The Black Hills Weekly Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 2

Mass Meeting. Missocei has done well with berl SQUAW CREEK SILVER. THE COMPANY ORGANIZED. THE JOURNAL L. MORRIS NOW ISTHE TIME TO BUY Frank M.

Allen. Of Frank M. Allen, who died in Hot Springs on Wednesday, the Deadwood Pioneer baa the following biography. "Mr. Alien was born on a farm near Louisville, Ky and at an early date went with his parents to Pennsylvania.

we have the best selection in VELVETS, BODY BRUSSELS, with borders to match. ACE CUKTAINS from $1.25 to $10.00 a pair. New Dress Goods in all qualities and coloring with trimmings to match. All the new patterns in embroideries and flouncings. A COMPLETE LINE OF DR.

WARNER'S CORSETS AND WAISTS (direct from the factory) in black, white and drab. We can meet all competition. TjE1 Inspection invited. MORRIS CO. California store Rrrx city, uocth phot O'NEILL COMPANY, here jon will find the Fineat Una -STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES CROCKERY, GLASSWARE AND LAMP GOODS.

carry a Full Line of tbe Celebrated CHASE SLSANBORNS IS THE PJJPIJ TV9--i 1 (G Oil BEST WITH FRESH BREAD, AXES. COOKIES ETC! We can make it of iuu reat to ea baying tare billa for CASH. oura Truly. 001MrAlWV 000,000 resulting from refunding of the direct tax. university.

bhe has endowed a state The people of Nebraska are still in doubt as to who is governor of the state. The supreme court adjourned to May 5 without deciding the case. Tub action of the New Orleans mob in murdering a number of defenceless prisoners is justified- The Minnehaha county teachers' institute in session at Sioux Falls has decided that the work of the avengers was a good work well done. The Italian government w.ll at once return Minister Fava to Washington. England is having serious trouble with natives in one of her Indian provinces.

A few thousands of tbe natives will be slaughtered and quiet will be restored. It is now believed the state board of regents wiif decide to retain President Grose at tbe head of the b-rmillion uni- ersi that the faculty will be repri manded for interference and the recal citrant students will be given the alter natives of attending to their studies or leaving. An organization, composed chiefly of people connected in one capacity or other with little patent side publica tions established to catch the agile land office or mortgage sale notice, is making arrangements to spend a week at Madison, in Lake county, this sum mer, whether at the expense of the people of that place is not stated. Such an arrangement would suit the crowd mat usually turns out on sucn occa sions. We had them with us last year The Huronite can be as strongly par tisan at times as any paper in the state, but it does one good to see the cheerfulnt-ss with which it accepts de feat and buckles on the armor for battle for the people, for its town, its county and the state.

Surely such work as the Huronite is doing must have an effect. It must brace and tone up those who have been inclined to eaken. It looks the situation squarely the face, and finds that all that is needed to better it is work and faith and it is doing much to inculcate the lesson in those about it. Such a paper deserves all the support the people can aflord. Bv a vote of T7S to one Rapid City has deter mined to contribute Sino.oiHl towards huililintr railroud to Hill City.

Sut ii faitn ami enterprise will make a city anywhere. Aberdeen This is true. Such work as Usis, continued, will build a city anywhere, but especially effective may such work be made in the building of a city where exists every natural advantage. Rapid City will be all right if her people only keep on in the course mapped out. Educators in Council.

Last evening a goodly audience of teachers and friends of education assembled in the reading room and listened to an able and instructive lecture of the Teachers Mist-ion" by Professor W. Hancher, president of the Black Hills College. It was a masterly plea for higher educ ition in education that will grasp and successfully solve the long procession of civic, social, economic, industrial and educational problems that are demanding the earnest and thougntful attention of the American people. The people of the nineteenth century with all their skill, learning and enterprise have not been able to master the questions of the hour and age and if they are to be settled it follows that it must be done by the rising generation who are now 'attending the American public schools, and by the generations that are yet to appear upon the theater of action. Viewing the subject from such a standpoint tbe speaker impressed his audience with a seuse of the dignity, largeness and importance of of the teacher's mission to aid their pupils in the development of all their intellectual powers and faculties, and to assist them in acquiring the powe-of clear, logical and persistent thinking.

This thought was presented in contra-distinctton from that long exploded theory, that the human mind is a reservoir into which knowledge is to be poured, instead of an organism of living germs or faculties to be awakened, cultivated and developed. After listening to President Hancher, it can be safely assumed that none of his auditors will ever for a moment entertain that semi-barbaric aliiitarian idea that knowledge, the three R's reading, 'riling and a sufficient course of study for a boy or girl, for a man or woman livingin the fading light of the nineteenth century and the dawnlngof thetwentieth. This brief abstract of the lecture does not do justice to tbe speaker who was listened to with earnest attention and his audience was well pleased nith the opening of the meetings of the association. Among those who are present at the association from a distance the repor ter noticed Hon. G.

L. Pinkham, ex-state superintendent, Superintendent W. C. Richards, Butte county; Super intendent Brooke, Fall River county Superintendent Miss Sue J. Neili, Law rence county; Professor Straeham Deadwood; Rev.

J. S. Williams, trustee Spearfish Normal School. Miss Mary Chase, Sturgis, and others. To-day's session promises over to be one of un usual interest and profits.

A New Title. He has been called various things, rather been known by several titles On account of tbe Dakota, Wyoming and Missouri River railroad recently he has been known as "president. But the Deadwood Times gets off a new one. It eays: "Judge Coad of Rapid, in the city yesterday, stated that by April 10th be will put a corps of engi neers in the field to run a line for the railroad from Rapid to Hill City, and that as soon thereafter as the weather settles, his company will begin grading the road bed. Land Office.

The following bssiness waa trans acted before the United States land office yesterday: Declaratory statement John Tiev- ney. Homestead entry Henry C. Dunning, Sturgis; Wyman E. Dow, Buffalo Gap. The Black Hills Dramatic Circle will repeat "The Irish Prince" next Wednesday evening at Library ball.

Tbe price of admission has been reduced to fifty and eerenty-five cents. Reserved seats are now on sale at tbe poitofBce. There will be a mass meeting of the citizens of Rapid City to-morrow (Sat urday) night at Library hall. The plans of the Rapid City Missouri River and St. Paul Railroad company will be made public at the meeting.

Every citizen of Rapid City is invited to at tend the meeting. DIED. I a Ranid City. South Dakota, at 5 a. m.

April 2. 1SU1. of quick consumption isie Graves, aged 18 year. The deceased was born in Iowa, and came here with his parents four years ago. He has since then been employed on B.

McOloud's Battle Creek ranch He was familiarly known as Snowball Graves, was an industrious good young man and bad a number of friends in this city and through the Spring and Battle Creek cattle ranges. The funeral services will be at the house at halt past two o'clock this afternoon. Interment in Mountain View cemetery. W. T.

Coad and George B. Mans field went up to Deadwood on business yesterday morning and returned last evening. They report everything: looking well and lively in that city. Yesterday Louis Anderson re- i nounced all allegiance to Oscar II of Sweden aud was granted his first papers by Clerk of Vallette. J.

S. Gantz is not yet able to take any solid food and is still very weak. His friends however were more encouraged yesterday and think he is slowly improving. Soren Moren-on, of Yankton county, paid fifty-three dollars per acre for a half section of school land the other day. Other tracts sold as high as forty-nine dollars per acre.

The chiefs trumpet, ordered sometime ago by the Rapid City fire department, was received yesterday morning. It is a handsome affair, very ornamental, bat it is dollars to dimes it will not be used duiing Chief Tinker's administration. He will just naturally continue to use his own basso profundi when directing the putting out of tires. Ffom Saturday's Daily. Another word concerning ttie Rapid City, Missouri River and St.

Paul rail road project. It is probable the peop.e of Rapid City without txception realize that the success of this project, the building of this road, ould be a matter of great importance. It may be assumed that all understand the securing of the first direct connection with the Missouri river, the shortening of the time to Chicago and St. Paul, would be a great thing for Rapid City. Therefore, it is needless to enlarge upon this at the present time.

lie questions of chief importance for Rapid City people to consider are: Will the road be built? How may its construction be made certain? There is just one thing to do and tl le road will be built. The men who have associated themselves together as the nucleus of a company are well known to every resident of the town. The director' embraces representa tives of the banking institutions of the town, t.nd well known professional aud business men. It is not made up of any clique The members without an exception are interested in Rapid City's welfare and prosperity. The directory is perhaps as nearly representative as it could be made.

If it commands and secures the confidence and aid of the people it will push this pro ject through to success. Without the aid and confidence of the people no lo cal company could hope to succeed in so large an undertaking. It is one of those occasions on which the paopia of Rapid City must stand united in order to succet-d. Success means everything to Rapid City, and it is within reach. This is no money-making scheme for an individual or a clique.

It is a scheme to place Rapid City in the position among western cities which her superb natural advantages entitle her to occupy. It is a scheme to increase the value of every foot of propeityin the town and every acre of farm land contiguous. It is a movement for the people, and all that is required is to make it a movement of the people in order to insure success. Let each bear a part, and the load will not be burdensome. The greater thennmberof those subscribing to the fctock at home the less will be tbe percentage necessary to be called in the near future.

Tbe more easily, too, will stock be placed away from home. But let it not be forgotten, hat if the people of Rapid City will do their part the road will bebnilt and the work of building it will speed ily be commenced. There is something ridicul ms in the appointment of a new engineer of irri gation at the same time that the retir ing engineer is lauded to the skies as a man excellently qualified and equipped for the position. On all sides the work of Major Coffin has been warmly com mended. No doubt he has studied the subject, and he has apparently been careful and painstaking in placing before the peopie of the state the knowl edge he has acquired.

If there ia to be any good result from the creation of the office of state engineer of irrigation it ehuld certainly be expected to come through the retention of a man universally declared to be just the man for the place. But after having spent a year in study of the subject of iriga-tion and acquiring a knowledge of it calculated to make bis services of value to tbe state, Mr. Coffin is succeeded by a new man, who will probably spend another year in learning what bis predecessor alieady knows. After all.it would seem the thief requirement in a atate engineer of irngration may be a political pull rather than a knowledge of the duties of the position and how to discbarge them. There is general dissatisfaction in the towns of South Dakota organized as independent school districts because of tbe failure to fix a time for holding elections for school officers.

Tbe law has been submitted to tbe attorney general, and an opinion will probably be forthcoming in a short time. A bill for the taxation of mortgages was recently defeated in tbe Minnesota atate senate by a very close vote. Officers of the Rapid City. Missouri River and St. Paul Railroad Company Elected.

The directors of the liapid City, Missouri Kiver and St. i'aul railroad company met yesterday afternoon in J. W. Fowler's office and perfected organization by electiug the following officers. President 11.

C. Lake. First Vice-President H. S. Hall.

Second Vice President F. R. Davis. Secretary R. B.

Hughes. Treasurer John R. JBrennan. Executive committee R. C.

Lake, nresident ex-officio, William Gram- berg, V. T. Price, J. W. Fowler and V.

T. M'Gillycaddy. It was declared the sense of the board that Myron Wilsie be appointed chief engineerof theroad. Mr. ilsie was in Hill City last night and could not be caught by telephone bat aa he is interested in the new road he will doubtless accept the position.

Last evening after the meeting was over a Journal reporter interviewed one of the directors of the new road. He stated plainly that it is the earnest determination of the boaid cf directors and officers to have the contract let and grading commenced at the earliest pos sible date and at the farthest not later than the last of June. As has been al ready stated the engineering outfit has already been secured and will be starte 1 out not later than the fifteenth of April. At the mass meeting of citizen of Rapid City at Library hall to morrow (Saturday) nisht the plans of the company as far as decided upon will be made public. From the interview with this mem ber of the board of directors and expressions of other members of the board it can be stated that the Rapid City, Missouri River and St.

Paul rail road has been organized and will be built in the interest of Rapid City and the surrounding country. The gentle men who have interested themselves in the new road and of either their financial standing, business ability or reputation for accomplishing what ever they have undertaken in the past it is not necessary to speak bete or now -wish it understood by tho people of Rapid City that this is purely a Rapid City movement, for the benefit of this citv and its inhabitants and that tney are expected and wanted to take au interest in the road. Such being the cae the citizens of Rapid City can no: tin lens ban assist the new road in every way possible and by so doing is-l. I iieinsel fs at the tame time. Not Rapid City Sentiment.

The I a I at tent of a reporter eaiU-1 t-everal times to jft evening's Republican 1 to von-e the sentiment hi the question of Dettfl I at tiele i which en wood obtaining the next fireman's tour- iiameut. The reporter aisw interviewed sever i' U.ipol City gentlemen who had not j-oi. en of i i to get tie real sentiment in this city on the ujittter. Summed up the different interviews amounted to this. The members of the Rapid City fire department appear to have a grudge agaiusi the Deadwood fire department.

They may have, and at least seem to think they have, good cause for the feeling. But it is most decidedly not a true "reflection of public pinion" that is Rapid City public opinion, to say this city will oppose Deadwood as against any other town in the Hills. It will oppose it as against Rapid City of course. That is if the tournament is to come to the Hills next year Rapid City will try to get it. If it cannot do so Rapid City will not oppose Dead-wood.

Two roads have been built into it during the past year and, after Rapid City, Deadwood would be the best place. The different fire companies here are their own masters and can attend or stay away from tournaments as they choose. Bilt they or any individual or paper errs when it says Rapid City will oppose, providing it cannot get it herself, Deadwood as the place of holding the next fireman's tournament. A petition has bfen presented to the Minnesota legislature by the Goodhue county farmers' alliance praying that no appropriation be made for representation of Minnesota at the world's fair. Rapii Citv will have an exceedingly prosperous year if her people will but go ahead in the course they have mapped out.

The building of railroads is bound to bring many other desirable things. A considerable number of good buildings for business and residence purposes are already assured. The year opens well. New Mall Service. Beginning to day, all mail matter for Spearfish, Sundance and Buffalo, Wyoming, will go directly from this city instead of around by Whitewood aa formerly.

Chris Jensen, who has tbe contract, has arranged a line of stages to leave Deadwood on arrival of the mail train. The first coach, drawn by four horses, will pull out from the Elkhorn depot as soon after arrival of train to-lay as the mail is made np Mr. Jensen has ordered a Concord coach, which will reach here in time to ba placed in service between this and Spearfish, by May 1. Times. The following account of a recent trial of a saloon firm in Pierre and its results is published in a paper of that town.

The Journal takes no pleasure in the fact that the prohibitory law fails of effect in the capital city, but reproduces tbe article to indicate that the people of the towns on tbe east side of the Missouri in this state are no more inclined to punish violators of this law than are the people of the Black Hills towns. It will be found the article presents tbe case fairly and candidly. It is a statement of tbe facts without embellishment, and is worthy of perusal by all who would wish to know the truth concerning tbe work ings of the prohibitory law: The efforts of the enforcement league to ob tain eon viet ion of oHenders aeainsi tne prohi hition lawa of the state, have so far aa tried in I'ierre, resulted in total failure The case of the State against Collins and Gotham, decided in favor of defendants, waa probably aa fair a test as the law could fret. The atate a attorney did all that could be done, tried the case for all there was in it. and we have no hesitation in saying; that a charge of larceny or burglary as well proTen would reault in a conviction without fifteen minutea' deliberation.

The jury waa a (food average one, of business men.work-inguien and farmers, all of them good citizens The court, perhaps. did not give the defendants any more latitude than ia usually given persons Recused of serious misdemeanor. Tbe result is tbe acquittal, while every body knows that the fiartiea were guilty. If they do not know it rom personal knowledge, they knew It by gen eral report, by reputation. The fact is, and we might aa wen face it, we nave got, a law on our statute books, aye.

In our very constitution, tbe enforcement of which most of our people are either ooDosed or utterly Indifferent to. Our conclusion is that until there is an immense wakening or changeof public this respect, the enforcement of the prohibitory law will be impossible, and tbe law a dead letter, so i Interviews With "Prominent Mining Men on the Recent Find. Last Sunday The Jocrkal published the first full account of the recent sil ver find on Little Squaw creek. Since then the miners have come down from that region all of whom bring samples and good reports of progress in de-1 veiopment work. As a doubt of tbe importance of the find appears to have got abroad a number of men who should be well qualified to express an opinion were interviewed yesterday.

Their remarks were as follows: Samuel Seott: "I think the recent find next to the discovery of tin the most important made in the Black Hills." A. Nyswanger: "I believe this to be the greatest silver and lead discovery ever made in the Black Hills." Louis Everly: "There is five but solid of lead corbonates in ttu shaft. believe the district will be found to be everal miles in length and probably about two miles in width. Judd's mine can commence shipping ore at once that will yield 30.00 per ton net." Robert Flormann: "I make the pre diction and you can write it down that before 100 feet in depth is attained that ore assaying 1,000 per ton in silver will be found." James Jaeoby: "Tbe ore body so far developed in Judd's claim is six feet in widtn snowing solid galena and car bonates. From several tests made on the ore body at depth of four feet sixty-three per cent lead and eleven dollars silver was found.

At present price of lead this ore will net about $30.00 per ton in Omaha. I believe the district to be extensive and predict that the same character of ore will be found in many claims." Rapid City Republican, April 2: "The ore discovered recently on Little Squaw- creek is not considered valuable." The first five opinions are from prac tical mining men who have mined in all tbe mining camps in tbe west and have been in tbe business from twenty to thirty-five years, lheir opinions are from actual experience. The Re publican's opinion is from New Opera House. Rapid City wants a new opera bouse and Kanid City generally gets what wants in the way of public improve meats. tioneer.

Yes, this city wants, and needs, a new opera tiouse and it looks very much as if it as going to have one. Yesterday a reporter got an inkling of what, the report of the committee on building will be to the meeting of the Library association on Monday evening, and while details of the report cannot be given until after the report is made it can be stated now that it will be a good report and one that it is believed the association will adopt. Citizens not members of the associa tiou, but wh are taking and will take an active interest in the project, am: indi ndual members of the association neen by a reporter during the past few days appear to favor the plan pub lisbed in The Journal several weeks ago. mis it will be remembered was for a building sixty-five by one hun dred and fifty feet and roughly esti mated to cost thirty thousand dollars Fifty feet in front, three stories high four stores and offices, would, it is be lieved, pay good dividends on the total amount of stock. The rear sixty-five by one hundred feet to be a hrst class and well arranged opera house.

Whether or not this plan will be adopted it is of course impossible to say but it is prob able that the new opera bouse building will contain stores and offices from which 10 derive a regular income. A False Report. There is certainly a great deal of truth in the statement that a well ahem, untruth will travel far and fast The night about two weeks ago that the incandescent lights were turned on in Rapid City the idea of a man trying to light a cigar at one of them suddenly entered a Journal reporter's head. As he had more space to fill that night than news to fill it with he at once forgetting all about Ananias, wrote a little item about a Main street man "trying for five minutes to light a cigar at one of them" and then because he could not get a light pronouncing the incandescent system a fraud. Up to date the item has gone tbe rounds of the South Dakota columns of the Sioux City, St.

Paul, Omaha and other city papers. Also of the Sioux Falls, Pierre and other eastern South Dakota towns. It is still on its travels and aftera while may be found in tbe Fliegenda Blatter to be retranslated inton Eglish. It is sad to think that a false statement should be given such wide circulation and particularly sad about tbe poor Main street man but then the fact that Rapid City has a new incandescent lighting system has been pretty well advertised. Too Much Interest.

The following item from the circuit court report in the Deadwood Times will be interesting reading here. It is "In the clerk's office, judgment in fa vor of Alice M. Guild, administratrix of the estate of John Guild, vs. the irst iNationai tsans, lor was filed. Suit on which judgment is granted was brought by the late John Guild to recover usurious interest paid the bankduri.ig the years 18S6 and 1SS7 The complaint contained twenty-nine counts, each averring payment of inter est in excess of the seven percent then allowed by law, and aggregating 35, Under the law plaintiff was entitled to recover double the amount of usurious interest paid, which brought the the sum sued for to $3, 592,70.

Difference between these fig ures and those in tbe judgment, reprt sents interest and costs since tbe suit was commenced. Something New. The ladies of the m. cnarch are preparing something entirely new and original in the social world. They pro- Dose to give a "railroad social" and in vite everyone interested in the new railroad enterprises for Rapid City.

The programme will be a varied one, and will be entirely on the railroad plan from fruit car to dining car. The social will be held at the parsonage on Wednesday evening next, and every friend of tbe church will receive a most cordial welcome. Look for a fuller announcement in Monday and Tuesday's papers. The Rapid City Gas company "yes terday commenced the manufacture of gas but it will be several days before they will begin supplying light to their patrons. They will flrst thoroughly test all tbe machinery mains and con nections.

Rapid City, Fkidat, March 1891. J03. It. 1'ublisher ami Proprietor. THE DAILY JOURNAL.

Pabliabed every morning, except Elani.1 City, Dakota; la delivered by carrier to 11 part of the city at 25 cuata per week, or 11 oer month. DBICBlrTION BATEl: Dally one month, poataire paid, 1.00 Dally three month, postage paid. 8.0 Dally alx mnutb poatage paid, Daily one year, poataRe paid, 10.00 THE BLACK HILLS WEEKLY JOURNAL. A. 32 -column Itvi of tbe week publiated every Friday, poat-ae paid, to any addreaa.

for one year aiz months, tl.iX); three months. 50c XT rnuiHii cut. Di lul Milr, arTBt Chicago Orricc or Th Daily fontniL is ii No. 122, Fifth Aviso, Hald BOILDISQ. mw hi New Yobk Ofmcb or Tbb Dailt lOUHMiL ia AT 187 BBOABWAT From Friday's Dally.

Tut late discovery of extensive bodies of carbonate ores near Hayvrard commends the judgment of mining men who have been claiming that the Hills country has never been prospected. Those deposits are found in a district over which prospectors have traveled in search for uoM and silver and tin for years, but because they were unfamiliar with the particular kind of ore that haa lately been found a valuable no account was taken of it. The float and did not seem promising. A little development on the discovery claim shows rapid change in appearance and value of the rock as depth is attained. The judgment of the best ininers in the district is that the ore bodies will be found to be quite extensive.

Prospecting lias been stimulated, and other valuable discoveries may be expected as a result. Italy has recalled her minister from Washington. Various opinions are expressed as to the reason, among them bein one that the minister himself has given causeof dissatisfaction. ISuch an opinion is expressed by various states men, ft must be a mistaken one. The Italian government certainly would not take such au occasion as the present for making the change.

It would be wise enough to know that the action wniild be misconstrued. The late troubles in Orleans and the failure of the authorities to punish the leaders of the mob that killed tl Italian prisoners no doubt furnish tt true reason for l-ava recall. Itaiv i.t deeply oflended and has taken thi means oi indicating tie iaet. itie recall of the minister has created great excitement at Washington, and ready alarmists aie deploring the fa that the CiiiteJ States is without navy adequate fo repel invasion. The probably is no reason to e.xpjct that taiv win seriously tiiink oi sending a fleet to enforce her demands, but tl situation seems to he such as to require care and judgment on the part of I'ncle Sam's state department.

To Survey West. W. T. Con 1. when asked the usual question by a reporter last evening staUd that F.

K. Hroughton, chief en gineer of the Dakota, Wyoming and Missouri Kiver railroad, will arrive in Kai.id Citv in a few davs. He is at present engaged on the Northern Pa citic extension from Aberdeen to I'ierre and as soon as he can finish the work in hand he will start for this city. As soon as he arrives and can put things in shape the survey of the new road from Kanid Citv to a connection with the Hurlingtuii and Missouri will he com meuced. )n.

M' in. i Yi i idy was interviewed on the Indian nueetion by a Sioux City Journal reporter a few days ago. expressed the opinion that if properly handled the Indians would probably cause no trouble at l'ine Ridge this spring, but that mistakes in manage ment should be avoided with greater care than ever before, as there is much dissatisfaction even among Indians ho have been generally friendly. II believes the worst mistake the govern ment could possibly make would be the reinstatement of Dr. Koyer as agent.

Governor Mellette has railed a dt-li-Katf cunveutioii to intt't at Huron May 'M, to tnke Into ci)nlderatiiin the auhivrt of a atate ex ti i bit the world'a fair. It Is unfortunate that tttia routlicta with call already made by the Yankton Commercial rlub. There dhould be no claahliiK this mailer. If a proper display creditable to the atate ia to be made ahsolub harmony i ne cssary. The two conventions ahould be blended into one before it becomes too late to unite.

The above, from the Aberdeen News is both wise and timely. If the effort to secure a proper showing of South Dakota's resources lit the world's fair is not to be made a farce, it is high time that agreement bo reached upou one convention and one place of hold iDg it. Denver is doing a great deal of ad vertieing for the commercial congress of western states to be held there corn mencing on May VJth, and there is promise of a good attendance. But Kansas City is in the field with a call for a convention having the same aims and purposes, and to be heldcommenc ing on the fourteenth of the present month. One of tho conventions must materially detract fronitheother.

The scope of discussion in the Kansas City convention may be judged from thefol lowing list of subjects upon which pa pers will be read: t.etieral biialncxa and agricultural depression cause and remedy. Legislation aa ailecting commerce, transpor tation and finance. Transportation and Improvement of water ways, lake, itulf ami I'ac itie porta. Markets for Western iroductn. Fiee coinage, metallic money and paper cur rency.

1'romotlon of manufacturing Interests. Irrigation of arid lands. I'niform commercial lawa. Taxation. Western mineral landa and their develop ment Immigration and acltlementof unoccupied lands.

Cause and effects of business combinations and trusts. Reciprocity and International trade sxten aion. Federal and atate atatistlea. The Indian question and opening of Indian janu. The meeting of the state board of re gents promises to be aa important and interesting one.

The maddle in the Vermillion university will be thoroughly aired and the beard will no doubt study the work of tbe various educational institutions of the state and try to devise ways and means to increase their usefulness. -Miss M. Frskine, who has for the past year baen a resident of this city and made a number of friends here, left last evening for her old borne in Belfast, Ireland. On the way home he will visit with friends in Hastings, Nebraska, and Fairfield, Iowa. THE HOTEL HARNEY.

Afterwards the family moved to Con-1 necticut, and there Mr. Allen was educated. In 1873 his enterprising spirit drove him to come west, and make his fortune. Accordingly he went to Cheyenne, and after a few months residence there, he accepted the position of assistant postmaster under Major Glafcke, and remained there until 1877, when the Black Hills excitement induced him to seek the newly discovered gold fields. On first arriving in Dead word, he acted as agent of the Standard Oil company, and subsequently engaged in the grocery business with P.

E. Sparks, at Central. Until 1886 the firm contin ued in business at that place, and then removed to Sturgis, where they again carried on the grocery trade. Last summer, owing to failing htallh, Mr. Allen retired from the firm, and thinking that the climatj of Hot Springs agreed with him better, he went there and opened a real estate office.

Mr. Allen was a member of the Federal army during the war, and had the misfortune to lose a leg. He afterwards wore an artificial limb. Tbe deceased was one of the most active and public spirited men in the Hills, and was largely interested in nearly all the leading mines, besides buying large quantities of real estate in nearly every town in the Black Hills. At the time of his death Mr.

Allen was 47 years old. He was a heavy holder of Iron Hill stock and besides, owned valuable interests at Central, Lead Galena and other mining points. His death will be universally regretted by all who had the pleasure of his ac quaintance." A tilephone message from HotSprings last evening stated that funeral services had been held at four o'clock and the body shipped to Boston on the evening train. Mrs. Allen was with her husband when he died and accompanied the body to her former home where it will b9 burled.

Land Office. The following business was transacted before the United States laad office yesterday Declaratory statement William L. Gray, William Pierce. Homestead entries George W. Moiby, John A.

Kenefick, Phillip Welch, Hot Springs. Mineral Application George Mar vin, Grand Deposit, Whitewood Mining District, There have been twenty-six coal claims tiled in this laud district. Some time ago all coal claimants were notified by the land office that they would be allowed sixty days in which to offer proof and make payment. The sixty dc.ys ha-i now expired and all entries on which the law has not been complied with will be cancelled. This does not apply to thecoal entry made on the school section north of this city.

B. E. A. Its Second Annual Meeting Commences In Rapid City To-day. As announced some time ago the second annual meeting of the Black Hills Educational association will be held in this city to-day and to morrow.

Yesterday a number of teachers and others interested in educational work arrived in the city and more are expected on today's trains. Tne meetings will be held in the Free reading room on Main street. Professor J. W. Hancher, president of the Black Hills college at Hot Springs, will deliver the opening address this evening.

As Mr. Hancher was tor three years pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, he needs no introduction to our citizens and the Free reading room will probably be crowded this evening by former friends to hear bis address. The following address and program explains the nature and object of the association: To the County Superintendents, Teachers and frieuda of Education in the Black Hills: Your attention is called to the annual meeting of the Black Hills Educational association to be held at Rapid City, South Dakota, April 3rd and 4th 1891, beginning Friday evening at 7.30. The association having been formed for the purpose of adv ancing the educational interests of the western part of the state, it is right and proper that it should receive the encouragement and assistance of every teacher, and friend of education. School officers are cor dially invited to attend that the needs of the schools may be more fuliy presented.

The fact that there will be no institutes in tbe Black Hills counties this spring furnishes an additional reason why teachers should attend the coming meeting of the association. It is hoped that county superintendents will be active in discharging the duty required of them by section two of the school laws which provides that they "shall encourage teachers' associations." lion. Cortez Salmon, state superin tendent nas given positive assurance that be will be present at the meeting and participate in its proceedings. Let every county superintendent and teacher in the Hills show their appreciation of Superintendent Sal mon's visit by attending the meeting Reduced rates to teachers in atten dance may be expected from the F. and M.

V. railroad. FRIDAY EVENING. Opening Address Professor J. Hancher, Hot Springs.

Paper Tbe Examination and Em ployment of Teachers and tbe Inspec tion or tneir ora in trie fccnooi Koom Mrs. Anna D. silent, county super intendent or rennington county. Gen eral discussion in which all county superintendents will be expected to participate. MORNING.

Paper The Province and Work of the High School Professor M. L. Abbott, Rapid City. Discussion opened by Professor Alexander Strachan, Deadwood. Paper The ew School System of South Dakota Hon.

Cortez Salmon, State Superintendent. Paper he Development of Character in the Public Schools Pr it. Robt. L. Sharp, Ft.

Meade. Discussion 'opened by Prof. J. Kubias, Custer. SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

Paper Our Country Schools: What they and How to help them. Prof. J.C. Tyree, Hill City. Discussion opened by Supt.

V. O. Richards, Vale P. Bntte County. Paper The Hcience of Mind Applied to Teaching Prof.

F. E. Mullen, Michigan State Normal. Discussion opened by Prof. J.

S. Frazee, Lead City. Election of officers Adjournment. illis (J. Bower, Secretary Black Hills Educational Association.

Miss Francis, of Sturgia, is spend ing part of tbe Easter vacation with her school mate, Misa Nellie McGuire. Misa Sue Neill, county superin tendent of Lawrence county, ia in the city to attend tbe educational association. She is a saeat of Miss Kehoe. (BIGBTV ROOMS.) Rates By the Day, $2.00. Day tT" Positively th best Two 18 A Chase 5: Sanborn Coffees are Headquarlera for tbe FINEST LINE OF TEAS To be Found In the C1t.

You will alwaja find tbe Salsery Socartmoxit Curaer Mam and Scrat, StrwJa RAPID CITY, DAK. JohnR Brennan, Proprietor Tbe IJirjoti, Most aad Conptctt Riatk Hill, and EQUAL TO THE BEST IN THE TERRITORY ThtHOTU. IIARXFV ia built of ti. stone and iron, ba a Ir.rotafc'e (A arfity tiv feet on Mam and 140 feet Seventh Street, in three at(ne alwive irround, Bnd furnished throughout io first-cla style, hath rutin a each fluor. Hoard by the Month, $25.00.

Dollar a Day House in Dakota. all goods must be cash Streets. PrFd Fo. Cf to 40 yaara of ape at $50 per $1,0 E. F.

ROBERTS, DEALER IN GROCERIES, PROVISIONS GRAIN, HAY, WOOD, LUMEZR AND P02T2. Cash paid for Hides, Furs, Butter and Eggs. Wood, Lumber and Provisions bought in trade on cash Lasis On and after November O. D. 1st, Corner St.

Joe and Fifth 1 WENTY YEAR INDEMITY GUARANTEED BY THE Equitable Life Assurance Comp'y Safe, Sure and Profitable Investment. fhese bonds are issued at par from 20 annum. At tne end 01 zu years tne company pars ior eacn Dond 01 oein 70 PER CENT MOKE THAN HAS BEEN PAID IN. In tbe event ol previous death, the BOND 18 PAID IN FULL and at once. A tea year bond iesoed at any age from 20 to 60, for 100 per 1,000 per annum.

Tbeae bonds are the est investment, without excepting co vera men bonds or first-class wnrities oi any corporation, in addition to which yon carry first-class life Tbe EQUITABLE LIFE during 1889 wrote POLICIES TC TU 4 OU NT OF $1 75,000,000, being the largest business ever done in a aiigle -y njiv joo.t any the world. A. POPE. Aeont. Hotel Harnsy.

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