The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-11
postmasters' Salaries RcadjuSted.

Brookings, $1,40O to $1,000; Dell
Rapids, $1,000 to S1,1oo; Ipswich, $1,000
to $1,000; Kimball, S1,100 to $1,000;
Miller, 81, 200 to 81, 100; Parker, 81, 100 to
81, 200; Pierre, ST. 500 to ST., 900; Plaukin-
ton, ST. 600 to $1,000; Vermillion, $l,3GO
to $1,400; Woonsocket, $1,000 to 81, 300.
Told in Few Lines.
THE assessed valuation of Pierre is over
$4,000, 900.
A PRAIRIE dog city occupies q whole
section in Charles Mix county.
The Pierre band will accompany the
editors on their trip to the Black Hills.
TWENTY-FIVE. thousand dollars worth
of Pierre city bonds have been sold at
$3.50 premium to the National Bank Of
Commerce of that city.
The announcement comes from Pierre
that State Superintendent Pinkhom has
reconsidered and now announces himself
as q candidate for denomination.
A GR1sT MILL has been erected at the
Crow Creek Indian agency in Buffalo
county, fol the benefit of the Grow Creeks,
who are conceded to be the most industri-
GUS, wealthiest and most civilized tribe IN
the great Sioux nation. The mill is fitted
up with the largest improved machinery
and the best grades of -four are manufac-
tured. Their grain is bought by the gov
eminent, they receiving the same price for
it as they would get in the markets of the
adjoining towns. and the. -four is issued
back to them in the shape of %rations. This
is done to encourage them as much as
pocccib1o ip roicinr croiD Wlifa Ghost
one of the wisest and most honored Indi-
ans in the whole Sioux nation, is head
chief of this tribe.
WHILE Mrs. Eastman, of Mound City,
was chopping wood the other day the ak
glanced and struck q young man named
Weller on the back Of the head, crushing
his skull and making a hole about two
inches square,. The young man walked
two miles TO a doctor, had his wound
dressed and is in a fair way to recover.
A w~ATERsPoUT struck Brookings Sun
day, doing much damage by filling up
cellars and running merchandise and pro-
visions stored therein.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the jamestown
Alert tells a hard story of q turkey COB
bier in his town. The aforesaid bird,
without any regard for his sex, has for a
year been possessed Of q desire to raise a
family, and none of the usual arguments
applicable to hens in like cases could per-
suade his gobblership to the contrary. So
his owner concluded to let him set. In due
time q dozen chickens rewarded his care.
The chicks were taken away as soon as
hatched. The gobbler was disconsolate
and was given a second batch of eggs to
operate upon. Another brood is due soon
and the gobbler will be allowed to have
full control of their bringing up.
MRS. JOHN PARKER, wife of a Dawson
county farmer, has started a new industry
and one that promises to be a perfect sue
cess. She has about 5000 silk worms,
which she has carefully tended this sum
mer and which are now slowing themselves
away into golden cocoons. These worms
have for some time past required half o
dozen baskets full of mulberry leaves a
day to satisfy their appetites. Mrs.
Parker will enjoy the distinction of being
the first woman to wear a silk dress made
Of South Dakota silk.
Al BIG hailstorm passed over the north
ern part of Hand county, damaging crops
considerably.
UNION county organized a county Farm
ers alliance last week, with a membership
Of $50 farmers. There are over 1000 ALI
ance members in the counties of Union,
Clay, Lincoln and Minnehaha.
THE bodies Of all but one'of the victims
Of the Potter county cloudburst have been
recovered. The missing one is that of q
little child named Mosher, and was prob
ably carried By the torrent into the Mis-
souri, and is BY this time past recovery.
Al Republican club With 100 members
has been organized vt Warner.
Loren Eletcher, Of Minneapolis, has sold
III farm of 10000 acres IN Rtchland county
q eastsrp parties for 100000; KAT