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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

The phrase "a Land of Promise"
probably very nearly describes the ca
liabilities of the island of Cuba. With
a length of US miles, almost the dis
tance from New York to Chicago. a
width varying from 30 to 100 miles,
and an area about equal to that of
Pennsylvania, Cuba, in the words of
United States Consul Hyatt, of San
tiago de Cuba, stands In a geographical
position which, with her productive
soil, mineral wealt-- md climatic con-
ditions, should entit.e her to rank
among the foremost countries of the
world. That she does not occupy any
thing like this position is no inherent
fault of the island itself, but rather Of
conditions growing out of the lack of a
stable and just government and of a
c~ontented people. When the first es-
sential is obtained, it is the opinion of
those acquainted with the island and
It's possibilities, Cuba will rapidly pro-
ceed to occupy its deserved position.
Although discovered and settled more
than fifty years before the United
states. Cuba has still 10000, $50 acres O
prtmeval forests where the woodman's
- has never BEEN heard.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

The monthly statement of the ex-
ports and imports of merchandise, gold
and silver from and into the United
States during February last, issued by
the bureau of statistics, shows as fol-
lows: Merchandise exported, $79,773,-
398; merchandise imported, $50, 1913, 1858,
of which nearly 1913, 900 900 was free of
duty. Gold exported, $336,697; gold
imported, 1914, 700; silver exported,
$4,000 1862; silver imported, $762,942. AS
compared with February, 1896, this
statement shows an increase Of about
$2,07O, 900 in the value of merchandise
exported, and a decrease OF over
$$33,25O,OOO in the amount imported. For
the eight months ended Feb. Is there
was a gain of over 1882, 900, 900 in the
amount of merchandise exported and a
decrease Of nearly Sis, 100000 in the
amount imported. The gold exports
during February were $1,S47, 900 less
than a year ago and the exports about
$1,000 900 less than February, 1856.
The silver exports were ali Out $500, 900
less shan February. 1896, and the i'm.
ports $700,0 900 less.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

and thus bring untold hardships and
suffering upon the people. This can
be accomplished by establishing an
equitable financial system, with gov
eminent banks of deposit and loans at
cost upon safe security. In this
way the money of the country
would be fairly distributed among the
people in, every state of the union.
Under our present banking system,
the %depositors furnish the banks with
so per CEN of their capital. Under a
government banking system the people
would receive the benefit Of their W
capital, instead of allowing a few hun
dred bankers to reap all the benefits,
and gain large fortunes by loaning
the money they owe their depositors.
With banks breaking on every hand,
no wonder that there is a lack of CON
idence' among depositors. Stop the
depositing and III the banks would
close up in twenty-four hours.
Along these lines reform is needed,
if we would preserve our liberties, and
an active educational continuous cam
paign should be kept up and let the
more practical question Of issues
alone, to lie given that attention they
demand when the next national cor
vention Of the reform elements is held
in 1900. This is not the time to quar-
rel about issues which will tend to
divide the reform forces. Wait until
the proper time comes to discuss party
issues. You can't cross that bridge
before you get to it. True reformers
will keep up methods of education that
will prepare the way for unity of ac>
ton in 1898 and 1900.-J. S. Barnum.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30
Food of the Eskimos of Alaska.

The Eskimos of Alaska have profited
by their contact with civilized people,
not only to obtain many Of the utensils
and appliances of life, and to preserve
food and supplies for the long north
ern winters. The "Sportsman's Re-
view" gives an interesting recital of
their progress: "From time imme-
mortal the Eskimos have taken eggs
and fowls during the short season they
were available. There is no system Of
canning eggs to determine their grade
among the natives. An egg is an egg
to them at any period of incubation,
and so long as the season lasts they
live in riotous plenty. Formerly they
were contented with what they could
eat during the season, but since they
have come in contact with white peo-
| pie they have learned more thorough
methods, and now they provide eggs
and birds to last the whole year
through. They dry or pickle the flesh
and the eggs are preserved in barrels
Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. oil. An added
goose egg kept a year in rancid oil ap-
peals to an EskimO's peculiarly Guilt
waited taste. To an Eskimo an egg taken
at any time in the season is eatable;
but to be salable to the whites it must
be fresh, so the Eskimos divide the ter
ritory among themselves, and make a
systematic round of the nests each day,
taking the fresh eggs, and finally pickl-
ing the mother when she refuses to lay
any more, capturing her with a moose
of wire. Now a part of the regular fare
of the Yukon steamboat is wild goose.
At the first meal the tourist is apt to
regard the bird with great good favor,
but as meal after meal passes wild
goose ceases to be a JOY. This continual
depreciation of the nests, combined
with the Pacific coast market and rec
ord hunting, has already depleted the
focks of web-foot birds that one time
were to be seen in myriads during the
migrating season"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Carnegie has received orders for 1OO-,
900 tons Of steel rails for export to Eng.
land.
Better proof could not be afforded OF
the fact that our steel and iron industry
is able to take care of itself under the
metal schedules in the Wilson tariff
law. Mr.. Carnegie has for some time
insisted that he wants no increase of
tariff duties. He has given figures to
prove that American manufacturers
are not only able to hold the home
market, but to compete for the foreign
market.
When Carnegie dictated the steel and
iron schedule in the Mckinley law OF
1890, the increase in duties was urged
as necessary to protect labor. That dis
guise is now thrown off, since Carnegie
finds himself master of the situation,
and it is announced that capita. not
only needs no protection, but wants
none. In other words, capital can get
along better without a tariff than with
it.
In all the years OF high tariff legisla-
ton, eliminating seven years ago in
the Mckinley bill of denominations, the
partnership between labor and capital
was asserted as the highest interest to
be served by such legislation. Capital
now %withdraws from the association,
Labor is left alone to assert the neces-
| sity of protection against foreign com
\ petition! What will labor. standing
by itself. get from a Mckinley admins
tration?
Wait and see.-St. LOUIS Post-Dis.
patch.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

If one of our legislators at Washing
ION we're seen prostrating himself upon
the ground and kissing it, as a relig-
ious exercise, at certain hours, he
would be an object of curiosity, and
obtain national recognition at once.
France has such a lawmaker. He is
a born Frenchman, who has embraced
the religion of Mohammed, and was
elected as a radical deputy. A physi-
clan by profession, and a man OF
wealth, he will be a marked member
even in a body where eccentricities are
often affected. 1t is said that he has
been accustomed to give medical ad-
vice without charge, and has engaged
a physician to continue this benevolent
work. He is evidently a man humane
in character, and Notwithstanding his
strange faith, may after all be a more
c%onsiderate servant of the people, than
some of his peers who fail to exhibit
the charitable spirit of the Founder of
the faith they nominally profess to be-
lieve.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

The Secretary c. the Montana Board
of Stock Commissioner, recently said:
.'The Stock on the ranges has had a
remarkably hard time the whole win
ter. In the extreme northern part Of
the State it has not been above zero
for weeks, and stock was in poor con-
dition when this began. The stock
that has weathered the winter is in
poor condition. Unless relief comes at
once the loss will be the heaviest in
years."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30
SPAIN YOUNG KING.
h Youthful Monarch Delights IN Strict
Military Discipline.

Military Discipline.
The education Of Alphonso XIII. has
/ strong military character, like that of
his father and his ancestors. 1t hap
PLY gives entire satisfaction to his own.
inclinations, says the London Specta-
tor. He is exceedingly fond Of the
army and of everything connected with
soldering. He takes a keen interest
in the parades, the barracks and the
drills. He is simply delighted when
ever his mother takes him to see the
environments neal Madrid and calls
him to the balcony of the palace to
watch the march pass of the battalions
departing for Cuba. When the sentries
present arms or the guards turn out
rs he passes he Acknowledges their at
tentions with the most correct military
salute. One of his earliest and pleas
ATTEST recollections is the first Twelfth
Day levee, exclusively ATTENDED by the
generals and officers, that he was per-
mitted to witness in the palace. Since
that occasion he has always been pres
ent on Jan. 6. Last year, for the first
time, he wore the uniform of a cadet of
the general military academy of To-
ledo, the Castilian Sandhurst. He APP
peared in the same uniform at the
levees held by the queen regent on his
on his birthday, May II. These are
the only state ceremonies, with the
opening of the parliament, in which
the young king has yet taken part,
standing or sitting gravely on his
mothers right hand. He has not yet
been present at any evening reception
or banquets or theatrical performances
of any kind, or attended a bull-fight.
Much care is taken with his physical
training. He has every day half al
hour or more of gymnastics and spends
about the same time in the riding
school of the palace. He likes horses
and riding. Nothing pleases him more
than when the queen takes him for a
long ride outside Madrid in some of
the royal parks. Before he was allowed
He is very fond of driving a pair Of
ponies that are kept for his special
service. Every afternoon, when the
weather permits, he spends a couple Of
hours in the open air, but is, of course,
able to take more exercise and fresh
air in San Sebastian during the sum-
mer than at Madrid. Last year he en-
joyed his sea bathing for the first
time, though he can not swim we'll yet.
Fencing is an art he is most anxious
to be allowed to learn. Up to the pres
ent he has not INDUCED in cycling,
though it is as much the rage in Spain
as in any other country. He tried
once, at Miramar summer palace, in
San Sebastian, a tricycle., which came
roughly into contact with stones and
caused a slight bruise, without, how
ever, damping his determination to try
again. 1t is said, indeed, that Alphonso
XIII. resembles his father in his stead
mess of purpose when once he hal
made up his mind to do anything.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Port Darwin, a small but important
town in South Australia, was almost
entirely wiped out by one of those fear
full hurricanes which periodically strike
the coast Of Australia. No lives were
lost, but from the meager reports
which have arrived the loss of property
must have been very large.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30
Dime Wasted.

Big Sister-Dick, I wish you would
go and get Mr.. Nicefellow a glass OF
water. Mr.. Nicefellow-Yes, my boy
and here's a dime for you. Little
Brother-Thank you; I'll go pretty
soon. Mamma said I shouldn't leave
the parlor until she came back.-New
York Weekly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Happy the man who early learns the
wide chasm that lies between his wish.
es and his powers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Millionaire Stratton Of Cripple
Creek says he is trying to keep his
income down within the limits of de-
cency.' We are willing to work over.
time in helping to do it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30
snntn american Fishing.

Il South American waters mnllet
are taken in enormous quantities by
beats which go out with wire baskets
at the bows filed with blazing pitch
pine. For the purpose in view, the
craft is so loaded as to bring the gun
vale on one side down nearly to a
level with the water, and the fish,
attracted by the light, jump on board
by hundreds.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

1t may properly be inferred from the
statement that there is an end to the
hoop-iron combine that it is no longer
a hoop.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Ninety cents is all four thieves got
out of a safe they broke open in Chi
cago last week. The cashier had pre-
coded them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30
Fortune seeking Emigrants.

Many apoor family that seeks the western
wilds in the hopeof winning a fortune, is pre-
served from that insidious foe of the mi
grant and frontiersman-chills and fever
BY Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. So effect
ually does that incompatible medicinal
defense fortify the system against the com
bined influence of a malarious atmosphere
n miasmi-tainted water, that protected
by it the pioneer, the miner or the tourist
provided with it, may safely encounter the
danger.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Who has not already some blotted
page in 1897?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tocacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, 81. All druggists.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

If a man could enjoy laughing at him
self he would nave plenty of amusement.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

Every man means not to marry some
time.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30

They are masters who serve a prin-
ciple.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-30
Labor Stands Alone.

Carnegie has received orders for 100,
900 tons Of steel rails for export to Eng
land
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

THE SENTINEL is pleased to n6te the improvements going on both in the town and county of Yuma, In the village at the present time are .belng erected two business houses 4on Main street and in other parts of our city the finishing touches are being put on several handsome residences. The farmers in the Colorado valley are sowing a larger area to crops than ever before and the farmers up the Gila river, ln the vicinity of Mohawk and Pa lomas are also putting in large bodies Of the fertile soil.
 The march of progress continues in this section and with the de- velopment ef our mineral wealth, which is at the present time ex- +eeedingly active, Yuma county -rill ba sure to become enc Of the @aaIthiest portions If Arizona
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

THE prison bill was finally put to sleep last Saturday in the Coun- cil, much to the surprise of the friends of Prescott, who the night before were crtain that they had found a successful combination to carry it to it's passage, Cominba- tions in the Nineteenth legislature have not always been lived up to, and as a result some surprises have come forth at various stages of the session. The Bulletin is glad of the deteat of the prison bill and congratulatc8 ali the members of Graham ia casting their vote against #. We would like to see
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

HoN. A. c. BAKER adjourned court today sine die. This will be the last session of Court he will hold in the County of Yuma, his resignation now being in the hands of the President and his successor will no doubt be appointed within the next 60 days.
 Judge Baker has been on the bench for the past four years and has saved our county hundreds of dollars by his prompt and able decisions.
 The tax payers of Yuma County owe him their everlasting thanks.
 The SENTINEL joins the tax payers and people in wishing hlm success all the way through life.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

MANY complaints have been made by the taxpayers and busi- ness men on the east side of Main street as to the condition that the City Council left that side of the street in when they finished pay ing it with blue dirt. In places one needs a step-ladder in order to get down with safety and reach their place of business or home.
 The present condition of that side of the street is disgrace and should be graded immediately.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

Mss GERTRUDE HUGHES, the ac- complishcd daughter of Governor l.. C. Hughes of Tucson, was join ed in marriage on March l7th, to Prof. Sherman Woodward of the Territorial University. Miss Ger trude has been a teacher at the University for a long time. She is a very talented young lady and pos sesses a sweet and refined disposi- ton.
 The SENTINEL congratulates the newly welded couple and wishes them prosperity and happiness all the way through life.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

JESSE R. GRANT, the prominent mining man of San Diego, who is now stopping in our city for a few days, speaks in the most glowing terms of the mineral wealth of this section and is of the opinion that Yuma county is on the eve of @ genuine mining boom, the results of which will place our village with the foremost ones of the Territory.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

FRANKIE ALEXANDER, daughter of the late H. N. Alexander, and sister of Mrs. Baker, wife of Chief Justice A. c. Baker, formerly of Yuma, has been selected as Queen of the Los Angeles Fiesta. Miss .Frankie's numerous friends feel much slated over the honor paid her.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27
Piles! Piles! Itching Piles.

SYMPTOMS Moisture; intense itching and dstingng; most at night; worse by scratching. If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ul- cerate, becoming very sore. SwAYNE's OINTMENT stops the itching and bleeding, heels ulceratiOn, and in most cases removes the tumOrs At drug csts. or by mail, for 50 cents. pr. swayne Son, Phlga5eIed;a
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

HARRY K. CHENowETH of Nogales has the honor of being the first ap- pointee of President Mckinley for the Territory of Arizona. He re- .ceived his appointment last We'd nesday of Collector of Customs for Arizona
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27
COMMENTS OF THE TERRITORIAL PRESS ON THE NINETEENTH
 LEGISLATURE.
LET US GIVE THANKS.


 This Sunday morning the people of Arizona will feel disposed to give thanks for the apparently mlracul- ous escape the Territory has made in disposing of the 18th legislature, without being more hurt than it has been. It is believed that the result was largely owing to a dis agreement among those who were bossing the poodle business. They could not agree as to the division of the plunder, and in some cases there were conflicting interests; too many wanted the same thing for themselves. If reports be true, it was clear illustration of the trite maxim, When thieves fall out honest men get their dues" One thing is certain: the public looked on at that aggregation of states men, in their frantic struggle, and contest, like unto a struggle of hungry wolves over victim of their rapacious maws, with the hope that, in their angry quarrel among themselves, the people would escape, and such was, in a measure, the result. There were a few meritorious laws enacted; there were better ones defeated; and there were appropriations made which should have been defeated, because they were the result of rank job bery; in ether words, they were the result of corruption. The conflict between the legislature and the executive was to have been expect ed, as their relations were strained from the very opening of the leg islature. This little fracas was of no injury to the people, only so far as it went out to the world as an evidence of Arizona's qualification for self-government, and to be clas- sed with the great states of the Union, with equal power in the United States senate. It Is to be hoped the people have learned a lesson not soon to be forgotten, which is: That they are responsl- ble for the election of those who are charged with the enactment of laws, and ia the future to be more careful in the selection of the same. If it required heroic treatment to impress this lession upon the minds of the people, the last sixty days has certainly furnished that treatment, and there is little doubt but what the Territory will in the future be the beneficiary, for the law of compensation will prevail.- TWcScn Star.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

THE Arizona Range NeeoS, pub- lished at Wilcox, Cochise County, completed the third year of its ex- istence on the 23rd instant. Harry E. Dunlap, since taking charge of the Ne,cs has made it a newsy weekly.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27

FRANK KING, one of the brightest and most spicy writers in the Ter ritory, has purchased the Border Vidette published at Nogales. The SENTINEL wishes Frank and the Vidette all success in the journalis- tic field.
The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-27
s4aw Of Newspapers.

If subscribers order the discontinuance of news Soapers the publishers may continue to send them until all arrearagcs are paid.
 If Hsubssribers refuse or neglect to take their news papers from the office to which they sent, they are held responsible at they have settled the bills a and ordered them discontinued.
 If subscribers move to other places without in forming the publisher, and the newspapers are sent to the former place of residence they are then re- 'sFonsible.