Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-18
JEFFERIs ACCEPTS THE KEY
Doors of south Dakota Thrown Open
to the Boosters.

! to the Boosters.
| HUDSON, S. D., May I7-(Speclal Tele-
gram 1.-The key to South Dakota has been
used again and the party entered the state
after stops at Akron, Chattsworth
and Hawarden in Iowa. It's a long wooden
key presented by the citizens of Gayville
and accepted by A. w. Jefferis in a neat
address during which he said it was sym
boic of 50 much that It would be priced
as though it was made of solid gold.
A special edition of the Utica Daily
Booster is one of the bits of enterprise
Of South Dakota editor which shows how
heartily the Omahans are being received.
It's a common expression that even the
cattle in the pastures run toward the
Omaha train as though they wanted to visit
the South Omaha market"
LAS the Daily Booster" describes the
country It's rich and fertile agricul-
tural country, inhabited by a mixed and
varied population, almost every nationality
being represented. There are Bohemlans,
| Germans, Scotch, Welsh, English and a
sprinkling from the Emerald Isle, COM
monty known in this country as the fight
Ing Irish. All these are as thrifty a class
Of citizens as can be found anywhere"
Commissioner j. NJ. Guild is covered UP
with applications from various South Da-
kota towns for longer stops The commit
! tees appointed to receive the Omahans have
learned that there is a telephone system
on board. They call up Mr.. Guild and in
sist on more time. The train scarcely en-
tered the state today when the mayor Of
Armour was heard from. He said there
was so much to say that Armour could not
| say it all in twenty minutes and he wanted
an hour. The schedule is not being
changed much, except where the time made
up by the railroad company in running,
will permit of an extra five or ten minutes.
IAN South Dakota is legtimately Omaha
trade territory" say the business men,
who are meeting the train. "All that is
necessary to give 1t direct connection with
| the so-called Jim" river valley, is bridge
over the Missouri connecting 1t with lines
already built Of the Omaha road and the
| Northwestern or a line of the Milwaukee
| from Omaha direct into the Dakotas. This
is a very much desired road and one very
/ much talked about in eastern South Da-
| kota. The heart of the valley is reached
by the Huron line of the Northwestern.
soon to open cutoff from Sioux City to
Hawarden, but the towns along the Nil
waukee want the same advantage as those
along this line Of the Northwestern and
/ from present indications, the road must
I come at no distant date as 1t will be as
1 sured of heavy local traffic from the day
It's first train runs instead of being COM
4 PEELED to create its traffic by building in
advance of the needs of the country as has
been the case with most South Dakota
railroads.
| Cooperation is a motto in South Dakota
I never to be forgotten, Almost every town
and city has it's commercial club The Ver-
million Commercial club showed it's enter
i prise by distributing sets of postal cards
on the train. The Gets are photographed
and cost in wholesale quantities more than
60 cents a set. Other clubs show their en-
terprise and few municipal improvements
are wanted but what live club puts them
over"
A gentle South Dakota rain settled down
on the party Monday evening and continued
for time Tuesday morning, but the band
played 40, How Dry Am" and Jefferis
said some good things about rains which
delighted his hearers and made the party
tcorrespondingly happy. Rain made nc
difference to the people of Elk Point AND
Vermillion. They stood in the rain while
Mr.. Jefferis spoke from a wet lumber
wagon.
While T. F. Stroud, generally considered
the chief Of rain makers, is not with the
party this year, and there is no laundering
noise by Dave O'Brlen, the rain has come
just the same. Regardless OF the showers
plans continue to be made for more noise
by Paul Beaton, ]. Clarke Colt and others
who Introduce the new features in racket
making.
Route for Wednesday.
This is the route of the trade excursion
for Wednesday, the train travelling over the
Milwaukee lines and the party spending the
evening at Chamberlain, S. D., out on the
Missouri river:
Arrive. Leave
Stickney, s. D.,............. $50 am 1900 en-
Corsica, S. D......s......,. 1875 am 1855 an
| Armour. s.. ID. 7 tx an