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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1890
Page
5
The Mitchell Printing Co announces subscription options with one copy for various terms and offers address change notices. Advertising rates are available on request, with business cards six lines at $5 per year and extra lines at $1. Local ads five cents per line and legal notices at statute rates. Cards of Thanks ten cents per line. Obituaries and wedding notices five cents per line.
The Capital wishes readers a merry Christmas and notes GOP opposition to the force bill as a positive for Republicans. State Senator Jolly of Clay County defends Moody’s stance, refusing to let demoralization shape the senatorial scene.
Wa Brokaw the single tax advocate faces broad ridicule after a Chicago interview in which he described hardship in Spink county. Several papers now dispute his existence as part of a broader online and press backlash.
The combined Democratic and Independent legislators may back a square toed sturdy independent for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Moody. Gen. Hugh J. Campbell of Yankton is mentioned as a likely candidate.
The author criticizes Democrats in Congress for launching a probe into Sitting Bull’s death while accusing them of swift insincerity when violent crimes against Black people in the South demand investigation. The piece frames the issue as political capital seeking and selective moral outrage.
The Sioux City Journal notes George M Pullman, famed palace car magnate, earned his start in Chicago by lifting old houses with jack screws. He took contracts for such work and valued hard work as the basis of fortune, with circumstance aiding only after a solid foundation was laid.
The Red Field Journal reports the Spink county contest cases have collapsed as mere bluster. The statute requires evidence within ten days after notice of reply, but no evidence has been collected, leading to a shared conclusion with Davison county that the contest is unwinnable.
The Sioux Falls press claims the New York Sun upholds democratic principles by backing Tammany Hall and New York democracy. It asserts the Sun is the leading democratic paper today and will influence the next presidential nominee and House speaker.
The Mitchell Republican argues that Boyd of Nebraska remains unnaturalized but still eligible for office. It contrasts his case with Loucks who completed naturalization, noting the newspaper's prior stance and dismissing arguments about citizenship.
The text outlines price comparisons for steel rails at $150 and $20 domestic steel, with wash boilers priced at $225. It notes a sale of four barrels of salt for 50 cents, each barrel worth 20 cents and the salt 30 cents, indicating fluctuating costs and potential protectionist effects on prices.
The account calls Sitting Bull a fugitive who disobeyed laws and resisted arrest, arguing he was shot by police in the line of duty rather than portrayed as a noble victim. It rejects romanticizing the death and labels sensationalism as a rough echo of Fenimore Cooper.
Voice from Missouri cheers as the West seems set to lose the reelection bid for a U S Senate seat. The author doubts a Democratic candidate from the Dakotas and argues hard for GOP strength against a western shift. The piece warns about party caucusing and eastward influence over western interests.
Faulk County Republican argues that a smaller legislature could still be large relative to population and stresses economy as the main issue. It cautions against selecting legislators solely by cost and urges considering honest, economical lawmaking regardless of body size.
An analysis criticizes Iowa’s agricultural college management and demoralized state institutions. The piece argues that common schools suffice for public education and colleges should be private or limited, predicting a future return to minimal state functions and governance guided by natural laws and prudent legislation.
A Minneapolis column excerpt critiques a Reverend H. H. French for condemning dancing while arguing that dancing can be wholesome. The piece contrasts conservative views with arguments that dancing may reflect shared harmony and simple pleasure when not used for lewd gains.
Dakota Farmer reports Secretary E A Duane of the Poultry and Pet Stock association of South Dakota announces Mitchell will host the first annual exhibit in the last week of January. Fanciers urged to prepare their birds for the dress parade.
A haunted house on the Oregonia and Harvey sburg pike near Morrow Ohio was said to be tormented by rappings from a ghost. Dan Gallagher used holy water from Oretonia church to exorcise the spirit, addressing the visitor from a window. After repeated sprinkling and invocation, no response followed and the disturbances ceased.
A brief look at the Kansas Nebraska population race ten years after their entry into the Union. Kansas Led in 1880 with over 42 percent advantage. current figures show Kansas at 1,423,485 and Nebraska at 1,056, an 11 percent margin. Nebraska climbs from twenty-seventh to near-twentieth place, while Kansas remains influential.
A vendor refuses to trim a pie order and jokes about a long journey to Omaha. The customer plans to depart at five, hoping a whole pie will fuel the trip across Missouri toward Nebraska, citing a past misadventure with stopping appetite.
An eastbound Texas Pacific train near Paris Texas Sunday afternoon saw two cotton workers who had hopped a ride jump from the platform. The train backed to them. one man was crushed and the other severely injured. The incident followed a collision report involving a whale and the steamship Queensmore arriving from Liverpool.
Mr Ye secretary of the Corean legation welcomes a daughter named Washon Ye the first Corean child born in the United States. The revenue cutter Rush returns with a walrus skin over fourteen feet long captured near Walrus Island. It will be sent to the Smithsonian in Washington for Alaskan exhibit display at the World’s Fair.
A farmer in Van Buren, Pa., owns three apple orchards. One tree bore fifteen bursals this year, while the other two together yielded no more than a bushel.
A colored woman of about eighty, carrying a heavy bundle, boards the Cincinnati Mail line packet and pays for a deck ticket to Cincinnati. She was born a slave near Asheville, North Carolina, later widowed and remarried, and after emancipation her family dispersed. She reunited with her first husband in Newport, Kentucky, then moved to Louisville to live out their days together.
A historical note recounts railroad deaths among long serving workers. Martin Ryan, with eighteen years of railroading skill, was killed by his own train. Hubert Graham, a Richmond yard man with twenty five years, was struck by a pony engine. Samuel Morgan, after thirty years as an engineer, died while overseeing a water station when run down by a freight train. The piece cites a conductor stating six of ten railroad men die violently if they stay in the business.
The Notre Dame sisters in Cincinnati prepare a white vellum fifty page illuminated manuscript for the pope. Seven sisters from thirty seven U S houses painted the pages and designs. Three addresses accompany dedications to Leo XIII Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop. A portrait accompanies each dedication. Includes a sketch of the American order, a nun’s poem, and views of Namur Belgium and the Ohio house.
The annual report filed in Topeka shows gross earnings of 8,545,774 with operating expenses at 6,583,149.84. Construction and equipment costs reached 1,914,766 and taxes plus other expenses 164,054.27, totaling 288,721.59 in deductions and leaving a net income of 1,693,654.89.
Representative Hall reported to Secretary Noble an early settlement of the Hastings and Dakota land grant. He described settlers unable to determine land ownership and deprived of title for years, urging prompt action which the secretary promised.
Hugh McSorley a switchman living on Bradley Street near Woodward avenue in St Paul took laudanum and died. Officials believe the act stemmed from despondency due to his poor physical condition.
Coleman Mc Donough, a railroad track laborer for the Chicago Burlington and Northern line, was struck and killed by a switch engine while at work at the lower end of the union depot yards.
A Paris police court sentenced Moreau to three years for stealing bronze and marble busts from Montparnasse Cemetery. He touched them up and sold them as effigies of heroes and orators, with many now in homes, shops, and provincial libraries. He once passed a Sorbonne professor off as a renowned general and a departed grocer as Demosthenes.
Sailor the pointer belonging to J A Brown of Chadbourn had his left fore leg crushed by a train. Dr A McKinnon amputated the limb after Sailor lay quiet and endured the pain with only soft whines. Brown offered gentle care as the operation finished.
A Detroit Free Press clipping recalls a boy offering lawn care on Second Avenue with a grim retort about keeping a grave green. In Fort Wayne Indiana a fire at the East End car stables killed sixty horses and destroyed hay grain and harness, with losses around twenty thousand dollars and unknown insurance.
News from SaLisBuRY Maryland reports the schooner Mary under Captain Henry Wheatly was lost near Poplar Island in the Chesapeake Bay during a gale last Wednesday night, with the crew presumed drowned.
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