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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
PRAIRIE FIRES RAGE.
Large Tracts Burned Over in South
Dakota with Aeavv Lcsees.

Large Tracts Burned Over in South
Dakota with Heavy Losees.
Aberdeen, S. D, Sept. 3o.-A prairie
fire which was started by n spark from
the engine of Il special stock train
swept over Il large section Of ountry IN
he vicinity of Nina. in Edmrrds coun-
ty. One tract scorched by fire is four
miles wide n six miles long, and an
other is a mile wide and four and a
half miles long. The heaviest loser is
Frank Schwab, who had 500 bushels of
speltZ, ESQ bushels Of wheat and $50
tons of hay destroyed. Other farmers
lost from fifteen TO twenty-five tons OF
hay each, and a large acreage Of uncut
nay land was swept over. Many farm
ers I'm the path of the fire had to fight
the flames stubbornly to save their
barns and other property. The fire
crossed Snake creek twice and was
finally eXtinguished by a high wind
from the east, which swept the flames
back over the tract that had previously
been devastated. :,
a hot box OF a stock train three
miles west of Andover started a fire
which burned one steer to death and
severely burned a number of other ami
mails in the car. AS soon as the blaze
was discovered the train was stopped
and the cattle unloaded from the car,
after which the crew started with the
train FOR the neXt Water tank in order
TO eXtinguish the fire. on the way a
piece of burning wood fell from the car
and started a prairie fire which de-
stroyed 100 tons of hay before it could
be e~NtinSuiShed by nearby farmers.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
PRAIRIE FIRE FIGHTERS.
Rec Heights Has an Exciting Hour
Combating the Red Peril.

So'Tlpdli1S IHe neC ferII.
Miller, S. d. Sept. So.-A prairie fire
fuss east of Rec Heights famed by a
stiff south wind. meant excitement and
anxiety for an hour to the t~ownspeople
US we'll as to the settlers farther north,
1t was almost taken for granted that
the firehreak northeast of the town
would prove no barrier TO the bounding
flames. the weeds having grown up
thickly, but being green the break
did check the flames and thus save the
north country.
The large numbe of stacks just east
of the fire. the town a little way west,
with no end of the possibility of de-
struction north, caused about seventy
men and boys to gather for the fight.
A number with brooms bound with wet
cloths formed n picket line OH the
break ahead of the fire, to breathe in
the hot smoke and occasionally brush
back a darling flame that seemed de-
termined to steal across and burn out
me settlers. The larger forces followed
the sides to prevent the fires from
spreading.
a few rods from the east line stood
a steam thrasller, whose crew, With wa
strenuous fighters, for their machine
was at stake as well as hundreds of
stacks that it would yet thrash if the
ire was subdued. A rope about fifty
feet long, With wet blankets in the cen
ter, as dragged over the streak of
1lame by a half dozen men on each
size, who walked briskly Now and
then an unexpected gust of wind would
push d fafne out n instantly force the
men TO retreat. to again make a quick
rush through the binding smoke as the
subsidized. Others followed with
novels and wet brooms to subdue the
~reklhdled spots. Some would hurl
Y Of dirt at the jumping flames,
ana otherS would strike into them with
their coats and hats.
IN a quickly gathered crowd to fight
Hre where the danger is SO great valu-
able clothing, such as shawls, blankets,
coats. etc., is sacrificed, and this was
true in this fire, which was finally con-
quered with no great loss.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
COUNTY FIAR ON WHEELS.
Black Hills Country to Send Sample%
of Products to Adjoining States.

Deadwood. S. d., Sept. 26.-The Ira.
Yelling County fair for the Black Hills
commences operations when a large
baggage car filled With the products
of this section leaves for a six weeks
trip in the east. The exhibit goes out
over the Northwestern railroad and
will take in main points of interest in
Nebraska, Iowa, eastern South Dakota,
Wisconsin and Illinois People in gen.
eral will expect to see the fine samples
of ore n the representatives from the
different mines of the Hills, but what
made by the farmers II fruit men.
Over 100 apple orchards within the
boundaries of the Black Hills are rep
resented, n of which. embracing 100
acres, is the largest orchard in the en-
tire state. MIR. Thompson. who is the
owner of this place will sell this fall,
at least 1900 bushels of the very best
apples. Vegetables of all kinds includ-
ing squashes weighing from 40 to so
pounds, pumpkins big enough for Gin
derilla, and onions and potatoes which
uphold the reputation of the Hills are
in evidence.
One of the great agricultural exhibits
IS that of small grains. The Black
Hills can beat any record on the
amount of wheat and oats produced to
the acre. Here in the car are shown
samples of wheat from one of the small
park farms, which yielded 20 bushels to
the acre. Another farm with 100 acres
Of wheat gave up the remarkable crop
of 5000 bushels. One hundred nineteen
bushels of oats to the acre is not an ex-
aggeration.
Fully fifty mining companies are rep
resented and gold ore from 81 to $50 in
value helps to fill the center of the ear.
A fine case of specimens is the con-
tributton of the state school of mines
at Rapid City. Gold, silver, tin, copper,
galena and tungsten ores are among
those represented.
Captain Gardner, n of the old
timers of the Black Hills, and c. A.
Wilkinson, of Belle Fourche, will ac-
company the car and proclaim to all
the people the great possibilities Of the
Black Hills n
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
SAFE FROM JACK FROST
twenty-five to Ninety Per Cert. 81
the Corn Is Already Out of
Dapuar

Washington, Sept. 2S.-The weathe
bureau in its weekly bulletin summar-,
ICES crop conditions as follows:
Temperature during the Week ending
September % was Favorable throughout
the country. being nearly everywhere
above normal. Rains caused some DAM
age in portions of the Missouri and Up,
per Mississippi valleys, While a con-.
siderable part of the South AtlanticI
and Gil states are in need of rain.
Damaging frosts ccurred in the mid!
die Rocky mountain regions. and liglh
frosts, With little or no injury. in porI
ions of the lower lake region and int,
rior and middle Atlantic states.
Except in limited portions of the Mis-
souri, valley, corn has experienced al
week of conditions highly favorable fori
maturing the crop, from "a to 50 per-
cent. of which is now safe from frost.
The remainder will require only about a
week of favorable weather. In Nebras-
ka considerable corn has been blown
down by high winds. but this will only
make harvesting more difficult. without
reducing the yield. Some corn in shocls
in Missouri ana Kansas has been dams
aged by moisture. due largely to rains
OF the previous week. (
Threshing spring wheat in the Da-
kotas and Minnesota was interrupted
by rain during the first half of the
week. but shock threshing and stacking
is not yet finished. In the Dakotas the
yield and quality is variable and gem
orally disappointing. :
No Improvement is the apple outlook
is indicated, inferior crop being re-
ported from practically all important
apple producing states.
a poor crop of potatoes is generally
Indicated.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
CORN CROP is SAFE.
Director Sage Declares Outlook Con
tinues to Be Good,

nes Moines, Ia. Sept. 27.-Betwcen %
and SO per cent of the Iowa corn crop is
now matured, according to the statement
issued by Director John r. Sage, of the
low crop service. The following bulle-
tin has been issued by the department:
Following heavy showers on the 18th
which caused some local damage in
western districts, the past week brought
six days of ideal weather for the belated
portion of the corn crop. The daily mean
temperature has been 3 to 5 degrees above
normal in the larger art of the state. and
since the 18th the sky has been practically!
cloudless. Good progress has been made,
In threshing, fall blowing and cutting,
corn. Reports indicate that more thar the,
usual acreage of corn will be put into
shock in the central and western districts.i
In all the best corn districts of the state,
where the crop received timely cultivation,
1t is practically safe. For the state at
large, So to 80 per cent. is now well MAJ
tured. The immature portions need FROST
less weather for the balance of the month,
and probably some of it a little beyond,
Con~seruatively estimated, the amount of
corn now mature is fully equal to the state
average for the past fifteen years.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Des Moines Travelling Man ]Despondent
While In South Dakota,

Fairfax, S. D., Sept. CIV. A. Locke
of Des Moines, representing the Marion
Manufacturing company OF that place,
attempted to end his life here late last
night by the morphine route, but his
condition was discovered by his friend
n roommate in time to save his life.
He said this was not the first time
he had been in this same predicament.
The marshal, searching for a clew,
found letters upon the man, one d.
rected to his wife and one to his moth
err. He stated in the letters that he
had taken morphine n that he wished
to send them a fond farewell. He also
wrote in the letter to his wife a re-
quest that, IL she ever married again,
she would not change the name OF their
children.
Locke came here from Creighton,
Neb., and endeavored to sell some
threshing machines for his company.
He went to, Bonesteel and secured the
assistance of a man named Hamstreet
to assist him in making sales and paid
him a good salary. He persuaded Ham
street to sign a sight draft upon the
company in Des Moines for SIS at the
Security State bank of Bonesteel. The
draft vas turned down by the COM
pany. Then the Security bank began
suit against Locke and had him placed
under $500 bail at the circuit court.
which bail he failed to give.
Upon being searched, Locke was
found to lave a gun, an old shoe-knife
and a razor. with which it is supposed
he had intended to take his life had
not h powerful drug gotten In its
work.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Effect ION Destruction Of Wreck in suez
Canal Is Vet Purely Prob
.- op,,tieaI

Port Said, Egypt, Sept. 2S.-Serious,
stoppage of traffic on the Suez canal is
threatened owing TO necessity for blow
ing up the British steamer, Chatham,
sunk September 6, owing to the fact
that she was on fire and flames threat
ened to reach a quantity of dynamite
which formed part of her cargo. Since
that time the wreck has obstructed the
waterway. Divers tomorrow will place
cases Of blasting gelatine in the hold
of the Chatham. These will be con-
nected with an electric battery ashore
and eighty tons of dynamite in the
wreck will be exploded Thursday.
The expert conducting the operations
says it is impossible to predict the
amount of mischief which will ensue
from this great upheaval or to what
extent traffic will be impeded. He says
there is no precedent to show the ef-
feet of an explosion of such an amount
of dynamite. 1t may form a crater in
the bed of the canal in which wreckage
may be buried, leaving the canal deeper
han before.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
GOLD DlGGERS QUIT.
Reputed Deposits of Precious Metal in
Missouri River Sandbars.


Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 2S.-The al
situated in the Missouri river. mean the
mouth of Milestone creek. in the south
central portion of the state, concerning
which there has recently been a great
deal of excitement among the people of
that part of the state. have beer tenn
porarlly abandoned by several mystcr-
ious strangers, who for several months
had been at work III the "diggings.'
The strangers We're supposed to be
from Colorado. and only a few weeks
before their departure shipped in a
gasoline engine and other machinery
Tor the purpose, as they minated, of
extracting the gold from the sand.
some OF those who visited the scene
OF the reported gold discovery allege
that While the strangers We're at work
they secured gold lust to the value of
as much as $40 and ST. per ton from the
sand which they We're able TO work.
II is said that the strangers, prior to
their departure, staked off several min
ing claims, and that they will return
next spring. The machinery which they
recently received. it is stated, was
found to he not of the right sort to ex-
tract all the gold from the sand and
that 1t would require different maChin-
cry to make their venture successful.
The alleged gold is contained in the
black sand which forms the greater
part of the bar, and one of the s,ranS-
ers during a conversation with q
Wheeler, man prior to his departure,
stated they would put in Il small cyan
lde plant In the spring provided the
COST OF such Il system was not too great.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
U cENsUREs JURY,
Scores Body for Its Failure to Con,
vict,

Miller, S. D.. Sept. 2S.-Court closed
here when a hung jury "a discharged
by Judge Whiting after receiving prob
ably the most scathing febuke ever
given twelve men for failure TO agree
upon a verdict. The defendant was
Grant Derfinger. charged with an
offense against 1~3-year-old Anna
Kuper. AS the words vile wretch, low
william" etc, fell from the judges lips
as he refererd to Derflinger, telling the
jurors that they lacked reasoning pow
ers or We're influenced by sympathy
with the crime, the evidence of the
accused's guilt being overwhelming. the
men sat speechless, their faces turning
ashen pale.
Yet the judge kept firing cuttings
words at them. Finally he babe the
jurors go, with the parting shot that
if the man whom they had failed to
convict should commit an offense
against their daughters they them
selves and not the officers of the law
would De to blame. The jury stood
nine to three for conviction.
This was Derflinger's second trial and
he is being held by the state for a third
He says he served three years in the
Cuban war and carries a wound re-
ceived in the battle Of San Juan hill.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
BODY CUT IN TWAIN.
Farm Hand Falls Under a Stock
Train at Andover.

Aberdeen, S. D., Sept. S0.-Emil Ro-
manonsky, a young farm hand, was
killed while attempting to board a fast
stock train at Andover. He had been
working for several weeks and had
saved about $50. $50 of which he sent
10 ms mother at Lacrosse, Wis. He in
tended to return home to Lacrosse and
boosted h a he did not intend to pay
1allfoad fare. When the stock train
came by the station it was running
about twenty miles an hour Romans
onsky attempted to board 1t, when his
foot slipped and he fell under the train
and was cut in two just above the
stomach the head and shoulders falling
beneath the train, while the other Dor.
ton OF the body rolled off the track.
The remain were sent to Lacrosse
on the next passenger train
R~omanonsky was about % years of
6 His father is said to be a baggage
mar on the Milwaukee road out of La
Crosse.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING.
Celebration of Silver Jubilee of Father
Georoo Sj,aet,-p

oSS' 5S StiSS'ia'' .
Sioux Calls S. D., Sept. 27.-The op-
ening festivities in the silver jubilee
celebration of the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of the ordination TO the priest
hood of Father George Sheehan, of
Elkton. We're held at Elkton today, con-
sisting in part of a special high mass
of thanksgiving, at which Bishop
O'Gorman, of this city. presided, and
the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Flynn, of Mad
mon.
Bishop O%'(iorman, together with
scores of leading Catholic clergymen
from all parts 81 eastern South Da-
kota gathered at Ellton to participate
in the celebration. Dean Sheehan en-
joys tie distinction of being the oldest
priest in point OF service in the state
to complete twenty-five years of con-
tiIuous ministry within the limits of
this diocese.
He was one of eight priests who took
up the work of the church in Dakota
Territory when the late Rt. Rev. Mar
tin Marty was made a bishop and
placed in charge of the diocese. Bishop
Marty looked around for priests to as
sist him in the work of building up the
diocese, and Father Sheehan was one
of those who volunteered to begin work
In the priesthood In Dakota, which at
that early day was a wild and almost
unciviliZed country.
Dean Sheehan is the only survivor of
the party which carried religion to the
early settlers and Indians during those
pioneer days. He was ordained to the
priesthood for Dakota Territory on
September %, 1850. at st. l3aphael's
cathedral at Dubuque, Ia, by the Rt.
Rev. Bishop Hennessy.
Bishop O'Gorman and the other dig
nitaries of the church decided to take
advantage Of the opportunity to suit
ably celebrate the silver jubilee of the
first of the priests of the diocese who
during the twenty-five years confined
his efforts to the diocese of his adop-
ton.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
FARMERS ARE BUSY,
Following Closing of the T%hreshin.
Season Corn Huskinq Beqins.

Season Corn Husking Begins.
Huron, S. D., Sept. 2S.-Ihe report of
crops in this state for the week is as
follows:
The weather during the week aver
aged considerably warmer than usual
for this time in the season and was
generally dry. except that on the 1StlA
instant there We're showers in the east
ern portion of the state, which in the
extreme eastern counties We're ge1erousi
to heavy and somewhat retarded,
threshilfg by wetting grain stacks. =
On the whole. stacking. threshing and
haying, the cutting OF fax and mi!let,'
and the digging of potatoes made very
good progress. Stacking of small grains
and thrcshing from shock are about
finished.
IN some localities the yield of wheat,
is disappointing, but elsewhere mostly
favorable. though variable. The quail
lily is variable, and there is considerable
smutty grain. Reports continue to in
dictate that oats and spelt are as a
rule very satisfactory crops, but thai
considerable barley is discolorea.
Corn is maturing rapidly and the
crop Is now practically past danger
from frost, but a little of the late
planted on low land being yet exposed.
Unusually good yields are assured, and
cutting is advancing nicely.
Flax and millet harvest is nearly fin
ished. and the latest flax is practically
safe from frost: both are good crops.
Potatoes are mostly good, but the
yield is disappointing in some locali-
ties. and there is some complaint of
rotting on low land.
Having is finished in the southern
counties, but continues elsewhere.
Range grass is curing we'll md the out
look for winter grazing is Very gratify-
ms. Fall pasturase is generally good,
ana live stock is in fine condition.
Fall blowing is progressing, with the
soil mostly in good condition for this
work, though in some localities u little
too dry. Seeding of winter wheat is in
progress. In some extreme southeast
ern counties a limited amount of winter
wheat is being sown, and the earlier
own is terminating promptly.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
STATES
Table Showing a Comparison of Pres
ent Census with 1900.

Pierre. S. D., Sept. 2S.-The state census
department has completed tina figures on
population outside of the reservation In
dams, showing a total of 49,. 922. OF these
oNo are on the Fort Meade military reser-
Walton. The division of population by sen
cs. outside the Fort Meade population. is
ga, 97l males and 200, 36S females. The sum-
mary shows Isl ,l33 native. born of native
born parents, l52, 2i9 native born of'foreign
born parents, and 1855 foreign born.
There are 1865 negroes and 3,2l9 citizen In
dams recorded. The census five years ago
showed over 10000 reservation Indians in
the state, and they probably number about
1900 now, giving the state a grand total
of about 100, 900. The figures by counties
for l.un aud 1901 arn:
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
DEAD R o

Lead, S. D., Sept. 30.-A Chinaman
named All Gin, who has lived for sew
eral years in Portland, an adjacent,
mining camp, died yesterday as
the result of an attack made upon him
last night. Hhe was foun gagged at
q late hour last evening in an alley,
with his head badly crushed. He did
not regain consciousness, so could tell
nothing of the attack. All Gin was =,
highly respected Chinese resident, hay
Ing lived in Portland for several years.
He was 81 years OF age and was prom
lnent IN Chinese Masonic circles. He
had apparently Deer struck over the
head with an iron rod or some other
heavy instrument. No clew to his as
sailantS has been found,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
BROTHER OF THE MAYOR.

Jefferson. 8. D.. Sept. 2T.-In this little
French village resides Thomas Collins,
now q years of g a half brother of the
lately deceased mayor OF Boston, Patrick
A. Collins. Thomas Collins is a rather
tall, spare man, but well preserved and
straight as an arrow. He has a kindly
grey eye. He has resided here since the
COS. coming as a pioneer homesteader. and
q few years since he moved from the farm
which had been sadly despoiled by the ca
prices of the Missouri river. to a home in
town where with his wife he is passing
the sunset period of life at peace with ali
the world.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
FlNLANDER KILLED.

Lead, S. d., Sept. 25..-John p. Bii.:5.
wall, and t1nlander, working for The
Portland Mining company, was instant
~ killed by being caught under a. mass
of falling rock. He vas working in ire
tunnel Of the -Lackawanna Fraction
and tearing down the loose rock artcr.
a blast when the cavein occurred. lie
was alone at the time and the acgide3:t
was not discovered unit! su.le hours
later. He leaves a wife and two o!4.l-
ldren.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
RAPID CITY. eouTA DAKOTA

Leveson Cover, author of en%tertain-
Ing memoirs, tells of an occasion on
which Ruskin was snobbish. He says:
'Ruskin on one occasion gave a large
supper, To which he invited some of his
leading undergraduates whom he did
not know. His speech on this occasion
did not make a favorable impression.
He said he could hardly express how
much he felt honored that so many
young men who were superior to him
socially should have condescended to
accept his invitation. This disinclined
us to keep up the acquaintance, al
.though~aWe We're the losers thereby"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
CAT DOESN'T COME BACK.
Carried Away by a Big Hawk in South
Dakota.

Pierre, S. D., Sept. 2S.-Mrs. G. ".
1aagwell. who lives on a claim in Ly-
mar county, reports hawks and eagles
Sc numerous in hat section hat it Is
impossible to keep poultry. A
few days ago an eagle or large hawk
swooped down on the family cat as it
was summing itself in the dooryard and
carried 1t away.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
1RAINMAN KILLED BY CARS.
c. B, Coleman, of sanborn, la, Is KILLED.
at Canton,

Canton, S. D., Sept. 25.-.Ahout 12:SO
yesterday afternoon c. E. Coleman. a
freight CONDUCTOR on the Milwaukee
road. was instantly killed While switch
ing III the yards at this place. lie had
just cut out two car and sent them
onto h main track and stopped near
the switch, when the big. long train
came down upon him. His neck ws.s
terribly mutilated and his right shout
der almost torn from the body. Cole
mar had been rhilroading for nineteen
years n lived at Sanborn, where. q
wife and two children reside.