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The Sioux County Journal.
PubUslied every lburoay.
Subscription Price, 12.00
W. E. PttrB Editor ud Vrop
Entered at tlie postoffioe at Harrison
iecond class matter.
The $50.00 Court Dotkft
It will soon be time for tlie printing of
another court doc ket and, with no ex
jectations of being allowed the job but
rather with the desire to prove what we
said when we told tlie people tlmt
$7.50 was a good price for a court docket
of 12 pages, we now bid for the coming
Jacket to be printed for tlie May term of
llie District Court at 60c. per page. At
this rate tlie hist one. iirinted bv the
Herald Publishing Comtianv of which
oiniian v County Attorney Satterlee
as tlie leading light, would have cost
7.20 whereas it did cost ")0.00. Re
member, our bid is tiOc. a Mge.
Vale, Vila.
There is a decided feeling of relief on
the retirement of Secretary Vilas. That
be sitrned some able decisions durimr Ins
incumbency is beyond question. AVheth
er the credit thereof belonirs to hi in oi
to his law advisers is a matter of doubt
lie was distinguished for eneitrv and in
ilustry, but it was hugely the tiler
and industry of a bull in a china shop
hi too many cases he overrode his ad
visers, disregarded the law, and ignored
the facts, to accomplish two results,
tirst, to carry out his peculiar notions of
equity, and second, to sustain prior de
cisions of his office, no matter how
egregious the blunders.
The efforts made in tlie early part of
Cleveland's administration to check
f raud and secure the nublic lands for
lona fide settlers lias lieen largely frus
trated by Vilas' rulings, and the loud
promises of land reform in 1884 have
ended in ridicule.
In the history of the Secretaries of the
Interior Vilas will take rank far down
the list. Copp's Land-Owner.
A rude sort of educational test for tlie
suffrage has just been established
North Carolina by the passage throu
the legislature of a bill providing tl
all ballot boxes shall be labeled, and
that voters shall approach the noils one
at a time, and place their several ballots
in tlie proper boxes, none to be counted
which eret into the wroner box. The the
ory of this law is eminently sound; it is
nothing else than tlie traditional New
England idea that no man should be al
-owed to vote unless he can read. The
North Carolina statute" if adopted
Massachusetts, would not deprive of the
suffrage a single man who now en
joys it, because no man can eajoy the
suffrage in Massachusetts who cannot
ead the state constitution and so, of
course, the labels on ballot boxes. North
Carolina has just as much right to estab-
ish an educational test for the suffrage
its Massachusetts, and Massachusetts
'.olds it unsafe for herself to allow any
r.ian in the state to cast a ballot who
cannot pass an educational test. In like
.nanner Massachusetts men even" so
t.:nse a partisan as Mr. Geo. F. Hoar-
lave" always held, even when such
stand seemed against the advantage of
their party, as was the case fifteen years
:.go, that no territory like New Mexico
should be admitted into the Union as
state, where the census showed that
majority of the men could not pass an
educational test, and consequently were
unfitted, according to the traditional
New England idea, to govern themselves
and share in tlie government of the na
tion. Weekly Post.
Is the Seed Corn all Right?
A great deal of the success of life
to
which some men attain is due to the fact
that they are always prepared in ad
vance for whatever comes. Neither
xeed time nor harvest, the summers
storm or winter's blizzard finds them un
prepared. Hence their cattle are al ways
sheitered, their seed corn always grows,
and they are reported as fortunate men,
always in luck, and born with a silver
spoon in their mouths. Other men are
ulways unprepared, always surprised by
adversity, and always unlucky. The se
cret of it all is that the first class take
time by the forelock and adversity takes
Ihe second by the forelock. It is now
the first week in February, but in ninety
(lays more the corn, upon which the
west for the next year will depend, will
be going into the ground. It will there
lore soon be time to know whether the
seed corn saved last fall is strong and
quick, and will surely grow. An exper
ienced farmer can make a good guess by
examination, and can in the next thirty
days make an approximate test be nh.ni.
inginsoil wanned under the kitchen
xtove. One test should nt
sufficient. In a matter of seed corn
Sre should hp nn iera InU. nr. J
- ' t, UO
H anticipate any serious trouble with
1 corn this year, and yet there will be
, !t deal more unsound corn tlian for
1 "'ears past. The extreme drouth of
t 1887 ripened corn m early that
no danger. It wag not so "in
Sed corn may be all right now
noil Jong in thirty days from now,
uatat rly cared for. There i. o.
gr4 "Tfeeed, properly picked and
cneaai. "Sg up in the corn crib or i
tne MrV "on may be spot ltd
this audi
of May, Wburt&rn U
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of th
liurn,
davs
J.oiiM tl-r come some
warm
with 4 damp atmosplwre or drizzling
roiu !ullud by a uudden !iai.ge and
zero weatlwr, it is ary apt to loose iU
vitality, at least to uch an extent as to
render it unsafe to plant. Tlie reason is
that the cob absorbs moisture from the
atmosj-liere, esjrfx billy if large, and a
sudden freeze kills tlie germ or greatly
weakens its vitality. Tl way to avoid
thi is to take it to the kitchen loft and
lay it near the stove pipe.
All seed should be dried with artificial
heat and kept dry. This is the
m ret of iirescrviiiir seed corn,
whole
and it
costs so little to observe tlii
method
; ;t inmreiwililH neliirence to be
!...,,( L-nnun in be sound and
strong, without the sliadow of a doubt.
Homestead,
fin tit a ti i t of 'How to build up a
city," the Lincoln Call lias a very well
ivfiitun article from which we take the
following: There liave lieen many arti
cles aoiiearinir lately, some of them in
,i.u'!.ll uluiu'imr how cities are built
and how thev trrow. Mr. Calhoun Jias
written some interesting and instructive
article on growth of towns but
all there is no general rule that can 1
f,,1 Intra! fit its (tow and prosper and
sui'pi
irise the inhabitants, but why they
grow remains a mystery.
A
ountiy
town can irrow to a certain size
and,
tlmuL'h all prospects are briirlit.
;udden-
lv passes into innocuous desuetude and
decav coes backward looses its mo
mentum and never again overcomes its
inertia. Another town within thirty
miles of it. without anv "natural ad
vantages," with dim prospects suddenly
!.-:ms forward and soon becomes a citv.
Why is it? is the question asked and un
answered. There is no particular way
to build nn a citv. There are wavs to
help and ways to hinder. Petty quar
rels, jealousy and penunousness will
wreck any town on earth. Concert of
action and liberality will always assist a
city's growth.
Boggy Items.
I. Kendall's saw mill is coming in on
Boggv the 1st. There are lots of logs
to saw.
Allwrt Rand is snatchinc lotrs in with
one yoke of oxen.
If Wild West wants to know where
Slocum is "Right among tlie living."
Ed. Campbell's folks have come and
come to stay.
W. Corcoran set out an orchard of
choke cherries. So much for arbor day
on the Sabbath too.
Bud Watson is sick with a sore hand
Fire in the woods! Tlie bluffs have
been bright with fire and the Boggyites
were busy puttina it out,
Greger is planting trees, seeds and cut
tings on his timber claim
The first thunder and lightening- of the
season nut in its apiiearance last week.
Mr. S. B. Coffee, of llat creek, arrived
from Texas Monday with his better half
Miss fcmma Beans left for Ft. Robin
.son the 25th.
Items From Antelope Forts.
Fred Stemmer is very busy putting
ins crop ana is preparing to build a large
frame house on his claim on Antelope,
we understand he is expecting ladv
friends from the Old Country about the
1st of July.
John Frish lias his new house about
finished and will move into it this week
Miss Jane Hunt has W house up but
there is no place for a door. We won
der which side it will be in.
Mr. John Hunt and Mr. Frank Nutto
are smiling nowadays because they have
succeeded in organizing a school district.
Don't smile too soon for some of the in
habitants of that district are trying
slide out.
to
Antelope is blessed with plenty.
of
good looking girls. Bustleless is the
new style adopted by some.
Tlie outlook is that we will have sev
eral new families on Antelope soon.
Mf. Amuel Hitzeler has built a house
on his claim. His mother and brother
are well pleased with the country and
liave taken claims near.
Occasion at.
Departed this life on March 7t.h. tw.ni-
Tripp, Dakota, RoDand Edmond, son of
Oscar A. and Mary A. Carton, aged 3
years, 10 months and 2 days. Also on
March 9th, Ck.-a,- infant daughter of
jscar . and Mary I. Latin, aged 2 weeks
and 4 days. A funeral discourse was
delivered by the writer on the occasion
of the death of these children, on Run.
da, March 10th, from 1st Tliess., 4, 13
and 14, and the two little cousins were
lain side by side in the cemetery. To
both families death came suddenly and
took a loved one from the fond
of the loving parents.
brother and sister Garten were fni:
merly residents of this community, but
..uv. ve near Harrison, Nebraska. They
were visiting their friends here and it
is sad indeed for thera to leave behind
them their bright little boy and return
to their home thus bereft. Tk.
of these children, in either case, mourn
no as inose who liave no hope, bot liave
committed their children to him who is
still the resurrection and tlie life.
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YwBg Male for Hale.
At my ranch south-nut. f it..
xnm year old broken or unbroken.
Jas. H. Cook.
hmur up in the drive way
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COHLEY, REIDY
Are lipre to
A STRAIGHT FORWARD
HONORABLE BUSINESS.
We would respectfully call the uttcntion of the public
tliat we are prepared to make farm loans in
I2T SIOUX, DAWES and BOX BUTTE COOTIES
The Most Liberal Terms.
Final proof money
Without Extra Charge.
Land Office business will receive SPECIAL ATTENTION'
Contests Initiated,
PROSECUTED or
Land filings made and a general law business transacted. We offer
you tlie advantage of several years successful practice Ufore
the UBited States Land Office. Will also do
A Locating Business.
Collections made on all acceible 'inU Attracts carefully .
piled. Do your business
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