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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-06
s1,77s,6S9

Surplus as indicated .$102,691
I'm addition it is shown that for
the ten years 1903 to 1912, inclusive
unexpected balances in the amount of
$1,74S,179 we're returned to the
treasury, or an average of ~$114,S11
per year. 1t is, therefore, but fair to
assume that during the current year
a balance of at least $150,000 will be
thus ~unexpended and returned, which
added to the surplus shown in the
above statement, will make a total
unexpended balance of $252,691.
Here again you show the same
disposition to mislead, and an at
tempt to make figures state that
which Is not true.
Charge of Falsehood.
You ask me to answer yes or
mo- as to whether the state auditors
office gave you a certain statement
of the liabilities and resources of the
state. say again, 4 decline to commit
myself as to what an yone may have
told or written you. That has no rela-
ton to this matter. Your printed
statement, to which ! was referring
in my interview, contained specific
ally this: Under the levy made for
state taxes for 1913 by the tax com
mission the amount raised will fall
short almost half a million dollars
of MEETING THE APPROPRIA.
TlONS of the state for that period ]
said then, and I repeat now, that
such statement is not only mislead.
ing. but absolutely false. You now
bring forth a statement OF the resour
ces and liabilities of the state in al
attempt to shuttle this into the place
OF your former statement, which yol
know to be at variance with the facts
and also in the hope that the publ,
will fail to see the distinction ant
still be misled into believing that tn,
levy will not meet the appropriation,
for the year. This substitution Is, O
course, an admission that your form
err statement was wrong; but 1t
not the open confession that is sal,
to be good for the soul. but rathe
an attempt to shuttle into a positio,
where you san say that you r tech
nically within the truth while con
tinuing the deception.
For your Information ! will re
peat here In substance what I said Il
my former statement. The amour
raised by the tax levy, together wit
the regular income from miscellan
eous sources, will more than NEE
the expenditures for the appropria
tions for the year, and at the end q
the present fiscal year, June &c
1914, there will be no registered wal
II .. -. -L1 =. Il 49,.
warrants will be materially less tina
when l took office last January. Also
the same tax levy. one mill on tn
dollar, made for the next year, wi
be sufficient to carry the stat
through the fiscal year ending Jun
80. 1915, paying all expenses an
more, reducing, if not entirely vii
ing out, tho warrants now outstant
ing.
j, CRANK NJ. BYRNE."
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FINISH PLANS
o IRRIGATION
SURVEY OF FALL RIVER COUNTY
PROJECT TAKES IN 10000
ACRES-FEDERAL AID is
WANTED.

Hot Springs, S. D.-After having
been in progress for several months
the work of making the survey OF
what is known as the Cheyenne River
Irrigation project, near here, has
been completed. The engineers esti-
mate that over sixty Thousand acres
of land can be irrigated from the
monster water storage reservoir
which will be a part of the project.
While the survey was made under
the direction of the state engineering
department, an effort will be made to
make the project a national one.
With this object In view the South
Dakota delegation in congress. espec-
tally Congressman Martin, will in the
near future introduce in congress q
bill making the project a national
one and making an appropriation of
national funds for carrying it to a
successful conclusion. During the
past the great area of land which car
be irrigated by this project and made
to produce abundant crops each sea-
son has for the most part been non
productive. because of rainfall dur
ing the growing season has usually
been below normal.
Both the state engineer and the
chief of the field force are very enth'
usiastic over this'project and claim II
to be one of the best in the west
There is an absolute certainty O
water supply during the spring
months. and this water can be stored
in the huge reservoirs for. use during
the growing season; there will b
a large acreage irrigated from thu
project, assuring a low assessment
per acre.
In the event that the government
refuses to the work of push
ing the project to a successful con
clusion, it is probable a district or
ganization will be formed to issu'
bonds for the installation of the pro
ject. In a similar case in WyominI
the assessment was only s27.50 pc
acre, whic his about what it is ex
pected the project near here will
cost. Under private or district owner
ship an individual farmer may hol,
as much lad as he wants to, while !
the project is installed by the Unite
States government a limit is place
on the acreage one man can hold.
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and take on new strength with which
to further the conquest. Here sectar-
ianism is forgotten and all unite in
having a good time.
Perhaps the greatest treat for them
is to be able to carry on conversation
in the English tongue. after a year Of
talking with converts in foreign Ian
guages. To see this playground re-
minds n of a typical summer resort.
with baseball grounds. tennis courts
and croquet Enclosures. The women
can serve tea on the lawn or veranda.
On Sunday all attend services in a
body, the preacher being drawn in
turn from the various denominations
assembled.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-06
HURT IN FALLING
UPON SHOW CASE

Aberdeen, S. DIV. III. Oesch of
Eagle Butte was brought to an Abb
erdeen hospital suffering from a
unusual accident. Oesch stepped into
an Eagle Butte store when he slipped
and fell against a showcase. The
showcase was broken and a piece of
glass struck him above the eye, cut
ting a large piece of the flesh from
the forehead. The wound was band
aged and Mr.. Oesch left on a bust
ness trip to Chicago. One the trip,
the wound broke, and Oesch had to
be taken to a hospital here for re-
pairs.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-06
Eczema and Itching Cured

The soothing, healing medication
in DIR. Hobson's Eczema Ointment
penetrates every tiny pore of the skin
clears it Of all impurities-stops itch.
ing instantly. DR.. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment is guaranteed to speedily
heal eczema, rashes, ringworm, tet-
Eczema Ointment is a Doctors pre-
ter and other unsightly eruptions
scription, not an experiment. All
druggists or by mail, SOC. Pfeiifel
Chemical Co.. Philadelphia and st
Louis.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of George Julian, deceased
Notice is hereby given by the III
dersigned Melissa Julian. admin!stra'
triX of the estate of George Julian
deceased, to the creditors of and al
persons having claims against thf
said deceased, to exhibit them, witt
the necessary vouchers, within fouI
months after the first publication o
this notice, to the said Melissa Julian
administrators at her residence /,
Mitchell in the county of Dawson, S
d. fsrt
Dated. October 80, 1913.
MELISSA JULIAN,
Administrators of the estate o
George Julian, deceased.
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COUNCIL ACTS
ON FIRE HAZARD
RUBBISH BURNING in BUSINESS
DISTRICT WILL BE REGUL-
ATED IN FUTURE.

FOLLOWING EhOS9 on the
of the Mitchell hotel by fire yesterday
morning, the city council last evening
voted unanimously to draft an ordin-
ance prohibiting the promiscous use
of rubbish burners in the fire limits
and describing the kind of burner
that should be used.
Action was taken in the matter
after a report had been filed by Chief
of Police Wood Smith, Fire Chief
viii Pratt and Alderman w. III. Snow
stating that the burners in use were
a source of grave danger from fire
and drastic action should be taken
by the council. In the meanwhile. the
police chief WAS authorized to warn
all property owners against careless
ness in destroying rubbish.
In the absence of Mayor A. l.. Hit
chcock. John Michels. president of
the council. acted as chairman of the
session. Councilmen present were j.
w. Siberz, j. o. Walrath. Sam Whyte.
Mr.. Michels, DR.. j. G. Mccartney
and Prof. S. ID. van Benthuysen.
The office of city sealer of weights
and measures will undoubtedly be
created as the result OF the discus
sion over the position CfNcity weigh
master. III. c.. Green, incumbent of
the office, asked that his salary be
increased from $50 to $50 a month.
1t was decided that the scope of the
office should be enlarged, and tests
made of the weights and measures
used by retail dealers in the city. The
matter was referred to, the ordinance
committee.
A petition from residents of East
Fourth avenue,s asking that the
thoroughfare be widened from 80 tc
40 feet, was handed in by DR.. Ray
Smith; The petition was said to in.
clude the names of rs per cent o
the property owners.
With but one dissenting vote. the
application of the Davidson Hote
company for a license to operate {
bar in the Widmann hotel was grant
led. Councilman van B%enthuysen vot
ed against the application.
The request of Councilman Snow
chairman of the fire committee, TO
500 additional feet of fire hose, wa
granted after several friendly tilt
between members of the council Cit,
huuitoi SCAoOh Woc
, to advertise for bids.
The report of Chief Smith for tn,
} police department for the month o
t October showed that 100 arrests ha'
been made during that period. TIL
l amount received from fines wa
$447.5O. The report showed that q
: of the. arrests were for intoxication
: There were ia days served in jai
and 10 days worked out by the pris
t oners. The chief led with 80 arrests
Y The traffic ordinance,@which ha
: been in preparation for severa
e months and has beer the subject o
f considerable investigation and dis
r cussion. emerged from final passag
with several amendments. The chic
amendment was the fixing of tn
speed limits in all parts Of the city a
f IS miles an hour. The section of til
ordinance was eliminated that pre-
9 hibited cars standing for more tina
thirty minutes. It was also voted I
amend the ordinance ard prohibit a
drivers of automobiles from backin
e in order to turn their machines. TIL
new ordinance will be printed in Gil
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-06
MISSIONARIES
IN OLD JAPAN
Karnlzawa 10 Resort Where AmerI-
can and Other Religious Workers
Gather for Pleasure.

Karnizawa. Japan.-All work aud no
play tends to make any task grow irk-
some, is the cry on which is based the
establishment OF the summer resort OF
the missionaries to Japan, located at
k~arnizawa, a mountain resort. Here
the American workers find relaxation
from their arduous task of conversion
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ministration. when in point of fact
revenue warrants have been out
standing TO many years, and when
took office last January, 100000
were out, as against $4,000 on the
first of last July.
Estimates for Next Year.
81 did say that your statement
that the amount raised by the levy
for 1913 would fall half a million
dollars short in meeting the appro-
priations of the state for that per-
iod' was false and misleading. / re-
peat it here and now, and the fol-
lowing statement shows it clearly:
state tax levy %s1,195.455
cash on hand
July /, 1913 3S5,925
Miscellaneous
collections 1000 0O
Total resources ....... $l,9S1,3S0
Appropriations
against gen.
cral fund for
fiscal year
ending June
80. 1914 .S2,0d9.o59
Less deficien-
cy appropria-
tons paid
prior to July
/. 1913 -. 270.37o
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-06

Pierre. s., D.--Governor Burne has
given out the following reply to the
open letter of II. o. Richards of
October %, In regard TO the condi-
ton of financial affairs in this state,
and as to the authenticity Of the fig
ures shown by Richards in his de-
mand for a reply.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-06
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Pursuant to call the county com
missioners of Dawson county met al
the office of the county auditor and
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
FREE ATTRACTIONS AT
SOUTH DAKOTA FAIR,

The finest list Of free attractions yer
presented has been secured for the 1913
State Fair In the personnel of f. NJ.
Barnes European Hippodrome, com
prising the greatest ~hippodrome spe-
cialties In America. These free acts
will be presented, with daily changes.
before the grand stand between races.
Among the many features will be the
famous original Florenz Troupe, famed
throughout Europe a the most o
derful society acrobats and ONE
s%aulters.
Slayman Ais Eleven Wild Moors
were brought to this country expressly
by f. NJ. Barnes, Inc. All of these per-
formers are genuine Moors. Their feats
of sensational whirlwind ground tum-
bling are most wonderful to behold.
Little Hip and Napoleon, the crown
ing triumph Of the hippodrome, the
smallest trained elephant in the world
and the man-monkey comedian. The
bowling scene in which Hip appears as
the bowler and Napoleon as the pin boy
is a scream from the start to finish.
McPhee & Hill. England's greatest
grotesQue comedy combination, triple
and aerial bar artists. perform sensa-
tional acrobatic feats on the triple
bars as well as excruciating side split
ting comicalities.
Lester Brothers, Americas famous
comedy acrobats. This duo Of comedy
acrobats are comedians Of high caliber.
Rollo the Limit, In his ''somersault
of DEATH" the only man In the world
performing this hazardous and death
defying feat This is truly a twentieth
century wonder. Rollo with perfect
nonchalance slowly walks up his in
cline, towering high in the air, straps
and adjusts his skates and from a
given signal below dashes down the
long and narrow incline ut lightning
speed, turning a complete back somer.
sault or loop the loop without a loop
on skates-practically an actual dirt
with death.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04

Striking open air vaudeville acts
are to be presented at the Sioux City
Interstate Live Stock Fair, September
Is to 10, inclusive, as between race
features. Seven entertainment head
liners have been retained by the fair
management to Offer a fourteeo-num'
Der program each day. Performances
will be free and will be staged on big
stands erected in front of the grand,
stands.
One Of the notable acts will be that
offered by the Ishikawa brothers,
hand balancers, tumblers and equili'
brists. This act has been featured in
many of the big circus shows.
Side-splitting comedy will alternate
with daring trapeze and horizontal
bar feats when the Mario Duffy trio
10 given their fair spotlight. This act
has been given premier honors in
many of the best vaudeville theaters
Of the country.
Bob" the boxing kangaroo, who
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
Hershman- Baker Marriage

Wolsey Herald quiet wedding
ceremony IN which Earl l.. Baker
and Miss Carrie Hcrshman were the
contracting parties, was soIemnized
In Miller last Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock.
The event came as a surprise to
the bride and groom's many friends,
very few, if any, of whom suspected
their intentions of assuming the re-
sponsiblities of married life.
Miss Hershman has for eight
years been a resident of this city
and has made a host of friends
through her always pleasant greet
lngs and good will. For the past
two years she has been assistant in
the post Office.
The groom for many years has
been a resident of this county and
is one of the most energetic and in
dustrious young men we have and
the wife of his choice will find him
possessing those qualities which go
to make a model husband.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
''GoOdbye Summer

The summer of 1913 officially
passed into history Sunday night
and autumn was ushered in Monday
with a temperature of 100 degrees
in the shade. The summer has been
an unusually hot and dry one. com
ing after fine spring rains. A period
of several weeks of unprecedented
heat was broken Tuesday night
by a splendid rainfall.
The official report for August, is
sued by the Huron weather bureau.
substantiates the general oploion
that the month was some hot. The
mean temperature was considerably
above the normal, and only twice
before, in the thirty. three years of
record at the Huron office, was it
equalled. This occurred in 1900 and
1909. The maximum temperature
at Huron was 80 degrees. The rain
fall there was 2.35 inches, slightly
below the normal.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
Two Fools Left Yet

New York, Aug. 29.-Thirty-nine
Holsters at one meal is the latest
gastronomic achievement of Christie
pher Gsanger of No. 724 Third ave-
hue, Brooklyn. His full course at
the meal. which was eaten at John
Edwards, Twenty. third street and
Third avenue, that borough. in
competition with Arnold A. Hart
of Orchard Terrace. Ohioville, Ulster
county, N. Y, was:
Thirty-nine Holsters weighing n
to one and one-quarter pounds
apiece.
Six green peppers.
Nine potatoes.
Two loaveS of bread.
Ten bottles of beer.
Time required hour and AZ
minutes.
There were 200 spectators of the
match. Hartman ate only 81 lob
sters and lost the $40 bet.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
Select Your Own Seed Corn

1t will soon be time to select seed
corn again. The vital Importance
of using home grown seed corn,
well selected, was well illustrated in
a five year variety test at the South
Dakota Experiment Station where
the home grown seed of one variety
yielded better than anv of the other
varieties. In selecting seed corn
keep in mind the following points,
1. Select early, probably the first
two weeks in September. depending
on location. The experiment station
has set aside the week of September
9Th as seed coin week when all seed
corn on the various substations will
be selected. 2. Select good sound
ears, from vigorous upright stalks.
3. Select ears that are about hip
high on the stalk and tend to hang
over, instead Oh sticking straight up,
the idea being to get corr that will
shed moisture. 4. If you want to
be a seed corn specialist, select fifty
ears for a breeding plot and write
in to the agronomy department
for instruction circular giving the
details of how to do it By Manley
Champlin, Asst. Agronomist, State
College, Bookings.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
SHOWING SECTION OF MILLION
DOLLAR STOCK PARADE
AN INTERSTATE FAlR FEATURE IN sLUE.sLooOs.

One Of the most attractive features
Of the Interstate Live Stock Fair, at
Sissx City. il the annual parade of
b~lss-ssocded cattle end horses. This
year The parade viii be staged on
Friday. September Is. Over $1,000
90 worth OF stock will be represented
in - parade, and all the animals will
wsar the badges captured during the
s1n~w.
The parade is always lead by a mil
itaxy hand and other musfcal organ
isakions r worked In to break up
the vasSoas sections. From ten to hf-
ten staArs nssany are represented
IN tbs stock promenade, and the
mnsa bAeoAs Of their Kind are lead by
60 euosrs. TIA parade takes place
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
Open Chicken Season

The open season for prairie chick
ems begins next Wednesday, and ac-
cording to reports brought in, the
birds are plentiful this year. The
new game law, which did away with
the county game warden in favor of
the state warden and his deputies,
requires a hunter to carry his Ii
ccnce with him in the field and be
prepared to show it at any time,
The old method of the list of licenee,
holders, carried by the county war
den was changed because the hun
ters would be strangers to the state
officer and his deputies.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04

before the grandstand, and the crowds
in motor and bleacher row.
Entries now in the hands OF Secre-
tary Joe Morton, Of the fair assecia-
ton, indicate that this stock parade
will rival any similar showing in the
big fairs. east and west. Many mem
bers of the horse and cattle %aristocra-
cy entered in the Sioux City show
have carried on the honors in Chiea-
GO, Des Moines. Lincoln. Huron and
Hamline. The pick of the animals
shown at these fairs this rear win be
entered at Sioux City. Bseanse al
the excellence OF the Sioux Ctty mar.
ket and the interest in better stock
in the adjacent territory breeders
make hard fights fDr reesgnitisn n
the Interstate Fair.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
Corn Lands

The corn growing are of the
United States is where land runs from
500 to $500 per acre. South Da-
kota is in that area. and her people
should take every advantage of this
fact and get into this product-not
as a side issue. but as its main pro-
duct.
During the past few years a great
rush of people have gone to North
Dakota. Montana and Canada. And
vet, none of these localities can grow
corn. Is it not evident that South
Dakota has all of them beat seven
ways from Christmas? Turn South
Dakota's cultivated fields into corn
and alfalfa. and her SIS and $40
wheat lands will be worth 500
while the lands of Canada, Montana
and North Dakota will remain at
the price of wheat lands.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04

has been tagged the almost human
fighting machine" has a reputation as
widespread as that of the former
American, Jack Johnson. He is
rated the best trained animal actor Of
the stage.
A company Of ten Arabian athletes,
under the leadership OF Booker, a
whiriing shiek of the far east, will
present a program of hazardous gy'
rations, will build human pyramids
and display their agility in other
ways. This company was imported 70
cover the big fair circuits, and later
may be seen in vaudeville.
Seven members Of the American
Florence Troupe will offer acrobatic
numbers. Gordon Brothers will pre-
sent a big punching and physical cul
ture feature. The Curzon Sisters
dubbed by eastern dramatic critics
the Flying Butterflies" will offer a
dainty and daring air novelty. They
have been featured In New York.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04

When the Interstate Fair grounds
at Sioux City are thrown open to ex.
position crowds on September Is, a
large improvement program will have
been completed. all with In eye to
bettering conditions for show specta.
tors. Most notable Improvement has
been made on the great grandstand
and the half-mile track. Over SIS .ooC
was spent on track and stands last
year. In the picture above President
Woodrow Wilson is shown delivering
his mastery tariff speech to fair
crowds during last years fair.
The grandstand is erected with a
view of cutting of the afternoon sun
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
NEW TRACK AND GRAND STAND

and the entire track can be seer from
any seat in the grandstand.
Woodland Park has been laid out
to give ample camping facilities, and
hundreds will camp on the fair
grounds during this years show.
Walks have been improved, shade
trees made more attractive by care
ful pruning. and hundreds of dollars
have been put into building deeora-
tons and repairs during the summer.
Motor parkways are to be arranged
for this year, because of the unprece-
denied growth in motor travel to and
from shows of a nature similar to that
of the fair.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04
Establish County Roads

A delegation from the County
Auto Association and one from the
Commercial Club called upon the
county commissioners yesterday and
discussed coed roads. county roads,
tax ~levies. etc. After investigation
of the legal status, and also of funds
available, the commissioners decided
to designate an east and west and
north and south road through the
county as county roads. The sum
collected from automobiles, about
$500, was set aside to be used upor
these roads this fall.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-04

The Wolsey people have raised
something over $500 by popular sub
scription for building road on the
Black & Yellow Trail through their
township. The county donates $50
per mile.-Wessington Times Enter
nrico