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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-04-17

strayed-One lightred young COW.
hind legs white to knee, white spot in
forehead, branded on right shout.
der; both horns broken of; $500
reward for return or information
leading therefor h ar Braith-
waite, Bend, S. D.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-04-17

Still Castro finds time to go out oc
casionally and whip a few rebels.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The hog, bringing more than ordi-
nary good prices for the past year, has
enabled the feeders of beef cattle to
get out without serious loss this sea-
son If it had not been for the pig
they would have been in a hole.
Where milk is set in deep cans in
cold water and the cream thus raised
the farm separator will step in and
give the dairyman about 20 per cent.
more cream. You can do some figur-
ing yourselves with this fact to start
from.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19
COMEDY FOR TRAVELLERS.
= Gypsy Mother Thrashes Her Seven.
teen Children in Denver Railway
Station.

= Gypsy Mother Thrashes Her Seven
teen Children in Denver Railway
Station.
Seventeen gypsy children afforded
people at the Union depot consider
able amusement yesterday afternoon.
They are all children of the same
mother, who accompanied them with
her husband, and are On their way
from New York to San Francisco.
With their wardrobes and sleeping
arrangements these 10 occupied floor
space in one of the waiting rooms and
the children skirmished around to
see how many nickels would reward
their dancing and witticisms. When
this had been worked for all that it
was worth paterfamilias called his
brood to dinner, which consisted
largely Of apples and onions.
Things were going on peaceably,
fragments were being scattered in all
directions, the mother had a large
pot of coffee balanced precariously on
a pile Of bedding at her elbow when
some individual with a better sense
of kindness than of cause and effect
tossed a dime into the midst.
There was a simultaneous rush and
a screech from II threats. Unfortu-
nately the coin had fallen close to the
mother. In the scramble woman,
bedding, coffee, children and grub"
were mixed in an lndistinguishable
heap, which only disentangled itself
after the smallest one of the lot had
crawled out with the money in her
mouth.
AS soon as the mother got her bear,
ings it was evident hat she was not
in the best of tempers. When she had
satisfied herself that the dime had not
been lost, she proceeded to thrash i'm
partially her entire hock.-Denver Re-
publican.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19
KANSAS CITY CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVED

Kansas City, June 2.-There is a de-
cided Improvement in the situation
this morning and there is a general
feeling that Kansas City has seen the
worst of the flood. Unofficial weather
guages in the union depot showed a
fall of about six inches during the
night, while the official report shows
it is stationary. The danger line of
famine has passed and the railroads
are confident that they will be able to
bring in ample supplies from this time
on. There is a greater scarcity of
food in Kansas City, Kans., but with
the opening of the electric line from
Leavenworth, it is thought that there
will be no acute distress and it is be
lieved the water supply will be in a
measure restored by night fall. All the
cable car lines have resumed, but the
power plant of the electric lines is I'M
der water, and these roads will not be
able to run until the water subsidies.
The financial damage is estimated
by prominent business men at any
where between ten and twenty-five
million dollars in this city alone, but
there is no method of determining this
with accuracy.
The great danger now is the crumb-
ling of brick buildings and this has
begun in some quarters where old
buildings are standing.
1t was announced by the police en-
gagged in relief work in the east bot
toms that all the people who had been
imprisoned in houses in that district
had been rescued, and that there
was no chance for any further loss of
life. The story yesterday of fifty Bel
gians drowned in the east bottoms
this morning has proved to be untrue.
Death List May Be Fifty.
1t is estimated that fifty persons
have been drowned in this city. This
estimate may be too large. Eighteen
victims of the flood were reported last
night. The number has not been great
ly added to today. There were rumors
this morning that fifty Belgians had
been drowned in Sycamore avenue
but careful inquiry by the police failed
to confirm the story.
Extent of Property Loss.
The first estimates of the losses
we're exaggerated. The greatest loss
to the big packing houses across the
river will come from enforced idle
ness. The machinery plants will be
rusted but not ruined.
The wholesale houses in the city
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19
Square Miles Of Business Dis
trict Submerged
WATER WORKS ARE CLOSED
Railroad Trains are Unable to Reach
the City---Business in all Lines
at a Standsti11

(Kansas City special. 1.-The food
situation here showed no improve
ment this morning, except that
the fires which it was feared last
night would spread were put out by
the rain. The only rail communca
ton the city has, and that is very un.
certain, is by a road running south
and east.
Business all over the city is sus
pended. Manufacturers on the high
ground are compelled to shut down
owing to the almost total shutting
off of the water supply. No street
cars are running.
The river guage this morning show
ed 80 feet, having risen from 30.7 in
the night. This is nearly nine feet
higher than at any previous high rec
ord.
Committees having in charge the
work of relief and rescue were busy
early, and a special meeting of the
city council was held during the fore
noon.
Thousands of refugees at Conven'
ton hall made their breakfasts from
liberal rations issued by the relief
committee.
The police have been ordered tc
| shoot on sight any one caught plum
dering,
The number of lives lost in this vi
cinity cannot be learned for some
time, and probably eve will be
known definitely. However, there
seems to be ample verification of the
reports which account for the loss
of more than a dozen lives in the
bottoms.
Great anxiety is felt for the safety
of the people of Kansas City. One
rumor circulated during the nigh
was that scores of people had perish
ed there, but owing to the fact thai
there has been absolutely no com
m%unication with that place since yes
terday there is a general disposition
to discredit these and other sensation
al reports. That there has been somt
loss of life there, however, is regard
ed as probable.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

He called at the farmers house,
praised his crops and his stock and
his children, with the result that he
got the granger's name signed to an.
order for a twenty dollar map or at
las of somee sort. When he came to.
deliver the book the farmers wife, a.
muscular female, went for the little
sandy haired agent with a poker and
made him cancel the order. When
the old man came home to supper
there was a family scene which we
are prevented from properly describ-
Ing in these notes and can only say
that the old man looked tired when
he went to bed.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19
Dewey Advises One
for Alaska
DUTCH HARBOR IS THE SITE
Report Recommends Erection of Coal
Depot With a Capacity of
$4,000 Tons

Washington, June 3.-Admiral
Dewey as president of the general
board, has made a report to Secretary
Moody recommending the immediate
establishment of a coaling station at
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and the cree
ton there of a coal depot with an in
itial capacity of 5000 tons. The esti-
mated cost of the work is about $751;
600. The money is now available. Be-
lieving the establishment Of a coal de-
pot at this strategic point will
strengthen the United States on the
Pacific ocean, the president has heart
lily approved the plan and preliminary
steps in the work have been taken
already.
Dutch harbor Is located on one of
the Aleutian islands and is the direct
commercial route between the ports
of Behring sea and southern Alaska
and the Pacific coast of the United
States. 1t is also in line of steamers
passing through the Unimak pass,
port of call. It's use as a coal depot
site was first recommended by Rear
Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau
of equipment. His recommendation
was referred to the general board and
is now about to be executed accord
ing to his plans.
Dutch harbor will form the fifth
in the chain of coal depots along the
Pacific coast, which will begin at San
diego and include San Francisco, Pu-
get Sound and Sitka. Honolulu is the
sixth in the chain and Guam possibly
may be added to the list. In recon-
mending Dutch harbor as a site for
a coal depot the general board has in
mind the fact that there is no coal
suitable for naval purposes mined
anywhere within thousands of miles,
Rear Admiral Bradford in his re,
port recommending this new c~oaling
station said: Attention is also invit
ed to- one of tie great political ques'
lions of the day, viz, the settlement
of the boundary between the territory
of Alaska, and the Dominion of Cana
da. 1uere is abundant evidence tc
show that the spirit Of Canada on this
matter may be considered threaten
ing.
Between Alaska and the continent
al limits of the United States is 10
Gated the domain of a foreign country
The territory separating Alaska has
good harbors and ample anterior
waters and this fact alone constitut
es a great strategic advantage to a
possible opponent. 1t certainly con
s~titutes a strong reason why the sin
ews of war, whatever they may be
should be stored in Alaska"
Although Sitka is located in the vi
cinity of the disputed boundary
there is no coal kept there by mer
CATTLE companies and the navy fire
quently has been embarrassed for the
want Of coal in the protection o.
American seal and other interests.
A coal depot at Dutch Harbor, il
is believed, also will prove a grea'
aid to commerce., as ships are fire
quently in need of coal when reach
ing this point, and an arrangement
will be made by which the govern
ment can sell coal to steamships ap
plying for it.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The paper said that he was a rich
farmer; had half a section of good
land, lots of stock, fine home ald all
that; that he went to town, filed up
on whisky and then went home and
thrashed his good wife. Now, there is
no use in cussing the saloon keeper in
such a case as this. but instead this
old duffer should be given thirty days
at hard labor in the county Jail in
spite of his standing and money. This
would cure him. 1t will cure nine out
Of ten of such cases.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

Telegraph and telephone wires
north, south and west are down, and
there are only a few wires east.
At IL o'clock the weather bureau is.
sued the following:
There will probably be a slight
change in the river conditions at Kan
sas City during the next "a hours.
Slight fluctuations mean but little in
weather conditions remain unsettled.
The storm area is central in the mid
die Mississippi valley, from which the
West has not emerged, and the threat
ened development of another storm
area in the southwest carries no as
surance of immediate relief. Rain
was falling over a great part of Kan
sas, Iowa, Missouri . and Nebraska
this morning"
According to statements Of flood
refugeesc, which generally are exag-
gerated, from the east bottoms, about
so Belgian men, women and children,
we're drowned near the Crescent hotel
on Sycamore avenue, early this morn
ing. Another refugee reported the
drowning Of ~ people by the oapsiz-
ing of their skiff. None of these
stories have been substantiated.
Kansas City, Mo-, June 1.--Twelva
square miles of the two Kansas Citys
are submerged. .Armourdale is aban.
doned, Argentine and other suburban
towns are under water, and millions
of dollars worth of property has been
destroyed as a result of the food.
The w~aterworks plant has shut
down. All electric ears are idle. Rail-
road trains cannot enter the city.
The Union depot in this city has
been abandoned. The freight depots
are under water.
The property loss in Kansas City
and the city across the river is esti-
mated at S 5000, 900.
Fifteen persons are known to have
been drowned in this city, and it is
feared that the death list will reach
30.
At 6 o'clock last evening eight sep
arate fires were burning unchecked in
the submerged district. 1t is impos-
sible for the fire departments to
reach them.
Shortly after noon yesterday the
Third regiment, NJ. N. G., 800 strong,
was ordered out, both as a precau-
tionary measure and to stop looting.
The flooded district of the two Kan
border of the circle mentioned. Early
Sunday morning the rise in the Kan
sas Citys covers an area three miles
long by four miles wide. The flood
forms a semi-circle reaching south
and west from the Union depot, which
is located under high bluffs that mark
the dividing line between Kansas
City, Mo-, proper and what is known
as the West bottoms.
The principal damage done was at
Armourdale and Argentine, Kas., in
the packing house district on the Kan
sas river, on the extreme southwest
sas river met the waters of the Mis-
souri, on the northwest and merged
finally at the highest point, at the un-
ion depot.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

We have a friend who has so great a
love for the birds that he can find all
the birds nests in tree, shrub or grass
wherever he goes, and then we have
another friend who can never see a
birds nest until the leaves are all off
the trees and the birds flown to the
south. Men will find the thing which
they love and look for, whether it be
birds nests or good qualities in their
ncighbors.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19
DIGGING FOR TREASURE.
Illinois Farmers are Looking for /;
Chest Said to Contain $4,000.


Percy, ILL.,, June FARMERS living
in the vicinity of Hawthorne creek,
near here, are quietly digging on their
farms for a chest containing $4,000
in gold and silver, constituting the
treasure buried by Colonel George
Rogers Clarke and his men. The
money is supposed to have been
buried by Clarke's men before a battle
near the creek. That the battle was
fought is a historical fact. A man
who came here from France a short
time ago confirmed the story and
claimed to know where the treasure
had been buried. TIE went away,
however, without giving any further
information. The legend current in
this section has it that the night be-
fore Clarke and his men had the bat
tie four of the party we sent to bury
the gold and silver. Their bodies were
found later and the hiding place OF
the treasure remained a secret.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

We just hate to come across a man,
or worse yet, a community, which is
on the hog to that extent that it will
take no interest in any matter of pub
lie improvement unless it brings dol
lars into its pockets. Even the Sioux
Indian would decorate his tepee, near
ly all birds will use art and refinement
in the building of the nest, while
thousands of so-called civilized human
beings will care as little for their.
home surroundings as a fox in his
den. We have altogether too much
civilization which does not civilize.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

We count a strawberry bed and an
asparagus bed properly cared for as
foremost among the cheapest and
most desirable Injuries for the family.
To have these two things in abun-
dance is to solve the problem of good
living from the list of May to the 1st
of July; then have the green peas fol-
low the asparagus and the red and
black .raspberries, the strawberries,
and who cares whether school keeps
or not?
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

If the public highways did not bora-
der every mans farm and were on
fined to a few leading thoroughfares
through a county it would be easier to,
get good work done on such roads.
Some men are so narrow and selfish
that If any money is paid by them for
such a purpose they want it applied.
on the highway in front of their lands
ven if three teams did not travel the
road. The main travelled roads should
be first put in good shape; then when
this is done the byroads can receive.
attention.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

New Rochelle, N. Y, June 3.-Fear-
ing that his congregation would not at
tend the new $4,000 church given BY
Adrian Iselin to the Italian Roman
Catholics of this place If non-union la
Dor was employed, Father Manzello, a
nephew of Cardinal Satolli, has order
ed all the men at work on the build
ing to cease operations.
The contractor had ignored the
strike in the building trades and vas
employing %non.union men. The church
probably will remain as it Is until the
strike Is ended.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

will be losers to the extent of the
value of the goods stored in the base
ments and they will lose, also, through
inability to fill orders.
Last night the city was in darkness.
There was not the glimmer of a gas
jet or the flare of an electric light,
save in buildings which have their
own electric light plants. Steam for
these plants is supplied from the wat
er hauled from the river. Power for
the three street car lines that have re-
sumed operation is furnished by wat
er, piped six squares from a small
stream in one of the valleys.
In all of the buildings in the city
elevators have been discontinued, un-
less provision has been made ror haul
ing water.
The newspapers have been compell-
ed to discontinue the use of their type
setting machines, and because of lack
of power are sticking type in the good
old way.
Water supply is Short.
In the hotels, all of which are crowd
ed to their utmost capacity, the most
elaborate care is taken to prevent
waste of water. In front of every
Mushroom a guard is stationed and no
guest is admitted, even to wash his
hands, unless he identifies himself at
the desk, secures the key of his room,
and in this manner having proved his
character and intention good, he is
permitted TO enter, slop out water
from a pail, and do the best he can
with it.
The gas company made a fight all
day to keep gas in the mains, but at
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Secre-
tary Macmillan of the gas company
said he would be forced to shut down.
Food Famine Feared.
The question of food supply is a dis
quieting one. There was a run on "
cry retail grocery and meat store ii
Kansas City yesterday morning. The
storekeepers handled the situation as
systematically as possible, and nc large
quantities were sold to any n buyer.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

And now the distressing information
comes from an Iowa town that one of
its citizens is in a bad way as the re-
suit of eating a package of bird seed,
mistaking it for a new brand of break
fast food.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

One of the best ways to get rid of
quack grass is to seed the field down
with clover and give it a good coat H
fertilizer. The clover will then grow
so dense and heavy that it will choke
the quack grass out.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

Along the bottom lands of the Bra.
EOS and Arkansas rivers the cotton
stalks grow so large that it is, almost
as much work to clear. the land for a
new crop as it would be to clear 1t of
hazel brush.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

There is a lot of vegetation which
will thrive ad grow at a temperature
of from 55 to 65-for instance, peas,
r~aJishes, onions, potatoes, turnips,
barley, wheat, rye, cabbages, cauli-
flowers. apples, %currants, gooseberries,
and in flowers v%iolets, tulips, crocus.
sweet peas, but a temperature of 50
to 80 is essential for the growth Y
corn. melons. cucumbers, tomato J
peaches and grapes. The differei
between a temperature of 65 and q
only 25 degrees, determines what shan
be the cereal. vegetable. floral and
fruit products of a country.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

If no man asked or could get credit
and all paid spot cash what a nice old
world this would be to do business in.
While such a system would be hard on
some, the people as a whole would be
better off.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

Even where corn cannot be success
fully grown barley, peas, millet
ground, clover and blue grass will,
with skim milk, make lots of pork,
and mighty good pork, too, and any
country where these things can be
produced should raise hogs:
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

Rabbits make about the best pets
fer children. They are reasonably
clearly, are not expected to have the
run of the house like cats and dogs,
always have a lot of cute little ones,
and the surplus may be sold and not
killed off on the home place to get rid
OF them.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

We have a young friend who got his
home in shape, furniture and domestic
equipment all complete, before he got
married, which is so much better than
hiking off to some justice or parson to
get married and then going to live,
with the old folks.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The payment of the road taxes has
for many years been loaded on to the
tenant of the farm-that is, he has
been required to work out that part
which could be paid in that manner.
The payment of all the road taxes in
cash lets the tenant out and makes the
landlord kick.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

A great deal of very careful, scien-
tifc and thorough work is being done
in the states of Iowa and Illinois in
tie effort to improve the quality of
the corn. Already by the use of Sc
lected and pedigreed seed an increase
in yield of twenty-five bushels per
acre is reported from Illinois.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

1t is now said that the oleo fellows
are coloring their product with The
yolks Of eggs. They are bound to get
that steer butter into the gizzards of
the American people somehow.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The Kansas experiment station has
realized $11.90 per acre from ape pas
ture and s24.10 from alfalfa pasture
when fed to hogs in connection with a
light feed of grain.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

1t is but reiterating a baldheaded
truth to say that any man is a fool to
ship to any commission house which
offers more than the going prices for
a product, and still men are being bit
ten in this manner all the time be-
cause their greed and avarice are bet
ter developed than their common
sense.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The difference between butter
which scores 81 and that which scores
s7K is so small as not to be detected
save by a butter expert, still, the 97A
fellow walks off with the gold medal,
gets his picture in the dairy journals
and like enough has a brand of salt
named after him.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The time is here now when the
farmer with a $4,000 corn and hog
farm drives into town and pays 80
cents for two boxes of strawberries,
when he might raise the luscious ber-
ries by the bushel just as easily as he
raises the corn to feed his hogs.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

A lady who died recently in the east
left by will to her husband 800 per
month and her cat and dog $50 per
month. From this it would appear
that the deceased lady thought just
twice as much of her husband as she
did of her cat and dog. We know of
cases where it is just the other way.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-06-19

The kind of roads a whole lot Of peo-
pie are clamoring for will cost the
taxpayers lot less than $4,000 per
mile. 1t has taken 200 years to get
this kind of highways in Europe, and
the people there have been further ia
vored with an abundance of pauper'
labor and a military necessity to help
build them.