The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-31

barn.
A. R. Mcconnell left Sunday az
ternoon for Lyman county and will
there spend several days looking af-
ter his real estate holdings.
JOS. Harker, of Los Angeles, Cal.
writes Of the death of Mrs. Blenk-
IRON, the mother of the late Mrs. Jos.
Harker. Shortly after the death of
Mrs. Harker her mother went to the
Harker home to live. Sunday morning
last the elderly lady was stricken
with apoplexy, and died that even
ing. Mrs. Blenkiron has visited IN
Mitchell a number of times. and was
known to many people.
The snow started in so early last
J fall that j. o. Walrath did not have
time to dig all his potatoes, and they
lay in the ground all through the
winter with a heavy covering of now
from the beginning to the very end
OF winter. Monday Mr.. Walrath went
into his garden to see what had hap
pened to his potatoes. He dug into a
hill and found that the tubers had
been protected fine throughout the
winter and hat they appeared to be
just as good as if they had reposed in
the cellar all winter. Mr.. Walrath
had the potatoes for dinner, and he
has got a whole lot left for the early
spring and summer, when potatoes
are usually quite high. They had just
begun to sprout a trife.
The baseball magnates of the state
are going to meet at Redfield tomor-
row to start the organization of a
state league, in which it is the en-
deavor to interest some six or eight
towns to become members. Water
town is really taking the lead on the
baseball enthusiasm, for it has raised.
so it is reported, something like
$4,000 to start off the season. Aber-
deem, Madison, Sioux Falls, Redfield,
Watertown and possibly Huron,
Pierre and Mitchell are mentioned
as the candidates. Mitchell hasn't
been investigated along that line so
far as is yet known and it is very
doubtful if enough baseball enthu-
siasm can be aroused to put a paid
team in the field for the season. The
last experiment of that kind in Mitch
ell occurred nine years ago, when a
team was maintained half way
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has been very little baseball in the
city. 1t is probable that a home team
will be organized this spring and
with a little outside assistance per-
haps a strong team can be put up.
The prairie fire off southeast of
town Monday caused quite a good
deal of alarm among the people who
live in that part of the city. The
strong wind from that direction bore
the flames along through the high
grass with lightning rapidity right
in the pathway of the fairgrounds,
and for a time it appeared that the
big barn would be swept away in the
flames. For a time the smoke was so
dense over the Playground that it "a
thought the barn had burned, but
when the smoke rolled away it was
found intact. People living in the
pathway of the fire commenced to
get their household goods ready for
moving and telephoned into the city
to have some drays sent out for that
purpose. One family, closer than the
rest, got their goods on a wagon and
started away, but returned with the
extinction of the flames. The progress
of the fire was arrested, mainly, it is
said through the back firing. The big
chemical wagon helped hold the
flames in check until the fire depart
ment got out and laid a long line of
hose and turned water on the blaze.