The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-05


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 is
based on the census report OF 1905,
and on the present actual population
would likely be not more than to the
thousand. No other state reports less
than IL, and some of them show as
high as 16 to the thousand. Pneumo-
MIA is shown to be the most fatal dis
ease, with 800 victims for the year
The greatest number of deaths by
months shows that January is the most
fatal In this disease, with September
the lightest. Second i'm the list Is the
one for which there is no 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 S2 the Oldest being 104
and the youngest in which that was
given as the cause OF death being So.
Twenty-three had passed the age of
80. 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 175, meningitis
165, apoplexy 81, Bright's disease 130,
typhoid so, paralysis rs, diphtheria
as, and smallpox but 2. Stanley
county shows the highest death rate,
with 20.3 to the thousand, but this rs
on basis Of the 1905 population.
which has far more than doubled since
that time. Sully county shows the
lowest rate, with but to the 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 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 IL
included, and which shows fine gain
for the denomination. There are two
dioceses and in these there is an ag-
gregate of s69,96S 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 the Sioux Falls
department there are 81 secular priests
and 10 regular priests. There are so
parishes with resident priests. 20 mis-
sion churches, charitable institu-
tions, and 73 parochial schools, which
have an enrolment of $3.50 children.
In the Lead diocese there are Is secu-
lar and regular priests, with 16 par
ish and resident priests. There are 2s
mission churches. 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 217
Utes at Thunder Butte, in the north
west corner of the Cheyenne reserva-
tion.. One hundred and forty-nine of
the band are at Rapid City, and ii is
expected that the whole band will be
returned to their own reservation I'm
Thunder Butte there have been 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.
births reported among the Sioux at
Thunder Butte, and four at Cherry
Creek station.
Stanley county people are calling
attention to sale at Fort Pierre few
days ago of what is known as the
Prather farm, just outside the limits
Of Fort Pierre, for $400 an acre This
is truck farm with an alluvial soil,
which has been shown by digging to be
23 feet q ap, and 1t will be used by the
purchaser as a garden and fruit farm.
This comes very near being the record
price for South Dakota land and; II
would hustle some of the older coun-
ties in the eastern part of the state to
show farm land selling at $500 an acre,
and when such price Is paid for land
west of the Missouri 1t begins to look
as IL the rest of the state will have to
sit up and take notice of the different
conditions in South Dakota from those
of a few years ago.
The Fort Pierre Brick company, af-
ter numerous tests, has been compelI-
ed to abandon their attempt to make a
"siush'' brick out Of pure ssumbo. 1t
was found to be impossiblesto dry the
brick thoroughly without the outside
| shaling before a core In the center
would dry. AS 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