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one of the laborers, but of this there is no actual record. He evi- dently intended to locate at George
 town, but he had developed an over
 bearing manner, and, becoming un-
 popular he sold out and removed to
 Pueblo, which afterward remained
 his home.
 At Pueblo he served two terms as
 City Marshal, and again made him.
 self terror to the tough characters
 who had swarmed into the town at
 that period of it's history. He also did work for a local detective asso- citation, and was especially success fnl in handling bad men and in fol- lowing up thieves. The harder the man Desmond went after the great CT delight he took in arresting him. He never failed to bag his game, when once on the trail and when he flashed revolver in the face of his man it meant immediate surren- der or immediate death. It was the eye of the desperate, however, and not an officer of the law that gleam- ed along the pointed revolver, for while he represented the law, and was always true to his commission, he was fast sinking personally to the level of the men he was pursu- ing.
 When he ceased to be City Mar shal of Pueblo he opened the cele brated Bucket of Blood" saloon, which soon became one of the most dives in the country. Af- ter Ogden, Utah, began to boom Desmond went there and opened a similar place which also became the terror of the community. His for handling a pistol, gained as an officer, made people fearful of him. He was known to be without fear and handy with revolver, and the desperate role which he had assumed made him chief among the "bad men" of the frontier. He was exacting and over bearing, and when drunk insulting Something over year ago he was dangerously shot in Pueblo by man whose enmity he had gained, and who took him unawares and unprepared. After recovering from his wound he spent most of his time at Ogden, where he finally met a braVadO's fate.
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A Fighters Gretna Green.

Norfolk (Va.), March 25.-The Virginian publishes this morning a bill which passed the last Legisla- ture and until now has escaped public attention. It may knock out" the California Athletic club.
 It is incorporated as the Virginia Sporting and Athletic Club, and compels county Judges to furnish officers to preserve order on the land which the company may oc cupy, and that such officers shall be under the jurisdiction of the com pany. The company can own D. 900 acres of land in every county in the State, and no person without the sanction of the President or Manager of the company must in terfere with any contest of any na- ture whatever.
 Those thoroughly conversant with the bill say that it was rushed through the last session ofthe legis lature and received the signature of of the Governor very late in the morning.
 If the provisions of the law can be carried out, which they undoubt- edly can be, as the act is perfectly legal, there is nothing to stop prlze- fighting or holding lottery on the soil of the Old Dominion. What lends additional color to the belief that hereafter Virginia will be the locality where prize-fghts between noted pugilists can be fought, is that many of the fancy" were hobnobbing with lawmakers dur ing the closing hours of the legisla ture.
 Among the more prominent names of the incorporators are John w. Bailey, John L. Willing ton, c. w. Bartlett and s. l.. French who are supposed to be New York sports,
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The man Johnson who sometime ago robbed Judge Lowell in this city and who was sentenced to the penitentiary for long time, is re- ported to be thoroughbred mani ac. It will be remembered that this Johnson was captured near Pantano where he lay in an insensible state after having escaped from the jail. It appears that a comrade of his who skipped the jail at the same time, and knew that Johnson had some of his illgotten lucre, knock ed him over the head rather rudely and got away with the money. Johnson has not got over that knock yet, and in fact that seems to be the cause of his present lun- acy.-Ex.
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battle, and swore he would never
 rest until the last Indian was dead
 Lamon kept his word,
 The Indians could not have se
 lected a more propitious spot fol camping, so for as the soldiers were concerned. Their tepees were pitch ed in basin in the bed of a creek and on all sides of them were high banks. Just before daylight the soldiers surrounded the camp and quietly waited. Just as dawn was breaking and the Indians began to stir about, the critical moment had arrived. They had given DO warn ing to the settlers and shown no mercy, and why should the sol diers give them the slightest advan- tage? At a signal from Colonel Chivington hundreds of muskets belched forth a volley of leaden missiles right into the tepees ofthe Indians. The frightened savages who were not killed by the first fire endeavored to escape, but each suc- ceeding volley moved them down and finally all were still. The rest is known. The braves, their squaws and children had been killed, and the murder of the innocent whites in the Arkansas and Platte valleys had been avenged with a venge- ance.
 Now comes the story of how old Joe Lamon kept his word. In searching through the tepees the soldiers found two young Indian girls who had miraculously escap- ed the fusillade. They were taken Tn charge by Col. Chlvlngton and that night he them placed in tent adjoining his own, for fear that some of the enyaged settlers would kill them and make the score fully even. As an extra precaution he placed two of his most trusted men on gaurd in front of his tent. Dur ing the night the rear end Of the tent where the two girls were sleep ing was slit open and in the twink ling of an eye the girls were dead. A long keen knife flashed in the air and all was over. The following morning when Col. Chivington or dered the girls brought into his tent, the horrible discovery was made that they were dead. Their heads had been severed from their bodies just as Joe Lamon found his wife and daughter, when he returned to bis ruined home after the savages had killed five members of his fam fly. The old settler had kept his word the last of the blood-thirsty band had been wiped out. He nev- CT returned to his former home, but soon joined a party who were emi grating to New Mexico. He settled down near Santa Fe, where he lived until his death.
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Gen. Crooks Romance.

According to the Philadelphia
 Inquirer, that grizzled veteran Mai
 General George Crook, who has just
 died suddenly at Chicago, obtained
 his lovely wife through one of the
 most romantic incidents of the civil
 war. In the early autumn of 1863
 he was in command of the Union
 forces on the border line ot Mary
 land and West Virginia. It was tough campaigning up among the Allegheny mountains and through the YOughiogheny and Kanawha regions, and while the skirmishing never amounted to the dignity of a pitched battle, it wearied the troops and their officers. One night at that time General Crook and his staff, accompanied only by a small escort of cavalry, had reached the town of Cumberland and sought sleep in what was then the princi- pal hotel there. Between midnight and daylighta a company of Confed- crate cavalry swooped down upon them and surprised them in their beds. That company was under the command of young Daily, whose father was the proprietor of the old hotel at Oakland, Va, some sixty miles further westward on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It was the junior Daily's intimate knowledge ofthe surround ing country that had enabled him to make the raid over the mountain paths.
 Before day had dawned he was riding away with his prisoners. He made straight for the hotel at Oak land, which was then within the Confederate lines, proposing to keep his captives there until he might have a chance to forward them to Southern prison, But at the hotel were his sisters, Misses Mary and Fanny Daily, two blooming beau ties, whose loyeliness had been nourished by the mountain air and the trout, venison and waef1is for which the hostelry was famous. Gen. Crook and his staff subordi- mates were given liberty under pa role, and he and Miss Mary Daily soon found themselves drifting into the safe harbor of mutual affection. This was all the more remarkable because Miss Daily was as fierce a Confederate as her brother, but love in this case conquered the war en- mites, and when she and General Crook parted, it was with the un- derstanding that they would meet again and would be married.
 The promise was faithfully kept, and the wedding took place soon af- ter the conclusion of hostilities. In the quarter of a century that has elapsed since then she had been his constant companion to the day of his death. Most of his service in those twenty-five years have been on the frontier and occupied with fighting Indians, but there were none of his campaigns from which she was absent. Her courage was equal to that of any veteran, and gentle woman as she is, there were no per ills from which she would finch. Her husband was as proud of her as she of him, and during the inter vals of frontier services when they visited Washington, she was a cen ter of observation and praise.
 N1L,o ,ooo- Tob-cov ,yI0 co,1o ot ,Do n
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RO0hNtEs
 That man must have wonderful gastric resources who raises guinea pigs and Spitz dogs.
 She-What do you suppose SUD- ports the vast arch of the heavens? He-The moon-beams, guess.
 The young buck Indians of Can ada refuse to marry because they have no work for their wives to do.
 Many a maiden lady's age is marked down at a low figure that she may be disposed of at a bar gain.
 "Now we'll see the tied go out" remarked the Justice of the Peace as he dismissed the newly married pair.
 Should the experiments to make glass as tough as iron succeed, we may all live in glass houses and throw stones too.
 Baggs-Do you and your wife ever quarrel, Uncle Ephriam? Un- cle Ephraim-No, sah, we neber quarrels, we jus fights.
 The engineers who have lifted a California river out of it's bed must be the sort ot men who can carry water on both shoulders.
 Hearing the bad things others say about him does not convince a man that he has faults so much as it proves to him that others are liars.
 "You ought to thank the Lord your daughter has married so we'll" "No," replied the millionaire. "The Lord should thank mel paid his debts"
 Meet your wife with a smile on your lips" says an exchange. Bet ter wait until the odor ofthe" smile" has abated somewhat though.
 Miss Gabble-I have had that parrot for three months now and it has never spoken a word. Caller Perhaps you have never given it chance.
 A Bishop was at a dinner party one night, and waiter carelessly upset into his lap a plate of hot soup. He glanced around with an agonized look upon his features and then exclaimed: "Will some layman make a remark appropriate to the occasion.
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The democratic party turned over the administration offederal affairs after four years of careful manage ment with a surplus which made the old world hungry with envy. But where is that surplus now? asks an exchange.
 Gone to pay election expenses under the cloak of various appro- priations.- .-Ex.
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The man who is after a woman's own heart is the man she prefers.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-04-17

A newspaper is something like family-it is mighty easy to start.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-04-17

x Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
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Miscellaneous Items.

A man must get right ,,down to his work in order to get up in the world.
 There is nothing in life so bitter as deposed love, unless it be qui- nine pill.
 Some men are born great, but the average weight is only about seven pounds.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18
THE IsDEPEsDEsT COsyEsrIos.

The independent convention has rom.
manded a greater interest from farmer.
and laboring men than any convention
w held in the Dakotas and scarcely
less interest was shown by the politicians
OF both old parties. Two hundred and
fifty-six delegates were present and only
two counties Of the entire state-Buffaio
and Butte--were not represented. No
states had been made and perfect har-
mony prevailed. The only strife in the
entire convention occurred over the head
of the ticket and that was not OCCASION
ed by any bitter feeling against either
candidate. Both factions were a unit in
their faith in HI Loucks, but differed
as to the better place to use him. Some
earnest alliance men believed he could
not be spared from the head OF the or
ganization; others wot.ld reserve him Tor
the senate, while the majority decided
he must head the new movement
his educational works among the
had largely produced, and since
nomination we have yet to find a
nan, except among the old parties, who
j not satisfied with the choice. 3. a..
an Osdel OF Yankton county, who
|osely contested the governorships was
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18
Work or THE conuIssIosyss,

The board has competed the job u
se-di1tr'cting the county. We wish we
we're able To publish an entire outline oi
districts az now divided. Comment
would then be unnecessary The head
on the board that conceived of the plan
should BE- sent 20 congress. IL Houlo
be Of great value 70 that body in the
sanae line of work. The Irst plan u
placing u city ward With The valleys
was Ear less ttion2ble than the D,rs-
eat one. The Csoes snine dstsict south
Of Eoeksryiie is taken and kockerYilie
skipped Harvard and Spring Creek IL
fluded, and Eammeryilie jufnsed 70
resell Lower Rapid precinct With t&sese
il pEaeed maad Cine aud Tsc. These
make district namber TSo- Hammer
vile, Which rune TO the Custer line, il
5pined with Centre, Lebanon, BOX Elder,
Douglass. Rapid Valley and Third and
Fourth wards to make district number.
one. All the balance Of the Hill country
make number three. II this diyisicB viii
hurry US toward township organMaNon,
it will prove a blessing.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18
w. G. II. u. COLUMN.
Mrs. DeHellinr's Lecture,

-
During the past week the people of
Rapid City have been highly favored in
having the opportunity to listen to two
very entertaining and instructive lecture
by Mrs. DeBelling, of Mass. That more
did not avail themselves of hearing her
second talk on temperance, entitled.
(which shall it beg" is a shame to the
public end q great loss to the stay-at-
homes.
Mrs. DeBellings dispenses with all i'm
preston making ACCOMPLISHMENTS, depend
ing wholly on the importance of her sub
Ject to awaken interest. Standing before
her audience quietly, she presents her argu-
ments in a clear tone, with an %earnestness
of purpose and an excellent enu1 citation.
A wonanly woman, with a clear brain and
4 sympathetic heart, she is a worthy repre-
sentative of a great cause the Woman's
Christian Temperance union. The sub
ject Sunday evening was the Woman's
Christian Temperance union. it's origin,
growth. aims and objects. So full of meat
was the talk, it seems worthy of a con-
densed report for the benifit of those not
able to hear it.
Mrs. EeBelling WAS present at the first
meeting of the national Woman's Christian
Temperance union held in Cleveland, Ohio,
in 1874. She has been connected with it
ever since, most of the time as n national
organizer, n knows we'll Of what she
speaks. She briefly sketched the history
OF the association since that time and this
report will be still more brief. If, therefor,
some points remain unspokeu of. do not
think it il because they were noneyistcnt
Il thought unworthy of mention either NV
speaker or scribe.
The national union started with a mann
besship of a .;.tle over 200 earnest Chr;s
! tan women, whose only purposc was the
~furthcrance of Gods kingdom and the
lettering of the condition Of their f.,,nu
men. Primarily the druukard w.. tha
object OF their Celebration. How IN rrae
men from the terrible BONDAGE the, ,,.ra
in YVES the question before tI.r, r,o;.
| first efforts were. of conrse. of . r.for,,o
tory character. 70 far as the drunkard was
concerned and formatory 20 far AZ tb.ir
upion was concerned. So we'll have 1hnu
worked. all of the states md tsrr;,or;ns
now have a we'll organized svstem ~
unions, containing a mernbershin of ovor
1900 women. tried and trne and wo,,,
jp0 forty.three different annart,nants
While never having 0iyen nm tba ;aaa a.
beIp,nV the d,nnta1d IN raforn .han ~
ayo learned tbe wh;sLy saIIa. 10y ions
ufacture drnnkarda a ~re,.t daaI tantn.
than they couId reform them .na TO-
added the two denart,nents worL e., 10y
Young and work To secnre necsssarr ia,.;s
lation. The work for the Young embrpces
S
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18
FRIDAY, JULY is. 1890.


@ NH T. IN bTSI LhN EN-
We, the delegates of the South Dakota farm
erss alliance and Knights of Labor in conyen,,
tion assembled, do adopt as a. platform ana
declaration of principles the platform OF the
national Farmers alliance and industrial union
and Knights of Labor, substantially as adopted
at their st. Louis convention III December,
1889, and of the state alliance OF South Da-
kota.
L. We demand currency to be issued by the
general government, to be full legal tender, to
iucreasein volume with the increase in business,
to be issued directly to productive Industries
without interventions of banks OF issue.
2. We demand railway transporta ton, tele
graph and telephone service at actual cost, ana
chat the government shall W and operate
same.
s. We dem.nd free and unlimited coinage OF
silver.
4. We demand the adoption of an absolutely
secret voting system. both state and national.
s. We demand the most rigid economy con
sistent with the safety Of our state and nation
in the administration OF every branch OF oul
government. ,
6. We demand the passage of laws prohibit
ing the alien ownership of land, and that con-
gress take steps to obtain lands owned by
aliens and foreign syndicates, and that lands
now held by corporations in excess OF such as
is actually used and needed by them be re;
claimed by the government and held for actual
settlers only.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18

With few exceptions, the party press
OF the Hills are united in their efforts to
belittle the independent movement. The
effort, as was expected, is to make the
people believe that it is the work OF a
dissa tistied faction OF the republican
party to secure office. In this 10 the
subsidized press prove themselves either
knaves or fools. knaveS in that they
think by their lies they can capture or
hold the week-kneed voters OF the party. |
or fools in that they have not noticed
the signs of the times in the dissatisfac-
ton OF the people, the demands OF the
different labor organizations OF the
country as they find vent through the
agricultural, independent and are even
forced into the partisan press OF the
United States. II these managers OF
party organs will go into the workshops,
the mines or out into the valleys and
converse with the people, they will find
them ready with a reason for the need
OF united action. Their ideas OF a REM
edy may be crude, ma greatly differ;
the independent platform may not be
radical enough, Or too radical to suit,
out they will be found SO awake to the
need OF a change i'll the existing condi
ton OF affairs that no cry Of office seek
ing will scare them. So long has IN
spoil OF office been the chief aim OF til
old parties that it seems impossible 10
the press to rise above it.. But ii the il
dependent party acts on the advice {
ii. l.. LOuckS, the press will be force
out OF these contemplate ruts to fin
themselves arrayed against a party tina
has principles to advance and Il core {
speakers able to back Slosc reasons j
pendent workers that no mud Singh
be INDUCED in, that the character OF II
candidate OF the opposing parties
questioned, but that the speakers {
both old parties be invited to open di
cussion on the same platform, OF all til
issues involved. But whether the. pla
OF joint discussion be met or not, I'll
cry OF office seeking when applied to tn
independent party will fall very fla
The majority OF candidates nominate
at Huron have never held office and tn
very few who have before been in pol
tics have clean records. Thelie heralde
through a certain line Of papers tina
there was the usual amount Of wire pull
ing at the Huron convention will be Al
nulled by the statements Of the delega
tions who are returning TO theirdifferen
counties.
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Az ;sTaa s.s..os ASKED

A set 0f resolutions was brought be-
lore the independent convention asking
Tor an extra session Of the legislature
Tor the purpose Of submitting an amend
thent 70 the constitution allowing the
states credit 70 be used in raising money
Tor irrigation pUrposes. On motion it
mas resolved that the matter be brought
betore A Daass meeting after the adjourn
rnent NJ the convention. At sucb a
meeting H. T. ernith, Lake county, was
made chairman and Y. u. Ead, Of Pen
nington connty, see,etary, The resoIu-
tboas ahr,re named sskjng the governor
~ cal an extra session yss adopted
and IN rnotjon tie LIiopiny committee.
was appointed IN confer With the gov
ernOr H. 4. Esnitb, OF Winfrsd, W. II.
cnrtiss, 81 Kirnbaii, John Cain, OF Huron,
G. j. Crawford, Pierre, Maniey Dunckel,
Rapid City, u. s. Perry, Armour.
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General John c. Fremont died on Sum
day last. Probably no man IN public
life more faithfully served his country
and to no man has the country proved
more unSrateful.
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unheard of in either old parties. Many
people remarked when seeing the notices
posted that it was the first public
call for a caucus they ever saw.
These notices invited people in what
ever calling or with whatever party
previously connected, who believed
that the present condition OF affairs
demanded a change, to come out
to the caucus and take part in the new
movement, and many who belonged to
neither OF the organizations named did
attend the primaries and county con
ventlons. Splitting straws may amuse
the Pilot man, but 1T won't hold votes.
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' NOtice---Timber culture.
U. s. Land Office, Rapid City, S. D.
Jrpa ~ 1900

June II, 1890.
Complaint having been entered at this Office
by John S. Getchel against Wellington f.
Shar;tl Tor failure to comply with law as to
Timber Culture Entry No. 95s dated June d,
1884, upon lots l, 2 and the N 4 of the f Y,
Section 4, Township 1 S, Range 8 L. b. H. NJ,
il! Pennington county, South Dakota, with d
view to the cancellation Of said entry; contes-
tlnt alleging that said wellington F. sharai
failed to break five acres on said tract of land
the second year after entry, being the year end
ing June 4, 1886, also that he failed to plant
any trees, tree seeds or tree cuttings on said
tract during the third year alter entry, being
the year ending June 4, 1887, and also hat he
entirely failed to cultivate or break any land
OH said tract during all OF the time since said
entry was made and has entirely failed to plant
or cause to be planted any trees, tree seeds or
tree cuttings on said tract for all of the time
since entry was made. and that there are no
trees growing on said tract and that said fail
ure still exists. This notice is made III COM
pliance with commissioners letter III" of
June 9, 1880 ordering new service. The said
parties are herby to appear at this
office on the 31st day OF July, 1890, at 10
O'Clock q. M, to respond and furnish testimony
concerning said alleged failure.
II J. p. LUsE, Register,