The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
Tho Union Publishing Company.

Entered at the postoffice at Rapid
City as second-class mail matter.
Subscription, $3.50 a year.
Federal Judge Taylor at Cleve-
land, after hearing the claims of the
creditors against the Municipal trac-
ton Company, has announced that
1t will be necessary to increase the
rate of fares from three cents in
order to pay expenses, including the
rent of 1929 a month to the
Cleveland Railway company, which
owns the lines, and is controlled by
the old Cleveland Electric Company.
Three groups of men in modern
life challenge attention and admir-
alton for their ubiquity and their au-
dacity, says the Boston Herald. They
are the explorer, the pioneer trader
and advance agent Of commerce, and
the religious propaganda. Science,
commerce and religion are funda-
mental facts in contemporary life, as
the motives of truth seeking, gain
getting and altruism, which are back
of them. OF the three great mission
airy faiths of the world, Buddhism,
Mahommedanism and Christianity,
the Christian religion has planted its
outposts on the most continents and
has developed the most effective
propaganda machine.
Judge Jones has decided that Geo.
w. Eagan cannot hold the job of
States attorney in Minnehaha coun-
ty. That means that the oratorical
individual from the CRAZY belt" will
have to conflne himself to his news
paper work. He will find the news
paper a cold comfort compared to
the practice of law. In all serious
ness his case is somewhat disappoint-
ing to say the least. He attempted
to soar above all others in his pro-
fession at one sweep, and the result
was but natural. The others pro-
ceeded to go after him personally,
and there is where most men get
the worst Of it, when they attempt
to show themselves up as more hon
orable than their fellows. Eagan will
not be much in Sioux Falls after
while when he confines himself to
the printing business.
More than half his weight in SUI
gar is what the average American
eats in a year, according to the es-
innate made by the bureau of sta
tistics. The total consumption of
sugar in 1907 was 7,O89,665,975
pounds. OF this amount 21.3 per
cent was of home production and
17.7per cent was brought from our
insular possessions. the remaining
81 per cent coming from foreign
countries. At the same time we have
exported 100000 pounds. For
the first time the production of the
beet sugar in the United States ex-
ceeded that Of cane sugar. The pro-
duct of the latter was 544 1000, 900
pounds and Of the former 967,OO0,-
600 pounds. The worlds produc-
ton OF sugar has nearly doubled in
the last twenty years, the total for
last year being 100000, 900 lbs.
The District of Columbia is once
more agitating for an appropriation
by congress to pay the expenses of
the inauguration on the fourth of
March next. Probably many persons
imagine that the nation does pay for
this pageant, but it does not give a
penny. The entire expense is as
sumed by the residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and it is big
sum for a community that has lit
tie commerce. All the money for
the parades, etc., is furnished by the
citizens through subscriptions, save
what can be secured by selling seats
on grandstands and tickets on the
socalled inaugural ball" OF course,
the states which send military organ
izations to participate pay their way,
but at the same time the District of
Columbia has to do something toward
entertaining, them. The cost has be-
come a burden, and really it ought
to be made national affair, says
the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Dis
trict needs no advertising, and it
gets mighty little business out of
the affair. It is national function
and congress ought to be willing
to stand for the necessary expense.
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Every school building should have
a play ground Of its own where UNI
der proper skilled supervision, the
children may play. 1t would be ideal
that one or more of the teachers
should be in charge of the play
ground. It is not beyond the range
of possibility that some day GER
tain, proportion of teachers may be
appointed to the public schools with
this qualification In view, as is to-
day the case In most Of the private
preparatory schools in England. But
as the schools have not Fairgrounds
attached, hence the necessity OF Gre
ating In each district suitable open
spaces adapted for play. Feeling
that many sites most suitable to this
purpose have already been built up
on. and the few remaining are yearly
increasing In value, the Denver Play
ground Association is seeking to stir
up the public to sanction, and even
demand. that such open spaces shall
be IN the. near future secured by the
city. While the playground associ-
alton has among its members repre-