The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-06-27

commission, containing names OF many OF
the best people of the Hills, will be for
warded with the protest.
Told In Few Limos.
The mineral lands of the Black bills
aggregate over l LOO. 900 acres.
A DAILY mail service will begin between
Deadwood and Spear6sh July |.
The Brotherhood of Purpose, of Clark
county, organized a short time ago, has SO
for secured eleven indictments against vio-
lators of the prohibitory law.
The 2-year-old child of D. P. Whorton,
living near Wolsey, while playing on the
floor got hold of a can Of concentrated I've
and drank n quantity Of the mixture with
fatal effect.
HORSE thieves raided the Lower Brule
Indian agency Saturday night and sue
ceeded in running off several horses. A
body of mounted Indian police are on the
trail of the thieves.
Two large caves we're discovered last
week on Elk creek, a short distance from
the new town of Piedmont. The discov-
erers attempted to explore one of the cav
erns, but made q hasty exit on the appear
ance of a mountain lion with eyes as big
as saucers."
LAST week there were filed in the land
Office at Rapid City twenty-five locations
for iron mines in Scobey and Jackson
counties. The ground in question is very
itch in mineral and the parties interested
are all men of means and capable of de-
veloping their property.
A GIANT buffalo was killed in Meade
county one day last week. The animal
was the first killed in the Hills country |
for a number of years and will probably be |
the last, as the race is fast becoming e1-
tinct, and but few are now found south of
the British possessions.
w. j. MARSHALL, q ~well-known Gran
din farmer, was killed by lightning while
camping out near Windsor the other night.
The bolt struck him square on the head
and passing down his body and left leg |
entered the ground. Death was instan- |
taneous. Two other men in the tent we're
severely shocked.
The old Indian chief, Rain-in-the-F Face,
of Standing Rock, says the dry season in
the Dakotas has passed. He says that for
seven years his trail over the prairie has
been in o straight line, and that for seven
years to come he will have to dodge the low
places, which will be filed with water. It
is a curious fact that all northern Indian
tribes are firm believers in the seven-year
cycle of drought and moisture.
P1ERRE's pontoon bridge, which was
badly damaged by the recent food, is
being put in repair and will soon be ready
for transportation purposes.
The Caledonia mine, near Deadwood,
has just paid its sixteenth dividend, ap-
gregating $1,000, making 1924, 900 paid this
year. The mine has paid in dividends up
to date $3.50, 600.
A CHARTER for the Sioux Falls and
Huron Short Line railway has been asked
for by the board of directors. Thu pro-
posed line is from Sioux Falls to Wesley,
In the western part of Beadle county. The
distance from Sioux Falls to the terminus
is ITO miles. The headquarters of the
company will be located at Huron.
THE Pierre Capital says a party of i'm
migrants passed through that city the
other day en- route for the state of Wash
ingron, and among them was an old lady
SAID to be Isl years of age.
The jury in the DR.. Evans abortion case
at Aberdeen was out all night and returned
a verdict of not guilty. Chalfant, who Sc
duced the victim, Miss Lottie Williams,
pleaded guilty to the charge of procuring
instruments and drugs to procure ON abor-
ton, was sentenced to two years and a half
IN the penitentiary. The result gives
great surprise and much indignation is ex-
pressed, as it was generally thought that
both would get long terms.
OFFICERS are looking for j. @. O'Brien,
OF Garretson, who is charged with shoot
ing with intent to kill. A stranger named
Nelson was driving along the street when
OBrien pulled a revolver and, taking de-
liberate aim, fred a shot at him. The ball
grazed his cheek and had the aim been q
little truer Nelson would have been killed.
No reason is known for the act.
SULLY county citizens have forwarded
petitions to the proper authorities at
Washington requesting the annexation of
that county to the Pierre land district.
The sheep clip of Brule county is about
finished, and will be the largest ever pro
duoed by the county.
YANKToN citizens have subscribed 500
toward a Fourth of July celebration. An
attractive program has been arranged,
including horse racing, field sports, fire.
works, etc.
A COMPANY has been formed at Minot
for the purpose of gathering buffalo bones
as far west as Malta, Mont, at which
point many cars are on the Great North
ern side tracks to be loaded with the ac-
cumulatlons. Bones are worth So a ton at
the track.
OyEE eighty kinds Of stones used for
ornamental purposes are found in the
Black Hills. Among these are included
jasper, jet, agates, garnets, obsidian or
volcanic glass, crystals, etc. Minute dia.
monds have been found in the flexible
sandstone.
Coal is believed to, exist in paving
quantities in Stanley county and an az
pert miner will soon be employed to make
q thorough investigation.
A PROJECT is on foot to barge coal
down the river from the mines near Man
dan to Pierre. Old river men saw the
scheme is practicable and that coal can be
laid down at Pierre for 50 per ton.
FIFTY cases Of beer were received BY ar
Aberdeen liquor dealer the other day. He
attempted to reship the goods to other
points, but the railroad and express COM
panies rafusedto handle it, believing that
they would make themselves amenable to
the state law BY SO doing. The consign-
ment had reached it's original destination,
they claimed, and could NOT, under the law,
DO rebilled and reshipped.
SINCE the So wolf bounty went into
effect the various county treasurers have
been busy cashing in scaIps.
III tie survey of tho Elkhorn road from
Mfnnskahts Falls to Hot Springs the road
crosses the Fail river fourteen times.