The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-06
Told in Few Lines.

Told in Few Lines.
A RAILROAD grader in the Black Hills
plowed up a gold nugget worth $50 the
other day.
SINCE the prohibition law went into eff
feet only one arrest for intoxication has
been made at Aberdeen.
WHITE SWAN, head chief of the Mimi
kanju band and one of the principal chiefs
of the Sioux nation, in an interview at
Pierre the other day, expressed the belief
that his race is doomed to determination
through the injustice of the government,
he claims, in inducing the Indians to sign
away their lands. He further stated that
he had discovered that his people were not
farmers and that he was directing their at
tention to stock raising, and, as it required
a large area TO carry on that industr! he
would protest against any further sale of
reservation lands.
PIERRE fremen will put on style with
new uniforms at the coming tourn ament,
the city council having appropriated
money to purchase a complete outfit.
ADv1cEs from all points in the James
river valley report crops in excellent con-
dition. Plentiful rains have fallen every
where in the valley, and the ground never
was in q better condition for an abundant
yield.
THE 5-year-old daughter of MIR. Dayton,
living near Rondell, was recently kicked on
the head by a horse and remained uncon-
scious for six days. 1t is thought the lit
tie one will recover, though she is still in
q precarious condition.
A GIRL baby weighing one pound and q
half was born in the family of Horace
jerks, of Vale, Butte county, last week.
The little mite is perfectly formed and
shows all signs of health. When u week
old the baby weighed just three pounds.
The parents ore large, robust people.
BEDS of an excellent quality of potter's
clay have been discovered near Yankton.
The stockmen of the Cheyenne valley
have organized an anti cattle thief society.
GEN. AnGER has accepted an invitation
to be present at the encampment of the
Dakota Veterans ass ociation, to be held at
lakewood.
THE Methodists of B-ule and neighbor-
ing counties are preparing 10 hold o camp
meeting on American island some time
next month. The island is situated in
the Missouri river near Chamberlain, and
possesses one of the finest groves in South
Dakota.
The dead body of Wm. Conley, a man
who disappeared from Ipswich last winter,
was found the other day on the prairie a
few miles from hat place. The coroner's
jury returned a verdict that Conley camo
to'>his death from exposure shortly after
his disappearance. The young man was q
stranger in the locality and had been work.
ing but a short time on q farm near Fps
witch.
"A VALUABLE colt belonging to John
Wesseling, living near Harrison, was bit
ten BY q yattlesnake the other day and
died in q few hours.
G. H. EVANS, for grand larceny, was
sentenced by Judge Fuller, at Pierre, to
one year apd seven months in the peniten-
tiarY at Sioux Falls.
CASES of desertion are reported from the
ranks of the Eighth United States cavalry,
in camp near Oelrichs.
The residence of T. D. Porter, at Har-
rold, with all its contents, was destroyed
by FIRE. Loss, $1,000: no insurance.
The request OF settlers to have Fort
Abraham Lincoln retained as o military
station has been granted by the war depart
ment.
THE grand jury Of Meade county re-
turned an Indictment for murder against
N. LaFlannie, charged with killing an old
man named Carter last fall.
The gold miners on the mineral belt of
the Black. hills are having q little difficulty
regarding hours of labor, but it is thought
the difference will be satisfactorily settled
without resort to q strike.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the gas company
have arrived at Yankton.. The city council
will accept their proposition to use fifteen
lamps to every mile Of mains laid by the
companys The gas company will expend
$500, 600 in establishing their plant.
The Yankton Pontoon Bridge company
will commence the construction of their
bridge TO Nebraska in o few days. The
mSf6hants of Yankton estimate the.loss Of
Nebraska trade at 5000 a month under
the present ferryboat arrangementt-.
SHARKS FROM THE WIRES.
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