The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-06-11

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when the tariff rainbow chasers o
his party will be claiming everything
/ in that section. Perhaps he has no
forgotten the year in which Knut'
Nelson overestimated the strength O
tariff reform in Minnesota, and wa
left at home a few years to get bet
fter acquainted with local condi
lions.
| the first of July, which will mean {
decided saving to the state and its
| financial affairs. One Of these being
auth rity to the state finance board
to loan excess in the Irvine plant funt
| when it was not required for the &C
tive operation of the plant. Another
provided that all interest from any
state funds whatsoever should bt
paid into the state general fund in.
stead of special funds. AT present
| the indications are that there will be
somewhere about two hundred thous-
and dollars in the Irvine plant fund
which will not be needed for the
present operations. This can be
loaned by the state finance board
and if loaned the interest would &c
to the state general fund. AS notn-
ing could be gained to the fund by
loaning it outside the state, and as
the state would lose nothing in the
way of interest by transferring it as
10 N,,ll
save paying interest on outstanding
general fund warrants by the trans
fer, such a move will be made after
July j, and all outstanding warrants
on cash basis for time at least
For the first time, under the new
law. the state has paid the expenses
of bond for the state treasurer and
his deputy, the bonds having been
given through surety companies, in
stead of personal bonds. and the cost
of the same paid out of appropria-
lions made for that purpose.
The last legislative session passed
several laws which will go into effect
The federal government has taken
official cognance OF the fly and mos
quito and a bulletin issued on the
matter known as No. rs. One can be
had free for the asking by address
ing Department of Agriculture, at
Send for one and help
in the good work of eXterminating
these pesky little nuisances.
Desiring to find out independently
of the revisionists in congress what
the ultimate consumer" may ex-
pect to get from a revised tariff law,
President Taft has directed the
treasury department experts to COM
pile for him the approximate amount
OF duties on articles in common use
as fixed under - 9 existing Dingley
law and as proposed in the Payne
and Aldrich bills. Considering such
articles as clothing, furniture, tin
ware, foods, coal, ETC., the president
asked that the duty be computed on
the average retail price of the article.
For example, how much duty does a
81 pair of shoes pay in each of the
systems of tariff referred to?
The government at washington
has disavowed the acts of an Ameri-
can teacher at Tabriz who was charg-.
ed with participating in revolution
airy demonstrations against the shah,
thus avoiding all possibility of COM
plications with Persia. Even Ameri-
ca has its share Of men Unbalanced
who cannot refrain from
'butting-in" when they are in the
of a row in foreign
country. But fortunately the num-
Der Is not large. The average Amerl-
can recognizes the advisability OF
keeping out of other peoples quar-
rels, and has the faculty of app
preciating how mueh trouble can Of
ten be made by taking a contrary
course.
Some English tourists who are in
The habit Of travelling with a good
many trunks have way OF marking
heir baggage for Identification pur-
poses which looks strange to Ameri-
can eyes. 1t is Dct at all unusual
now to see landed on rhe steamship
piers big pile Of trunks and bags,
around each of which is stripe of
some vivid color. "A bright red stripe
around soleleather trunk may look
queer. but its usefulness is apparent
in the ease with which the baggage
Is picked out by the owner. An Eng
lishman who came over recently had
his trunks not-only decorated with a
stripe, but on the top Of each was
his coat of arms in colors. His bag
gage was handled with much dis
patch.
President Taft will not interfere
with the action of Secretary Of the
Interior Ballinger, who recently re-
stored to the public domain about
one million acres Of land in northern
that had been Withdrawn
from settlement by, order Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. No importances at
taches to this approval Of President
Taft as showing q disposition to with
draw support from the ex-president's
conservation policy, he, Taft, being
as much in earnest as his predecessor
to protect the public domain from
spoilation by private and ambitious
schemers. But In the case in which
Taft's secretary OF the Interior has
acted. Taft believes that the domain
was Withdrawn under Mr.. R ooseyelt's
term without lawful justification,