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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

to ramify through the counties lying on.
the east of the James; the other on the
west side of the stream keeping we'll up
on the east flank of the Coteau du Mis-
souri,, and like the eastern stream giving
off side branches which would again and
again subdivlde into a network Of irriga-
ton bitches, all slowly leading the water
into the James, which would finally dis
charge the surplus into the Missouri at
Yankton.l
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

TT is said that when Captain Cook
discovered Australia he saw some of
the natives on the shore with a dead
animal of some sort in their possession,
and sent sailors in a little boat to buy
it of them. When it came on board he
saw it was something quite new, so he
sent the sailors back to inquire its
name. The sailors asked, but not
being able to make the natives under
stand, received the answer, 81 don't
know" or in the Australian language,
"kan-ga-roo.' The sailors supposed
this was the name of the animal, and
so reported it. Thus the name of the
curious animal is the "I-don't-know. y
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

IRELAND in 1879 had 1926, 625 in
habitants, and the population just
made up for 1889 is but Att, 534. A
decrease like thissis true of no other
civilized country in the world, and is
its own condemnation of the methods
of England's government of Ireland.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

HE Boston TRANSCRIPT gravely adj
vises its readers not to pick up horse
chestnuts in the street and pocket
them. They may be horse chestnuts
that somebody else has loaded up with
rheumatism and thrown away.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
I%RRIGATlNG DAKOTA.
THE SUBJECT ExHAUsTIvELY DIS
CUssED BY PROF. CULVER.
Tho Artesian We'll Plan is F~easible-or the
Streams May BE Notwithstanding
Facts on Observation-Disclosures to he
Encountered,

Prof. Culver, of the Dakota University
at Vermillion, has prepared q careful paper
upon the subject of irrigation, which will
be found of peculir interest to Dakotans.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

In countries where marriages are
regulated by love, divorces are COM
mon. In countries where love is left
out of the question, and marriages are
regulated by the common sense of the
parents, marriage is not a failure. So
says Sir Edwin Arnold,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The average number of fires in NJ

THE average number of fires in New
York is $500 a year, or about seven q
day. Of these, one-half are due to
heating apparatus, chimneys, stoves
and boilers, and the other half is due
to electric lights, gas, matches and the
use OF kerosene. The number of in
cendiary fires in a year in New York
is about fifty.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Still 1t Is Practicable.

Without going further into details it will
be sufficient to state here that so far as the
difficulties mentioned are concerned they
DO not seem lnsuperable. Nor is 1t be-
lleved that any important ones have been
overlooked. AS to the relative merits of
the two plans here discussed the latter has
the advantage of covering q much greater
area, especially in North Dakota. 1t may
be that it is also q cheaper plan,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The ws1ls Arc pref.r,h,..

On the other hand, the artesian system
is practically begun, SO far at least as the
sinking of wells goes. The bitches and
Gonduits will be the same in either case.
The great question in either case is, how
to raise money to pay for the work. The
Dakotas have paid into the national treas
ury $4,000, 900 for lands. The people of
these lands have invested many times this
sum in improving and developing their
farms. Is it not simply justice then for
the government to pay back q sufficient
portion Of the 800, 600, 900 to enable these
two states to properly irrigate their lands?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

AFTER destroying q very large num-
Der Of letters, Mr.. Gladstone has Sc
lected $4,000 for preservation, and has
built for them a tire-proof room. When
his biographer NJ to overhaul them
he will find his work half done in adj
Conca
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

The Libyary journal says the fol-
lowing singular communication was
addressed to the trustees Of a certain
library Gentlemen, I desire to make
application for curator of the -
reading-room. / am aware that there
is no vacancy, but the present curator
is a single lady and can support her.
self in various ways that T cannot,
having 2 family to support; also she
has had!the Iosition eightyears, to my
certain knoRledge, and II is but fair
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

JULIAN STERL1Nar of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, lately had his eyeball removed
by u doctor to get at a cinder, and
while it lay on his cheek, insensate TO
pain from cocaine, he could see his ear
with r.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

MI. BEEcHER spent $3.50, 900 on his
beautiful Peekskill estate, Boscobel.
The executors of Mr.. Beecher's estate
will sell it for one-third the figure.
MI. Beecher used to say his potatoes
cost him 81 apiece.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

The parents of Mr.. Koo, attache of
the Chinese legation at Washington,
have written to him informing him That
they have selected a wife for him. He
has V seen his prospective bride.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

PRESIDENT HARRISON learned his let
ters from Henrietta r. Giesv Chen
Root, a governess for a year in his
fathers family in 1888 and 1899. Mrs.
Giesy now lives in Columbus, Ohio.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Two South Dakota Appointments.

Ihe president has made the following
appointments: Solomon Wenzloff, Of
Yankton, to be register of the land office
at Yankton; R. E. Carpenter, of Water
town, to be receiver of public moneys at
Waterto Wn.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Trouble With an Artesian Well.

There is a growing trouble at the Yank-
ton cement works. The big artesian we'll
has sprung a leak. That is, the water has
pushed its way upward from the artesian
basin outside the casing and is running q
considerable stream. With the great pres
sure below this flow is liable to increase
and wsar, away tbs rock and soil. This
we'll was made by parties unfamiliar with
the strata of this section and it would seem
that they have neglected some important
details of the work.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

The heirs of William Penn have be-
gun suit to regain possession of a plot
of ground in the heart of Easton, Pa.
The plaintiff is William Stuart, who
lives on the Penn estates in the Isle of
Wight. The property claimed is
valued at 500, 900. 1t was decided to
the city Of Easton in 1853, upon condi-
ton that a county courthouse should
be erected thereon. This was done,
but in 1862 the courthouse was torn
down and the plot laid out as a public
square. This is the ground for the
ejectment proceedings.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

In Paris the dramshops have in
creased from $4,000 in 1880 to $4,000
at the present time. The consumption
of alcohol has trebled in the last thirty
yaars - ---
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
As to the Multiplication of Wells.

To the second query also, only a partial
answer can be safely given. The multi
plying Of wells thus far has caused no
%diminution in the flow in my locality, SO
far as I have been able 10 ascertain, but
until the collecting area is positively de-
termined by q careful geological and topo-
graphical survey, what the effect Of i;0oe
or l,5o0 four or six-inch wells would be
can only be conjectured. The thickness
OF the water bearing strata, the character
OF the underlying beds, the location and
extent of the collecting area, are oil vital
factors in the problem and must be posi-
lively determined before q positive an
swer can be given to the question, "Is the
supply sufficient"
In answer to the third question it may
be said in general that there is mpar
lively little OF the area included in the
"artesian basin" which cannot be reached
by the flow from the wells. Just what
thee exceptions are will be known when q
careful survey is made. It is quite evil
dent that the wells cannot be made to
water the regions outside of the area in
which they are found.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

A HANDKERcH1EF in the possession
of the Empress of Russia is said to
have cost 50, 800. It took seven years
to make it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

John A. Picker is a native of Washing
ton county, Indiana, and is As years old.
When 8 years Of age all the family moved
to Davis county, Iowa. At the age of II
he volunteered as o soldier, but his father
would not allow him to go. A year later
his father consented and he enlisted as
private in Company u, Third Iowa cavalry,
John W. Noble, nov secretary If the in.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

EIGHTEEN tons of steel disappear
daily on the single system of the Lon
don & Northwestern Railload through
wear and rust.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

SENATOR SHERMAN has a finely
stocked library of standard books, but
he practices the theory of Gladstone:
"Never read a book till it is a year
old" He buys all valuable and rare
books on finance, and informs himself
of their contents. He knows the his
tory of prices, and has a theory of his
own about what. creates values.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

Mrs. CHARLES KIMLA, of Trenton,
Wis, recently presented her husband
with three fine girl babies, their COM
bined weight being twenty-one pounds.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

Mr.. AUGUST JEssUp, son OF awealth,
paper manufacturer Of Philadelphia
will shortly we'd Lady Milfred Lyon, /
daughter Of the Earl and Countess 0
Strathmore.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

MILAN OBREsov1rcH says that he
left Seryia in order to teach his beloved
people how a crown may be laid aside
without repining.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Weight ShrinkaSe In WonI.

c. A. Wheeler, proprietor of the Yank-
ton wooden mill, recently purchased a fleece
weighing thirty pounds. 1t was taken
from n Merino buck at Ponca, Nebraska,
and brought there from Vermont. Mr..
Wheeler has had an experience of ffty-two
years in the wooden business, and this is
the heavie It fleece he ever saw. What is
more remarkable about this Merino fleece
is that it weighed only five and a quarter
pounds after it was secured, losing eighty
two and a half per cent. by the clean ing
process, or twenty four and three quarters
pounds. There was really only five and q
quarter pounds of wool on the sheep, the
balance being grease and dirt.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

AT Logan, Ohio, a man was arrested
for stealing a lot Of tools from a mill.
One of the lookers-on at the trial rec
ognized q pair Of boots on the prisoner's
feet as his own. After the trial he ex.
amined the boots and proved his prop
erty. The boots were taken and given
to their owner andthe sheriff went out
and purchased a pair Of shoes for the
prisoner before taking him to jail.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

GENERAL BoULANGER's recent defeat
has ended his career. It has discour-
aged his bankers and he is out of
funds.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
A FEW days ago a lady who left Lin

A FEW days ago a lady who left Lin
coin, Ill, for a short journey had her
purse and ticket stolen as she got on
the car, and the conductor dropped her
on the track between stations because
she couldn't raise 80 cents. There were
twenty-five men in the coach, and not
one offered her the insignificant
amount.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
BIach pills Hnion
RAPID CITY. DAKOTA.
UNION PUBLISHING CO.

The pockets of the British infantry
coats / to be sewed up till the men
are on active duty.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Sucker Additions to Pierre.

Stoddard's fourth addition to Pierre.
says the Pierre Journal, has been plated
seven miles from town. This is the fraud
that was written up in the Journal some
months ago, but it seems that the suckers
are still taking the bait. It is strange that
q man should be permitted to do this kind
OF work and go UNPUBLISHED. This land
has neither a railroad nor the prospects for
one, and the whole thing is o steal of the
most rank nature, and our citizens should
lose no opportunity to expose the fraud-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

The following dispatch has been re-
ceived from Minneapolis:
Owing to the meeting Of the North Dakotu
legislature our annual session has been post
Postponed one week. Please note.
H. T.. LoUCKs.
This refers to the annual session of the
Alliance, which was called to meet in Alb
erdeen November 10.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
A Maine Ghost Story,

They say there used to be a haunted
house in Greene. The thing was
preached to a party in Lewiston one
day recently.
Il slept there three times" said u
Lewiston man. "The first time my bed
clothes were pulled off by unseen
hands. 7 slept through the rest of the
night. The second time the pillows
were pulled out from under my head
and slammed in my face. The third
night, in summer, water froze in the
ice pitcher and it burst"
where and when, please?" was
asked.
"In this haunted house in Greene, in
1869" was the reply.
Nothing was said for a few minutes.
and probably nothing would have been
said if a lank, tall man in the number
had not stretched himself languidly
and closed by saying with direct posi-
tiyeness:
"That there last thing you said
about the pitcher bustin' is q darned
blamed lie.n
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
New NasbYs.

For South Dakota the following post
masters have recently been named: John
A. Stanley, Hermosa, Custer county;
Charles S. Fassett, Hitchcock, Beadle
county; r. J.. Hewitt, Wakonda, Clay
county
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The Bay State Republican.

Governor. G. A. BRAckETr
secretary OF HENRY b. PIERCE
treasurer. GEORGE A. MARDEN
Audltof.. CHARLES H.. LADD
Attorney-General .... ANDREW j. WATERMAN,
Later returns from every town in the
state except Gosnald, which has about
twenty voters, give Bracket, rep, 126, 1892;
russell, dem, 100, S13; Blackner, pro-,
1854; Brackets plurality, 5,979. In
1887, Ames, rep, had 1876, $50; Lowering,
DEM, 49, 1874; Earl, pro-, lO,945. The
returns for acknowledgement are in
complete, but Haile's plurality will proba-
ply be larger than that of Bracket. The
democrats make gains in the legislature,
but the republicans will have good a ma
jority there.
One hundred and ninety seven towns
and cities give Bracket 81, O76, and Rus
sell 27.209. The same towns in 1887 gave
Ames 23,2l5 and Lowering 17.431. Re-
turns come in slowly. Brackett is un-
doubleday elected governor, but even the
republicans concede that his plurality will
be small.
The senate will be composed of TWENTY
nine republicans and eleven democrats. az
compared with thirty-two republicans and
eight democrats in 1855. There are 1852
republicans and seventy-eight democrats
returned to the lower house, a republican
loss of eighteen representatives from last
year.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

FIRST SWEET YOU'VE THINa-aWhat
has become of that Rivesesqhe
you e writing?n Second s.. Y. T.
tim married now
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

AT a meeting recently held by the desti-
tute farmers of Grafton towshlp, Miner
county, S. D., for the purpose Of taking
steps to procure help for the drought suf-
f%erers, it was ascertained that there we're
about twelve families that were entirely
destitute and many more nearly so, and
that unless help can be obtained soon from
some source great suffering will surely
follow: The following named persons
were chosen as q distributing committee
Tor Grafton township: Densie Gaddis,
A. NJ. Slocum and Mike Shrott. Offers of
aid should be addressed the secretary, A.
M. Slocum, Howard, Miner county. S. D.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

fsDo you believe in this will power?n1
-.Nothing is SO powerful; you just try
TO break one that Observation-Disclosures
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Where the SENATORS Wi, Sit.

South Dakota's senators lave chosen
their seats on the floor of the senate. Both
of the senators selected chairs at the ex-
treme southeast wing of the republican
side. Senator Moody, who is twelve or
fourteen years the senior of his colleague,
and whose beard and hair are snow white,
will sit Mt the right OF Senator Chandler,
of New Hampshire. Senator Pettigre W
selected the seat to the right of Mr..
Moody, SO the two South Dakota senator's
will sit together. There will be at least
four more men from the new states seated
on the republican side, and if Montana
goes republican there will be six, which
may mako it necessary for some more re-
publicans to go over on the democratic
side, where there is room. Thers are
three vacant chairs in the extreme north
ern part of the republican side much near
er tho presiding officer than those selected
by the South Dakota senators, but they do
MOI give us good a view of the senate, the
proceedings and the galleries. These will
be taken by the accessions from North
Dakota and Observation-Disclosures
tons of seats the first who come are the
first served.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

The names of the six gentlemen whose
portraits are presented herewith, have be-
come household words in South Dakota.
To many, also, their faces are familiar,
while to a majority, probably, this repro
duction of their features will be a first in
frn6nctinn
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The Cost of Artesian Wells,

The cost of a we'll is, roughly speaking,
directly proportional to its depth in a
country in which the strata penetrated are
of uniform character, as 1 believe they are
in this region. AT Vermillion the wells are
about 3G5 feet deep. The rocks dip gently
to the northwest, and the altitude Of the
surface rises gently in the same direction,
consequently the depth of the wells in
creases to the north and west from 3G5
feet at Vermillion to 1876 feet at James,
town. At Vermilllon a six-inch well can
be put down at a cost Of $3.50, The we'll
at jamestown cost $7,12l, or not quite
ten times as much as the one at Ver-
million. "a two-inch we'll has been put
down for 800 at Vermillion). We're The
wells to be put down on the large scale
necessary for the purpose in hand, it is
thought the average cost of the wells
would not exceed $1,000 or ST. 200. If we
say $1,000 it is still only $4,000 to each
township irrigated.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Those Refunding Generations,

Mr.. Bailey, on becoming territorial
treasurer, found $4,000 fve-twenty
bonds which had run six years and had
fourteen years of life. OF these ST., 500
were five and $4,000 six per cents, the
total having been issued on account of the
construction of the Yankton insane asy-
lum and the Sioux Falls pentitentiary.
Mr.. Bailey secured the passage of a clause
by the constitutional convention, authoriz-
ing the issue of new bonds and the calling
in Of the old under the five year option
clause. The transaction has been carried
to q very successful issue. The new bonds
bear only four per cent, and N. W. Harris
paid a premium for them of five per cent,
or $5,375. The new bonds run twenty
years. The saving in interest to South
Dakota by the reissue will amount to
$19, $50, and when to this is added the
$5,375 premium the net gain of the state
will be $24,G25. One peculiar thing about
the $5,375 premium. OF course it does
not 90 to the territorial treasury, since
South Dakota alone assumes the whole
issue of $l07, 500. Nor is there any pro-
vision for turning it into the state, SO all
Mr.. Bailey can do is to hold it subject to
statutorial orders from the legislature.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Other Benefits Than Irrigation,

1t may be we'll to call attention also to
the fact that a large number of wells sunk
throughout this wide region would lead to
the possession Of great deal Of valuable
information in regard to coal, salt, gas and
any other valuable material now hidden in
the earth.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

MANY things are reversed in Aus
tralia. It is summer there while it is
winter in America. Trees shed their
bark instead of their leaves; fruit has
the stone or kernel outside; vans are
black; there is a species of fly that
kills and eats the spider, and a fish
called the climbing perch walks DELHI
erately out Of the water and, with the
aid of its fins, climbs the adjacent
trees after the insects that infest them.