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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
To Kidnap Ex-senator Tabor.

The police have arrested Oscar Roberts
and Arthur Butcher at Denver on a charge
of conspiracy to kidnap ex-senator Tabor
and hold him for $500 0 ransom. Rob-
erts wrote q letter from Rincon, N. M, to
Butcher i'll Omaha, disclosing the plans
and asking Butcher to meet him in Dem
yer. They met there and the police acct
dentally got hold of the letter and the ar
rest followed. Both denied that they had
any intention Of carrying out the scheme.
They are aged % and 81, and in o
sideration of their youth Mr.. Tabor re-
fused to prosecute them. They we're re.
1oocod
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
A Double Crime,

Ada Goss, a daughter of n. G. Goss, o
highly respected citizen of Charlottesville,
Ark, was found dead near her parents
residence with her body full of buckshot,
and a short distance further on the decap-
ltated remains of George Corvett, en-
ployed as a laborer by Goss, was disc ".
: red. Nothing is known as to the
perpetrators of tie crime.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
CONVICT LABOR n ALABAMA.
womon, Children the Aged n Infirm
Prisoners to Do Farm Work.

womcn, Children the Aged and Infirm
Prisoners to DO Farm Work.
R. Il. Dawson, president Of the state
board of convict inspectors, has sent to the
governor an interesting statement Of the
condition of things in the penitentiary.
The law provides that women, boys under
Is and physically disabled men shall not
be hired to work in the coal mines. This
class of convicts is sent to the penitentiary
and provided for ut the states expense. OF
this class there are now inside the walls
254 conyicts. Some of them are mere
children, and some Of them are over 80
years old. They are utilized as farm labor
ers. Col. Dawson has made a contract
with Thomas Williams by which the con-
victs will be worked this year, and they are
going to make the largest experiment with
commercial fertilizlng ever attempted in
the south. In his report Col. Dawson
says:
Il have made arrangements to cultivate
l,10O acres of land. OF these 900 acres
will be cotton and 200 in corn. The con-
tract with Colonel Williams is that I am
to cultivate and gather the crop and to
furnish labor to handle it in ginning and
packing. He furnishes the land, teams,
farming implements, wagons and gin
presses and rum the engine at the gin
house. In fact, he furnishes everything
except the labor. He will also furnish 200
pounds Of cotton seed meal, 400 pounds OF
high grade acid phosphate and 100 pounds
of German KANT and the cotton. These
1,10O pounds of fertilizer has cost Mr..
Williams about So per acre. It is now on
the ground ready to be applied. He is to
get one-half the crops and all the cotton
seed and the state gets one-nalf. Iexpect
to make 800 bales of cotton for the state
and 5000 bushels Of corn"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
ConspiratOrs Arrested.

United States deputy ,uars halls went to
Sharon, Ga, and arrested seventeen
prominent citizens charged with conspir.
acy and intimidation against the newly ap-
pointed postmaster, Duckworth. Tley
brought the prisoners to Augusta. The
officers went to Sharon armed with rifles
and prepared for trouble. but met with no
resistance and laid the weapons aside.
The warrants for the arrest are based on
testimony taken by the postofice inspec-
for
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
Monuments for Gettysburp.

The secretary of war sent to the house
for an appropriation Of $55,373 for the
erection of monuments or tablets for the
proper marking of the position of each Of
the commands Of the regular army engaged
at Gettysburg. 1t is proposed to erect
forty such monuments or tablets,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
Big Deficit.

deficit amounting to about $50, 600 has
been found in the accounts of City Treas
urer John A. Davis, Of Rochester, N. Y,
which he says Is due to advances to city
contractors and to city employees. Davis
IS not accused OF dishonesty. His bonds
men are negotiating a settlement.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
Must Attend Parochial schools,

Manager Doane, who was lately given
the title of pr%othonotary apostolic by the
pope, has notified the p%arishiouers of St.
Patrick's cathedral, New ark, N. j., that
they must take their children from the
public schools and send them to the paro-
chial schools on penalty of excommunica-
ton and denial of absolution.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
Indian Militia.

The Chickasaw legislature has passed a
resolution making un appropriation to
equip the militia. The governor of the
nation, it is asserted, will now have militia
to evict non-citizens who refuse to pay the
annual permit tax. Serious trouble is an
ticlpated, as the non-citizens have ex-
pressed the intention 10 resist eviction.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
a steamrhip Couision.

The passenger steamer Coral Queen,
from Gothenburg, sunk off the River Tees
in o collision with the Rotterdam steame,
Brypio. II is reported that sixteen persons
on the Coral Queen were drowned.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
STOLE Rexenna stamn.

Michael Clauss was arrested at st.
Joseph, Mo-, on a warrant sworn out by
Deputy Collector Gelchall, charged with
having stolen $4,000 worth Of revenue
stamps from the Office of the deputy col-
lector in March, 1889, and using them on
beer smugsled out Of the brewery whore he
was then Employed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

The National Starch Manufacturing
company has been incorporated in Coving.
ton under the Kentucky laws. The COM
pany embraces al the starch factories in
the United States, to the number of thirty.
with the possible exception of one. !,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
O Shorter Jottings,

~ SuOTttT SOttlNSS.
ACCORDING to Ho1mam's Catholic Di.
7ecto,y published last month there are ffty-
six priests in the diocese of Sioux Falls,
which now comprises the entire state of
South Dakota. Of churches there are
eighty-six, stations where mass is regular
ly celebrated Ill, seven academies, thir-
teen parochial schools and a Catholic
population OF over 10000. Thus it will be
seen that the growth Of the church has
been phenomenal for the past few years.
In 1880 when Bishop Marty was created
vicar apostolic of the territory, now the
states of North and South Dakota, there
we're ten priests and q population of about
as many thousand souls.
D.. SHANNON, q we'll known grocery man
Of Deadwood, has made an assignment of
NIL his property for the benefit Of his cred
itors.
The spring term of the Dakota agricui.
tural college at Brookings will commence
March 3, with indications of q largely in
creased attendance over previous years.
AREwARD of $500 is offered by the state
OF South Dakota for the arrest and con-
viction Of the person or persons who MUIR
dered Mrs. Minerva Gier in Pennington
county on Sept, % last, or for any infor-
nation touching the circumstances of the
murder.
The manufacture of wicker baskets is
one of the home industries of Sully
county. The lake banks in that county
sare lined with willow groves, which fur
snish abundant material, and a basket fac
tory OF large proportions is being talked Of.
SAMUEL NELSON, a Dane living in a
5 shanty dugout near the north line of Lake
! county, has become violently insane and
will be sent to the Yankton asylum. He
was found by neighbors lying on the floor
,sof his shanty in a speechless condition
with nothing to eat in the house but a lit
tie -four.
ALPENA citizens are taking steps to
have the town incorporated.
WHILE digging q well In Llewellyn town
ship, Sully county, the other day, the
workmen found at a depth of thirty feet a
deposit of fossil fish. Tie deposit was
several feet in thickness.
The Harvey Peak Mining, Milling and
Manufacturing company will be prepared
by May !, 1891, to place upon the market
from tie Black Hills all the tin required
for consumption in the United States. An
idea Of the enormous proportions of the
company's plant can be had from the fact
that it will furnish employment to
from 1000 to 5000 men and will require a
railroad eighty miles in length to form q
,irouit Of the different mines within its ter
itory.
THEWard memorial fund has reached
5000. ii
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

Judge Wallace, at San Francisco, an.
pointed d receiver for the American sugar
refinery, whose franchise was recently de-
clared forfeited on account of the com
pany's connection with the sug ar trust.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
Demand of the par,.,ut..

The Parnellites propose to press the
government for the payment of the ex-
penses attending their defense before the
commission. The demand will be made
on the ground that the report Of the COM
mission acquitted the a cused.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

HARRY LEBos, a dissolute character Of
Reading, Pa, shot and fatally wounded
his wife. Daniel Fisher, Mrs. Lebos'
father, died Of heart disease Immediately
after the shooting. sLebos escaped.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
A wedding Party Drowned.

At Pontiva, France, o bride and BRIDE
groom and ten others Of a wedding party
we're peecipitated into the river and
drowned by the upsettlng Of their vehicle,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

The British schooner George Noble. at
Sydney, N. 8. W., from the Gilbert group
Of islands, reports that the American
schooner Thurdon capsized during o gale
and foundered. Her crew are. on Butari.
tart island,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

The house of J. w. Kerr. q farmer liv-
ing near wichita. Kan. was destroyed by
fire and Kerrs three childre7 we're burned
to death
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
Wrecked and Her Crew Los,

News received from Vancouver Island
states that a lumber laden ship had eons
to pieces on Vargas island and all her crew
was lost.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

JULES VERNE is not Jules Vetne's real
name, but tho FRENCH form Of his Polish
,pASS{oy16to. Olchevffx.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21
HEART AS WELL AS HEAD.
An Indiana Judge Who Possesses Both In
an Admirable Depree.

An Indiana Judge Who Possesses Both In
an Admirable Degree.
The most prominent families Of Wayne
township, near indianapolis, Ind, have
been deeply interested in the wutcome Of q
siyorce suit between W. NJ. Calvert and
his wife, the latter a prepossessing little
woman, who had the sympathy Of all her
neighbors. The husbands complaint
charged her with IN act in violation of her
marital VOWS, and in her answer she adj
mitted her guilt, but charged cruelty upon
the part Of her husband. On the witness
stand she was as disingenuous as a child,
and it was evident that the courts sympa--
thy was leenly excited. An effort was
made to reconcile the parties, but the bus
band sternly refused to have anything to
do with his trembling wife. Thus force
to make a ruling, the court said:
IF she erred hs has been much to blame
himself. He left her alone and unpro-
tected. She had done what I never
confessed her single mistake-and did
not come into this court and add
perjury to her sin. You can not tell me
she is a bad woman. I will not believe it;
and the records of this court shall not con-
denim her. She shall not return to her
friends with a brand upon her. I shall not
give a divorce either on the complaint of
the plaintiff or the cross-complaint of the
defendant. I shall enter a decree dissolv-
ing the marriage, and so the records shall
show"
Turning to the only child of the parties,
the court asked whom it preferred to live
with. Mamma, lisped the little oae. and
the court entered an order making it a ward
of the court till of age and giving the
mother its custody. He then ordered CAL
vert to pay the mother $4,000. Everybody
was astonished at the outcome, and a
deathlike stiffness prevailed through the
court room during the delivery Of the
judgment.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

The hardness of a hairpin in the hands
Of a woman has long been no secret or
mystery. From buttoning a boot to mendlng
an umbrella it il useful in almost any
emergency, but a New York woman has
clapped the climax by utilizing the ever
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

The eleventh semi-annnal convention Of
the National Electric Light association is
in session at Kansnsstity About one
hundred and taenty IKE ds,cg { $ and as
many visitors from abinaaare present.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

MRS. lOLIPHAKT, the novelist, will
shortly start for Jerusalem to make a tour
cf the Holy Land
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-21

league but the chronic state of Ireland
under distress aggravated by eviction.
Comparative statistics showed the domi.
nant cause was league agitation. During
the severe distress in the years from 1849
to 1853, inclusive, when 58,423 families
were eyinted, the total record OF agrarisn
crime was 4,245; whereas, for the four years
from 1879 to 1882, with II, 1854 families
evicted, the total record of crimes was
1898.
The commission rejects the suggestions
that crime was caused by secret societies,
by compensation for the disturbance bill,
or that the decrease in crime after July,
1882, was due to the arrears of rent act,
and adds: The question is not whether
other causes can be suggested; the ract
being that the increase from 1879 to 1882,
though not exclusively ascribed to agita-
ton, was mainly due to the action of the
league and it's founders and leaders. In
the judgment of the court the denuncia-
tons of the crimes quoted for the defense
were Of little avail, because Contemporaries
ously with them the leaders and organizers
we're carrying on agitation by means Of
speeches and conduct tending to en-
courage crime. The sentiment in
Ireland against aiding the police in
the discovery of criminals was not
confined to the ignorant, but was spread by
those from whose education juster views of
duty could prevail. Proof has been given
that the league systematically and indis-
criminately betrayed the expenses for the
defense Of persons charged with agrarian
crime. knowledge that such assistance
will in all cases be afforded must have eff
footed to encourage persons SO disposed to
commit outrages. The same observation
to The support Of their families.
books and documents. which,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
suicide of "a Isoy,

SAN Francisco, Jan. S.-Clcmcnt Flint,
the 1l-ycar-old son of William e.. Flint, an
attorney-at-law of this city. committed
suicide this morning by shooting himself
in the temple. The boy disappeared from
home after returning from school ycster-
day. Search was made without success.
As he lad not returned tins morning his
father left the house to notify the police.
As he was passing along the street i.c saw
the boy on the opposite The
boy saw his father and ran into a neigh
boring house. where lac shot himself. His
parents are unable tO account for the act.
but he feared to return home
after remaining away all night. The boy
was treated kindly at home.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
TALK OF THE TOWN.

stray Notes OF Interest Gathered by Dur
Butte Correspondent.
Special correspondence of the Standard.
Butte, Jan. S.-Notices of location
were filed today of the STANDARD lode by
Owen Thornton, Andrew Botiond and
John Dreeland; the Aurora by the same;
the Borcas 10y the same.
AfIidavits of annual Improvement have
been filed for the Blue Eyed Julie lode
claim; and the London claim.
An assessment of one cent n share has
been taxed on the Volunteer Mining
company.
An infant child of +. j. Beings died this
morning of Group. The funeral will he
held tomorrow afternoon.
Ii is expected that the old Lexington
from the Gaynor
Gov. George l.. Shoup of Idaho arrived
i'm this city IN the Utah * Northern train
early this morning.
The postotficc has been flooded with
five days delayed mail brought in by the
Utah d Northern road.
Mrs. Edward Carroll left to-day for "A
week at Warm Springs.
Marie Rigel was release from Jail
again to-day, Jack Dowd going her bonds.
The case against her for burglary this af-
ternoOn was dismissed, Hector Godcheaux
paying the costs of the suit.
William Warden was seen 10y Officer
Jordan Tonight picking out n pair of
shoes from the front of Gamers shoe
and was walking OF when Officer Jordan
arrested him.
A I "a meeting of the fire brigade to-nigh'
it was reported that $500 remains i'm TIA.
treasury after paying for new fire house
Only the lot remains to- be paid for.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
Portugal lacks Down.

LISBON, Jan. S.-The conviction gains
ground even among those who heretofore
have been Scrpo Pinto's defenders. that
thu officer has gone too far i'm acts of in
discretion. His private life * recalled,
and also his wild demands upon the pub
lie treasury. The change of opinion will
make Portugal's task easier.
LONDON. Jan. 1.-THE Teiey,uIh's Berlin
correspondent learns that Portugal in
tends to- disavow Pinto's conduct in
Africa, thus satisfying England regarding
tine hauling down of l er flag.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
GOOD CAUSE To KICK
Silver Bow County Commissioners to
Investigate Court Matters.
The Witness Fees In the Garrtere Gase
Only Amount tn About As00-An
Effort tai he Made to Discover
whore the Troubie IL.
Special to the standard.

Special tn the standard.
BUTTE. Jan. s.-The board Of county
commissioners to-day has been consider
ing the matter of fees i'm Justices and con-
stables offices. but has arrived at no
agreement as yet. Ii il the opinion of the
comni sioners that the schedule OF fees
needs revision. AMI il il likely that action
will he taken i'm conjunction with other
counties tn make tine fat.s uniform.
Judge Newkirk said to-day that il il I'M
just tn accuse him of being responsible
for the length of the Barricrc trial. He
said that he hurried matters as much as
possible, and thought the attorneys were
to blame in the case. He limited the clos
ing speeches and i'm other ways tried to
shut oil argument on various points. He
felt that his city cases were more, import
ant than the county cases, rs he was en-
gagged directly Ia try city cases. He could
not let his city cases lapse. even for IA muir
der trial. He said that's AN assistant county
attorney is needed.
County Attorney Baldwin thought on
the other hand that an assistant judge il
needed to try county cases. Ii would be
cheaper tn the county i'm the end. He told
the commissioners that the Barricrc case
should have been finished in two days in-
stead of eight. He Thought n murder
trial of more Importance than AN arrstign-
mcnt for drunkenness, and thought the
cases of Importance should bc considered
first. Meanwhile the witness fees i'm the
Barriere ease amounted to- more than SsS,
owing to the fact that the witnesses drew
pay for each day of their attendance al
court. The commissioners are kicking
and have not decided where the blam,
lies.
The claims of Judge Ncwkirk and Cit,
Marshal Macarthur for fees, disallowcd D..
the board of county commissioners vii
bc tried in the district court and ~ niece,
sary carried To- the supreme court.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
WENT OUT TO DINNER
Alb Gin Doesn't Like the Fare Pro-
Yided by the City.
a Chinaman Who Refuses tn Pay His
Poll-Tax-Gcldeu's Bondssnen Agree
tn Ante Criminal
Cases tn butte.
speci,l Correspondent Of the standard.

Special Correspondence Of the standard.
BUTTE, Jan s.-The contest between the
city government and Ali Gin, who refuses
to pay his poll tax, is progressing warmly.
All Gin has been employed to-day i'm scrub
bling the floors of the city hall under the
care of Tailor Dwyer. He worked indus
triously and showed no signs OF submis-
sion tn the will of the city authorities. As
the whistles blew for noon All Gin sud
denly Disappeared. Jailor Dwyer looked
all over for his Monaghan prisoner. hut
he could not he found. About 1 o'clock
thisa afternoon All Gin sauntered up tn the
Jail and proceeded to work again.
,"NNhcrc have you been"' demanded
Nj been dinner. No eatee here" de-
clared All Gin. with a look OF contempt at
Gin is said tn have his pockets full of
money but he will stay in Jail all winter
rather than pay his poll tax.
q Pat Harrington, one of the city prisoners,
was sent to the po ~stoffice after the mail
not yet returned and it is believed he has
decided to take a brief vacation from his
duties of the jail.
T. Ii. Shultz was arrested by Officer
Swanson last night for attempting to rifle
the pockets of Pat Higgins, who was
drunk; and Mike Brady was arrested as
an acconplice. Both were discharged 10y
Judge Newkirk this morning. Howard
Jones'. arrested for stealing IA pair of over
shoes from Garncr's store. was reprinad-
eel by the judge and discharged, the goods
4 being restored.
! The Chinaman arrested for stealing n
stick of wood from the city dump yard
was discharged, the otfcnse being cousid-
cred too trivial to warrant the county i'm
thc expenditure of so i'm n trial.
At 10 o'clock this morning Judge
Newkirk i'm police court called for Albert
NJ. Golden, the referee i'm the prize fight
which resulted in Wards death. As Col
den did not appear n summons was issued
for his bondsmen, Il. ID. Sprague and
Frank Garrison. The boudsmcn APP
pearcd and were told they must give up
the 500, the amount of Goldcu's bonds
They agreed to either present Golden oI
the SlOO within "a hours.
=. c.. Smith. NJ. Giddy and =. J. Farley
were arrested 10y officer Daum this after
moon for refusing To pay their poll tax
They instead paid the costs of arrest ant
poll tax also. amounting 10 Sii.SO.
John Allis his afternoon drew "a knit,
i'm Park street and threatened to kill sew
eral individuals who were i'm "a GROVE
around him, enjoying his drunken talk
Allis was arrested ou u charge of disturb
ing the peace by Officer James.