The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-12-27
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devil at the same time.
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AN Epworth league has been organized
at Bridgewater.
Tyndall is sending large quantities Of
supplies to the drought sufferers in Nc
Pherson county.
S. L. CURTIS, of Washington, will ship
10000 pounds Of poultry to California for
the holiday market.
OVER S15O,OOO worth of bullion vas
shipped from the Black Hills last week,
the product of the mines for two weeks.
Mrs. G. T.. KIRscHEn and Mrs. WIN.
Moore, of Salem, coaxed the fire with gas
oline cans and are now receiving the SYM
patty of friends.
Gov. ME1LETTE and Senator Moody,
of South Dakota, and Senator Pierce, of
North Dakota, were all members of the
same regiment during the war-the Ninth
Indiana.
The 6-year-old son of Frank Sexton,
living in the western part of Beadie
county, fell into a dry well the other |
evening, breaking his shoulder blade and
one OF his legs and badly bruising his
head. He is not expected to live.
HARRY BROOKS, while digging a we'll
lear Gettysburg, stepped into a bucket
hat was lowered by means of a horse and
forgetting to have the slack taken
up. He fell clear to the bottom, q dis
lance Of thirty-fve feet, and ~miraculously
escaped with only a broken leg.
SOME miscreant loaded Jim Christie's
stove with q charge Of giant pow .er OF his |
cabin in Strawberry gulch in the Black
Hills. Jim was making O fire and sud-
denly discovered the powder caps just in
time to make his escape. The powder ex-
ploded and smashed things in the cabin.
GUS KRUz, aged Is, left his homo in
Humboldt, M%innehaha county, very mys-
teriously o few days ago and has not been
heard from since. The boy had a Z good
home, and his parents cannot account for
his mysterious disappearance. They are
very anxious to know his whereabouts.
and will reward any information sent to
the Humboldt postoffice.
TEAMS are now crossing the Missouri
on the ice at Pierre.
PAUL PAUTcH, working on the grade of
the Star mill at Lead City, was struck on
the head by a flying iron bolt, inficting a
serious injury.
The society Of Black Hills pioneers will
hold its first annual meeting and banquet
at Deadwood on January l4th. The So
ciety now has about 200 members.
A COMMITTEE of Yankton citizens has
been appointed to fix a date for holiing q
memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr..
Ward. The meeting will probably occu,
January 1.
OLE OLSON, JR, of Sioux Falls, claims
to be the first white child born in what is
now the state of South Dakota. He first
saw the light March 2, 1860, on his fathers
farm, eight miles west of Vermillion.
CAPT. FUTILE, of Parker, has o lilac
bush in his yard that is making an heroic
struggle to appear in a full suit Of foliage
by Christmas. The bush is loaded with
swelling buds, some of which are bursting
into tiny leaves.
FREMONT, Neb., firm is looking owe,
Yankton with the intention of establishing
a broom factory.
SOME disease is affecting the ponies
and horses at Grow Greek agency, and
Collins, state veterinary surgeon, is now
there and has killed q number, and more
are to be killed, among them being many
A rnorinon hprcos which u,aro 1ofo1r iee, Ii,
to Indians by the government.
JOHN MUNsEN, of Taopi, who accident
ally shot himself in the head while hunt
ing a few days ago, IS still alive and may
recover.
A CORN festival and banquet was held
in Aberdeen the other evening, everything
on the bill of fare being connected in some
way withthat cereal.
ABORTION, consisting Of TIA head of
cattle, have been slaughtered at Lowe
Brule agency for Indian supplies during
the winter. AS soon as the weather be-
comes colder 200 more will be killed.
On returning from q visit in the country
recently Alderman Jim Grove and wife,
of %Yankton, we're pursued by a PACK of
prairie wolves. By hard driving they
gained the city before their hungry pur-
suers.
The charity bail at Huron given by the
Knights of Pythias for the benefit of the
poor, netted $500, making a total of over
$1,000 raised there for the same purpose,
besides immense quantities of clothing
and food.- :
AN organized gang of thieves is opera.-
ing among the farmers on the Grow Creek
reservation, and many cattle nave been
run off.
Want to Exhibit Hin.
W. i. Douglas, the shoe man. has been
elected mayor Of Brockton, Mass. His
features are familiar to the American pub
lie from his advertisements. He srent
100000 last year to keep them in the pub
lic5gaze. His face has been his fortune
or rather having it printed has-and quite
n big fortune, too. He began in q small
way, spending $500 for advertising his
shoe in 1883. After six years of persistent