Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-09-26

are csc, 600 Of them worse off than any
black man ii the country SO far ag en-
reimbursement is concerned, and I think
something otght to be done. I am the
author, iaTentor and discoverer OF this
device this epitaph, I call ii sometimes,
but that hardly seems appropriate. We
amt going toshase any such thing as an
epitaph about our statehood. I tell you
it has created. a sensation today.
Wherever I have gone it has drawn a
crowd. Did you hear about that bomb
shell threw into the Villas meeting up
at Madison the other night? Villas was
making a big speech and I up and
asked him what he had to say about
Cleveland's Keeping Dakota out of the
union. What do you think he said? He
did not say word, and he could not if
be had wanted to, and nobody can. /
am going east to New York to see some
old friends, and you bot I'll lieep the
banner flying all the way. Think it is
a great scheme.
Under the caption, "one Disappoint-
ing FEATURE" the Rapid City Journal
laments over the fact that the display of
products of the soil were not as large at
the Custer county fair as should have
been. The Journal says this is notice
able feature of all the fairs SO far held in
the Hills country, but it fails to assign
any cause for the conspicuous absence of
these products. The agricultural editor
of the ADVERTISER believes the difficulty
lies in the fact that if a rounder has a
fee bitten cayuse worth about $25-|
perhaps won at a game of poker-that
can make mile in four minutes, he can
carry off prize Of $50 or 800 in cash
while granger with a wagon load of
vegetables and grain that required five
months of hard labor for himself and
wife to produce, will be awarded a di-
ploma that cost the fair association at the
rate of rs cents per hundred.
Omaha is bound not to be behind the
balance of the world not even those cities
with thousands more within their limits
than she has. The wealthy citizens of
the place have organized stock COM
pany with $4,000 capital, and they will
proceed to erect at once huge coliseum
.170x300 feet-capable of seating in
its amphitheater 1000 people. Under
it's roof will be a pedestrian and bicycle
track, a course for horse racing, CON-
plete gymnasium, a large natatorium, an
enormous stage and other essentials for
4 first-class amusement building. In
cases of large conventions the entire
building tracks, stage and all-can be
seated to accommodate $4,000 people.
Surely Omaha is bound to stay in the
van.
On Saturday last a special train on
he Montana Central with President Hill,
If the Montana, and President Broadwate
md party aboard, made fast time on the
new track, running a mile in 50 seconds,
Or at the rate of seventy-two miles per
hour, during breakfast hour, and didn't
disturb the dishes on the table or equili-
,rium of the guests. The ties are oak,
hree thousand to the mile, and the rails
seventy five pounds per yard. The road
'uns over the main range of the Rocky
and is a marvel of fine con-
,truction work. When the Wickes tun-
nel is done the regular time between He
ena and Butte will be two hours and
orty minutes, distance of seventy
hree miles,,
Two men near Nebraska City, having
;he utmost confidence in the strength OF
heir respective presidential candidates,
nave made peculiar wager. One of
hem has bet his wife against a thor
oughbred cow that his candidate will be
5he successful one, and the chances are
hat he will retain his wife and gain the
cow, as he has bet on Harrison and Nor
:on. The democrat says of course he is
giving big odds, but he proposes to take
all such bets as long as his stock holds
out. What the wife-or the cow-has
% say concerning the transaction, we
ave loot-asy vetJarfoo;7
It. L. Skinner, superintendent and at
,rney for the Caledonia Mining compa-
y, will in all probability receive the ap-
ointment in few days as attorney
eneral for Dakota. Mr.. Skinner is
Gentleman in every sense, man of abil-
~ and integrity, and will fill the posi-
ion with credit to himself an an honor
o the democratic party.