The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-11
ThAState at q Glance
TIE Besstt Of AH tie News Tersely Told

sire. If the national corn show wa:
a month later, the corn would be ir
sfors a creditable exhibit
AS tits, i Think we hads better wal
a year,
Sixteen years ago; the winter at:
tended the great Catholic congress
of, Sioux Indians at Cheyenne river
agency and was shown the wild In
-dians from Cherry creek" who came
in wearing Blankets and long hail
and who were SILL as wild and bar.
barous as they make them. Last weei
we saw many of these same Indians
engaged in their agricultural o2cu'
-pations, dressed as citizens, many OF
them worth from five thousand to
twenty thousand dollars in fine herds
their children attending school an(
intelligent, the women arrayed IL
modern millinery and we could no.
escape the conclusion that in spite
OF all that is said to the contrary the
Sioux indians are. making some pro
g~rcss.--Picrre Dakotan.
I,osie Wagner, the twelve-year-olt
daughter of Nh. and MRS. George e
Wagner, who live near Yankton
died last Sunday evening. 1t is sup
poaed that a blood vessel burst in
some unexplainable manner for she
died suddenly, having been in the
best of health.st :.
The mill of the Globe Mining Com
Eany will start operations as soor
as the wires. which will be installed
by the Redwater Power Company
are stretched. A large amount OF
ore is. in sight.
The business men of Washington
held a meeting for the purpose OF
pledging a bonus of $4,000 for tx
erection of a modern hotel with
twenty-five guest rooms. j. l.. Corar
CT Plankington, will build the hotel,
DeadWood lodge No. sos, b.. P.%O,
T., have purchased Il site and build
iag at the cost of $1,000 which they
viii use as a new lodge home. The
3uading will be completely: reno
yated and made over into luXuriant
clubrooms.
The state land department has
Sod a tract of twenty acres Of "Tay-
,lcr land" near the. city of Madison
fer $1.500, says a.Pierre special. This
was taken at a much lower valuation
at the time the Taylor property was
turned over, and the present increase
in the price of land in the state will
ae'n out on such tracts yet held by
The state. At the best the state will
COZ 6 q long way from playing even
on the Taylor deal, but had money
been appropriated years ago to pro-
tect state equities in many tracts
which were allowed to go the re-
turns would have more than paid the
state losses and returned the money
with interest, which. would h~avesbeen
needed for that purpose. But when
this could have been done land prices
Were low, and had been for years,
and no one would. consider an appro-
prjation, which was looked upoa as
throwing good money after bad.
Two more people prefer South Da-
t.o'a according to a Yankton special
tc tho Sioux5City Journal. Victor and
August Aronson. who left this coun-
ty last spring for a journey to the
Old HOME in Norway, have Just re
turl edsafter spending the summer Wis
the scenes of their. childhood.
ICY Nid4notebuy return tickets, be
ing that 1T was probable they
4 ostldsnot care to return. They bad
'sses..l Away eighteensyears, had pros
.sered moderately we'll, but felt a
Longing for the land of their nativity
tbataathey suspected might be too
stu to resist when they came to
trnssdgsits shores again; but all this
ssassSssSsu away after a few months
stasSs and they have returned thor
glsFsaly cured OF their fatherland fe-
Yer.
4. Gill, steward at the state peni-
Tertiary, was stabbed Thursday after.
lncca by Robert Ames, "a prisone,
from Lyman county, who is serving
a twenty years sentence for man.
slaughter. Ames used a a S knife
Z @oundtinflicttd on Mr.. Gill i.
very serious.
Would Make Hit With Teddy.
IInEcmpliance with an act of the
legislature, 1t has been the duty o,
tho-clerk of courts In each county d
the state, since July /, 1905, to keel
b recordfof5gthe Mrths that occur ant
to make each month a report thereo.
to the bureau Of vital statistics. Tit
records in Clerk of Courts Sol Star.
office show that between July L, 1905
and July .I,.F19O7, there we're In Law.
county approximately LOCO
Taking for granted that. the
population of the county is 10000
there has been one birth for eacf
forty persons during each year. The
averages has been forty births pei
months or one and one-third births
per day.
\ \ The best record was made in Jan.
uary, 1906, when seventy-three ba,
bies were added to the population
q he county. The lowest humble,
.eslsyed was In July. 1905, wher
seventeen births took place.
Sfr. and Mrs. John Crossman, Of
Terraville hold the record for com.
with the Injunction OF Presi
aRclpseyeh directed towards the
iarsyentdicnNo Of race suicide, The ne;
ssnl'iag 4ot sthe last birth In thet
shows that have been
blessed with the advent OF seven.