The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-16
Tho Union Publishing Company.

Entered at the postoffice at Rapid
City as second-class mail matter.
Subscription, $3.50 a year.
President Taft is urging the engi
neers on the Panama canal to push
through by 1913. 1t is gratifying
to know that man so we'll inform.
ed on the canal believes that the
feat is possible.
On April 1. the convict lease sys-
tenn of Georgia went out OF existence
with the going into effect Of the new
law. The day was hailed with JOY
by the $500 convicts, many OF the
camps being turned into temporary
prayer and song meetings. The old
system had been in force for forty
years, and the reform was the result
of the cruelties disclosed in the in
vestigation instigated by Governor
Hoke Smith. Hereafter able-bodied
convicts will be employed by the
state on a great system of highways.
The directorate Of the new $780,
100000 International Smelling and
Refining Company, which has been
organized as rival Of the American
Smelling and Refining Company was
announced at New York Wednesday.
The names indicate that the COM
pany is identified with Amalgamated
Copper and Standard OIL interests.
The company will issue only $1C,-
100000 Of its capital at present and
will probably take over the Raratan
Refinery at Raratan, N. j., the larg-
est refinery in the world owned by
the United Metal Refining Company.
Owners of stations find themselves
up against new law governing the
advertising the same this spring. A
law passed by the last legislature
provides that all advertisements of
such animals shall give the full ped
igree of the horse and also GER
tificate of health from duly licers-
ed veterinarian. Failure to comply
with these conditions renders the adj
vertiser liable to fine of $500.
This seems bit hard on the horse
owners, but will undoubtedly result
in great improvement in the quail
ity OF the animals produced n this
state.
:
The navy department recently re-
ceived from the commander-in-chief
of the feet an official communication
relative to certain changes recon-
mended by him to be made in the
uniform shirt of the enlisted men.
In accordance with custom this let
ter was forwarded to the various Of
flcials for comments or expression
OF opinion, the remarks of each Off
Ger being appended on an endorse
ment slip. Each Endorsement in
troduced the subject matter of the
letter in brief, and one of them thus
tersely explained the contents: Com
mander-in-chief desires to change
shirt"
In the Pittsburg and shenango
Valley steel manufacturing districts
Wednesday, notices were posted
Of reductions of wages amounting
to an average Of ten per cent of the
earnings Of $4,000 men. The re-
auctions were to take effect on
Thursday April 1. The notice of
the Jones & Laughlin Company COM
plains that the reduction has be-
come necessary ION account of the
depression of business due to the
fear OF a reduction in the tariff" 1t
adds that "to meet present prices
a reduction in wages is unavoid-
able" These reductions have been
made by the independent steel man
ufacturers so far, and Chairman Gary
said Wednesday that the steel cor
poration had not considered the
question OF wage reduction.
The anthracite coal operators is
sued statement Wednesday asking
what the United Mine Workers as
an organization had done to carry
out the plan Of the 1902 Strike Com
mission. It points that the union
has not made the changes in their
constitution recommended by the
commission, and especially in that
the anthracite miners had failed to
organize separately from the bitu-
minous miners. The operators claim
that they have done their best to
execute the spirit and the letter Of
the conditions Of the award. They
say they have taken advantage Of
the latest inventions for the protec-
tion Of life and have tried to make
working conditions better. They
declare that It will be an Ill day for
our industries when the entire sup
ply OF coal In the country. anthra-
cite and abituminous Is put into the
power Of any organization to do
swhat 4 Will In Withholding or cur
failing our fuel supply.
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Down II Illinois the Legislature
is stu trying to elect i United States
senator, With Senator Hopkins sim
at fthss head 81 the procession and d
isN ore yotes needed to- land him
silis alme posit Ion. Something like
/ seyent llots have been taken On
eeAakorsh and the deadlock
brok We doubt very
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