The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-12-11

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he will be stationed in the future.
A F1RsT-CLAss row is in progress over the
Dakota knights Of Labor office at Aber-
deem. The plant is owned by a stock COM
pany composed OF three or four kinds of pol
itfcs, and there appears to be a strife as to
who shall boss the job.
THERE was a game cock fight TT yahktoii
Friday night. A red bird was pittcd against
a silver gray fowl, and the red bird had the
best OF it all the way through. After fifteen
minutes of fighting, however, the silver
gray fowl, by n lucky stroke, thrust one Of
tho steel gaffs on his feet clear through tho
red birds head. and the red bird could fight
no more. .
A DEADwooD saloon, run by Warden &
Gates, was closed Saturday by the sheriff
on an order enjoining them from selling
liquor on the premises. 1t appears that on
the previous Sunday tho proprIetors per-
sisted in keeping open, notwithstanding
that Mayor Star sent them three different
orders to close up. l.. W. Stlllwell lodged a
complaint with the mayor against these
men for keeping Open oh Sunday and
to proceed against Star unless
he saloon was closed Immediately. Ac-
,ordingly an injunction was taken out
against the saloon. !
n MAN who Segittered the name OF J.
sterett, Fill City, was assigned o room at
the SpearRsh hotel Tuesday night and re-
tired to rest. Nothing was thought al tho
matter until yesterday eAoeniNg, when tue
chambernaasd Reported to the Office that the
mahahad not yet come from his room, and
repeated rappings failed to elicit any re-
Spouse. The clerk of the hotel prosecdsd to
the room and unlocked the door with q pass
key. On entering he found Sterett lying
on the bed cold in death, while on the table
near by was an empty two-ounce bottle
labelled carbolic acid. Sterett had come
from Hill City only tho day before, and was
a carpenter by trade. He was 80 years old,
unmarried aud nothing is known Of his
family.-DcadWood Pioneer.
JACOB H~ALLOCHER, of Yankton, was un.
hitching a team, when they ran awny, rIr
Fl. was knocked dowM by one Of tho horses
run over by the wagon and had four rib.
, broken. He is in a critical condition.
FRED W1LLETT, Of Okobojo, recently hat
, the misfortune to have q pony ho was ridin,
slip and fall upon him, breaking his lief
leg, Fritz seems to be unlucky at horse
back exercise, as he was thrown from
horse about two years ago and suffered
: from a broken arm.
J AS DIR. S%TEtNBAcH and wife, of Siou:
Falls, started for a ride their horse bccnm
frightened, and before the doctor could con.
troll It was going at a %breakneck speed dow
Phillips avenue. In turning at Scvcntl
street the occupants were thrown from tn,
carriage and the doctor quite badly In
iured.
THE Retriever Mining compony has beer
shipping ore to Omaha. Yesterday return!
were received showing a net result of from
S4oO to 5000 per carload. The Omaha PEG.
pie get rather the best of the ore shipper
by charging up from 81 to 11% per cent
shrinkage en- the ore by reason of moisture
When Deadwood's shelters get to work THU
item will be omitted. The Retriever PEG.
pie will ship 1000 tons, from which they ey.
pect a net result OF about $50. 600, all O.
which will 60 toward the further opening
up OF the mine.-Deadpood Times.
A A belonging to Frank Lusk broke
from its fastening In front of the Caledonia
mine Thanksgiving day and ran away
They dashed over a cliff and fell $50 feet tc
the bottom of the precipice. When 8
searching party found the outfit one Of the
horses necks was broken and the other
had run q spoke of a wheel through his
body.
The Tie on sheriff in Brown county be.
tween Messrs. Eisenhood and Bowler was
recently decided by lot in favor of the first
named, the republican candidate.
THERE have been about 100 cases OF diph-
iberia in and about the town OF Garrctson,
but the epidemic is now subsiding.
A GOLDEN eagle weighing thirty-Rve
pounds was killed a short time ago Oh the
Sisseton reservation. The bird stood three
and q half feet high and measured nine feet
from tip to tip.
SEVERAL OF the people of Ipswich have
formed o society for the study Of American
history.
SEVERAL Of the business men OF Yanktou
are trying to devise an arrangement,
whereby the city MAJ derive q revenue
from the saloon business.
Mr.. AND Mrs. BYRON RIPLEY rave re-
tired from the superintendency OF the
Samaritan hospital at Aberdeen, and Mrs
Old, of Mcpherson county, is now in charge
TIE Milwaukee railroad company runs a
weekly refrigerator carifrom Minneapolis te
The Sioux Falls temperance committee Of
100 closed four saloons at Garretson last
week.
THE Minnehaha county Sunday schoo
convention closed a profitable meeting al
Valley Springs Sunday evening.
SIOUX FALLS latest acquisition is a glove
factory with a capital OF $40, 900, that will
permanently employ thirty men and a mum.
Der OF women.
THERE was o small fire at the Vienna
bakery In Deadwood Sunday morning, blu,
the fire department extinguished It hefore
much damage was done.
THERE is more water in Redwater rive
now than ever before ut this season OF the
year.
On Dec. 0 Hot Springs will vote on is,
suing bonds to the amount of SIS, 900 fol
the purchase and Improvement OF q city
park.
SOME scamp recently entered s. E.. vii.
sons stable at Hot Springs and cut thu
name of and shaved one side of his .yalna.
bic buggy horse.
C~oUETERFEIr sIlverdollars arc in circula-
tion in tile Black Hills.
THERE are:3.Gl1 old soldiers in south Da-
kota whoreceife pensions.
AGoNcEHr Mt Nilsson Hill church, ihaai
yanktan, uetted tha socIots s:s.