Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-14
BEE HIVE,
BLACK HILLS BREvITIEs.

Sturgis, Deadwood. Spring Valley
anr Custer have decided they want the
insane asylum, while other Hills towns
are yet to be heard from. Custer, Til
ford. Sturgis and Whitewood want flour
ing mills, while Minnesota, with mill,
wants capital to run it. Sturgis and
Deadwood want each an artesian well.
Tilford and Sturgis won't be satisfied
until they have an independent rail con
nection with the upper camps. Sturgis
desires street car line to Fort Meade in
order to accommodate the large travel be-
tween the two points. A wooden mill is
one of the desires of the average Tilford-
ties heart. The citizens of Sturgis will
find no fault if Claus Spreckles visits
them and establishes beet sugar mill.
In fact, it might be said parenthetically,
there is nothing under the sun the
average Black Hills town is not after OF
won't take. Try them and see.
The Spearfsh aldermen are boodlers.
The Register, copying after its great
eastern contemporary the Chicago Times,
has had its lynx-eyed reporters trailing
up the city dads and it has discovered
that w. II. Harlow, one of the elect, has
actually drawn his annual salary from
the city four months before the year was
up. When it is known that the alder
manic stipend is $24 per year the
enormity of the crime can be at once
seen. This alderman has drawn six dol
lars of his salary before he has earned
it. Horrible!
The Mandan Pioneer in speaking Of
rates in the Hills says:
What Deadwood and other towns in
the Black Hills want to do is to wait till
the road is built from Mandan to the
Hills. Then the people Of that prosper
GUS region will have access to Duluth by
a straight line, and then they will be able
to get freight to their stores at rates that
will be at least reasonable, if they are
not cheap. Let the Black Hills people
who are in earnest in this matter, put
their shoulders to the wheel to get this
road constructed. 1t will be their sal
walton.
The old soldiers of Dakota have a
right to feel gratified at the passage OF
the bill locating soldiers home at Hot
Springs by the present legislature.
Such an act at this time shows the
proper spirit of appreciation toward the
veterans, and the location of the institu-
ton on the verge Of statehood puts it in
the line of substantial recognition at the
hands Of the general government.
Pioneer Press.
Riley Miller of Rapid City has gone
to Plattsmouth, Nebraska, for the pur-
pose of purchasing several Thousand
German carp to stock his ponds with.
The fish industry is attracting the atten-
zion Of great many in the Hills and
preparations are being made for the
raising of large supply in the near
future.
The soldiers home bill having passed
the house the Black Hills members of
that body may return to their constitu-
ents without wearing base ball masks
or cast iron armor and they may enter
the Hills by the travelled road. 1t is a
little early to speak for the members in
the council. Bismarck Tribune.
1T is a conundrum whether the Black
Hills Firemen's association have tour
nament this year or not. The importa-
lion Of professional sprinters in the past
has Slapped the life out of the organiza-
lion. These professional hippodromers
must be barred out.
Deadwood authorities have ordered a
dozen or SO of their FOUNDERS and sstin-
horns" to leave town and as consequence
they have vamoosed. It would be wen
L other towns of the Hills would be on
the lookout and keep them moving
1n.n
The faro banks of Deadwood have
been getting robbed, no one knows who
oy, but that they are very smooth at it is
shown BY their work. It is needless to-
remark that no one viii lose any sleep
over this style Of robbery.