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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
A West Yirginia Feud Apa,n.

The sheriff Of Lincoln county held the
jan at Hamlin against an armed mob that
was clamoring for the blood Of Bart Fer.
raj, who killed Joseph Butcher on Harris
creek Q week ago. Ferralis o Mccoy man,
while Butcher was a follower Of Hatfield.
Ihis work VIII Il: Soabtedly reopen the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
Proved His Iowa.

William Torlens, of Philadelphia, after
q lovers quarrel, shot Belle Carter aud
then himself. He died at once. The young
woman's wound is probably fatal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
Killed by Falling Lumber.

John Thompson and Andrew johnson
were crushed to death beneath a pile Of
lumber in Chicago. Two other workmen
were badly injured.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
A Russian

While engaged in leading a raid on a
nlhilist club in this city the chief Of secret
police was shot by a woman named Olga
Charankosi. Tho woman then committed
cuio;da NJ
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
The Shortage Greatly Increased.

The defalcation in the Havana treasury
Office amounts to S7oo,oj0, instead Of
$25O,0oO, as at first reported. A number
Of prominent officials are implicated.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
BIarh Rills e. ,lion.
RAPID CITY. S D.
UNION PUBLISHING co, PUBS.
RAPID CITY. S D
SOUTH DAKOTA'S SCHOOL LANDS.
Figures on Their Extont and Val,

saS.asSsA =xta-ss.s.. -. So
Atthe.session Of the South Dakota Ed
vocational association recently held at Yank-
ton, Hon. 0ssH. Parser, superintendent of
schools apdpublic lands, read a paper con-
corning the donations Of the general gov-
ernment to the states, from which the fol-,
lowing extract is made, as published in the
Press and Dakotan:
South Dakota, and the other three new
states, receive sec.iohs t16 and SO Iforthe
general school fund.-. In addition to these
congress, in 1887, made a grant to the Uni
versity of Dakota. located at, vermillion,
Of seventY-two sections, or A6,0S0 acres.
Sixty-four sections Of these are located in
the counties of Hand, Potter and Sully,
the other eight sections are not located.
Grants as follows have also been made.
The grants have not yet been located:
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
GOV. MELLETTE'S SAY.
SOUTH DAKorA.s FIRST GOVERNOR
ADDRESSES THE LEGISLATURE.
A Business Like Document Which Deals
in Cold Facts-Economy the Watchword
Get Through Early and AdjOurn-The

A Business Like Document Which Deals
in Cold Facts-Economy the Watchword
Get Through Early and Adjourn-The
Document
Gentlemen OF the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives: The constitution of the state
cate to you upon assembling Information OF the
condition of the state and such
sions as he may deem expedient.
Finances.
The condition Of the states finances is
deemed of first Importance us d basis OF legisla-
ton, and the reports of the late territorial
treasurer and auditor are herewith submitted
for your information.
From these it will be seen that at date OF nd
mission into the union the financial condition
Of the state was rs follows, to-wit:
The bonded Indebtedness was sic, 200, OF
which amount Sl16,f0o bears interest at 9 Per
cent per annum, SIPS, 900 at the. rate OFFS per
cent, S317, l 0 at AS per cent, and the remand
or, s152,5 $40 at the rate of 4 per cent.
There was also outstanding Nov. 4, nm indebt-
edness of the territory to the amount of sl5l.Uol
evidenced by three funding warrants. of which
South dakota owes S75.Co1.
By the ,erms OF the agreement ma !e by the
joint commission of tho constitut onal co1ven-
ton, South Dakota must pay North Dakota
SAG, 800 on account Of the difference in adjust.
ment OF accounts up to March 8, 1889 then since
that date South Dakota has overdrawn its &C.
coun, to o considerable extent, SO thnt by the
provisions OF the agreement of such joint com.
mission, when the final adjustment Is mndc, II
is pfODuO!e GnuC SOutl liakUth WI HuNe u pay
or final settlement of these three items Sl50,oo1
The ST., 800 s per cent. bonds for insane hos
| pitat at Yankton and the $4,000 6 per cent
bonds for penitentinry Mt Sioux Falls were re-
funded ut O I pc: cent. rate by Hon. }. N, Bailey
jr.. the late territorial treasurer, and in addt
ton u premium OF S5,375 WAS realized 10 the
state, which amount, according to notice ron
| Mr.. Bailey, awaits in his banda instruction III
to is disposition.
Total sum received by the state treasurer wa:
SS4, AL. 93, of which S3S, 0 20 ia in bond fund.-
1--l ,,-t 1 fms f1,nt vi ,ta anvil M 1t,n =nc n IA
! government, and Si6.03i.23 in general fund
| bond interest fund and stock indemnity fund.
1he late territorial auditor, Hon. j. c.. Nc
Mamma, kindly submitted tho following esti
mate OF the expenses and receipts of the stat
for one year under present expenditures, to-wit
Estimated Expenses for Ono Year.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17

NCru1hi SCHOOL Ut SpeuTuSu.. 1o.o1V
University at Vermillion. 5o,oa0
For public bulldlngs.. . oO,on
For other educational and charitable pur-
poses, as the state may determine, 10000
acres. In addition to these there is grant
of 100, 1000 acres additional for agricultural
colleges, making in all 672,OS0 acres.
A careful examination of the land rec
ords show that we are now entitled to l,593
sections. Were these all full aud free we
should have 1,178, $50 acres. But many of
them fall into lakes and rivers. This short
age in acres the state must stand, but there
is another source in which we are at pres
ont short, 1880 acres are patented by per-
sons who settled upon the lands before
surveys were made. This amount en-
braces the section north of Yankton, given
by congress to the state for the insane
asylum, the section which is covered by
Sioux Falls, a part of the section at Dell
Rapids which has been patented as a min
ing claim, and q part of the section ad-
joining Rapid City. A section in Sphinx
county was set aside as indemnity for
the ,.Yankton section, the only one.
For the other section the state
can take other public lands of
equal area. Deducting these We find that
we have a total of 1887, ESQ acres of avail
able lands. When we secure the indem-
nifty lands we shall have 1,154,390 acres.
This is less than one.half our domain, and
1t is safe to say that when all are secured
we shall have 9 Co., Y99-acres-There are
claimants for some of the most valuable
sections. The Dell Rapids section is
nearly covered with filings as q mining
claim. Over 100 acres have already been
patented as such. The remaining $50 acres
of Rapid City is also claimed as a mining
claim. The claimants testified under oath
that two diamond drills had been sunk $50
feet through veins of anthracite coal
thirty. four inches in thickness. Gases Of
that kind of coal was put in as evidence at
substituted.
A large number Of the sections are occu-
pied and nave been for years by persons
who dc not claim to have any title. The
Ian has been cropped and in some cases
houses have been built. There is no doubt
but that these lands are less in valve for
this use. Twenty sections are reported as
poor. while q large number are reported as
valu able.
1t is difficult at this time to say how
much our land ls worth if reduced to {
money basis. In my opinion it would be
unwise to sell any land until better times
dawn upon US. If We proceed neyt yea,
as the constitution directs, the best land
will be offered and sold for much less
chan it shonld be. The lands sold first
would be those that would sbe most likely
TO grow in value, and consequently should
be kept for a rise in value.
There are not less than 200, 600 acres OF
vacant land east OF the Missouri river yer,
and not less than 10000 acrss west Of
the Missouri river, from which the college
and university lands can be selected.
but much care must be taken in those So
l~ections.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
New Nasoys,

Emmett, Union county, A. Rouning;
Goddard, sully county, S. G.. W. Stokes;
Odessa, Hand county, Thomas Patterson;
Orland, Lake county, c. w. Shirley.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
Items From Washington

AISlhb Ilohk 1oiAAlEkoAs
Crosby Davis has been appointed super
intendent OF the Indian industrial school
at Pierre, s. D. Mr.. Davis is now super
intendent of schools i'll Hughes county.
W. H. Rouse, of Lincoln county, S. D.,
has been appointed physician at the Sis
seton Indian agency.
Representative Clifford has introduced II
billauthorizine the building of wagon
bridge acrosslthe Missouri at Pierre, Sd;
also a bill allowing the holders of Sioux
half breed scrip to locate the same on the
Sioux reservation.
Mr.. Pickering has introduced a bill APP
proplating $780, 900 for a pubic building
at Aberdeen.4S. D. He also introduced o
bill. fer the irrigation OF South Dakota,
which is q copy of that introduced by SEN
ator Moody.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17
Other state Notes

A LARGE wildcat was Shot on the reser.
walton opposite Pierre the other day.
The mills at Frankfort recently filled an
order for -four to be shipped to S scotland.
LOWER Bnu1E Indian ran up against
the hind leg Of q broncho the other day and
escaped with . broken jaw.
A BRASS band. has been organized at
CaBtalia.
HENRY FERRY, aged 10, of NClaremont,
was adjudged insane by the commissioners
Of insanity at Columbia and has been taken
to the Yankton asylum.
The escaping gas from the we'll on
George Small's farm, near Ashton, Sphinx
county, rushes out with such. force that the
noiseait makes can be heard over Zoo yards
away.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT P1NKHAM is
said TO be considering the preparation Of
q new school law. The superintendent
says the one inherited from the territory is
too complicated to be Of any benefit.
At Pakwana Frank Sepal, while taking
. gun from his wagon, accidentally dis
charged the weapon, the shot taking effect
in his left hand, mangling it in such a
manner as to render amputation necessary.
WHILE at work in the shaft OF the Cow
boy mine. near Hill City, Andrew Davis, a
miner, was terribly crushed by a mass Of
rock weighing aEeut 1000 pounds falling
upon him. The rock struck him in the
back, crushing his spine and breaking both
legs. He suffered intense pain until death
came to his relisf. Helsuas a young man.
and had been married but little over q
year.
Hos. sU7VeN.ErY ogNes speaker OF the
house Of representatives, is an oaio man,
bsing born at Hiram; Portage comfy, that
stete,si p 18<7.
- LNE y AML1 L1IEA ~" ~
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-17

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03
THE ANTI-LOTTERY LAW.

The New Orleans Times Democrat is
righteously indignant against those
papers that have been so loud and so
disinterested in lecturing' the people of
Louisiana on the depraved state of their
morals, as evidenced by the existence
among them of lottery, while these
papers themselves continue to indulge in
little gambling schemes, which, if gamb-
ling is evil, are equally as vicious as the
Louisiana lottery.
The wide reach of the anti-lottery bill,
lately passed, though grieving the Times
Democrat nightly, has made it happy
in at least one particular. Those hyp-
ocritical papers, mounted on their eX-
temporized perch of superior virtue, >
have also to suffer by the bill.
1--WE offer these papers," says the
Times-Democrat, -FOUR coincidence, be-
cause many of them will be compelled
by the very law with which they fOndly
expected to throttle Louisiana's lottery,
to abandon the gift enterprise which
they carry on in their own columns, with
the double object of de5poiling credulous
buyers and enriching themselves"
But while the direct result of this
anti-lottery bill is good in stopping these
gambling devices, known as gift enter
prises, there is in it ground for criticism
because of the postofiice censorship
which it brings about, which censorship
will most likely lead to abuse; but it has
done one good, anyway, in preventing
these small lotteries, and even if it can
not affect the Louisiana Lottery com
pany, progress viii come, and it is only
a question of time when the big lottery
will be compelled. by popular disap-
proval, to take its flight to some more
barbarian climate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03
THE MANNERLESS SEX.

Oscar Fay Adams is out in an article
in the North American Review in which
he characterizes woman as the manner
less sex" The EAGLE comedies that a
certain abstraction of manner, or preoc-
cupation of mind Of the average women
met on the street causes her to seem to
lack manners or to appear rude, by COM
parison, in the eyes of the opposite sex,
but she is not 50 in fact.
That our lady readers may know what
Adams charges specifically, we quote
the four following items:
"First-The difference with which a
women will contemplate the fact that
the convenience Of others has been sacri-
feed to her caprice. Very observable in
young women.
"Second-The needless delay a woman
often causes in making her appearance
when visitors have called upon her.
Most commonly noticed among women
who are no longer claSsed as girls.
"Third-The unwillingness of a
woman to wait for another to finish
speaking before beginning to speak her
self. Characteristic of nearly all women.
"Foruth-Woman's failure to recog-
nize the importance of an engagement.
Most noticeable among those who have
the fewest social duties"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03
COMING HOME TO ROOST.

The Chicago News has a story to the
effect that when one Of the collectors
sent out by the Democratic congressional
committee approached a prominent
Democrat and business man of New
York, he was met W tn a fiat refusal TO
contribute dollar The business man
said to the collector:
Il think you have a good deal of as
surance to come TO me or to others stu
ated as | am and ask contributions to the
campaign fund. For months Democratic
congressman have publicly denounced,
without any discrimination, the rich men
of this country, especially the manufac-
turers, as thieves and robbers. There
was no line of separation observed be-
tween classes-every one who had pos
session of wealth was the subject of at
tack. l am tired of it, and say frankly
that no more money Of mine Is going to
aid the election Of men who think their
duty in congress requires them 10 make
that kind of attacks"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03
ENTIRELY TOO THIN.

Ex-Attorney General Bradford is try
ing to make himself numerously conspi-
cious in this campaign, both in Kansas
and Nebraska. He is now out in the
papers, over his own signature, declaring
that the whisky dealers of Missouri are
sending prominent prohibitionists in
Kansas well filled jugs by express and
then tracing them up and swearing that
the jugs were daily received and receipted
for That would be a pretty live cam
paign scheme if it wasn't a lie. The
average Missouri whisky dealer values
his money too highly to come any such
antics as that with his stock in trade
among the leaders of prohibition in Kan
sas. There are thousands and thousands
of honest prohibitionists in Kansas, men
who practice just what they preach, but
there are a mighty few of the socalled
party leaders who would refuse to receipt
for a present if a demi john and take the
chances on its contents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03
FOR STARVING IRELAND.

The New York Sun of Oct. publishes
an appeal to the people of America from
the American committee for the relief of
the famine in Ireland. The most trust
worthy information from public and
private sources in all parts of Ireland, Is
to the effect that the complete failure of
the potato crop makes another great
famine in that most unfortunate of lands
practically inevitable. The point of
actual suffering from hunger has not
yet been reached, but the days of starva
ton. unless help comes. are not far Off
In the last great famine, in 1S7S-79, the
Irish leaders-Parnell, Davitt and the
others who voiced the Country's appeal
for food, pledged themselves never again
to appear as supplicants before the world
on behalf of starving Ireland. So no APP
peal has been sent out, and probably
none would come from that source until
the situation became desperate and it be-
came no less than criminal any longer to
withhold it. A movement is on foot
among well known men not con-
nected with any Irish soci
cites or political bodies to
bring to the attention of Ameri-
cans the appalling calamity which now
threatens Ireland before actual death
from hunger has claimed any victims. 1t
has been decided to organize under the
name of the American committee for the
relief of famine in Ireland. 1t is pro-
posed to make its work cover both North
and South America.
The personnel of the American COM
mittee contains the following names:
Chairman, Gen. James Grant Wilson;
honorary chairmen, Hon. Ruthford b.
Hayes, Hon. Grover Cleveland; vice
chairmen, James Redpath, George Ehret,
Col. Elliott +. Shepherd, James Phillips,
Jr.: treasurer, the New York Sun: sec
rotary, Arthur Dudley Ninton. There
will be also numerous honorary vice
chairmen and many subcommittee.
Chancey NJ. Depew has accepted the
Craftsmanship of the subcommittee on
transportation.
The appeal of the American committee
recites that the Irish leaders pledged
themselves and their people in 1880
never again to appeal to America
for aid in time of famine. If their
tongues and pens are silent now it is
only because they recognize the
sanctity of pledges then given, and not
because their need is not great. But the
privilege of giving is none the less ours,
and the duty of aiding our starving
brothers is none the less Imperative.
1t will not do to wait until the Irish
people have proven the existence of fam
inc by dying by scores for lack of food.
Shall men fall dead upon the public
highway because Americans have said,
1--WE will give relief next month, but
not now?" Shall children die, wailing
with hunger, and skeleton babes suck in
vain at the breasts of mothers dead or
dying of starvation, because Americans
have said, 1--WE will give by and by. 1t
is too soon now TO give"
Let those who have never known the
extremity of hunger remember those
who starve There is no time to spare,
no time TO delay. The Irish people need
aid now. The American committee ap-
peals for immediate contributions of
money, provisions and clothing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
rom the New ENGLAND Magazine.

From the New England Magazine.
The history of the rise and progress of
agricultural education in this country is
a story of the enthusiasm and devotion
of the few opposing the class prejudice
of the many; and though the former
have gained the day, so that agricultural
! education is one of the watchwordS of
| the present generation, there still re-
mains signs Of what the opposition was a
/ few decades since. The phrase that
"any fool can farm" has been repeated
with endless and senseless iteration, and
still sums up as well as anything, per-
! hapS, the argument against agricultural
education.
Prominent among those who helped in
augurate this movement in the United
| States was the late Marshall p. Wilder.
AS long ago as 1S49, in an address de-
| livered before the Norfolk Agricultural
| society, he advocated the establishment
| of a school where scientific and
| practical agriculture should be
| taught" Mainly through his exer-
rtiOns, a bill was prepared the fol-
| lowing year and submitted to the legis-
lature of Massachusetts, providing for the
establishment of an agriculture college
and experimental farm. This bill was
! passed by the senate without a dissent
| ing vote, but was rejected by the house.
About the same time the State Agri-
cultural society of Michigan was cOnsid-
ering a similar project, and in January,
| 1850, committee from that body MEM
orialized the legislature for the establish
ment of an institution where should be
taught "those branches of education
which will tend to render agriculture not
only useful, but learned and liberal
profession, and its cultvators not the
bone and sinew merely, but ornaments
of society" While there was no dire ct
result from this appeal, except the awak
ening of public interest in Reinforcement,
it may be noted here that this, and the
subsequent increasing agitation of the
subject, finally secured for Michigan the
first school in this country where the
sole ject was intelligent investiga-
ton and the application of science
in agriculture. Other states followed
closely in this lead. and the sentiment in
favor of higher agricultural education
was becoming so widespread that in 1862
congress passed bill which had been
originally submitted by Hon. Justice S.
Morrill, for YEAS previously, granting a
large amount of the public lands to the
respective states for the purpose of estab-
fishing colleges where the leading OBJ
iect shall be, without excluding other
scientific and classical studies, and in
Guiding military tactics, 10 teach such
branches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts, in
such a manner as the legislatures of the
respective states may prescribe, in order
10 promote the liberal and practical
education of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and profession of life"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03

their functions and betrayed the conf
dence reposed in them by their cOnstit-
uentS.
The present house Of representatives
/ affords an eloquent illustration of the in
jury to the public service which an insult
ficient majority brings. 1t has hamper
ed the movements and thwarted the
purposes of the party in power from the
opening of congress TO the lasthour. Most
OF the shortcomings which can be laid
to congress during the session may be re-
ferred to this cause. 1t has compelled a
resort to expedients by the dominant or
ganization which, however Justitiable
under the circumstances, have caused IT.
rltatlon in the opposing party and de-
stroyed for the time the spirit OF calm
deliberation and the desire to dispose of
questions on their merits. Through the
opportunities which it has afforded to OBJ
struct legislation and thwart the plans of
their adversaries, it has induced the
members of the minority to violate many
of the recognized proprieties in legisla-
tive procedure and to display the petu-
lancy and Stiffness of children rather
than the dignity, honor and manliness
looked for in a national legislature. A
gross injustice is thus done to the party
in power. This organization is held, by
the people, to a rigid responsibility for
the conduct of public affairs without
being able TO exert the control over them
which this relation demands. And in
the broader sense, of course, the entire
people are sufferers. Through the alb
sence Of an adequate majority to enable
party to carry out its purposes in legis-
lation freely and fully, the people are
denied the opportunity of learning the
exact scope or effects of the policies pro-
posed, and thus lack the knowledge
which would allow them to form an in
telligent judgment as to the claims of
the rival parties