The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-14

jurisdiction provided by statutory laws,
is likely to be chaos and no order will pre-
vail.
- Newsy Briefs.
In a shooting scrape at Pierre q COW
puncher named Ballou had his ear shot of
by a tough named Hull. Hull was arrested
and bound over to the grand jury in the
sun of $500.
SOME mighty mean thieves broke into
the farmers warehouse at Villas the Other
night aad stole thirty sacks of -four and 6
quantity of other goods that had been do
mated to the drought sufferers.
THE reports of the regents of the uni
versity of South Dakota shows a list of
thirty-one professors, instructors and en-
ployes, with an aggregate salary of $27,G90.
The estimated expenses for 1890 Is put
at $4O,450.
THE Farmers alliance has removed the
Ruralist printing outfit from Aberdeen to
Huron and is putting the. material into
place. A stereotyping outfit will be added
to the plant and many other additions
made. T.. B. Cummings, of the Black
Hills, a member of the lower house of the
state legislature, is the new editor of the
Rnralist, and When his legislative duties
are ended he viii devote his entire time to
editorial work.
z. J. SHARON, superintendent OF the
Minnehaha county poor farm, has
skipped and no one seems to
1-4 r1o,a " FTIa
commissioners visited the poor farm and
examined the inmates to find if any Of
them knew why Sharon had skipped. les
timony was adduced which indicated that
Sharon had been intimate with several of
the female inmates, and fearing exposure.
he thought it best to make himself scarce.
AS far as money matters were concerned
nothing was known against him.
ADoUNTY of 81 has been placed on VOL
scaips by the county commissioners 0!
Brule county.
A SECOND unsuccessful attempt has
been made TO burn the high school build.
ing at Pierre.
A WHITE weasel was shot at Minneseif
the other day, the first ever seen in thai
part of the country.
LINCOLN county farmers have subscribed
$4,000 toward starting q paper wholly i'll
the interests of the alliance.
POsToFFICE has been established a
Garretscn, Minnehaha county, with An.
thony H. Reddy postmaster.
CHRIS MATH1ESoN, of Deadwood, ha!
been appointed deputy United States mar,
shall for the Black Hills district.
A cENsu is being taken of the Indian.
at tho Lower Brule and Grow Creek agen-
cies by the Indian department.
FIFTY-Two different minerals are found
in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Twenty-Five of these are mined.
IT is estimated that the mining indus.
tries of the Black Hills will in time give
employment to 1000, 900 people.
THE houses of Aberdeen have Just been
numbered in order to be ready for free
mail delivery.
GEORGE BURNAM, the young man who
got lost on his way from Newcastle to
Deadwood about two weeks ago and was
badly frozen, has had both his legs am
putated.
PIERRE home talent will bring out an
opera.
WH1TEwooD is moving for a system Of
waterworks.
SOUTH DAKOTA has thirty.six assem-
blies Of the KNIGHTS of Labor.
MINER c%ounty's board of commissioners
is composed entirely Of farmers. 90. =.
81. 1nrrNJ r .nHr1 INA vi, .a5;ko. 80 a., Ty,,,.,
ute, has been confirmed to be postmaster at
Huron.
MRS. j. G. WHITE, a prominent worker
in the w. G. T. u, died at Casselton Mon
day,
BLACK HILLS base ball league for the
coming season is being talked up.
AFARMEns' alliance has been organized
at Lake Campbell, Brookings county.
TwENTY-THREE members of the lower
house of the South Dakota legislature are
bald-headed.
A PosToFFICE has been established at
Chatauqua. Day county, with Eta Lewis as
postmistress.
A. LINNANDER, boot and shoe dealer of
Huron, assigned to E. H. Aplin for the
benefit of creditors. Liabilities not as
certained; assets probably $4,000.
THE strike of the coal miners at Esch-
weller and Alsdorf, Germany, has ended.
GUARIEs, RoaERs & BOUNDS, dealers
in dry goods at Meridian, Miss, have
failed. Liabilities, $780, 900; assets, $780,
600.
PHILADELPHIA Irishmen OF the league
will canvass the leagues of the country to
learn their views as to q convention. The
result will be sent to Parnell.
AN,exploaing boiler on the first floor Of
the Edison Electric Light company's build
ing in Philadelphia resulted in scalding
and otherwise injuring five men.