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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
CHASTITY SKELETON
BLEACHED ON PRAIRIE
Unrecorded Fate of Ranchman
in Butte County Covered
by Death.
COMPASS NEAR'THE BODY
Man Had Probably Been Fatally
Wounded in a Fight and Craw!ed
Into q Hole to Die from the
Effects.

Lead, S. D., Nov. 22.-Alex Cruick-
shank, a horse raiser living on the
Grand river, in Butte county, arrived
in the city and reports that a few days
ago while riding after some stray
horses he came across the skeleton Of
a man with some of the clothing inc
flesh still clinging to the bones. When
found the skeleton, or that part of it
which the coyotes had not carried off.
was Il hole made by the unrooting of a
big pine tree. Near the skeleton was
GUN a compass, u knife scabbard and
several little trinkets. One the trunk
OF the skeleton was the remains of
what had once been q heavy overcoat,
and a hole in the back, just behind the
left shoulder, a V evidence of the
cause of the mans death. Ior it was
Just the size of a 45-caliber bullet. From
all appearances it was the skeleton of
Il man about six feet tall and had not
been in it's position by the tree for more
than a a or so.
Mr.. Crunckshank. so soon as he ar
rived In Lead. notified the sheriff of
Butte county and that official has
Starte for the scene of the find.
some years ago in that vicinity there
was considerable trouble between the
sheep men II the cattle men, and it
is L2tieved by many that the man a
been shot and wounded in Il fight over
the range and had crawled to the hole
by the pine tree for cover and had
there died of his Wounds.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
"uNioN COMPANIES" BUSY.
Inquiries Being Made Into Their Work
inus in South Dakota

Inquiries Being Made Into Their Work
ings in South Dakota.
Pierre, s. D., Nov. 2.-Thc investigation
before Insurance COMMISSIONS II. Perkins
on the charge Of violation of the anti-com-
pact insurance law of the state was prin-
cipally confined to local agents.
Their testimony was as to the use of a
common rate book for what are known as
union companies" the book being fur
nished to them by IA Minneapolis publish
ing house. They said that their commits
sions were less from the union companies.
when they ''miNcd" with others, than when
they devoted themselves to union COM
ranics alone.
The principal witnesses for the COM
panies was j. G. Ingram, of Chicago, as
sistant western manage for the German-
American company, of New York, who
admitted that his company was one known
as unicn and that the rates of such COM
panies were alike in different sections. but
he could not remember whether there had
been any agreements as to rates i'll South
Dakota since the anti-compact law went
into effect. Neither could he tell whether
there had been any fixing OF rates within
the past five years.
The investigation is vet under way. In
case 1t is proven that the anti-compact law
has been violated the law shuts the Offend
ing company out of the state for a period
of one year.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
FINE FALL
1t Enables South Dakota Farmers
Gather Crop,

Yankton. S. D., Nov. Gothic late
fall weather this year has been n of
the most fortunate things hat has
happened to farmers locally for some
time past. A heavy wind of the past
summer Frustrated the corn, and While
it did not affect tbs yield and quality.
it did send the crop close to the ground.
-Four inches of snow would have Gov
cred three-quarterS of the corn, which
would have played havoc with profit
and yield. AS it is the splendid wealth
er has allowed Interrupted picking un-
til now one begins to hear of this and
that farmer getting through. a week
at most will practically see every
farmer safe with an unusually good
crop of sound corn. The weather has
added thousands to the pocketbooks of
Yankton county farmers without Il
question and the tiller of the soil is
smiling hereabouts and well nc may.
Yankton citizens We're yesterday
treated to the sight of n swift driven
tourist automobile, With glass front,
the posscssors of which were "Two
Johns EBen Turgon) and j. T.. Nune-
maker, both wealthy quarterbloods OF
the Rosebud reservation. The first
named owns 1000 prime acres Of land
in the Indian country named. The car,
which was of forty horsepower, cost
$4,000 i'll Chicago. and leaving that city
last Sunday, arrived here yesterday
noon. or $50 miles in four and one-half
days.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
WALKED slxrY-FlvE MILES.
Boy, Aged II, Ran Away from schoc
and Wandered Honte.

dItS III
Eonesteel, S. D., Nov. 1S.-Dcputy Sheriff
Scissors sometime last month took his
three children, aged II. 10 and Is years re-
spectively, to the Indian school at Cham
berlain, a distance of So miles northwest of
his place, and the OUNCES boy, aged II,
being dissatisfied, left there last Wednes-
day to to return home.
The little fellow had but 25c which his
older brother gave hin with which to buy
food on his way back; the young brother
walked a distance of th:rty-1ive miles the
first day and slept at night in a deserted
cabin on the banks of the Missouri river.
The next day he induced an ole man who
was coming down the river to cross him
and he then walked to Frank Mullen's
place, a distance of sixty-fve miles from
Chamberlain, this distance being covered
in W days.
Mrs. Mullen. knowing the boy, hitched
up a team ant: brought young Isaac home
the next dag. The reason he gave for
leaving was that there was too much
lighting going on among the pupils. The
principal of the school at Chamberlain
was notified, and Will be here to get the
young truant next week.
Ihls seems a remarkable feat as the
youngsicr is only IL years old, small of his
age and had never been away from homo
before.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
GIRL is A HEROINE.
But for Her Care a Man Would Hav,
Bled to Death.

Aberdeen. S. d., Nov. 29.-After
binding up a gaping wound in the face
of Professor H. b. Calm, OF Eureka,
with whom she had been hunting, Miss.
Ruby Cole. II country school teacher,
barely 20 years of age, and OF Slight
build, drove the horse II buggy with,
the unconscious man lying in the
vehicle twenty-tiv miles across the,
prairies to Eureka, where medical as
sistance could be secured.
The couple We're out shooting when.
the horse SHE'D, causing the dog, which
was riding in the buggy, to jump from,
the vehicle in fright. AS the animal
jumped it knocked down the gun of
Professor Calm, and the weapon was
discharged. Most of the charge en-,
tered the unfortunate mans face at the
chin, completely tearing away that or
gan, as well as the right jaw. Miss
Cole at the same time was slightly.
wounded in the wrist. Quickly tear.
ing her handkerchief to pieces, and
tearing strips from her clothing, tile,
girl bound the wound together as best
h could, made the wounded man as
comfortable as possible as he lay IN,
conscious in the buggy, and drove as
rapidly and carefully as possible to
Eureka.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
VERDICT AGAINST TRUST
South Dakota Farmer Awarded DAM
aces for Bad Oil EXPLOSION,

South Dakota Farmer Awarded Dam
ages for Bad Oil Explosion,
Britton, S. d., Nov. 20.--A jury in
the United States court for South Da-
kota has returned a verdict of far
reaching Importance, which ii followed
by juries elsewhere in the United
States will materially reduce the prof.
its of the Standard Oil company.
Carl Ogren, 4 farmer living in this
iCMarshalD county, instituted a suit
against h Standard Oil company on
behalf of himself and minor children,
by which he sought to recover from
the oil company damages in the sum
of $1,000 for the death of Mrs. OgreI.
which was caused last November by
the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
The suit originally was instituted in
the state circuit court for Marshall
county. but later was transferred to
the United States court. The plaintiffs
based their claim for damages Oh the
ground that the oil in the lamp was
adulterated with gasoline, resulting in
the explosion which caused the death
of Mrs. Ogren.
! After hearing the testimony in the
case the jury awarded the plaintiff a
judgment for $500 against the Stand
ard Oil company.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
CRACkSMEN ARE YET
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Make an Unsuccessful Attcmp.
to Enter a Safe at Bank
of Tea.
WE'RE FRIGHTENED AWAY
in Leaving the Cash in the Safe Be.
hind They Did Not Depart Empty
Handed for They Stole a
Team and Buggy.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. Nov. 23.--.An at
tempt which has just been made to rob
the Farmers Savings bank, of Tea, a
little town south of Sioux Falls. proves
that The cracksmen who about Il week
made an unsuccessful attempt to
rob a bank AT Spencer, west of Sioux
Falls, are yet lowering in this part OF
the state.
AS at Spencer, the robbers succeeded
in making their escape. A systematic
search was made for traces OF the rob
bers and the citizens of Tea are strong
ly of the opinion that the fugitives,
with a stolen team and buggy, made for
the south, evidently With the intention
OF reaching Sioux City. 1t is expected
the team and buggy will be abandoned
long before the robbers near Sioux City,
If that SHOULD prove to be their desti-
nation.
Complete details have low been re-
ceiVed here of the latest daring at
tempt to hold UP and rob Il South Da-
kota bank. Two had been
noticed at Tea during the last week,
and they are supposed to have been
in the attempted robbery. 1t
was shortly after 3 o'clock in the morn
that the residents of Tea were
awakened by an explosion. This was
olloWed IN IL FEW minutes by II second
explosion. "A number of citizens were
Q on hand to make an Investigation.
The building occupied by the bank was
flrst visited, and many unmistakable
signs of the work of robbers were
"A door was open and the interior of
me banking room was in great disorder.
w unsuccessful attempts had been
to blow the safe. The handle had
been broken off and some sort of ex-
plos1Ve inserted, but Notwithstanding
two attempts were made and the
hinges were broken, the doors damned
so they did not fall out and the robbers
were frightened away before they could
gain an entrance to the safe. However,
It speedily developed that the robbers
did not escape empty-handed.
IL was found that a team of horses
belonging to Edward Bent, the village
blacksmith, and a top buggy belonging
TO MI. Bruhn, who conducts an eleVa-
.Or at Tea, We're missing.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
HE HAD NO LICENSE,
Vibors Restaurant Man Arrested b..
Officials,

Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 29.-Charlcs
Stacey, q restaurant man of Niborg.
situated south of Sioux Falls on the
Great Northern railroad, was arrested
by Deputy United States Marshal Lamb
of This city oil the charge of selling
liquor without having first secured a
government license.
The prisoner was brought to Sioux
Falls, and. as the result of his prelim-
mary examination before United States
Commissioner Conway, was held for
appearance before the next federal
grand jury. Stacey furnished bonds for
his appearance at the proper time and
was released from custody. An effort
was made to secure his indictment by
a United States grand jury, which was
in session in Sioux Fails last month.
but the evidence was deemed insutfi-
Gent and the case was dismissed.
However. w. A. Simpson, deputy in
ternal revenue collector for South Da-
kota, was satisfied that Stacey was
selling liquor in violation of the fed
eral statutes, and SO decided to do Il
little detective work on his own ac-
count. He maintained a watch over
Stacey's place of business until he had
secured evidence which warranted his
arrest. as stated, and every effort will
be made to ecure the conviction of the
defendant when the case is tried.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
YOUNG GENERATION IS
SEEKING new WORLDS
Vast Unoccupied Territory in
Western South Dakota Is
Attracting Attention.
MANY WHO SETTLE THERE
Men and Women from Eastern State,
Hurry to Inspect Land Which
Uncle Sam Gives Freely
for improvements.

Huron. S. D., Nov. 20.-Anothcr del
egation'' of homeseekers left here today
on u tour of inspection of lands sub
ject to entry under the homestead laws
on the Sioux reservation west of the
Missouri river. In the company were
fifteen employees Of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway, who Will fo!low
the example of many Of their associates
and enter homesteads. Many of those
now going to the reservation are east
ern people who have little If any idea
Of pioneer life, and who will find that
holding down a claim is no picnic
or summer outing.
y continuous residence for five years
must re made upon the land, with Gull
tivation sufficient to establish the fact
that the entry is not made for specu-
and his family. Communication may be
had at the expiration of fourteen
months, and by payment of not less
than so cents per acre for the inc at
time of making final proof.
AS to railway and market facilities
the settler will be quite remote for a
number of years, unless fortunate
way line now being extended from
Pierre to Rapid City through the
Black Hills region.
Not a few who have come from the
east with a. view to entering govern
ment land have changed their minds
when they understood the requirements,
have purchased farms, either i'm
proved or unimproved, in this locality
and north and west from here. One has
little idea of the limited knowledge of
some honleseekers. For example, three
Illinois men came here with the inten-
ton OF making homestead entries and
We're astonished when they learned that
the land was not within a stones
throw of prosperous cities, with
schools, colleges, churches, etc, and
that palace cars would not pass the
door of their shack two or three times
daily.
Four women, two from Iowa and two
from Wisconsin,, after learning what
must be done to secure government
land, decided to abandon their purpose,
all are 0 teaching school in this
county for $40 Ter month, and two of
the quartet are in fair way to get
possession of farms and prosperous
young farmers without the vicissitudes
Of pioneer life, but by the aid of Cupid,
who is always on the alert in this re-
gion.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
INDIAN BELLE ELOPED,
But the Pearl of Her Eye and Herself
Were Eut in Lookup.

noina :. ~, NOV.
yantton nnI 1,rom 49, ,'n,.aIs 81 me
hnan COO nda1i,,a na.,oiis
iof an indian bean M ba,ln ~
lea rriad ont ueiib . om thn MAn.ia Mss
:faotlres Which a;stin is ~ s,elue
'ment Of wbita narsonn u''n .Ne elops=
, Nh nrincinaiLs in tho 1ndi,n o,ono
,,ant ~ I9,n, 'is iiiulall eiope-
,s;o,,v W., rior na,noa A. ~ d
howe &c ~, ~ Es go 0iI WI, Mt!ose
md pohert cro1toI ElIteeh reservation
warrior who beionas h ta tha W., s1,Iis S
an poILaoaS" " .le .hilheoll
b,o+bar nf w. w i, tne vie o d
alona1 MI heoonn VII M,n'il ole
Land ~. ;nnt5 .neu u Her !les-
d;y-or,a i. a,,,.,.3,i1 ~ az ao,Ioii Aoi
In 1,er divo appio w Mnat5 s1yle.
bo ras,o,.aa ~ sol. siie askeu tllat she
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
plcKlMG uP

Watertown, S. D., Nov: 2o.-severa
eastern ard buyers within the past
few days have been trying to pick up
improved ranches in this vicinity. One
man was here three years ago and
bought ranches for 5000 to $500 apiece.
hi ground cannot be touched now
for less than 81, 800 to $4,000 ranch.
The ranches have more than doubled in
price for the past three years. When
the %irrigating scheme is completed in
the vicinity of Big Owl creek it will be
impossible to get ranch ground for less
than $50 All acre. Eastern South Da-
kota parties have been trying to get
options on several thousand acres Of
ground north of this place for specu-
dating purposes, but very little ground
has been tied up !.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
D. D. A
Was Being Held for Suspected co.necs
ton with Violin bbe

Yankton. S. D., Nov. 23.-After being
detained for q week. Dan d.. Clark, of
Sioux City, arrested IN suspicion of
being connected with the Violin saloon,
safe robberies, was liberated by Mar
shall Hickey, who, however, is of the
1lrm opinion that he nabbed one Of the
safe Blowers. Clark was found at Sa-
Heart hospital under the assumed
name of John Cook. He had obtained
admission for treatment, having two Sc
we're Commissions above each knee,
where, the officers believe, part of the
door of II Of the safes blown swung
back on its hinges and struck him as he.
stood at the side of it. .Clark's face
showed nitro-glycerin effects, being
very red and scratched. 1t has been
ascertained he returned here the day of
the robbery and left that same evening,
not to be seen again until found in the
hospital. Nothing more could be found
against Clark, and az he steadily re-,
fused to talk, except to deny his COM.
plicity in the robbery, he was turned
loose, !
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
HE IS POTATO N

Hazel, S. D., Nov. pa farmer,
named Smith, residing near this place.,
is entitled to the honor of being known
as the potato king of this part of the
state. He has just completed the work
OF harvesting his potato crop, to which.
an area of forty+seven acres was de-,
voted. From the forty-seven acres he,
harvested rel $4,000 bushels. He ex-.
poets to receive an average price of 81,
per bushel for the entire CROP as the!
potatoes are of the variety which is.
used In the south for seed. Smith will,
realize a profit of not less than $4,000,
from h forty-seyen acres. tits doubt
full if any other tract of equal size In;
the state produced sc valuable crop;
With the profit from the forty-seven,
acres, Smith could purchase farm Of
'ls0. acres and pay more than $25 an acre
br II.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
SURVEYOR ARRESTED.
Alleged by Land Owners He Did No,
Return Correct Renort.

Alleged by Land Owners He Did No,
Return Correct Report.
Mitchell. S. d.. Nov. 2l.--Surveyer II
c. Greene. of this city, who WAS en-.
ployed by some township officers il
douglas county this spring to settK
the difference in connection with 1hs
government survey, was arrested Sat
iurday. on the charge of perjury, by
Douglas county officials and taken te
Armour. 1t is claimed by the alleged
owners of the land in dispute that MI
Greene perjured himself when sending
IN the reports TO the government; thai
fhe stones or monuments used at eacl
section corner and at each quarter
section were not up to the stand
nrd required by the government. o.
1he other hand Mr.. Greene claims thar
Ee received the stone from the Spencer
quarry and that it filled the require.
pnents in every particular. He alleges
that his arrest is the malicious work OF
she land owners.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
SEVERAL CRIMINAL CASES.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 22.-Judge ]. W.
Jones is presiding at the regular Novem-
Der term of state circuit court, which has
convened in this city. A number of pris-
oners who have been In the county Jail
were arraigned before him to enter pleas
to the charges against them. One of those
who were arraigned was a harvest hand
giving his name as Thomas Randolph, who
entered a plea Of guilty to he charge Of
assault with intent to commit murder.
Judge Jones sentenced him to q term of
ten years in the Sioux Falls p%enitentiary.
Randolph murderously assaulted a COM
panion ut Garretson. and after pounding
him with a stone robbed him of a SUM Of
money.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
GOLD OUTPUT is VAST,
Black Hills Have Recorded $780, Oc, DOL
in % Years.

Lead. S. D.. Nov. 20.-The Black Hills
has produced in the last twenty-nine
years about $l40,000,00 in gold. These
mate by one Of the principal mining
linen of this city. This output is from
ithe mills and from the placer mines
land is based on actual returns. Just
what the Black Hills has produced OUT
side this record no person ever could
estimate. Thousands Of dollars We're
mined and sent out in private ways.
(which never have been recorded. From
NOV on the Black Hills will increase
each year the output, owing to a large
number of new mills that soon are to
1870 into commission. These new plants
twill have a daily capacity of from 200
ito $500 tons each.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
ARTESiAM WELL ON RAMPAGE.
Water Pouring from Hole Is Destroy,
inq Farm Property.

Eonesteel, S. d., Nov. 25.-The big ar
tesian well OF Andrew Qualm's, located
on the Milestone creek. ten miles
northwest of Bonesteel, is on Il ram
page. The inside casing of the well
has broken ont about fifty feet below
the surface of the ground and the wa
ter from the well is running under
meath the earth instead of the full How
coming out the mouth of the well. The
well is situated on Il hill about 100
yards from Qualm's fine SO. 900 resi-
dence mo the surrounding land is be-
coming SO soft that the entire hill is
gradually settling and sliding down
toward the valley. The cellar under
meath the house has been filed with
water for the past week and Mr..
Qualm fears that unless something can
be done DOR that the building will be
destroyed. Everything which can be
suggested in order to control the we'll
has been tried but with no apparent
effect and it seems hat the fine resi-
dence and other buildings are doomed
to destruction.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
PLANNING A WOLF ROUNDUP.

Sioux Falls, s.. D., Nov. 2l.-SDorts
men of western South Dakota and east.
ern Wyoming are organizing for the
purpose of rounding up and annihilat.
ing a pack Of unusually vicious timber
wolves which for some weeks have
been killing the stock of ranchmen re.
siding in he vicinity of Carter noun.
tam, near Cody, Wyo., not far from
Inc western boundary of South Dakota
The pack contains from twenty to
thirty wolves, and scarcely IL night
passes that they do not slaughter from,
w to half u dozen calves and year.
ling cattle
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
L.ABoRERs ARE SCARCE.

Belle Fourche, S. D., Nov. 2o.-Ex-
Governor Ornan has arrived from
Colorado for the purpose of getting
work on the big million dollar contract
which his firm has taken in the irrigat-
ing scheme, started Immediately. 1t is
stated that u standard gauge railroad
fifteen miles long is to be one of the
first things built by the contractors
from ST. Ong to the scene of the prin-
cipal operations. This will save hrul-
ing by cams several miles. The freight
alone on the materials used in the con-
struction of the dams and bitches viii
amount to about $500 There is u
great scarcity OF iaboreis and %teu.rs.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-01
NO VERDICT IN AUTO CASE.

Mitchell. S. D., Nov. 2O.-The i,r>
cases in the term of circuit court came
to an end here, the most important o.,
which Was the damage case of Mrs.
Name Lord VS.. Louis Beckwith. in
which she sought to recover $500 dam.
ages III the way of doctors bills ana
nursing for an injury which her daugh.
ter sustained by being run over by
Beckwith's automobile.
After being out t~wenty-four hours the
jury Informed h court that it could
not agree on a verdict. and it was dis
charged. This is a preliminary case
for a larger damage suit OF s25, 600,
winch is scheduled to be tried with the
next term of court in April