, medens Anton var bleg og stille. Begge havde de
dog paa Diet n9jagtigste meddelt, hvad de kunde oplyse.
Da de nu after aandede friere under Vognens Rumlen /
den friske, vaarlige Aftenluft, udbr9d de ofte Beklagel-
ser over de stakkels gamle, som saaledes MATTE dp under
de tykke Dyner, og Lise spurgte sin Moder, ON man dog
like kunde kysse dem levende igen.
,,Akl mel, NIT Barn. = sagde Karen ,kunde
man Diet, naar kare Mennesker de, Wide der like vare
saa mango Enker og faderl6se Born verden."
MEN naar du eller Fader eller Anton kom under
Dyner og blew dgde, saa Wide jeg dog prove derpaa" -
sagde Barnet. ,Tror du heller like, Diet Wide hj@lpe,
naar jeg sang eller spillede paa min Flsjte7"
Mel, init Barn. Men den har du 10 givet Anton"
- sagde nu Moderen hastig for at bortlede Barnets Tan
ker fra den bestandig genkommende Forestilling ON ORA
bet ,og naar Anton nu paa Lordag otte Dage kom-
mer sin Tieneste hos Postmesteren, vii Diet nok ware lan-
ge, linden vi ser ham og hans Flsjte igen."
Han vii straks blive en- rigtig Flsjtespiller" = sag
de Lise glad og glemte alt andet -" og saa vii han be-
sege os baade til Pintse og til Jul, siger han, og spille os
glade allesammen paa sin Flsjte. Han vii spille sig For
low dertil af den slemme Postmand, som nu 10 vii skande
paa ham hver Dag, til Anton faar spilIet ham god og
glad med Flsjten."
Diet skal jeg nok, Mosteri p raabte Anton fra
Hsnseburlaaget - Jog Forlov maa han give mig hver
Gang. Diet er Hejtid. ALE de Breve og Parker, jeg skulde
rende ON med i Pintse- og Juledagene, vii jg love ham at
b@re ON Forvejen, linden Diet ringer til Helligaften."
,Nu snakker du noget e~nfoldigt, min k@re Drengr
sapde Karen og var nar we'd at lie, hvor bedrsvet hun
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1909-09-17
(Fortsattes.)

0pgbanSdem
in6Ingeer It beIasicrteret eager al ftrante 3D.
rer, bporober ny GorteeneIIe ubfommer inaret
miligt.
efrip efter Dor Dortesnelie
oper branoffaote WSeer til poerit neSiatte
priier.
0anii5 2ntt. SntI. &ssIs
0lair, Retr.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1909-04-09
axEaprsps

@ertb bon $6,630,00O. gSos oieie
Slunme beiagen mill, pernag man
oordls 5lt ertelnen, 0aB Die S6nei.
ne6u9t Btsconitns pG6reno 0eriel.
ben 3eit 16 Wtiaipnon ergab uno Die
&tnoer5ubt 12 Miuionen Collars.
Die Gier batten einen gr0Beren
8ertb als ole in jenem Staate er.
5eugte Butter; OieIem rtngefGbr gIeid
mar Der 8ertb Der Butter ouo
9GieproOuction. gtur bier Gr3euae
niIIe Der 2au0mirtBifaft ii6ertraaen
Die Gterproouction an 8ertb; n6m.
lid Seu, Rais, Safer unO @erlte.
8em Die Der Staatsgeietgebung
borliegenOe 9ia 8eies miro 10 miro
in oer Iderbaltiule 0eS Staates All
0taoiion ein beiouoerer SuriuS iiir
8efIiigel5it9t eingeri9tet iueroen
Die 9ta6frage na6 ltnterri1t in
oieiem 3meige Der 2anomirtbidait
madt it6 imlner l1ebr 9elten0, uno
Die Sertpaltltngsbeboroe ser Stuots.
llniueriitdt trifft gGnitaIten, oen 9ur.
lltS ei15ltri6tcn
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1909-04-09

na9 Sibirien gart5 getpaGtig geItie-
gen lit. Giner anttIiden StatiItif
5ufolge iiberi6rittei1 Dor 1906 iGbr.
ltcb 10000 Serionen oas llralge-
biirge; 1907 paren es 6eren bereits
100000, imo pd6ren6 Ser Ietten
@onate bes Sabres 1908 itieg Die
3abl Der ruIiiiden 9lusman6erung
auf 100000. S6uIo an oieier Wtai
ienauslpanoerung iino Die miBliden
SerbdltniIie in &ubIano uno Col
baten, tpeI6e 6en SeIbaug gegen So.
pan mitgerna6t baben. gta6 ibrer
&iidfebr er3dbIten iie 9efanrten uuo
Sreitnoen bon ben getpaItigen Gei6.
t6iimern per iibtrii6en SSteppen
Die SolGe bierpon lit Die MaiIeu,
abpanberilng naf Sibirien.