The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-11-20
DAKOTA o NEWS.
Ncws Notes Collected Hero and There in
the Artesian State,

MEMO is to have a Touring mill with at
least $4,000 back of 1t.
The net receipts of the late Catholic
falr at DeadWood are MI even S1,TOO.
THE band boys at Sioux Fails are civ.
Ing q series Of dances at aeftnania hall.
A Mrs. EVANS, at Yankton, wa yis:
lied BY . number of Yankton's tharIta.
Die ladies Thursday last. She was
found to be In d destitute condition, liv-
ing In ono small room with five small
children, the eldest being only z years
old. She was provided for in q liberal
manner and will not suffer for want of
food or fuel In the near future.
|. IN canvassing the vote of the First
ward at Sioux Falls it WAS discovered
that on governor there were 444 votes
recorded, while for clerk of courts and
states attorney. there was a falling off
of sixty votes Iii each Office. The COM
missioners sent for the judges of election
but they could not explain the reason of
the shortage. The ballots were then
taken from the box and counted. They
numbered 44s In all, two short of the
number OF names on the poll book.
The citizens of Doland felt so good
over the big vote q. B. Korns polled all
over the county that OIL Wednesday
morning they procured iii open buggy
and put q barber chair in it and pulled
it up in front of his office. Before he
knew what was going on they picked
him up bodily and placed him in the
chair. About twenty men took hold of
the rope and pulled him upand down the
street, amid the cheering of spectators
on the sidewalks.
JAMESTOWN Alert: Farmers in this
county are doing Il good deal of fall
blowing and expect to get the limit of
land in crop next spring. The general
feeling that a cycle of wet years has
been entered upon has revived conf
dcncc in the productivcness of our soil,
and the farmers are getting in shape to
receive the full benefit of these good
crop years. From now until the freeze
up, which may be expected in ten DAYS
or two weeks, there will be a large
amount of land turned over.
A DEADwooD cook took an ounce of
laudannm Saturday night, then a doctor
made him take an emetic, and now the
would-bc-suicidc will probably survive.
The cause of the suicide is said to be
blighted and spurncd affection. The OBJ
Ject of his alteration is a woman known
as Swcdc Lena. According to Lena's
story, Sprague was jealous of another
fellow, and insisted on an Immediate
marriage. He told her that she must
either marry him or beuone his wife and
if She refused both of these alternatives
he would make a blue, cold, clammy
corpse of himself. Lena stood pat, how
ever, and Informed him that she would
not marry a man who smoked cigarettes.
Sprague accordingly filled his frecklcd
hide full of laudanum.
MAYOR PECK and Il band of police
raided two gambling houses in Sioux
Falls the other night, capturing the ia
b]es, poker chips, faro tables and all the
complicated devices known to the "pro- |
fcsh."
TRACY PRATT, of Pierre, makes the
statement that the capital campaign Just
closed has been the most costly ever
in the west. Both Huron and
went early into the field and
with all the latent power, phys
and financially, in them to win
fight. "In the campaign said Mr..
'of 1889. Pierre spent $50, 900.
This year our bills will foot up $500, 600.
and l really believe that Huron's cam
paign cost them more. There Is one
consolation, the money was all spent in
South Dakota"
''THE KINGS DAUGHTERS" of Yalik-
ton. are caring for Mrs. Evans and her
children. Mrs. Evans once lived hap
PLY with her husband in Lincoln county.
Several months ago the man left her
ostensibly to find work, but she heard
not a word from him until a week since,
when she discovered that he was at or
near Gayville, in this county. She
managed in some way to go to Gayvillc
and there found him, but with another
wife and family. He had secured n
divorce from his first wife and married
the divorced wife of another man. Mrs.
Evans came back to her little ones and
her humble home, saddcr but wiser.
SINCE Pierre secured the capital, plans
and specifications for several new build
ings have been drawn, among them being
fine residences for G.. II. Watson and j.
K. Nye. work on which will begin at
once.
TIMBER AGENT SMITH has been called
from Dcadwood to Washington in con-
nection with the recent examination
made by him of Black Hills timber dep
relations. 1t is evidently the intention
OF the government to try and convict
those guilty Of violating the timber laws
in that section.
JOHN CoGUL is wanted in Deadwood
for stealing an Overcoat and watch and
for small sums of money that he Dor
rowcd.
Tie Pullman car works has ordered
$12, 600 worth of the chain mortising ma
chimes which will soon be manufactured
in Sioux Falls.
A WORKMAN engaged in cutting off the
piles on the Elkhorn grade in Chinatown,
Deadwood, had his thumb nearly cut off
by a slip of the saw.
GEORGE FINNERTY. a conductor on the
kcokuk electric street railway, met with
a painful accident which resulted in the
complete paralysis of his left leg. He
was adjusting the trolly rope when a
passenger accidentally hit the motor
crank, turning on the current and CIV
ing the conductor a frightful shock.
REV. CHARLES POTTER visited Wolsey
for the purpose of examining the arte-
sian well at that place with a view of
establishing a flour mill there. He found
the power insufficient. When the water
had been shut off for a half hour or more
the pressure showed 14O pounds to the
square inch. but when permitted to flow
continuously it ran down to ninety
pounds. He believes the cause to be the
style of perforated pipe at the bottom of
the well and thinks the same could be
greatly improved.
CHARLEY Hobby was stabbed in the
neck by a rancher on election day at
Moulton precinct in Pennington county.
The stabbing was the resultof a quarrel,
and the knife barely missed severing
the jugular vein.
ABERDEEN had another gasoline ex-
| plosion at the home of Albert Kelly, but
the flames were extinguished with slight
damage before the fire department ar
rived.
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