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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

All the stun the papers print about
e. r. Harriman's health is enough
to kill off any man in perfect physic-
al condition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25
Current Comment.

Many of our high souled patriots
will sacrifice themselves now on the
altar of love for country by seeking
census jobs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

The latest phase of the Roosevelt
upiift movement is the decision oil
Teddy, Jr. to try ballooning.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

A woman who will darn socks will
save her husband many word worse
than darn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

Brides cost o lot of money. but in
dividual sentiment agrees that she is
worth 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-25

Somehow an employer never seems
to want a man who is out of a Job.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
LIVELY Times
over SITE
Trip County has Trouble
Locating County Seat
on Railroad.
PROMOTERS OF many new TOWNS bob u
Business Men of Lamro Refuse to
Assist Promoters and Seek to
Move the Old Town.

Judged purely by reports, there is a
lively time on for the people of Trip
county over the location of several
new towns. Report has it that since
the opening of lands to settlement last
spring and the announcement of the
direction to be taken by the Chicago
& Northwestern road through the
county, several town sites have been
proposed. The new road from Dallas
to the northwest misses the old town
of Lamro about two miles, jackson
Bros. of Dallas, townsite promoters,
have plated tract on the railroad
with provisional agreement that if
the town grows to sufficient size to
warrant it a depot will be located. In
addition to this they have three other
town sites under similar agreement
along the road, designated as Winner,
Jordan and Carter. Winner is the
rival of the old town of Lamro and it
was supposed that business people of
the latter would move to the new To-
cation. Jackson Bros. claim to be
working under a shadow of railroad
authority in locating Winner, while
the people of Lamro claim to have
quietly investigated and found the
promoters claim exaggerated, being
only provisional contract on which
they must make good or lose the pos
sibility of depot.
Accepting this view Of the situation
the people of Lamro have thrown out
challenge and refused to negotiate
in any way with promoters. All of
the business people of Lamro have
signed an agreement to stick together
and locate an independent town on
the railroad one mile west of Winner,
to be called Lamro, inha 5ited by the
people now at the old town. AS Lamro
is the geographic center of the county
and has the honor of being the county
seat, arrangements are under negotia-
tion to incorporate not only the neces-
sary townsite but strip of land 100
feet wide connecting the old and new
locations Of the town. This is being
done to prevent technical troubles
over the removal of the court house.
The site for the new town has been
purchased of Slaughter & Sheppard of
Dallas.
The action taken by the people Of
Lamro, it is claimed, will put a crimp
in the number of new towns proposed
along the railroad. The promoters
hope the turmoil over the location of
the county seat town may tend to
cause a change in the route to be
taken by the railway. 1t is therefore
strongly limited that this is a posi-
bility and that the road may yet
adopt an old survey four miles north
of the old town of Lamro.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
HAS CAPITAL.
OF 100000
Building and Loan Associa-
ton is formed in
Rapid City.
WILL Be A GREAT BENEFIT 10 THE CITY
Is composed of Prominent Business
PeopIe-Everyone can take stock
and Be Benefited.
I'LL Be A GREAT BENEFIT 10 THE CITY

Believing there is an excellent field
here, number of prominent business
men have organized a building and
loan association capitalized at $500, 600
and expect TO be in shape for the
translation of business by January L.
The charter arrived Tuesday from the
Office of the secretary of state. The
ncorporators are Allen Bros, James
HALEY, G. j. Buell., 1. M. Humphrey.
Is. M. Rugg, Tom Sweeney, V. It.
Price, Albert S. HALEY, A. c. Hunt
and A. X. Thomas. The corporation
stock is divided into 5000 shares of
800 each and the new concern will be
known as the Black Hills Building
and Loan association, organized in
accord with chapter twenty-six OF the
statutes OF South Dakota, which
makes special provision for the fornla-
ton of companies of this nature.
The object of the association may
be succinctly stated as means to en-
courage thrift among the people, as
sist in saving money, building homes
and in various ways >beneftting the
community. Money is loaned share
holders and the membership CON
templates all persons who desire
to enter, and all of the share
holders are stockholders in the associ
tion. The affairs are conducted Inv
the usual executive officers, but there
are no salaries to any of. them except
those Of secretary and treasurer,
which are nominal. The board of d.
rectors will consist of five practical
business men OF Rapid City who are
stockholders. When elected at a
meeting to be called of all interested,
this board will consist of one director
for one year, two for two years and
two for three years, the object being
not to have an entire new directorate
elected at any one time and to assure
four who are familiar with the bust
ness of the association. The annual
meeting will be held on the third
Tuesday in January.
Anyone may purchase stock, the
payment being So cents a month for
each share held. The accumulated
earnings Of the company will be APP
piled in dividends to shareholders,
thus increasing the value Of the hold
ing annually, as is the custom in
mutual companies. The charter pro-
vides that owners of stock may borrow
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
He met DEATH
while SKATING
Kendell Martin Breaks Thro-
ugh Ice on Electric Light
Pond Sunday.
TWO OTHERS NARROWLY ESCAPE DROWNING
Schneider Boys Make Heroic Efforts
to Save Drowning Boy Have
Close Call Themselves.

Kendell Martin was drowned Sun
day afternoon while skating on the
pond maintained by the electric light
company. He, in company with two
sons of George Schneider, had gone to
the pond for an afternoons enjoyment
and soon the three were indulging in
the exhilerating exercise. The ice
was not as safe as it appears aud
gave away under their weight. The
smaller Schneider boy scrambled out
and ran to the bank where he secured
a long stick. This he held out to the
others and his brother succeeded in
getting out with his aid. In trying
to rescue their companion the eldest
Schneider boy again slipped into the
water. This time the little fellow
unbuckled his skates, fastened the
straps together and was again able to
rescue his brother. Efforts were again
put forth to save young Martin, but
by this time he was too chilled to
grasp the strap although it was within
his reach and he is believed to have
been taken with cramps.
The eldest Schneider boy, realizing
they could not save their companion,
ran for help, but it was too late. The
body disappeared under the ice and
the efforts to fndSit were inavailing
until Monday forenoon when the
treacherous pond gave up it's dead.
The body was in an upright position
near where it sank. The pond MAIN
tanned by the company varies in depth
from ten to fifteen feet and as the
water is frequently withdrawn and
the pond retilled the ice is never really
safe, but this the boys did not realize
when they went upon it, there being
nothing to Indicate but what it was
safe and sound.
Kendell was a son of Mr.. and Mrs
Lincoln Martin, the family coming to
the city about a year and half ago
from Fairchild, Wis. His father is
an engineer and has employment with
Lanphere s. lIinrichs. Kendell was
driver of meat wagon for T. b.
Haxby. Kendell was born in Mendou.
Wis, June 3, 1894, and was Is years,
6 months and IL days old. Beside the
parents, who reside in North Rapid,
he leaves brother, Clifford, two years
his senior. He was always an indus
trious, companionablc and manly boy,
well liked by all and a great assistance
about the home. He had dread lest
his parents should be called to their
reward before him, and on Sunday
spoke of it. He wanted to 60 hunting
that day, but his mother was fearful
some accident might befall, so he
gave up the idea and went skating
The funeral services were held at
the family home Tuesday afternoon
conducted by Rev, +. G.. HOlbroOk.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
HIS Death WAS
very SUDDEN
Thomas Dowd Dies Of Ape
plexy in Hotel at Omaha
on Monday.
HAD GONE FOR A VISIT WITH ais eHiLDREl
Was Contemplating Christina:
Visit with his Mother and Chill
dren when Stricken.

Thos. Dowd died suddenly at about
$3.50 a. M Monday at the Her Grande
hotel in Omaha Word Of his death
was Immediately communicated ID |
Pete Sweeney of this city, by Fred
Castle, proprietor Of the hosiery.
Physicians called pronounced death
due to apoolexS. Mr.. Dowd went to
Omaha on the Northwestern train
Saturday evening, intending to- visit
his two little girls who are in the con-
vent OF Mount st. Mary. After . 4
tour OF the stores on a shopping expe-
dition he intended bringing his
daughters home to spend Christmas
at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Charles Stewart, on st. Joe near Sixth
street. He had also expected his
mother to spend the holidays. Instead
OF his mother coming to spend the
joyous ynletide, his remains were
shipped to her home IN Hastings, Ne
braska, where the funeral services
were held Thursday.
Decedent was born, In wisconsin
about As years ago. When, q email
boy his parents moved to Howard,
Neb., where his father conducted s
jeWelry store. Later he located at
Deadwood, where deceased learned
the jewelry trade under his; father.
Deceased was an athletic young fellow
and in earlier days became q deyotee
OF base ball, playing the game profess
sionally for a few years, being on
teams in the Western and intermeii-s
ate leagues. He also managed teams
at Peoria and Rock Island, ILL.,, and
Davenport, Iowa. When he discarded
baseball he opened cafe at Gordon,
Neb. In few years he accumulateds
considerable money which he invested,
IN ranch and livestock near Rush
Vile, Neb. This venture proved un-i
remunerative and he again opened e
cafe, This time at Chadron, Neh He.
came TO Rapid City about three years
ago and embarked In business at the
corner Of Main and Seventh which hes
owned at the time OF his death.
Tom Dowd had q host Of friends ~
this city and throughout N ebraska.
He was companionable and energetic
and his passing will leave q vacant.
Chair in the commercial world as we'll
as In the social world Ia which he
moved.
Charles Stewart, manager Of the;
business here, and Tom Roush went
to Omaha mmediately on learning Of
his death and accompanied the re-
mains to Hastings.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24

About 1000 a. m. Tuesday agasoline
explosion occurred in the Mulcahy
tailoring establishment on st. Joe
street, causing damage of between
$3.50 and 5000. The explosion occurred
In the rear room which is divided BY
a low partition, where workman was
engaged in cleaning a hat. The i'm.
pact was sufficient to blow out both
the front plate glass windows, leaving
not fragment over three inches
across. Mr.. Mulcahy and tailor
were in the front part of the room
and neither were injured. There was
less than quart Of gasoline in the
room.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
He WILL TRY SIMPLE LIFE
DR.. Rosclle Goes on Homestead NJ ar
Rapid City-Gives up
Large Practice.

Rapid City Gives up
Large Practice.
| The Mitchell Gazette has the follow
ing to say of a man Who'll going upon
a farm near Rapid City:
"Dr. j. h. Roselle, we'll known in
this section of the state, has dreams
of the simple life" on homestead
and has closed up the hospital over
which he has had charge at Fulton
and leaves this week to live on claim
a few miles from Rapid City. DIR.
Rosalle has made the little town of
Fulton famous as surgical center
and leaves many friends there as we'll
as in surrounding towns.
sHe has made wide acquaintance
through the eastern part of the state
through his practice and having been
in the state legislature. He is a ma
tive Of Kentucky and came to South
Dakota several years ago and began
the practice of medicine. Surgery has
been his speciality and his records show
1854 cases Of abdominal surgery with
but four deaths. Besides being a care
full surgeon he seems to have been
peculiarly fortunate to show such a
record. The writer is the victim of
his knife and knows him for gentle
man and a good fellow as well as a
good surgeon and commend him to the
tender mercies of the coyote and jack
rabbit with pang of regret. When
he is following the pillow Or pushing
the hoe next summer maybe not think
of knife, needle or medicine case. 2
We are laying away Xmas goods
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
WHAT THE MINE is WORTH
Homestake Property is Now
Rife at Lead.

A dispatch from Lead under date of
the 18th inst. says: Speculation as to
the value of the Homestake property
in this county on which the company
naturally declines to give figures, led
to an examination of the tax lists in
the county treasurer's office. The office
force is now busy preparing a state
ment of taxes for the company which
will give some indication of the value
of the property. This year it is esti-
mated that the company,will pay into
Lawrence county about 100000 in
taxes which is just one fourth of the
total amount to be collected on the
property in this county and as the to-
tai valuation of property here is 49,
100000, it would place valuation of
about s2,225,OOo. This does not in
clude all the Homestake property as
it has holdings in other counties of
the Black Hills.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
Two Small BIazes.

The fire department was called out
twice Tuesday evening. The first was
small blaze in the Chinese restau-
rant in the rear of the Tom Dowd sa.
loon, and the other in the old Schnasse
building about midway on Main street
between Fifth and Sixth. Neither
fire amounted to much, other than
excitement, being in frame buildings.
The fire in the Schnasse building
started under a laundry stove in
rooms on the second floor which were
being occupied for a short time as
bachelor quarters. The occupant has
since moved his belongings.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
RESERVATIONS GOING FAST
Will Dispose of them in
Short Time.

Philip Review: When South Da-
kota became state in 1889, practic-
ally half it's territory was Indian res
ervation. 1t is now predicted that
within ten years there will be no res
ervation within the boundaries of the
state. The elimination of the reserves
has been a slow process but moves
more rapidly now that the question of
treaty consent of the Indians is no
longer a part of the process. The
first move to climate the reserves,
after statehood, was in opening of a
large part of the territory west of the
Missouri between Pierre and the Black
Hills and in Meade and Perkins coun-
ties north of the hills. This was fol-
lowed by the elimination of the
Yankton reservation in Charles Mix
county; that by the Sisseton reserve
in the northeast corner of the state;
and later the opening of a portion of
the Crow Creek reserve in parts of
Hand, Hyde and Hughes counties.
Then came the sensational opening of
Gregory county, the first break in the
line of reservation along the southern
boundary of the state. This was fol-
lowed by the opening of small strip
of the Lower Brule reserve in Stanley
and Lyman counties. Then the Tripp
county opening which further reduced
the Rosebud reservation. And the
last move which wiped out large
part of Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock reservations in the northern
part of the state west of the Missouri.
All those different moves have left
but one compact territory of any great
extent yet within reservation bounda.
ries, it being the Pine Ridge reserva.
tion and the portion OF Rosebud vet
left to the Indians.
The proposed new bills comprehend
the wiping out of all the remainder
Of the Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock reserves in this state, and tn,
elimination Of reservations in tn,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
Missionary to Esquimaux.


New York, Dec. 2l-Cook tonight is
discredited in the house of his friends.
Nota word has come from him. Only
his brother refused to believe the
Copenhagen verdict correctly reported.
Charles Wake, a close friend, and
Cooks brother, both say he is at Chris
tiansand with his wife.
One of those who went with Cook
to Hamilton, Mont, where he had a
dubious public meeting with his
guide, Barrill, said:
81 asked the doctor what he would
do If the Copenhagen verdict was
against him."
II have not thought of that, but 1
believe 1 will go back among the Es-
kimos Of Greenland and try to carry
on such medical mission as Doctor
Grenfell made famous"
Wake, Cooks lawyer. when asked
how much Cook made from sale of his
narrative and lectures, replied: "More
than $4,000"
"More than 300, ooo," said another
friend.
The board of aldermen who voted
Cook the freedom of the city, have,
pending a resolution, withdrawn it.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY,

northern half of the state. They
seek to cut Mellette county from the
small remaining portion of the Rose
bud reserve; and to make the first in
road on Pine Ridge reservation. by
the taking of Bennett county, leaving
the southern reservations covering
the counties of Todd, Washabaugh,
Washington andsShannon in the south
western portion of the state The
two small reserves of lower Brule and
Grow Creek yet remaining in the CEN
trail part OF the state have nothing
to open,' in either of them, and will
probably be the last of the reserva-
tions to go. Some time in the future
they will be abolished as reservations
luC when that time comes there will
be nothing to open" as they are all
taken up in Indian allotmentS. and
more and more of the land is being
sold to the whites every year. Some
day the counties in which they are
located will demand that they be
brought under taxation and they will
also cease to exist as reservations and
with them WILL so the last of the
Indian as a separate entity from the
rest of the people of the state.
WANTED-Io rent a TYPEWRITER.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24

to the value of 80 per cent of the hold
ing at any time by giving note to
the association and the payment Of
an equitable rate of interest,". In this
way persons desiring to build may do
SO on money secured from the associa-
ton, and may continue to pay their
monthly sistt'ilnenl until amount
borrowed is fully paid, when the mort
gage security is released and the
builder owns his home, having paid
forit practically as paying rent. There
are many benefits to members and the
formation of the association will do
much to build up and improve the
CITY
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
He Returns to Recuoerate.

]. Burns Read, who has been in
British Guiana the past year superin-
tending a mine for the Aremu Mining
Co., has returned to Rapid City
While there he was taken ill of mala-
ria and was forced to return home to
recuperate. He will probably not re-
turn to South America, but seek en-
ployment in some mining capacity in
this country. Mrs. Read returned
with her husband and expresses her
pleasure in being in the Hills country
once more.
An advertisements hrinrs retnrns.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24

Captain Amundson. "The important
question is whether he is swindler
or merely ignorant. i prefer to be-
l1eve Cook is confident he arrived at
the north pole. If he is swindling he
must have changed his character in
the past ten years."
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
Shouldn't be Taken Seriously.

Should've be Taken Seriously.
Washington, Dec. 2l-Admiral Ches-
ter said:
"The result shows Peary was cor
rect when he said nobody should take
Cook seriously and that the only au-
thentics records of his trip were made
by Eskimos, which is confirmed in
every feature by the account and
pictures published in the New York
Herald. Pictures that Cook claims
were taken three hundred miles from
land show they were taken with land
sll around them.'
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24

Shackelton Non-CommittaI.
London, Dec. 21.-Shackelton, ask
ed for an opinion on the general YER
dict, said: 81 have made it rule
not to offer criticism on this matter"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-24
caot. Amundsor,. Sorro,v

Capt. Amundson's Sorrow,
Christiana, Dec. Pc Nobody could
feel more sorrow at the commissions
crushing statement than myself, for
had learned to appreciate Cook as a
devoted friend and honest man." said