The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-23

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AND WESTERN STOCK REVIEW.
! Published Weekly q Rapid City SD
The Union Publishing Company.
Entered at the postomce at Rapid
City as second-class mail matter.
Subscription, $3.50 year.
President Diaz, it is announced
will soon announce his candidacy
for another term as head Of the Mex
lean nation. Diaz has the Office run
ming habit, and Mexico has the Dia2
alabit so the announcement will meet
with the approval OF the great ma
jority Of the Notwithstanding a
degree Of political wisdom decidedly
rare In Latin-American republic.
The French tariff commission in
making recent revisions of the max
imum and minimum schedules of du-
ties on imports is understood to have
made certain concessions to the Am
erican trade In machinery. This was
done with the hope of convincing the
United States congress that France
was DESTROYS of keeping up good re-
lations with this country.
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In the hearing OF the railroad rate
injunction cases being held in st.
Paul, the Great Northern auditor of
passenger receipts testifies that the
company was suffering a material
loss through the operation Of the
two cent law. The auditor testified
that the difference between the old
rates for 1907 was computed at
$9S1,39s loss of revenue in the state
Of Minnesota and for 1908, the COM
putation gave the loss at $1,4S3,2 74.
Owing to the method employed to
kidnap Willie Whitla from school
in Sharon, Pa, the st. Paul, Mimi,
schools have adopted rule which
requires teacher receiving a re-
qest to excuse child pupil, to make
sure that the request is athentic be-
fore allowing the pupil to leave. The
person presenting the request must
be identified, II not we'll known, the
same as is the case with strangers
who present drafts at banks. A
wise precaution.
In order to win a prize offered by
an agricultural paper, q Day county
boy showed what South Dakota soil
Is capable Of producing, when 1t is
urged little, by raising over $4,000
worth of vegetables and fruit from
five acres Of Day county land. Every
time an extra effort is made, South
Dakota soil easily shows that ii leads
the world for productivity, and the
4 returns from South Dakota farms
shows that it does the very same
thing in the ordinary way of farming
In short every time anybody figures
up a few statistics on farming, The
finds South Dakota coming out where
It belongs, at the top Of the heap.
The London Times correspondent
\ at 1Teheran, Persia, has sent his pa
per an, account of the terrible plight
Of the city Of Tabriz, in northern
Persia, which has for several months
been IN. the hands OF revolutionary
force. It Is now apparently cut OF
from other revolutionary centers by
4 the forces Of the shah and is In a
state of siege, with food and sup
plies running short. II the city holds
out thousands must die, but il 1t
:$surrenders a great massacre Is al
most certain. Noncombattants have
little chance Of escape and the revo-
lutionary groups in other cities ap-
pear to be little concerned about the
fate Of Tabriz.
The published report Of the Jew
81 ish Territorial Organizations expe.
4 dition into Cyrenica, In Tripoli, to
find II that region would be suitable
for an anonymous colony Of Jews
To- definitely uniavorable. In lhisl
a preface to this report Israel Fang.
Will says that the project did moi
hold water, in q very literal sense
81 While it Is a beautiful country, they
found u scarcity Of water to sustain
n dense population, due to the fact
& that The Khole plateau consisted q
vast block Of limestone, at least
900 feet chick, which is a pour.
Gus ~ sieve. DR.. Gregory. leader