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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1897
Page
3
Public notice details subscription options for various terms and prices with address change process and editorial deadlines. Advertising rates listed with line charges and discounts. Includes free notices for marriages and deaths with per line charges for other items. FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 1897.
The Capital marks its nineteenth year serving Mitchell and Davison County with growing subscribers and increased advertising. The piece contrasts Republican ticket support for Frank B. Smith for judge and discusses Democratic strategies on tariff and silver, plus public examiner Myers on ledger irregularities and Mr. Anderson’s admissions about making changes.
R W Wheelock criticizes the auditor dispute in the Minneapolis Tribune. He says Republican papers in South Dakota push hard against Hipple and Mayhew for derelictions in the auditor's office. He notes voters trusted the auditor to shield the office from partisanship and cites flawed examiner Taylor reports amid political capital.
The piece denounces the suditor's office as systematically careless for five years and demands accountability from officials Hipple and Mayhew, labeling them complicit or incompetent. It then contrasts the Dingley law's early results with the Wilson law, predicting surplus revenues and stable funding as normal conditions resume.
J. W. Mauck quits the presidency of the state university at Vermillion and plans to move east. The board of regents, while regretful, accepted his resignation at his request citing a pleasant relationship. He faced offers to enter mercantile business but remains noted as a fine educator who elevated the university’s standing.
Editor Downey is mocked for his farming claim while H L Loucks oversees his own farm. The piece questions Downey’s editor credibility and notes the Gazette’s heavy reliance on another paper. The American Protective Tariff League releases a 144 page tariff edition covering Dingley and Wilson laws. cost twenty five cents.
The Nebraska state democratic chairman denounces W. J. Bryan as a disruptive figure and calls his free silver push a dead issue, saying he profits from it while not drawing a salary as president.
Senator Pettigrew travels in Japan with his party and occasionally writes to his home paper. The note notes their popularity and hints at plans to learn Japanese and deliver a speech in the language when he returns to South Dakota.
The Chamberlain Democrat the Kim ball Graphic the Pukwana Press and the Plankinton Herald name H. F. Fellows as their circuit judge candidate and it seems he will not withdraw. The yellow fever plague in the south continues to claim lives, with New Orleans’ situation still alarming. The Yankton Gazette earns praise for its standout coverage of the state fair, ahead of the Press and Dakotan.
The thirteenth annual Dakota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church meets in Mitchell starting Tuesday Oct 12 with Bishop Henry Warren presiding. The program spans services on Temperance, Freedman's Aid, Woman's Foreign Missionary society, hospital anniversary, and Epworth League, drawing 10 000 local Methodists and visitors.
The Yankton Press and Dakotan apologizes for an unwarranted paragraph about Mitchell's juvenile band wrongfully reflecting on the group. Editor cites lack of supervision and time as causes for the error and regrets the omission of a full apology to injured parties. The band earned new laurels for professional excellence and as Mitchell youths who are a credit to their town.
An advertisement extolls Electric Bitters as a vegetable medicine that tones nerve centers in the stomach and stimulates liver and kidneys to purify blood. It claims appetite and digestion improve and marks it as a top nerve tonic and blood purifier, priced 50c or 21.00 per bottle at Scalin's drug store. De Witt's Little Early Risers are also endorsed as a cleansing pill.
Three Quaker Harcourt brothers, importing merchants in North Carolina before the Revolution, paid debts to British creditors twice. NC and other colonies taxed private debts to the state treasury to fund the war, and after peace the creditors sought payment from the original debtors who honored both occasions, leaving the men poorer in old age.
A Warner quotation notes the western United States as a testing ground for educational ideas. The region’s enterprising people fostered kindergarten expansion, widespread manual training, and the use of real literature to engage young minds, emphasizing ideas over childish readers.
A London stationer sold a rare tarocchi di Montegna set for 600 dollars and Paris saw a near 400 dollar sale. Each card is an engraver’s masterwork with historical portraits including Queen Anne of England and other European figures. The deck also features top diplomats as jacks. Persia exports about 6,000 boxes of opium annually, each 130 pounds, with similar domestic consumption.
The W J Healey Hardware Co announces a fall shooting tournament starting Tuesday October 12 lasting three days with a full program of cash events and prize rifle and gun prizes from major manufacturers. Officials promise strong attendance and comprehensive amenities for players and spectators amid a packed schedule across two days.
A catalog of cash and merchandise prizes for a series of shooting events led by Ka and UA with 10 to 25 targets per event. Prizes include firearms, ammunition, cigar cases, and magazine subscriptions. Also a testimonial from R B Greeve of Chilhowie Va praising Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and consumption with trial bottles available.
Wire reports say the girls dormitory at the state reform school burned shortly after midnight, seven perished including six young girls and Miss Tillie Hooper of White Lake. The fire began around 12:30, a liveryman woke the occupants, but the wooden building burned too fast to save all.
An elderly boarder asks about romance while a bachelor mulls a story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The tale concerns a man listing his wife’s name for a million dollars on his tax list and jokes about tax delinquency and selling her.
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