The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-09
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS
Interesting News Items Cleaned from
Our Exchanges and Elsewhere.

Interesting News Items Cleaned from
Our Exchanges and Elsewhere.
The Grind Stone Bee says that the
Warren brothers drove herd OF
seventy milch COWS through that
burg on the way to Lake Flat where
they intende to start a dairy farm
This is move in the right direction
The report of the bureau OF vital
statistics for June shows the usual
birth rate and a general increase in
population from natural causes in
the state. The births for the month
number 920, of which 431 were fe-
males and 4S9 were males. The
death list Reached 324; the mar
riages number 40; divorces were
only 3S, and the naturalizations were
1856.
Chin Due, better known as Quong
Chinaman who lives in Deadwood
on the east side of Main street in
the second ward, was arrested last
week by Deputy Sheriff Trathen,
charged with selling liquor without
a license. He was taken before Judge
j. W. Early, where he waived exam
ination in the justice court and was
bound over, under a $500 bond, to
appear before the September term
of the grand jury He furnished
the bond and is at liberty.
Exceeding even the fondest hopes
of the sheep men, the Banner crop of
wool has been brought to Belle
Fourche this year. To date over
one and a half million pounds of
wool has come there from the ranch
es north OF this place and few
more additions will be made to these
figures. Last years crop was less
than one million and a quarter.
Wool thre has brought the highest
price for range wool of any place in
the west, "a 3S cents per pound.
Norton Moses, clerk in the drug
store of G. l.. Smith, of Spearfish,
met with a serious accident yester-
day He was making chemical
compound when it accidently upset
and the acid with which he was work
ing splashed in his eyes. For some
time he suffered eXcruciating pain,
until medical assistance could be OBJ
tanned. 1t was thought at first that
his eyesight was completely destroy
ed, but it is now the opinion of the
physician in charge that one of his
eyes can be saved
Joseph Hodson, formerly of the
.Deadwood firm of Hodson Bros. &
Hogarth, was taken Sunday from st.
Joseph's hospital, where he has
been since a western trip, and sent
to the insane asylum in an almost
hopelessly demented condition
Some time ago Mr.. Hodson sold out
his business interests, including a
valuable ranch, for about $4,000
and with his wife started on an ex-
tended tour of the Pacific coast. Dur
ing his journey he was attacked with
violent form Of insanity and was
hurried back to Deadwood.
At the bankers meeting held at
Oacoma, few days ago, it was learn
ed that the business of the banks of
Lyman county Tor the past Bean'
amounted to more than thirteen mil
lion dollars. T--.s was a county in
which the tide of settlement has
bsen flowing for less than thshe
years, but all the banking up to a
short time ago was done at Oacoma
or Chamberlain or Pierre, and the
banking facilities of the county are
practically all the growth of the past
year, which makes the showing all
the better for the county.
Charles Line, of Vermillion, is the
inventor Of weed cutting machine
which he thinks is to make his for
tune. He says the weed cutter is
especially valuable to railway COM
panies, as it will do the work of 80
men and do it better in the same
length of time. 1t can be attached
to hand car and will cut weeds and
grass at any distance from the track
The state capitol commission has
selected State Engineer S. H. Lea,
as superintendent of construction on
the capitol building and he is test
ing to decide upon the foundation re-
quired. rHH
Governor Coe l. Crawford, of South
Dakota, who is member Of the ad-
visory board of governors and who
will accompany President Roosevelt
on his trip down the river from st.
Louis to Memphis, has accepted an
invitation to make speech before
this interesting and distinguished
body Of men, assembled in convention
1t !Memplfs. president Roosevelt
has written to all the governors
who are to accompany him his
pleasure in the anticipation OF meet
ing the governors of the Missippi
valley who have sent their invita-
tion to him
To give him fortune of one cent
which was willed to him by wealthy
brother, relatives in Chicago are try
ing to ascertain the whereabouts of
Michael Corcoran. Letters have been
received at Deadwood by attorneys
and others asking that Corcoran be
traced, not on account of the munifi-
cence of his brothers. will, but to
settle up the estate. In the letters
It is said that Cnrcnran Is heliaued To