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Newspaper
Dakota Daily Leader
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1883
Page
2
The Daily Dakota Leader lists subscription prices for 1880 with options for one year xX months three months and one month priced at two dollars. Excludes Sundays and specifies morning delivery.
An editorial argues against a constitutional convention this year. It cites the large influx of voters in Dakota by 1883 and uncertain admission to statehood. It notes Congress party splits and the risk of losing presidential votes, urging focus on profitable tasks until such action becomes beneficial.
A collage of ecclesiastical and educational items: a Grace Church New York sale. tuition refunds after expulsion in a Chicago private school. Beloit Kansas Methodist Conference rejects tobacco using candidates. Episcopal Bishop Riley’s fundraising for missions. The Tablet notes Catholic growth among English-speaking nations. Virginia plans a Colored and Collegiate Institute with $5,000 city aid and $100,000 Legislature funding. Amanda Smith the Liberian evangelist reports Bible work and temperance efforts. Scotland’s 312,047 pounds spent on public and church schools with breakdown by denomination and 1,169,943 school-age population.
George Harding, a Philadelphia patent lawyer, rides a Wall Street omnibus. A young woman hands him fifty cents for the driver. He pockets forty, arguing the fare is ten cents. She suspects a confidence game and flees as Harding pleads ignorance of New York fares. He rushes home to Philadelphia, dropping his mowing-machine fee and the tale.
The Mitchell Republican proposes that when South Dakota forms a state government it should elect one Democratic and one Republican senator and, if two representatives are chosen, one from each party. The idea aims to split offices with Democrats to push Dakota’s admission, a childish proposition critics say shows a poor view of Democratic leaders and presumes Republicans are traders sacrificing principle for pottage.
Mr. Sylvester Snow of Dakota claims digging beneath an ant hill reliably yields water at nine to seventeen feet. He notes ants mark a vein of water and says the method works in Dakota and the East. The St Lawrence Tribune adds that public highways should start on section lines to ease road placement and maintenance.
Dr. Burdick of the Vermillion Republican rails against opponents of the Huron convention. He damns the last legislature the removal of the capital Yankton and all North Dakota related issues. The writer likens literary status to political views and invites readers to take their chances on the Yankton craft heading to Salt River.
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