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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
DENVER SELECTED
FOR NEXT YEAR
NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE TRQANS-NIISSISSIP
CONGRESS
EVERY WESTERN STATE AND
TERRITORY REPRESENTED
AT THE MEETING.

San Francisco, Oct. 6.-With sub
stantial AMI representative delegates
representing every state and terri
tory west Of the Mississippi river, the
nineteenth annual rans-Mssissippi
Congress opened today in this city.
Awaiting the presence of many dele
gates otherwise engaged or still ell
route, the proceedings of the morn
ing session apart from the address
of President Case, of Abeline, Kan
sas, consisted largely of addresses,
conveying to the visitors cordial
assurance of welcome National in
terest in the deliberations of the con-
gress was indicated by messages re-
ceived from the president, and the
presidential nominees of the republi-
con and democratic parties, japanese
ambassador and officials closely con-
nected with the administration.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
CARVING OE TURKEY
PROMISES WAR
LOOK VERY THREATENING AND
is A POSSIBILITY THAT AUS
TRIA AND SERvIA WILL
HAVE A N.IN-UP OVER ANNEyA.
TlON OF BOSNIA AND THE
SERVIANS WILL FIGHT.

Vienna, Oct. S.-War between
Hungaria and Servia is
Aow recognized as possibility, al
Tough it is believed here that a
var will be averted. King Peter is
n a difficult position on account of
: he clamor of the Servians for war,
Etcularly so as his tenure on the
Alehe has never been safe.
The Austrians on their part have
feeling of national enterprise
account of the forward move
AeEt in the annexation of Bosnia
IN Herzegovina and would be. more
han ready for further adventure
low than they We're week ago.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
The Estimate is Low.


Bombay, India, Oct. 3.-Upwards
OF seven thousand bodies have already
been recovered from the wreckage
OF the recent disastrous food by the
health department of Hyderabad.
Funeral pyres are on every hand and
hundreds of them are burning night
and day. The belief is expressed
that the death roll will exceed all
previous estimates.
Bryan to Again Visit New York,
New York, Oct. 8.-William J..
Bryan will make another address in
New York and visit the upstate cit
les. He will speak In Madison
Square Gardens on October 26.
Chicago, Oct. 8.-William ]. Bry-
an and National Chairman Mack
talked over the itinery Of the demo-
cratic candidate for the rest OF the
campaign. Mr.. Mack said it was not
unlikely Bryan would speak in Den
yer.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
THE GOVERNOR NOT WANTED

Ohio Democrats Not Anxious to See
Governor Haskell.
Columbus, o., Oct. 3.-Chairman
Finley of the democratic state COM
mittee said today that if Haskell
comes to Ohio to speak during the
campaign it will be entirely on his
own acrOuut
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09

When you are told that
Rapid City has a boom with
mushroom attachment. deny
It and insist that it's Just u
natural. normal growth tat
that has begun to sit " and
notice-that's all.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-29
(From London Freethinker.)


May l explain myself to the younger
members of your hock-if you will allow
me so to describe the readers of the Free
thinker-who may otherwise be discouraged
in their adventure into Freethought by the
taunt that so conspicuous an atheist as my
self recanted as soon as he was old enough
TO know better.
| have never changed my mind about
popular religion in this country. l do not
claim that this is merit on my part: on
the contrary, "A genuine Freethinker should
change his mind as often and as carefully
as he changes his linen. But as matter
of fact, to be deplored or applauded as the
case may be | loathe the mess of mean
superstition and misunderstood prophecies
which is still rammed down the threats of
children in this country under the name of
Christianity contemptuously as ever.
And in my opinion the blacklist spot in
English public life is the cowardy dishonor
in which our public men leave the Bias
phemy Laws unrepealed and imply, in all
their utterances on religious education and
imperial organization, that they worship
the savage idol in the tale of the bears
sent to eat the children who Knocked
Elisha's badness; that our Mahometan,
Buddhist and Hindu fellow subjects are
walking in darkness whilst our Classics
and Agapemonites and Plymouth Brethren
and Countess of-Huntingdonians are bath
ing in celestial light; and that Mr.. Edmund
Gosse's father was a more enlightened
man than Matthew Arnold. We may con
graduate ourselves on the fact that the
present Government contains only one man
stupid enough to institute prosecution for
blasphemy but what are we to say to that
other fact that though every one of his fell
low ministers who is of sufficient import
ance to make his opinions ascertainable,
would, if the Blasphemy Laws were sincere
ly and impartially carried out, be an ex-
prisoner legally incapable of holding his
Office, they all covered shameessly before
the superstition of that colleague, and vir-
tually committed themselves to the opinion
that a man should be ruinously punished
with the vilest criminals for refusing to be
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-29

lieve that the birth of Jesus was parthe-
nogenetic.
Your younger readers will now ask why
if these are my views-tnat am regarded
by so many Secuiarists as an aposlate.
" hen l spoke on Progress in treethought at
the Hall of Science after the death of Brad
laugh, why was | received with burst OF
fury such as no clergyman need have feared
there? Why do the congregations OF the
City Temple and Westbourne Park Chapel,
with their famous pastors in the chair, make
much of me, whilst the National Secular So
Getty, after two trials, had to drop me as an
ntoierable blasphemer whose lectures would
arrive away the old guard on whose sub
scriptions the Society depended?
The answer is that | am impiacably and
contemptuousiy anu -raIlondlisL and anti
materialist, and that the Secularlsm of the
National Secular Society, in spite of your
leadership, is crudely railroads.&c. and ma
teralistc. When l called myself an atheist
years ago in order to make it Gear that |
was on the side OF Bradlaugh 10 his fight
with the House OF Commons, meant that
| had exactly the same opinion Of what his
prosecutors called God as MGhomet had of
The stones which the Arabs worShpped be-
fore he cOnverrod them used = NEGATIVE
term 10 express a negative position. | re-
peatedly and publicly repudiated the term
Agnostic logical as it was) because an Ag
nostic was then understood to declare, with
regard to the existence OF God (which then
meant Jehovah), that he did no; know.
said that | could not take that position, be-
cause | did know that there was NJ such
person. When quesioners asked aow | could
prove negative, | asked them now they
could prove that there was not blue horse
with green wings capcring at that moment
on the roof of st. Paurs Cathedral and what
they would think of my inte,'ect and char
acter if, merely because | hal not been to
Ludgate Hill to make sure, | nesiated to
deny, dogmatically and fatty, that mere was
such a horse so occupied?
So far, the Secularists regarded me It's enc
of themselves. But neither Secularists nor
any one else can live on negations any more
than vegetarians can live on mere Austen
ton from meat. When the account given
in Genesis of the origin of the universe held
the field, the man who said Rubbish" made
an important contribution to Freethought;
and our consciousness of that made us all
say Rubbish" with an earnestness and elo-
quence which now seem ridiculous. For,
very Unexpectedly, Genesis fell before us
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-29

Playwright and Novelist Defends His Po-
siton against the Structures of Editor
Foote in London Freeth.nker.
Latter's Rejoinder in our
Next Issue.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-29
Bernard Shaw on his Religion

like the walls OF jericho. And from that
moment, the rreetnInkers, instead OF being
met with angry assertions OF the acCuaI
.stence OF the Garden OF Eden, 1ound them
Selves eagerly ana respectfully invited To
eApiaIn me universe Dy people VINO quite
agreed that the bible story was impossible.
Agnosuc reply 4 don't know, meant
simple extinction OF the treetninker as
ieaaer OF thought. 1t may be frank an
swer and a true answer but SO is the an
swer OF the man who says Il don't know
wnen you ask him the way to Putney. You
40 not question his honesty; but you take
no further interest in him.
Wnen, as Nietzscne- AaratEustra put II,
'uod is dead, Atheism ules also. Bible
smashing Is tedious 20 people who have
smashed tner biDies. / do not say That
there Is no Work lett 1or ATHEISTS ana Bible
snlasners among people wno remain stepped
III the crude ldolatry that is SILL all that
religion means TO large masses OF the En-
gisn people, though 1 DOUBT whether the
inc can be drawn higher now than at what
the Roman Catholic Church gives up as In
| prefer positive work; and, indeed, whether
We like 1t or not, we all have to face posi-
tive work ii We are to retain any hold OF the
pioneering section of the public. When
you said, very penetratingly in your article
on my City Temple sermon that God is in
process of manufacture, you put Atheism
aside just as man puts his gun aside when
he has shot the tiger and must set to work
with his spade. The clearing away of false
solutions is not clearing away of problems;
quite the contrary; it brings you face to face
with them. Denial has no further interest;
you must begin to affirm.
Under this pressure there arose Neo-
Darwinism, or the explanation of all phenom-
ena as the result of Natural Selection. The
world according to this view is only pur-
poseless accident, interesting only because
ingenuity of its explanation. Opposed to
this stands the 179O-1S3O theory of Evolution
as the struggle of a creative Will or Purpose
(called by me the Life Force) towards high
err forms of life-God in process of manu-
facture, as you put it. Neo-Darwinism is a
materiaistic theory. Evolution is a mystical
one.
The Secularists embraced Natural Selec-
tion rather because it was the opposite ex-
IRENE to Jehovah worship, than from any
serious grasp of it and its CHASTITY mplica-
Continued on page IS
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
ALBERT DAHLEM
The Reliable Dealer

The Woman's Relief Corps will
give an ice cream social on Wednesday
afternoon, August 5, at the residence
of Mrs. David Cleveland. A cordial
invitation is given to all. Remember
the date, Wednesday, August 5, and
60. Ex. Committee.
Mrs. Geo. Fish entertained at dinner,
on Sunday, for Mrs. s. NJ. Bruce,
Mrs. VIM. Garvey and Mrs. Jennie
Grover of Minneapolis, and Mrs. CIV.
Duncan of st. Paul. After dinner Mr..
Fish took the entire party, including
Mrs. M. Mullen, for a drive to the
beautiful shore of upper Sauk Lake.
A telegram to the Minneapolis
Journal from Ray, N. D., under date
of July %, says that Ivan G. Sheets
was seriously hurt while feeding a
press in the office of the Ray Pioneer,
The press broke and a piece of iron
struck him over the left ear. There is
doubt of his recovery. Mr.. Sheets is a
son of A. w. Sheets, publisher of the
Todd County Argus of Long Prairie.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
MARKET DAY
Saturday, August |, Is the Date,
aud An Elaborate Program
Has Been Arranged

Next Saturday, August /, is Mark
ct Day in Sauk Centre
Market Day was omitted in July
owing to the fact that the regular
date was the Fourth and there was a
big celebration going on here that
day.
Next Saturday, the ninth monthly
Market Day, will be observed and it
will be as great success as it's pre-
decessors. Market Day has come to
be an established event here and the
farmers look forward to it with eag-
er expectation.
In addition to the regular auction
and sales features, the committee
has arranged for series of sports
for the boys and young men. The
chief event is a foot race for cash
prizes aggregating $2.75, the course be
ing cne third of mile around city
block, entries to be limited to ten,
ages between 1S to %. For details
OF the Market Day program, see ad-
verlisement on page Z.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
FARMERS WANTED
Government Is Looking For Set
tiers On Land Reclaimed By
Irrigation

WANTED-3,0OO practical farme!
who would like to own homes OF
their own The government has near
L. 100000 acres of land lying in the
various irrigation projects throughout
the West for which water will be
available next sason. The farm unit
on these projects varies in most
cases from 40 to 80 acres of irri-
gable land, depending upon location
In many sections a tract of grazing
land has been included in the farm
unit wherever practicable, bringing
the total up to 160 acres.
The only charge for these farms,
besides the regular land office fee
for filing, is the actual cost of getting
water to them, and payment may he
made in ten annual installments, with
out interest.
These irrigation projects are scat
tered over the entire arid region, from
Canada to the Mexican line. In con-
sequence, every variety of crop grown
in the temperate zone can be raised
under them. If you would like a fruit
or dairy farm, a garden for market
truck, a tract for diversified farm
ing, hog or poultry raising, just write
to the Statistician of the u S. Re-
clamation Service, Washington, D.
c., for particulars.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
Resolution.

Be it resolved, by the Common
Council of the City of Sauk Centre:
That the plans, specifications,
estimates and tabulated statements OF
Engineer, George G. Ingram. for
District Sewer to be constructed in
Sewer District number five in the
City of Sauk Centre, be and hereby
are accepted and approved and ordered
to be filed in the office of the City
Clerk OF the City CT Sauk Centr and
that proposals Tor bids for the con-
struction of said District Sewer be
the official paper of the City o! Sauk
paper published at St. Paul, the
Capital Of the State of Minnesota, for
three successive weeks, once in each
week.
And be itfurther resolved that Fri.
day, the 28th day of August A. D.
1908, at nine O'Clock in the forenoon of
said date, be the exact time at which
bids will be opened for the considera-
ton of the Common Council of the
City of Sauk Centre and that bids
will be received up and until said
time and the City Clerk of the City of
Sauk Centre is hereby authorized and
directed to prepare notices for pub
Iication according to law and in ac-
cordance with these resolutions and
have the same published.
Passed by the Common Council OF
the City of Sauk Centre, this Goth. day
of July A. d. 1908
E. A. RICHARDS
President of the Common Council
Attest:
J.F. COOPER,
(SeaD City Clerk.
The foregoing resolution is hereby
approved by me this Doth. day OF
July A. d. 1908.
F.E. MINETTE
Mayor of the City of Sauk Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
The Trees of Paris.

The city of Paris OWES $1,000 trees,
or one to every thirty-two inhabitants,
without counting the trees in some
300 acres of parks. The horse chest
nut is the commonest tree planted
by the municipality; after it comes
the plane tree. In some of the more
distant and secluded avenues lines
and acacias are found, but variety
must not be sought outside the gar
dens and parks which belong to the
state. There one may find almost
every tree that may be grown in the
Paris climate
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
MORE HOT WEATHER
Mercury Scars in the Tube and
As a Result Humanity
SweIters and Pcrspires

Eighty degrees above zero in the
shade at 7:3O in the morning is pretty
warm isn't it? Well, that's what
the high grade thermometer on the
north side of Hanson & Emerson s
drug store said Wednesday morning,
July 20, 1903. The. mercury kept on
ascending the tube until at 10 o'clock
1t registered SO. Then the public
wearied of looking at it.
The past week has been a hot one.
The mercury has been soaring around
the ninety-in-th shade mark, play
ing hide and seek with itself for fear
it might drop to point where it
would be cool enough for the human
being to enjoy living.
The human animal, however, didn't
do anything of the kind. 1t fumed,
and fused, and famed, and fretted,
and sought shady retreats, and drank
all kinds of stuff from ice water to
beer, but still couldn't keep cool. The
ice man was happy and so was the
purveyor of soft" as well as of 9TH
er drinks. Bathing and boating and
that sort of thing were all the rage.
Hammocks under the trees were eag-
erly sought for and well nigh as eag-
erly deserted for some other spot
enormously supposed to be cool. In
fact, it was hot; that describes IT and
enc might as well let it go at that.
There appears TO be no relief Insight,
to the weather man.
Notwith standing the extreme heat
there has yet been no harm done to
the crops. Rye and barley are most
ly cut, oats is coming along nicely
and wheat is doing well. AS for the
corn, just hear it grow. This is great
corn weather.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30

The concert in the park Wednesday
evening, given by the Sauk Centre
Bard, was we'll attended and greatly
appreciated.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
ADDITIONAL LOCALS

The concert in the park Wednesday
evening, given by the Sauk Centre
Bard, was we'll attended and greatly
appreciated.
Tuition is payable by the month at
the Little Falls Business College.
Write for information.
A shower of rain the latter part Of
Wednesday afternoon did much to
dispel the heat and revive man, beast
and vegetation. Thursday morning
dawned clear and cool.
FOR SALE-100 half and full second
hand seats for sale cheap by the Sauk
Centre High school. Apply to L. Kells
or w. S. Dean. 7.2t
LQST-A black silk umbrella with
natural wood handle. Was left at one
of the seats near the fountain in the
park, Wednesday evening, during the
band concert. Reward for It's return.
Mrs. Schauble.
Rev. F. H. Oehler will preach at the
Congregational church as usual at
1O. 80 next Sunday morning. Union
service in the evening at the Baptist
church, when Rev. j. s. Kingan will
preach.
The St. Cloud Business College
teaches the individual student. Every
student advances according to his
ability and application. Term opens
Sept. /.
The ladies of St. Agnes Guild gave
on ice cream social on DR.. McMasters'
lawn on Wednesday evening. The
lawn was lighted with Japanese lant-
erns and the refreshments were served
by the young ladies of the church.
The receipts were satisfactory.
Lovers of base ball are considerably
interested in fine playing of the Alex
andrla team. Half a dozen Sauk
Centre people saw the double header
between the Alexandria and the
Austin. Western teams at Alexandria
last Saturday and were greatly enter
tanned. Alexandria won the first
game by score of 8 to 2 in II innings.
The after-supper game-called at the
end of the sixth inning on account of
darkness-went to the visitors by a
score of y to |. The two teams met for
third game on Sunday, Alexandria
winning by score of 8 to 2. This
was witnessed by one or two Sauk
Centre enthusiasts.
Haying installed new sausage mac
hinery we want you to try our good
sausages. We will sell yon four
rings of Bologna for twenty-five cents
on Market Day only. Come in and
get acquainted with the new butcher.
STADTHERR'S MEAT MARKET.
Some great catches are being made
| in the lakes around Sauk Centre
these days. Frank Carr has chaperon-
ed trio of st. Paul gentlemen to
Long Lake and other lakes this week
and the result has been large catches
of black bass. On Tuesday the party
came ir with over dozen bass, the
largest one weighing seven pounds.
The gentlemen spent several days in
this vicinity trying their luck. They
are all expert anglers. Mr.. Carr and
Messrs. L. E. Heifner and Ed Hanson
have made number of fine catches
of bass at Long Lake recently. Some
of these have been photographed and
put on postal cards to use as advertiS-
ing matter for Sauk Centre. They
are fine for that purpose.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
Cattle Ticks.

A report issued by the department
of agriculture states that the annual
loss occasioned through cattle ticks
is in the neighborhood of 100000,
which is equal to about 10 per cent
of the value of the cattle. The quail
ity of the animals is the lowest and
the loss is greatest in the regions
where the natural conditions without
the tick should produce the finest cat
tie with the least loss.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
A Brioht Headline.

Jacob A. Riis, author and journalist,
was talking about bright newspaper
headlines.
GAS bright a headline as l know"
said he, was written by youth OF
eighteen in San Francisco newspa-
per office. There was bill up to pro-
hibit the sale of alcoholic drinks
within four miles of the University Of
California, and this bill the youth
headed:
can Act to Promote Pedestrianism
Among Our Students"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
Father Of the Pest Gard.

Lord Kingsburgh, Lord Justice
Clerk OF Scotland. has attained high
rank emcng public benefactors from
the circumstance or his having initi-
atei more than forty years ago, when
ycung and little known man at the
Scotch bar, the agitation for the es-
tahlishment of the halfpenny post card
system in the United Kingdom.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
BRING Me Your EGGS

l will pay 18 cts. per dozen in mer-
chandise for eggs on Saturday, Aug.
1, Market Day. GEO. FISH.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
For Sale

Timber lot of 80 acres in section /,
township of Sauk Centre. Inquire Of
). G. BARNARD.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-03-21
CHAs. A. GEHRMAN MINING EXPERT TALKS ON RAWHIDE
(From Rawhide Rustler, March -

III the hills IF h Goldfed mining district were u OF for a depth
of $50 feet leaving thu high-grade which a made tina m ramon eM-
posed OF the surface you would have a condition. similar In a general WAY
Bank OF Rawhide, yesterday in h course of what is perhaps h clearest
statement yet O h geological ondfions OF the Wonuertu
showing Of gold in III nw bonanza camp
Dr. Gehrman is a recognized authority. IN geological ny erAog
matters m has It various m been called to various m1nes Tor xpe
opinion IS to conditions. During the early history o. ne .GodneId tons9ne
IF thu properties n the probable trend and continuity, OF tn lodges. Ia
Goldfeid as a result of h yerifcation of his Judgment hiso opinion carries
greater weight than that Of John Hays Hammond, h engagements X
pert ia h Reno Journal in a recent interview.
been subjected to volcanic and other eruptive, action. indications being let
n III presence of thermal spring action which, as left sicihed streaks In
IN porphyry mass. The auriferous deposits which were carried upward
m III semi-saturated solution of he thermal springs have been deposited
in these streaks by h influence Of N porphyry hereve struck, WHICH
acts as a precipant All of this action taken place In what nay be
been worn val and scattered over the country by the influence of tn
erosion Of the ages. .-..-A
presence of the primaries in place ma be seen in the hills near Rawhids
known as Roseberry hill. Here, although thu erosion s partly. denuded
h upper slopes there still remains a distinct Gaping OF primaries whle
ondarfes remain o III surface. With TINS exception at I'M tp OF hose-
berry hill III primaries have long since been entirely eroded away leaving
Ia high-grade n h secondary formation pracucall exposed IN the sur
face This accounts for the wonderful richness OF the finds,
auriferous deposits have come u from below in the hot currents The
mass bs bubbled nut and cracked n porphyry leaving streaks TX a
dried-u mud puddle. In addition % he gold. however, there is a great
deposit Of tenurium which has been found scattered down in the wash.
Now IN historyo Of the mines in Cripple Creek and California, practically
where telurium as been found in conjunction with gold it shows that
hines It Rawhide do lot pay n pay well; down TO 1900 feet. the will
nrove h first exception to h accepted rule based pon The presence of
gold N telurfum" #R