The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-09
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

State Engineer Lea, of P ere, says
the Hot Springs Star, was in town
the first Of the week on his way
home from a tour of inspection of
various irrigation projects in the
Hills spending some time at the big
government job at Belle Fourche and
overseeing some private plants at
Sturgis and Rapid City. While here
he inspected the new dam of the w.
l.. c P. Co., at the Falls and found
1T well built and a pretty big enter
prise. Mr.. Lea designed the dam and
it is one he has reason to be proud
of. He has beer selected to super
intend the construction of the new
capitol building, which assures the
state a square deal in the structure.
Mrs. Paul Wollman, sister Of Sec
rotary of State Wipr, died at Bow
den. North Dakota, last Friday.
The Farmers Elevator companies
of the state, are making very graft
flying reports. One at South Shore.
near WATERFOWL, shows that the net
profits for the year are over thirty
per cent. The same report is true
Of one at Henry.
Governor Crawford, who is a
member of the advisory board of gov
ernors who will accompany Presi-
dent Roosevelt on his trip, down the
river from, st. Louis to Memphis,
where the, deep waterway convention
is to be held October 4 and S, has &C
cepted an invitation to make a
speech to those assembled in the
convention.
A Pierre special says that w. G.
Bower has arrived at that city with
several carloads of machinery for
the manufacture of brick, haNiltg
changed his location from Vermillion
to Pierre. He expects to get his
yard in operation at as early a date
as possible so as to burn enough
brick this fall yet to supply the To-
cal demand.
The county commissioners of
Hand county, nave made contracts
with the Iowa Bridge company to
: build ten new steel bridges this fall
: on the streams in that county.
! Governor Crawford has appointed
as three members OF a commission
on uniform state laws to meet with
other states at Portland, Maine, in
August: l.. w. Crofoot, of Aberdeen,
U. S. G. Cherry, of Sioux Falls, and
A. w. Wilman of Huron.
Robert Lawson, father of Sheriff
Lawson, of Duell county, died at his
home in Clear Lake, last Monday
e aftednoon.
A sportsmen's club is being formed
among Deadwood and Spearfish men
for the preservation of some valu-
able timber lands for sporting uses
y acres Of fine timber land along Sand
creek which the intended club expect
y to purchase.
IS Wolf bounty claimants will this
year get seventy cents on the dollar
for their claims which is nine cents
more than they secured under the
apportionment last year. The tota
is claims this year are $14,244, and thi:
,r will have to be met out of the ap
preparation of $4,000 which the Law
,r provides will have to be pro rated
"a on all claims and accepted in full
,r settlement with the state, the appor
tiondng pystem being accepted ID,
the bounty people to prevent thei,
appropriation from being wiped GU
IS completely.
o. The crop prospects in Duel count!
70 are very good. The same can be sail
of those in Codington county, al
III though on account of the late COLI
Il spring the harvest will be nearly tive
weeks late.
m The country around Aberdeen ant
ID Redfield was visited by a severe hal
lie storm. Some of the farmers hat
re their crops entirely wiped out.
n e. ]. Adams, president Of tn
lg Globe company, and a wealthy pape
is manufacturer of Peoria, ILL.,, is ex
pected to arrive in Lead Monday mex
and will probably remain for
month in the Black Hills.
to A wife and five small children
are left almost destitute by the dealt
Dr. of the husband and father, John M
lie Russell, of Hetland, who was kille'
by the cars while walking home o.
M the railroad track. 1t is not know
it why he did not hear the train.
A Pierre special to the Argus
W Leader, has the following concern
Z, ing the census: The final sorting o
the census cards of the last stat
OF census in 1905, shows that the John
lit sons are the leading family in tn
state with a total of 5,940 bearing
that name. The Andersons follow
r with $3.50; then in order come tn
ly Olsons with 1850; Smiths, $3.50
Nelson's, $3.50; Petersons, 1910
Hansons, 1880; Browns, 1920
e. Jones, 1895; Williams, 1850. TIL
Smiths, Jones and Brown familie
have to give way to m which ar
of Scandinavian origin in the north
a west and %Johnsons, Andersons am
Olsons take the lead.
n. G.. C. Long, a young man from
Lake Odessa, Michigan, met an awful
or death while riding the brake beam
" on a freight train going from Hurol
to Watertown. The coupling phi
M broke and caused the accident.
1T One of the finest grain elevator
has just been completed at Letcher
m which is one of the finest between
w Mitchell and Aberdeen. One hun
dred and sixty farmers formed
Syndicate and huilt it, and will oper
in ate it themselves. The capacity o
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