Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-07-23

root rival as chief of the hostile, and
considerable Jealousy exists between them.
The hostiles followed Big Foot and nov
Hump has started for their camp to arrest
Big Foot for his disobedience, which will
likely prove dangerous task. If he can
not succeed alone be will summon all his
Indian police to assist him.
Big Foot Il q Blow Hard.
" correspondent in speaking of Big
Foot, or as he is better known, Spotted
Eagle. about whom 10 much war news"
has been published lately, says there IL no
more danger OF an uprising on tho reserva.
ton than there is Of an average newspaper
correspondent telling the truth. He says
Big Foot is blow hard, with following
of not TO exceed twenty five men and that
he has been blowing for months of what he
would do and what the whites should not
do. and it was this talk, magnifed by white
men, with an interest at stake, that dc.
termined the war department in sending .
portion Of the Eighth cavalry from Fort
Meade to the hostile camp on the Chey-
enne.
Prospects for = Rect Sugar Factory.
The prospects are good for the location
at Pierre OF big factory for the manu-
facture OF beet sugar. Those who have
given the question of beet culture study
claim that the soil of South Dakota, par.
ticularly that west of the river, 10 adapted
to that industry. In fact, squaw men and
Indians on Bad river have each year raised
large quantities Of fine sugar beets with.
out any culture to speak of. II 10 claimed
that formers can realize $25 and $50 per
acre in raising beets for the factory, and
an institution of this kind would be OF in.
estimable benefit to the farmer 40 we'll %
to the city.
A Second Niagara Discovered.
ranchman near Pierre reports having
discovered on the Cheyenne, some eighty
miles northwest Of there, . wonderful
waterfall, terming it . second Niagara.
The gentleman claims q fall Of some fifty
feet exists there, and that the noise from
the falls can be heard for several miles dis
tant. An exploring PARTY will be organ
lied in Pierre to 60 out and investigate,
for there are portions Of the reservation
country that as yet have never been pene-
trated by whites, especially along the
Cheyenne and White rivers.
Told In Brief.
PIERRE is suffering from Q potato fam.
inc.
TOBACCO MOUTH, an old Indian, va
last week found dead on the banks Of the
White river.
DEADwooD has crank who has fred
Q revolver salute over the grave OF "Wild
Bill in White Rocks cemetery, near that
city, every Fourth OF July for the last ten
years.
EXCITEMENT around the new lead hnd
up the Bad river valley still continues. The
vein 10 much larger than at first thought
and u number Of mineral claims have been
stsked out in the vicinity Of the fnd. The
work of developing will begin at once.
THERE arrived at the Yankton insane
asylum the other day, . peor boy, timer
ant bootblack, in charge OF the sheriff ol
Edmunds county. He vas known in many
Dakota cities ~ "Dutchy,' and made hia
living by blacking boots, running erranda
and doing odd jobs. While in Ipswich
some time ago he vas struck on the head
with club by brutal citizen and his rea-
SOD, it IL thought. permanently impaired.
A $l0 BILL Of the wildcat" description,
issued before the late war on the lows
State bank, was raked up in this city the
other day, says the Pierre Free Prcss. II
was dated 1857, and hal laid In seclusion
some thirty years. OF course the posses
sor supposed tho bank to which il b..
ionged had long since failed, but xpou
showing it to the cashier OF one OF oul
banks, he stated that the old wildcat Iowa
State bank had mot busted" whom the bal.
ance Of them did during the period i vs.
issued, but was still In existence and had
been nationslised since. SO the old bill
hes been sent on its way with some pros.
poets OF it, being redeemed.
BURGLARS are paying considerable as-
tention to other peoples property at Absr.
deem.
THE Hslletts cornet band now appsar Il
bright new uniforms.
THK supreme court Of South Dakota ho1
adjourned until September.
BurrE county 10 The only organised
county in the state without jail.
FRED sHARxR, Of Cassalia, was strucl
BY lightning and badly injsrsd. Hs viii
recover.
SEVERAL barns and sssideacss vssa
blown down a HaSrold dsring ssssrs
Wind storm.
II q sstimatsd that 16,ooO votss viii Il
cast II ths slsctions this fall II ~ Dlasl
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