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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1887
Page
5
Local merchants advertise Weil Bros. as leaders of low prices with a wide range of dry goods boots and shoes Butterick patterns and new samples arriving daily The town reports new stores and residences rising while a delivery wagon with a distinctive design draws notice. Residents note regional weather crop prospects and tax discussions as Mitchell grows with commerce and news.
The Barrett Circus company of 237 people and 200 horses arrived by Milwaukee and set up near First street. A parade went ahead before 11 o clock despite rain, with three ring shows featuring trapeze, horse riding, bicycle acts, and the dog faced boy Jo Jo drawing the most attention. Evening performance drew a large crowd even in wind and rain. Woonsocket hosts the circus next with forecasts of showers.
Holdridge and Ward attend the event in Sioux Falls with W Prickett and others present after a visit at White Lake. Hardesty and Jesse travel to Yankton for the melodrama closing scenes preceded by a well-decorated courthouse and various officials moving the town forward. Advertising Pays references a knife ad. local thanks extend to families and friends after bereavement.
Charley Keefer’s team ran loose through town on Wednesday splitting a wagon and colliding with Perry & Son’s delivery wagon. A child riding in Joseph Marson’s wagon fell about twenty feet but was not hurt. One Keefer horse suffered a deep shoulder wound. wreckage scattered and costs undetermined. The driver narrowly escaped serious injury.
A Plankinton man recalls a runaway accident in town last Saturday. H. C. Ayres' team attached to a carriage with two children dashed through streets. A cowboy in town sprang into the road, grabbed a horse by the head, tripped it, and stopped the danger amid applause.
An earlier report from Sanborn county says surveyors believed to be working for Manitoba crossed the Milwaukee track Saturday half a mile west of Diana and camped eight miles northeast. Residents say the same party was within three miles of town on a line from De Smet where grade stakes are set.
Visitors report rapid town growth with thriving trade among merchants. Several new dwellings have been erected while others are under construction. The Catholic church is complete and the Methodist church is under construction.
Mrs. J. T. Atkins hands the RePus- LICAN a late copy of the Colton Semi Tropic. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Johnston live in the California town and plan to join them in about a month for the winter.
A special agent from the Land Department surveys township 102-64 to assess government land occupancy versus speculation. The process includes obtaining abstracts, tracing transfers, and visiting land parcels to gauge public land disposition across districts.
The General Land Office in Washington directs all notaries public in timber culture entries to provide certificates showing their commission dates and expirations. Notaries must furnish evidence promptly. officials Stockslager and Everitt request immediate action.
A Bismarck Tribune essay questions whether Dakota agriculture has been a success, arguing that superficial, large scale farming and neglect of soil health have caused poorer yields. It urges deeper planting, manure use, weed control, and diversified farming including stock raising and tree care to restore prosperity.
Three express firms filed schedules with the interstate commission and received letters from Secretary Morley noting noncompliance with section 6. The commission may rule on whether express firms are common carriers and will consider hearings, with thirty days to file written or printed argument if they notify their intent to be heard.
St Paul Globe reports five conductors on the Milwaukee short line trains were permanently removed and told to hand over trains to new men. Pinkerton detectives will collect tickets while new conductors run the trains. Discharged workers, many with 12 to 15 years on the road, denounce the action as unfair and damaging to their reputations. Passengers’ cash handed to conductors averaged less than 75 cents daily.
The mayor states that city houses cannot be removed by his command alone and must be proved guilty through due process. Police are to report violations, and complainants can secure arrest and city justice trials. The petition aims to show town support for his duties, not to insinuate fault.
Tuesday’s show drew widespread attention as Ethan residents enjoyed the event. Knudson exchanged a pedigree pig during the drum beat. Construction begins on the M E church foundation while lumber arrives for rapid completion. A local baseball club forms to play teams between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Joe Schick’s youngest child passed away Monday. Uncle Joe Clark plans barn painting and town work soon. Mrs Langtry is praised in a letter from a seemingly handsome America. Mrs Gillis plans a visit to Northern Ohio next week as grain harvest continues and business slows.
In Walling's addition fifteen thousand dollars of property changed hands last week and eight thousand dollars of lots moved in the Mieracle addition. Duluth railroad line boosts city prospects while Barker seeks a newspaper purchase in town. Hubb moves an agricultural warehouse behind his saloon and plans water access on Sundays with ice water barrels.
An invitation announces a district Sunday school convention at Ethan on August 7 at 10 am with a full program including songs, prayers, lessons, temperance talks, recitations, and a closing beacons ceremony. The second list shows uncalled letters at Mitchell post office ending July 18, with the note to say advertised when claimed within 30 days or they go to the dead letter office.
United States postal inspectors have arrested Joseph W. McGinty a Webb City Arkansas clerk on a charge of tampering with the mails. McGinty worked at Rayburn & Son store where the Webb City post office is located. He has been enamored with a young lady whose affections he cannot obtain.
McGinty, a post office clerk, was enamored with a Texas girl involved with rival B F Dansby. He opened and tampered with a letter to Dansby, then substituted a sealed envelope. Dansby alerted authorities. McGinty was arrested and jailed in Fort Smith to await trial.
In Desmet, J H Carroll resigned as postmaster after six years upon becoming a bank president. Thirteen Democrats vie for the job, each seeking Governor Church's intervention, but the governor refuses to choose until a single candidate emerges, leaving the Republican postmaster in place amid the feud.
Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from Yankton petitioned for an ordinance to suppress the social evil. A committee of Aldermen Ohlman Max and English reports there are already strong municipal territorial laws and no demand for new legislation.
A brother of G A Thomas living northwest of town was badly kicked yesterday afternoon by a vicious horse. The animal had been known to kick at other horses but not deemed dangerous to people. As Thomas unharnessed the horse it struck him above the ear, taking a piece out. The injury is painful but not as serious as first feared.
During Sells Bros circus in Clinton on Tuesday night four people were shot in a ring encounter between cowboys and Indians. Harrington 15 was shot in the forehead and will die. Lambertson left breast is dangerously hit. Wallace Phelps 16 was shot on top of head and seriously wounded. One Indian was shot. motive given as wrong revolvers.
Frank Ives aged 20, single, sat with friends at a third story window on East Fifth Street Drs Moines. He threatened to fall back to scare the group and slipped. He fell through an awning to the pavement, breaking his neck and dying instantly.
Winnipeg July 21 A revised quarantine on importing cattle from the states extends through the dominion for sixty days due to pleuro-pneumonia in western states. Two frontier towns in the northwest will serve as detention sites for imported cattle.
The Record publishes a letter from Robert Garrett stating the Baltimore & Ohio negotiations are over. He notes the railroad company including its telegraph system and stock ownership remains as it was at the start of talks.
Sioux City Iowa July 21 Judge Lewis has received formal notice of his nomination for supreme judge by the prohibitionists and has promptly declined stating he is a prohibitionist but also a republican and that the Republican Party has done all that could be reasonably expected on the prohibition question in Iowa.
WasuiInecron Oscar J Harvey, chief of the horse claim division of the treasury department, pleaded guilty before Judge Montgomery this morning and received a twelve year sentence.
The land office announces numerous cash patents ready for delivery including names such as Judson Rathbun James Hoobler Onie Beal Ilaas Swenson Eugenia Myers Gust Johnson Edwin Kellogg Eugenia Chamberlain Kneeland Cook Win Ault Marcus Gregorson Delavan Davis Jos Benda Jr Geof Slade Don McCoy Louisa Nichols Frank Gorton Ira Westphal and many others. Contests and proceedings follow listing cases hearing dates and cancellation notes for residence proof and land description corrections.
The article touts Boschee's German Syrup as the safest remedy for coughs colds and lung troubles. It claims the product operates by addressing the root cause rather than drying the cough and stresses home use and doctor bill savings. Sold by druggists and dealers nationwide at 75 cents a bottle. The piece closes noting the fourth annual convention of the Association of Agricultural Chemistry meeting in Washington in August.
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