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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
PRODIGY AT WALL.
Baby Born With Twelve Fingers and
Twelve Toes,

Twelve 1Otss
Wall, S. D., Oct. 2S.-When it was
announced in the Wall Record that a
fine boy, with six fingers on each
hand and six toes on each foot, had
been born to Mr.. and Mrs. Colonel
Weatherby of this place, Colonel
assumed a pride uncommon even
among new fathers. Now, it hap
pens, Colonel Weatherby himself has
six we'll developed fingers on his left
hand and six toes on each foot. He
says with satisfaction that extra
toes and fingers can be found in his
family four generations back.
But" says the colonel, this baby
is what call normal. He is the first
one in the family to have two sets
of six. Now that he is balanced all
around, he makes rather a fit young
ster.
Il am expecting great things of the
boy, especially if he has any musical
talent. Think what he would do or
the harp, with 12 fingers. for exa: :,
pie. Why, he would discover har'
monies never before known to the
world. l am not much on music, hu,
even if I had been, with five finger:
on on hand and six on the other,
would get some of the notes eros. Is
"Or, if the boy doesn't take to mus
ic, wouldn't he shine on a typewrite
or one of those printing machines
that look like typewriter and spi
out sticks of type. tell you, watcl
my, boy jim"
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2.i.nd Over to Court.

Deadwood. SD, Oct. 30.-The ex-
animation of Frank eVetri, charged
with attempting to destroy by fire
the saloon building on Main street
in the Second ward, early in the
morning of Tuesday, october Goth
was held yesterday afternoon in
Judge Roses court. States attor.
ney Stewart conducted the prose
cution, and Attorney r.. c.. Hayes
represented the defendant. Vetr
was bound over to the circuit court
after the evidence was heard.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
Public Land Sale,

=
Department of the Interior; RAPID
City Land Officers 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 27th, 1906 (34 Stat,
517) we will offer at public sale to
the highest bidder. at 8 o'clock 4.
m. on the Goth day OF October next.
at this office, the following tract Of
land--serial 0656, viz:
North half Of northeast quarter
OF Section 80, township north.
range u east. B. H. M.
Any person claiming Adversely
the above described lands are sadye--
t'sed 70 file claims or objections On
q, before the time designated for the
sale. .sss S. 's4
John =. Burke. Register.
iron Willsis. Receiver.
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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
OUR NATIONAL INCAPACITY.
We Seem Incapable of Accusing Our
selves.from the Lethargy that
Allows OF Misgoyernment.


At the outset, let us exclude, first,
those remedies that have any appear
ance OF partisan significance or Of
any kind OF doctrine or OF prOpa-
ganda, not saying whether they are
good or i'll, but merely RELOCATING
them to the region OF campaign dis
Icussion; and let us exclude, second
| ~. the remedies that people in other
countries have tried and found to
be efficient.
The second exclusion Is the more
dificult because the natural impulse
Is to turn to the recorded experience
ofEother men, and almost every other
lcivilizeds nation has confronted and in
some measure solved. the problems
THAT beset US. But 4 know that 1t Is
useless to refer In any way to the
means BY which this has been ac-
complished. because most OF us agree
tibet We. In this country. are not
4 capable Of using such means. We
should do away with ractically all
LOT the corruption In our municipal
land state affairs Il ne should aboi.
I sh the public utility corporation;
fbut. Of course, We will not do thai
4 We cannot. Other peoples can take
their own affairs into their own
lihands and direct and mana &c them
u but Ne cannot. Germans can, ana
tFnenchmen and the Swiss, and Aus
4 traAna ana Italians and EngltshmeI
lllAnd panes and BulgarIans ana Japan
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
COAL COSTS HUMAN LIFE.
Many Deaths Each Year in the Min
ing of Coal

Many Deaths Each Year in the Min
ing of Coal.
Washington, Oct. 29.-All the
coal mined in the United States is
spattered with human blood, meta
phorically speaking, and every 49,
All tons productd have cost human
life These facts are brought to
light in the report just published by
the United States Geological Sur
vey for the year of 1907. During that
year, accidents in coal mines result
ed in the early death Of 3,125 men
and injury to 5,316. This is an in
crease of over thousand deaths ov-
er the preceding year, proving that
little has been accomplished toward
safeguarding the life and limb of the
miner.
The reports received indicate a
death rate per thousand employees of
9.31 in 1906 and 4.86 in 1907 and
the number Of tons mined for each
life lost decreased from 194,950 %
145,471. The state which had. the
lowest death rate per thousand
(0.95) in 1907 was Missouri, where
499,742 tons of coal were mined for
e.ch life lost. Michigan was second
on the roll of honor so far as death
rate per thousand employees was con-
cerned, and Kentucky was second in
1.-The number of tons mined for each
life lost.
The prominence given by the press
Ito description of mine explosions
when such diasters claim number
of victims las led the general public
to believe that of the many perils to
which coal-mine workers are exposed
4 the danger from explosions is the
greatest. Statistics do not bear out
4 this impression. OF the total number
reported for the last calendar year,
4 947 deaths and 343 injuries were
|caused By gas and dust explosions,
I2O1 deaths aud 416 injuries by pow
s|3der explosions and windy shots, L..
sI122 deaths and 2,141 injuries by
q falls OF roof or coal, and 855 deaths
land 2,416 injuries were ascribed tc
other causes. The figures for 1907
show, however, that explosions Of
! gas or mixtures of gas and dust have
comparatively fatal results, the mum
q her killed in this way during the veal
4 being three times as great as the mum
Der injured; in accidents from othel
causes the number Of non-fatal in
jurtes largely exceed the fatal ones
I In accidents from powder explosions
and windy shots twice as many mel
we're injured as were killed, and thu
same ratio holds in injuries from
falls of roof or coal. IN the acct
dents ascribed. to other causes near
!. lily Ibree times as many men wer.
Injured as were killed.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
DEBs AT MILWAUKEE,.
Socialist Candidate Claims Two Con-
gressmen in Wisconsin.

gressmen in WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee, Oct. 30.-Eugene v.
Debs arrived in Milwaukee on his
s"Red Special" tonight and addessed
three meetings in halls which were
filled to overflowing. Mr.. Debs in
all his speeches declared that the So
cis!ist democratic party would elect
two congressman in Wisconsin:
In the campaign nov drawing to
close he said the country was
awakening to the fact that the, work
ing ran is a great factor in the po-
tiles; Question r.l4
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
TAFT AT BUFFALO.
Tu,;scd Plain About Gompers Politi-
cal Activity

Buffalo, Oct. 30.-Sledge hammer
b!cws at Gompers, because Of his
labor political plans, were delivered
here tonight by William H. Taft be-
fore two immense audiences
Mr. Taft gave names of many
labor leaders, high in the councils
OF the American Federation of
Labor, who, he said were leaving
MIR. Gompers "The attempt Of Mr..
Gompers, he declared with great
emphasis to deceive the labor vote
in this country is as audacious an
act of political effrontery as ever
occurred in the history OF American
politics."
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
RAPID CITY HORSE now.

Made Great Mark In Race It
Dallas, Texas.
George H Moon on Saturday ev-
ening. received 9 telegram from q.
Al Sage, his trainer and driver. stat
Ing that Dick Allen, won the free
for all pace. there that afternoon.
Dick " beat such horses at Cita-
len. With record Of 2.10ll, and
&. Red Bow. with q mark of 2.O4:51<.
The race was won IN zoe Y, which
estab lished = new mark for: the
local horse.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
JAMES KERR DEAD.
Democratic National Committeeman
from Pennsylvania.

from PeMnsylVanla.
Philadelphia, Oct. 3O.-James
Kerr, democratic national commit
5teenlan from Pennsylvania, died at
1910 this saturday. morning.
He has been i'll for some time and
recently ha ] an operation performed
for intestinal trouble which aggre-
waited his condition. Mr.. Byran
called on him last week and he en-
+joyed the visit greatly.
"a relapse within the last few days
however resulted in a condition from
which, he never rallied.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

done to the Standard Oil Company
and that the bitter hatred bourne by
the Standard Oil people for the ad-
,ninistration is perfectly palpable.
He aays that the declaration is OBJ
vicusly trick on the part of Rock
erfeiler and his associates to damage
raft bus that it is so plain it will
i:Seiie no one.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06


Since the colliery explosions at
Courieres, in France, and the more
recent disasters in the United States
and elsewhere. a public demand has
been awakened in Europe for some
kind OF organized rescue work in
connection with mines. In Austria
and France provision of rescue ap-
paratus in mines is made compul-
sorry. In Germany it is optional, but
has been voluntarily adopted. In
Russia where over fifty men are en-
ployed in one mine 1t is provided
that ever colliery must have res
cue corps trained to work in irres-
pirable gases, that the number of
men In each corps must be equiya-
lent to four per cent of those engaged
in the largest pit or shaft work"
and that the number of completely
equipped sets OF breathing appara-
tus at each colliery must not be less
than three"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

The success OF the Galveston plan
OF city government promises to be
practically demonstrated in the ex-
perience OF Des Moines, Ia, which
has been working under similar
plan for some time. Recently the
chief Of the p lice department was
fired" from his place for incapacity
and the removal promises to give the
city better attention to that import
ant branch of the service. In every
other line the plan has worked sue
cessfully. The city has been more
improved in general way during
the past summer than ever before
and better spirit seems to peryade
all classes. This is the plan that
Sioux Falls has adopted and will
put into practical operation next
April. II it works we'll there other
cities OF the state will certainly
adopt it.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

AS Americans learn more about
the Chinese and the japanese, they
find new traits to admire. When
China was informed that the govern
ment of the United States intended
to return about ten million dollars
OF the indemnity awarded for the
Boxer outrages. the Chinese govern
ment promptly announced Its inten-
tion Of using the money for the pur-
pose OF educating Chinese youths in
this country. Thus, not only will
the money return here eventually,
by the best of all titles, but mean
time it will have been comforting the
permanent benefit OF better under
standing between the two peoples.
Could any western nation have done
a more graceful thing?
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

The opinion OF Governor Hughes.
OF New York, regarding public meas
ures and public men. will have
weight with the American people.
and when he declared that Bryan's
methods for curing the trust evil,
if put into practice, would bring ruin
and disaster to American industries,
he set a great many men to thinking
seriously about Bryan's specifics for
the cure of several public Affections.
Briefly Governor Hughes declares
that .if all that Mr.. Bryan has Ia
vored during the past twelve years
had been enacted into law, we should
have been overwhelmed with disas-
ter and would regard 1t as our chief
business in the future to find way
OF escape from the meshes OF Ill
considered legislation in which we
should have been entangled. 1t is
fortunate for him as we'll as for US
that he was defeated, and whatever
may be his present political potenti-
atty can be ascribed to the fact that
hitherto has not been permitted
to carry out his program"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

Experiments conducted by the
bureaus Of Forestry and Of Plant In
dustry 1t washington are said to.
have demonstrated that paper can
be made from cornstalks by much
the same process as that used In
treating wood pulp. The cost. when
machinery has been perfected. will
be only q little over half that Of
making It from wood pulp. Samples
shown so far are In ave different
grades and shades. The first grade
y Of dark gray and heavy texture
and 10 ~ tough as sheepshin. An
other grade ID Of light gray, there
Iarestwo shades Of yellow and q white.
The "soda-cooked process 10 used
1.-The one most used to make wood
paper but the cornstalks only have
to be cooked from. two or two and
| . half hours, ~ against twelve to
fourteen hours for the wood pulp.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06
Subscription. $3.50 a year.

The hearing of the governments
case against the powder trust was
begun in the New York Custom
House before Special Examiner Ma
haffy, James Scarlet, of Pennsylvan-
la, representing the government. R.
s. Waddell, OF Peoria, ILL.,, who for
long time was sales agent of the
powder trust and who later went in
to the business as an independent,
gave important testimony about how
the trust had formed board OF trade
to fix prices so as to beat all COM
petitors, sometimes cutting below
cost. 1t was on Waddell's petition
that the present case was based. He
also testified that the trust was
helped by the granting Of railroad
rebates. The witness said the pool
now controlled between ninety-fve
and ninty-eight per cent OF the rifle
and smoking powder and ninety per
cent Of the trade in blasting powder.
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cuts but little figure for it has had
absolutely no effect upon the cam
paign, one way or another.
Sawdust is one of the puzzling
wastes in numbering operations. The
waste is serious, too, for the kerf--
the part cut out by the saw in the
mill and transformed into sawdust
always bears a rather high ratio
to the boards obtained, says the
Chicago Tribune. In cutting thin
stuff one-fourth of the log, or even
more, may be kerr. Efforts to turn
sawdust into pulp for the paper mill
have usually been unsuccessful on
account OF mechanical difficulties in
handling. In several European
countries, however, a new way has
been found of turning sawdust to
account. The sawdust, chiefly pine
and fir, is ground with millstones,
exactly as old time mills made corn
meal, or wheat or rye flour. EX-
pensive machinery is not required,
but it is necessary to take special
precautions against fires which
might start from sparks between the
millstones. Sawdust flour is sold to
dynamite factories to be MIXED with
nitroglycerin and forms the body or
absorbent for that high explosive.
1t is also in demand for the manu-
facture Of cheap blotting papers.
The mills in the Harz mountains, N
Germany, an important manufactnr-
ing center. are kept busy meeting
this demand. The price of the
flour" in Germany ranges from
$3.50 to $3.50 ton. 1t is shipped
in bags, like meal, or in bales of
about forty cubic feet, made by
means of high pressure.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

udu UGeu eudCleu lutO law, we SuO ulu
have been overwhelmed with disas-
ter and would regard it as our chief
business in the future to find way
OF escape from the meshes OF Ill
considered legislation in which we
should have been entangled. 1t is
fortunate for him as we'll as for US
that he was defeated, and whatever
may be his present political potenti-
atty can be ascribed to the fact that
hitherto has not been permitted
to carry out his program"
At the very moment when the pop
ular demand for war with Austria
was most insistent in the Seryian
Parliament at Belgrade and the eau
tionary advice of the government
was about to be thrown to the winds.
a statement made by the foreign
minister, Milanoyics, to the secret
session of the parliament, was to the
effect that the new big guns were
useless because both German and
Austrian railroads had virtually re-
fused to transport the ammunition
from the Creusot works. After that
the war feryor Gained down and hte
vote was for peace for the present.
Besides this Austria had made
threats that her gunboats on the
Danube would lombard Belgrade il
further official provocation were of
fered. Demonstrations by the popu-
lace continued there and in Monte
negro, however. and warlike utter
ance OF Grown Prince George of Ser
via caused much excitement, IL being
proposed to start an invasion OF
Bosnia and Montenegro at once.
Turkey expressed to the powers her
willingness to submit the whole ques-
ton of the independence OF Bulgaria
to conference OF the signatories Of
the Berlin treaty, without mixing
that with the disposition Of Bosnia
and Montenegro.
The state of North Carolina Is one
of the most notable in the union for
the production OF gems. peculiarly
diamonds. emeralds, rubies, aquam-
arines. beryls, hiddenite. rhodolite.
amethysts and remarkable rock
crystals. These gems have been
found mainly in the course of min
ing operations. although q few sys-
tematic searches for them have been
made and two companies are now
engaged exclusively in such work.
One OF the first outward conse--
;quences Of the decision to confer
with the other powers ~ to the Bal
kan situation was the news that the
British Cabinet had determined to
abondon It, policy Of limiting arma-
.ments and to resume naval con-
sstruction and army increase on a
large scale. Premier AsQuith before
the re-assembled Parliament Mon
day insisted that treaties must be
regarded as binding and that Great
Britain could not reorganize an al
steration made by one Of the partiel
TO . treaty.
The Chicago board NJ education
mas been considering the report Of
w. =. Bodtne. superintendent. d
compulsory education, 10 the efIecl
that {, 900 children who attend thi
public schools Of the city are habit
aally hungry and that 10, 900 othel
ldren do not have s1lEicsent fool
all
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

Whether it is genuine or not really
cuts but little figure for it has had
absolutely no effect upon the cam
paign, one way or another.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

Some of he Oklahoma people are
bent on knocking the bottom out of
their guaranty bank deposit law, by
a sort of wreckless grabbing at the
supposed advantages it gidvesAOu
supposed advantages it gives to men
of small means and little experience
| to embark in the banking business.
| has become so general that the state
bank commissioner has attempted TO
head it off by refusing to issue char
tiers. In one case a bank was Or
ganiZed at Prague and an application
was made and refused by the bank
commissioner on the ground that
Prague was town of less than one
| thouEand inhabitants and already
had three banks which amply sup
plied its necessities, that the organ
izers of the new financial institution
were people without previous bank
ing experience, and he, the bank
commissioner, had exercised pru-
dent discretion in refusing them a
charter. But the organizers of the
| bank took the matter into court and
procured mandamus ordering the
commissioner to issue the charter on
the ground that he had exceeded his
authority. More than fifty new
banks have been organized under
the state law since January 1st, and
the majority of them have the min
imum capital of $4,000. Whatever
merit there may be in the guaranty
of deposit proposition, it is not prob
able that it will find a favorable So
luton under the Oklahoma law. On
the contrary appearances indicate
that the organizers of the new banks
are preparing for an early display of
| financial fireworks
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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

Quantities of oil on the surface of
the Gulf of Mexico over a half-mile
in radius, south and east Of Texas
oil fields, observed last week shortly
after a subterreanean upheaval is
taken to prove the existence of oil
wells under the bottom of the gulf.
At the same time it had been observ-
ed that several big wells in South
east Texas had ceased to flow, while
some dry wells some distance away
began to flow again.
Miller r. Hutchinson, of Alabama,
is credited with having invented the
most effective noise producer in the
world. 1t is called the Klaxon horn.
One of them, weighing only five
pounds, makes a racket that can be
heard as far as the ray from the av-
erage lighthouse can be seen, and
that the direction from which the
sound comes can be accurately as
certained. The main features of this
interesting mechanism are a steel
diaphram struck on an anvil SO at
tached to its center by the teeth Of
a cam wheel that the power from a
small battery will produce $4,000
vibrations of the diaphragm min
ute. This gives forth a penetrating
shrek, which is directed and con-
centrated by horn.
+ i,Ts & : i.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

1t is to this country that the world
looks for a crop Of 5000. 900
bushels Of corn and 100000 bales
of cotton. The farmers OF other
countries have not succeeded in rails
ing these indispensable articles.
Why they have not mastered the
science of the cornfeld and cotton
plantation is too large subject to
be enlarged on here The Ameri-
can people might we'll hold an an
nual corn and cotton exposition, q
joint exhibit Of these products in
their uses, which are multiplying and
advancing all the time. Such fes-
tival would crown the year OF boun-
ty, adding fresh interest to the season
of the harvest home and OF thanks
giving.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

for better pay and conditions. They
complained because 80 large a part
of their percentage share OF the re-
ceipts was retained by the company
in one way or another. When the
company tried to send out q few cars
with strike breakers, the latter were
attacked f1ercely by the strikers and
several OF the cabs we're injured or
destroyed in the streets. Then the
company got an injunction from the
court forbidding interference and the
police had their hands full at many
points trying to protect the new men
from the mobs.
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