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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
DUN s. CO.'S TRADE REVIEW.
The Country's Spring Trade Larger Than
Ever-Money Comparatively Easy.

The Country's Spring Trade Larger Than
Eyer-Money Comparatively Easy.
r.. q. Dun & Co.'s weekly review OF
trade says: All the ordinary business in
dications grow more favorable. While
speculation in some lines is active, posi-
bly, nearing the point of danger, it is I'M
deniable that the volume OF legitimate
business is on the whole greater than it
has been at this season of any previous
year. The passage OF the tariff bill by the
house gives increased hopes. of higher
prices and larger trade in some branches,
but does not yet affect most markets at all,
the action of the senate being uncertain.
Discussion on the silver bill gives no clear
indication yet Of the probable outcome,
but the general confidence that in some
way a great enlargement of currency is
coming continues undated, and while
some regard the ultimate results with APP
prehension there are q few who realize
that the measure might. take such form as
to disturb the finances speedily. Even
these rest in faith that the sense of re-
sponsibility will check unwise action.
Money is comparatively easy, and com
mercial credits undisturbed.
The reports from other cities are more
encouraging than usual. At Chicago TIE
movement of grain and meats exceeds last
years; the dry goods trade is good, though
not up to last years; liberal orders for
boots and shoes and larger sales than for
some time are noted, but there is q slight
relapse in clothing; the money market is
unchanged and tho prospect seems good.
st. Louis reports favorably as to all lines
of trade. At Milwaukee and st. Paul
trade is good; rains throughout the north
west have improved crop prospects, and
business at Omaha and Kansas City is up
to the average, with some dullness at De-
troit because of cool weather. But at these
and all other reporting points this week
collections are fair, the money markets are
undisturbed and there is apparent much
confidence in the immediate commercial
future. 1t may be noticed that labor
strikes are nowhere mentioned as causing
disturbance in trade.
Pig iron is higher, Bessemer fully 81
per ton, with manufactured iron stronger.
1t seems scarcely credible that the enor-
nous production is met by actual con-
sumption, but the tone of the markets is
distinctly better, and 1t must be remem-
beled that the surprising activity in build
ing has not been checked to any extent.
Nothing favorable can be reported of the
WOODEN manufacture or the trade in wool
ems, except that markets appear to have
adjusted themselves to the situation, and
though buying only for present needs are
still buying, with the hope that a change
of the tariff may lessen foreign competi-
ton.
Failures during the week for the United
States were 100, and for Canada thirty
two, a total of 222, compared with 2l2 last
week. For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were 2O7 in the. United
States and twenty-five in Canada.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
INDIAN DEPRECIATION CLAIMS.
A Bill Introduced by Senator Moody 70
Thetr Adjudication.

The people of the entire northwest will
be interested in a bill introduced by Sen-
ator Moody, Of South Dakota, providing
for the adjudication of all Indian depreda.
ton claims. Senator Moody stated that
there was pending in the n%eighborhood of
$4,000, 900 in claims scattered through the
country which had been subject to Indian
raids. Senator Moody in q few days will
submit an elaborate report, giving reasons
for the present bill. 1t will be a history OF
the provisions of acts of congress relatingto
the guarantee by the government of tho
payment of Indian depreciation claims and
what has taken place Hereunder. Claims
to the extent of 50, 000, 900 were paid be-
fore 1860. All established claims were
paid out of the treasury without any
special appropriation by congress. 1t will
further show the reasons for the policy
which the government adopted as early as
1890, and which it pursued until 1859, and
which policy 1t resumed in 1882, but con-
gress failed to make requisite appropria-
tions for carrying out that policy, Claims
have accumulated to such an extent and
such numbers that the committees of either
house have had no time to consider the
claims and do the government or claimants
justice. For the past seven or eight years
efforts in congress have been in the direc-
ton of some general law providing for a
mode of adjudicating and paying the
claims. Bills have been introduced and
some passed, and now special commit
tees have been selected to take
charge of this class of legislation. The re-
port will recommend the passage Of the
bill of the committee, which provides
that the United States court shall try and
%adjudicate all such claims. This gives the
claimant an opportunity to 60 iato the
United States circuit or district in which
he resides and try his case, unless his
claim is for more than $4,000, when it
goes to the court of claims. The senate
bill differs from the bill introduced by
Hermann, of Oregon, and now pending in
the house, in not creating any more courts.
The bill provides that claims OF Indians
against whites may be adjudicated in the
same manner, testimony, however, to be
required from white men, All claims TO,
damages incurred prior to the approval OF
the act must be presented within three
years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
OATH AT A CHASTITY ALTAR.

Judge Masterson Pledges at the Side of
His Wife's Coffin to Drink Nc More.
The body of Mrs. Florence r. Master
son, who hurried from New Mexico to
New York after hearing of her husbands
arrest and who fell dead in the Grand Un-
ion hotel, was the altar on which Judge
Masterson swore abstinence from liquor
during the rest of his life.
II nm ruined, utterly ruined," he kept
exclaiminR, as he paced up and down the
room. THAT affair over Mrs. Hopkinson
was a frightful blow considering that my
relations with her were perfectly proper.
But now to have my wife die at the time I
need her most, and in this horrible way!
What use is money to a man with q broken
heart who has lost everything that makes
life worth living and has absolutely moth.
ing to live for?"
Judge Masterson talked this way all day.
Mrs. Masterson, he said, had come east not
to make up any past quarrels, but for the
same reason that would take any Jealous
wife to her husbands side upon hearing
that he and q woman alleged to be his mis-
tresg had been shooting pistols at each
SSNSA ~ Ay AAAos AAOphAu-
son, he says, had taken charge of certain
business matters for him, and he had been
paying her $4,000 a year salary. The story
Of the shooting ARRAY between them had
been printed in all the papers of the coun-
try and Of course had come to Mrs. Mas
terson's attention. In all of these
published stories grounds had been
given for inference that improper re-.
latlons had existed between him and
Mrs. H%opkinson. This was not true,
but Mrs. Masterson had naturally packed
up her things and come to New York. She
had been a couple Of days at the Grand
Union hotel, and had written him letters
to his Office in Wall street, but he did not
know her presence in town until she came
to him at his boarding house yesterday.
Mrs. Masterson found fault with him be-
cause he had been drinking, and a few
moments later she left him abruptly. That
was the last time he saw her alive. Mrs.
Hopkinson, who says she is Judge Mas
terson's cousin, said in speaking of Mrs.
Masterson's sudden death:
Il did not know it till the Judge called
here and informed me. Then We went
around together, and there I made him
swear on his Bonded knees by the side of
bis wife's corpse that he would never
touch another drop of liquor"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
SOUTH DAKOTA TOPICS.
Liquor in South Dakota.

Liquor in South Dakota.
The first original package case arisingin
South Dakota was dismissed ut Aberdeen.
The hearing arose upon the question of
whether the district attorney of Brown
county should file information against men
at Claremont alleged to have received i've
cases of beer from st. Paul. Witnesses
vera examined and the district attorney
found no sufficient evidence upon which to
f'e an information. The beer, in fact, was
ordered before the law went into effect, but
did not arrive until May 3, thus prevent
ing a clear infraction of the law, as the
cousignee gave it away. The finding of
the district attorney is regarded here as an
indirect way OF rseognizing the decision of
the Urited States supreme court, and
though in no sense a precedent, prosecu-
lions under the state law in a similar state
of facts are improbable. Prohibitionists
generally concede that the federal de-
cision makes the sale of liquor in packages
legal,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
snoRr BITS OF NEWS.

CHARLES KENT, once a state senator
from Nevada county, GAL, committed
suicide by jumping into the bay at San
Francisco.
MINERS in Clarion and Reynolds, Pa,
district have decided to strike for the Col
umbus scale Of G5 cents. A long struggle
is expe ted.
The judge in the Marion county, Fla,
election fraud case has reserved decision
until December. This is regarded as a
practical victory for the defendants.
The American Medical association at
Nashville, Tenn, elected DR.. W. T. Briggs,
of that city, president, and selected Wash
ington as the next place Of meeting.
A n1M1TEppassenger train. on the Alton
was run into by q freight near Kansas
City. Mrs. Mary Morris, of Milwaukee,
was n of three persons painfully in
jureo.
The Brussels miners congress has unan-
imously adopted a resolution in favor of a
working day of eight hours, including
time occupied in ascending and descending
the pits.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
AN a.
He Feels Well But His Joints Arc Stiff as
Bone.

He Feels Well But His Joints Arc Stiff as
Bone.
Curtis Hicks, of Racine, Wis, is as COM
pletely an ossified man as wal the famous
Jonathan Bass. The feet, toes, ankles,
legs, knee joints, and even the hip joints
are perfectly ossified-in fact, solid and
stiff as a bone-and the skin of q hard,
reddish color. The arms, hands, fingers
and all the joints of the same ore in a like
condition. The jaws and teeth are set,
and a cracker can only be forced between
the teeth. The body is in a perfectly
healthy condition and his mind clear. Mr..
Hicks was first taken sick April &c, 1879.
He worked all day, went home, did his
chores and went to bed. At about 11:2O
that night he was awakened with q pain in
his right side. Doctors pronounced it
pleurisy, but we're unable to give any re-
lief, and 15slY4 1880, Mr.. Hicks haas
not moved from his bed. Within the past
few weeks he has received offers from
dime museums men throughout the coun-
try, but has avoided giving publicity to his
condition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30

o. the 0 casion Of dsdicating the Garfield
monument ou Nay 30. President Harri-
son, Vice President Morton and secre-
taries Blaine, Rusk and Noble will arrive
there Thursday noon and the celebration
will begin at that time. All ideas of a fun
eral character have been cast aside. The
parade on Frinay will include thirty mill
tary organizations, Thousands of uniformed
Knights Templars and many other civic
societies. Great trouble is anticipated in
transporting the visitors. Hackmen have
organized a combine to secure $40 a day
for each carriage. Indignant citizens at
once tend red the use of their private car
riages, and the police have bean Instructed
to arrest every hickman discovered over
charging transients,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
DAKOTA /. GO. 4
THEY MEET IN ANNUAL CONVENTION
IN DEADWOOD.

Over o Delegates in At~tendance-A Mag
mficent Banquet on the Evening of the
First Day-The Newly Elected Officers
Yankton Selected as the Next Meeting
Place-O,her State News.
The Odd Fellows of South Dakota have
just indulged in an annual convention.
held ut Deadwood. Over 200 delegates
were in attendance. On the first day
they visited the great Homestake mines
and mills, as well as others in the vicinity,
They were taken to Lead City by special
train over the Deadwood Central railroad,
A grand banquet at the new city hall was
the event of the evening. Covers were
laid for $50. Hon. @. M. Thomas delivered
the address OF welcome, which was
responded to by E. A. Nugent. William A.
Bently spoke on "odd Fellowship" "The
Sovereign Grand Lodge" was responded
to by H., K. Rice. "The Order
In the Dakotas, by A. E. Clough. "Our
Elder Brother (Masonry)," by George v.
Ayers, most worthy grand master. @Our
Younger Brother (Pythianism)," by j. F.
Edmuuds, grand chancellor Of South Da-
kota. The Rebekahs, by s. B. Ashford.
Tbs Lead City quartette and Deadwood
Metropolitan band furnished the music. :,
The second day was devoted exclusively
to business, Mayor Star delivering an ad-
dreess of welcome in the lodge room, re-
sponded to by A. E. Nugent, graud master.
At 3 p. n. occurred the assembly of the
Daughters of Rebekah, and at 8 in the
evening the first aud second degrees were,
conferred by the Eureka degree team.
The forenoon of the third day was occu--
pied by the grand lodge and grand encamp-
ment in hearing reports from the different
lodges throughout the state. In the after
moor the election of officers for the ensu-
ing year was held and resulted as follows:
Grand lodge-O. E. Bassford, Redfeld,
grand master; H. A. Piper, Rapid City,
deputy grand master; D. F. Roger, Alpena,
grand warden; John W. Goodner, Pierre,
grand secretary; Geo. W. Snow Springfield,
grand treasurer; A. G. Smith, Lead City,
representative to the sovereign grand lodge.
Officers of the grand encsmpment-Geo.
W. Matthews, Sioux Falls, G. P; O. D.
Stephens, Watertown, G. H. p; A. c.
Witt, Aberdeen, G. 8. W.; R. R. Briggs,
Sioux Falls, G. S.; George W, Shaw,
Springfield, G. T.; E. F. Law, Deadwood,
G. j. W. The uniform rank of the knights
of Pythias Of Deadwood, Lead City and
Central gave a parade in honor of thei,
visiting brethren at 4 o'clock. A grand
ball given in honor Of the representatives
was hold at the opera house in the evening.
One hundred tickets were sold for the oc-
casion. Yankton was selected as the place
for holding the next meeting of the grand
lodge.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
Doings In Dakota.

A FIRE department will be organized at
Scribner.
Work on the sewerage system at Kear-
ney is being rapidly pushed.
OVER 10000 wall;e eyed pike were
deposited last week In Broncho lake, near
Alliance.
A SIOUX squaw was granted a divorce at
Pierre the other day. She charged her
husband with desertion.
J.. L. NIXON, the engineer who was so
badly ecalded in the railroad wreck at
!Andover, has since died Of his injuries.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for q
band contest in connection with the South
Dakota fremen's tournament soon to take
place at Pierre.
The postofice department. refuses to
place Cheyenne, Sterling county. on the
postoface list because there is another
town Of that name in South Dakota.
AN effort is being made to have the Pine
Ridge agency moved further east. The lana
upon which the agency is located is said to
be of poor quality and there is lack Of
good water.
JOHN G.. WE1sER, an old German of 70,
committed suicide at Pierre the other day
by taking poison. He was in destitute
circumstances, and rather than live upon
charity took his own life.
BROWN county has q weather propthe
named Isaac Hiwaskari, whose predictions,
it is claimed, have always been fulfilled.
He is a Finlander, and his people place un-
bounded faith in his forecasts Of the
weather,
The Olivet Herald says a party Of Iowa
hunters are making q trip through that
part of the state after wolf scalps, which
they intend to place on the Iowa market,
where the bounty is much larger than it is
in Dakota.
While excavatinH for q lime kiln at
Forest city the other day the skeleton Of
an Indian was unearthed. There we're sew
eral holes in the bones, as it made with
bullets, and appearances indicated that the
brave had met his death Violently, prob
ably from q Winchester in the hands Of q
soldier.
THE sheriff OF Blaine county the other
day arrested Charles, Fred and August
Sohmeichel at Brownlee, in Cherry county,
for burglarizing and robbing the general
store of Munson & Alderman, ct Pundum,
about six weeks ago. The goods stolen.
were o full wagon load, and were found in.
possession Of the prisoners. The Schmei-
ehels arc xealthy farmers residing near
BsoMniee.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
THE ANARCHISTS AT IT.
DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER, DIABOLICAL
PLOT IN CHICAGO.

An Attempt to Blow Up the Haymarket
Statue-Only a Timely Rain Prevented
an Awful Explosion of Dynamite-Terri.
BILE Loss of Life Would Have Resulted
Had the scheme Proved Successful.
The night of May 4, 1883. the date Of
the anarchistic riot, was recalled to mind
in Chicago with startling vividness by the
discovery Of u~nmistakable traces Of an at
tempt to blow up the Haymarket monu-
ment and surrounding buildings with q gi-
gantic charge Of dynamite. A policeman
passing the monument found at its base
what appeared to be q roll OF black cloth,
tied with a small rope. He picked it up
and the supposed rope crumbled in his
fingers as though charred by fire. Tied up
in a piece of black cloth was q tin can
about twelve inches long and four inches
in diameter. The vessel was evidently
full of some substance n weighed about
ten pounds. Several pieces Of burnt
fuse were found lying beside it. The fuse
was in q dozen pieces and had evidently
been soaked with kerosene. On the step
approaching the base of the statue was
found an unlighted piece of fuse, to one
end of which was attached a small dyna-
mite cap. This, when tried with fire,
flashed readily. The charge of dynamite,
according to the police, was enough
to blow up several blocks. The machine
was evidently placed there early in the
morning, and the rain extinguished the
burning fuse. The explosion would have
made terrible havoc. With street cars
passing, too, the loss of life would have
been great.
The can with its contents and the pieces
of burned fused were turned over to CEN
trail officers who took it. to
the Aetna Powder company's office,
where an expert made al examination.
The can contained a composition, SO per
cent. of which was nitro glycerine, and
which would have made a terrible ex-
plosion had the fire reached it. The
fuse was of the kind ordi-
narily used. Nothing but q timely
shower OF rain prevented the plot being
successfully realized. Detectives have
been detailed to ferret out the perpetrators.
Chief of Police Marsh was seen and
questioned by a reporter in regard to the
matter, and although the chief would make
no definite statement it was learned that
there has been a decided movement on the
part of the reds of late to resusci-
citate the old feeling of revolution
and to organize into working
shape. Secret meetings have been held
by the old groups. Herr Most, whom the
old followers of Spies and Parsons now
recognize as a leader, has been secretly
sending to Chicago circulars urging his
followers to organize and prepare to strike
another blow.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30

George Gould has made to a reporter the
following explicit statement of his stand
point of the situation of the Pacific Mail:
Mr.. Huntington and Mr.. Willard ore not inter-
csted together III the Pacific Mail. On the con-
trnry, their interests are rather opposed than
otherwise. When I became president OF the
company made arrangements with the city of
Tacoma, with Mr.. Wizards consent, whereby
the company would secure 5000 ncres of land
and ono Of the %greatest privileges in the world
Il water front where tho largest ocean steamers
could almost touch tho land. The company
could have made at til, lowest calculation S5O,-
600 per month profit if the arrangements had
been carried out. The Northern Pacific at pres
ent owns or controls n line of clipper ships which
run in the China trade. These ships carry more
tea than the Pacific Mail does Mt present. My
arrangement with Mr.. Willard included the dis.
continuing of his line, and t at would have
been ono less competitor on the Pacific ocean.
Mr.. Huntington was opposed to tho plan from
the first, us it portended harm for his Central
Pacific md Southern Pacific railroad interests.
He is also almost the sole owner of the Occi-
dental and Oriental Steamship company, n
competitor of the Pacific Mail, while he owns
but u small interest in the latter. He formed q
combination in the board of directors that
ovcrthrew my plans, and at present things are
at O standstill. l presume tho buying Of late
has been by the Huntington interest to secure
control OF the Pacific Mail. I believe his con-
troll will BIO against the best interest of the COM
pany. My individual interests are not over
10000 shares. I shall not increase 1t, but If
Mr.. Huntington secures control I shall sell out
and have nothing moro to do with the concern,
I shall not attempt to fight him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
Tra,nps Destroy a Town.

A disastrous fire set by tramps destroyed
every house in the city of Coolidge, N. NJ,
except the railroad eating house and the
depot buildings. The tramps had been
lettering around town for several days and
were infurlated because citizens had made
preparations to drive them out. The
leader Of the tramps is believed to be
Black Rube, a half breed, who not long ago
aided in holding up a stage coach in the
northern part Of the territory, For three
days he had held control Of the town.
III butu was levied on tho stores, the de-
mands teiug emphasized by o show
Of Weapons. Rube's following was
increased by ragged re-enforcements
from every direction. Residents were not
SLOWED TO walk the streets, and we're
finally driven to wage war in self-defense.
Their resistance enraged the tramps, and
in retaliation il fiammables were scattered
among The buildings and set on fire. Be-
fore the ashes Of the town were cool o
posse OF citizens on horseback were in
pursuit Of tho tramps, and lynchings are
probable.
Gagfis ld Monument Dedication.
Everything points to o splendid display
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30
The Fastest Photographer in the Country
Dies In Brooklyn.

John W. Robson, champion expert tele-
grapher of America, died in Brooklyn from
injuries received in having been thrown
from a bicycle. The deceased was 81 years
of age. He was known all owe,
the country as being the fastest telegrapher,
and was not only the fastest but the
most accurate. A few years ago he won
q splendid gold medal for sending
off a clipping of 500 words in the short
time Of ten minutes and t~hirty-two sec.
onds, which time has never been beaten.
The prize was gotten up by the
telegraphers themselves to decide which
was the fastest. A few weeks ago there
was another contest among the tele-
graphers, and though the first prize was
awrded to a Mr.. Pollock, of Hartford,
Conn.,, it was commended by Roloson's
friends that he should have had it. He
was not only an expert telegrapher, but
proficient in all matters electrical,