Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-03
IN THE WE ST.

Oll IfIlSdbiOu III HyOIHlilB.fs 10cF6 are
1917 farms irrigated, out of total of
3,246. The total area of land In these
LOTT farms is /, 506, $50 acres, upon 229,-
GIG acres of which crops were raised by
irrigation in the year 1882 In addition
there were 240,0 900 acres irrigated for
grazing purposes. The average first
cost of water right is $3.62 per acre,
and the average cost of preparing the
soil for cultivation, including purchase
price.of land, $9.4s per icre. The aver
age present value OF the irrigated land
of the state, including buildings. etc, is
S3l.40 per acre, showing an apparent
profit, less cost of buildir g;, of $lS. 80
pcr acre. The average annual cost of
water is IA cents per acre, which de-
Quoted from the average annual value
of the products per acre, leaves an
average annual return of 1871 per
acre.
A DAsTARnLY outrage was committed
at MissoHla, Mont A party of fifteen
white mel wearing masks descended
upon three Chinese gardeners living
near that city, looted their cabin, de-
stroyed the structure. broke all the fur
niture. and maltreated two OF the China
was pounded brutaliy and gashed with
knives. The other was tarred and
feathered, his que cut off, and he was SO
roughly handled that he may die. 1t is
thought the raid is the result of rabid
anti-Chinese agitation inaugurated and
fostered by the laboring men of the
city. AT recent mass meeting violent
measures were urged, but finally a gen
eral boycott was declared against the
Chinese and all who patronized them.
From the fact that there were at least
fifteen in the party it is plain robbery
was not the prime motive.
THE scheme for establishing system
of co operative stores in every county in
Kansas was approved by the committee
appointed at the alliance commercial
convention and January set as the
convenient time to close out the bust
ness of the alliance exchanges. Frank
McGrath, president of the alliance, was
chairman of the committee. A long re-
port was prepared to be submitted to
the alliance state convention, which
meets at Saiina in October, in which it
is claimed that the conditions in Kansas
are more favorable for test of a CO.
operative mercantile system than any
other state in the union.
THE reports which come from the
North Dakota wheat fields are of dis
couraging character. The thermome-
tiers ran down to % at several points in
Ramsey county, and ice was found on
The heads of wheat in many fields. Viii
Lagos along the northern border report
that the temperature was i'm places not
bN,r, Il 81 Do, hi
"a at Rollo, 26 at Cando and 80 at st.
John. Manitoba reports are black.
Every point in the province shows that
the temperature was from % to 81.
THE Farmers Alliance of Oklahoma
has just concluded largely attended
territorial convention. The Ocala plat
form was unanimC usly adopted. They
favored the building of an interstate
road from Duluth to Galveston on the
cooperative plan and condemned the
action of the Cincinnati convention.
COLLECTOR PHELPS, of San Francisco,
has discovered that some one has been
issuing notary certificates of prior resi-
Nence to Chinese, who are in no wise en-
Titled to landing papers, being neither
mechanics nor professional men. These
certificates have been forwarded to ad-
dresses in China.
THE Western Base Ball association
has been thinned out and reduced to a
four team league, with Sioux City,
Omaha, Kansas City and Denver as
members. The old percentages are re-
tanned, leaving Sioux City to start in the
lead. A schedule has been made out
until October ID.
AT Independence, Ia, Nancy Hanks
in the 5-year-olds, trotted the three
fastest heats ever trotted in a race;
time, 2:12, 2:12s4, 2:12. Roy Wilkes also
paced the three fastest heats ever paced
in a race by stallion in 2:12, gil Is and
2:11M.
Gov. BYRD is having printed notices
posted in all conspicuous places through
out the Chickasaw Nation, notifying the
white settlers that no more permits to
reside in that country will be granted.
THE Lake Erie & Western brakemen
have resumed work. The men are
promised their overtime as demanded,
but the company ask until September 1
Ito put the new arrangement in force.
ONE man was fatally and seven others
seriously burned by an explosion of gas
In the new city water tunnel now being
constructed under Lake Michigan at
Chicago.
REPORTS received from various por-
tions of the northwest show that but
title damage to the grain resulted from
the frost.