The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-23
South Dakota Events.

ouLLf county FARMERS are planting q
larger acreage of corn this season than ever
before.
ON1DA citizens have asked to have the
postofice at that place put on the money
order'list.
A LIME kiln is being put in at Forest
City, being the only one within a radius of
200 miles.
THE okobojo Times, one of the biggest
weekly papers in South Dakota, has Just
started in on its seventh year.
THE Wesleyan chapel at Aberdeen was
broken into the other night and the contri-
button box robbed of between SO and S4.
E. w. RIGGLE, q Blunt attorney, was
thrown from his buggy by a runaway
broncho and sustained internal injuries
that may prove fatal.
TIL tusk of a mastodon was recently
unearthed near Whitewood. 1t evidently
belonged to q monster. 1t measured 4 feet
4 inches in length, IA inches in circumfer-
ence at the large end aud s inches at the
small end.
The Frederick Free Press says Roswell
Miller, manager of the Milwaukee railroad,
has shipped 200 barrels of salt into the
southern part of the county, to be dis
tributed to the farmers and sown by them
on growing grain. 1t is believed that salt
is q good fertilizer and will also hold mois-
ture In the ground. This shipment is made
for the purpose of experimenting. The
result will be looked for with interest.
FEW days ago three families of Fin
landers settled on farms in the northern
part OF Beadle county, near Broadland.
In one of the families there are nineteen
children, in another seventeen, and in the
third nine, the parents of the last family
having. been married hut ten years. These
families will soon be joined by four others,
all relatives, numbering forty-six persons,
making a total of n~inety-seven persons in
seven families.
FARMERS in tho neighborhood of Fort
Abraham Lincoln are alarmed at the propo-
sition to abandon the fort at the present
time. They say they settled in the country
with the understanding that they were to
be protected agaiest the raids Of hostile
Indians, thousands of whom are camped
within a days journey of the fort, and that
If the protection is withdrawn they will be
compelled to abandon their farms. A petit
ton will be forwarded to the war depart
ment.
The new town Of Piedmont has a bank.
The South Dakota theological institute
will meet at Yankton July s and continue
in session one week.
ABOUT 800 men are employed in grad
ing the Burlington Il Missouri road from
Dudley to Deadwood.
MISS JosEHHINE CRowFEATHER. a
fu!l-blooded Sioux maiden. has taken the
veil at Yankton and become O Benedictine
nun. Her father is a Sioux chief.
GOV. MELLETIE refused to approve
leases of school lands made April IL where
the price was less than l cent per acre, and
all such lands have been released.
The expenses of the recent session of
the South Dakota legislature amounted to
S95, O34. %. The senate cost the state S23.-
553.1O and the house S59.4S2 30, while
$4,000 was expended in legislative print
ing.
MRS. Ollie GIBSON, of Elm Park, Doug
las county, became Respondent over money
matters and attempted suicide by taking
laudanum. A doctor was summoned, and
after some hours OF hard work succeeded
in saving her life.
SUPERVISOR OF CENSUS WAKEFIELD.
whose district includes all that part of
South Dakota east of the Missouri river,
states that he has divided his district into
42O sub-districts, all the enumerators for
which have been appointed.