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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
HOW The BOYS GOT HURT
Team Became Frightened at White
Elephant and Dumped Boys in
the Creek.

A white elephant sign was the
cause of four Rapid City boys get
ting badly shook up last Friday af-
ternoon. AS Algern Holcomb, War
rem McElroy, !. lille Lewis and Jack
McElroy, were returning to keystone
from their camping expedition I'd
Custer and Sylvan lake, and had
reached Pine Camp, the horse, COM
ing in site of the elephant sign that
stands near the road, became fright
med and tipped the wagon load of
Dogs, coking untensils, bedding, ETC.,
off the bridge into the river a few
feet below. Willie Lewis had his
leg broken, Warren McElroy had his
ankle sprained and suffered from
several cuts and bruises. Aigern
Holcomb hung to the lines and run
ming gear of the wagon and was
dragged about fifty feet before he
could stop the team. Besides being
bruised and scratched he got of
without further injury. Jack Nc.
Elroy was not hurt.
Willie Lewis is now at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Chas. Canfield.-
Kovctnnn Rpcnrdoi. tx.s 4t
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OPEN soon
NEW HEATING PLANT BEING IN
STALLED IN HIGH SCHOOL
BUILDING.
Last Years Teachers Rchircd and
Only One Vacancy-Thc Eighth
Grade tN be Filled.

The school board expects to open
school by not later than October /
A contract was made with the
Sweeney Hardware Company to in
stall heating plant in the High
school building during the summer
but the firm was unable to get the
plant here before this week; they
now have a large force of men at
work putting in the plant and will
rush the work as fast as possible.
1t is safe in saying that school
will be opened not later than Octo-
Der first, and probably before that
date.
The principal, assistants and
teachers of last year were secured
again for this year and there is only
one vacancy. Tho teacher of the
eighth grade resigned after her cleo
ton and that leaves this position to
be filled.
Following are the teachers for the
ensuing year:
Prof. j. G. Blyman, superintend-
ent, Mary Hough, assistant superin-
tendent, Mildred McComb, assistant
superintendent; Harriet Davis, mu-
sic and drawing; Matte McMichael
Bertha Chapman, Ella Tooney, N
Maud Miller, Claudia Thompson, Ag-
mes Ferguson, Margaret Thomas
Lucy Buchanan, Laura Platt, Mill
cent Hall.
Eighth grade vacant, to be filled
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
STATE valuation
IS $3.50, 100000
BIG INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR
-THE HEAVIEST BEING IN
RAILROAD POINTS.
Final Footings Show South DaEot;
To BE Wealthy and Prosper
Gus State.

Pierre, S. D., August 31.-The
orty in the state after the work OF
the board of equalization has beer
footed up shows the grand total as
sessed valuation of the state is $780,
farm lands, that class of property
going at 100000, 0,00o, and all other
property in the state, including cor
porate property at $100,000,0
There has been an increase OF $2S,-
100000 for the year. of which $27.-
600, 900, was in farm lands
The detail Of increase of lands
shows an increase of 3.29 per cent
in the acreage. .54 per cent in the
average price per acre, and total
increase of S.11 per cent per mile
and total increase of 44.79 per cent
in the valuation.
The difference in all classes of
property between this year and last
year is:
Lands, 1906, $133,556, 6,S06; Lands
1907, $160,130, 1928; town lots, 1906
$25,117,251; town lots; town lots
1907, 27.753,50S; personal property
1906, 47,605,3S1; personal proper
ty, 1907, 49,69S,215; railroads, 1906
S14, ,9G2,140; railroads, 1907, $21,-
664, 200; telegraphs 1906, $242,SOO;
telegraphs, 1907 100000; tele-
phones, 1906, s7SO,293; telephones
1vy7. 1851 $40; express companies
19OG.$139,29S express companies;
1907, 251,177; sleeping cars, 1906
$22,50O; sleeping cars, 1907, $24,,
900.
The total increase over last yea,
is s3S,21S,60S. The heaviest in,
crease in railroad points, where the
increase was a heavy one, but hard
to get at in detail, as there are none
but approximate figures to woel
from in former years, when all tho
railroad assessment was on straight
mileage.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
RUN DOWN By
An AUTOMOBILE
CHARLES DIVIT RUN DOWN ON
MAIN STREET WEDNESDAY
BADLY SHAlA..N UP.
Was Carried Into Drug Store and
Wounds Dressed by DIR. Wheeler
Not Seriously Hurt.

Wednesday forenoon Charles Div
it was run down by Alfred Emrick' S
automobile and quite badly injured.
Mr. Emrick was coming up Main
street and had just passed under the
big arch at the corner of Main and
Seventh street when Mr.. Divit
started to cross the street from the
First National bank building to the
Harney hotel. He failed to see the
car, neither did he hear the horn,
and the car struck him when about
in the middle of the street. The car
was going at pretty good speed
and struck the pedestrian with force
enough to knock him down and pass
over him before Mr.. Emrick got it
stopped. Mr.. Divit was carried into
Fallon's drug store where Dr. Wheel
er dressed his wounds. He was bad
ly shaken up and received several
bad cuts about the face and bac,<,
but there were no serious injuries.
1t was narrow escape and Mr.. Divit
can be thankful that the car only
weighed $50 pounds instead of a
ton or more.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
A FOUR COURSE LUNCHEON
In Honor of Miss Cora Price, Bride
Elect Given Tuesday.

The pleasant homo of Mr.. and Mrs.
V. T. Price, on Quincy street, was
the scene Of a most pleasant social
affair Tuesday noon, when Miss
Miriam Price gave an elegant four
course luncheon in honor Of her sis
ter, Miss Cora Price, bride elect
The decorations were very pretty
and unique, consisting of brides
slipper and red roses, while the place
cards were hand painted slippers
The luncheon was served in four
courses, as follows:
Menu
Chilled Fruit Chicken Croquettes
Creamed Peas and Potatoes
Hot Rolls Olives Salad
Coffee
Sherry Trife and Mints.
Strict formality and convention
ality was dispensed with, and the
merry party, composed as it was OF
intimate associates, 'chums" would
more nearly express the association
had jolly good time.
Those present were Misses Heller
and Frances HALEY, Blanche and
Fannie Chase, Rita Rich, Ethe
Spayde, Bess Post, Susie Gantz, Hell.
en- Brown, Millicent Hail. Agnes
Ferguson, Constance Hartgerney
Ula Dale, Mesdames j. c. Blyman
and j. l.. McLearie
The popular hostess was assisted
by Misses Ruth Mansfield and Mar.
jorie Price.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
STATE SCHOOL FUND
HAS Large LOANS
$342, 200 Loaned on Farm Sccurit,
Throughout the State.

Pierre, S. D.-The state land de-
partment has loaned $362,3OO of
the permanent school fund for the
first half Of 1907. BY far the larger
part Of this is in the shape of farm
loans $342,700 going on that class
of securities, and the loans are scat
tered in nearly every county in the
state. Lincoln county asked for the
largest amount for the time getting
SGT ,260. While the law allows this
fund to be loaned on school and mu-
nicipal securities, it has ben the Gus
tom in the past and is. yet SO to
give the farm loans the preference
and while few loans were made on
bond securities, the farmers were
given the best of it. School loans
made amount to- $10,600, mostly in
small amounts; and the municipal
loans were $4,000 having been made
in Charles Mix and Gregory coun-
ties. The counties taking school
loans were Aurora, Butte, Day
Grant, Gregory, Hanson, McCook
Moody, Stanley, and Walworth coun.
ties. Ever since the interest rate or
the state loans were reduced from
six to five per cent there has been
no surplus in the state fund, which
at one time had grown to nearly
half a million dollars lying idle il
the treasury. Of course the general
prosperity With itf attendant de-
mand for money had something tc
do with the demand, but the lower
interest rate, and work of the de.
partment, started the people in tho
direction of state loans, and it is not
likely that there will be another
surplus soon.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
MEETING Of SCHOOL BOARD

Board met in regular session Fri.
day, August 80, with the following
members present, Messrs. Pascoe
Barber, Sargent, Crittenden and
Leary.
The presiding officer being absent
the meeting was called to order by
Superintendent Blyman.
In pursuance of notice Of his elec.
tion, A. X. Thomas was present and
qualified as a member of the board
to fill vacancy.
Upon motion A. K. Thomas was
unanimously elected president of the
board td fill vacancy caused by A. K
Gardners resignation.
Minutes Of the previous meetings
were read and upon motion ap
proved.
The treasurer's report was re-
ceived and read, and upon motor
was accepted and spread upon the
minutes.
Upon motion the buildings ant
grounds committee was requested tx
secure bids for the building of ce
ment sidewalk on the north side O.
the First ward school property ant
submit same at the next meeting.
Upon motion the text book com
mittee was requested to take up tn,
matter of the sale of text books will
the county commissioners AID repor
on same at next regular meeting.
Upon motion and roll call tn<
following bills were allowed on tneil
respective funds:
Allen Bros, insurance, $l7.25.
Fred Mccain, insurance, $22.4O; G
d. Smith, plastering, $4,000; Swan
der Grocery Co., supplies, $1.4O
Sweeney Hardware Co, supplies
$6.G5..
Upon motion the buildings ant
grounds committee were authorized
to enter into contract for maxim,
necessary repairs to floors of Thir,
and Fourth ward school buildings.
Upon motion the Fourth grad.
was transferred from the Higl
school building to the Third ware
school building.
Upon motion the board adjourne,
Ito meet September 2.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
70 IMPROVE THE
WESTERN RANGE
REsEEDING THE RANGE WITH
CULTIVATED GRASSES.
Studies and Experiments to Increase
the Forage on the All-Important
Summer Range.

The livestock industry turns to
account one Of the greatest natural
resources of the west-the forage
crop.
From the plains to the Pacific an
|astonishingly large proportion Of the
area is grazing land 1t is estimated
that this region contains over 49,
100000 acres which are useful at
present only for pasturtng stock.
A map printed in colors to bring out
the main areas Of agricultural, graz
ing, and desert lands was published
not long ago. 1t showed the graz
ing land color spread like sheet
over nearly all Of this grand domain.
which comprises something like one
third of the entire United States,
with relatively minor patches Of
other colors. In arid ranges the
range is comparatively poor, but al
most everywhere enough forage
plants can grow to make grazing
profitable.
The forest service in cooperation
with the Bureau of Plant Industry,
has begun series Of experiments to
find out how the carrying power Of
grazing lands within national for
ests can be increased. In nutshel.
the problems are, first, how to grow,
and second, how to utilize, the larg-
est amount of forage. The eonclu-
sions reached are likely to have an
important bearing on improved use
of the open range generally. The
economic possibilities of these exper.
iments are enormous.
In the past stockmen on the pub
lie lands have simply taken what ma
ture ofered them. But grazing tends
to put nature at disadvantage.
Plants which propagate by seed, for
example, have no chance when the
seed stalks are being eaten of all
the time. In many grazing sections
the carrying power Of the range has
been very greatly reduced through
the present methods OF use. Within
national forests the restriction Of
the number of stock to the capacity
OF the range has already checked the
worst evils which result from over
grazing. But the new inyestiga-
tions promise much greater things.
carried out along three distinct lines
studies Of what can be done In the
way OF introducing cultivated grass
es, studies of the range improves
ment through better knowledge Of
how wild grasses propagate and
studies oS how to handle both cat
tie and sheep 80 as to reduce the
waste due to herdine ana trsmplres
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
ABUSED WIFE TAKES POISON
Discouraged Because Husband Re
fused to Reform She Concludes
To End Her Misery.

Belle Fourche, S. D., Aug. 81
Because she had been compelled to
have her husband arrested for abus-
ing her and he had refused to re-
form, Mrs. Beatrice Dougherty swal-
lowed quantity of laudinum and
may die.
George Dougherty and his wife
came here from Sheridan, Wyoming
some time ago and he secured work
on the government ditch. He drank
a great deal and when intoxicated
frightfully beat his wife. On the
last occasion he was sentenced tc
twenty days in jail. Mrs. Dougherty
visited his cell and pieadedi with
Linn to no avail. She at once went
outside and swallowed the dose and
was discovered just before life was
extinct.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
OUR TIMBER SUPPLY
ABOUT EXHAUSTED
SEC'Y WILSON CLAIMS TIMBER
SUPPLY WILL LAST ONLY 10
YEARS.
In Short Time all Building Must
BE Made With Other Sort
OF Material.

Chicago, August 31.-If better
care, more general propagation and
fostering Of present conditions are
not observed, the forests of the Uni
ted States will be wiped out within
the next ten years" was the declar-
alton made by Secretary of Agricul-
ture James Wilson, at the Auditor
ium hotel yesterday.
The secretary reached Chicago
yesterday on his way to Washington
from tour of inspection Of govern,
ment forest preserves in the west
The pine timber of Wisconsin
Michigan and Minnesota he said
lis practically wiped out. Forest
fires is the one great thing to bt
guarded against, and for that pro
lection the government has employ
ed thousands of men to watch fol
fires. A person can ride for mile:
through Nlicnlgan, Wisconsin ans
Minnesota, and see barren section:
where formerly grew our great pins
forests. Fires started either care
lessly or otherwise, have wiped OF
millions and millions OF dollar
worth cf our best hard wood. Unles
something is done we will not havt
enough hardwood left in fiften year
at the latest to make an old fashion
ed bedstead with.
president Roosevelt has don
much for the preservation of gu
forests. more, / might truthful,
say, than all of our other president
combined"
,he secretary expressed the be
lief that the next congress shoul
Immediately take Up the forestr'
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
RAPID CITY HAS FAST
LINOTYPE MEN
JOE CAULEY AND Il. Il. HARTER
BEAT SIOUX FALLS OVER
200 LINES.
Now Claim Championship of South
Dakota and are Ready to Defend
the Title.

On August 80, the Sioux Falls
Daily Press published an article set
ting forth the skill Of the linotype
operators on that paper. The paper
stated that the day operator, A. j.
Albrook, set 2,4VO lines on August
2S, while Mr. Nelson, the night man
set 2,120 lines, each working eight
hours at the machine. This record
the paper claims, gives the Sioux
Falls men the championship Of the
state.
The Sioux Falls men certainly
made good records, but there lis
nothing very startling about theil
feat when you consider what the
Rapid City linotype operators. are
capable OF doing, and Sioux Fails
will have to come again or sur
render the belt to Messrs. Cauley
and Harter of the Gate City of the
Black Hills.
On Monday, September 9, Joe
Cauley set 2,615 lines of S-point il
eight hours while Frank Harter SET
2,G12 lines. On Tuesday, September
8, Harter set 2,656 lines while Cauley
set 1888. These gentlemen haven't
been making any unnecessary noise
about their skill, but when the Sioux
Falls paper talked out loud and
claimed the championship, etc.
Messrs. Cauley and Harter sat VI
and took notice.
Now it is up to our Sioux Fails
brethren to make good or send
over the belt.
The Sioux Falls paper claims that
their operators receive fabulous sal.
aries and each support Brown
Stone Front on one Of the principa
avenues of the city. We are heartily
glad that the boys are prosperous anC
doing well and hope that when they
come to measure up 'the string" o
life that they will be numbered
among the bloated millionaires.
We can't say just how big the
salaries are that Messrs. Cauley ant
Harter draw, but we are satisfied
that they are something prolific. Tt
our personal knowledge the boy:
manage to keep their board bill pai(
laundry each week, and besides WI
noticed that they both wear socks
und they have beautiful red anc
white spots on them.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
OUR TIMBER RESOURCES
Timber Getting Scarce and Fast Get
ting Under Control of Timber
MonopoNcs.

A point in tn industrial progress
of the United States has now been
reached where development of the
country is made, not in the face Of
the forest but with it's essential aid.
The old process of exhausting the
supply Of timber in a region and
then seeking new fields is practically
over. Already the lumber industry
is turning back on it's tracks. A
quality of timber is eagerly sought
in the lake states which few years
ago was ignored as utterly worthless
and in the South the whole pine re-
gion is being gone over in close
search for the old field pine, tree
once despised but now bought up
at prices much higher than those
formerly paid for the magnificent
timber Of the virgin forests.
A publication just issued by the
Department of Agriculture, entitled
National Forests and the Lumber
Supply" defines the important part
which the national forests are to
| play in the economic development OF
| the country. Abuses have sprung
up under the laws which provide for
the disposition Of public land, nota.
bly, the segregation Of the large hold.
ings of timber land for speculative
purposes. amber from the Nation,
al Forest is now purchased by the
thousand board feet, and payment is
made upon the actual scale of the
| logs when cut. Two dollars and q
half per thousand feet is compare
lively low as present charges go
but since the cut ranges from 5000
to 10000 feet per acre, the govern
ment receives from five to twenty
times as much for the timber as II
did under the timber and stone act
Public opinion now demands, n0
that the government should dispose
of its remaining timberlands as rap
idly as possible and leave it to pri
vate enterprise to exploit the fores
hastily, but that what remains of thu
National forest should be more con
servatively used. The government
has been forced into the lumber bus
mess solely in order that a suppl,
of forest products may be guaran
teed to future generations.
Probably 65 per cent of the tota
stand OF merchantabie timber with
in the Forests is located on the Pa
cific coast, where for long time thu
enormous supply of privately owned
timber will satisfy most of the de
mand. This more accessible privat,
timber 81 rrounded the forests a!
the meat Of an apple surrounds th'
core. 1t has been entirely eater
away in many places, while in Others
it is locked up by speculators. Th,
thing to remember, then, is that thi
Immense body of public timber n
there as a great reserve against tn,
4 time when private timber lands will
be depleted, and for use as a weapol
against monopoly.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
Fell Two Hundred Feet.

Lead, S. d.. Aug. 3O.-Overbal-
anced by heavy sack of sand which
he held on his shoulder as he was
being hoisted from the Terryville
shaft of the Homestake mine, Steve
CASTELAR,, a miner, slipped off the
rapidly moving elevator and plunged
200 feet 20 lIis death. He {had
reached the tiree-hundred foot level
when the accident occurred. This is
the first accident in the Home
stake in several months.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
RICHARD MANSFIELD
S DEAD
ONE OF AMERICAS GREATEsT
ACTORS PASSED AWAY LAST
FRIDAY.
Due to Disease, of tho Liver and
M
Combination of Other
Maladies.

New London, Conn, August 81
'dchard Mansfield, the best known
actor on the American stage, passed
away this morning at his summer
oSidcnce, Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue
Death was directly due to disease
OF the liver, aggravated by compli-
cations.
DR. A. H. Allen, local physician.
who has been in charge since Mr.
Mansfield arrived here from Saran-
&C Lake, N. Y, states that death was
not entirely unexpected, although
this fact had not ben made public.
Mr.. Mansfield's condition had
been reported as being excellent and
that he was up and around his home
mere until three days ago. Then
turn for the worse set in and Mr..
Mansfield was confined to his room.
On Thursday, DR.. Mcclellan. OF
Pittsburg, was summoned. DR.. AL
len said today, that he had feared
the worst for several days.
There were quite number of
conditions that prevented his getting
we'll. During the great actors last
moments he was lying In a condi-
ton of comma and did not recog-
nize the loved ones at his side.
There were present at the time of
his death, his wife, his brother Fe-
lix, his young son, Gibbs, and the
physician and nurses.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
Pierre Bridge Completed Scptcmbcl
Fifteenth

Pierre, Sep. 3.-With nothing to
prevent progress it is expected tnat
the new railroad bridge at this city
will be completed so that trains can
be crossed by the fifteenth of Sep
tember. Work is being delayed to-
day by the high wind making it un-
safe for Workmen but such
delay is only temporary, and will
not interfere to any extent.
Services Il the First congregational
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
isusnN
CAN'T HELP ITSELF

When you are told that
Rap d City has Il boom with
mushroom attachment, deny
it and insist that it's Just n
natural, normal growth that
that has begun to sit up and
notice-that'S all.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-06
"coME OUT OF tn

II you've been a knocker
come out OF it. Swear OF
anu JON the boosters. 1t will
HHelp p some II you subscribe
t1r me Union. It's saying
lhlngs Tor Rapid City once
week. $1.50 the year.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
How Hitchcock Saved the Show in
SHINY City
NEWS STORIES GATHERED ABOUT THE: TOWN

There are lot of good things
about New York. although the out
slider might not believe it from all he
hears that is bad" said, o. NJ. Hatcher
who recently returned from an east
ern trip, today. Among the good
things is the Legal Aid society. which
has as its object the furnishing of
legal aid to newly-arrived immigrants
who are in need of it.. and a good
many of them are. A certain class
of people make it a practice to get
the money of immigrants by the hand
lest unfair method, and the new ar
rivals are always in need of assist
ance.
"The society not only offers help
to the immigrants, but its members
do what they can to do away with
the discomfort of the foreigners. and
prevent them from joining the anar-
chistic class. These foreigners seem
to believe that courts are for the rich
alone, and If they are not set right
they are liable to blossom out into
full-fledged anarchists. Very often
their grievances come from misun-
derstandings, which the society tries
to straighten out. The laws are all
right, but the aliens do not UNDER
stand them, and therefore do not know
how to get what is coming to them.
The society stands as link between
wrong and remedy. 1t has four
branches, one down at the Battery