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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
THE GREAT NORTHW EST
THE LATEST NEWS OF GENERAL
INTEREST.

Small Items of Crime and Casualty in
South Dakota - Improvement Notes
Throughout the CommonweaIth--ya-
rious Events of More Than Usual Im-
pOrtance.
THE Rapid City, Missouri River & St.
Paul Railroad company has concluded
preliminary arrangements for the work
Of construction. Contracts for grading
the roadbed between Rapid City and the
Cheyenne river, distance of forty-tWo
miles, will be let on the 3Oth, and work
will begin thereafter as soon as practi-
cable. The Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Is also bestirring itself, and 1t Is
more than probable that the extension
westward from Chamberlain will be un-
dertaken at an early day. Perhaps the
new company Is the Milwaukee in dis
guise. The Northern Pacific coyets a
slice of Black Hills trade and the Great
Northern also. The former has looked
the country over and expressed desire
to come down, intimating that bonus
would expedite the work of building.
The Elkhorn and Burlington are already
firmly anchored in the Hills, but the
more the merrier. Every new line in
creases business and stimulates activity
in developing the resources OF the Hills.
The Duluth, Pierre & Black Hills rail
way, now under contract for completion
from Aberdeen to Pierre, is backed by
| the Northern Pacific company. A new
company has been organized in Pierre,
presumably with the same backing, fol-
extending the line west from Pierre tc
connect with the Rapid City road. 1t il
evident that the Northern Pacific ant
the business world of st. Paul and Du
luth want some of the Black Hills anG
are extending their communication
| thereto.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

were to be the supports of floor for
another story. Then the gable ends
are built up of logs, shorter and short
er as the peak of the gable is APP
preached. and kept in place by other
smaller logs laid across, endwise of
the cabin, and locked into the end of
each log in the gable until all are in
place. On these transverse logs, or
rafters, the roof is laid Holes are cut
or sawed through the logs for the door
and windows, and the house begins to
look habitable.
The settlers on the Republican Fork
cut the holes for doors and windows
before they put on the roof, and when
the layer of split shakes that made the
roof was in place, and the boys bound
ed inside to see how things looked,
they were greatly amused to notice
how light it was. The space between
the logs was almost wide enough to
crawl through, Oscar said. But they
had studied log cabin building enough
to know that these wide cracks were to
be "chinked" with thin strips of wood,
the refuse of shakes, driven in tightly,
and then danbed over with clay, a fine
bed of which was fortunately near at
hand. The proyident Younkins had
laid away in his own cabin the sashes
and glass for two small windows; and
these he had agreed to sell to the new
Corners. Partly hewn logs for floor
joists were placed upon the ground in
side the cabin, previously leyeled off
for the purpose. On these were laid
| thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven
out of logs drawn from the grove near
by. These slabs of hardwood were
"puncheons, and fortunate as was the
man who could have a floor of sawed
lumber to his cabin, he who was
obliged to use puncheons was better
off than those with whom timber was
so scarce that the natural surface Of
ground was their only floor. = st
Nicholas.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
New Laws i'm Nebraska.

MANY new laws went into effect in
Nebraska August /, including the
worlds fair, the eight hour law and the
warehouse act. An attempt will be
made to evade the eight hour law, as
for some weeks the companies and cor
porations hiring men have been engag-
ing them by the hour. II they want to
work but eight hours they will be paid
accordingly. The warehouse law is one
of the most important, and it seems to
be somewhat difficult to understand.
The state board of transportation, which
has charge of the work of putting it in
motion, has been at work some weeks
reading and discussing the law and pre-
pairing rules and regulations for its en-
forcement. There also seems to be q
diversity of opinion regarding the good
that may come out of the act. Omaha,
Lincoln, Beatrice and some other places
are arranging to put it to test.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

Gov. BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, has
decided to call the legislature to con-
vene in extra session August II to con-
slider the convict lease system and other
matters of interest, including amend
ments of the election laws, the repre-
sentation of the state at the worlds
fair, and increasing the power of the
governor to suppress riots in calling out
the militia. The prison question in
cludes the regulation of the peniten-
tiary, it's management by lessees, the
question of removal of the main prison
from the City of Nashville, building a
new penitentiary and the regulation Of
convict labor. Gov. Buchanan said he
was in favor of taking definite steps to-
wards finally doing away with the whole
lease system. He was in favor OF going
as far as could be done constitutionally.
The labor unions throughout the state
will bring a strong pressure to bear upon
the legislature. They will meet and by
resolution ask that the lease system be
done away with and free labor be no
longer interfered with by convict labor.
A CALL has been issued for state
convention in Mississippi, to be held Aug.
10, to select delegates to the national
convention of alliance men opposed to
the sub-treasury scheme and the third
party. The call invites all opposed to
Macunism and corruption, and denoun-
ces as political lepers those who are
seeking to divert the order from its true
course.
SENATOR PETER was the orator at the
farmers encampment at Sulphur
Springs, Tex. He said he wanted the
government to loan the people money at
/ per cent to lift 1900, 900 mortgages.
He proposed to do this with fat money
issued directly to the people who had
mortgaged their homes.
DAVID KING, the brutal husband who
was taken from jail at Dixon, Webster
county, KY, did not escape as was re-
ported. King was taken few miles
out from Dixon and after being hanged
was riddled with bullets. His companion
was whipped until he tainted. He wa:
then resuscitated and turned loose.
FRANK LINDENsTEIN, of Kansas City
broke the worlds high diving record
made few days ago by Joseph Leuyen
mark by diving from platform eighty
/ five feet high into a lake at Washington
park, in that city. Lenvenmark dove
from platform eighty feet high.
A REPORT ID current that $75, 900 i
missing from the express Office q
Kountzie, Tex, q big saw mill center
Officials are making an investigation
but are very reticent.
STEPHEN T. RYAN, dry goods, VIII
/ recently failed at Atlanta, Ga, for ~,
/ 600, 600, was sent to Jail for refusing T
/ to turn over assets worth 1920, 600. Ryal
/ says he had no assets TO turn over.
IT ii not improbable that new tria
will be granted to Il. Clay King
Twenty errors are claimed III the recen
trial at Memphis, and resort will also b
had I'd the insanity plea.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

thy OF the public in the future as we'll as In
the past.
O. And we do hereby express thanks to
Governor Buchanan for the kind consfd-
GRAFTON in holding the militia In this city
and thereby preventing conflict that might
have resulted in bloodshed.
4. And to the committee of citizens we
also express thanks for the interest they
have shown by their counsel and advice in
their efforts to adjust the existing difficult
ties. JOSIAH L. THOMAS,
J. w. HARDIN,
S. r. PICKERING.
S. f. MOORE,
w. f. SMITH.
We. the citizen committee, hereby approve
of the above DENNIS LEAHY,
WILLIAM RULE,
J. @. ]. WILLIAMS,
ID. A. CARPENTER.
This ends the trouble in the mining
districts. The militia were drawn up at
dress parade and orders read releasing
them from strict discipline. The orders
were received with tumultuous cheering,
for the troops did not relish week or
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
Queen vlcto.ia,s square-Toed shoes

1t is a pity that there are not more
mothers guided by the Queens excel
lent example in the matter Of square
toed boots and shoes. Not only has
her Majesty persistently worn this
shaped chaussure all through her own
life, but she insists that the royal
children shall all be similarly shod.
1t is nothing short of absolute cruelty
to imprison growing children's feet in
the unnatural pointed-toed instruments
OF torture that we have SO long per-
mitted to remain the fashion, and there
can be no doubt that the children Of
unthinking and fashionable mothers do
suffer very greatly from this barbarous
practice. But perhaps, now that the
fact is made known that not one Of the
royal family is ever seen IN anything
but sensibly shaped boots, it may ia. !.
duce these foolish women to make their
little ones comfortable, and save them
from much suffering in after years.
Ladies Pictorial.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
IN THE EAST.

THE cases of the New York murderers,
McIlvaine and Trezza, have been taken
ON appeal to the United States supreme
court. The condemned men were to
have been electrocuted in Sing Sing
prison last week. The arguments be-
fore the highest court will not be heard
until October.
JOHN c. AVERY, New York broker
and president of the Continental Land
and Security company, has assigned.
Whether the company is affected is not
known A year ago the company
claimed assets of $1,776,93 against liza
bilities Of 81, 446, $50, of which 81, 900, 900
was capital stock.
CHAIRMAN QUAY and Treasurer Dud-
ley have resigned from the republican
national committee. j. s. Clarkson,
vice chairman, succeeds to the chair
manship, entrusted with power to name
treasurer. The opinion of the mem
bers OF the committee present favored
the holding of the next republican ma
tional convention as early as May.
CENSUS returns indicate that 2,491, $50
farms and homes In the United States,
occupied by owners, are encountered by
mortgages. Preliminary returns from
Iowa indicate that the average debt for
o farm in that state is $1,2s3 and for q
home $719, making the average for both
S1, 140. At this rate the total encum-
brance on farms and homes in the
United States would be about SO, $780,
100000. Judging from the incomplete
returns from western states farms and
homes are mortgaged for about one
third OF their value.
THE fields adjoining the Indiana and
Ohio boundary line are alive with grass
hoppers, which are doing an inesti-
mable amount0of damage to the crops.
Grain IL being harvested earlier than
usual In order to save 1t from the raw
ages OF the insects, but in the majority
Of cases so much damage has been done
as to render the crops of but little
value. The grasshoppers have only
appeared within the last few days. and
they have been the source of no little
CONSERVATION among the farmers, many
Of whose crops will be short fully a
half. The hoppers seem to be travelling
eastward, and, while not much grain is
being devoured, they ruin it by cutting
of the stalk.
ONs OF the changes made in the
4 weather bureau is the enlargement OF
the local value of weather predictions
by the appoin tmentof twenty local fore
casters. The list of places where these
appointments will be made has not yet
been entirely completed, but 1t will in
ciudo Chicago, ST. Louis, ST. Paul, Gin
cianati, cleveland, Detroit and Indian
apolis etofore the general forecasts
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
A STOCK YARDS SETTLEMENT.
Chicago Packers and the Stock Yard
hrrr.o nf Last.

Chicago Packers and the Stock Yards
Company Agree at Last.
The Chicago Stock Yards company and
the packers, Messrs. Armour, Morris and
Swift, have effected settlement. The
company agrees to pay $500, 900 for the Gem
trail stock yards property Of Chicago, half
in cash and half in mortgage, pending law
suits to be abandoned; to give $5O0,00O in
common stock to be held by the packers for
FIVE years for 1000 acres OF the packers
land at Tolleston, Ind, best suited for
stock yards; to guarantee principal and
interest at per cent. on So, 100000 fifteen
year bonds of the Tolleston Stock Yards
company, with sinking fund attached.
These are given to the packers above named
who covenant perpetually to remain at
Chicago or go to Tolleston when the time
comes. Each of the three guarantees the
others and also guarantees that their united
business will net So, O0O,0 900 the next five
years. The smaller packers are left to
shift for themselves by this arrangement.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
A Columbian Convent.

The committee on foreign exhibits OF the
worlds fair have recommended the cree
tion at jackson park, at Chicago, of an
exact reproduction of the old convent of La
Rapida q Palos, Spain. 1t will be remem-
bered that this is more closely associated
with the life Of Columbus than any other
building In the world. Tt was here that he
applied for bread and water for his child
and was furnished shelter for two years
while developing the theory Of the western
passage to the Indies.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
Frightened at Worms.

Potter county, Penn, is alarmed, and
with good cause, over the ravages of a
worm that is destroying the foliage and
killing off the timber. The worms are
swarming about in millions, while from
Coudersport to Allegheny, miles and miles
of trees are turning brown and ruin is
threatened in the vast lumber interests of
that section. A crisis confronts the whole
population of the entire hemlock region of
New York and Pennsylvania, as the worm
is steadily advancing and spreading and,
owing to their great numbers, working de-
struction with increased rapidity.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
Composition to Deadwood.

THE Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri
Valley railway has completed its mar
row gauge extension to the Bald Noun
tain and Ruby Basin mining districts.
The Deadwood Central was completed
through the districts some weeks ago.
AS each road has spurs to dumps of all
developed mines, mine owners have
choice of routes and benefit Of cheap
rates made by sharp competition in
shipping to the different plants at Dead
wood for treatment.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
THERE il much talk abont 4 aa,;,.

THERE is much talk about q spirit
picture Ia the possession OF Mr.. Wind
sor Bates, Of East Thompson, Conn.
Three years ago d travelling photogra-
pher took picture Of the front Of Mr..
Bates farmhouse. There was no one
In the dwelling at the time, and vet the
picture represents, at one of the vim
#doWs. the figure Of Mr.. Bates mother.
Just as she used to sit sewing. She
died Shree years before the picture was
taksn, 1t the age oi ninety fya.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
PEACE NOW RESTORED.
I FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE
MINING TROUBLES.

successful Adjustn mt or what might
Have Reea serious Matter MI lti !
seat Homes sesolutions--O Origin of the
Troubs0
Peace has been festosed In the Ten
nessee mining regions, and the trouble,
which seemed about to necesSitate shoot
ing down Probably scores of miners to
upho d the law, has been ad nsted.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

aAhepAhA AAASPeSt
were presented
to the Knoxville
CO m m | t t g o of
citizens, and by
t h g m approved
and signed. An
interview w o 9
t h Q N had with
Gov. Buchanan
and At torn g y
General Pickle.
To say that the
opportunity t 0
r. 4 n naunn
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
Sheen Raising in South Dakota.

The interest in sheep raising is con-
stantly growing in South Dakota. AL
most every farmer who las few dol
lars to invest is putting the money into
sheep, and in consequence the prairie is
becoming dotted over with herds of
these animals. Farmers on the coded
Sioux lands are also becoming interested
in sheep raising, and large numbers are
being taken to the country west of the
Missouri river,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
The Masons of Ohio divide.

AS the result of feud in the Masonic
fraternity of Ohio, growing out of the diff
erences between the northern jurisdiction
and the Cernau rites, there is a split in the
master Mason grand lodge. The Masons
identified with the Cernaus are under ban,
and this eliminated in split and the crea-
ton of rival grand lodges.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

J. q. GOODWIN, ASST. / IN and honorable
sUPT. OF coNvIcTs. means to prevent any
interference with them.
e. Reposlng confidence in our Governor,
and believing the General Assembly, when
they meet In extra session, will give us the
necessary relief from the oppression that
now hangs over us, we will endeavor to con-
duct ourselves as law-abiding people, so
as to maintain the confidence and sympa-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
suit to Recover Usury.

Mrs. ANNA M. EBERLINE has CONF
menced suit against the First National
Bank Of Stanton for the sum Of $5, Az
In the district court of Stanton county.
She claims that she has paid the bank
that amount OF usnrions interest.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
Posting the Notices

NOTICES have been posted Id the shops
of the B. q M. railroad at Plattsmouth,
Neb.. to the effect that on and after
Aug. ! eight hours win constitute q
days work and that the men will be
paid by the hour instead OF BY the day.
as heretofore.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
one or the Many.

y. r. WILLIAMS, a farmer living two
miles east of Ord, has threshed and sold
his barley. The ground was measured
and the enormous yield of eighty bush
els per acre was had. The price re-
ceived for 1t was 80 cents per bushel,
making $27 per acre for the crop.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
The Insane Tax in Dakota.

STATE AUDITOR TAYLOR has written
communications to the auditors of
counties having patients in the insane
asylum advising that levy of SIG per
month for each patient be made to pay
for the expense of keeping.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

A * n oxville
special say 8:
w hen the sitna-
tion locked to
those on the in
side more dam
gerous than at
any time since
the beginning of.
the Fri ey II g
a gi ton, the
miners commits
tee met in q room
at the L q nj a r
IF \ g.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

Bricevtlle and Coal
Creek. and In the in
teres t of harmony,
do submit the follow
ing, trusting that it
will meet with your
favorable considera-
ton:
/. The status quo
to be restored, and
guards and convicts
not to be molested ON
t h @ ir return to the
mines, and we will
1,ca oil nrdi rv aan.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

col. sEvIEr, OF MILITIA. I'll onse, and in
half an hour the trouble was end; d.
The Hon Dennis Leah, at the begin
ming of the session, presented the draft
of series of resolutions, which were
unanimously received. The resolutions
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Games Won and Lost-How the Clubs
Now Stand.
Following is a showing of the standing of
each OF the teams of the different associa-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-06

WIGHOuG UIUOu-
shed was jumped at puts the thing
mildly, for Glove meeting" followed In
which all took part. Following are the
resolutions:
We, the undersigned, committee on be-
half of the miners and their friends of
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seasons colorings. We have not refused to
be pleased by delicate tintings but We have
Turned our backs definitely and decidedly
upon the shades which hint of fading and
decay. There is the dull peculiar tone
some roses take when they are whitening;
there is the purple that comes into sweet
peas when they are past their prime; there
are dozens of dying colors We have long had
with us, and these we have eschewed for
others Witch speak of life and warmth and
sunshine. We may run to such excess as to
become barbaric, but our present tastes are
healthy.
We do not shrink from vivid contrasts. A
brilliant brunette was wearing Yesterday q
trim street dress of black cloth with a broad
crimson ribbon bordered with gold Haunting
itself in n circling band above the hem. Her
pointed belt and her guantlet cuffs reaching
to the elbows brought in the same catching
note, and her hat was crimson set with pop
pies and black velvet ribbons. One sees
black and yellow, black and pink. grey and
yellow, grey and blue, showing themselves
on the streets without reserves of modesty.
Corn color and white l have seen several
times within the week. and honeysuckle
yellow combined with shrimp pink and en-
broidered with silver. Yellow and peach
figured with white is a strange freak of fash
ion, butmost noteworthy Of all are the para
soils. There is no feat of daring to which
they are not equal. Many are painted with