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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
sGIs. MEADE CO., s. D.
BEAT THE ESTIMATES.
WELD OF GRAIN BETTER THAN
CONDITIONS.

California Presents the Only DisappOint-
Ing Output, Large Area In the San
Joaquin Valley Having Been Gut for
Hay-Potatoes Escaped the Rot.
The October report of the statistician
Of the department of agriculture relates
to the yields per acre of grain, and the
condition of corn, potatoes, buckwheat
and tobacco. The estimated average
yields are: Wheat, Is bushels; oats,
29.3; barley, 23.s; rye, 14.4. The con-
dition Of corn is 92.5 per cent; buck
wheat, 92.7; potatoes, Ola; tobacco,
9s.s. The yield of wheat in threshing
has in most districts proved higher than
the apparent condition of the crop at
harvesting would indicate. In the Ohio
valley states, and in the spring wheat
region, exceptional individual yields
have been more numerous than usual,
carrying the state average to the verge
of the best records of former years.
The average of the middle states is
nearly as high. California presents a
disappointing output, a large area hav-
ing been cut for hay and some districts,
notably In the San Joaquin valley, re-
turn reduced yields that are nearly fall
Ures. The average yields of oats are
higher than the early returns OF the
condition would indicate, though that
Of last month showing that the condi-
ton when harvested was the highest for
several years, is slightly above the rec
ord of 1889. Oats evidently shared the
In nnnons- of tho E>-'~~~ts" SGD
SON, yielding quite up to a popular ex-
pectation. The same may be said of
baplev The corn crop has improved
during the month as result of the high
temperature and good crop is assured.
Potatoes, which were in some sections
threatened with rot on the 1st of Sep
TENDER, have come through the month
in good condition, with the loss OF only
half point.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
A Bic IRRIGATION Schema,

ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for carrying out the largest irrigation
scheme yet attempted in the Black Hills
country or in South Dakota. Three
years ago a company Of eastern capital
lists formed the Dakota Water Power
company at Rapid City and expended
$125, 900 in obtaining water right,
building dams and large flume for q
distance of three miles Tho. money
uGS usou extrar &gantly and the COM
pany's affairs were so mismanaged that
the project was dropped two years ago.
It has now been taken up again by the
original stockholders and some new
men. Ample capital has been secured
and work is to be commenced at once.
The water will be taken out of Rapid
river about seven miles west Of Rapid
City, and conveyed in an immense W
shaped flume to the main reservoir, two
miles north of there. From the main
reservoir bitches will supply a chain of
smaller reservoirs from which all the
''bench" or high lands between Box
Elder and Rapid river can be irrigated.
An area six miles wide by thirty miles
long will be put under water and in the
opinion of ranchers ii will then be even
more productive than the valley lands.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15

and Parnel. This impression was kent
up for some time until details came
showing that the death was from nat
ural causes, the result of severe cold
Expressions of surprise were at first
more numerous than of sorrow, al
though now that the facts are learned
these are succeeded by feeling Of
pity. The death was a great surprise.
Nobody was aware that Mr. Parnell had
been afiing and it is no wonder that ru-l
mors of suicide took possession Of the
public mind, but it seems that his physi1
clans had frequently warned him that
he was not strong and that he ought to-
cease pablic speaking for time. He
made his last speech in Ireland a week
ago. 1t was noticed at all recent meet
,1ngs that he worked himself up to q
high pitch of nervousness, the tension of
which lasted for days after. Despite
the entreaties of his wife he persisted In
talking, although he promised soon to
take rest 4
Mrs Parnell is Frustrated by grief and
fatigue, and the physicians are appre,
hensive as to her condition. She has
been nursing her husband constantly
since the cold settled on his lungs. Both
were hopeful of recovery until nearly
the last. when death came with terrible
suddenness.
The effect of Mr.. Parnell's decease on
the political situation is already being
discussed The healing of dissensions
in the national party is looked for which
will immensely help the cause of homs
rule, removing all obstacles to its prog1
ress in Ireland itself. The liberals In
England have reason to hope for the
restoration of harmony with the entire
body of Irish nationalists and for the
assistance of it's undivided vote in the
next general election,
Mr. Parnell had only just reached his
forty fifth year and there seemed no
reason why he should not have lived to
attain a ripe old age and to enjoy the
full realization of his political aspira-
lions. His death, occurring just at the
present critical period Of Irish affairs, Isl
calculated to produce complete change
In the disposition not only of the Irish
political forces, but to bring about att
first a disintegration and then recon !
struction of two political parties of
Great Britain Under any circumstance
es the Tory coalition with the followers
of Mr.. Parnell is now at end, and, Curl
GUS as it may appear. there can be little
doubt that his decease will have fur
nished the occas on for uniting all Home,
Rulers under one leader, thereby putting
an end to the chaotic confusion which
has now existed for nearly year.
The death OF Mr.. Parnell calls up to-
any person who is interested in and has,
closely followed the Irish movement
since 1875 memories of period into
which have been pressed more events
of first Importance to the Irish people,
than had occurred during any previous
century in the history of that race All
those remarkable struggles and episodes
cluster around one striking personality,
AFRO sJury OF whose development Writ
constitute long and pregnant chapter.
in the narrative of modern society
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
IN THE EAST.

THnRR persons were burned to death
On Are in fve-story brick tenement
house In New York City and two others
are fatally burned.
The Greenlee & Forest oil well, at
McDoAald, Pa, has been drilled deeper,
and the flow increased to Id, 400 barrels
day, This is the largest well ever
struck In America, and believed to be
the largest in the world.
TAR Ohio river is almost dry and nav
igation Of that stream has been all but
suspended. Between Cincinnati, o., and
Peiat Pleasant, w. Va, are eighteen
etsamers, loaded with passengers and
freight. stuck In the mud.
SIXTY Of the leading coal operators in
Rennsylvania have signed pledge to
hold out three years If necessary against
she demands of the striking miners for
an increase of pay. The operators
ShyeateA to import foreign labor but the
mlhsrs remain firm In their demands.
IT is estimated that 200 Cinnamon
have been struggled into the United
States i'm violation of law from King
eton, Ont, during the past week
President Harrison has requested that
the Canadian government officials CO.
operate with the United States officials
la an attempt to suppress the smuggling,
but so far no attention has been paid to
che request. A steady increase in the
number Of Cinnamon landing in Canada
has been noticed of late, and IL is known
that the majority of them intend COM
ing to the United States if they are able
10 evads the customs officials.
THE United States commissioner of
education reports that there were in
lss9-90 in the public schools of the
United States, of elementary and sec
ondary grades, 12,6S6,973 pupils, as
against 8, 675, 575' in 1880. The enroll
ment formed 2o.27 per cent. of the pop
ulation OF 1889. The average daily at
tendance Of pupils on each school day in
1890 was S,144,93S The whole number
OF public school teachers in the past
year was: males, 12b, 602; females, $780,
1913. The fetal amount expended during
the past fiscal year for public school
purposes was $140, 277, 4S4, as against
86B, 306, 666 in 1870 and $7s, 094,6s7 IN
1850. The expenditure per capita OF
population In 1880 was $156, while in
1890 III was S224 The total value OF
grounds and buildings and apparatus OF
educational institutions for 1890 was
872, 1894, 729, while the amount of perma-
nent productive funds was $74, O70, 04O.
The total income, excluding benefac-
tions, amounting to SO, eos, 474, was s10,-
sB1, 1918,
The census bureau has issued an ex-
ira bulletin on education. The total
school enrolment for the United States
on July i, this year. was about II, go.
800; and the total public school enroll
ment, including about e5, 900 In the mi.
yersities, etc. liz, 100, 600; and In private
and pafochial schools not far from 75,.
30 sash. Ths tables Gre The aatioaA'
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
FROM THE WORLDS oRANARY.
Nebraska win Send Eloquent Greeting
to Eastern Farmers.

N0Dr@Ska Will send Eloquent Greeting
to Eastern Farmers.
TIE great Nebraska advertising train
is undoubtedly the most complete, ar
tistic and attractive display of agricul
tural and horticultural products ever
put on wheels. The train will consist
Of two passenger coaches filled with
products in display, a baggage car and
sleeper. The passenger coaches are
transformed into palaces OF beauty, dec
Grated with agricultural, horticultural
and vinicultural products that will in
terest and astonish the residents of the
older eastern states. The seats have
been removed from the passenger
coaches and lined inside and outside
with inch boards, so that the interior
and exterior presents smooth surface
upon which the cereals, grasses, fruits
and vegetables may be displayed.
Through the center of each car q row
OF shelving wide at the bottom and
tapering terrace-liks to the very roof of
the coach 10 built. There is an aisle on
either side of these shelves all the way
around. Each county Is given space
on the shelves and against the wall of
the car eight feet long. Here the grain
In stalk, the ears Of corn, the grasses
and vegetables are artistically ar
ranged. Fine large ears of golden yell
low corn are sawed in two lengthwise
and then nailed to the side of the car in
artistic designs. On the shelves are
rows Of glass jars filled with grain and
fax and various products of the field
and garden. Jellies, jams and preserves
enough to furnish q banquet table for
an army, all Nebraska products, are
| tastefully placed and securely fastened
| upon the shelves. On the outside the
two coaches present gorgeous appear
ance. The entire sides, from top to bot
| tom, are covered with corn, wheat, oats,
rye and tame grasses, all artistically ar
ranged and securely tackled against the
sides OF the Harvest Home palace. Even
the sides of the trucks are decorated
with grains and grasses. Appropriate
and catchy words will be wrought upon
the exterior by means of the different
colored ears of corn, ana the whole
train will look like it had just emerged
from the richest granary and garden Of
the earth.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15

population and the school enrolment of
each decade from 1910, when the first
educational census was taken, showing
q gain of school enrolment from 1850 to
1870 of 1894 per cent, and 1870 to~1a9O
of 97.2l per cent, indicating nearly the
same relations of population and school
enrolment in each period, notwith-
standing great local changes. The re-
lation of the white and colored attend
ants in the south fill two tables, indl-
eating 2l.6s per cent. of white and 10. So
per cent. of colored population enrolled
in the schools in the census year, while
the gain over 1880 was 1891 per cent.
for the whites and 61.5s per cent. for
the colored.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
alliance men in that section and III the

alliance men In that section and in the
west.
The letter OF Senator-elect Gordon Is
as important as the Lease interview. 1t
shows that there will be no Farmers
Alliance party in Georgia distinct from
the democratic party and that the two
will hang together just as they have In
the past to maintain democratic SUI
premacy He says II there was any
danger of a division the democrats
would yield far enough to the Farmers
Alliance demands to keep the white
vote sosidly democratic, and throw the
electoral vote of that state and the cn-
tire south in favor OF the democratic
presidential candidate and free trade
congress. Gen. Gordon undoubtedly
speaks by the card. He is a member OF
Farmers Alliance lodge In Georgia,
and subscribed to its principles SO as to
obtain its support In the recent senator
ial election. So he knows how easily
the principles of the alliance and the
democracy can be made to harmonic.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
A.Lynehing ed Omahn.

OVER an electric railway trolley in
front of Omaha's most beautiful plac
Of amusement, naked as when he came
into the world save fragment Of blue
jail blouse and the shoes he were, swung
the dead body Of Joe Cee, negro of 30.
Coe was pat there by . mob who
avenged the wrong done to little child.
Coe called ut the house OF Mr.. Yates on
North Eighteenth street, saying he was
q garbage man come to inspect the
premises. Mrs. Yates allowed him to
enter the yard. Not long after little
Lizzie Yates. 5-years-old, came running
to the house shrieking In agony and
blood streaming from her person. She
had been most bratallv ravished by the
negro. His description was soon In the
hands Of the police, and he was captured
hiding In o haymow not far away from
the scene of his crime. His Identified
ton was complete, and he was being
held without bail to await trial In the
district court when the mob took VEN
geaf,ce Into their hands.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
An Irrigation Reservoir.

A fve-acre reservoir is being con-
structed on the Day-Harrison farm,
near Huron. It will be completed in
time to fill with water this fall and have
ready for use next season. The water
will be used for irrigating the Day-Har-
rison farm and also the Melville tract,
near by. Other land owners are ar
ranging to follow Mr.. Days example,
ana before cold weather number Of
we'll owners will have large reservoirs.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
British Crons Poor.

THE London Times publishes the final
estimate of the crops in Great Britain
and says it anticipates poor yield and
Of Indifferent quality. The real state
Of affairs will not be known for month.
It is possible the harvest, as a whole,
may net be worse than of recent years,
but In many districts the crops are the
XRorsk In forty Years
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
Mustline for an Exhibit,

r. B. FISK and Oliver Gibbs, jr., have
been appointed by the South Dakota
worlds fair commissioners to canvass
for funds for state exhibit. They will
put in all their time, visiting every
county in the state, until enough to Sc
cure an exhibit has been obtained. The
plan will be to appoint local solicitors
in each county who are to receive all
subscriptions, and the two general
agents are to whoop things up all
around the state. The canvass will be-
gin at Yankton.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
MD Anybody saY sd?

The sheep Industry Is one OF the saw
ing industries for South Dakota. 1t
tends to diversity Agriculture. In the
dryest years, In the dryest districts OF
South Dakota, the sheep farmers have
actually made money. Every worthy
farmer can get start in sheep. South
Dakota ought to be the first state In the
uaion In sheep-r aising within FIVE years.
Did anybody say that South Dakota
sheep raisars are not interested In the
Mckinley bill?
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
Threa Drowned.

Mrs. Albert Hermann and two chill
dren were drowned at Fairbury, Neb..
while attempting to ford the Little Blue
river. Hermann swan ashore and sue
ceeded In landing his wife but too late
to save her life.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
A MystArious Disappearance,

TIE mysterious disappearance OF Hon.
A. II. Schafer, q prominent business
man of Ord, ia reported.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-15
A DEMOCRATIC ANNEX.
FARMERS ALLIANCE AND DEM
OCRATS IN HARM NY.

Alliance Leaders Play q Double Game,
folding IL Firm rs Third Party in
Republican States and Fusing with
the Democratic Party In the south.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-05
brigands and it is claimed the porte will
refund the money.
APPROVOED BY THE PRESIDENT,
Assistant Secretary Nettleton's Plan for
Restricting Immigration.

Assistant Secretary Nettleton's Plan for
Restricting Immigration.
= WASHINGTON, June 3.-The plan pre-
pared by Assistant Secretary Nettleton
for restricting immigration into the
United States has been submitted to the
president and approved, and was to-day
embodied in circular letter and sent to
all steamship companies bringing emil
grants to this country. The circular, af-
ter reciting the laws designed to regu-
late immigration, says: "The evident dis
position of many steamship companies,
under the pressure of sharp competition,
to gather up in Europe and bring to the
United States all who, with or
without the aid OF others,
can pay the now trihing
cost of steerage passage, regardless of
their character or condition and regard
less of our laws, compels on the part of
this government a closer scrutiny and
the adoption of more comprehensive
measures than have hitherto seemed
necessary. It is the duty of each
transportation company engaged in
bringing alien emigrants into the United
States to diligently inquire whether
any person applying for passage proba-
bly, came within the prohibited class and
rigidly to exclude all such persons. The
measure suggested is not designated to
take the place of the inspection by the
regular United States officials at the sew
eral ports of arrival, but is to be prelim-
mary to and in aid of such inspection.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-05
Taking the Ransom Money.

CoNsTANr1NoPLE, June 2.-Herr Israel,
the Berlin banker who, with three fellow
passengers and the engineer of the ex-
press, was recently carried away to the
mountains by band of brigands who
had wrecked and looted the train on
which he was passenger, and who after
ward sent Hesalsrael to obtain the ran
som which they demanded for the release
of the captives, to-day started for Kirk
Kilissia, town thirty.two miles from
Adrianople, having in his possession the
$4,000 asked for by the outlaws. AS
all the passengers trken by the outlaws
to their retreat in the mountains are
Germans, the porte has promised
the German government he will at once
take active measures to punish the brig
ands severely, and troops have already
been sent in pursuit Of the robbers.
When the news Of this kidnapping was.
conveyed to Chancellor Won Capriyi he
simmed ediately telegrap he'd I'd Herr Won
\ aRadowitz, the G3erman embassado Tor, to
Advance the int deraands hys sths
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-05
Terrific Storm on Lake Superior.

ASHLAND, Wis, June 3.-The worst
storm for many years is raging on Lake
Superior. Scores of vessels are anchored
among Apostle islands at the head of
Chequamegon bay. The propeller Tole-
do, one of Wards line of freight boats,
arrived here last night. She was nearly
swamped while nearly thirty miles off
Outer island. She had to be pumped
out three times, and about thirty barrels
of lime we're thrown overheard. Capt,
Bob Smith, who arrived on the propeller
Japan this morning from Duluth, said it
was the worst storm he had ever expert
enced
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-05
The City Of Watertown, South Da-
kota Has a Narrow Escape
+. rz5@ From Destruction.
A Cyclone Passes Along the Edge
of the City, Wrecking "
Few Barns. .
The Citizens of Kansas City Trying
to Make Schweinfurth Leave
the City.


-
WATERFOWL, S. D., June 2.-This af-
ternoon at $50 small funnel-shaped
cloud suddenly appeared from the south
and soon developed into hurricane. It
appeared close to the ground and in it's
whirling motion people at once saw it
was dreaded cyclone. The roar that
accompanied it was like huge fire snap
ping and cracking in it's onward course
everything that came in it's path. For
tunately it struck the city on the ex-
treme eastern limit, where the buildings
were scattered, and the whole city is
thankful to-nighe that it came no closer.
Six barns along an alley we're demol-
ished. The path of the storm was about
100 feet wide and it was miraculous that
not single house in the city limits was
in it's way. Horses we're lifted from the
ground, hurled into the air and sent
sprawling to the earth. Wagons we're
taken up bodily and hurled to atoms.
Five miles northeast of here two houses
and three barns were literally carried
away. Debris from the storm as it left
the city spreads along nearly mile. At
Waverly, twelve miles northeast, two
coal sheds were ruined and the brick
smokestack of the roller mills was fat
tened to the ground. O. P. Chandler and
his son were pinned under wrecked
barn, but were only slightly hurt. Three
people we're killed at HAZEL, sixteen
miles southwest, and the storm was very
severe in that vicinity. No other fatali-
ties are reported: Heavy rain and hail
followed, but did no damage.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-05
Rains and Tornadoes in Ohio.


CLEVELAND, O., June 3.-The whole of
northern Ohio has been deluged during
the past forty-eight hours. In this city
nearly an inch of rain fell yesterday and
this forenoon, between l. and 12 o'clock,
81 of an inch fell inside of seven min
utes, the fall being at the rate of 5.4
inches an hour. The streets were turned
to rivers, the water running over side
walks and on lawns in some places. The
Superior street cable line was blockaded
by washout of sand, which cove red the
track to the depth of four feet for about
thirty yards. Sewers we're flooded and
in Forest street water undermined the
big water pipe, causing it to break in
two, adding greatly TO the flood. The
street was washed out to depth of ten
feet for quite distance. Little damage
was done by lightning. At
Lima, Ohio, there was tornado last
night, doing great damage to buildings
and crops. Several cattle were killed
in barns. A. young man named Samuel
Bennett near Cavett, Allen county, was
crushed by falling tree. At Salem,
Ohio, lightning struck and shattered the
steeple of the Presbyterian church. At
Clyde, Ohio, the storm was terrific, Ihail
stones breaking windows and door
panels in houses and stores. Fifteen
windows in passenger car on q
Wheeling g. Lake Erie road train were
broke, the headlight smashed and hole
knocked in the roof of the cab. Hail
stones nine inches in circumference fell
there. s ..'sa G-. ftr., r
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-05
Rain and Hail Storm.

DARLINGTON, Wis, June 2.-One Of
the most. disastrous rain storms ever
known in this section visited this city
this evening about 7 o'clock. The storm
came from the south, an unusual quar-
ter. The wind blew a hurricane, rain
fell in torrents and hailstones as large as
hens eggs crashed against houses and
through foliage. Many window lights
are broken, several outhouses blown
down and incalculable damage to crops
has resulted. The river has risen four
feet in an hour and bids fair to be the
highest ever known. No loss of life is
reported so far. ,9 rss.s... l.. ....-..