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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
ADVICE TO ENGLAND.
NO PROTEST AGAINST THE OAR
DANELLES INCIDENT.

Germany and Austria Both Averse to
Joining England I'm Amy Vigorous DEM
onstration Against the Recent Favor
Granted Russia by the Porte.
The conference between Chancellor Won
Caprivi and Count Kalnoky, the Austrian
prime minister, near Schwartzenau, have
ended in their advising the English govern
rnent not to be in hurry to take any
diplomatic action In connection with the
Dardanelles incident The tone or the om-
cial press in Berlin indicates distinctly thab
the government is averse to joining Eng
land in any hasty remonstrance against the
porte's agreement with Russia. The No7th
German Gazette holds that the porte's assem-
to the claims of Russia is less important as
a breach of treaties than serious as disclos-
ing the new line of policy adopted by Iur-
kew toward Russia. The Viennese Presse'
semi-otficial, anticipates sharp antagoh-
ism between the British and Russian 1nnu-
ences at Constantinople, and recommends
that England become more amenable SO 1ar
as Egypt is concerned. In the opinion OF
the Presse the new position of affairs does
not involve any danger to the peace OF
Europe. The other great powers, 1t holds'
have no grounds for taking an active snare
in England's impending diplomatic meas
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

that dry weather would again be the
.ule after recent rains, and appeared
anxious to have the expedition prove a
success, so they almost begged Gen.
Dyrenfurth to postpone the explosions
until the storm changes were better.
A large crowd of sightSeers, attracted
by the affair, had come up from Ell Paso
Ind also took their turn laughing at the
experiments, as there was not cloud
visible anywhere. Gen. Dyrenfurth,
however, decided it the best time to
Drove conclusively whether the expedi-
ton was going to be pronounced tall-
ure or a big success, and the firing
commenced. Explosions were made
from to IL p. m. without intermission,
when the party retired for the night.
At 4 a. m. the longed-for storm came up
from the northwest and rain fell copi-
ously, accompanied by frequent thunder
crashes. This left no doubt of the mat
ter and the head of the expedition re-
turned to Midland en- route to Washing
ton. The apparatus and the nine as
sistants remained at the ranch, AMI
Gen. Dyrenfurth expects to go to FL
Paso within the next few weeks to hold
other tests of the rain-making plan.
THE census Office has issued bulle-
tin which furnishes statistics as to sem
fences imposed by the courts upon pris-
oners in penitentiaries. Of 1928 pris-
oners in penitentiarieS, So were not sem
fenced, 2,4S6 were serving sentences OF
less than one year. 80, 757 had been sem
fenced to imprisonment for definite
term of years, 2,6ss for life, II during
their minority, and 81 were under SEN
tence of death awaiting execution "A
tendency to greater severity of sentence
is apparent in the south and west. The
| average sentence of native white con-
| Wet of native parents is years and POS
days; of foreign born convict years
AMI 1913 days; of a colored convict 6
years and 1873 days. The average SEN
tence of male convict is years and
| 2S5 days and of female convict years
and 215 days. The difference between
| the average sentences in different
states, the bulletin says, are q surprise
| They range from 2 years and 1856 days
in Rhode Island to - years and lie
days in Mississippi, and seem to be gov
erned by no discoverable law.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

beginning. The immense air waves
produced by the explosion of the bal
looms at high attitudes start this ming
ling of currents which, progressing by
the force of the latent heat released in
the condensation of moisture, grows into
storm center.
The second theory is that continuous
series of explosions :ars together or az
glomerates the particles of moisture in
the air into rain drops, which are pre-
cipitattd to the ground The effect IL
evident after heavy clap Of thunder
and has been repeatedly produced by
General Dyenforth's party, heavy show
ers having been shaken from light clouds
from which no rain had been falling.
To produce this effect the kites are used
with dynamite cartridges attached.
Gen. Dyrenforth does not claim that
he has fully demonstrated the practica-
bility of producing rainfall artificially
at all times and under all conditions, but
it seems certain, from observations
made, that his operations have exerted
marked influence upon the condition Of
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

THE extra session of the forty-seventh
general assembly of Tennessee has con-
vened. The chief business to come be-
fore the body is the settling of questions
that have grown out of the recent
trouble between the miners and con-
victs at Briceville, referring to the abo-
lition of the lease system, and to the re-
moval, rebuilding and enlarging of the
state prison. The lease system as now
operated yields the state 100000 per
annum, and if it is abolished the tax
rate of the state must be increased. The
military laws are to be changed, so as to
give the executive more power in emer-
gencies like that at Briceville. The
criminal laws are to be revised, so as to
send fewer offenders to the penitentiary,
probably establishing the whipping post
for misdemeanors or establishing houses
of correction for youthful offenders.
The body will be in session twenty days,
but it is not thought that the work be-
fore it can be attended to in that time.
If it cannot an extraordinary session
will be called.
REPORTS from all parts of the cotton
belt show that cold weather and worms
in Texas and the Mississippi valley
states and excessive rains in the
southeastern states have been dis
astrous to the cotton crop the last
week. Not single encouraging report
comes from Mississippi, the cold dry
weather having caused shedding all over
the state and the appearance of worms,
which seems to be general. The loss is
placed all the way from Is to so per
cent. In Louisiana the situation is not
much better.
NEAR Magnolia, Ark, Mr.. Couch, q
prominent planter, was in small cot,
ton house with five or six others weigh.
ing cotton. Lightning struck the build
| ing, killing Samuel Carter and his Is.
year-old son James, John Brown and
Doc Blakely.
LARGE quantities of dynamite have
been exploded from the highest peak O.
the Sorocco mountains In New Mexico
AS O result, the heaviest rain OF ths
year fell, breaking the drouth.
A GERMAN syndicate has purchased |
| large body OF land in Washington
i county, Ala, and will establish an ok
/ tensive German colony.
THERE ID said to be an Organization
Ia the Missouri Farmers Alliance whicl
advocates the use OF armed force II
securing Its objects.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
SOUTH DAKOTA VALUES.
RESULTS or THE EQUALIZATION
OF ASSESSMENTS.

a Decrease or ss,OOO.OO0 Explained Be.
cause County Assessments Were Only
Eaualized and Not Raised rs Last
vaar-S,ne Million Acres More Assessed.
The South Dakota state board OF
,aualization and assessment has COM
.Dleted it's labors and the total for the as
easement Cor the various properties or
The state are obtainable. The total as
,essed valuation of the state this year ls
;ome $4,000, 900 less than last year.
rhis has been brought about not by
decrease In the value of the property or
ne state. but by the fact that last year
he state board increased the assessment
rom the returns sent i'm by county audi
Tors over S15, 600, 900. This year it has
made no such increase, but has simply
equalized the assessment as returned.
This year there were nearly 100000
more acres of land assessed than last
year. The best showing is made in tho
increase In the number of head OF stock.
The number of cattle In the state has
nearly doubled in the one year, and the
increase i'm sheep has been 1861 900, or
nearly double.
Below is table showing the assess
ment on the different kinds OF property
of the state for the year 1871 ana 1891.
A comparison Of the two years will easily
show one how the state board raised the
assessment last year. The rate last
year was made to enable the state to get
enough revenue for running expenses
and this was the only way it could be
done. as the constitution limits the levy
to mills for state purposes. Horses
this year are assessed at $34.62; cattle,
30. IS; mules and asses, $3.50; sneep,
B1.71; swine, $1.67. Bank stock is as
sessed at IS cents ON the dollar. The
state and bond levy is 2 cents and 5
mills this year,Sand the levy on express,
telegraph and telephone companies 8
cents and SO mills.
The total valuation in 1890 was $780,
s27, O17 and in 1891 it is $22s, AIS, 100 as
shown below, the table giving 1890 first
| and 1891 last:
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

In charging the balloons with the
gases the empty envelope Is first spread
on the ground and filled one-third full
with oxygen This is done by attaching
the balloon by hose to retorts filed
with chlorate of potassium and manga
nese The retorts are then subjected to
intense heat in oxygen furnaces con-
structed for the purpose, when oxygen
gas is generated and passes through a
lime water wash into the balloon.
When the balloon is one-third full 1T is
detached from the oxygen apparatus
and connected by pipe with one OF tie
large hydrogen generators, which COM
pletes the imitation. The hydrogen gem
orator consists of large tank half-fIli
of water and iron borings turned from
cast-iron pro. ectiIes In the navy yard at
Washington. Into this sulphuric acid,
or vitriol. is slowly decanted. The acid
separates the water into its gases. by
drogen and oxygen, and the iron takes
up the oxygen, allowing the free HYDRO
gen to escape through pipe and wash
barrel into the balloon, which is held
captive by netting attached to sand
bags.
The observation ascents are made In
DdlIOuuS vi bWChby 1O0U \ hO
balloon is held captive at a height OF
1000 feet by q strong cable while the
meteorologist in the basket communi-
Gates the readings of his instrument
through telephone to those on the
ground below The cable is then let go,
and the balloon rises to the Eeight OF
over two miles, and then descending
lands the occupant at distance of sew
eral miles from the starting point A
carriage has already started from the
headquarters, however, and the aero
nautical observer is seen riding quietly
back on terra firma with his balloon,
folding basket, and instruments safe y
packed away.
Three closely related principles OF
theories are recognized and acted upon
by General Dyrenforth and his party In
their experiments, which, stated briefly
and bereft of technical terms,
are as follows: First, most rain
storms have their origin in the
mingiing of different currents of the
upper air strata, some of which are
warm and moisture laden lin any locali-
ty} while Others are much cooler. AS
soon as these currents begin to mingle,
the warm, moist current is cooled and
its moisture is thus squeezed out Of it as
from a sponge This moisture first be
comes visible as vapor or "cloud," and
finally cOndenses into rain. The process
is d progressive one and will generally
mu tiply upon itself from a very small
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

of long duration and averting the dis
tress and suffering which would have fol-
lowed few more weeks Of dry weather.
Before the close of tho late war, it be.
came so conspicuous fact that heavy
rain would almost inevitably follow q
hot engagement that the storm was
fully anticipated, and was regarded as
one Of the factors in the case to be con-
sidered by a leader when forming his
plans upon the eve of battle. In most
of these cases the storms began about
twelve hours after tho heavy firing, gen
orally arising in the night following the
battle, and in cases Of continual fight
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
South Dakota Items.

THE apple crop throughout the state
is large.
TEN thousand more sheep are going
into Brown county.
A FINE quality of potters' clay has
been found at Hot Springs.
The damage by prairie fire in Faulk
county will amount to $4,000.
THE winter session of the South Da-
kota Press association will be held in
Huron,
A RAPID CITY man offers twenty acres
of land and water power to anyone
starting wooden mill.
JUDGE MOODY says he has not &C
copied the attorneyship of the Harvey
Peak Tin Mining company.
A NEW four and half inch gusher
for irrigating purposes was struck four
miles southeast of Millette.
Miss LAURA CHAMBERLAIN, matron
of the Yankton insane asylum for three
years, has resigned her position and will
take similar one in New York City.
THE date of the republican state COM
mittee meeting has been changed to.
September 8 at Huron.
Gov. MELLErTE makes the welcome
address to the association of Congrega-
tional churches at Watertown on tho
Sth inst.
In is estimated that about 7,O00,00O
acres OF land in the Jim valley can be-
put under irrigation by artesian wells
A WATERFOWL man who gave some
OF his old clothes to q benevolent society.
for the destitute last winter, a short
time since recognized part of his gift
on the person of prosperous farmer
who lives near that city.
| YANKToN county farmers are holding
their grain for better prices. and are
actually borrowing money to pay thresh-.
| Ing expenses just now they are de-
voting every moment to fall ploWing
and improvements about their homes,
and will leave going to market to the
weather when they can do nothing else.
/ Mr.. ANDERSON. Norwegian owning
i !. fine farm close to Madison, has just
finished thrashing 600 acres OF wheat
| The average yield per acre on the ems
/ tire field was forty-three and half
/ bushels. The wheat weighed sixty-one
pounds to the bushel. Mr.. Anderson
Ihanled the crop direct to the elevator,
Tor which he received s3 cents per
i oushel, The crop figured up the nice
little amount OF 26, 100 bushels, which at
% cents brings the handsome sum or
S21, 1858.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
THE LATEST NEWS OF GENERAL
INTEREST.

Small Items of Crime and Casualty In
South Dakota - Improvements Notes
Throughout the Commonwealth-Va-
rious Events of More Than Usual Inn
portance.
THE annual convocation OF the Indian
churches of the Episcopal denomination
assembled at Rosebud reservation this
year. The meeting gathers delegates
from all the Sioux reservations. The
Indians travel by team from Standing
Rock and Sisseton. The Rosebud
church entertains all visiting members,
furnishing abundant rations among the
meetings. The meetings are held under
a large booth made from boughs and
branches, with seating capacity of
500. This is built on Antelope creek,
just east of st. Mary's school. The
Indian churches take great interest in
these meetings. Bishop Hare is very
warmly welcomed by his Indian churches
after his return from Japan.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Compelling the Clouds.

Scientists, farmers, and ranchmen,
and in fact the entire reading public,
have recently had their attention CEN
tered ON TIE as and the successful oper-
ations of the Government rainmakers.
The cow5oys of the "Staked Plains" of
that State have been treated to free
exhibition of fireworks such as has sell
DON If ever been equaled in the Lone Star
State. The coyotes and antelopes have
been scattered in terror by this terrific
cannonading Of the experimenters, and
to the Joy of the ranchman copious rains
have fallen on the parched prairies of
the Llano Estacado, breaking drought
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Tho Colored Men to Strike.

r. Nj. Humphrey, general superintendent
of the Farmer Alliance and Cotton Pickers'
league of Texas has issued secret circular
to the colored men of the alliance all
through the cotton states. 1t asserts that
the pickers are getting starvation wages,
and that 100000 have already formed
sacred covenant not to pick any cotton be-
fore November for less than 81 per 100
poundswith board. 1t then fixes Sept. IL as
the date upon which all the colored people
shall cease picking any cotton except their
own, unless the demand for increased wages
be granted by the planters.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Black Hills and the Worlds Fair.

A CALL has been issued in the Black
Hills for convention to be held at
Deadwood Sept. for the purpose of
taking steps towards having the Black
Hills represented at the worlds fair.
The matter under consideration will be
whether the Black Hills shall join with
eastern Dakota in raising necessary
funds to make proper display for the
state, or whether the hills shall make a
separate Black Hills exhibit.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
A Nebraska City Scandal,

MRS. MARY A. SARGENT, Of Nebraska
City, has asked for divorce from her
husband on the ground of extreme
cruelty. Sargent charges e. G. Bick-
ford, a prominent merchant who has
boarded with the family, with being re-
sponsible for the trouble. Bickford de-
MES, and all the parties, who are promi-
nent church people, are trying to argue
their case in the newspapers. Sensa-
tional developments are expected when
the case comes to trial.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
The Dakota Crops.

THE weather bureau at Huron gives
crop reports from fifteen North and
thirty-one South Dakota counties. In
almost every locality the injury by the
frost Is shown to be less than at first re-
ported. Corn, flax, and in few locali-
ties wheat and oats are considerably
damaged. The cool weather prevented
rapid ripening of grain, and the harvest
is considerably retarded. In South Da-
kota the frost injury is chiefly to late
corn, flax and vines, the aggregate being
very small. Threshing is in full blast.
The yield of wheat and oats is from 10
to 20 per cent. greater than estimated.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Central American Trade.

The consul general of Germany at san
Jose, Costa RIGA, has made report to his
government, in which he says: ''Ehere Is
no doubt but that the extraordinary en-
deavors which the American Industrial
world, backed by the government, Is MAX
ing to increase trade with the Spanish
American court tries is meeting with success,
The difference in price, If any, Is more than
compensated for by the attractive ano
handy get-np of tho American goods.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
A BOOM IN CATTLE
Montana Breaks the Record and Ranch
men Are Correspon dinghy Happy.

men Are COrrespOndIngIy HHPPy'
Secretary Prenitt of the Montana board
board of live stock commissioners, estimates
that I'D to this time $4,000 head of cattle
have been shipped from Montana to the
markets in the east. The average net price
was $40 per head. Up to the same time last
year shipments were only $4,000 head and
net price $50. This gives Montana SO far
this wear So, 500, 900 from cattle. The ship
ping season is only fairly begun, however,
and SHIPMENTS to date are not one-half of
what will go by the close of the season.
One road alone has orders for 600 cars be-
fore Sent, is. Cattlemen never had such IA
wear as this in Montana. The best condl-
lions have prevailed all over the state.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
To Colonixe Rohemians.

A MOVE is said to be on foot by an
Omaha syndicate who own nine sections
of land in Lincoln county to purchase
twenty additional sections and COLOMBO
the whole with Bohemians, limiting each
family to 100 acres
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Dynamite in a Thresher.

While a number of men were threshing
wheat near Findlay, O., the machine eX-
ploded, wrecking the place. William Null
was killed and four others seriously injured.
On investigation it was found that dynamite
cartridges had been placed in sneaf OF
wheat by some person unknown, causing the
axnIOsiOn,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

the weather and produced definite prac-
tical results in the midst of the arid
"Staked Plains" of Texas
In the third place it is believed that
the fractional electricity which is gener-
ated In the Earring Of the earth and air
at the point of the operations and SO
creates magnetic field into which the
particles of moisture are drawn and
gathered. The explosions on and near
the ground are especially calculated to
secure this result.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Ar WilInWs. Cal. fire which SD,

AT Willows, Cal, fire which started
In the Willows hotel from the explosion
Of lamp, destroyed that building to-
gether with the Union hotel, the Craw-
ford house, Hocheimer g Co.'s large
general merchandise store, express and
telegraph Offices and number OF other
places. The losses aggregate $3.50, 600,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
An Important Land Case Settled.

THE land Office at Pierre rendered an
important decision in contest case for
a valuable quarter section of land oppo-
site Pierre. The decision was in favor
of homesteader named Jennings and
against the Allison Town Site company.
The town site company had plated the
land and sold lots to numerous parties
all over the country at from $40 to 500
per lot, and guaranteed the title. The
land in controversy is quite valuable, as
it is the only point in this vicinity for a
railroad bridge to be built across the
Missouri river.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Reopened for Business.

Ten stations on the Chicago & North
western in the vicinity of Huron, which
were closed last fall because of lack of
business. have been reopened. They
are Esmond, Cavour, Holabird, Appleby,
Dempster, Broadland, Zell, Seneca,
Manchester and Rockham. Several
other stations will be reopened in a few
dave
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

CHAIRMAN RICE, of the South Dakota
state board of railway commissioners,
has received an invitation to attend an
irrigation congress to be held in Salt
Lake City on Sept Is, as representative
at large from South Dakota. He will
endeavor to be present.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Could Fin q Long Train.

AS the thrashing progresses throughout
the northwest the reports of large yields OF
wheat increase in number. Devils Lake.
N. D., reports so bushels to the acre. A
conservative estimate places the yield of
Minnesota and the Dakotas at 125.00O,00O
bushels, against 10000, 600 bushels last year.
it is asserted that the wheat crop of the
three states would fill a train $50 miles
LONG
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
a Bie crowd Expected.

IT Is thought the western Nebraska
G.. A. r.. reunion, which takes place at
North Plarte, Sept. Is to Is, will be the
largest gathering of old soldiers ever
held i'm that part of the state.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

JACKSON FLETCHER, a full-blooded
Choctaw, was sentenced to be shot at
Caddo, I. T., on Sept. 30. He killed
another Choctaw last winter, for which
he rs to pay the death penalty. It's the
law of the territory that when an Indian
Is convicted OF murder he Is to be shot.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
After Sioux Falls Saloons.

THE committee Of one hundred has
again commenced war on the Sioux
Falls saloons.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

Wheat In Western Nebraska.
WHEAT will average twenty-five BUSH
els per acre all over western Nebraska.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10

THE NATIONAL GAME.

Games Won and Lost-How the Clubs
Now stand.
Following is showing of the standing OF
each of the teams of the different associa-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-10
Camp sherman Struck by Lightning.

CAMP SHERMAN, at Grand Island. was
struck by lightning and nine old vet
Grams were injured, but not SO seriously
but that they will recover.