The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30

cult courts. lie claims the eQtlre SlOuA
nation Of $4,000 people will be his con-
stituents. A number Of important Indian
cases have been begun and Attorney Van
Metere will handle them for his people.
Doings in South Dakota.
A SCHEME is on foot to build O man.
moth hotel at Lake Kampeska.
A STEAM yacht will be one of the at
fractions at Lake Madison this summer.
ABERDEEN Temperance saloons have
been ordered to desist from selling hard
cider.
THE big Redwater irrigating canal, in
Butte county, is completed and in full
operation.
THERE was bonded in the vicinity OF
Custer City during the past week $4,000
worth of tin property.
IT is estimated that fully 10, 600 people
have moved upon the reservation since il
was thrown open for settlement.
JOHN WENDELL, of Brookings, shot a
a snipe the other day and hit q young maj
named Saddler in the face, tearing a holt
in his cheek.
IT has been decided by Attorney Genera
Dollard that all county superintendent o.
schools of the state shall be elected at the
general election the same as other officers
DURING his trip NJ the Missouri to tse
Indian agencies Capt. Jack Crawford viii
deliver several lectures on his experiences
on the frontier, the proceeds to be added
to the Mary Washington monument fund.
AN extensive barrel factory is to be To-
Gated at Yankton to supply the Western
Portland Cement company with barrels. 1t
is estimated that 1000 barrels Will be
packed and shipped daily to the eastern
market.
jim river fish are beginning to "bite"
pretty freely. A Brown county man is
willing to make affidavit that while he WAS
sitting in the stern Of a boat the other day
a big fish suddenly Topped out of the water
and bit o chunk out Of his back.
OVER q mile of new water mains are
being laid in Jamestown.
AN equal suffrage club with thirty five
members has been formed at Hecla.
THE wool clip Of the Dakotas this year
will be about 5000, coo pounds, an increase
of 40 per cent. over last year.
AT Mayville the livery barn and feed
store of E. Ellerton, with twenty head oil
horses, were destroyed by fire. Loss, ST.,
600; insurance, 81, 500.
The Pierre laud office is doing a "lant
Office business"
THE new p~ontoon bridge just completed
at Pierre cost S35, 900.
An original package Joint" is soon tt
open up in Aberdeen.
WORK has commenced on o new hotel a
Moreno Beach, Lake Madison.
THREE silver tip bears were killed nea,
Devils Tower n day last week.
PIERRE ladies have decided to hold d
bazaar during the fremen's tournament
May &c to 49,. ,.
The first teachers examination fol
Stanley county will BE- held in Fort Pierre
May 26 and 81.
FORT PIERRE claims n population Of
loco. Avote or incorporating the town
will take place on the 2Sth inst.
,WHITEwooD is to have a new reservoir
with aoapacity of $1,000 gallons, to be
located 1870 feet above the business portion
of the town.
AN old French.ranchman named Dupre
owns a ranch on the reservation which is
stocked with $500 head of cattle, 600
horses, and 26 buffalo. d
CAPT. JACK CRAwFonD, the noted poe,
scout, is making q tour OF the Missouri
river agencies looking up cases of selling
liquor to the Indians for the government,
SHERMAN BUTLER, Of Orland, hired {
tramp to work about the house, and dur.
ing the absence of his employer the tramp
broke into a trunk, stole an expensive suit
of wedding clothes and got brisk move
on himself. ~
CHARLES FINCH, o placer miner in Beal
Gdlch, the other day stubbed his toe
against a gold nueget weighing four ounces
the largest found in the Black Hills fol
some time.
KATE Ho1NsTA, daughter of o farmer
living near Springdale, committed suicide
the other day by drowning herself in @
small lakearear her home. She WIS te
have been married in a few days to young
man in the neighborhood.
IN grading a railroad near. Deadwood the
OtASk way q AoSO 4oSA Hlb DidotEh dlu DC-
hind it was found q small cave or we'll full.
to the brim with snakes. Thousands Of
the reptiles were killed by the men, but not
n rattler was found. They vera of the
varieties known as bull and garter snakes.
BUFFALO county comes to the front
with q natural gas we'll. While boring fol-
water five miles west of Duncan one day
1oct rao1r a .+ropr Ao- 80 o,, rror r,,1-o -
adepth of los feet. Pebbles and mud were
thrown+high in the air, and the noise OF
the escaping gas could be heard for a con-
siderable distance.
THE ladies' OF the Closemont N. E
church have conceived anovel method Of
raising funds to liquidate the indebted.
ness on their church building. The idea
is to make q estatehood-quilt q sort of
erazy-quilt, containing the names of oil
the state officers and members of The
legislature. The statesmen will help along
the good cause by sending in q donation
with their Autographs, and when the quill
is completed it will be sold to the highest
bidder. 5SS 49, !.
PIERBE parties are negotiating fol! the
purchase of q large number of sheep, with
which TO stock several ranches On the res.
eryation.
The agricultural department will furnish
100 South Dakota farmers with sugar beet
seed to be planted as ar experiment. i
the industry promises toIbe profitable fac.
tories will be established. It is estimated
that farmers can. make from 5000 $5t
per acre if the soil proves to be adapted t.
sugar beet culture, as is believed will be
the Case.
THE fish commission has examined q
sample OF fhe water from The Harrison ar
tesian Ill sakein BeadIe county and will