The Dreyfus Trial Stages a Prolonged French Drag
The Dreyfus trial continues to unfold across France with a lingering impact on public life. Questions of justice and national memory persist as hearings progress and new details emerge.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
5
The Dreyfus trial continues to unfold across France with a lingering impact on public life. Questions of justice and national memory persist as hearings progress and new details emerge.
The text urges buyers to select first class cattle for range use warning that poor stock equals a poor crop of wheat. It stresses that high grade cattle lead to better farming outcomes.
A San Francisco hospital contains fifty men from the South Dakota regiment. Private Murphy of Clark has the most serious injuries and is in the convalescent ward, according to a journal dispatch.
The report states Governor Lee will not summon the legislature for a special session because he fears lawmakers would break their pledges and vote themselves per diem and mileage.
The Sioux Falls Press notes the common use of the prefix Hon for the governor’s private secretary Thomas Ayres, suggesting it is often omitted in addressing him as a matter of courtesy.
M. L. Fox of Sioux Falls counters reports accusing him of traveling to Manila at government expense. He says the trip was semi official, paid by himself, with no cost to the state or United States government.
The Huron meeting appointed a finance committee to raise funds to bring the boys home and resolved to request Lee to call a special session. The committee will not stop there and will refer the matter to the governor, treating it as a political undertaking.
In a city letter Chaplain Daley contrasts with South Dakota friends of Aguinaldo, praising the Philippines as a beautiful island under Old Glory. He notes public schools already in place and predicts educated, capable people who will remember August 13, 1898 as their deliverance and independence day.
The Huronite defends urging the governor to convene the legislature to secure funds for returning troops, cites Nebraska Iowa Minnesota efforts, and notes Beadle county cattle and sheep valuations. It argues for equalized taxation across real personal corporate property and criticizes railroad and other property assessments as under taxed.
The editorial argues against taxing citizens alone while funds could be spread across major state corporations. It disputes claims that the governor fears legislature trust and rejects press framing of a political issue. It contends convening the legislature as best, not to embarrass Gov. Lee or his allies.
A description of a healthy modern woman who thrives on good food, sunshine, and outdoor exercise. It notes her glowing form and blooming face and recommends the gentle Syrup of Figs laxative remedy from the California Fig Syrup Company for cleansing as needed.
The week ending September 4 1899 sees variable conditions across eastern counties with above normal temperatures and heavy rains in parts. Wheat and oats harvesting continues, flax is two thirds done, corn advances toward maturity with some frost risk. hail and wet weather damaged shocks in several counties while pastures recover from recent rains.
The Olwin Dry Goods Company of Aberdeen S D will be at the Depot Hotel parlors in Huron September 21 22 and 23 offering a fall and winter line of jackets capes suits furs skirts and waists claimed to be the nobbiest finest and best value in South Dakota The buyer has returned from the east with up to date New York City goods and invites ladies to view the display with no pressure to buy and promises extra style points.
Cape Town Sept 1 A violent scene in the Cape House of Assembly as Cecil Rhodes repeats his claim that the Transvaal secret service fund financed Afrikander candidates in Cape Colony elections He hopes the payment list will be destroyed in any Transvaal settlement to spare Cape families another discomfort. In unrelated notes a Virginia mother reports her infant's recovery after using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by Holland Wheeler.
Excursion tickets to the Greater American Exposition in Omaha Nebraska are on sale until October 31 1899 at reduced rates from select stations. Rates dates of sale and ticket limits apply to agents of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Estrayed from a farm in section 22 township 113 range 62 on August 2 1899 a light bay Clydesdale about five years old and 1100 pounds with heavy leg hair. Reward offered. Notify H C Johnson at his farm or send information to Huron South Dakota.
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