The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-25
In Shorter Meter.

The new street railway at Pierre is COM
pleted.
THE Okoboji postofice has been moved
into new quarters.
A SYNDICATE is engaged in purchasing
options on the Gladstone lands near
Yankton.
A NEW town in Jackson county has been
christened NobIeton in honor of Secretary
Noble.
p. P. WALL, q former Mitchell editor,
will establish q paper at the new town of
Lyman.
THE town of Lyman, started at the
opening of the reservation, now has many
substantial buildings and permanent i'm
provements are being made on every hand.
1t contains about twenty stores, represent
ing all branches of business, among the
larger being q Wholesale and retail dry
goods and grocery store. Three lumber
yards are doing an immense business, and
the town is the distributing point for the
reservation in that section. 1t has q daily
mail service established and is the head
quarters Of the large number of freighters
ana Stages ana IMAM eonS,~,>..- -~~~s~s
westward to Rapid City. The own is
beautifully situated on the west eide of
the Missouri river at the terminus Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
company's ferry, and is destined to be on
important town.
A BRANCH Of the y. NJ. c. A. has beer
organized at Glendale.
A WEEKLY mail route has beer
established between Rapid City and Blue
Vale.
A SOLITARY buffalo was seen grazing OIL
one of the creeks of Butte county last
week.
THE farmers in the vicinity of Fulton
have organized q stock company and are
building Il cheese factory Mt that place.
The women Of DeSmet have nominated
candidates for members of the school
board and will poll q large vote at the com.
ing election.
YOUNG man named Brown, near LIE.
Beau, was thrown under a pulverizer the
other day and terribly mangled. His con-
dition is critical.
HUTCHINSON COUNTY claims to lie The
leading sheep farming county in the state,
and the Parkston Adrance wants a wooden
mill located in the county.
A co1oNY of Indians have taken up
lands on the Bad river q short distance
from Pierre, and have asked the assistance
OF Rev. Mr.. Oakley, of Pierre, in building
Congregational church.
Gov. MELLETTE has appointed Mrs.
Caroline j. Cummings, of Huron; Mrs.
Emma S. Young, of Sioux Falls, and
Mrs. Philena E. johnson, of Hiehmore, as
a committee of inspection to visit the
various charitable and penal institutions of
the state.
Campbell, Walworth, Potter, Sully, Faulk,
Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Buffalo, Jerauld,
= Stanley, Knowles, and that portion of the
counties of Pratt, Jackson and Sterling
not included in the Indian reservation,
constitute the central district Of the
United States court which will be held at
Pierre.
The Lincoln county commissioners have
contracted for steel cells, which will be
placed in the basement of the new court
house and used as q temporary county Jail.
RED SHIRT is the latest reservation
town. 1t is located in sterling county,
seventy miles west of Fort Benton on the
Cheyenne river. and will compete with
Cheyenne for the county seat.
A LAWN TENNIS club is being organized
at Pierre.
The next meeting of the Black Hills
Educational association will be held at
Hot Springs during the last week in Au-
gust.
AT the recent election in Stanley county
forty Indians marched up to the polls with
tickets in their hands ready to vote. They
we're all challenged, but the. tickets were
received and laid aside until a decision can
be reached as to their qualifications as
voters.
DEPUTY SHERIFF DERANLEAU, of
Jefferson, was seriously injured by being
thrown from his buggy by n runaway horse.
AMONG the prominent visitors to Pierre
the past week was M. Seton Karr, member
of the British parliament, who is making a
tour of the country.
WORK has commenced on the new fax
mill at Marion.
Two brothers named Larson, awakened
by Q noise outside their house ut Milbank,
armed themselves and one went ont of the
front door.and the other out of tile back
door to %reconnoiter. They met and one
brother, thinking:the the other o burglar,
fired, killing him instantly. The dead
man leaves o wife andfthree children.
YoUNqsPAxToN known as the Sphinx
county fat boy, died at his home last week.
He WASH years Of age and weighed 100
pounds. His father refused large sums
from dime museum managers who wanted
10 place him on exhibition.
ABUFFALo calf was born on q form
near Dnrbin this week.