The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-13
Generosity to the State Far.

irrigation are invited and should be for
warded to A. W. Burt, chairman, Huron.
Generosity to the state FAIR.
The South Dakota board of agriculture
has received word from Roswell Miller,
president of tho Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railway, and Marvin Hughitt, of
the Northwestern, that their request for
free freight rates to all exhibitors to and
from the fair had been granted.
Reports from the thrashcrs now Mt work
throughout the region round about Bis
marck are exceedingly liattering, A month
half a crop on the Missouri slope. The
thrashers tell a different tale. Some
pieces of wheat arc averaging over twenty
bushels and many exceed fifteen. The
average will be a full half crop, and the
qnality will excel that of any previous
year. Nearly oil pieces put in with a
pressed drill are turning out we'll.
A man in Des Moines, evidently not
fully postei on Dakota, writes to the
Pierre postmaster and wants to know if
there is a paper published in Pierre. Fe
says he IS interested in Pierre property,
Civ l1ltht IL ldClS II IL Lc"SDdpCT printed
in Hughes or Sully county that he would
like to subscribe and wants a sample copy.
If he subscribes for all the papers in
Hughes and Sully counties he will have to
enlarge his p%ostofice box.
The Harmony Mining company, lessee
Of the keystone chlorination works ct Gar
don City, has purchased a set of Cornish
rolls and is having them placed in position,
hence the works are not at present in op-
Grafton. 1t has been found necessary to
employ some method OF dry crushing in
reducing the tin ore from this company's
property, aud consequently the rolls We're
purchased. The works will soon start up
again.
--latest crop reports say North and
South Dakota will produce %, 600, 900
bushels of wheat this year. Other 70 liable
authorities place the figures at 35, 900, 600
bushels and the f'ioneer Press snys thai
in 4 nnmber of counties where there
we're fears OF not more than four to six
bushels of wheat to the acre, it has Welded
ton and twelve.
The supreme court of the territory of
Dakota will convene in Yankton on the
25th and 2Gth of the present month in ad-
| JouIlcu SCSSlOu. 1ulS Will De the fafe.
we'll gathering of the territorial supreme |
court and the last session of the appointed |
mombers OF that body. 1t began its ex-
lstence in that city twenty-eight years ago. |
Huron conventions meet in a hall
which stands on historic ground. In 1888
the first state convention met ON that spot |
II what was dubbed the AWigwam." Half
"oZen similar conventions have since !
cen held there, and it seems awkward TO @
1any to go elsewhere than Huron. l.
During the severe WING storm a few !;
venings since considerable damage was q
lone tc one Of the female ward buiiainps ,
at the jamestown asylum. The roof was
blown i'll and the loss occasioned thereby
Is estimated at $l5, 900. No one was
hurt.
WI. ~Stoddard, living in Hyde county,
near Holabird, was accidentally shot
through the wrist the other day by his son,
who was assisting in repairing an old re-
volver hat neither knew was loaded.
The injured member will be useless here
after.
A skillfully executed counterfeit SIS
gold piece Was recently passed at one of
the Aberdeen banks. 1t has the true ring
and only a close examination reveals it's
spurious character. 1t is said that con-
siderable bad coin is floating about.
w. Il. Wielder md G. A. Allen we're
driving through the country near Grand
Forks when their team became frightened
by a steam thrasher and ran away, throw
ing the occupants out and seriously iniur-
ing both parties.
The thrashing of 800 acres Of wheat
on n farm near Columbia shows q yield of
eleven bushels per acre. Something over
500 acres yet to thrash is expected to bring
the yield up to thirteen bushels as M av-
erage.
A new national bank, with a capital o
, 1000, has commenced business in
Wahpeton, AMI another with the same
amount of backing is expected to open
here during the present month. =
A visitor at Huron last week, becom-
cling weary of being asked questions in ref
renee TO the capital, pinned a card to his
coat bearing these words: Il don't care a
d where the capital goes"
An unoccupied house burned at Ips-
wich Tuesday night. 1t was owned by ].
w. Parmley, and the loss is over 81, 900.
with NO Insurance.. The fire is accredited
to an ~incendiary.
While Andrew Eayeas, = Armenia,
was engaged in movi lg n building, some
of the supports gave way and part of the
building fell upon him.. He died au hour
later.
Two weeks racing will be given by
the Sioux Falls and Aberdeen association
during the latter part of September, the.
aggregate value Of the purses being S.
100.
Daniel Scrub, who resided with his
son TT Bismarck, died tho other day from
the effects OF q rattlesnake bite received
over a month ago.. He was 60 years old.
w. N. Roach, d .mocratic candidate for
governor of North Dako a, is 40 years old,
and has. been a resident of Grand Forks
county ten years. He is a farmer.
John Penderville, who was convicted
at Fargo Of sending obscene literature
through the mails, is now in the p%eniten-
tiary. His term is ten months.
Alfred Dickey, of Jamestown, the
candidate for lieutenant governor, is said
to be the only old soldier on the North
Dakota republican ticket.
Arthur Puckwalter, living lear Shell
don, IN Ransom county, lost q valuable
horse, w COW and several tons of hay
by fire the other day.
Ira Smith used indecent language on
the streets Of Sioux Falls and it cost
him 500.
Farmers in the vicinity of Spearfsh
complain of the scarcity of thrashing ma
chimes
james Poland, of Grand Forks, was
given ninety days in Jail for pounding his
wife.
The water in the river OF Bismarck is
eight inches lower than ever known before.
-Excavating for the foundation of the
new college at Fargo has commenced.
There are five saloons in Watertown
paying a license of 500 annually.
-Wcrk has commenced on the new
Iforrnarc' a1auofor Of PvooIri,-,