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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
BUNCH OF LAND SEEKERS
Kelley Land Co. Started Out With
Seven Automobile Loads to Tour
Lot of Country.

Alderman Kelley of the Kelley
Land Co., a a mighty busy man
Thursday in gathering his thirty-two
visitors from the east, who came
out here to look over the country
with a view of buying some real
estate in this or some of the adjoin-
ing counties. The alderman engaged
Photographer Hill to bring out his
camera and take a picture of the
group before they started out. The
seven automobiles were lined up in
front of the company's Office in the
Gale theatre building and the land
seekers were in the machines while
the picture was taken.
Mr.. Kelley's agents reached the
city Wednesday evening with a group
of 80 ~landseekers, some of whom
came from Hebron and Drumming,
Neb.. and others from Odell and Po-
10, Ill. The visitors were pretty we'll
pleased with the way in which Mr..
Kelley provided transportation for
his customers. and they anticipated
a fine trip yer the country. It was
about II O'Clock when the signal was
given to make the start
The party started off in a north
westerly direction going first to
Loomis and thence south to Mt. Yer
non, where dinner was arranged for.
The party then proceeded on south
east to reach Stickney, and will ar
rive in the city this evening.
Mr.. Kelley stated that he was out
with a party yesterday and made two
excellent sales of land, ranging in
price from $5S to $50 per acre.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
LAND RISES IN VALUE
Piece of Farm Land East of Town
Doubles in value in Short Space
of Five Years.

Faith in the value of land in this
immediate section was never more
APPLY demonstrated than in a sale of
a small tract on the A. B. Test farm
Thursday afternoon, when S. Olson
bought 10 acres of uur. est for which
he paid him 5000 per acre.
1t was five years ago this fall that
Mr.. Test came up here from York,
Neb., and looked over the cuontry,
He liked it amazingly and soon got
in touch with some real estate men.
He wanted to buy as close to the city
as possible, and had his eye on the
Jacob Schmidt "A acres about one
mile east of the city. That was the
piece of land Mr.. Test wanted and
he instructed the person with whom
he was dealing to get it. The dealer
found that it would cost him 800
per acre, and he carried that infor-
nation to Mr.. Test with the sugges-
ton that it was too high. and that
q q PASCIy u16 p1OpOSAl1Ou W
handle. Others wondered who that
lunatic was from Nebraska that
wanted to pay 800 an acre for that
land. Mr.. Test smiled grimly through
all of the seeming opposition that
was laid against his purchasing the
small tract of land, and he instruct
ed the dealer to close up the con-
tract. 1t wasn't long before Mr.. Test
moved up from York with his family
and located on the farm. He built a
very fine residence, and has been
taking life contentedly.
The wisdom of his purchase has
just been demonstrated and he says
that he feels just as sane now as he
did five years ago when he paid such
a high price for the land. 1t has just
doubled in value in that time and
the end is not yet.
Mr.. Olson, who is a painter by
trade, will commence the erection of
a residence On the small tract of
land and make his home out there
while attending to his work in the
city. The land purchased lies on the
north end of the farm. Doubtless
the time will come when Mr.. Olson
will be disposing of his land for resi-
dence lots, as the city is built up to
nearly that point.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26

the consent of the guardian priest,
and he opposed it because of the fact
that Mr.. Wyatt was a Baptist, and
he declined to accept the Catholic
faith. The couple decided on an
elopment, which was planned and
carried out, SO that Miss Brady be-
came the wife of Mr.. Wyatt. Her
guardian never forgave her for
marrying against his wishes, and
seemingly as a mode of punishment
has declined to turn over to her the
amount due. For some time Mr..
Wyatt has been considering the idea
of adopting the faith of the Catholic
church and last Monday he was bap-
tized by Father Shea-the second
marriage being eliminated as refer
red to above.
Mr.. Wyatt m of splendid Eng
lish parentage, according to state.
ments he has made to friends in, the
city. His father is a white man and
an Englishman and his grandfather
belonged to the nobility of England.
known as Sir Robert Wyatt. Wyattss
father married a Madagascar woman,
and while his skin is not wholly dark,
he says he has two sisters who are
perfectly white. MI. Wyatt Is the
%janitor of the Western National bank
building and is very much respected
by the tenants in the building.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
Eat What
You want of the food you need
d kodol will digest it.

You need q sufficient amount of
good wholesome food and more than
this you need to fully digest it.
Else you can't gain strength, mol
can you strengthen your stomach if
1t is weak.
You must eat in order to live and
maintain strength.
You must not diet, because the
body requires that you eat a suffice
lent amount Of food regularly.
But this food must be digested,
and it must be digested thoroughly.
When the stomach can't do it,
you must take something that will
help the stomach.
The proper way to do is to eat
what you want, and let Kodol di-
gest the food.
Nothing else can do this. When
the stomach is weak it needs help;
you must help it by giving it rest,
and Kodol will do that.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today, and
purchase a dollar bottle, and if you
can honestly say, that you did not
receive any benefits from it, after
using the entire bottle, the drug
gist will refund your money to you
without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
Of the bottle purchased by you.
This offer applies. to the large
bottle only and to but one. in a
family.
We could not afford to make such
an offer, unless we positively knew
what Kodol will do for you.
1t would bankrupt us.
The dollar bottle contains2h times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol is made at the laboratories
OF =. G. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26

Eor Sale By Diehl 2 Brown.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
At Government Indian school.

at Government Indian School
Rapid City, Aug. 2O.-While this
IS vacation time at the Rapid City
indian school it is a busy season.
superintendent House has just re-
urned from a trip through the coun-
try in the interest Of the school. He
has been at Chamberlain and on the
Crow Creek reservation looking up
pupils for the coming year and has
been very successful in his efforts.
The school will have about seventy
five additional pupils this year. A
part of these will come from the In
dian school at Chamberlain, which
has been abandoned. These pupils
number about twenty-five and a part
of them will arrive today. They are
orphans, who have no home and they
will be cared for until the fall term
opens at the school.
Among the improvements at the
school which will greet the returning
pupils is a new $4,000 building which
will be devoted to the instruction of
domestic science. Indian girls in the
advanced grades will be instructed
in the practical arts of housekeeping,
including cooking, sewing, farm
work, laundering, butter making and
the rules which govern good house
keeping.
A new septic tank has also been
installed at an expense Of $4,000
which when in operation will purify
all of the sewage, which comes from
the institution. Before snow flies
commodious cattle barns are to be
constructed, which will accommodate
100 head of stock which is kept on
the school property.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
THE ESCAPED COON
Tom Cooper Made a Bold Dash for
Liberty and Was Caught ON
Fourth Floor of Building.

There was a big bunch of excite.
ment Wednesday evening, which
started at the city hall and was
spread up through the adjoining al.
ley, extended to the fourth floor
of the Western National bank build
ing and ended in a cell in the Dayi-
son county Jail.
Early in the evening there were a
half dozen calls at the police head
quarters from various parts of the
city requesting the policemen to ar
rest three parties who we're driving
a single rig in a very reckless man.
ner through portions of the residence
districts, %imperiling the lives of
children and any person who might
be crossing a street.
Policeman Robert Foran started
out on the search of the parties, and
the only II that he could find was
Tom Cooper, a colored man, who is
doing janitor work in a barber shop.
Policeman Foran took him in tow and
went over to the city hall placing
his prisoner in the basement room
oil the police headquarters. He tele-
phoned for Justice Markham to come
down to hear the case, and while they
we're waiting for the arrival of the
justice somebody appeared at the
door and tried to get in with a key.
Policeman Foran went over to the
door, leaving the coon sitting close
to an open window and from which
the screen had been removed. When
Jim Spry went into the room he saw
the coon just disappearing through the
window and called the policeman's
attention to the getaway. For the
moment Foran said he forgot about
the window being open. Cooper start
ed down the alley and was holly pur-
sued by Foran and Spry. When
Cooper got out to Third street it
like he was going to get away
and to frighten Cooper, Spry shot
revolver into the ground, but it
only acted as a stronger incentive
Cooper to accelerate his move
Cooper turned east and see
Ing the open doors of the Western
National bank building he thought
it furnished a refuge from capture,
even though only temporary. He took
the chance and rushed into the build
ing, and mounted the stairway,
pursued. After Cooper got
on the first. floor he was out of sight
Of his pursuers and they were at a
loss to know just where Cooper had
stopped. The pursuing party search
ed each floor as they went along and
did not find Cooper until they had
the fourth floor, where they |
found him in the southeast corner of
the building in a hallway, awaiting
the coming of the officers. Cooper
was a willing subject when Police
men Purdy and Foran and an assist
ant brought him down to the ground.
When they started OF for Jail
Cooper proved a little biligerent and
didn't want to 60, but one or two
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
WAS ONE Of THE FIRST
An Old Settler Marveled It Growth
Of the City Since He Located
Thirty Years Ago.

Every once in q while some old
settler will wander back to Mitchell
after an absence Of a number of
years and when he is walking about
the business and residence streets ha
stops and looks around to marvel
at the growth from what he knew
Mitchell to be in his day. Such was
the case of O. r. Belts. one OF the
seventy-niners Of this section. 4
Mr.. Belts is a travelling man In the
latter days Of his life and he came
to Mitchell to remain over Sunday.
although he does not make this city
on his regular trips, this occasion
being the first time in several years
that he has had an opportunity Ia
stay in Mitchell. He was walking
through the residence section Sunday
when he was encountered by the
writer and accosted. Mr.. Belts saida
II have just been taking a walk
through the residence section and
actually l am lost in wonderment or
the growth Of good old Mitchell. You
people living here day after day and
year after year, do not appreciate
what has happened to the city.
why I went up to the spot where
my house stood, on Fifth and Row
ley streets, and I did not see hardly
a thing that reminded me of my
once former home. The house has
been cut up and rebuilt. moved .
short distance to the adjoining lot
and there stands a fine residence.
Across the street, where once Major
Rowley occupied the entire block
with his residence, l find eight or
nine fine modern residences, while
across the street south which were
vacant spots and rather unsightly
building locations in the early days.
l find two very handsome residences.
So it was all over town wherever I
went. It was actually impossible for
me at times to recall anything Of the
location, and l would have to hunt
for some oldtime landmark to get
my bearings.
1T was thirty years ago this sum-
mer that I first came to Mitchell. and
built my little shack, covered with
tar paper, and it was the only build
ing that stood on the prairies around
here. The first thing l did was to
set out some trees and I had the
pleasure of seeing them developed
into monster growth. l see that the
people here have kept up the same
idea in tree planting until Mitchell
can be termed a "city of trees"
"Wha is particularly gratifying to
is to see SO many of my old
friends SO prosperous in their bust
ness relations. Many Of the old
timers, l learn, have gained %indepen-
dent wealth through the development
of the country. The growth OF the
business district appeals to me with
the same force as the residence dis
trict. As turn my minds eye back
thirty years ago and then look ii
the great achievement Of today IN
the splendid structures which grace
the business district. I marvel at the
growth Of cities. It is truly phenom-
email and am right glad to Soc
Mitchell prosperSand come intoswhat
rightfully belongs to her. Mitchell
will always be one Of the leading
cities of the state by reason Of lei ssS
location and the energy of her citt-
zens. 81
MI. Belts was among the AI1kss
business mel of Observation-Disclosures
gagged n the hardware DnSI6S6l1l1e
. number or year
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-26
YOUNG PEOPLE IN CAMP
Grcene's Grove is the Scene of
large Gathering of Young Peo-
pie for Camping Purposes.

"A large party of young ladies and
gentlemen opened camp in Greene's
grove Thursday after two weeks
ii preparation and they are going to
nave things fixed in an ideal manner
FOL their outing. Eight tents have
Jeen secured and erected, and one
of tnem is to be devoted to the mus
ic loom in the woods" for they sent
Ao.u a piano with the last load and
.nele will be music galore all the
,ime, with possible chances of the
instrument being used for dancing
purposes.
The party is to be c~naperoned by
Nh. and Mrs. G. w. Hoon and the
latter entered upon her duties this
afternoon. Mrs. Paul Scott has been
engaged as the chef for the camp
ing season, consequently the young
ladies will rot have much opportun-
ity 10 make advancement in their cul-
mary education. They hold that to
the desired rest and r%ecuperation
the cooking proposition will have to
DC done away with.
There are sever.- automobiles in
the party and the machines will be
Utilized for the purpose of travel be-
Mitchell and the camp.
The following are the members of
tie party: Misses Jeanette Smith,
Helen Hoon, Rachel Doyle, Mary
Louise Burns, Bess McHenry, Mary
Morrow. Lois Wiltse. Wauneta Fer
is and her guest Miss Bess Colvin,
of Flu Claire, Wisconsin and Gladys
Floete, of Armour, Messrs. Myron
Ralph Miller, Floyd Gillis,
Girl Stair, Arthur Smith, Glenn
Rowley, BURY Wallace, Raymond
Dean Wilde, wallace Mac
Lain, and Franklin r%loete, of Ar
The party will be augmented
by Saturday and Sunday with the ar
wal of several out of town young
and gentlemen.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
AUDITORIUM NEEDED

The visit during the past week Of small troupe Of tai
ented wandering minstre did much to emphasize to the
people OF Tanana the great need of public hall Of large
seating capacity.
The very limited space of the hall at Fort Gbbon,
packed to the DOORS altogether too small for the
production Of play speciality acting that requires
ton Considering the handicaps under which
the players acted their performances highly creabe
and much enjoyed by our townspeople.
AS Alaska and better known to the great
Outside world WILL of course, be visited each succeeding
year by corresponding increase in the number of visitors
some for sghtseeng others globe trotting and
on business amusement enterprises will gradually begin
putting Alaska their books Tanana sit
uate it is at the confluence Of two mighty rivers is
tainy point where all visitors will expect to something
other than prosac native mission and the daily routine of
the military post
The people of Tanana and Fort Gibbon certainly
entitled to and has been demonstrated, willing
pay generously for good attractions large
town hall of adequate seating capacity the essential
to make such affairs possible.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
TRADING At HOME.

Perhaps there question that is persisteny and
thorough treed press of Alaska than that patron
ling home industry Pick paper and almost
article along these lines. The newspapers con;inu
fighting retain trade home for their home merchants and
often these merchants when they printing done
send away the states for it.
There ewa very few-Juneau merchants who follow
this policy who feel moay offended if it suggested to
them that if they traded home they would have right
with them In argu-
advanced that they get their printing done cheaper
Seattle than they here This is i'll 1t
equally that tile purchase the
commodity cheaper below his home merchant And
is still that this false For dollar that
you merchant below gore
while dollar here stays here kept i'll ccula
ton ultimately will find again into the pocket of the
spender.
may cheaper send s. Seattle than IS for
the article in uneaubut is ii? The s. leaves the town. and
permanently The S. here and helps build the
trade.-J Juneau Transcript
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
TWO DEAD MEN

Two are in little town. and with money
loadee down. and the good long humble
the Big Machine Of what They'll
nail him down costly box; and gorgeous garands the heirs
will bring the priest will preach and the choir will sing and
Iancng horses will haul the heasehe price will FROM the
purse really sad; the may
weep when the heart glad The dead had his soul
swell his ol he lived gather the shining
bones pnched dime till heard its groans The other
who has crossed the line, and whom We'll plant in box of pne
ready help cheer when old Miss Fortune
ing troubled sooe their pains he'd right
down i'll his old blue jeans ITO help neighbours pleasure sure
and that the logic that kept him He's dead and
and the people geve and they shed real teanot the makebe
lieve.--Walt Mason.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
OUR NEWEST NORTHWEST

In his New York Day. speech at the Alaska Yukon
Exposition Seattle yesterday Gov Hughes carried r
butte from the the far Northwest of the continental
United States.
Alaska bought from Russia in 1867 for reasons Of
international politics rather than in the expectation of i'm
mediate commercial benefit like Jetfersons Louisiana Pur
chase twohrds of century earlier In 1874 people
still branding it worthless in almost the terms applied
in 1914 by Webster and others to baren Oregon Each
Northwest in turn-Ohio, Michigan Minnesota, Ore
gon, Alaska-has suffered such detraction.
Alaska cost about 81 OOo, 00O Gen. Greedy, writing in
the Geographic Magazine computes that since the purchase
its exports alone have toaled 1927 Its furs
80 per cent of all its products to $780, Since 1900
its fisheries have boon times it's minerals 10 times
important fur Of gold $500 900 may still await the
miners; of many other metals found there knows
how much
The greatest source of future value remains unevel
oped Alaska large Germany, France, Japan, Hol
land and Denmark Almost anything that will grow in
New York will grow in Alaska and the North.
staple crops thrive at all the agricultural experiment
stations and at private farms far beyond the Arctic circle
Special Agent Georgeson speaks we'll Of the grazing Alaska
should prove fertile Finland and support in the
ratio population of $1,000 000 If Prof Crookes and
other pessimss right in predicting worldwide wheat
famine, the Territory will vast granary posses
sion of untold value.
Alaska is white mans country. AS in Norway, the
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
BiIIV Hearst Would be President

Buffalo, Aug 15The peopls have made towards of their
said Leslie NJ Shaw the secretary of the
treasury before large audience in the Chauauqua auditorium
speaking what he called Evolution Matters Governmental
Never before has there been such exhibition of cowarce
the halls of said Mr. Shaw Every who has
follow his convictions and according those
convictions will be retired by the people when his be
fore them for reelection
IF Roosevelt Taft and Bryan to die tomorrow the
party would be William Randolph Hearst the
nominee the other would be Robert NJ La Toilette And
the people of the country would elect Hearst.
Uncle Joe Cannon cowardn this respect he
this congress- Sherman brave
his convictions but he has had hard fight And he has
his country the evolution of matters governmental has
Russia.
I'VE have got to that stage evolution Where expect
the department of the make the laws
urpng the functions of the legislative department. The
stuton book laid table about which
gather and then the directors of this government"
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02

Seattle, Aug. 19.-Congress-
man William Sulzer, of New
York. explained in a newspaper
interview today that he must not
be taken too literally when he
suggests that Alaska should be
divided into three territories.
The number three is one which
naturally occurs to a person who
has followed the history of
Alaska, but the country is rich
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
HAS GOOD CLEANUP
ON lofty CULCH

Eglar Wack, Toty Sullivan
their first cleanup of their
workings Their secured SIC erefodoube the they
considerably
to them.
They have of the spring stripping their
ground aud had about feet ready for
and intend things hum that the
balance OF the suicing estimated that feet
scraped
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02

coast is kept comparatively by subropic current
1t has progressive elecrcghted towns full of educated
Eeope We bought in buying it, acquired no in
defensble claim to military dominion millions Of aliens
The 81, 900 natives wards, not enemies.
If American colonial enterprise had left the con-
nent what should not have for pride in our
last outpost the Pacific IN. Y World.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
SULZER
EXPLAINS HIS SPEECH

enough to warrant a still further
division, Moreover, he did not
wish to be understood that such
a division was Immediately desir-
able and necessary, but ulti-
mately it must come.
Mr.. Sulzer is an ardent advo-
cate of a territorial form of gov
eminent for Alaska; this, he
says, is necessary, and should
be granted Immediately. The
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02

The town of Tanana is to be congratulated the
tesul institution of local camp of the great Norhand
order the Arctic Brotherhood. lodge Of this character
much to the community There is scarcely town of
any Importance in the North but what has thriving camp
Of Arctics, and wherever camp exists it is always taking
the initiative in furnishing for the locality and
everybody young and DID, benefited by having such
admirable organization in their mdst The Leader cord
ally greets the lodge sister-Camp Gbbon No. 25-and
extends its best wishes.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02

great publicity which Alaska is
receiving through the fair en-
courages him to feel that con-
gress will be more liberal with
Alaska at the next session.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02
Will Prospect in the Novikaket

Charles Fernandez who recently sold his interest in the Dakota
association Sullivan creek Lis Messrs. Baker Wnd
and started for the Inoko stopped the Novkake his down
AID after investigating tie Whereabouts decided
main i'll that country the coming winter prospect
August Pelky the pioneers of the Novikaket district
the He boiler
outfit for the winter.
Tanana leader., 1909-09-02

The Hamilton Watches have arrived
at outside prices and if you are nearly
blind have the goods. Examination
free. Pick out nugget and send home.
LYNN SMITH. Jeweler.
See US for Cloth Posters.