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

Gideon g. Moody was born in Cortland,
N. Y, October 16, 1882. TIE first fifteen
years of his life were spent upon his
fathers farm near that place. At 16 he
determined to enter the profession of law.
Hills e. Morgan, at Syracuse, N. Y. gave
him a desk in the Office, and for four years
be studied there. At the age of 20 he
went to Jasper county, Indiana. His rigid
application to business soou accumulate I
a good practice. He was conspicuous
among the young republicans who loved
the leadership Of the great wal governor.
Morton. In the state convention of 1860
Mr.. Moody represented Jasrer county.
At the succeeding election the ticket was
triumphant, and Mr.. Moody was elected a
member of the Legislature from a strong
democratic district. When the civil war
broke out Mr.. Moody enlisted and served
with distinction and is repeatedly referred
to IN Gen. Thomas reports, published in
1866, in complimentary terms. In 1864,
Col. Moody, as he was then called, moved
to Yankton, Oak. Since then he has been
several times a member of the legislature,
and enjoyed for many years the largest
practice of any attorney in the territory.
In 1878 he was appointed associate justice
and took up his residence in the Black
Hills. Upon the expiration of his term
he was retained by the Homestake Mining
company. In 1866 he was elected United
States senator for South Dakota, but
never took his seat. Was again elected
October II, 1889, and will take his seat the
first Monday in December.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
She Looked Distinguished.

Newsboys naturally develop q quick
ness at reading faces as we'll as o free
dom in asking and answering questions.
One of this class was peddling his
wares in a railway train, and in pass,
ing back and forth was struck with the
appearance of a woman. She looked
distinguished, and as he dumped his
paper~covered novels into the laps Of
the other passengers, he passed her
by.
At last his curiosity got the better
of all other considerations. He found
among his books one by Mrs. Stowe,
and on his next trip he proffered it to
the very digniied lady, but she de-
clined it.
Excuse me-" said the boy, "but amt
you Mrs. Stowe?"
The stranger shook her head and dis
claimed the compliment. The boy
went down the aisle, but on his return
he stopped again.
"Then perhaps you're Mrs. Stanton ?"
The woman smiled, and again shook
her head. But the newsboy was not to
be baffied.
"Would you mind telling me who you
are, ma'am"
It is not likely that the fellow was
much the wiser when the womansgave
her name as Maria Mitchell. Probably
he had never heard of our famous as
tronomer, but he was equal to the
emergency.
""Well, I knew you was somebody"
he answered, triumphantly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Allison,s Chances in 1owa.

Senator Allison has returned to Du-
buque from the headquarters of the re-
publican state committee, where he spent
two days, and be says tho Legislature is
safely republican by eight on joint ballot,
and possibly ten, as n district is still in
doubt. He has no fears of any combina-
ton between any of the rcpub lean men,
bers and the democrats to defeat him. He
declined to be interviewed upon the rea-
sons that had produced the surprising re-
suit Of Tuesday, or upon the probable
policy of the party hereafter upon state
issues.
On the other hand, many of his friends
at Dubuque do not take as roseate view Of
the situation as he does. The Herald,
democratic, proposes that the opposition
combine on Gov.-Elect Boies. and believes
he can be elected over Allison. NJ. NJ,
Ham, editor of the Herald, has received
the following dispatch from ex-President
Cleveland:
The people of Iowa are especially to be con-
graduated on their victory over prejudice and
superstition. The democracy of the state de-
serveB the greatest honor,
Full returns from every county in the
state, as received by the Herald, giyes
Boles o total majority of 1922.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Congressman Clifford.

Oscar S. Clifford is a native of Water
town, N. Y, born there October 20, 1912.
All of the family moved to Rock county,
Wisconsin, in 1S4S, thence to Boone coun-
ty, Illinois, in 1858. He was q private
soldier in the union army two years.
Studied law and admitted to the bar in
1870. He came to Dakota in 1871; was
elected district attorney of Lincoln county, in
1874; mayor of Canton in 1928; member
of the constitutional convention Of 1888;
elected to the F~Urty-ninth congress by a
vote of 71,579 against 1924 for John NJ.
Wilson, democrat; to the Fiftieth con-
gress by a vote of &c, 1882 against 81, 1880 for
NJ. H. Day, democrat; to the Fifty first
by a vote of 54,135 against 22,l53 for
Booth-the latter being from the state OF
South Dakota.
Judge Clifford has at all times favored
division of Dakota, and to secure this and
the opening of the reservation we're
the chief aims of his service during his
first two terms. Both of these were Sc
cured during the closing days of the Eff.
tieth congress-,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

Arthur G. Mellette is a native of Prairie
to wnshlp, Fenry county, Indiana. His
birthday was June %, 1912. hence is o
AZ years of age. He was reared on farm,
but enjoyed fiar school advantages in his
earlier years. When l6 he entered the
state university at Bloomington, from
which he graduated in 1864. Immediately
upon leaving college, he entered the union
service in the Ninth Indiana infantry as a
private and served to the close of the war.
In 1863 Mr.. Mellette purchased the Mum
Gle, Ind, Times and conducted it for sew
eral years, making it one of the most in
tiuential republican newspapers il the
state. In 1873 he was elected to the gen.
eral assembly of the state, where he served
with credit, and made lasting fame by the
authorship and seeing the passage Of the
law defining the school system Of Indiana,
reDuted to be the most perfect school code
OF any state. In 1878 he was appointed
register of the land office at Springfield.
OAK, and when the Office was removed to
Watertown he Wen there and has since re-
sided there, excepting the year 1888, when
be went to Forest CITY to perfect the title
to a homestead. He was a member of the
Sioux Falls constitutional convention of
1858 and its first president; was elected
governor of South Dakota under the Sioux
Falls constitution of 1855. March -,
1889. he was appointed governor of the
territory and held it until the admission of
South Dakota.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The Two rumnrnpc

"Don" Cameron is as cold as ice, and
when a visitor has the rare good luck
to see him he often wishes he hadn't
been so successful. The deceased
Cameron, who was the friend and at
times the patron of democrats and re-
publicans alike, conciliated everybody
with whom he came in contact. Some
years ago in Pennsylvania Don, who
was beginning to run things with the
dynastic force of the family, told his
father at Donegal mi day: "Im 60
ing to put my man in as temporary
as we'll as permanent chairman of the
republican state convention to-mor-
row." Don't do it, said Simon.
"Why not conciliate the other fac,
ton by letting their man go in as
temporary chairman. It can't do you
any harm, and when the time for real
work comes your man will go in grace
fully" Don refused to heed this sapi-
ent counsel, and vowed he'd have both
places. Gall right" said the old gen.
tleman, shave your own way; but il
your man gets licked don't come to me
for sympathy" Don persisted, and
his candidate for permanent chairman
did get badly licked. "Don," said the
father that night as they took a glass
Of wine together, don, when you die
you'll be richer probably than I will,
but you won't have half as big q fun,
eral."-NeW York Herald,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
DAY OF SURPRISES,
SWEEPING DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES
IN UNLOCKED FOR LOCALITIES.
Follows suit-In Virginia 1t is All Demo-
cratic-Tlie Republicans Save Remnants.
1owa,s pemoera,ic Governor.

H AVWA DoAlOCEatIC uOVGrUOTs aaHEatf~
Complete returns from the recent Iowa
election present a different face from the
early reports, and indicate election OF the
following ticket:
Governor, democrat. .......... HORACE BoIEs
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., rep........A. L. PoYNEER
Judge OF supreme Court, rep.....JosIAa GIsFN
Railroad Commissioner, rep.... SPENCER SNlTa
Superintendent Of Public..
instruction, rep.........-..... HENRY SABIN
The summary which indicates this result
comes from Des Moines, and is as follows:
Revised figures from every county in the
state show that Boies will have very close
to 5000 over Hutchison for governor, and
that the rest of tho ticket will be republic
can by from 1000 to 5000 plurality. The
composition of the legislature is now def
nitely known. In the senate the republic
cans will have twenty-seven members, not
including Hanehett, independent republi-
can. The hold-overs are Barrett, Brewer,
Caldwell, Davidson, Duncan, Funk,
Harsh. Lawrence, Mccoy, McVey, Meser,
vey, Mills, Price, Seeds. Smith, Glide
(succeeding Sweeney, Vail. Weidman and
Finn, nineteen in all. The republicans
elected are Parrot, Catch, Woolson,
Smith, of Wright; Mack, Reiniger, Per-,
kins and Bailey, making eight.
In the house the democrats have gained
members in the following counties: Adair,
Benton, Boone, Clinton, Cherokee, De-
catur, Floyd, Fayette, Ida, Muscatine,
Kossuth, Linn, P%oweshiek, Tama, Lyon
and Osceola, Buchanan and Winneshiek,
seventeen in all, but have lost in Union,
Marion and Monona. THIS leaves the
house with a membership Of fifty-three
republicans and forty-seven democrats for
the twenty-thlrd general assembly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

A w~ELL-KNowN woman of Racine,
Wis, recently underwent two surgical
operations with peculiar result. She
has been troubled with severe pains in
her left arm and right leg for u long
time, and treatments by various physi-
clans afforded her no relief, Some
days she consulted DR.. Sem, of
Milwaukee, who opened her arm. He
discovered a needle imbedded in the
tissues and muscles of the arm, which
he removed. The operation afforded
the patient temporary relief, but pains
continued in the right leg. DR.. Sem
was again called and operated on the
leg, finding a second needle imbedded
in the tissue Of that limb. The doctor
says the case is a peculiar one, espe-
cially so as the patient cannot imagine
when " how the needles entered her
body.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

terror, was adiutant Of this. regiment. and
Cyrus Bussey, assistant secretary of the
interior, was its colonel. He served three
and one-half years from his first enlist
ment. until he was mustered out at the
close Of the war as major. In 1866 he en-
tered the Iowa State university and grad
uated IN 1869. and from the Michigan law
school in 1872. He practiced law in Mus
catine from 1874 to 1882; wal a Garfield
presidential electoral in 1880 and o member
OF the legislature in 1882. In the autumn
OF that year he moved to Faulkton, Oak,
which has since been his home. He was
a member of the territorial legislature of
1885, and chairman of the house com
mittee on appropriations.
In April, 1883, Secretary Noble APP
pointed him an inspector in the interior
department and sent him to Oklahoma to
superiptend the opening of the land offices
there. The secretary highly commended
him for his efficiency in this work.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
THE NEWS IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
The Farmers, Alliance.

The annual meeting of the Farmers
alliance, to be held in Aberdeen on the
18th inst. bids fair to be the largest and
possibly the most important gathering in
the history of that organization. The
election of officers and the consideration
of the future political position of the alli-
ance, together with the fact that it will be
the last meeting under the territorial ar
rangement will induce many to be present
who otherwise would not go. At the APP
preaching meeting the question of divid-
ing the organization and creating an alli-
ance for North Dakota and one for South
Dakota will be settled. as will also that Of
a union with the alliances in southern
states and adopting their secret work.
Many other important questions will be
disposed Of, including a proposition to
abolish the state lecturers Office and create
a district lecture bureau; also the matter
OF the business department of engaging in
manufacturing certain articles,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Soap Bubbles That Will Last.

To make soap bubbles that will last
for several hours is easy enough if the
following liquid be used:
Dissolve n part by weight of Mar
%seilles soap, cut into thin slices, in
forty parts Of distilled water, and fill
ter. Call the filtered liquid A, and
mix two parts Of pure glycerine with
n part Of the solution a, in a tenn
perature Of sixty-six degrees Fair,
and, after shaking them together long
and violently, leave them to rest for
some days. A clear liquid will settle,
with a turbid one above. The lower to
be sucked out from beneath the upper
with a siphon, taking the utmost care
not to carry down any Of the latter to
mix with the clear fluid.
A bubble blown with this will last
for several hours, even in the open air.
Or the mixed liquid, after standing
twenty-four honrs, may be filtered,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

James fl. Fletcher was born in Prince
Edward Island-what is known as the
Garden Of Canada"-in the year 1913.
He received his education in the free
schools of that country, and completed it
in the Central Academy of Charlottetown.
He taught school for four years and after
wards established the Island Argus, be-
coming its editor and publisher. During
his journalistic caree of eleven years. he
served as an alderman four years and as
public printer for two years. In 1875 he
made O trip to the Pacific coast, and on
his way home visited the great Comstock
mines OF Nevada. On the breaking out of
the silver excitement in Leadville he sold
out his property in the east and moved to
Colorado. In 1883 be came to Dakota
and, after doing some business in Column
bla, he settled down on his we'll equipped
farm at Santa Clara. In 1886 he was
chosen to represent the Thirteenth legis-
lative district in the territorial assembly.
In 1883 he was reelected. In 1889 he was
nominated at the Huon convention for
lieutenant governor, and was elected by
the magnificent majority of31, 1908,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The North Floclss BY Itself.

Governor Miller, Secretary Flittie, Aud
ltor Bray, Attorney General Goodwin.
Commissioner of Insurance Carey and the
justices of the supreme court took the oath
OF office in the capital building on the 4,h,
and the machinery OF the state of North
Dakota was placed in motion. Immedi-
ately after taking the oath Governor Mil
Ter issued a proclamation converting the
legislature for the election of United
States senators and the enactment of state
laws. The date of conveningis November
18TH: This, it is thought, will give time
for the election of United States senators
in time to take their seats at the converting
of congress.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Some Points on Touographv.

Before leaving the subject, however, l
wish to call attention to another plan of
irrigation, which is suggested by the to-
biography of the eastern half of the Dako-
tas. If a cross-section of the eastern
half OF South Dakota be made, say from
Pierre to the eastern line of the state, it
will be seen that the James river lies at the
bottom of q great trough, 200 feet below
the Missouri on the west and 400 feet be-
low the Big Sioux on the east, The
southwark slope of this trough is very
gentle, as the following figures show:
jamestown is 1895 feet above sea level,
and Yankton, at the mouth of the Jim, is
1,196 feet, q fall of less than one foot to
the mile.
Again, starting at BISMARCK, we find
going eastward across North Dakota,
that there is a gradual descent to the Red
river valley. And if we go northeast the
same is true, Devils Lake in North Da-
kota being 200 feet lower than the Mis-
souri, at Bismarck.
In view of this topography it is per-
fectly feasible to lead any desired volume
OF the Missouri river through the coteau to
Fort Stevenson, and across North Dakota
from say the northwest corner Of Mclean
county, east by north carrying it south OF
Devils Lake, where it should turn east
ward and southwark, skirtlng the western
Hang OF the Coteau du Prairie, One
branch from this main line could be sent
into the Souris valley, and carried throuph
the counties of Church, McHenry, Pierce,
Towner, ETC., TO the Red river, thus fertil-
izing q large region, while the rest Of the
water should be sent southwark into two
main branches, one on the east side of the
Hamaa. rial
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
The Record of Smaller Events.


Two Deadwood lads, while hunting
along the banks of the Big Horn river the
other day, were attacked by an enormous
gray eagle. The bird scared high above
them and came suddenly with a rush. It's
sharp taIons laid open the scalp of one of
the boys, and it was only after a deter
min ed fight that the eagle retreated.
AHUMP," the Indian scout and chief of
police at the Cheyenne agency, is humping
himself to secure a pension from Uncle
Sam. He received a bullet in the Shout
der during a skirlnish with the Nez Perces
While acting as a scout under Gen. Miles.
Hump" made application before the
board OF pension examiners at Pierre last
week.
WHILE threshing near Harrison one
day last week a mysterious explosion &C.
Cured in the machine. Fire flashed out
on all sides and Arie Van der Burg, who
was feeding, had his eyebrows burned off,
The grain stacks caught fire but were ex-
tingnished before much damage wa done.
The cause of the explosion is a mystery.
THOMAS FAIRFIELD, of Onida, grows
his own fish. He planted forty young
German carp in his lake near Forestburp
four years ago and they are now ripe
enough to pick. He recnntly dug up one
weighing six pounds when dressed.
A MEMBER of the Clair Pattee Dramatic
company dislocat ed his jaw while on a
train between Pierre aud Miller. Not
stated just how he did it, but it is sup
posed he WA trying to brace" the con-
ductor. A Miller physical fixed him SO
that he could go on with the show,
A MONTANA man named Joseph Yager-
son, having in charge a herd of horses en-
route for the east, committed suicide Wv
taking poison in a house of ILL repute neal
Eureka. There are several suspicious
circumstances connected with the case,
but not enough to warrant the arrest of the
parties.
AN Indian outfit from the Yankton
agency is trapping large quantities of
beaver near Rosedale: The people in the
vicinity are comp aiming at the rate at
which the fur bearing animals in that
section are being exterminated by Lo.
l.. H. CAU1oM, of White Lake, has a
curiosity in the shape of q piece of.petri-
he'd wood, showing the. grain and marks
OF the ak where it had been cut off. 1t
was found on a farm near that place.
A o1D1ER named Donegan is missing
from Fort Meade. As he only had TWEEN
ty-four days more to serve to complete his
term of enlistment, and has $500 back
pay coming 10 him, it is thought he has
met with foul play.
WHILE the Cinnamon under arrest at
Pierre for runnlnga an opium joint were in.
carcerated in the bastile thieves entered
their laundry and lugged off all the wash
ing in tho place.
The little 3-year-old daughter Of Hem
ry Weishan. Of Lennox, overturned a pan
of boiling water which was standing on
the table and was terribly scalded about
the face and body.
The Northwestern company recently
paid $500 for damage done to property
near Doland, resulting from assrark from
an engine setting the prairie on fire.
WILLIE Norris, o la-year-od sports-
man. bagged a large deer near snaarfah
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Dlmcul,,e. to Re Encountered.

The plan just discussed presents some
difficulties which must be understood fully
before judgment Gun be pronounced on the
p~racticability Of the method suggested.
It may be a question whether a state has the
right to turn any considerable portion of a navi-
way here contemplated.
The engtneering difficulties may be rather
formidable. The height of the Coteau du Mis-.
souri, is the first of these. The point suggested
ior the head of the canal is selected because Of
the narrowness OF the coteau in this region,
which would lessen the labor o: cutting the
canal. All the difficulties under this head
could be settled anu the proper point selected
s 3. = corps Of topographers which the United
gate the matter, and it would seem that this is
o proper work for that department..
IN great amount Of sediment carried by the
Missouri will rapidly fill any reservoir supplied
9y tnat stream. thus making it necessary to
devise some means of removing the aocumula-
tervals.
The character of the banks Of the Missouri,
and it's well-known habit of changing its chan
mel SUDDENLY, will add somewhat to the obstacles
already enumerated,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

R. F. Pettigrew is a Vermonter and he
looks it every inch. He was born there
July %, 1913. His father moved to Wis
consin while Mr.. fettigrew was yet quite
young, and settled on a farm. He was
called home from college a year before
graduating by the death of his father, and
he found it necessary to take the duties of
the farm upon himself in order to provide
for the family. After this he started out
with a few dollars and finally succeeded in
getting a position as school teacher at
Marion, Iowa. He earned enough money
from this and from subsequent employ
ment to take 4 course in the law depart
ment of the state university at Madison,
Wis. He came to South Dakota first to
help survey lands. and after settled IN
Sioux Falls, where he ooh up q claim on
government land. He has always been
active and prominent in territorial affairs.
He served three terms in the territorial
council in the years 1877, 1879 and 1885.
He was also a delegate to congress in the
years 1881 and 1882, and is widely known
for his shrewdness and tact in that body
of the nations statesmen.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15
Filed the First Rin.

just as soon as the telegraph announced
the advent of statehood, Attorney Boyce
rushed to the clerk of courts Office in
Sioux Falls and filed q bill for divorce for
a client of his. This is no doubt the first
paper filed in South Dakota as a state. The
application comes from parties not known
IN the city and is based upon the grounds
of inhuman treatment.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

ROBERT bonner once paid Tennyson
$4,000 for a poem which made only
twenty lines in the New York Ledger.
This vas at the rate Of $3.50 a line,
which is a price that would almost
seem beyond the value of any written
production.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

WHEN Lucy Whitaker, colored, of
Vicksburg, died, the other day, she
said she would haunt Frank Jones, a
recreant lover of hers, all his life. He
has appealed to the courts for all in
junction to restrain her from going into
the haunting business, but the Judge
is inclined to regard the case as beyond
his jurisdiction.