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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1887
Page
3
South Dakota division convention in Huron outlines plan for a new state to split from North Dakota. Delegates elect temporary leadership, form executive council, and push for admission at the seventh parallel with a united front across parties.
Northwestern Resume: Dakota railroad commissioners meet in Fargo with elevator company reps to finalize warehouse law details. Bonds set by elevator size. licenses required. one fourth bondsmen must be Dakota residents. Other notes include land office activity, university presidency leak, fires, camp meeting turnout, and road progress in Huron Watertown area.
The Chicago Times notes farm prosperity has been scarce for years as prices for crops and livestock stay low. Overproduction and cheap land drives flood markets, while railroads and bonds burden farmers. Population growth may raise urban demand, but land scarcity caps farm expansion and prices.
Unsurveyed public lands remain across several states totaling 322 million acres. A Longshead’s coke works contractor in Fair dance England owns a horse with a flowing upper lip mustache and a tendency to snarl at those who stroke it. Germany faces a bee disease Maikranheit in May, with bees bloated from pollen and salicylic acid offered as a remedy. A dust conveyor for thrashers by Lyman A. Miller of Carbondale combines with a thrashing cylinder and feed board components to overhang the board. Oxford down sheep muttons reach heavy exhibition weights, rams near 400 pounds and ewes near 300, yielding large wool. Chimney soot from wood or coal fertilizes plants via ammonia. coal soot richer. A farmer reports crows spreading cholera via carcasses. he urges burning all carcasses to stop spread. Portland, Me., note ends fragmentarily.
A fragment mentions peat use rising as a substitute for wood and notes a French claim that petroleum cleanses insect infestations while adversely affecting pests. It also discusses ducks needing water for bathing, the Illinois university’s lack of agriculture graduates, and a Texas marble deposit found on farmland offered to a railway for road construction.
The narrative extols the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas with vivid scenes of towering walls up to eleven hundred feet, the Royal George route, and a two section train crossing Marshall Pass. It describes snow covered Sangre de Cristo, the continental divide, and the dramatic descent with a snow shed journey into darkness.
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