The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-11-06
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A REDshots county seat war is being
waged in Deuel. county.
WILD geese are very plentiful on the
Peoria bottoms, near Pierre.
Two Huron boys have started for
Arizona, going overland with a mule
team.
SILAs BURTON, a Yankton county
farmer, has raised a Hubbard squash
that weighs fifty-four and a half pounds.
THE Yankton woclen mill was awarded
first and second prizes on blankets and
~dannels at a fair held in Preston, Mimi,
recently.
Bob SMITH, the st. Paul kid, who has
been posing as a prize fighter at Yank-i
ton, recently swindled c. F. Smith out
OF $40 by means of a forged check.
MITCHELL VINCENT has leased the
Kyle stone quarry near Valley Springs
with the privilege of buying the entire
farm at any time inside of one year.
ONE of the graders at work on the
Elkhorn line below Mobiles toll-gate,
uear Deadwood, had one of his legs
badly bruised and cut by a falling rock.
LAST week a blast was shot in Wes-
colts tunnel in the Black Hills, causing
quite serious injuries to two of the
workmen. One man will lose both eyes.
A GANG Of boys has been found at
Pierre who make it a practice to steal
everything they can lay their hands Oh.
They had a cave where they stored their
plumber.
A BIG invoice of blankets and other
winter supplies for the Indians at Chey-
enne agency arrived at Pierre the other
day and were at once taken to the agency
for distribution.
JOHN CASTOR has delivered to John
Treber, of Deadwood, fifty pounds of
stream tin, taken from the Bear gulch
and Niger Hill district, which will be
sent to Titus Molitor, in Germany.
ONE Pierre storekeeper has furnished
2,7O0 yards of ribbon to be made up into
capital badges. Everybody in South
Dakota wears a badge showing which
one Of the two capital aspirants he favors.
Mrs. VIM. Box, Of Yankton, in step
ping out of her kitchen door, placed hel
right foot on a cor cob, which rolled
nd threw her heavily to the ground
Her right ankle was given q severe twist
A YOUNG son of Fl. j. Richardson
residing about fifteen miles northwest o.
Madison, was out hunting, and in care
lessly handling his gun it was dis
charged, tearing away the first finger o
his right hand.
THE work Of cleaning the Huron ar
tesian well is still going on. Nearly
car load OF stone, shale, mud, ETC., ha
already been taken out. One chunk O
shale measured 64 by 5H inches, ant
was 2 inches thick.
The Rec Nights Free Press says tina
unless the people can get reduced rate
on o a there will be much suffering thi
winter, and recommends that petition
be drawn up and presented to the rail
roads setting forth the facts.
The Golden Reward Chlorinatio,
works at Deadwood, started up in full
blast Monday, both ch%lorination barrels
being in operation, and other parts O
the mill. The average amount of or,
treated each day will be forty tons.
CONTRACTOR KARR finds it impossible
to do anything at the artesian we'll a
Madison, as the pipe seems wedged In
the hole and he can neither drive or pull
out. He has about concluded to move
his machinery to one side a few feet ant
start a new hole.
LEFT HAND THUNDER, a Brule Siou,
chief, who was recently married, wa!
united in Ratrimony with his own wifi
with whom he had lived for three year
after the most approved Indian fashion
He.tpok this course SO that his propert;
wouA revert to her in case of his death
AN old gentleman, a foreigner, led HI
little boy into the East Pierre sehot
. house last week, into one of the primar
rooms, where the little fellow pointe
+ out. another boy as the one who s.did it,
: and right there the old man pounce
r upon him and ehoked and cuffed the Ii
tie fellow hard.
INDIANS on Indian creek, in the Blao
Hills country, about 200 in number, ON
!, hunting excursion are engaged in stea
ing cattle and horses. They took a hors
belonging to Zekler Bros, painted hil
!. for the purpose of disgusting him, b,
r the Zeklers were able, Notwithstanding
to identify the animal and took posse!
, sion of him.
] JUDGE MCLAUGHLIN and Jack Ora
: have secured a bonanza in the way of
paint mine OF Two Bit, about thre
} miles from Deadwood. The vein is of
flat formation, about five feet thick
which is exposed by a tunnel 2s7 feet i
length; 1T is known as a mineral hema
! tite, and the Deadwood painters pre-
. nounce it superior to the clay paint tina
is shipped to that region.
NEAL Hill, a stonemason at Madison
was jagged again recently for drunken
ness and d%isorderly conduct on the street
: he was given q hearing before Judg
: Williamson's court and was fined $40 an
, , costs, amounting to $18.75. The sen
, tence was suspended on condition O
good behavior and that he leave town in
! !, side of twenty-four hours.
A PARTY of hunters, consisting of MI
and Mrs. Chouteau and A. w. HASTE
!: returned Sunday evening from a shor
and successful hunt in the vicinity O
the Belle Feurche. They brought bae]
r with them forty birds, including q larg
and handsome white swan, a trophy q
i Mrs. Chouteau's unerring aim. It
now in the hands Of a taxidermist to b
) dressed and mounted.
a SERIOUS accident occurred at ",
bur S%utton's, near Choteau creek, Bo
: Homme county, last week. It appea
: that his little boy went out and touche
. match to some hay near the barn, an
In q few minutes the hay and barn wei
, ablaze. AS a result two horses and
number OF hogs persisted, and anothe
horse was badly scorched. Mrs. Sutton
| brother also was much burned Will
trying to rescue the horses.
The house of Peter Auhertin. at Abe,
deen, was badly scorched by fire. III
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