The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-10-25
RAPID CITY, PENNINGTON COUNTY. DAKOTA FRIDAY oCTo
The commissioners proceedings will

The commissioners proceedings will
appear next week.
Messrs Erdman and Rolf returned
from the Limestone country last even
ing after two weeks hunt. They re-
port good time, but only killed one
deer.
The contest over the school section is
completed with the exception OF the
arguments OF attorneys and possibly a
a deposition from Professor Carpenter.
A great deal of testimony has been
taken on both sides and there is a Ques-
ton as to how the case will terminate.
An enterprising individual has inven-
ted q machine for burning fire guards
around prairie farms. It is claimed to
burn strip six feet wide perfectly clean
as fast as team can walk, without any
danger OF the fire breaking away. If it
will do this every neighborhood in Dako-
ia ought to have one.
The Carson county grand jury, which
has been investigating the lynching OF
Jim Averill and Ella Watson, adjourned
without returning indictments against
those accused Of the 1ynching. The only
witness to the lynching, young man
named Buchanan, has forfeited his bail
and disappeared. The men accused of
the lynching are wealthy cattle owners
and ranchmen, whose herds had been
robbed by Averill and the Watson wo-
man. It is probable that no indict-
ments will be found.
One by one the props are being knock
ed from under the liquor traffic in Iowa
and very soon the whole concern will be
compelled to give up the fight. Even
since the enactment OF the prohibltory
law the liquor men have claimed that
intoxicants could be shipped into the
state and sold in the original packages,
and that the right to do so was derived
from the laws of interstate commence.
The railroads at last joined the liquor
men in the fight and a test case was
made on which was employed some OF
the best legal talent in the country.
Several packages OF beer were seized by
officers and the brewer who shipped
them began his action. Last week the
supreme court OF the state decided that,
while liquor may be shipped into the
state in it's original package, and was
protected from seizure by the interstate
commerce laws while in transit, the pro-
lection, ceases the moment it arrives at
it's destination and it is liable to seizure.
Last Saturday morning the great
Moody came in from Pierre and a few OF
our people rushed down to the train
and fired off giant powder to the music
OF the band, which had been hired to
welcome the "conouering hero' back
from his Doodle trip. The noise OF the
giant powder awakened the valient gent
suddenly and he thought for while
that he was at Buffalo Mountain, and
couldn't be induced to come out, but
when he discovered that the giant pow
der was being fired at a safe distance
and that it was Rapid City, he grew
bold and made:a rush for breakfast anC
his morning bitters. The welcome
had been cooking for several days and il
was proposed to make the anti-MOody
republicans feel sick, but the result was
the other way. There was so little en-
thusiasm manifested thatMoody looked
blue, he knows that the people here dis
pise him, and had voiced their dislike by
defeating every man who dared support
: him, and he knew also that the welcome
was mockery, equaled only by hiret
mourncrs at a funeral The delnonstra
ton was in exceeding had taste anc
only served to clinch the opposition
more firmly than before. Moody is sen
tator contrary to the wishes OF a large
majority of the people OF the Hills anc
especially is this true OF this county
Firing salutes and brass bands wont in
crease his popularity half as much Il.
modest behavior would have done, bu
it serves to nail the cover OF the coffi1
containing the gang more solidly thar
before. The tomahawk is still within
reach and there are as many Willing
hands to use it now as ever before.
| A Gottingen professor, who is alarmed
because good brewer commands large
wages IN Germany than a Greek profes
sor, has written book to demonstrate
that there is too much learning in tn
world, and that our educational meth
DDS must be reformed SO as to appreci
ate the value OF scholarship. He show
that there are now entered on the roll
| OF the German universities $4,000 stu
\ dents, and that fully one-half OF thes
e hopeful youths are doomed to povert,
and disappointment. The Gottingel
professor is right in his doleful prediction
+ lif these 10000 young men are bein
i educated for the "gentlemanIy profess
q ions" instead OF the molo lucrative an
more certain callings Of industrial life
But if these 20, 900 young German col
lege students had it in mind to turn thei
hands to manual labor when they lei
:. college they would not be hurt by til
stock OF learning they are accumulatin,
A carpenter or a blacksmith or shol
keeper is none the worse for being goo
. fscholar The real trouble is that tt
. false idea is current that education di
Il Qualifac g person for manual pursuit.
u and that the educated man or woma
e must find q station somewhere in IL
u professions. Still, it is a loss of time ft
81 q young person to devote years of stud
le OF dead languages when the same perio
y spent in a manual training school woul
n give the preparation required, and tn,
10 enable him to secure profitable emplo
ment Immediately upon leaving scho
,g It has been long the fault Of our educa
Sc ional methods that there are too mar
th captains and not enough privates bei1
as turned out from our schools and 90
y, lesgs. Now that it Is coming to pass Il