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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25

CHARLEvoIx, Mich, special: The
Whaleback steamer A. ID. Thompsea Il
ashore On Beaver Island, four miles nsrth-
west Of Beaver Light. A messenger wa
was seaf here to telegraph to Cheboygau
Tor . WroOking steamer. The messea1ea
did mot know the condition Of the steamer
or tho extent Of damage.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
New Corporations.

Articles of Incorporation were filed at
Pierre for the Bloomfield Elevator and
Milling Company and the Yankton Cen
eral Electric Company, each with q zap
ital stock Of $500 0 and incorporated by
II. T. Nation of London, and Harry Filler
and H. G. b. Swinhoe of Yandton.
Marion Junction Drug Company; CAPT.
tai stock, 5000; incorporators, f.. j.
Miller, Peter Derkes and Jacob Helm.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
u
The Hcatheniah Moth Rail

Now Is the time to protest In
name OF the public veal against .nel
goddess compounds called moth balls
and all such remedies that are worse
nan a plague Of moths would be. The
smeil OF these things sickens many peo-
pie i~ntolerably. and the odor will cling
Tor months. poisoning innocent stran-
GERS IN cars n public places. Cam
pnor Is more costly, hut 1t is a matter
OF q Few cents only, and camphor is
effective, and at the same time fairly
agreeable, at least by comparison.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
Capt. Humphrey In Hot w.t.r.

Capt. II. A. Humphrey Of Faulkton was
bound over to the circuit court in the snm
of $3.50 by Justice 5~lertens for alleged
criminal libel. o. E. Bailey, son of w II
Bailey, clerk of courts, is the complaining
witness. This is the first Of q number ~
cases against him which it is reported viii
quickly tallow.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
win Drlse Our on o.

81. PETERSBURG special: Greece and
Russia have concluded commercial treaty
giving Russia = monopoly Of the kerosene
trade In Greece. This Is expected to drive
AmericAn petroleum from Grecian mar
sk0te.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
stockmen Recover Their Cattle.

The stock belonging to cattlemen which
was seized by the federal authorities and
held as contraband at Rosebud agency has
been returned to the owners upon pay
ment Of the penalty customary in such
cases. A deputy marshal writes that the
matter is probably not yet ended. If not
stockmen may be tried for herding cattle
on Indian lands.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
DAVIS Is CONVICTED
CARlSON'S MURDERER GETS
LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

Ranchman Killed by an Ex-C0unty Com.
missioner Hand County Hsfvest-For.
mer Huron Minister In Troubls-Pioncer
Drops Dead Ut Rapid City.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
Charged with Granddaughter.

DR.. d. F. Sullivan OF Andover, who is
charged with having caused the death of
Mrs. II. c. Serensen by attempting an
slaughter in the first degree, the maximum
punishment of which is four years.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
Hand County Harvest.

The wheat harvest is in progress in
Hand County, the estimated yield being as
high as Is bushels for some localities,
while in others the grain is not very good.
Oats, rye and barley, now harvested, were
better than for some years. Flax is doing
nicely, while corn, of which there is a
large acreage, is very promising. Potatoes
are a good crop, as we'll as most garden
stuff, though hay is rather light, yet there
will be rleaty for ordinary feeding pur-
poses. But the farmers there 10 not now
depend wholly upon their crops, as during
the past two and a half months $21,OOO
worth of cattle, wool and butter were
shipped east from Miller.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
Murderer Davis Gets Life.


The court room at Fort Pierre on Mon
day was crowded to hear the sentence pro-
n0unced on +. w. Davis, the murderer Of
Nels Carlson. The verdict delivered by
E. J.. Warner, foreman of the jury, q
1--WE, the jury, find the defendant guilty
Of murder and fix the penalty at impris0n.
ment for life at hard labor.
The jury was polled and each decla led
that to be his verdict. As it was the last
day Of the term the attorney for the de-
fendant waived time for announcing
judgment, and Judge Gaffy at ono an.
nOunced the Judgment of imprisonment
for life. The jury on the first three ballots
stood two for ~manslaughter and two to
hang and eight for life imprisonment.
From the fourth to the sixth ballots it was
two to hang and ten for life imprisonment.
On the seventh all agreed. Davis was
taken to the penltentiary Tuesday.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
Llncoln County Ceusua.

The census Of Lincoln County has been
completed and gives a population of 1O,025.
Canton City has 1911, Lennox lS5 and
Hudson 4O1.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
Summer Normal 1t Aberdeen.

The attendance Of teachers 1t the Aber-
deem summer normal has reached 800 per-
contemplated at the close of the institute
in about ten days.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
COMO Guido the PleRere.

At Mitchell the .'blind piggers" have
got blind piggery down to q beer key in q
tent. They have been rooted out Of every
building up town, SO the sspiggers" have
set up q tent south of the railroad tracks.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25
south Dakota ~Pharmaclsta.

The annual meeting Of the state phar-
macists held at Madison was an interest.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-07-25

Never monkey with u buzz saw or 8
mar when he Is at work.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

in the United States, certainly, and per-
hans in the whole world, for no other
great canals, but one great railway, and
no extensive system of dykes, docks or
dams are now in course of construction
anywhere. These statements may cause
some surprise, but they are true neverthe-
less. A similar state of affairs has not
obtained in this country for a score and
q half of years.
The big ditch now under way in Hi
nois is the forerunner of various similar
works TO be undertaken in response to "A
new demand for a method of moving
heavy freight at lower rates than the rail-
roads can afford, even if at less speed,
although the primary use of this great
trench, which is known as the Chicago
drainage canal, will be to furnish an out
let for the sewage of Chicago, so that
it need no longer pollute Lake Michigan,
whence the city gets its water supply.
But the canal is being built with special
reference. also, to its forming one link
in the chain of channels, artificial and
natural, that shall connect the great
lakes with the Gulf of Mexico, and be
deep and wide enough to enable large
vessels to reach Chicago and thence all
ports upon the shores of the fresh water
seas.
This chain of deep water channels will
be composed of the Chicago Drainage
canal. the D~csplaines and Illinois rivers
and the Mississippi from Grafton, ILL.,,
aouth TO the Gulf. The completion of the
work will open to ocean-going boats the
Iost extensive system of inland naviga-
Son in the world, LOO miles of lake.
1900 miles of large river navigation and
SO miles of canal and improved rivers,
$500 altogether, or one-fifth more miles
than from New York to Southampton.
The Chicago Drainage canal proper will
be thirty miles long, reaching from Ash
land avenue, Chicago, to LOckport, ILL.,,
ana crossing the divide that separates the
basin of the great lakes from the valley
CT the Mississippi. Ten miles of it are
cut through solid rock. often bed rock.
underlying tough boulder clay, and the
remainder through river muck and gla-
cal drift, to Il maximum depth of SIS feet.
The rock cut is 100 feet wide, with verti-
cal sides. The portion traversing hard
boulder clay is 210 feet wide on the bot
'oln' with sides sloping out in prism shape.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

ing piers being carried on trucks, which
travel on tracks parallel with the channel.
From the channel end of the bridge an in
clined track runs down into the cut, and
on this two cars, with a capacity of eight
cubic yards each, are kept running up and
down, being successfully loaded by steam
shovels, drawn swiftly up the incline by
a steam hoist and automatically dumped
over the spoil area. BY this combination
of devices an output of 100 cubic yards Of
earth per hour can be maintained all day.
The material is taken from the steam
shovels by ears fitted with pneumatic
dumping apparatus, the power for which
is supplied from the locomotive. The en-
gineer operates these dumps just as he
would apply the air brakes.
Up to the beginning of last November
there had been expended by the district
S2,3lO,O3O for right of way and $G,019.-
2GO for construction, making a total of
$S,449,29O. This amount. together with
the cost of administration, payment of
bonds, interest. etc, brings the total eX.
penditurcs of the enterprise to date up to
over S10,OOO,OOO. The total estimated
cost of the work under contract is: For
construction. SIS. 741.S4G: for right Of
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21
THEY STUDIED IN AMERICA.
Chinese and Japanese Who We're Edu-
Gated Here Are Making Their Mark.

Chinese and Japanese Who We're Edu-
Gated Here Are Making Their Mark.
The reports connected with the Jap
anese-Chinese war have had much to
say that is creditable to those men
of both nations who have received
their education in the United States
Minister DENLY, in a recent report, re-
ferred to the bravery and gallantry
exhibited In the Yaloo River engage
ment by some Of the Chinese who were
students in the United States several
years ago. In 1872 thirty Chinese
boys, selected from the best families,
were sent to the United States to be
educated, and others were sent later
and were put under the charge of
Yung Wing, a graduate Of Yale Col
lege. Subsequently it was reported
to the Chinese government that the
boys were losing or had lost their pa
triotism, and in 1881 they were all re-
called and the system of educatioe
was abandoned. OF ten Chinese r.
commended for honors recently f,
were former American students. {
of them. WO Ho, studied in the SL
field scientific school, New Have.
and was brevetted Il commander, wit
a red button of the second rank fol
bravery. Tsao Kin Chiong. brevetted
Il captain and decorated with Il red
button, was graduated at Phillips
Academy. Tsu Chung Tong was grad
uated from Il Massachusetts college,
and has a second rank button and Il
first lie%utenant's commission. Shun
Son Guam, a graduate from a Con-
necticut academy, has q second rank
button and brevet of captain. Two
eX-American students We're killed in
the Yalu battle-one, Chin Fin Quai, u
graduate of Phillips Academy, and the
other, Shun Sow Cheong, q graduate
of a Massachusetts academy. The
former was an officer on the Chih-
Yueh and died from wounds and the
other was killed by a torpedo on the
cruiser Chi-Yuen, of which he was
an officer.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

paid for the removal of the rock mostly
range from 73 cents to SO cents per cubic
yard, and it is said that the lowest previ-
Gus prices on record for similar work have
ranged from $1.25 to $1.5O. Prices paid
for glacial drift generally run FROM 10
cents to 81 cents per cubic yard.
The pictures accompanying this article
show very clearly the nature of the work
now going on in Illinois, and some of the
novel and expensive machinery that is
being employed. By its use at least one
third more work is accomplished in pro-
portion to the amount of money expended
and the number of men employed than
could have been twenty years ago.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

the bucket is carried up the incline to be
dumped automatically at the further ex-
tremity. The apparatus works rapidly
and so successfully that there now eleven
of these cantilevers in constant operation
on four sections.
A still more imposing device spans the
canal near Willow Springs. 1t is proba.
bly, the most unique piece of machinery on
the continent, and can be seen for many
miles. 1t is a piece of iron bridge work
in the shape of an enormous chair rocker,
nearly 700 feet long and over 100 feet
high. 1t spans the channel, with it's horns
running up over each spoil bank, and is
moved on a track as the work progresses.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

their trail along the Desplaines Valley.
The work on sections A, Il and a portion
of G traverses the old bed of the Des-
PLANES river and has to deal with ooze,
which covers the clay to Il considerable
depth. This is managed very etlicacious-
Is 10y the use of hydraulic dredges that
send Il continuous stream of water and
black muck flowing through a twenty.
inch pipe to any required distance within
5000 feet. Each of these drcdgcs has Il
capacity of 200 cubic yards in ten hours.
BY an ingenious use of revolving knives,
one contractor is also pulverizing the
harder material beneath the ooze, and is
humping it out along with the water. This
river oozc. by the way, is proving a bo-
nanZa to the owners of celery farms i'll
that region.
The apparatus used for excavating the
glacial drift varies on different sections.
according to the ingenuity of the various
contractors. But the most striking and
also the most successful device for rails
ing Sc spoil from the bed Of the canal is
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

Hes" wide portions make up twenty of
'Ar lW"nty-cight miles. The remaining
"SIi miles, which traverse soft earth
"!! an easily DC dredged out TO full
S"'p'anal width later, are but 10 feet
|Ite on the bottom. with sloping sides.
w." mininrm depth Of the whole stream
Wi! b" - feet.
Work Proceeding Rapidly.
Ia TWO moro years this great artificial
RIVER will be draining Chicago INTO the
mississippi and roGbing niagara of 900
''"' cubic feet Of water per minute, for the
b'Hcit Of the Gulf Of MeXico-and of
'h"S" Inhabitants of Chicago who drink
waiter. Yet il is but two years since the
INST Spadcili of earth was thrown. The
"!u!oultios tllat have been overcome in
I'D" work are far greater than would nat
"''N% be expected in a country without
80 much as Il Hill or hummock to break its
''N'! monotony. One of these difficulties
was Il stretch of ten miles of solid lime
Stohrd bed rock. But by the use of steam
~e'aAEel!ng machines this has been cut
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

through, so as to leave wall as smooth md
straight and white as SO much 81 wed loo
h greatest obstacle of all was the
Desplaines River, which numbered more
than a dozen miles of the path and threat
ehed with its periodic floods to sweep the
earth dlkes of the new channel away at
every spring freshet. But the engineers
looked over the ground and calmly said.
we Will transplant the Desplaines river"
And they have lone it, building an entire
~ new river channel for more than tbir.
teen miles, at q cost of over 81. OOO,OO @
But what will you do with the flood
waters while you are building your river
diversion channel?" asked the skeptics.
we Will spill them into Lake Michigan
ana send them down the st. Lawrence
instead OF down the Mississippi" said the
engineers. And they have done it. At
the head of the river diversion they have
built an enormous safety valve, in the
form OF n "spillway," or dam, 397 feet
long and 16A feet high, made of concrete,
capped with stone. and hanked with
wings OF stone masonry. So, when the
Desplalnes goes on a rampage, and the
water gauge above this spillway indicates
wv oOO,ooO CUBIC IeeL Oh now per min.
ute, the surplus flood waters are dumped
across this dam and sent down the Chi
cage river to Lake Michigan. The river
diversion is all finished. This is 200 feet
wide on the bottom, with sides sloping
out. giving the cross section the form of
a prism. The pitch or grade of the chan.
mel is about one foot in a mile and a half.
Thus the river is successfully out of the
way.
The main drainage channel is now un
der contract throughout its entire length,
from it's confluence with the Chicago river
at Robey street to Lockport, Will Coun-
ty, ILL.,, twenty-eight miles to the south
west of Chicago. The work has been sub
divided into sections averaging a mile in
length. Beginning at the Willow Springs
road, a midway point, the sections are
lettered toward Chicago from A to @.
section o being that which connects with
the Chicago river. From the Willow
Springs road southwestward the sections
are numbered from 1 to 10. These in.
clude the rock cut, and were the first to
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21
Why He Had Plenty to Sell.

For %quickness of repartee COM
mend me to an auctioneer.' said q
Maine traveller. Il once attended Il
sale where under the hammer things
We're being ratified off at Il great rate
and ut low figures. In the crowd
close to him stood a sedate old man
who watched for a long time. AT
last catching the eye of the auctioneer.
he asked: Say, sir. how is it you can
afford to sell these things so cheapY
Without an ~instant'S hesitation the
salesman reached down and patted
him on the shoulder, while his face
beamed like Il rising sun. Bless your
soul, sir he answered, Il have a father
and three brothers. and | keep them
stealing all the time to furnish me
goods Then the sale ran right
along."-LewistOn Journal.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21
may be unexpected difficulties that WIN
raise the cost to nearly 100000 900.

may be unexpected difficulties that WIN
raise the cost to nearly $4,000, 900.
Caring for the Men.
One of the problems with which the
contractors have to deal is that of caring
for the men employed on the work. On
each section there are from 200 to 400
men employed, and the majority of them
are so distant from any town that pro.
vision must be made for the men at the
work. For this purpose each section is
provided with a camp consisting of rough
frame buildings, some of them equipped
with hunks for sleeping quarters and 9TH
ers with outfits for providing meals Some
idea Of the extent of this work can be
obtained from the fact that on one section
q bakery is established which turns out
from 400 to 500 loaves of bread each day.
Some of the contractors carry on this de-
partment under their own supervision,
but others find it much more profitable to
make a contract with a commissary, who
furnishes bedding and provisions at n
stipulated price.
1t is stated that the prices being paid
for this work are far lower than those
paid for any similar work ever carried on
in the world, and that this is particularly
true of the rock sections. The prices
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

top of the prism. This wide portion Of
the canal-twenty miles in all-extends
for some distance, and then reduces to 40
feet on the bottom. preserving the same
side slopes. In the rock sections the sides
are vertical, and the width of the channel
is uniformly 16O feet.
The methods of working on the earth
sections present some novelties. Cars.
specially constructed, are loaded by steam
shovels and drawn by steam hoists up q
steep incline to a proper height, where
they are run upon a tipple and automati-
cally dumped. The contractors have
erected great iron bridges, spanning the
spoil bank high in the air, their support
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

be put under contract. Sections number
ed from / to IA were let in July, 1892;
section IS was put under contract last
August.
The lettered sections running up to Chi
cago are, with some exceptions, cut
through glacial drift" Glacial drift
comprises the top soil, earth. muck, sand,
gravel, clay, h~ardpan. boulders-all the
loose debris deposited upon the bed rock
by the prehistoric glaciers that gouged
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

Under it runs an elaborate and expensive
belt to convey the eXcavated material
to the ends of the horns and dump it
over the spoil area. Nothing like this
machine was ever seen before on land or
sea. AS it has failed. however, to work
as economically as the simple cantilever,
it is probable that it will not be dupli-
Gated.
One of the ~favoritc pieces of apparatus
is the galloway. This consists of two
towers, over 100 feet high, one OF each
bank of the canal, connected with a run
ming cable at the top, by means of which
the buckets Of spoil are rapidly conveyed
to the dumping place. The causeways
first constructed were not very successful,
but experience has led to several radical
improvements. until now, by the adoption
of a simple device, hit upon by II. c.
| Locher. one of the contractors. they have
been brought to a state of efficiency which
makes them worthy competitors with the
cantilevers.
Curious Machinery.
Another curious and successful c%ontriv-
| ance that stands on the edge of the chan
mel and dominates the prairie in the re-
gion of Lockport. is a turning tower with
Il derrick and hoist on each side. 1t looks
more like Il big, old-fashioned windmill
than anything else. The buckets or cages
of one derrick are loaded by the workmen
with blasted rock debris at the bottom Of
the channel. Then these are hoiSted high
in the air, and the whole tower is set re-
| volving. like Il swing bridge. bringing the
loaded cages over the spoil bank, to be
dumped and throwing the opposite derrick
over the channel to receive its load. This
machine works rapidly and economically.
On these sections which are partly in
| earth and partly in rock all the usual
! methods of excavation are in vogue, and
several that are entirely new. On the
rock sections the sides are cut down verti-
callv by channeling machines, leaving
the sides of the canal, after the channel
has been blasted out, as smooth as if
made of the most neatly finished concrete.
OF course, steam drills are used i'll blast
ing, and on the sections which are doing
the most profitable work these are worked
from a central power station by compress.
ed air. The channeling machines cut the
sides down vertically to a depth of ten
| feet at each cut. This layer or "stope,'
is blasted out, and then the machine cuts
to a further depth of ten feet, leaving only
six inches Of offset to show where the
new stope begins. The rock Is thus ex.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

cavated in three slopes or layers. The
top layer is removed by carts and tram
cars. the traction for which is usually sup,
piled by steam hosting engines. The
lower lifts are taken out by the use of
cableways, high power derricks, and can
tilever conveyors.
The cross section of the earth excava'
tons shows a width of 0 feet on the bot
HON, with the sides sloping out, so as to
make an extreme width of 300 feet at the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-03-21

an enormous cantilever of bridge-nke con-
struction. The earth is first loosened by
the use of gang plows or steam shovels,
and then is loaded into large iron buckets
lowered from the end Of the cantilever
overhanging the channel. The cantilever,
which looks like an enormous iron bridge
with narrowed ends tipped up at an angle,
stands on the bank upon a track running
parallel with the canal. 1t can be moved
along bodily by steam power as easily as