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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
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worthy Of the laws protection. Thus the
question resolves itself into this: whether
true cures are performed there or is the
whole thing a fake. This is the delicate
question the courts must decide.
The Gift of Healing.
Dowie, the head of this healing move
ment, was a Congregational minister in
Sydney, Australia. He was an orthodox
believer in the dogmas of that sect. nor
did he allow his Interpretation of Scrip
ture to go contrary TO authority. For
years this was his mental attitude. Then
u plague broke out in the city. People
died by hundreds; one after another his
own congregation was smitten. The
physicians were in despair and human
skill appeared vain. Dowie sat himself
down to think when, suddenly. there
flashed into his mind that verse of the
Bible which says that the prayer of faith
shall heal the sick. Instantly he arose
and went to the house of a parishioner
where lay two children whose lives had
been abandoned by the doctors. He knelt
down. prayed for them INT laid his hands
upon them and they-arose well. Such is
Dowie's story of his first cure. Ever
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
MORTON DEFENDS PACKERS.
Denies the Statement That Inferior
Meats Come from Chicago.

Denies the Statement That Inferior
Meats Come from Chicago.
Absolute denial is given by the agricul-
tural department to the report from Ger
many that Chicago packers buy the most
inferior qualities of beef for canning and
packing purposes. The statement was
made in a German journal, which assert
ed that, owing to the poor quality Of the
beef. it was injurious and wrong to sell
it in Germany. Secretary Morton said,
concerning the story.
PERSONALLY, with a veterinary inspec-
tor, I have several times passed through
the larger beef-canning establishments in
Chicago. My visits to those estab-
lishments were always unheralded,
and therefore there were no spe-
cial preparations made for a general view
ing of their premises and their methods of
slaughtering, cooking and canning beef.
From those thorough, official investiga-
tons I AN justified in denying as wholly
untrue all that is asserted in that state
ment in regard to American canned
meats"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

The board has also assessed telegraph
lines, the rate running Sal per mile on
single Wire lines TO $l46 per mile on six
wire lines.
$1,000 on Great Northern. $1,000 OF
ADAMS, $2l, 900 on American and $24 900 on
United States.
Returns Of the census on several counties
are being held back. and on several which
have made returns they are in such shape
that an explanation and diagram will have
to be sent to make sure what they are in
tended for. The returns of several coun-
Ties taken at a random from those now in
show about a relative loss and gain 50 that
that the final footings will not be far from
those of 1890, which gave the state a pOpu-
latlOn of 32S. sos,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
A Scarcity OF Game.

Hunters who contemplate hunting
chickens in South Dakota, will find very
little game this year. Last winter thou
sands OF birds were trapped and shipped
10 the eastern markets. The parent birds
were thus almost annihilated from the
southern counties, Notwithstanding the
very stringent laws against this method of
destruction. Game wardens throughout
the state are closely watching for any
future infringement of the law, and the
State Game Protective Association will
prosecute ~violatOrs.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
The Wheat Output Enormous.

Nilie 'ie crop prospects of early suin-
iNer were, as usual, cut down by the dry
weather OF the latter summer South Da-
kota VIII, III spite of that, harvest her
greatest crop for years. To get a correct
estimate OF acreage devoted to different
crops is not possible, as neither the census
nor assessors returns give any figures and
returns can only be based upon estimates
OIL those who have travelled over the state
ana nave a personal interest in the returns
on any one crop.
On this basis the wheat crop is placed at
2,4VO,OOO acres and the yield at about twelve
bushels per acre, or a total of from 2S,OOO,-
W0 to 10000, 900. This estimate was made
before threshers got to work, and on a
basis OF fifteen to eighteen bushels per
acre IN the southern and eastern counties.
But since the actual test is being made, the
yield in that section is going beyond the
average, some fields threshed out as high
as thlrty-five bushels per acre, while
from twenty to twenty-five is common.
This may bring the total up to 8 5000, 900
bushels, while there was not over 1000, 900
or S,OOO,OGO bushels raised last year. The
yield will be cut in the northeastern part
OF the state, where the prospects were
good, by a heavy hail storm, which de-
""AoySu -O,Voo dClCSs SOIllt SIluI Is TcpOTC.
ed in the eastern part of the state, but not
enough to do any great damage
The acreage devoted to the oat crop is
probably about the same as in former
years, or $4,000 acres, and the yield is re-
ported far above the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
bushels per acre. Wherever the crop has
been threshed some fields 60 as high as
eight bushels per acre. In the southeast
ern part of the state, where all crops are
the heaviest, the average may be safely
put at thirty bushels per acre, or a total
yield for the state of %, OOO, 900 to 80, ZOO, 900
bushels.
The barley crop is reported to fall below
expectations, the grain being light and
chatfy, the fields looking well, but not
Smelling out when put to the machine test.
The corn acreage has been largely in
creased over past years, and this year,
probably 1,250,0O0 acres have been devoted
to thai crop. The average yield for the
state is put at about twenty-On bushels
per acre, the southern counties going
above that; but it is not a sure crop in the
northern counties, and this cuts the aver
age. The total yield will probably be be-
tween 26,000,0 900 and 30,O 900, 900 bushels.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

were made and this was called lions
Tabernacle. Now he has two others, but
the first remains the head of them all. 1t
is these wooden buildings which have been
the means of bringing Dowie into court.
People who live about these have become
Disguised with the crowd Of halt and
manned and blind who are constantly
hocking to these buildings and they have
prayed the authorities that the taber-
hacles may be suppressed as %nuisances. 1t
is maintained on the other side that they
ire beneficial institutions, inasmuch as they
help suffering humanity, and thus are
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
Annuls Its Waterworks Contract.

A committee of the council at Pierre a
few days ago made a test of the pressure
of the water mains and found that it was
only about half that required by contract
between the company and the city. On
the grounds of this test the council at a
meeting passed a resolution virtually an
nulling the contract between the city and
the company. The agent of the company
says he does not know what action the
officers in st. Paul will take in the matter.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

me SAFE Board Of Equalization has
.laccl farm lands at the following figures
copotjes. \ number of counties were
.el and A very few lowered. The coun-
49,. Of Bon llomme, Brookings, Clark,
cI,v DAWSON. Faux, Grant, Hand, Nc
ronk. Mcpherson, Minnehaha, Moody,
ssnhorn. Turner and Yankton were raised
~, the assessors returns, and the counties
"t Ierauld, Lake, Lyman and Miner were
,rchtly lowered. The highest valuation
i. 81 81 per acre in Lawrence, and the
invest in organized counties is $2.4l per
aero n Custer. The valuations by counties
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
Chamberlain Land Case.

A very important and interesting cOn-
test case has been before the United States
land office in Chamberlain for the past
three weeks. 1t involves 230 acres of land
adjoining OacOma. BY the act of Congress
opening the great Sioux Indian Reserva-
ton to settlement in 1889 this land was
granted to the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad Company upon cOndi-
ton that they build their road within
three years of the date of the grant. Three
years passed, no railroad was built and
Immediately it became an open question
as to what would be the disposition of the
land. Capitalists wanted it on account of
is value as a town site. The new town of
OacOma looked down upon the beautiful
lat with jealous eye. Those desiring it as
lOmesteads sent settlers (squatters) to live
lpon it and claim it; others claimed it for
town site.
A proclamation of President Cleveland
declared it Open to settlement April Is,
1925. On that date it was claimed by two
Of the homestead claimants, =. J.. Germ
and !. y. Aud, in conflict with town site
claimants, numbering between 90 and 100.
A hearing was ordered by the local office
to determine who was entitled to make the
entry.
The case has been vigorously contested
by able land attorneys. The people OF
Lyman County are anXiOusly waiting for
the decision of the local land office. The
land is very valuable, being a natural To-
cation for a city, and surrounded by a
splendid stock country. If entered by the
town site it will be proved up under the
town site laws.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

since then, he says, he has gone on with
ever-increasing faith and he claims that
$4,000 people owe to his method their
cure from all name of diseases.
Dowie does not claim that any power of
healing rests in himself; his whole mis-
sion is to pray and animate the faith of
the patient, for it is the mans individual
faith alone which affects the cure. The
laying on of hands and the admonition to
arise and walk in the Lords name Dowie
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

The state Board of Equalization has con-
rluded lis .abers. The levy for this year
Ml.l be practically 2 mills general, 2 mills
deficiency, 3 of a mill special interest and
| of d mil special sinking fund.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

and enormous brass tube for the great
telescope, besides the endowment requir-
ed to supply a permanent fund for the
maintenance of the institution. The great
crown glass now at Cambridge is about
three inches thick in the middle and one
and a quarter inches at the outer edge.
The two pieces that make up the lens
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
Boy Killed and Man Hurt.

a 6-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cross
Of Pukawana was instantly killed by be-
lng thrown from a wagon by a running
team. The young man who was also Sc
rlously hurt and has been in an uncOn-
NciOus condition for the last few days.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
A RAILROAD
.efuses to .A!louc,,
ross lis MI.

ross Its Tracks, >''''
between ~! ciuzc..s ..,
Illinois Cea;.arcalA d
|Esn0 , Ike -. lfo4t J,ca pr,.
n m. the lake fr,i.t I ws-
PIE has b~yoa,..t va, ,S'
to Il decisive inc
|'s the crisis A.ax 'I haN-
| .i.,n 10 pro;cc' Tie ppai
uon OF the ou;ra. "' "
uhh' assi> ;ant l., ~ W.
iipa ny announcos Luz %s
i .ne Determined Stand nd
a n'en WIN Revolver,
f denied right to cro '.s
[esard for ;heir ljy' ''
corporation will 6 "I.
feets. In sb,.. ent
ls ,c construed by civ
Fmination to stick f..
f. This earnestae.,.I
? contestants make,
ces and coasequeo,
[ont on Wednesdar
? OF fifty m men,
is Central Railroad
passage 10 the ba,.
18th streets. Tbsr
nds and revolvcrs h
e r instructed "a
/ on any person wbo
10 an approach 10
Pters, and, in carr.
ons' they compelled
? imperil their lives
contest between III.
municipality WAS
Of the company in
yer to tear down The
lduct. Special Off.
ed into the general
ordered to secure
ants. He was in.
wn the people Were
no right to a pass.
lie was told to fur.
weapons and "a
all cases where
i'esSary. any man.
tried to enter Chi.
boats. THIS order.
ecedent in The his.
tiers, was put ino
ne when the people
Lincoln Park and
by boat.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

weigh together LOO pounds. Being frag-
lie. in spite of their great size, they must
be handled with the utmost care. The
lens will soon be shipped from Cambridge
to the shores of Lake Geneva, in Wis
consin. where the observatory is to be
situated.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

.occcGMENTS AS FIXED BY THE
EQUALIZATION BOARD.

, winner in the Deadwood Terra Has Dis
a,.,r,d As Effectually As If the Earth
49,, Swallowed Him Up-Hunters will
ind , scarcity of Came.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
Little Girl Seriously Hurt.

The l2-year-o!d daughter of Jacob Mer-
anda Of Desray was thrown from a horse
upon a barbed wire fence and received
terrible injuries. Her recovery is doubt
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
City of Aberdeen Wins.

Secretary HOke Smith has decided the
land contest OF the town Of Aberdeen VS..
}. S. McChesney and J. c. McAllister in
favor of the town. McChesney wished to
locate the land in question with Porter
field scrip. McAllister wished to file it
under the presumption law and the tow
wanted 1t as a town site,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
To Start a k,attie Ranch.

.. A. Turner Of Chicago is looking over
Hand County with the view of buying
rcvera. quarters of land, sinking an artes-
an well and starting an. extensive cattle
ranch.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
Farmers Alliance at Sioux Falls.

The annual meeting Of the State Farm
cr> Alliance convened in Sioux Falls. A
good attendance was present from the sur
rounding country. A great crowd filled
hern!an!a Hall to listen to a speech by
derry simpson of Kansas.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
New Corporations.

Articles of incorporation were filed at
Pierre for a Benedictine Convent at Sturgis
and for the Florence Drug Company of
Sioux Falls, with a capital stock of $780,
IDAl
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
Rearrested for Cattle Stealing.

William Hoy, under indictment in the
| nited States Court for cattle stealing,
VAS rearrested for a similar Offense and
taken to Chamberlain for a hearing before
the court commissioner.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
They Are All Catching On.

II. W. sawyer has recently disposed of
1870 acres of Hand County land to parties
living in Iowa
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
harvest. made BY

harvest. Il Y!
cent State wealth
. general oUtloOi
corn crop contlr-
in the DakQfas
is somewhat; late
: maturing Sow
Il advance Of ne
now practically
portion Of th'
Missouri rep9Fi
and in MissouH
ed in that STATE
Iowa reports
show The
above the aver
!. above ayera:
thirty countle'
average. Ii Ne
mt condition ID
the State and ID
Missouri EirS,'
I'd in the souil'
the river t9li'
IS matuFils
.ition. In Obi
being pool
ay soils. her
Is u%nprecelel'
reSpectin=coT
stats
Texas and The
,unti,s drought
Texas cotton
and the soail'
Iorth Carolili
and Lo .,I.s
a the c%oniiti,H
is week, WIFE
.rolina is les'
here has bee'
nd the crop D
harvest has he
continues else
ToDac,
Virginia and
.cky AID con-
ion in Mary
Il doing We"
i in Norther1
Maryland and
Virginia. Ne
:ght injury
-ht confines
Texas
! and he car :.
NJ ~injuHoasl'
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15
lTlONS
Corn Is Flatter.
in Places,

t conditions If the
country ana The
the weather on
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-15

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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10

their heads the notion that the hogs
were trespassers and ought to be evict-
ed, the trouble was more serious from
the difficulty of reaching the battle
field, a difficulty that was finally sur
mounted by sending in boy with a
cowhide to eject both dogs and pigs.
Such trifles as crying babies were never
noticed in a congregation of this kind;
crying was popularity supposed to be
good for the lungs Of the infant, and
the mother let it cry, with such efforts
to soothe It as occurred to her on the
spur of the moment, or were suggested
by interested friends.
To the people of the present time
with their $500, 900 churches and $4,000
preachers, with organ and choir and
Sunday-school appointments of the
most elegant description, such services
seem farcical and lacking in proper
reverence. But it should not be forgot
ten that all these things are merely
comparative, and that to the people of
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10

Of primitive vehicles on the way to the
meeting house. Anticipated wagons,
a man and his wife on the front seat,
for invited guests, and the balance of
the load made up of children packed in
straw, were common. but more fire.
queent were the riders on horseback.
They came in twos and threes, men and
women, with children In front and be-
hind, and on arriving at the grove In
which the church was situated they
tied the horses. not always far enough
apart to prevent an equine dispute,
scattered ear-corn on the ground In
front of them to be about equally di-
vided between the steeds and the stroll
ling pigs that always infested the
neighborhood on such occasions, and
men and women separated into groups
Down at the always convenient spring
the former gathered, the elders to
smoke their pipes and talk crops, their
juniors to discuss politics. In and
about the church the old women talked
butter and eggs, or discussed the attire
of the one worldly" girl sure to be
found In every neighborhood, while
their daughters sat silent, for 1t was n
favorite maxim In those days that
young girls and children should be
seen and not heard.
A stir in the little crowd about the
door told Of the arrival of the elder
and his brother circuit riders. for the
elder was just as much a circuit rider
an the rest except that his circuit was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10
COMING INTO GENERAL USE.
Storage Batteries for illuminating

Storage Batteries for illuminating
Popular in Country Residences.
The storage battery Is the dark
horse" Of electrical engineering. Grad.
ually but surely 1t is emerging from the
happenings of imperfect mechanical
and electrical construction, and the be.
setment of legal wranglings, and is now
growing so rapidly In public favor that
1t gives greater promise Of future posi-.
bilities than almost any other article of
the industrial world. Until recently.
says the st. Louis Globe Democrat, ita
use has been mainly confined to trac'
ton and light power station work, but
of late 1t has been utilized under condi-
tons that give the general public n
clearer idea Of its practical value. Elec,
trio craft propelled by storage batteries
will soon be as common as steam and
naphtha launches are now, and the
away from every other source of cleo
trical supply are finding that the stor-
age battery Is a very important factor
In promoting the comfort Of their iso-
lated homes. An installation has been
made at a summer residence near Lake
Forest, ILL.,, which is an excellent ex-
ample Of type that will doubtless
come largely into vogue In the next few
years The power house, measuring 81
by 81 feet, is erected about 500 feet
from the residence. 1t has three rooms,
one for dynamo and battery cells, a
workshop and an attic. The wires are
carried to the house on cedar poles,
which also carry telephone line,
through wooded grove, which almost
entirely cOnceals them. Two hundred
and fifty-six lights are fed, 237 in the
residence and the rest in the dynamo
room, barn and outlying sheds. In the
battery room there are sixty chloride
accumulators, or storage batteries, in
closed in glass jars and ranged on
shelves 8 inches broad. The whole bat
terry rack occupies a space Of but II by
feet. In charging the batteries gas
engine is used, which has many ad-
vantages over the steam engine for this
purpose. The usual practice Is to run
the dynamo during the daytime to
Chai Sc TIC stolaSe punt anu " iuu
the house lights direct from the bat
terry. But when needed the dynamo
can be brought into service, and will
furnish current for the entire capacity
in lamps. The whole plant works noise
lessly and gives perfect service. 1t Is
intended to light the grounds all around
the house next year. so that garden
parties can be given and lawn games
carried on at night.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10

Ing service, dining with some brother
who lived near by, In the afternoon,
riding on to another station, where an
evening service was to be held and re-
peating this round week after week,
month after month, during the year
until conference" came, when the APP
pointments were changed and the
preachers went to new fields. Twenty
or thirty sermons every four weeks
were the usual work, together with 200
or 300 miles of the hardest kind Of trav-
ell. OF roads there were few, the trav-
eler being compelled to rely on bride
paths through the forest, and often on
mere tracks aided by "blazes" on the
trees, or pieces OF bark chopped out,
leaving white place underneath,
which could be seen Mt a considerable
distance and materially aided the pro-
gress of the wayfarer. When dark
ness overlook the preacher on his jour
ney, and he could no longer discern the
''blazes" on the tres. he trusted to the
instinct of his horse, and when this fail
ed, as it sometimes, though rarely, did,
he was compelled to pass the night In
the woods. If he had flint and steel he
made fire; IL not, he sat down at the
root of a tree and held his horse until
morning. In rainy weather he was
often compelled to swim the swollen
streams that lay inshis route, or make
long detours in search Of place where
the stream could be forded. Yet all
these hardships, and more, including
sleeping In lofts where the snow drift
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10

the latter part of the eighteenth and
the early years of the nineteenth CEN
fury, the religious elegances of the
present would have seemed just rs in.
appropriate. The preachers and the
singing We're to their taste. To them
he eloquence OF Talmage and the mu-
sic of Handel would have been only
words and noise. They could under
stand their preacher, and could sing
their "himes," and We're satisfied with
both. To them separate hymn books
would have been superiority, for
many of them could not read, and one
hymn book, held by the preacher, who
"lined" the hymn. that is, gave out two
lines of the hymn at a time for the peo-
pie to sing, was enough for the whole
congregation.
The old preachers have mostly passed
away, but the results of their works
are seen in the thousands of churches
that everywhere dot the country dis
tricts, many of them on, the identical
spots where the log cabins once stood
that were sanctified by the presence
and labors of the early circuit riders.
And the system still continues. and
some readers may be surprised to learn
that many thousands of country peo-
pie in the North, West and South have
now no other religious services than
those conducted by the circuit riders.
The times have changed for these. too
and now they wear broadcloth and ride
in buggies instead Of on horseback, to
their appointments. Their churches
are Of boards, or even Of brick, and
have choirs and cabinet organs, and
the women wear feathers in their hats,
and the men polish their boots, and
the girls have earrings and finger rings
and beaux, but the principles are the
same, and the system is almost iden-
teal with that known to our grand
fathers