The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
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IN THE SOUTH STATE.
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ssdt IN lllU OUU11l OlhlUs HA
Happenings In Various localities.
THE pontoon bridge at Pierre will be
completed at once.
THE Britton cheese factory will COM
mence operations May S.
THE crop outlook in the Black Hills
counties was never more encouraging.
THE postof6ce receipts of Pierre war.
rant the adoption of the free delivery sys-
tenn.
:" THE;Lyman County Journal is the name
of a neat and newsy paper started in the
new tow of Lyman.
The antl-swearing society of Baltic has
dissolved, the members being unable to
stand the pressure any longer.
A curious freak has recently come to light
in Clark county. About q year ago a COW
belonging to a farmer near Raymond was
struck by a locomotive and badly injured,
but a short time afterward recovered and
gave birth to q calf. The calf is in no
way deformed and has the appearance OF
being a common, ordinary, everyday ami
NAL until it becomes excited, when instead
of the soft, bass lowing, peculiar 10 its
kind, it utters a series of sharp toots and
q kissing sound resembling the exhaust Of
q high pressure steam engine. 1t has been
named the locomotive calf, and a num-
Der of dime museum managers are after it
for a star engagement around the country.
A LARGE colony from Beadle county has
established a town on the Bad river, in
Stanley county, and named it New Huron.
SEVERAL Day county farmers are &C.
cused of selling the seed wheat which they
secured from the commissioners on the
representation that they were in need.
STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
P1NKHAM states there will be no school
election in June, and that the present
school officers will hold over to the regular
November election.
OF the twelve Communicates of knights
Templar in the two states South Dakota
has eight and. North Dakota four. The
total membership of the society in both
states is 62l.
DELEGATES to the coming convention Of
the grand lodge of Odd Fellows, which
meets at Deadwood this month, will be
presented with souvenirs manufactured
from Black Hills tin, the first output Of the
mines.
LOUIS DECoNTA has been summoned tc
appear for trial at Fort Pierre on q charge
of alternating the affections of Ellen White
Horse from her lawful husband, Eli Spot
ted Bear. All are full blood Indians.
This is the first state case to be tried in
Stanley county.
TunNn GnAv tho nooI-onl Tb,oao,o,
who has made several unsuccessful at
tempts to secure a ticket of leave" from
the state department to visit his family in
his native land, left for Hong Kong the
other day. Although unable to secure
a return passport, he is supplied
with credentials from the best people of
Deadwood and will probably meet with
little difficulty in landing on his return.
A BUILDING association is being organ :
ICED at Fort Pierre.
THE postofice at Goddard, Sully county,
has been DISCONTINUED.
LARGELY increased acreage of corn is
being planted in CHARLES Mix county.
THE bullion output Of the Black Hills
mines for the first half Of April was $780,
900.
A THREE-TooT RATHER, the first OF the
season, was killed near Forest City the
other day.
Y. G. T.. U. will be held in Miller May l;
and IA.
NEW JERUSALEM is the name of Q ney
town on the boundary line of South Dc
kota and Wyoming.
THE wheat acreage in Hughes and Sull,
counties is considerably larger than il
former years.
H. B. G~ILBERTsoN, of Garretson, wa
seriously burned while fighting q prairi,
fire.
THE American Samineheyd, which ha
been published in Alexandria since it
first issue, has been moved to Chicago.
THE ferrymen at Pierre are engaged in
rate war. The fare for crossing the rive
has already been cut down from so to II
cents.
THE site of the erstwhile booming tow,
of Sherman is now the property of Chic
Left Hand Thunder. Sherman was tn
first town in Lyman county plated by the
boomers, but was evacuated a few week.
ago by order of the government.
"A Aa4NE1oN pSAulSuIo D 1lldhluR pTepd
rations to lay out anotherne town on til
Nebraska side of the river to be known al
South Yankton.
SURVEYOR NJ. T. Woo1LEY is On rout
for the upper Cheyenne river, where til,
work Of surveying township and sectioi
lines on the late reservation will be com
menced. The surveyors will work east.
AUGUST JoRGENsoS, living near Rich
land, Union county, was kicked by a hors
over a week ago and has not yet regaine
consciousness. 1t is feared he can not re
cover.
THE explosion of q can of alcohol badl
wrecked the residence of John Goeres q
White Lake the other day. Mrs. Goere
INC small child were seriously but nc
fatally burned.
NEWS has reached Pierre of the findin
of an extensive vein of coal on the reserva
tion about sixty-fve miles distant in Ste1
ling county. The location of the mine
known only to the Indians, who assert tha
there is plenty of coal on the reservation
but refuse to disclose its hiding place ex
cept ''for o consideration"
HEcLA will soon vote to incorporate.
are being made to pu
a steamer on the Cheyenne river to ply be
tween Pierre and the new town of Chey
enne.
A Valuable Relic.
Frank O'BrienSof Atlanta, Ca, has
valuable relic. 1t is the canteen whic
Gen. Mcpherson had on his person vine
he was"ki1led, and which bears the imprir
of the bullet, SO it is supposed, whic
kille6 him. The identify of fine canaan