text: I i yf V f( K' s i hI &< iWi rJ: r: !iv 'CTf., ?.fr fV*. $, e'. V i- I'UP i & fv 1* hS'.-'IV w--- i k #i fc"?3 $ ®ijc Hail*} £c« MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA TELEPHONE, NO. 269, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1908 IS OUR SHIPMENT. 9f month, A month... It is sweet of Kit. $4.00 By mail, 8 months... $1.00 By mail, 1 month... $6.00 It is carrier per week... $10.00 J. If. STAHL Proprietor. O. A. ST A. M., Associate Editor. The president has sent to the senate the name of Lawrence F. Michel of Gettysburg, S. D., to be agent for the Indiana of the Lower Brule Inlet. Geddes News: It is refreshing to give Senator Kittredge sing up to the voters of South Dakota. His lips are no longer closed and his smile has the sweetness of a sugar barrel and his grip the gentleness of a schoolgirl. According to the matrimonial records of Vermillion there are 12 widowers and 57 widows in that place. There is no reason why... There shouldn't be something doing in the leap year booth. There are democrats in South Dakota who believe their party has a good chance to win control of the state legislature at the next election. And if it goes, there are many in the party who would like to see Chancellor L. Wood of Rapid City named as United States senator to succeed Mr. Kittridge. Lake dispatch, 18: The political campaign in this county (Deuel) is beginning to warm up in good shape, and the opening gun was fired Saturday afternoon when Gov. Coe I. Crawford addressed a large audience at the opera house. The Altamont cornet band was present with a lot of good music, and helped very much in the welcome to the governor. The speech was entirely free from abusive language toward Senator Kittredge or any other man, and the arguments given from the insurgent side were well taken. This was a series of three speeches in this county, the first being given Thursday night at Gary, and the last one will be given at Toronto this afternoon. Both factions came out in throngs to hear the governor speak, and the fair-minded or Praparty Official Tax Statement. Certified thereto, and the cut is made by photographic process and hence the figures are such as similes. A cursory glance may not aid you, but the intelligence shown was a topic of general remark. COUNTY SEATS Number of Fights in Country West of the River Pierre, Feb. 18. —The counties west of the Missouri river this year will not only have the state political situation to keep them busy, but will all be torn with county seat and division contents. Butte, the largest county in the state, shows up with the most diverse views. In regard to division, Lemmon, while on the state line, wants a county carved out of the northeast corner of Butte, with that as the only railroad town in the holders, and the county seat. The people of Meadow, a new inland town south of Lemmon, at a mass meeting declared against any division proposition for this year. The people of Camp Crook, in the northwestern part of the county, are in favor of division into three counties, with one cut off the eastern part of the county at the "jog," the line between ranges 9 and 10, with the west part of the county cut in the middle on an east and west line, making a new county in the extreme northwest corner of the state. With so many diverse views, the division project will not have the easiest of sailing. Philip citizens want Stanley county cut into two counties, and have out their petitions. Midland residents, who would be on the county line in such a division, want things left as they are for the present. Fort Pierre would not likely put up much of a fight against such a division, as it might save them future trouble in county seat location. Presho, in Lyman county, is pushing its petitions for county seat removal from Ocala and is doing everything possible to keep down division sentiment. With an equal division of that county, Presho would be on the division line and does not care to have any each movement pushed. Among them, they promise to keep things lively west of the river and while some time in the future, county division will come to all of them, what they will do this year, large-sized question. Recapitulation of Tax Lists of 1903, 1905, and 1907: H7 13U ft. Following shows amount of tax paid by each class of property. The above figures are taken from the reports of the auditor of Lake county,  will surpass anything of the kind in the history of the state association, Flmer Hailing was appointed grand marshal of the parade. The parade and securing of the floats will be in charge of J. H. Flow, L. D. Manchester, C. A. B. Fox, Sam Fantle, and J. B. Veitch, who were appointed a committee for the purpose. The following chairmen of committees were named, each chairman being authorized to select the other six members of his committee: On ball and banquet, J. H. Pettingill; on hall and grounds, F. C. Whipple on transportation, L. S. Tyler on hotels, L. J. Pilney on outdoor sports, Louis Cohen on uniforms, J. H. Scales on decoration of halls and city, B. S. McMahan, on finance, C. A. Sells on industrial exhibit. Grant Crotsman. It was announced by President Woods that he would offer a handsome and jostly loving cup as a prize to the member of the association who disposes of the greatest number of tickets to the attractions during the annual convention. Before the meeting adjourned, President Woods was empowered to appoint a delegate to represent the state association at the annual convention of the Retail Merchants' and Hardware Dealers' association which will be held at Redfield on February 25, 26, and 27. DRY COUNTIES Seventy-One Counties in Missouri Get Out of the Column Spartanburg, Mo Feb 17. The outside of Sedalia and including the towns of Shiloh, Lamont, Hons tonia, Hughesville, Beaman, Dresden, and Georgetown, voted "dry" in the election by 340 majority. In Sedalia township, two precincts gave a majority of 9 for saloons. Pettis county makes seventy-one of the 11-1 Missouri counties that have decided to do without Saloons. It is the fifth county that has voted against the dramshop in ten days. A week ago Friday, Ksy county, outside of the town of Richmond, voted and decided to be without liquor. Johuessen county followed the next day and the result of the election was the same. Thursday Livingston county's election was for prohibition, and Friday a county decided the same way with the exception of Bevier, a mining town, which still retains its faloons. Pettis county voted yesterday and when the votes were counted the county was dry, with the exception of Gedalia. Sedalia has not voted yet. With the addition of Ray county, which went dry February 7, there are now five of the twenty Missouri river counties dry. The other counties that voted for prohibition are inland ones. Thus the anti-liquor movement is steadily invading the territory that once was almost solidly with the south. That part of Missouri settled by slaveholding people from the south was the river valleys. The river furnished transportation when there were no railroads in Missouri and the effect of the early settlement has always been plain in the elections. The river counties, with a very few exceptions, are strongly democratic. Of course, in many of the counties that have voted for prohibition there are cities that file entitled because of their population to vote separately. But a good percentage of those cities have voted with the counties outside for prohibition. WATERWAY Saving in Freight on Grain Missouri River Improvement by Omaha Bee: "The South Dakota farmer now pays to his best primary market $4.70 per ton to have his wheat crop hauled to Chicago, 77 miles. If the Missouri river were developed, as it believes it will be in years not far distant, he might." Ship it to St. Louis or Chicago for 70 cents and save the $4, and his land would be worth more by $2 an acre per year." This is the opinion of Horbert Quick, editorial writer of the Reader Magazine, who was in Omaha yesterday, after a trip to the mouth of the Mississippi river. Mr. Quick is writing a series of articles for the magazine on "inland waterways" and the magazine, which has just been secured by the Putnam publishing house, intends to throw its influence back of the movement to develop the waterways of the country. J. O. Curwood will continue to write of the 'Romance of the Great Lakes," said Mr. Quick, "which is a powerful argument in favor of connecting the lakes and the sea. The series which I have been assigned to write will run in the magazine for five months. Two of my articles have already appeared. I find everywhere intense interest in the subject of waterways. I find the farmers awakening to the fact that it is possible to bring the sea to the farms. This is no dream, this waterway talk. It is even now assuming shape, and is almost beyond the stage of agitation. When we present the figures to those who are paying the freight—the people—the policy of improving our waterways will be a fact. Tell a farmer that a ton of freight goes 1,000 miles on the Ohio river for 70 cents and between Louisville and New Orleans for less money and he begins to grasp the advantage which he would have if the sea was brought to his farm. "Out in Oregon one community has saved $7,000,000 by developing the Columbia river, all in ten years. For years they paid $7 per ton for freight, but when the locks were put in they get a rate of 1.5 per ton." Mr. Quick is confident that the farmers of the west will go back of the movement as they have never gone back of a public enterprise before. He is talking the $7.5 per ton for wheat from points like Eureka, S. D., to Chicago, and the water rate of 41 cents for the same ton of wheat from Chicago to Buffalo, a distance much greater. Senator Kittredge has sold his stock in the Sioux Falls Brewing and Malt company. Mose Kaufmann of that company made the following statement in Sioux Falls: "Mr. Kittredge was never connected with the brewery department in any way," responded Mr. Kaufmann. "He was a member of the Sioux Falls Malting company which owns and operates the large malting plant in this city, but he disposed of his stock in the concern several months ago and is not now connected with the plant of the Sioux Falls Brewing and Malt company in any way. He was not at the last annual meeting of the company nor was he represented in any way." Couched Continually TESTIMONIAL Mrs. Mary Marshall in the Superb, Cincinnati. I coughed continuously for six months, using very soreness—had constant pain in the chest—and was much emaciated, could find no relief. After two-thirds of my first bottle, I found my health began to improve and I grew strong and fat. Such a sworn test from many witnesses convinced me that the cure was a great invention. I tried various remedies, including those for various ailments, but without success. The trial was a testament to the efficacy of the remedy. Oscar Kirby, son of a Colorado Springs (Colo.) grocer, shot his bride of two months and killed himself with the same weapon. The couple had lived apart since the week after their marriage. Explosion Kills Three. Wharton, N.J., Feb. 19.—An explosion in the mixing department of the General Explosive company killed Joseph Hough, an official of the company, and two workmen, broke nearly every window in stores and residences in Wharton and some windows in Dover, two miles distant. It comes put up in a collapsible tube with a nozzle, easy to apply to soreness, it soothes and relieves pain, itching, and burning. Man Zan Tile Remedy Price 50 cents. Guaranteed Sold by Schuts & Ketcham. Your skin should be clear and bright if your liver is in normal condition. Mings Little Liver Pills act on the liver and headache, constipation and biliousness disappear. Schutz & Ketcham. To check a cold quickly get from your druggists some little Candy Cold Tablets called Preventics. 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