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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1887
Page
4
The notice outlines subscription prices for one year in advance at two dollars, six months at one dollar, and three months at eighty cents, invites address changes with old and new addresses, and directs correspondence to the office. It also lists advertising rates for business cards, live ads, and notices, with free marriage and death notices, plus various editorials on political topics and reform.
A fragmented political forecast argues that Republicans will regain power in 1888 and Dakota may become two or four states, hinting at shifting political reorganization. The text reflects era discourse on party strength and territorial expansion without concrete events.
James A. Ward once led the anti Ordway faction at Pierre now holds a position once held by SXunnel George. Senator Sabin of Minnesota declared in a recent speech that watered stock from railroads and similar corporations must be eradicated by legislation.
Aberdeen is said to oppose submitting the division question to a vote. If we remember aright Aberdeen's friends were among those who argued strongest at Yankton last fall in favor of this same proposition.
The piece argues Governor Church treats South Dakota unfairly while Ward McClure and Smith defend division. Abe Boynton once mocked the south, and now critics question if the seed wheat appropriation aids only North Dakota farmers. Pride and the bill provoke sharp words about regional credit.
Wand County Press retells a harsh, satirical attack on Dakota editor Sparks. The piece mocks his inability to supply material, threatening punishment with office towels and old rollers. It quotes Secretary Lamar claiming to reverse Sparks’s decisions and hints at judiciary scrutiny.
A Dakotan lawmaker from Miner County introduced resolutions praising South Dakota’s constitutional convention and urging home rule. The measures argue North Dakota’s territory development and resources justify admission to the union on equal terms with other states.
The North Dakota legislature reports Governor Church's nomination of Alex Griggs of Grand Forks N. T. Smith of Huron and Abraham Boynton of Lennox to the railroad commission. The session notes routine bills on bonds for public buildings taxes and county division while debates and votes recount changes to court terms and the Yankton Mitchell court move.
Bismarck February actions show a busy session with bills funding reform schools and universities, authorizing county debt servicing, road and library provisions, and appointing trustees for state institutions. Gov Church sent nominees for public bodies and vetoed a county division bill as the house sets a January 1, 1889 salaries schedule.
The two houses spent the day on routine work with no new bills to be introduced after Saturday. The session of sixty days closed on the 1th, marking an end to the term.
The governor sent nominations for Sioux Falls Deaf and Mute School trustees J T Gilbert Frank S Black Charles H Wynn and Charles E McKinney Yankton Insane Hospital appointees Frank Van Tassel Charles A Brown Martin J Lewis Wm Powers B S Williams Madison Normal School D D Baldwin George C Jones The house passed a bill banning gambling in saloons and connected rooms A Burleigh legislator proposed a tax on agricultural grazing timber land city and town lots of railway company lands not taxed since July 1886 If law would pass at least 3,000,000 acres of Northern Pacific land east of the Missouri would become taxable
A compilation notes changes and plans in Dakota journalism and enterprise. It cites the Yankton Merchants Hotel sale, St Lawrence Tribune expansion, and Plankinton Free Press sale to founder Fred Kibbe, while reporting on paper launches, fuel shortages west of Aberdeen, and Midwest rail and road developments. It mentions John D. Cameron moving to St Paul for real estate, Col. C. G. Williams organizing a Dakota loan and land company, and local political hints about a Dakota governor. It also covers weather quirks in Bismarck, and criticism of telegraph and telephone monopolies in Deadwood with rising costs and outages.
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