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 Pierre, 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.. & P. Co., at the Falls and found
it we'll built and a pretty big enter
prise. Mr.. Lea designed the dam and
it is II he has reason to be proud
of. He has been 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 Watertown, shows that the net
profits for the year are over thirty
per cent. The same report is true
of n at Henry.
Governor Crawford, who is a
member of the advisory board of gov
errors 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 5, has ac-
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, having
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, have 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
f 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
e Lawson, of Duell county, died at his
: home in Clear Lake, last Monday
a%ftednoon.
A sportsmen's club is being formed
among Deadwood and Spearfish men
for the preservation of some valu-
I able timber lands for sporting uses
An option has been secured on $50
y acres Of fine timber land along Sane
creek which the intended club expect
y to purchase.
IS Wolf bounty claimants will thi:
year get seventy cents on the dollar
for their claims which is nine cent:
more than they secured under thu
apportionment last year. The tota
is claims this year are $14,244, and thi
), will have to be met out of the ap
10 preparation of $4,000 which the Law
" provides will have to. be pro rate'
on all claims and accepted in full
~ settlement with the state, the appor
tiopGng kystem' being accepted ID,
= the bounty people to prevent thei
appropriation from being wiped GU
Is completely.
The crop prospects in Duel count
70 are very good. The same can be sal
of those in Codington county, al
III though on account of the late col
n spring the harvest will be nearly tw
weeks late.
N The country around Aberdeen an
Id Redfeld was visited by a severe hal
lie storm. Some of the farmers ha
re their crops entirely wiped out.
n E. j. Adams, president of tn
lg Globe company, and a wealthy pape
Is manufacturer of Peoria, Ill.,, is e,
pected to arrive in Lead Monday mex
and will probably remain for
month in the Black Hills.
to A wife and five small childre
are left almost destitute by the deaf
of the husband and father, John N
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 c
the census cards of the last stat
OFT census in 1905, shows that the John
lit sons are the leading family in tn
state with a total of 5,940 bearin
that name. The Andersons follo'
r. with $3.50; then in order come tn
ly Olsons with 1850; Smiths, $3.50
Nelson's, $3.50; Petersons, 800
d. Hansons, 1880; Browns, 1920
e. Jones, 1895; Williams, 1850. TIL
in Smiths, Jones and Brown familie
in have to give way to nm which ar
of Scandinavian origin in the NORTH
a west and Johnsons, Andersons an
st Olsons take the lead.
n. G.. G. Long, a young man frol
IN Lake Odessa, Michigan, met an awf,
or death while riding the brake beam
" on a freight train going from Huro
to Watertown. The coupling pi
m broke and caused the accident.
lit One of the finest grain elevator
has just been completed at Letchel
m which is one of the finest betwee
Mitchell and Aberdeen. One hu1
dred and sixty farmers formed
syndicate and huilt it, and will ope1
in ate it themse,. YES. The capacity {
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