Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
IN THE WEST.

GOV. KNAPP, or Alaska, In his annual
| report, devotes much space to the seal
| industry, saying that there is no doubt
that this valuable industry Is in danger
More than 100 marauding vessels have
been lowering about the islands during
the season, and large numbers Of skins
were taken. The governor estimates
the number of seals taken last season
at from so, 1000 to 10000. The products
OF Alaska exported during the past year
and their values are stated to be: Sal
mon, 2,753, 1928; ivory, $9,5O7; whale
bone, 81, SOB, 1913; whale oil, 81, 467; cod
fish, $569,0O0; sailed salmon, $73, 600:
gold and silver bullion, 81, Oeo, 900; fur
seals, taken under lease, $647, $50; taken
by poachers, ST., 800, 900; other furs,
$3.50, 900; curios, $25, 0e0; other prod
ucts, $106, 900. Total, $s, ,515.
MELBOURNE has been asked to submit
a proposition for watering the forty
counties in western Kansas. His pro-
position was to water the western forty
counties at 10 cents for each cultivated
acre. There were this year 2,00o, 600
acres under cultivation in the counties
which it is proposed to water next
spring. To raise this amount the
county commissioners will have to levy
tax Att sha tRe sa caothtes
will probably vote on the proposition.
The experiments at Goodland, Kan,
were SO successful that there Is supreme
confidence in the Australians power to
make rain at will.
THE commissioner of Indian affairs in
his annual report says that he thinks
the great forces now at work, land in
severalty, with its accompanying dis
solution of tribal relations and the
breaking up of the reservation; the de-.
struction of the agency system, citizen
ship and all that belongs thereto; indie
pendence, privilege and duty, education
which seeks to bring the rising genera
ton of Indians into right relationship
with the age in which they live and put
into their hands the tools by which they
may gain for themselves homes-will,
if allowed to continue undisturbed
reasonable length of time, accomplish
their beneicent ends.
THERE was q sensation in the prelim-
mary examination of Maurice B. Strel-
linger, ''Sam1 of Posen," charged with
shooting Policeman Grant, at
San Francisco, when Henry Jeran-
sen, who was formerly employed
by Strellinger, testified that the pistol
found near the scene of Policeman
Grants murder belonged to Strellinger.
The next day, however, Jeransen took
the stand again and said his testimony
the day before was false, and that he
testified then through fear of the police
to what they told him to say. The
nippers found ON Strellinger's wrist
were identified Us those belonging to the
murdered policeman.
DR.. WILEY, government chemist at
Medicine Lodge, Kan, announces a
very successful run with the new ma
chinery for sorghum sugarmaking under
the new alcohol process. He reports
1856 pounds of fine first class sugar per
ton from sorghum cane and estimated
that the molasses will give about enough
more to make it an even 900 pounds per
ton.
SEVERAL worlds records have been
broken on the kite-shaped track at
Stockton, Cal. Senator Stanford's two
year-old Orion trotted mile In 2:15A,
setting new mark. The same owners
yearling, Bell Bird, went in 2:27A,
| breaking Freedoms record of 2:29A.
The kite shape seems to make track
several seconds fast.
NINE of the ring-leaders in the mob
which hung the negro Coe at Omaha
were arrested charged with murder in
| the first degree. They were at first re-
| fused bail but an angry crowd gathered
and threatened further trouble unless
| bail was filed, and the authorities
| thought 1t prudent to grant the demand.
ALLRRToN Is now crowned king of
stations, having defeated Nelson in the
match race for $40, 900 at Grand Rapids,
Mich. Nelson won the FIRST heat. and
| then Allerton, warming up to his work,
took three straight and the race. The
first heat was the best time, 2:13.
AT a meeting of the executive board
of the Irish National league at Chicago,
it was decided that in everything per-
tanning to the Advancement Of national
| opinions and succoring the evicted ten
ants, the league will work with the
| Irish federation, the Mccarthy organ.
| ization.
REPORTS are coming in of hurricane
in the northern pineries. The best cal
culation to be had shows twelve to fif.
teen townships devastated, and the loss
of timber is now sure to run into the
hundreds of millions of feet
NANCY HANKS has reduced her record
six times this season, this way, 2:12k,
2:124, 2:12, 2:O9A, 200. Allerton has
| also reduced his record six times this
season, the stopping places being, ala,
2:12N, 2:12, 2:11, $50, 2:094.