The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-01

erected.
The hauling OF the machinery from
Custer to the New York mica mine
has begun. There are four new
tubular boilers, and an electric en-
CINE of $50 horsepower and weigh
ing sixteen tons without the con-
Meeting parts.
1t Is an interesting fact that a
great many lake beds between the
sioux and James rivers which for
years have been under the pillow,
have filled up and are now running
over. Steamboats, are being run on
several of them.
Edwin Hoffman, of Elk Point,
who will graduate from Oberlin
college this June, has been APP
pointed associate secretary of the
Y. NJ. G. A. of Toledo, Ohio. There
are over 500 boys in the Toledo
association.
The Beadle County Abstract and
Title company, of Huron, of which
p. III. Vance and p. l.. Abel were
principals, has sold It's books and
business to G. A. Blake, register Of
the United States land office, and
James e. Scott.
Some Sioux Falls school boys,
thinking that the statue of a soldier
near the central school building was
made OF brass, knocked it from its
pedestal one night recently. Two of
the boys confessed and implicated
five others. They said that they in
tended to break it up and, when the
excitement vas over, to sell the
brass.
Henry Lang was drowned at Mitch
ell Monday. Lang was a carpenter
and laid a wager with Mike Helms
berger that he could swim across
the lake, at the Milwaukee yards,
and back, a distance of about ten
rods. Lang swan to the other side
and rested. Swimming back he was
taken with cramp and sank in ten
feet of water. His body was o
ed by the police.
joint session of the county
commissioners of Clay and Yankton
counties was held at the court
house at Yankton to consider plans
for draining a large area of the Mis-
souri, bottom between the James and
Vermillioh rivers. Thousands of
acres Of wet and sloughy land can
be reclaimed by proper drainage.
County Engineer Bruce furnished a
profile and survey notes of the pro-
posed canal. Nothing was decided
further than the improvement must
.be made without delay.
A Huron dispatch to the Aberdeen
News states that another business
meeting Of the state board Of agri-
culture was held yesterday, at which
time contracts we're completed for
new buildings to be erected on1yhe
state fair grounds there, and alse
the contract for the new track, tn.
latter being awarded to r. w
Clarke. Work on the buildings AM
track will begtlA at once. Worl
plans Tor Identifying the grounds
suggested by Prof. Hanson, of tn
sSs6tAI6 ABTlcuIIuE6l COlle6e, were w
cepted. The board followed tn
suggestion OF Adj. Gen. Englesby
and detail of the state militia viii
do police duty during the five day
OF the fair.
The fourteen-year-old son Of Rev
David Hober, pastor Of q Russian
Mennonite colony in Hutchinson
county. was. caught in a shaft of
roller millSat GAINESVILLE, and befor
the machinery could be stopped tn
boy had received such serious in
juries that he died q few minute
after being released from the shaft
The Seventeenth annual session 9
sthesgrand lodge Of the South Dakot
40. u. w. will convene in Siou
Falls May a. Al there r 10
sllOdgesinathis jurisdiction, the meet
sstng@EWill be q very important one.
The Workmen In the railroad gray
el pit az Oacoma have discovered
number Of human skeletons. and
ellaupppsed that the spot was fol
iagrly anSIndian burying ground.
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