The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-09-05

LOCAL lTEvvs.
II. p. Lewis, abstracts Of title.
Legal blanks at The UNION office.
b. P. Lewis, notary public and con-
veyancer.
For Bakers wire and hardware, call
on w. w. Gift.
See schleuning & Young as to prices on
resh and salted meats
Tom Sweeney has received a nice lot
OF carriages the past week.
Don't forget spaulding's new location,
two doors east OF the postofice.
sss Smoked meats Of all kinds at the low
est figures at Schleuning & Young's.
Rev.J. O. Dobson assumes the pastor
ate OF the M. E. church Of this city.
Dresses stylishly fitted for seventy
five cents at the new store, Main street.
Over at Pierre anyone singing "Annie
Rooney" is sentenced to six months in
Jail.
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When a rancher wants square meal
for twenty-five cents he goes to Spauld-
ing's.
The best meat at the lowest figures,
wholesale or retail, at Schleuning &
Young's.
A full line Of stone churns, preserve
;oro opJ ;,rc ~ G n po,l,o,, g, Co,
Red Front.
Several coaches for the Black Hills and
Fort Pierre railroad passed through the
city Sunday evening.
w. w. Cliff has the contract for heat
ing the Congregati church. The fur.
mace has arriy ed.
David II. Lytle has been appointed
special night policeman. The appoint
ment is generally spoken OF as a good
one.
Go to Trowbridge's jewelry store fo1
watches, jewelry, clocks, etc. Eastern
prices. Repairing OF watches, clocks and
jewelry promptly done.
VIM. T. Coad, agent for the gas com.
pany, has been east in the interest o'
the company. The fixtures and ma.
chinery are on the road.
Mr.. Raymond, Of Box Elder, was il
town last Tuesday. He says the wheat
crop on his divide farm went twelve anc
one half bushels to the acre.
Rapid City and vicinity was visited by
q cooling shower last Monday evening
Considerable rain fell Tuesday Afternoon
and early Wednesday morning.
The public schools opened last Mon
day with two hundred fifty scholars OF
the roll About twenty pupils are at
tending the new North Side school.
The fire bell was removed from it's OLE
!. quarters to the new tower last Friday
Quite a crowd gathered to watch pro
ceedings and to help pull the bell up.
A surveying outfit OF the Sioux City
Northwestern railroad are running {
line up Box Elder. They were in th'
Ingersol neighborhood at last accounts
Will Falconer, OF this city has entered
into partnership in the real estate ant
abstract business with Mclaughlin, Jr.
OF Deadwood, and will soon move tt
that city.
DR.. Whitney, who has been practicin
at Fort Pierre for some months, ha
been quite i'll. This was the cause o
the sudden removal OF his wife ant
daughter to that city. At last account
the doctol was improving,
Frank White, confined in the count,
Jail for violation OF the prohibition law
escaped some day the past week. 1'hi
is give-away on the new jail. Gu
sheriff will no doubt show his metal b
returning him at an early date.
The north bound train on the Blac
Hills and Fort Pierre railroad last Nor
r day evening struck a boulder that wa
lying on the track near Elk creek static
\ and in running over it broke the tende
of the engine and the brake on the CT
boose. The rock fell just as the trai
was coming along.
"A bull on. the B. & M, railroad twent,
nine miles below Newcastle last Frida,
August Goth, vas the means OF runnir
"a coal train off the track and causing
general smashup. After leaving ii
track the engine ran $50 feet. and the
turning over caught the fireman unde
meath. He died almost instantly upo
being taken out ircai under the wrecl
having been there four hours. The el
gineer was badly hurt, but will recoye
Last week w. p. Ryan, a railroad CO.
tractor, drew $1,000 from bank /
Whitewood with which to pay off b
men and placed it in a small satche
and threw it in his buggy. When he W,
nearly home he discovered that the
was a board off the bottom OF the bugs
and also that the satchel containing Il
money had slipped throug the hole. +
returned to Whitewood and instituted
search for a boy who he had passed {
the road, who upon being found, claim,
he knew nothing Of the money, but as
was a trifle too nervous, the office
searched the premises and found t
monay in different places about the ba
i'm $500 packages. All but $1.4O W
rece evered.
The fire bell was brought into use Ia
ohlay for the first time since it W
placed in the new tower. The cause "
% small blaze in the Allen building
the corner OF Main and Fifth stree
The fire was extinguished before it h
gained much headway, and the dana
from fire and water. it is thought willn
exceed 800. There d a difference
opinion rs to the origin Of the fire. So
say il was started by q man who "
lying on bed, and Others say a b
who was playing around set At q
rate 1T started in the bed. The bell v
heard more distinctly than from tie 1