The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-06-25

III tHc sui OIL lut IeuuSylVduld Su-
gar Refining Company, which was
settled out of court by payment of
a large sum. Criminal prosecution
Of the trust for violation Of the anti
trust law are expected to result.
The stories told in the cas- of
drouth in South Dakota will have to
be revised. Not many years ago the
cry was ''poor bleeding Kansas"
while today 1t is abundant Kansas.
AS soon as the slow moving mental
faculties of her traducers are set in
motion South Dakota will be known
not as a drouthy state but one of the
most productive Of the new states.
1t is becoming that fast.
The news from Paris that NJ. Gull
lot has discovered two more planets
away out beyond Neptune, one A.
500 millions of miles from the sun
and the other still farther away.
This is doubling the diameter of the
solar system. These planets have
not yet been e M. Guillot has
discovered them fundamentally,
which is the way Neptune was dis
covered. but Leverrier's calculations
were Immediately followed by Wis
ual tests. M. G%uillot's claims will
have to wait till 1912 before an ac-
tual demonstration is due.
A break in the ranks of the hat
manufacturers occurred at Danbury
Conn, when fifteen firms agreed to
use the union label and to withdraw
from the National Association of Hat
Manufacturers, after the requisite
notice of ninety days. The men are
to be taken back as individuals until
that time after which there is to be
arbitration of matters in dispute
other than the label. At the same
time seven firms opened up on the
open shop basis. The strike has been
on for nine months and still contin-
ues in other sections of the country.
Before the Central Labor union of
Washington, President Gompers of
the Federation of Labor spoke his
farewell before sailing for Europe
to study the conditions OF toilers
there. He displayed a new concern
for the non-union laborer, and said
he was going to represent all labor
ers, whether in the union or not. AS
to the Buck stove case Gompers said
that when martial law prevailed the
government could prevent free
speech. free assembly and free press,
but only when the life of the ma
tion is endangered.
United States Senator Oliver, Of
Pennsylvania, rising to a question of
privilege in the Senate, on the5th,
entered his formal denial Of the
charge on which he and other di-
rectors Of the Nevada Mining Com
pany had been indicted, namely that
OF trying to defraud the state of tax
on bullion. At least, he said he had
no personal knowledge of the al
legged false statements on which the
charges rested and which were made
by the local managers Of the COM
pany. The Silver Peak Mining Co.,
is the n concerned, in which several
Pittsburg capitalists are interested.
Within a week past notices have
been posted in all the mills Of the
United States Steel corporation in
Pittsburg and Ohio districts saying
that no workmen will be permitted to
leave the mills until through with
the days work. The object Of this
new. order Is to prevent the men from
buying or. drinking liquor, and il
pursuant OF a policy Of temperance
to be applied by the management on
the initiative OF Director Prick. His
attention was called to the matter by
seeing a drunken employee Of the
company staggering to his work. New
employees are to be asked to sign
q pledge not to drink intoxicants al
any time.
From the announcement from
Washington there Is evidently tur-
mol In the war department and
abundant promise Of reproduction in
that branch Of the military estab-
lishment Of the Generalization which
prevails In navy department. Bureau
chiefs and general stan each have II
In Tor the other. One Of the features
which seems likely TO arouse CON
siderable opposition II that contem.
plating the consolidation Of the
Quarte1master's department, the
subsistence department, and the pay
department into q general supply
branch. the head Of which shall be
q major general. with three divisions
under as many maJor generals. cor
responding TO the present quarter
master general. conmissary general
OF subsistence and the paymaster!
general. ThissplAn III ansold one and
has been suggested 10 congress on
other ~Dccasions hut has met with
bpposition onthe ground that Il
only complicates thesmachinery 81
army INTERPRETATIONS This Il but
one q the t1hjectataksnSHp by the
general star tothad discontinue ot
sheblTeaA chiefs md which points
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lMent Mas. Ohyi01aly A a "a