The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-10-23
BONES IN DAKOTA.
Record OF the Events Occurring within tn
Past Few DAVE,

record OF the Events Occurring Wlthln tine
Past Few Days,
TYPHOID fever Is prevailing among
;he graders at the Burlington & Mis-
;ouri railroad camp in Pennington.
The alliance has contracted for o
y, 900 elevator to be built at Ramona,
,he same to be ready to receive grain by
Nov, l.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, the negro rap
is In Jail at Miller in default of So, 500
bonds and will await the action of the
grand jury.
The Dakotans are rejoicing W. re-
cent rains. They have laid the dust, 81.
the prairie fires and scftehed
the ground for fall plowins.
j. FRENCH, Of Hughes county, sheared
Ais sheep this year, the clip from which
vas 2,s12 pounds and from which he
realized S5O6.1e, The increase of lambs
from his nuck This year is 100.
The drill at the Madison artesian we'll
has penetrated the so-called granite
at tho bottom of the well. 1t was prob
ably a stratum of moderately hard sand
stone, about stxtS-eightfeet in thickness.
Below 1t Is q stratum of good, old-fash-
Toned Dakota blue clay.
SUNDAY about noon D. 8: Richardson's
house, about three and q half miles
southeast of Harrison, caught fire and
burned to the ground. Mrs. Richardson,
who was afflicted with heart disease,
died from fright. The financial loss was
about $3.50; no insurance,
The horse that was stolen from tho
stable of c. M. Brown, of Wakonda,
some weeks ago, was found in Chien's
livery barn this week, and one Peter
Barrett was arrested as the thief. He
was recently released from the Dead.
wood Jail after Serving q year for
burglary.
A FRI at Richardton destroyed ten
horses, twenty wagons, fifty set of har.
ness, the barn, forty bushels of oats and
twenty tons of hay belonging to tho
Richardton Land and Improvement com.
pany. The cause of the fire Is unknown,
but some men were sleeping III the barn
and it is-thoughttkey had beer smoking.
ABour two weeks ago George Wagner,
of Yankton, rented a Winchester rifle tt
a young mar who said he wanted to &c
| out hunting. And he went and has not
yet returned. Mr.. Wagner has, how
ever, found his rifle. 1t is held by q
mar at Gayville, who purchased it fol
$3.50 and refuses to give it up unless
Mr.. Wagner advances 3d. for IT,
N. O. FELTON,, of Brookings county,
lost the separator to his thrasher outfit
by fire last week. The crew vera
thrashing on one side of a hill and soma
n started a prairie fire just over tho
other side of the ridge. The wind drovs
the flames into the stacks and before tho
separator could be removed the fire had
consumed it.
A RAINsToRM set in Tuesday night,
The 9TH, about 10 o'clock, at Deadwood,
which turned into a snowstorm that
asted until about noon of Wednesday,. |
'heh hills were covered with snow. Moth.
lg from the elements has been mor5
clearing tho atmosphere, laying the
ast and putting out the ravaging tim.
er fires, and preventing for 8 time OF
asst any renewal of them,
OPERATIONS with the diamond drill
y the Mikado Mining company in Ruby
asin, Black Hills, have been temporar.
y suspended, owing to some difficulty
18th the water used in the boiler. As
DON as the water becomes hot it begins
o foam, it being impossible to keep any
n the boiler. Water from different
shafts has been tried, but with the same
results. A depth of $40 feet had been
obtained with the drill before the trouble
commenced.
THE Redwater Land and Canal rom
pany, OF Butte county, has declaed to OK.
the cana to the mouth of Nine
atfes'of" fhnec "farAinmgN ffadtfadv lNypffhe Yant nNee,,
the Belle Fourche valley, 1000 acres ~
which is already contracted for to y
covered with water next sensnn m
water is to be furnished to the farmer
at 81 per acre.
SHAFT, the Aberdeen shoe man. on
recent visit to Chicago, sold to Marsha
r.lo' Ile great merchant prince G
Chlcago, 72O pairs of the papoo morca
S,ns ne Is manufacturing. lie saws NJ,
rlelu was much amused at the idea 6
puylng Tor his house, one of the larres
IN chicago, a stock of goods from Abe,
ueeh. AT the same time he was mnc
pleased with the goods, and copsidore
.nat he had an article that would pleas
MS customers. The manufacture of tn
moccaslns gives employment to a nun
DER OF young ladies of Aberdeen.
COUNTY comes to the from
win ms profitable farming item: Lar
son Bros, living near White, this sprin,
rented a farm for S75, Oh which thcr
were 10 acres broken. The bows sowc,
loo acres OF flax and the remainder +,
nats. Worms destroyed fifteen acres q
lax during the summer. This fall the,
thrasned out 1,226 bushels of flax AMI
sold the same for S1.23 per bushel. The,
pald the rent, bought the farm and nai1
uMeir other expenses out of the proceeds
1hey mad their oats left and quite 4. SIM
OF money in the bank for a ''nest ere ,
FARMER BURTON, Of Burleigh county,
Tells the following story of his farmino
operations: This country is all right,
l can make money here. I had tweIve
acres OF wheat of my own and rented
10 acres, receiving one-half. the cron, +
was u nothing except my time and feed
Tor a month and three days. I had I. d
Dushels. There Is some money in that.
amt there? When I came here in 1884
l a Just 35 cents-my folks back in the
east without anything. Inow have ma
chlnery and stock and grain and nothing
against .'em. This country is good
enough for me. Sold sixty-nine bushe1s
OF potatoes yesterday for IS cents q.
oushel. MY brother is in Illinois-in a
sreat apple country. I wrote him r
trade potatoes for apples-bushel
Tor bushel. He wrote back eno apples
and no potatoes-both a failure here"
guess my brother will not find anv
more fault with this country.
TUESDAY afternoon there came near
being a fatal accident on lower Main
street, Deadwood. A blast fred bv
on the Burlington & Missouri
grade, back Of Fish & Hunters store
threw a rock weighing aboutfour pounds
across the gulch and through the win
low OF Fred Chausse's dwelling, striking
his ~7-year-old daughter on the ear and
Just grazing the skull. The sash and
glass were entirely broken out of the
wlndow and scattered about the room.
MINNESOTA is proud of it's brick and
filing works.
MADISON is rustling for a wooden mill
and a windmill factory.
CASPER BERTHA, of Ramona, was re-
sently lowering the straw carrier of a
JlraShllg maPhina wbon Az ..-1