The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-08-23
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Sucu III investment Wltnln TWO years.
John d. Mcdonald, who lives fou,
miles south Of Sioux Falls, measured UP
the products of his farm that had been
threshed. lie had ten acres of wheat thai
yielded go bushels, and thirty acres OF
oats from which the returns We're LAG
bushe s. This kind of business will injurc
that story about South Dakota's crop fail
ure if something isn't lone to prevent it.
Uncle Billy Russell, Of Franklin, is q
sufferer from Il remarkable succession of
poultry mishaps. In the first place forty
nine young turkeys formed q colony ana
emigrated to some distant barn yard.
! hen twenty even other turkeys followed
them, and while Mr.. Russell was adding
forty-one and twenty seven by candle light
one evening some mink killed ninety
chickens and thlrty-nine turkeys.
No Flesh, the Indian who was ten
first to sign the treaty when the Sioux
commission visited Pine Ridge agency
died Il few days ago. His last request to
the agent was that his body unould be
wrapped and buried in the American flag.
The day is coming, says IN enthusi-
astic Dakota paper, when every township
in South Dakota will have running streams
flowing through every quarter section. 1t
will then become the garden spot Of the
west. |, will be the Eden Of the world.
because of short straw wheat in vari-
Il sections is cut very low, thus gather
ing up a large amount of foul seeds; and
this Is given as Il reason by buyers why
certain prnlpS ara SplllnO ot S11rb low
figures.
The commanding officer at Fort Meade
closed up the post traders store and club
room there for keeping open after 9 o'clock
at night after having been notified to
close up everything ut that our.
The work of harvesting has proceeded
far enough at Aberdeen to show thai it will
not compare unfavorahly with former sea-
sons. The first wheat was graded No. l
hard and sold for 81 cents.
At Gran Forks q building boom is
prevalent. Brick blocks are going up at
almost every corner. At least four new
blocks are started and the outlook for two
more is favorable.
South Dakota will begin with fifty Or
ganized and fifteen un~organized counties,
besides seventeen counties in the Sioux
reservation, which will be organized at an
early date.
A project is being matured for the
construction of an elevator by the Farmers
alliance on the Northwestern roa some
where between Jim river and Violin.
Dakota has the br.:vest men. the pref
test women the best babies and the
smallest children in the world. There is
good Dakota authority for this claim.
The big fires in the Black Hills are
the mountain lions out among the
One man is reported to have
several head OF stock.
George W. Leisure is tho first SulIy
ounty citizen to be made happy bv the
eceipt Of a land patent bearing The sigma
Ire of Harrison.
The mayor of jamestown has ordered
| owners of thrashing engines not to
i've across the principal bridges leading
1t of the city.
W. II. Iurneaure, Of Mitchell, has
cen awarded the contract Of building the
homo building at Hot Springs
or $S34,724.
WIN Hlckack fell from the second !
story Of the Masonic temple ut Sioux Falls.
His injuries, at first thought to be serious,
are slight.
The date of the territorial w. C. T.
I. convention, to be held in Yankton has
been changed to September 18th, 18th
and 18th.
A test of 1ankton-male Portland &C.
ment thirty-seven days old shows a scnsile
strength OF l,0SO pounds to the square
inch.
M. Iahler got thirty days in the pen
itcrtiary and S3ou fine for cutting timber
on a school section near Grand Forks.
DIR. Iardetti, OF Iankton, vicar gen.
eral Of the Catholic diocese of South Da-
kota, has recently been made a bishop.
The wheat yield in Peasc Valley will
be lar above the average. Some fields will
yield twenty-five bushels per acre.
Cattle rustlers are getting in their
work i'll the northern Hills country, and a
necktie party is likely to result.
There are now twenty-four sisters in
the educational convent attached to Bishop
Martyrs residence in Yankton.
-Four hundred land seekers reached
Aberdeen over various lines Of railroad on
the tllts harvest excursion.
Leaving out Aberdeen Sioux Falls
claims a larger population than any three
cities in South Dakota.
Tie city council of Brcokings is TAX
ing steps to prevent Sunday base ball
p aging in the city.
Assessors returns show the popula-
ton of Clay county to be G,SG5 and that of
Nermillion 1886.
-"Whoopup" is the name of a town
twelve miles south of Field City, in the
Black Hills.
The Red river valley h~arvests this
year are two weeks ahead of all previous
seasons.
A badger was killed seven miles north
of Aberdeen that weighed over thirty
pounds.
Bills are asked for the construction of
three miles Of sidewalk at Sioux Falls.
1t has been discovered that Cattle
Kate was once a resi- .ent CT Dickinson.
B. F. Stevens has been elected to sue
teed retired Mayor Pratt at Aberdeen.
-Pierre's large new school building is
rapidly approaching eomplutiou.
-Artesian wells are being numerously
sunk at Aberdeen and vicinity.
The Sioux Falls soap factory has
commenced operations.
Sphinx county has an assessed valua-
ton of SO. 500, 4OS.
Grading and seweling is the order of
the day at Huron.
The material for Pierre's new daily
paper has arrived.
-Corinne lake, hear Jamestown, has
gone dry.
There is talk of a wooden factory at
Pierre.
A Good Warm Weather Lie.
An Elmer, Ore, paper publishes the
following remarkable story: "E. G.
StamDer. q citizen of Elmer, bos met