The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-09

CITIZEN REPUBLICAN,
p. a. BLISS.
SCOTLAND. SOUTH DAkoTy
The annual mineral output of British
Columbia is valued at approximately
$40, 900, 600. The figures for 1913 ex-
seeded thai amount. while the product
asst year was some $4,000, 900 short OF
hat of tho previous year. The decrease
u the value of minerals produced IN
.he province last year.. as compared
With 1913, was due to the European
var, which disturbed the metal mar
fets throughout the world, producing a
depressing effect on the industry IN
British Columbia.
Ella Flagg Young, long superintend,
mt of the Chicago schools, has declared
IN Los Angeles that the modern girI
may seem a butterfly, but is all right,
end don't any forget 1t. Ihe gaifs
Of today are the happy possessors oi
freedom says Mrs. Young, a tnelr
viewpoints are different from those OF
so years ago., to be sure, but their snort
skirts are a vast Improvement on
trains. The modern young woman
meets my approval"
There has been Asiatic cholera in
Petrograd all this year, but the au-
thorities have forbidden, with heavy
nenalties. the dissemination of the
word cholera" by print or In speech.
1t is called by a word signifytng
Chronic diarrfea." The disease seems
to be gaining Roadway, as recently no.
tees in big red letters have been
posted up on shops and walls ana
fences all over the city warning the
population not to drink unboiled water
on any account.
At the present time about 100000
acres are devoted to the raising OF flax,
chiefly In North Dakota, Minnesota,
South Dakota and Montana. The flax
is grown primarily for the seed from
which linseed oil is manufactured. the
annual crop amounts to about 10000
900 bushels of seed and is valued at APP
proximately s33, 10000 0a. The crop also
yields approximately 1,600, 600 tons OF
straw, but of this only about 100000
ons are put to any profitable use.
At Peterhof, is miles west of
Petrograd, the main road to the Rus
sian capital has been prepared for
fighting. Gun emplacements n
trenches have been constructed in
woods and gardens along the roadside,
and platforms, reached by ladders of
spikes driven into trunk of trees, have
beer built among the branches, so that
machine gum fire may sweep long
stretches Of the road.
Buffalo jones, a famous. guide, who
OF late years has made preservation of
the buffalo his mission in life, declares
American aren't enough Interested in
the bison to make it worth his while
and that he intends now to live in Can
d n breed catalo. This is a cross
between the buffalo and COW which may
be as large a percentage of one Oh the
other as he breeder may see fit to have
It.
The two countries benefiting most
ly in Australia in consequence OF the
war are the United States and Japan.
The latter has an advantage over the
former 30 far rs shipping facilities and
freight rates are concerned. The reg
ular3 lines of Japanese passenger and
freight steamers plying between the
ports Of Japan and Australia afford
facilities for promoting trade.
Ranchers OF the McIIucas IN. d.
school district have solved the prob
lem of winter schooling for their boys
and girls by converting the schoolhousa
into a home Tor them from Monday
morning until Friday night each week.
Parents rlanned an addition to the
school and fitted it up as sleeping and
eating quarters fer the children to live
there in care Of the teacher.
The present membership OF the
stock exchange in Sweden consists Of
nc 6n~ t~- Atyrlt -
brokers, and five brokers' in the ordi-
n sense Of the term. Substantial
stock exchange buildings nave been
erected in beth Stockholm and Cote
borg. Phe annual volume of business
monn TO about $4,000 {, 900.
From Japan comes the statement
that the system of prison reform
which Thomas Mott Osborne has in
stftuted at Sing Sing was in use in
that empire as long ago as 1860, pris-
olers choosing their own officials for
the maintenance Of order and vesting
them with authority that extended
even to life ind death.
Newly formed ponds of water, cut off
from all communication with rivers.
brooks and lakes. are often found. OF a
sudden. to contain fish, the favorite ex-
pianatcry theory being that fish eggs
NY rs, gGlltiET III
their coed or clinging to the legs of
waders. the crane. heron. bittern and
the like.
The prices Of antimony in 1915 were
probably the highest known since the
metal became a regular article Of com
snerce. The high prices were naturally
reflected in Tar the largest production
ever made in the United States, ac-
cording TO b United States geological
surveys preliminary figures.
Robert Latham Owen, Junior United
States senator from Oklahoma, Is OF
indian descent. his mother, as the sena-
TOT relates in his Biographical sketch
printed in the congressional directory.
having been "Naricissa Chisholm Of
the Cherokee nation.
eseph Denise, of Dayton. Ohio, who
claims TO be champion trolley con-