The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Small Parcels.

PIERRE is to have q baby show.
AN electric street railway is being talked
of for Rapid City.
Work on Chamberlain's electric light
plant will soon begin.
A will be started at Forest City
as soon as the river opens.
A. 0. U. W. LODGES are being organ-
lied in Eureka and Ipswich.
AN effort is being made to organize a
Black Hills historical society.
THE Pierre papers have declared war on
the she'll workers" and tin horn" gamb-
iers.
A FLOWING we'll was struck in McPher-
son county the other day ut q depth of sixty
feet.
AN effort is being made to have A daily
mail service between Deadwood and Ca
lena.
APPLICATION has been made at Wash
ington for Il charter for a national bank at
Stanley.
APoLITICAL organization composed en-
tirely of old soldiers is being formed in
Beadle county.
DEVELOPMENT work will commence on
the Harvey Peak tin property as soon as
the weather will permit.
THE proposed pontoon bridge across the
river from Pierre to Stanley will contain
. 200, coo feet of lumber.
THERE is an Indian burying ground o
short distance south Of the new town ot
Sherman, in Lyman county. in which, OF
rather on which, thousands of children OF
the prairie have found their last resting
dead in the ground, but wrap them in
blankets and securely fasten them among
the branches Of the trees.
STANLEY, the county made famous as
containing the mile square,, is possessed
of considerable local history. 1t was in
that county the Rees and Sioux struggled
for final supremacy. 4. short distance to
the north of Fort Pierre IS the scene Of tie
first battle Of the tribes, the trenches still
remaining to mark the battle-ground, and a
little further to the north and west, on one
of the bluffs, is the place of the last stand
of the ili-fated lsees, where they were eX-
terminated. and the Sioux became the pos
SCISSORS of the land of the Dakotahs."
THE postoftice department has been Pc
titioned to establish u tri-weekly mai! route
between Fort Pierre and Smlthvllle, and
to have offices established at Willow Creek,
Plum Greek, Medicine, Mitchell, Grind
-tene, pene Seriuss @nd Lake.
A VALUABLE find Of lead and zinc ore
has been made near Winchester, Emmons
county. The mines have been known to
the Indians for many years and it is said
they formerly procured all the lead used
in the manufacture of bullets in that
vicinity.
A NANKTON man who was a candidate
for an appointment on the board of trus-
tees for the insane asylum has received a
communication from Gov. Mellette III
which the latter states hat the board will
be composed of members appointed from
other localities. and further says this rule
will be applied in the case of the govern
ing board Of each and every public %institu~
ton in the state.
NAzAERE LA FLAMME, the murderer of
old man Cartier, has been held to await
the action of the Meade county grand jury
without bail. During a quarrel between
the two men about two weeks ago La
Flamme struck Cartier On the head with q
billet of wood, killing him almost in
SANITY.
GEO. SWANSON. an Edmunds county
farmer. lost a steer last week, and after o
Eve days aunt found it in an old we'll.
The animal was tished out and was found
to be uninjured, but was suffering terribly
from hunger.
GOLD bullion to the value of S175, 600
was shipped from Deadwood representing
the product of the belt mines for the last
half of February.
IT is estimated that the farmers of
Brown county will have to buy $4,000
bushels of seed wheat this spring if they
see i all their land.
A CITY hall is being built in the new
town of Stanley at q cost Of $4,000. A
new hotel is also in course of construction
which will cost $4,000.
The soldiers in camp at the Lower Brule
agency have laid floors in their tents and
made themselves comfortable for an ex-
tended stay.
The Harvey Peak Tin Mining company
has used 81. 1000 pounds of dynamite and
&C. 900 pounds of candles in the develop
ment of their tin mines during the past
six months.
NowLIN CITY is the name of a new
town now being plated near the center of
Nowlin county, about sfSty-five miles west
Of Pierre, in the Bad river valley. 500
BEING unable to secure water the other
day, the engineer of the Deadwood Central
locomotive raided an Ice house and dumped
three tons of the frozen liquid into the en-.
CINE jacket.
FORT PIERRE capitalists have organ
lied u transportation company with $12, 900
c pital. A steamer will be built and ready
to make its first trip across the Missouri
river not later than April Is.
ARTHUR CONVERSE has been. arrested
In New York and brought back to Gary
charged with kidnapping a little daughter of
Farmer Converse, near Gary. The kid.
naper is not related to the kidnapped.
SETTLERS on Medicine creek forced o
claim jumper to yacate the claim jumped
by him, threatening to hang him in case
he refused. Claim jumping will not be
permitted on the Sioux reservation.
POTTER CAN'T, living near Burkmen,
sneezed SO hard the other day that he dis
located his shoulder and had to have a doc
torspnt it back in place.
JAY GOULD pays So ooa year for his
pew in DR.. Halls church. Although fairly
regular at the morning service, he never
appears in the evening. Russell Sage, on
the CONTRARY, is in his slip at both services.
The combined contributions of these tinan-