The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-05-04

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In order to the success of the opera
ton the bishop was forced to lose
his right eye, which was removed,
and he is now convalescing.
In the debate which is to take
place between the South Dakota and
Iowa universities, Harry P. Illsley
of DeadWood will take a prominent
part.
The business men of Mitchell are
agitating the idea of securing a COM
petent mar to look after the inter-
ests of the city in every way. The
commercial committee feel that they
have not time to do it properly.
The statement of business of the
national banks of South Dakota for
the call of March %, shows total
individual deposits to be s19,947,-
393.58, a gain of $1,752,460.51
since the call on January &c. There
are now eighty national banks. in
the state.
At the Indian council just closed
at Cheyenne River agency, the Ute
Indians now being held at Fort
Meade We're represented by Appah,
one of their chiefs, and Major john
son of Fort Robinson. Appah made
a plea for his people who he said
could not live on the reservation
set aside for them in Utah, and it
is said Major Johnson in his re-
marks of the treatment of the
treatment of the Utes made a most
radical speech in regard to the way
they had been treated by the gov
eminent Indian department. The
lease made to them by the Sioux In
dams was for about 100, 900 acres
In the northwest corner of their re-
serve, at a rate Of ~ cents per
acre for a year for a f~ve-year term.
Profs. Cole and Wheaton, of the
agricultural college at Brookings,
are on a trip west of the Missouri.
for the purpose of starting farmers
Institutes. They will also look over.
the country with a view of locating
n of the experiment farms pro-
vided for by the last legislature.
Word was received in Spearfish
last week, says the Mail, announcing
the death at Grand Junction, Colo,
of w. D. Sharp. There were no par
ticulars, but as 1t was said that he
had been killed, it is supposed that
he was ra%ilroading, as he has fol-
lowed that work for several years
past. Mr.. Sharp was interested in.
some mining properties at Cyanide
prior to coming to Spearfish in 1897.
Later he was interested in the cya-
hide plant operated at the Powers
stucco mill. After the destruction
of that plant by fire, he followed as
saying and was for a time employed
at the Cleopatra mill on Squaw
creek. He left Spearfish about four
or five years ago and entered the
employ of the Burlington railway as
operator. His family is still In the
Hills, somewhere in the vicinity of
Portland. He was an erratic fellow,
seldom staying with any position for
sany length of time, and absolutely
Indifferent as to whether he
had job.of work or not. He was
city assessor n year.
Robert o. Schaher, editor OF the
Hudsonite, has been appointed treas
urer Of the South Dakota Press as
ISOLATION to I'LL a yacancycaused Nv
the removal from the state OF Edgar
Mcdaniel, Of the Flandreau Herald
The South Dakota state printing
lcOmmiSsiOn# has adOnfedS @rnle /
govern all state institutions Ia pro-
curing printing. Where:the amount
is lessthan s25 N maysb be ordered.
discretion but over that amount
bids mustStoe asked for.
ChassReed. of the Wodnsocket
Herald. has sold the papersto
glssIlilloai:sMr. Reed vh,oswasthe
Iffonndar of the Herald VIII
snlttAs c0unty.Mfera heWtill Gosinto
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