The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-09

vestigate the whole matter Of labor
conditions in the coal regions. I'M
ion recognition is to be made the
leading demand.
The state department has made
public the agreement negotiated by
the ten leading maritime powers of
the world at the recent conference
in London, and which will be known
in history as the declaration of
London. The declaration now makes
clear for the first time what articles
are free from seizure in times of
war and what are absolutely and
conditionally contraband. Chief
among the free articles are the raw
materials which enter into the ne
cessities. Those absolutely contra
band are firearms, powder and all
kinds of military equipment The
list of conditional contraband arti-
cles is made up Of food supplies. 1t
is agreed that blockades should be-
confined to the ports and coasts, be-
longing to the beligerents.
Crown Prince George of servia
issued at Belgrade Thursday a sign
ed statement notifying the cabinet
that he had renowned all claims to
the throne or other privileges, mere
ly explaining that he had been driv-
en- by unjustifled insinuations baseu
on an unfortunate occurrence thus
to act in defense of his honor and
of his conscience. The cabinet re-
fused to consider the matter refer
ring the matter to the king on the
theory that the prince is solely re-
sponsible to his father. The prince
had been prominent in the war agi-
tation against Austria, and had been
connected with many wild and bois-
ferrous affairs among dissipated as
sociates. Lately his valet had died
in hospital from wounds said to
have been inflicted by the prince in
one OF his temper fits.
That colored photography is no
longer a dream of the future, but
is an accomplished fact was proved
by a remarkable exhibition of coll
ored moving pictures shown to the
public in London recently by Charles
Urban and Albert Smith, The "kine-
macolor" is regarded as a distinct
advance over any process yet devel-
oped. The pictures are colored en-
tirely by means Of the suns rays,
the process being as follows A roll
of films is placed in the biograph
machine and in front of the aper-
ture are placed two screens or two
filters, which alternate as soon as the
machine is set in motion, influence
ing pictures as soon as they are
recorded. The filters divide all the
colors of the spectrum into two
groups, one ranging through white,
yellow, orange and scarlet to the
darkest reds, and the other through
white and yellow to green, blue vio-
let and indigo to black 1t is found
that the red and green tints show up
rather too bright and crude, while
the blues and yellows do not show
up so we'll. The inventors are at
work perfecting their device SO as
get around this difficulty.
~
Lieut.. Earnest H. Shackleton Of
the British navy, who left England
on the ship Nimrod, in July 1907,
to seek the south pole, returned to
New Zealand Wednesday and for
warded report to London to the
effect that he had reached a point
within Ill miles of the south pole.
Other points accomplished were as
follows: Magnetic pole also reached;
eight mountain chains discovered;
100 mountains surveyed; volcano of
Mount Eerbus 1920 feet high, as
cended; theory that there is an area
Of atmospheric calm around the pole
disproyed. Sackleton says that the
party encountered great difficulties
and suffered much from the cold.
One member of the party had both
feet frostbitten and had to have a
toe amputated. The distance trav-
eled over the ice in sledges was
1,70S miles, taking 1875 days. Impor-
tant geological, geological and geo.
graphical discoveries were made.
Mount Erebus, the most southern
volcano in the world, was assembled
for the first time. The winter was
a mild one and forty degrees below
zero was the coolest encountered.
The belief is expressed that the pole
is situated on plateau, 10000 feet
above sea level. A severe blizzard
stopped the party for some days on
this plateau, and one of the four
ponies used had to be shot because
afflicted with snow blindness. The
most southern point ever reached
by man was marked by hoisting a
union jack on January 8, at altitude
eighty-eight degrees and twenty
three minutes; longitude, 1872 east.
Secretary Dickinson has announc-
ed the retired army officers to con-
stitute the court of inquiry which
will investigate the dismissal of the
negro soldiers in connection with