The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-06-06


tiers, engineer in charge of the recla-
nation work at Belle Fourche. Mr..
Bewick has recently received a ship
ment of this seed from Germany and
has sent it west with the request that
1t be distributed among twenty farm
ers in the Belle Fourche, Redwater
and Spearfish valleys. These farmers
must have irrigated land and must
pledge themselves to plant and Guilt
vate one-half acre each according to
directions. In September Mr.. Bewick
and an experienced chemist will ana.
lyze samples from each farm to as
certain the per cent of saccharine mat
ter. Mr.. Bewick has been looking
over the ground at Belle Fourche with
the view to establishing a beet sugar
factory, and this is the first step in
this direction.
The Indians on the Cheyenne River
reservation are again at their road
work for the summer. about 600 of
them being employed this year. The
workmen are paid in cash at the end
of each month. and for May about
$4,000 will be paid, while the pay
ment for June Is estimated at $40, 900.
For the year ending July / the total
amount paid to the Indians for road
work will be $4,000. This is paid TO
them in lieu of government rations,
the workmen waving that bounty
when they go to work. and while some
of them were slow to make the change
it worked so satisfactorily from the
beginning that the number of work
men is continually increasing. This
work gives the Indians ready cash
with which to purchase supplies,
which they spend where they please.
and puts them in line of earning their
living by labor, and at the same time
places a fine system of highways al
over the reservation.
While sheep shearing has begun In
a few fiocks on the range most Of that
work will be done through next
month While wool buyers are APP
pearing on the Pierre market, they do
not expect to secure anywhere nearly
so large a clip from this part Of the
state for this year as they have in past
years. The high prices paid for sheep
last year were too great tempta-
ton to many flock owners, who looked
in prices and let go, and as result
more than 10000 sheep were shipped
from the ranges Of western South Da-
kota last fall, which will materially re-
duce the clip for this year. Prices are
satisfactory for this season, many Of
the flock owners contracting last fall
to deliver this years clip at above 20
cents, and the situation looks as IL it
hn m IN
those who held their sheep last year
The school board OF Pierre has for
the past five years been Obliged to
wrestle with circus during COM
mencement week. When the gaudy
posters are put upon the bill boards
the pupils are in a rutter, and the
first attempt TO carry through the
commencement program went down
before the elephant and the circus
ring, and since that the day has been
given to the children and the COM
mencement program changed to meet
the occasion. This year the board and
teachers were in hopes their plans
would go through without Interrupt
ton, but circus was billed for two
days before the closing exercises AS
1t was long ago given UP as hope
less task to hold the pupils In school
for such a day another change has
been the day for their enjoyment
when the circus comes.
Fort Pierre will have big Fourth
Of July celebration, with representa-
lions of the waning wild west. There
will be roping, rough riding and an
Indian battle. Last year Pierre gave
way to Fort Pierre, which had made
elaborate preparations for the occa-
sion, but the town was flooded, and
a large part of the population was
homeless on the morning of the
Fourth. Again Pierre gives way to
the town on the west side of the river.
statistics for the month Of April,
which has just been completed, shows
1853 births and 32s deaths. pneu-
monia being the most fatal, with Al
deaths; heart failure being next, with
l3s: tuberculosis. IT; accidents, 1s:
cancer, IS, and suicides, g. There
were 267 marriages and 81 divorces,
five OF the divorced couples being resi-
0enIS OF the Stdl6 anu OF UNDERSTANDINGS
There were 251 naturalizations.
Pa-je-ko-wa, an old Bad River In
dian, who is credited with a century
of life, tells the white settlers In that
section that this country has in the
past gone through periods Of about
thirty years Of wet seasons and thirty
years dry. That one OF the thirty
years Of wet seasons has just begun,
and the new settlers can be assured Of
q number OF years of good crops.
A large number Of Congregational
Indians from the different Dakota res
isrvations congregated at Oahe last
week and held mission meetinRs In