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

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province of the premier, Sir Will
fred Laurier This, however, was
Offset by gains for the liberals in
! ontario province. In general the in
dorsement given Sir Wilfred was
notable in view Of charges against
his administration and no Importance
is attached to the slight slump in
Quebec. 1t is not regarded as show
ing that the premier's hold upon Ills
people is slipping from him.
Pittsburg is now the center of at
traction. That city has landed
bunch of grafters that are the best
ever. San Francisco or no other
city can beat the specialists that are
now said to be sure of conviction. A
lot of aldermen and bankers are it.
That city has long been bad one
and no end of crime is charged up
to the place. If the city can be
brought to rights it will be good
thing. Sending lot of the capital
grafters to the pen has started the
good roads in the state, and the
travel in the pen line seems to be
fair in old Pennsylvania.
In at least four of the countries
perhaps the most important event
in their history was recorded in Jul
| ly-the establish ment of their in
dependence. In our own history
we have the memorable Fourth of
July, while the patriotic efforts of
the liberator Simon Bolivar for the
independence Of Venezuela, was con-
summated on July 5, Columbia rid
ding herself of the Spanish yoke on
July 20. Then there is France with
her July ii, marking the date when
the suffering French people stormed
the famed and fearsome Bastile. The
Spanish forces at Santiago, Cuba,
capitulated on July 16.
At the thrty-frst annual meeting
of the Iowa Association of Unfair
ian and Independent churches re-
Gently held at Perry, a resolution
was adopted declaring the confer
ence strongly in favor of both men
and women in the ministry" and as
believing women fully as Efficient
and valuable as men in all that per-
tains to religious leadership" The
Rev. Eleanor e. Gordon was secre-
tary Of the conference. She is also
president Of the Iowa woman stuff
ragists One of the most successful
meetings Of the conference was said
to be that at which Rev. Miss SAT-
ford was the leader.
OF all the schemes put forward to
help the unemployed, one Of the
most allurng is the proposal by the
Glasgow corporation to construct,
at cost of $SO.OOO,OOO, a great bat
tleship canal between the Forth and
the Clyde, and thus to link up the
North sea with the Atlantic. A mod
est canal joining the Forth and the
Clyde already exists, and 1t formed
in the mid-Victorian period, one of
the wonders Of the British isles. 1t
is as miles long with rise of 1856
feet. When the railways began to
dominate the country it was prophe-
sled that no more canals would be
necessary, but the prophets forgot
that it would always pay ships to
have their passage shortened, and
since that prophecy many ship can
ais have been brought into existence.
Some new and startling chapters
of anthracite history were brought
to light during the hearing of the
federal suit against the anthracite
railroads charging trade restraint,
before Examiner Guilbert, at Phila-
delphia recently. Lawyers for the
government submitted document
showing how as far back as 1876
there was a board of control en-
powered to fix prices and regulate
production and shipments, and how
representatives OF the various coal
roads were directors of the Temple
Iron Company, the executive COM
mittee of which was named by Pres
ident Baer of the Reading Lawyers
for the defense objected that the
document was irrelevant and that it
antedated the life of the law under
which the present action was
brought.
The report of Secretary of War
Wright estimates the cost of next
years operations at $1S9,755,OOO,
or an increase Of $52,OOO,OOO over
the expenses of the current year,
most of the increase being intended |
for river and harbor and other pub
lie works. About s1O,0OO,OOO is to
go to the support of the West Point
Military Academy. He asks for 6l2 |
more officers of the army, which is
now 5000 short of its authorized
strength. Its present status is A.
116 officers and 6S,512 enlisted men.
or this number $4,000 are serving
In this country and $4,000 in the
Philippines, 5000 in Cuba; 1000 in
Alaska. 900 in Porto Rico, 256 in
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