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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
10
Vague contract notes outline payment timing and advances including one year, six months, and three months terms. Mentions inclusive copy rights and unspecified parties. No clear dates or entities beyond Mitchell Capital appear.
Doane Robinson, secretary of the South Dakota Historical Society, releases a 1904 wheat crop estimate of 3,395,000 planted acres with 75,000 unharvested. The average yield of 74 bushels yields 24,070,000 bushels, the lightest since 1894, with price at 66 cents per bushel and producer receipts near 15.88 million dollars. Robinson based the figure on statewide field visits and farmer consultations, contrasting with government and H. V. Jones figures.
The idea of allowing settlers to take 640 acres on the reservation west of Pierre is gaining advocates nationwide. Congress will hear a bill from the South Dakota delegation to permit such government lands. Mitchell’s earlier claim is now seen as true, Aberdeen News also supports the tract, though population growth may be slow if only two or three family members claim a section each.
The St Louis exposition closes Thursday December 1 after a grand display praised as educational and far larger than Chicago's. It highlights Missouri's contribution to national advertising, notes the $4,000,000 government loan was repaid, and looks ahead to Portland Oregon hosting a Lewis and Clark celebration.
The Redfield Press argues capital removal failed due to strong local sentiment and rival city ambitions. It notes a Redfield visit across the state found about ninety percent of interviewed men favored moving the capital to Jim Valley with a north south railroad, but local jealousy blocked the plan. The writer warns Pierre may not be the best location despite the vote outcome.
The Watertown Public Opinion remains gleeful over Mitchell's capital defeat despite three weeks since the election. It criticizes the editor for wasted space while noting that Mitchell has moved on to other opportunities. The piece suggests Watertown may gain from focusing on local development rather than revering the capital fight.
Opinion argues Hon Philo Hall may decline to qualify if salary amendment fails. It notes $1000 is low for a first rate attorney to handle state business but doubts Hall would refuse to qualify because salary was not a factor in his nomination. It asserts hiring such an attorney would cost twice as much.
South Dakota now ranks sixth among twenty five states in corn production led by Illinois Iowa Nebraska Indiana and Ohio. The state produced 43,836,000 bushels this year, a figure that contradicts past doubts about northern viability for corn farming.
A winter educational push will tour the state with two professors from the state agricultural college to teach farmers about using pure seed. The rust year in wheat has shown the need to obtain and preserve good seed, and many farmers are expected to attend the educational train to learn the instructions.
A Miller farmer brings a jug of red liquor to town and invites Rea ger, a rural pedagogue, to drink. The teacher’s disruption leads to pupils fleeing and institutional tension. Grand jury targets the farmer for undermining state education while drunk. The case may set precedents affecting education and agriculture.
Enoch and Beulah Haley survive a fierce cyclone that shatters their home and leaves them blind to their surroundings. After hiding in the kitchen, the couple discovers their house has been lifted and set back on its foundation, leaving them in a dazed, but intact, state with neighbors offering help.
Martin Hobbs, town iceman and janitor, earns patience with his sharp tongue while delaying a young historian seeking a town records key. The assessor notes Hobbs was rude but the historian shrugs it off, remarking he was cross. The assessor jokes about adding seven hens to Hobbs tax bill.
The first Englishman known to go to India is Thomas Stephens from Wiltshire and an Oxonian. He landed near Goa about 1579 and spent forty years as a Jesuit missionary. He mastered Marathi and Konkani and wrote the Purana, an epic of 11,000 stanzas recounting the rise of Christian religion and the life of Jesus as hero.
The text notes that animals so tiny that a thousand lined up could swim through a needle’s eye, yet they are highly organized, capable of movement and feeding, behaving as complete animals. It reflects on human inability to grasp their intricate structure and adaptive purpose as conceived by Sir Robert Ball.
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