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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

state will get the interest has been an
issue in the campaign and must he
passed
The primary needs some amending
so as to lessen the expenses, so far as
fixing it SO that only partisans of one
party can vote party ticket, that
can't be done. Men will lie, or do
something very near it when it comes
to voting. A good example of that is
manifest in North Dakota, where the
republican senatorial candidate got
10000 more votes than Taft.
The salary of county auditors
should be raised to an equal with
country treasurer at least
Experimental farms in the western
half Of the state, and legislation to
aid horticulture can be given atten-
tion with much good grace.
The liquor laws are generally salts
factory, and really more stringent
than usually enforced.
No particular number of women
are asking suffrage, and the express
sion of the public at the polls should
settle the divorce traffic for awhile
An amendment to the constitution
authorizing the school fund to be in
vested in state general fund warrants
should be submitted. Where the
state pays seven per cent interest for
money it should go to the school
fund instead of that fund getting on
ly five per cent.
The express companies, if they
could be reached in the proper way
are worthy of consideration. Their
graft beats the railroads all hollow.
and they do not have a lot of depre-
ciatins property like a railroad when
times come hard.
Stanley, Lyman and Butte counties
need a square deal on legislative rep
resentation.
An immigration commission at the
state capitol with liberal funds should
be provided for. Progressive cities
all over the country are maintaining
| high grade advertising bureaus. This
| is noticeable so of Spokane, Seattle,
| Chicago, Omaha and many other plac-
es. We need good exploitation of
the wonderful country, between the
Missouri river and Wyoming and
Montana. In order to do this in the
proper way we need a man who will
give his attention to that business
1t should not be side issue with a
side show.
The appropriations must be made
of course. They should be made on
not by reason of main strength
Pierre Cauital JOurna1
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
The Guarantee Plan.

The bankers of the country ought
to be very glad that the fake plan of
government guarantee of bank de-
posits has been defeated. If any
banker is in doubt about the wisdom
If the new plan he should make a
study of conditions in Oklahoma,
where everybody is establishing
banks of small capital, simply to ex-
plot the deposits, and where char
acter and experience, and level-head-
ed business management cut no fig
ure in the banking business.
Had the guarantee plan won in the
country, and had the new Bryan
idea been adopted there would have
been an end to intelligent banking.
Any one could run a bank and get
deposits, and careful management
and conservatism in banking would
have cut no figure. The real banker
would have disappeared, and the
banker of the future would have
been merely commission man, with
the nation or the state back of him,
and with constant temptation to in
dulge in wild speculation in order
to secure big returns.
Thanks to the good sense of the
American people, the plan was sat
upon. There will be no government
guarantee of bank deposits for some
years to come. The banking bus
ness will continue to be one in which
character and wise business meth
DDS and thoughtful consideration of
conditions count.
The new paramount issue" has
failed. 1t did not catch on. 1t did
not appeal to the level-headed peo-
pie of the country. The attempt to
excite prejudice against the bankers
failed, as did the effort to give a
cheap dollar and the boost for the
government ownership of railroads.
The democratic party has learned an
other lesson at high cost to it's hold
On the country, and we suspect it is
a lesson which will last for more than
four years. Mr.. Bryan is down and
out as party leader and four years
hence, the democratic party will be
found to stand against experiments
and in favor of the tried and tested
policies of the past. Meanwhile the
real bankers of the country have rea-
son to rejoice, as have also the bus
mess interests of the country.-Ar.
gus Leader.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
GOmpers Reelected,

Denver, Nov. 21.-Samuel Com
pers was reelected president of the
American Federation of Labor today
without dissenting vote.
All other officers of the American
Federation of Labor were reelected
except Daniel j. Keefe, pdesident of
the Longshoremen's union and sixth
vice president of the Federation, who
declined to be candidate on account
OF the recommendation of the COM
mittee on the presidents report that
member of the executive council
who refused to act with the council
politically should resign. Keefe said
he had voted the republican ticket
for thirty-two years and expected to
continue until his conscience dictates
otherwise.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

Recently the peole of Huron con-
cluded to get rid of the Dakota Cen
trail Telephone Company, and the ap-
purtenances thereunto belonging.
Their period Of city charter existence
had expired and they We're request
ed to expire likewise. But they said
No. They went into federal court.
and Judge Garland has decided that
the company having been chartered
by the state, it could do business in
the state where it saw fit and could
not be put out with the aid or con-
sent OF anybody. This is surprise
and yet no doubt is good law. 1t
means cities like Pierre, where the
company has only ten-year charter,
may stay on forever. This makes
possible many complications. An
Independent concern can not take
over field now. The big fellow
can come and hello louder than any
one. 1t certainly makes their fran
chise worth much more. The only
show for square deal now is to leg
islate as to connections If the Cen
trail people want to do so they can
make the small fry all sizzle. This
is an instance where talk counts as
much as money, yet sometimes you
hear people say talk is cheap.
Pierre can figure that it has no more
right to allow one phone company
to come in or to keep another out if
they are chartered by the state. Last
year the Great Western phone COM
pany was halted in its aspirations to
string lines along our streets Now
the G. w. can come to town when it
pleases and the council can look wise
or otherwise. Judge Garland has
put cities out of business SO far as
granting phone franchises is con-
cerned. The only thing city can
do is to regulate how the wires shall
be strung, whether overhead or be-
low the ground.-Pierre Capital
Journal.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
PREPARING FOR NEXT YEAR.
Number of Contracts Sub-Let on the
Belle FOurche Project.


Belle Fourche, S. D., Nov. 21.-
Hayes Bros. who have the contract
for the big storage reservoir of the
Belle Fourche irrigation project, are
now preparing for next years work
and have sublet several portions of
the work
A. f. Burke & Co., and Hicks
Bros. of St. Louis, have been award
ed the contract for paving the face
of the draw with concrete blocks and
for putting on the screened and I'M
screened gravel. The gravel for the
| blocks will be secured at a pit five
miles from the dam, and the con-
tractors are building a narrow gauge
railway to be used in the work The
Peoples Construction Co., of Daven-
port, Iowa, has been given the con-
/ tract for about 100000 worth of con-
crete work Besides this, several
small grading outfits are working on
sub-contracts.
| Hayes Bros have been making
good progress since they took hold of
the work last spring, and with the
preparation they are making for next
season will be in a position to make
a good showing on the remaining
| portion Of their contract on the big
| irrigation proposition.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Expensive Government Ownership.

Expensive Government Ownership.
The thrifty people of Belgium and
Switzerland-and there are no more
thrifty people anywhere-are reflect
ing very seriously, because of certain
cold tables of figures before them,
whether government ownership of
railways is, after ALL the ideal way
and transportation millennium.
The Belgium state owns practical
ly all the railways, and has invest
ed in them about $5OO,OO0,OO0 for
which bonds are outstanding. AS
the state built most of the lines there
is no question of paying profits on
"watered stock" The annual inter-
est charge on the Belgium public
debt, mostly incurred for railways,
is about $3.50 per capita.
1t was expected that the railway
income would ultimately cover not
only expenses Of operation and in
terest on investment, but provide a
sinking fund for the payment of the
debt. The experiment has been GO
ing on a good many years, and the
deficit for the last fiscal year, esti-
mated at between 100000 and ST.
100000, is now found to exceed $2,-
900. 900.
The Swis confederation decided
ten years ago to buy in the railways
and by. the end of 1904, had acquired
the principal lines at cost of 1884.
100000. 1t is not believed that the
price was excessive. Yet. although
receipts have increased steadily since
1902, so have expenses, and the ra.
ito Of operating expenses to income
is now the highest in Europe. The
deficit this year will exceed $1,000.
900.
Both these countries have dense
populations. Belgium is the most
thickly peopled state in Europe Of
any size. Their railways are not run
as is the American postal service, to
give the accommodation regardless Of
expense. 1t is fixed principle Of
European finance that railway, post.
al and telegraph services shall be
l4made to pay their way.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Funeral of the Grand Duke,

St. Petersburg, Nov. 21.-The
body of Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of
the czar, who died in Paris recently,
was inferred in the new mausoleum
of the Romanhoffs within the fort
ress of st. Peter and St. Paul today.
Emperor Nicholas followed the
coffin on foot from the railroad sta
ton to the fortress, a distance of
three miles. The streets were
crowded, but no untoward incident
occurred.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Public Land Sale.

Department of the Interior, Rand
City Land Office. s. D., August 18th.
1908.
Notice is hereby given that as d..
rected by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, under the pro-
visions of the Act of Congress an
proved June 9th, 1906 GA Stat.
DID, we will offer at public sale to
the highest bidder, at 9 o'clock a
M, on the 10th day of October next
at this Office, the following tract Of
land-serial O656, viz:
North half of northeast quarter
of Section 26, township north.
range Z east, B. H. M.
Any person claiming adversely
the above described lands are adver-
used to file claims or objections on
or before the time designated for the
sale.
John L. Burke, Register.
Myron Willsis. Receiver.
The optician at TrowbridRe,s viii,
give you perfect At in spectacles
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Navy Deserter Sentenced.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 19.-C. J..
Magness, who deserted from the navy
to marry a daughter of the late SEN
ator German, was sentenced to one
years Imprisonment in the naval
prison at Portsmouth, N. H. The SEN
tence was approved by Secretary
Metcalf today
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Two Trainmen Killed

Howell. Mich, Nov. 21.-Engineer
Ryan and Fireman Crogan were kill
ed and three other trainmen fatally
injured today ina collision between
two freight trains on the Ann Arbor
road near Lakeland.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
What Laws Needed.

Another session Of the legislature
is about to convene. Usually there is
something that someone in particular
is agitating. This year we know of
no legislation that the public seem to
be crying for. Conditions are pretty
good in South Dakota all around.
There are some laws that might be
very properly amended for the good
OF all concerned. The law to provide
la deposite Of state funds 30 that the
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

business might be profitable and OPP
ened collar factory, where his wife's
invention was developed and exploit
ed Unlike many inventors, Mrs.
Montague, through the prosperity ST
her husband, profited by her discov-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

Two receivers have been appoint
ed by Judge Taylor of the circuit
court for the Cleveland Railway
company, which operated the nun
icipal traction system of Cleveland
on the Scent fare basis, the court
acting on the petition of the Central
Trust company, of New York, which
held the company's bonds to the
amount of $S,000,O00. The judge
held that the recent referendum vote
had made void the lease held by the
company and that the Municipal
Traction company was insolvent.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Carlisle Indians to PLAY at Denver

Denver, Nov. 19.-As a result of
the appeals of state officials and the
management of Denver university to
President Roosevelt and Indian Com
missioner Leupps, the Carlisle Indian
foot ball team telegraphed last night
that they would fulfill their agree
ment to play the university on De-
cpm har
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

The bill providing for universal
suffrage in Hungary vas presented to
the chamber Of deputies by Count
AndrassF, minister of the interior.
II contains many novel provisions
that are designated, as the pream-
BILE points out, to prevent the polit-
icsl power from falling wholly into
the hands of illiterates or those not
in position to use it in the inter-
ests of the country, but to retain it
in the hands Of the intelligent sec
tons of the population" The bill
provides that every Hungarian over
twenty-iour years of age, who has
resided in any commune for the space
of one year, is entitled to vote. IL
literates, however, will be assem-
bled in groups of ten and each group
will have the power to select single
elector. AS a result of this system
these classes, characterized in the
preamble as particularly accessible
to the Indictment Of agitators," will
have only one vote for every ten
men. AS a further means of "pre-
serving the ascendancy Of the intelli-
gent classes" the bill provides for a
system of plural voting, by which
all electors over thirty-two years OF
age who have fulfilled their military
duty and who have three children
are given two votes. Workmen who
have spent five years at the same
trade, as we'll as workmen who have
graduated from specified classes OF
the secondary schools, also are Civ.
en- double vote. Electors who have
completed the full course of the sec.
ondary schools or who pay $40 in
direct annual taxation are given the
high privilege of. voting three times
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27


Under the provisions OF the vote
in Butte county the new counties Of
Perkins and Harding will soon be
born. The people generally over the
old county were ready for division.
and the proposition was carried by
large majority. Under the new or
der, Perkins county will be composed
Of tha: part OF Butte, known locally
as tie Jog" or that part covered by
z lire extending from the northwest
corner of Meade county TO the state
ling Harding county will take about
The northern half Of the rest of the
couo1y. lssTing the southwestern cor
osr o. the present county as Butte,
This arrangement will leave Belle
Fou-eas vila no immediate fear of
q fight or county seat relocation
out the Two neT counties will have
an Interesting tine 10 settle the oues-
tioo 70: themselves, with Harding
and Camp Crook looking after the
mater in Harding county. and Lem
mon and Meadow fighting it out in
Perkins.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

Some attention has been directed
to the claim of Capt. e. c. Warren
that he has invented an engine to
utilize hydrogen in water as its mo-
tive power. The process is not made
public, but the principle is that of
chemical separation and recombina-
ton, SO that the same water could
be used over and over again with
little loss, and ship could proceed
at high speed by using the water Of
the sea-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
Chinese Regent Writes Roosevelt

Chinese Regent Writes Roosevelt.
Pekin, Nov. 19.-Prince Ching has
forwarded direct to President lRoose-
welt personal letter in the name of
Pa vi, the infant emperor of China,
setting forth the crisis through which
the throne has been passing. SINH
lar letters were sent to all the powers
friendly to China. An appeal for
sympathy for the new ruler was
made.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

A student of Ann Arbor accused of
by jury of twelve Of his classmates,
the recommendation agreed upon at
ter three hours elaboration being
as follows: 1--WE, the jury, recon-
mend that the defendant be request
ed to absent himself from the de-
partment for the remainder of this
college year. We secondly recon-
mend that, in consideration of his
previous good record, he be encour-
aged to return at the beginning of
new college year" The accused
admitted his guilt.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

There are many reasons why we
should be thankful this year We
have the assurance of another four
years of prosperity; the crops the
past year have been bountiful; the
prices received for them have been
liberal; our people have been we'll
sustained with the necessaries of life
and all have been able to lay by a
share of their earnings for rainy
day; our people are happy and con-
tented, and again we say we have
much to be thankful for.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

DR.. H. w. Wiley, chief government
chemist, in speech at the dinner
of the New York Sphinx Club, COM
posed Of advertising agents, read a
number of advertisements clipped
from current issues of daily papers,
and called them tainted advertise
ments" because they contained mis-
leading statements about foods and
drugs. He warned his hearers thai
advertisers who continued 10 make
such statements would be prosecuted
under the food and drugs Law. eTsa
though they compiled with the letter
of the law in the printed label oD
their goods.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
The estimates of cost of operation

The estimates of cost of operation
of the schools of the state for the
year ending Jan. 3, 1908, show that
for that year, it cost $0.234 per day
for each days attendance of one pu-
pill in the country schools, and $0.201
in independent school districts. Out
of the total number of persons of
school age in the state, seventy-sev-
EN- per cent were enrolled in the
schools. OF the total enrolment of
the state sixty-nine per cent was in
the country schools, and thirty-one
per cent in the Independent districts.
The pupils of the country schools av-
eraged eighty-five days attendance
for the year, while those of the town
schools averaged 1871 days attend
ance for the year
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

The Baltimore American states
that 5000 votes, chiefly republican,
were thrown out in the recent count
in Maryland by election judges who
claim that, under the law, they were
improperly marked. On fair count
the American asserts, the state would
have given Taft 10000 plurality in
stead of splitting its electoral vote.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27
WILLIAM IN THE LIMEL1GHT.
German Emperor's Forbidden Ameri.
can Interview Published.

New York, Nov. 21.-The World
today publishes what purports to be
the interview of DR.. William Bayard
Hale, the American magazine writer,
with Emperor William of Germany,
which was withdrawn just as it was
ready to be published by the Century
The world says the interview was
given by the emperor, who knew
Hale was a journalist. AS origin
ally written the article was much
more sensational, but German Off
Gals revised it and later asked that
it be not published at all.
Berlin. Nov. 21.-Emperor Will
liam made his first public appearance
since his interview with Chancellor
Won Buelow last Tuesday, when the
chancellor urged upon him the ne
cessity of no further interference in
foreign politics. He gave a striking
example of his readiness to observe
the obligation today when in MAX
ing an address at the Gentleman cele-
bration of the city council he did not
speak extemporaneously as is his Gus.
tom but confined his remarks to q
printed sheet handed him by the
chancellor.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

The state canvassing board has
been called to meet on the first day
of December for the purpose of can
wasting the votes of the different can
didates for congress, and on the third
they will canvass the votes on the
other state officers and the different
propositions submitted to the people.
The law fixes the fourth Thursday
ing other than congressional officers,
and the votes on congressman must
be canvassed within thirty days af-
ter election.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

Union ONCE for job printing.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27

l
We people Of the north little real
iZe the intense feeling of bitterness
which still rankles in southern hearts
until some act of misguided patriot
ism on the part OF some southern
organization brings it out with prom
inence. The Georgia united Daugh-
ters of Confederacy have erected a
monument to Capt. Wirz, keeper Of
Andersonville prison, who was exc
cuted by federal authorities six
months after the close of the civil
war because of the atrocities commit
ted under his orders on federal pris-
oners. These daughters attempt to
throw a halo of martyrdom about the
memory Of this abnormal brute who
tortured and starved the helpless vic
Tins till his name found a place be-
side the most famous of the inhu-
man monsters of the world. This
again goes to prove that no person
can sink SO low but that sentiment
mixed with prejudice can supply a
liberal coat of whitewash Even Ne
70 had his admirers.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-27


When Gen. Grant was seized with
his fatal illness in the autumn of
1884, he appeared before the world
in an entire new character, says Dr..
Shrady in May Century. From be-
ing viewed as the stern, uncomprom-
Using and conquering military com
mander, the revelation of his simple
resignation in the face of great suf-
fering claimed for him new fame as
a hero in another sense. His last
battle with the great conqueror des-
tined him for grander laurels than
were seized on any Of his many tri-
umphant fields. 1t was the purely
human side of his nature that then
appealed to the general sympathy of
mankind. Thus his last and only
surrender was his greatest victory
If it had been otherwise, history
would have cheated itself of an en-
ample of Christian fortitude the like
of which has been seldom recorded.