The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-09
Just as the sun was due to shi,

throne. And he has been in trou-
bic ever since.
Just as the sun was due to shine
through the war clouds which have
hung over the Balkan states for
months, owing to the willingness Of
Servia to submit to Austria terms
suggested by Great Britain, France
and Italy, the sky became overcast
again on Wednesday, when Austria
positively declined to be satisfied
with these terms. Austria gave no.
tice that she would insist upon COM
pliance with her demands in detail,
but consented to give the govern
ment at Belgrade until Saturday to
decide. Servia was then advised by
the powers to submit in the interest
of peace. AT Vienna active prepar-
ations for war were still in progress
The annual report of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, issued Tuesday, shows a net
revenue Of $1S,121,7O7, after de-
Quoting $7,773,3O7 for interest. The
net earnings of the year before were
S1G,269,3SS. There is on hand a
balance of $5,S62,551. The report
shows how the company bears the
double relation of holding company
and an administrative body. The
gross receipts Of the Bell system now
are placed at s6sO,O44,2OO, with
surplus of $31,759,O00 and de-
probation reserve of $40,430,3OO.
The system operates 4,364,629 tele-
629.
Governor Hughes of New York
has sent to the legislature his rec
ommendation for the direct nomin-
ations bill, which has excited the
angry opposition of the machine re-
publicans. 1t proposes the naming
of candidates through party COM
mittees to be named by petitions
signed by special number of the
voters annually. The official pri-
mary ballot with the names of all
candidates thereon will take the
place of the present ballot. All pri-
maries are to be held on the same
day, based upon a general enroll
ment. Party platforms will be
framed by party council, consisting
of the state committee and the can
didates named for state offices.
The president sent to the senate
Thursday the nominations of John
G.. A. Leishman of Pennsylvania to
be ambassador to Italy, of Henry C.
Ide, of Vermont, to be minister to
Spain, and of Charles H. Sheriff., of
New York to be minister to Argen-
tine Republic, of Ormsby McHarg, of
North Dakota, to be assistant secre-
tary of commerce and labor, of JOS
E. Conrado Hernadez to be justice
Of the supreme court Of Porto Rico
and of Emilio Cevas to be associate
justice of the same court. Charles
B. Norton, who as a general agent
of the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company at Chicago, had received
salary of $4,000, has been select
ed to be assistant secretary of the
treasury at the pay of $4,000.
The people Of Trip county are de-
sirous of getting into the organized
county class at as early a date as
possible after that county is opened
to settlement, and in that line two
different petitions bearing the re-
quisite number of names have al
ready been filed with Governor Yes
sey asking for action in regard to
organization. Within a short time
after the opening of the county to
settlement the governor will lun-
doubtedly act on the petitions, and
issue a call for the election to sslect
officers, and temporary county seat.
In the furtherance of that cause Oh
liver Lameraux, one of the old time
settlers of that county, and the foun-
der of the town Of Lamro, was in
this city few days ago working up
the details of the proposition. Lam
no is centrally situated and expects
to be able to secure the location OF
the county seat at that place when
the vote is taken. 1t is probably
the only town on an Indian reserva-
ton in this state which boasts a
newspaper, banks and other evidence
Of town existence ahead of the OPP
ening Of the country to settlement.
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Defending the Weather Bureau.
The fact that Prof. Moore, the
head of the federal bureau, found it
necessary to. issue circular to ex-
plain the meteorological surprise Of
Inauguration day, is evidence of the
unvarying interest people take in
the weather. This is especially true
of the beginning of seasons and en-
phatically true of the beginning Of
spring. Wearying of the winter,
longing for spring, everybody is
concerned in whatever may bear up
on the weather possibilities the
merchant for his trade prospects,
the householder for his coal supply,
the sportsman for his outdoor amuse-
ments, and not less the urchin, whose
playground still carries its winter
blanket of snow. The weather is the
first and last topic of the day.
We have all learned to place a
modified dependence upon the Off
cial forecasts, the percentage OF YER
ifications having justified the faith.
1 IT was a shock when tho meditation