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


ting anyone to have letter sent by
special delivery by merely affixing
ten cents worth of ordinary stamps,
the postoffice department just placed
on sale new design of special de-
livery stamp, which is distinctive
from all other stamps. 1t utilizes
the olive branch of peace and the
cap of Mercury to suggest dispatch.
A decree of nearly $1Sn000,0 900
in the internal revenue receipts of
this government for the last fiscal
year is attributed by Commissioner
Capers to the prohibition movement,
to the high price of grain, and to an
agreement among the distributors
to limit the output. The production
OF distilled spirits was 126,574,O00
gallons, as compared with 16S,574,-
600 the year before. There was a
decrease in the production of de-
natured alcohol.
India is replying with the boycott
to the British effort to stamp out Sc
dition by deporting the agitatators
who are teaching sedition. But the
reply will hardly prove effective.
John Bull is stubborn chap, and
little as he relishes having mis- pocket
touched, he Is not given to surren-
der of policies once determined up
on. The east Indian was never so
well of as he is now. England has
gene gene beyond the native enlighten-
ment in then government, and +.is
is at bottom the strength -o.a the agi-
tation against her.
In Buenos Ayres drivers of auto
mobiles must pass an examination
before they act as such, and no per-
son under the age of eighteen may
become the driver Of a motor car of
higher than 12-horse power. Every
driver must carry pass book and
in case of accident he must stop and
permit the police to enter the de-
tails therein. Tires must be non
splitting and brakes must be care
fully tested before an automobile
leaves its garage. Ascetylene lamps
are prohibited in the business por-
ton Of cities, and in the thickly set
tied residence districts.
It has become known that it was
President Roosevelt who first sug-
gested that the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition take part with him in the AZ
rican enterprise. The secretary of
the institution received letter from
Roosevelt last June, stating his in
tention Of hunting in Africa, and Of
fering to give the institution the
results Of his expedition, provided
it would send along the necessary
naturalists to prepare and ship the
materials. The offer was accepted
and the funds have been raised, pre-
sumably from private donations,
some suspecting that Carnegie is the
interested party.
Director of MINIS Leach reports
that $197,238,377 in gold was coin
ed during the last fiscal year and
$16.630.477 in subsidiary silver, be-
sides $1,946,00S in minor coinage.
He estimates the production of gold
in this country to have been $780,
436,700 in the calendar year of 49,
o., and for the same period $37,
299,700 of silver. The consumption
Of gold in the Industrial arts was
$40.727,07O and Of silver $4,000, 900
ounces. The stock of gold in the
world January /, 1908, is estimated
to have been $7,014,6O0, 900; silver
coin. $3.530.7O0.OOO, and uncovered
paper, $4.302.500.O0O.
The petition of the government
for the dissolution of the American
Tobacco Company finally was grant
ed in part by the United States Cir
cult Court at New York Tuesday,
the decree reciting that the de-
fendant company and its subordin-
ates, with the exception of the Brit
ish concerns and the United States
Cigar Stores Company. are parties
to combinations in restraint OF
trsde among the several states in
violation of the antitrust law of
1890, and that said companies and
their officers are restrained from
further engaging in interstate or
foreign trade. This order was
stayed. however. pending an appeal.
There is an energetic woman
down In Verona, N. j., who is also
q devoted wife and mother, who is
not expanding energy in working
for her rights" She is exercising
them. She has Just constructed.
largely with her own hands, q four
story concrete house which is the
admiration Of the neighborhood.
The woman has an invalid husband
and three small children. and she
was determined to have suitable
home for them. She planned the
house. mixed the concrete. construc-
ted the molds in which the material
va shaped. and did much other
hard work On the structure, her only
assistants being three ordinary la
Dorers. And abe has a house which
= said e: embody new and commend
saple ideas. In which she and her
sfam4ly take great Joy. Somehow
fhsre: does not appear to be much Of
AZ ArEument for woman suffrage
"a THU. but there Is q suggestion Of
sW mt Affection, q opacity and q sturdy
.1pirit can accompllsh.