Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-06

1000, stands at the mead OF tHe SSntoS
of the union. While the reports sent
In by county officials may be at fault
in some cases, a check Is kept by the
department through papers all over
the state, and those not reported are
caught in that way. The percentage 10
based on the census report of 1905.
and on the present actual population
likely be not more than 8 to the
thousand. No other state reports less
than -, and some Of them show as
high as 16 to the thousand. Pneumo-
mia Is shown to be the most fatal dis
ease. with 3s6 victims for the rear.
The greatest number of deaths by
month shows that January is the most
fatal in this disease, with September
the highest. Second in the list is the
one for which there is n 10 medical re-
lief-that of old age. the deaths from
that source numbering 296 for the
year, most of them occurring at the
age of about 80, the Oldest being 1O4
and the youngest in which that was
given as the cause of death being IS.
Twenty-three a passed the g OF
90. tuberculosis took 266 victims,
less than for the previous year by sew
eral, but while this showed that the
disease is not increasing its hold, the
Improvement is not sufficient to show
any marked decrease in the deaths
from that cause. Heart trouble took
366, cancer claimed ITS, meningitis
185, apoplexy 81, Bright's disease 100,
typhoid 80, paralysis rs, diphtheria
43, and smallpox but 2. Stanley
county shows the highest death rate,
with 20.3 to the thousand, out this is
on a basis Of the 1905 population,
which has far more than doubled since
hat time. Sully county shows the
lowest rate, with but 6 to h thou
sand, but this is accounted for to
some extent by failure of the officials
to make proper reports. Brown,
Fall River, Hughes. Minnehaha and
Yankton counties all show high death
rates. but this is accounted for by the
hospitals in these counties, where pa
tients are brought from a large terri
tory, and the deaths which occur at
these are credited to the county.
Advance sheets have been received
of an eastern publication Of Catholic
statistics. in which South Dakota is
included, and which shows a fine gain
for the denomination. There are two
dioceses and in these there is an ag-
gregate of 69,96S Catholics, including
the Indians. In the diocese OF Sioux
Falls, which includes everything east
of the Missouri river, there are just
$4,000 Catholics, while the rest reside
in the Lead diocese. In h Sioux Falls
department there are 81 secular priests
and 10 regular priests. There are so
parishes with resident priests, 70 mis-
sion churches, 4 charitable institu-
;1,,c n r1 7o -o-oo1;o Meo1ooo1S ry1ioL
have an enrolment of $500 children.
In the Lead diocese there are Is secu-
lar and 8 regular priests, with 16 par
ish and resident priests. There are &c
mission churches, 5 parochial- schools,
l academy for young women and 2
charitable institutions.
The vital statistical report from the
Cheyenne agency for the past three
months shows that there are yet PIT
.Utes at Thunder Butte, in the north
west corner Of the Cheyenne reserva
ton. One hundred and forty-nine of
the band are at Rapid City, n it is
expected that the whole band will be
returned to their own reservation in
Utah this spring. Among those at
Thunder Butte there have beer five
deaths since September, among them
Chief Pantalfune, who was blind at the
time of his death. At the same station
there were three deaths among the
Sioux. At Cherry Creek station there
were nine deaths among the Sioux, one
of which was that of Fred Thunder
Hawk, who accidentally shot himself.
For the same time there We're three
births reported among the Sioux at
Thunder Butte, and four at Cherry
Creek station,
Stanley county people are calling
attention to a sale at Fort Pierre a few
days G of what is known as the
Prather farm, just outside the limits
Of Fort Pierre, for $500 an acre. This
is a truck farm with an alluvial soil,
which has been shown by digging to be,
% feet deep. and it will be used by the
purchaser as a garden and fruit farm.
This very near being the record
price for South Dakota lsEd, and it
would hustle some of the older couA
ties in the eastern part Of the state to
show farm land selling at $500 an acre,
n when such a price is paid for land
west Of the Missouri it begins to look
as if the rest of the state will have to
sit up and take notice of the different
COIlullloES III oOuIn 1dkOta from those
of a few years ago. i.
The Fort Pierre Brick company, af-
ter numerous tests, has been compell-
ed to abandon their attempt to make a
'slush" brick out of pure gumbo. 1t
was Gun to be impossible to dry the
brick thoroughly without the outside
shalfng before a core in the center
would dry. AS a result the machinery
is being put in to use the gumbo for
the manufacture Of pressed brick,
which will not need to be dried before
burning.
Governor Crawford a appointed
DR.. Frank S. Howe, OF Deadwood, to
represent the state as a delegate to
the council Of medical education to
be held in Chicago BEGINNING April 10.
Owing to the favorable weather the
spring rush of new settlers to South
Dakota already las commenced. Many
of the weekly newspapers of the state
report the arrival fnew settlers, scores
Of whom are locating upon decided land
which they purchased last fall, while
others are locating upon government
land in the western and northwestern
part Of the state. Thousands of new
settlers will this year locate upon
homesteads in the region tributary 10
the new railroad lines west of the Mis-
souri, river, here many homesteads