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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-24
A FIGHT FOR LIrE.
Shall we Drive slow Poison From Our
Breakfast Tab1e7

ALUM AND AMMONIA I'M OUR BREAD.
"A nuisance that troubled England fifty
years ago is now rapidly spreading in
this country, that is putting alum in the
bread we eat. This question 10 causing
a great deal OF discussion at the present,
as it is revealed that alum is being used
as substitute for cream OF tarter in
baking powder. A story is told that o
very large percentage OF the baking
powder sold on the market contains
either alum or ammonia, and many OF
them contain both these pernicious drugs.
Much timely alarm is felt at the whole
sale use of alum in bread, biscuit and
pastry. To young children, growing
girls, persons of weakly frame, alum
bread eaten morning, noon and evening
is the most harmful. 1t is the small
quantities taken at every meal that do
the mischief. Alum is cheap, costing
but 2 or 5 cents pound while cream OF
tarter costs 30c, and the high price OF
cream of tarter has led cheap baking
powder to be made OF alum. If the
reader wants to know something OF the
corrosive qualitives of alum let him
touch piece to his tongue then reflect
how it acts on the tender delicate coats
of the stomach.
Following is list compiled by the
Scientific American, of the alum and am
monia baking powders that have already
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-24

Following are resolutions passed by
a humber of Hills gentleman at meet
ing recently held in Deadwood:
"Resolved, That it is the sense of
this convention that the boards of county
commissioners of the respective counties
throughout the state of South Dakota, be
requested to submit to the voters of their
counties at the coming general election
on Nov 3, 1891, the proposition of call
ing an extra session of the legislature to
make an appropriation for the Worlds
Fair exhibits and that the question to be
submitted shall be as here below given,
and il majority of votes cast at that
election favor convening the Legislature
for an appropriation, then the governor
shall convene the Legislature for that
purpose. The votes shall be counted
and returns made the same as in all
general elections.
Form of ballot Shall the legislature
be convened in extra session to vote an
appropriation of $4,000 to defray OK
penses OF state exhibit at the Worlds
Fair? Yes. No.
Your committee further report that it
is thought best by the committee that
the exhibit be made at the Worlds Fair,
by the entire state il it can be accomplis-
he'd but that in case the state authorities
fail or refuse to act in this important
matter, then the Black Hills counties
proceed to exhibit to the world the mag
nifcent resources ~of Western South
Dakota, and the expense thereof to be
borne by the Black Ellis counties.
Your committee beg to further recon-
mend that the foregoing resolutions be
printed, published and circulated through
out the state and that copy Of the reso-
lutions be mailed TO the chairman OF the
board OF county commissioners of each
county in the state.
Mr.. Stillwell, who is treasurer Of the
Smith Monument fund, informs us thai
he has employed Mr.. James H. Riordan
who recently completed bust Of Wili
Bill, to make monument for the Rev
Mr.. Smith, the pioneer preacher, who
was killed By Indians while on bis way
from Deadwood to Crook City to preach
one Sunday morning in 1875. The
monument will either be q full lenght
statute OF the preacher standing by i
broken column, on which will rest al
open bible, or ii will be q rustic tree or
one side 81 which the bark will be peelet
or turned back to give surface on whicl
will be engraved the story Of The life ant
tragic death of the minister Pioneer.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-24
sTURGIS ADVERTISER.
THE HARNRY PEAK MILL.

The ADVERTISER is entered at the Sturgis post
Office as second class matter.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
pUN'S REPORT.
An Improvement In Basiness Noticed ny
the Commercial Agency.


the Commercial Agency.
NEW YORK, April 1S.-R. G. Dun %
Co 5 Weekly Review of Trade says:
With better weather there is visible inn
provemcnt in trade and collections, and
while it is but slight as yet, the outlook
for the future is generally regarded as
encouraging. Crop prospects continue
excellent, there Is less monetary press
ure at points where some stringency
has existed and in the chief industries
some improvement in the demand APP
pears, while the volume of trade con-
tinues nearly as large in aggregate
value as it was a year ago, some de-
crease in quantities of important prod
ucts being balanced by an advance in
the level of prices, which was nearly IS
per cent. higher than a year ago April
/, and is still more than 13 per cent.
higher. The iron trade shows greater
shrinkage than any other.
Some improvement is seen at Cincin-
natl, especially in groceries, and also in
general trade in Detroit. The sales of
dry goods at Chicago fall little below
those of last year, and clothing is quiet
but shoes active, and collections in all
those trakes good. Receipts of lard and
butter show slight decrease, and of
dressed beef and cheese some increase,
with considerable gain in wool. At
Omaha, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Den
yer the trade is fairly good, prices of
lumber and flour improving. Business
is dull at Kansas City and Memphis, but
improved at New Orleans and Atlanta.
In the speculative markets there has
been general advance in breadstuffs,
hogs and lard, a decline in oil, and
no change in cotton and coffee. Large
export demand and reports of scarcity
abroad have lifted wheat 2l4 cents to
S1.19l4, with sales of 46, 900, 900 bushels
here, and oats have risen cents to
61I3, and corn 50 cents on small sales.
The actual scarcity of corn and oats
makes an advance easy, but of wheat
the receipts at western points continue
larger than a year ago, and the exports
until very lately have been much small
er. 1t is noteworthy that in all winter
wheat sections the prospect is excep-
tionally good and the acreage is largely
increased. Raw sugar has yielded a
shade this week, but all refined above
granulated is shade higher. With
breadstuffs and vegetables unusually
higher, and wool about the same as
year ago, cotton is much lower, drugs
and chemicals lower, iron and its prod
ucts and the range of manufactured
products generally rather lower, not
withstanding the expansion of more than
800, 900, 900 in the circulation during the
year.
The treasury has again paid out this
week more money than it has taken in.
The exports of merchandise are in
creasing, and for two weeks at New
York exceed last years by Is per cent
Exports of cotton, breadstuffs, provi-
sions. cattle and petroleum from all
chief ports were in value S53, 400, ,637
against S52, 766, 262 last year, indicating
no increase in the aggregate of exports,
while the heavy imports of sugar raised
the aggregate about SC, 400, 900 at New
York alone above that of the same
month last wear.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Gain of the Urban Population as Noted In
Census Returns.

Gain of the Urban Population as Noted In
Census Returns.
WAsnIyGToN, April 17.-The number
of cities of the United States having
population of more than 5000 increased
from six in 1890 to 286 in 1880, when it
leaped to 1853 in 1890. In 1880 there was
but one city-New York-which had
population in excess of 10000 In
1890 there were three-New York.
Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1870
thre were but fourteen cities each con-
tanning more than 100000 inhabitants
In 1850 this number increased to TWEEN.
ty and in 1890 to twenty-eight-
The north Atlantic division contains
nearly one half the urban population of
the country, while the north Atlantic
and north central divisions contain
nearly five-sixths of 1t. In the north
Atlantic division 81. so per cent or more
than one-half the entire population is
contained in cities of 10, 900 or more in
habitants. During the past ten years
the urban element in this district has
increased 43. 10 per cent, while the total
population has increased but .55 per
cent. In the north Atlantic division in
the past ten years the number of
the urban element has nearly doubled,
while the total population has in
creased but 2S.7s per cent The num-
Der of cities has increased from ninety
five in 1880 to 152 in $780, In the south
Atlantic and south central divisions the
proportion of urban population is COM
paratively small, being in the first
named but 1904 per cent of the entire
or less than one-sixth, and
the second but 1O.45 per cent the pro-
portion of urban to the total population
in all the southern states being less
than IS per cent.
Considered as whole, the urban ele-
ment in the western division in 1890
constituted 20. IA per cent of the whole
while in 1880 it constituted
23. 81 per cent. 1t has, therefore, gained
somewhat more rapidly than the total
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
Discrimination Against Canada.

MONTREAL, Que, April 1e-A special
from Capt. Bryan Hines, at St Pierre
Miquelon, says that the Newfoundland
ers are supplying the French fishing
vessels with bait upon payment OF IL
cense fees, and that Americans are sup
piled as freely as though they were
Newfoundlanders, but Canadians are
vigorously excluded from getting bait
nnder any circumstances. This IS ter
ribly exasperating to Canadian fisher
men who have been compelled to put
into st. Pierre, French port, and buy
bait from the French at exorbitant
rates. The selling of baltic the French
Is spite for Canada-
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

A SINGULAR fact in connection with
the Italian matter, which has entirely
escaped attention up to the present
time, is that one of the leading Italians
lynched in New Orleans was actually at
the time of his death the recognized
consul Mt that port of foreign govern
hcnt-not that of Italy. Jose p Ma
eheca, the alleged head of the Malta and
the most prominent of the victims OF
the mob. still stands on the records OF
the state department as the duly ae-
credited and recognized consul of Boil.
via in New Orleans He was wealthy
merchant. His firm of Macheca Bros
still continue the agency of one of the
important steamship lines touching at
New Orleans and trading with South
american ports, and it was probably
from this connection Macheca came to
be appointed consul for Bolivia.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

SENATOR SARACCO, an expert in 1tal-
ian finances, whose utterances always
command much attention, writes to the
Gazctta del Popolo, of Rome, declaring
his opinion that the government S
scheme for the abolition of the deficit
is an illusory one, He alleges that Sig
nor Nicctera, minister of the interior,
has made insincere statements of the
public finances and that the extent of
the deficit which must be faced has
been terribly underrated. The article
has had a dampening effect upon the
spirits of the small but noisy party who
have advocated war with America.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

THE Dublin National Press, the Nc,
Carthyite organ, referring to the inter
view with Timothy Harrington, NJ, P,
during the course of which he pro.
nounced himself as being exceedingly
well pleased with the decision of the
executive council of the national league
in Cincinnati which suggested arbitra.
ton as means of solving the disputes
existing in the Irish parliamentary
party, says: THE time for negotiation
is past. The fight must now go on. II
will be bitter, but it is not likely to be
long"
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
niles each.

SENATOR HAwLEY, who has been
nominated to succeed Secretary Proc
tor as secretary of war by sever.S Con-
nccticut papers, says that he does not
care about succeeding to a cabinet posi-
ton, but if the opportunity came he
would not say what he would do. He
saws there are many reasons why he
would rather hold the office of United
States Senator than any other.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

THE Hamburger Nachrichten pub
fishes an interview with Prince Bis
marck in the course of which, referring
to the Chicago fair, the ex-chancellor
said: st will be great pity and mis-
take if German manufacturers allow
their dislike of the Mckinley law to
Influence them against taking part in
the exhibition. Germany and the
United States have always been
friends. The two countries neither
have conflicting territorial interests
nor are political rivals. Besides, Ger
mans and Americans are bound by ties
of amity, kinship and common inter
ests There fore it will be regretable II
Germany is not fully represented at the
exhibition"
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

THE draft of the new treaty of COM
mcrcc between the United States and
Spain which provides for partial re-
ciprocity between the former country
and Cuba has been concluded at Madrid
The treaty is understood to fix very
low rate of duty on flour and other
articles imported into the Antilles from
:be nited States. The special repre-
sentative of the United States, who has
negotiated the new treaty has left for
home
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

UroN the recommendation of the
civil service commission with the hearty
concurrence of the secretary of the in
terror and the commissioner of Indian
affairs, President Harrison has ordered
the classification under the civil service
of the school superintendents, their as
sistants, school teachers, physicians
and matrons in the Indian service.
This classification will include between
six hundred and seven hundred persons
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

A LARGE section of the ceiling on the
fifth floor of Vice-President Morton's
hotel, "The Shoreham," the largest and
finest apartment house in Washington,
fell with crash recently, carrying
with it all the floors beneath. The
break occurred on the fifth floor near
the spiral stairway, and the debris
bored hole about ten feet by six
through the lower floors to the base
mcnt In the building of this hotel
all of the most modern improvements
were incorporated, and it was consid-
cred the strongest structure of its kind
in Washington. Investigation, however,
shows that rotten material was used in
its construction.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

SECRETARY NOBLE writes that it is
now illegal for whites to enter any of
,be Indian reservations soon to be
opcncd. lie also states that though
,he two sections in the appropriation
law fixing the size of the new counties
are conflicting he will lay out the coun-
tics according to the latter section,
making them seven hundred square
miles each.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

THE North German Gazette prints the
regulations adopted in America for the
administration of the new cattle inspec-
ton law and says that they prove that
earnest endcavors have been made to
take measures which, if conscientiously
carried out, can enable importing coun-
tries to consider the advisability of re-
pealing or at least modifying the laws
prohibiting the importation of Ameri-
-, ,0N,.ly
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
CURRENT COMMENT.

Gry. T. T. BUTLER was snubbed in
,be United States district court at Bos-
,on recently by Judge Carpenter. Gel
iutlcr desired to speak on behalf of q
client when he was told to file his
href the court refusing to hear any re-
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
Len T. smith Dead.

LEAvENwoRrH, Kan, April 16.-Hon.
Leonard T Smith. of this city, died in
the City of Mexico of heart disease and
the remains left for home last night
The deceased was one of the best known
men in the west. He came to Leaven-
worth in its early days and. with j. 5.
Rice, engaged in the hotel business,
being for many years the landlord
of the Planters house. Mr.. Smith
built the Missouri Pacific line from
here to Kansas City and later built a
continuation of the line to Atchison.
He was the leader in the enterprise
which built the iron bridge across the
Missouri north Of this city.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23
Allen q, Myers Hurt,

CINCINNATI, April 1s.-While Allen
o. Myers, a widely known Politician
was standing in the Grand hotel yester-
day, j. M. Hill, the well known the
atrical manager, came up behind him
and putting his arm around his neck
gave him the strange" hold. The
strain was so sudden that it ruptured a
blood vessel in Myers bronchial tubes.
Myers is thought TO be seriously in
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-04-23

AN understanding has been reached
between the Austrian and German dele
gates at the conference for CONNER
eial treaty. The German duty on Aus
trian wheat, etc, will be fixed at 81
marks, while German pig iron viii be
auiable Rt 06 lSreuzerS
The record-union., 1891-11-04
FEDERATED TRADES.
Boycotted Shoes and Beer Nation
Convention.

Boycotted Shoes and Beer -Nationa
Convention.
At this week. meeting of the Federated
Trades communication was received
from the firm of Dolan 81 Middlemass O.
this city denying that they are handling
the boycotted Lemp's beer, as charged by
the brewers Of Sacramento. The Sai
Francisco Shoemakers' Union notified
the council that there was a boycott on
boots and shoes manufactured by the
United Workingmen Company.
y communication from the national
headquarters was read, urging the neces-
slty for full representation from the
various councils to the National Conyen-
ton of the American Federation of Labor,
to be held IN Alabama, commencing on
the 14th of December next
The Musicians Union reported the re-
celpt of their charter from the National
League of Musicians
By unanimous vote it was decided to
conduct tug of war between teams from
the several unions Of the city Full details
will be arranged at the meeting next
Monday evening.
The several standing committees were
revised, and now are: Arbitration-H.
n. Baumann, James j. Gee, William
Tibbits, w. II. Becker and Frank
Omeger. Legislative-GeorgeB Best. J. d.
Jost. j. G. Garrison, Richard Cayerly
and J. G. Andrews. Organization-W
X. Selkirk, j. G.. Garrison, r. Caverly.
A. Geiger, II. n. Baumann. Finance
NJ. @. Foster, j. j. Gee and George Best
The record-union., 1891-11-04
housekeeping Pests

Complaints are made of band of bak-
ing powder tramps whose tricks upon
unSuSpecting hOusekeepers seem to par
take very much of the nature of conf
dence operations. The band is composed
of women, although employed and di-
rected by an agent Of the other sex, and
their methods of procedure, as explained
by several ladies who have been victim
lied, is as follows: Obtaining access to
the kitchen, they introduce the subject of
baking powders, inquiring the kind used
in the family. Being shown the can, per-
haps fresh, full one, they volunteer to
test" it to ascertain its qualities. Their
test consists IN placing the can on hot
stove or over lamp or gas jet, or in boil
ing the baking powder with water. If
the baking powder is good for anything,
the heat Will, OF course, eXpel the gas,
which is apparent to the sense of smell.
The claim is then made that this gas indi-
Gates something detrimental, although as
matter OF fact a baking powder that
would give off no gas when subjected 10
heat would be without leavening power
and valueless.
The baking powder the women peddIe
| being loaded with flour and made from
cheaper and inferior materials does not
give of the large amount of gas that is SO
perceptlble IN the other. This shows it's
actual lnterlorlty as leaYening agent
Were this the whole of the operation.
dishonest and disreputable as it is, house
Keepers would not often be deceived.
the chief object of the juggler is to de-
stroy the baking powder given for testing.
or by heating it to drive off its leavening.
gases, and so weaken it that when
used it will fail TO work. The average
tramp will. in this way, destroy from
ten to twenty-five pounds of baking pow
der q day.
The only way to protect our food from
being contaminated by tramps of this
kind is TO turn all persons who wish or
attempt to tamper with it unceremoni
ously from the door, and to use those
articles only which experience has proved
satisfactory, or the official tests have es-
tablished as pure and whoIesnme
The record-union., 1891-11-04
THE SAN FRANCISCO PRESS.
View Taken of 1t by the Editor of a
Carson Paper.
TCarson Appeal, October 3Oth

carson Appear, OCTOBER 3Oth.
The press of San Francisco is by far the most
provincial upon the continent. The widening
of street, the laying of a poultice pavement,
the rate OF taXation-any small local interest
or issue, however petty, viii I'LL the columns
OF our local metropolitan contemporaries with
the most agonizing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
UNION.
The jealousies which control the press
of San Francisco would make outsiders
laugh if they but knew the inner work
ings. Some of the newspapers take
grounds on the leading questions merely
because rival newspapers take opposite
grounds.
They war over the most trivial matters
like so many school girls, and the edi-
torial columns are governed more by the
interests of the business Office than any
thing else. They are peevish. petty and
sensational, and, while boasting of their
independence. have very little of it. Some
of the leading questions of the day they
dare not discuss or even allude to, be-
cause "the powers" pull the strings over
them and they must be silent
While assuming q highly moral tone edi-
torially, their advertising columns teem
with the announcements of well-known
harlots who call upon their patrons to
visit them at their regular places Of busi-
ness. n country newspaper which would
publish this class Of advertising could
not live six months.
The record-union., 1891-11-04

sworn to complaint charging a Chinese
woman with having stolen $1,000 from
him.
On Monday night two men and the
woman boarded the north bound Oregon,
express train and left the city 1t was
learned yesterday from the conductor
that they got off at Wheatland.
hee claims that he had been keeping
the woman, and that she got that much
money out of him.
The record-union., 1891-11-04
POLICE COURT.
The Bowman Dive Case Continued-W
II. Daily Discharged.

The Bowman Dive Case Continued-W
II. Daily Discharged.
The case Of John Bowman, charged
with misdemeanor, in keeping his saloon
open after his license had been revoked.
was called in the Police Court yesterday
and continued until the 9th inst.
The examination of Charles Smith.
charged with assault to murder, was con-
tinued until to-day.
Mary Roberts, who had been drunk.
was sentenced to ten days Imprisonment
in the City Jail, and John Duffy. who
who had also imbibed too freely, was al
lowed to go.
Ia the case of w. II. Daily, charged
with obtaining money by false pretenses.
the complaining witness did not appear,
and the complaint was dismissed. 1t was
shown that the charge grew out of an or
dinary business transaction, and there
was nothing criminal in it,
The record-union., 1891-11-04
SUPPOSED FRAuDS
Two Alleged Farm Hands, and How
They Made a Raise.

A couple of men visited Mrs. Jacobs
yesterday afternoon at her residence on
x street, near Twelfth, and, representing
themselves as employees of her son, who
is running ranch, said they were in
structed to obtain $40 from her on his ac-
count.
Not suspecting anything wrong at the
time, Mrs. Jacobs gave them the money,
but they had no sooner departed than she
repented of her action and sent after them
some men employed about her place.
The professed farm hands were soon
overhauled and gave up the money. Mrs
Jacobs then sent for a policeman with the
intention of having the men arrested, but
they could not be found.
The record-union., 1891-11-04

It's sometimes said patent
medicines are for the igno-
rant. The doctors foster
this idea.
The people," we're told,
"are mostly ignorant, when it
comes to medical science.
Suppose they arel What
a sick man needs is not
knowledge, but a cure, and
the medicine that cures is
the medicine for the sick.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery cures the
"do believes and the
don't believes" There's
no hesitance about it, no
if" nor possibly"
1t says" can cure you,
only do as | direct"
Perhaps it fails occasion
ally. Thevmakers hear of it
when it does, because they
never keep the money when
the medicine fails to do
good.
Suppose the doctors went
on that principle. 1--WE beg
the doctors pardon. 1t
wouldn't do!)