The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
Blarh Rills CLINTON.
RAPID CITY. 8, D.
UNION PUBLISHING 90, PuHs.
ABOUT SOUTH DAKOTA

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ABOUT SOUTH DAKOTA.
Matthews Will Draw Salary as a Congress.
man-Kllled in a We'll at Sioux Falls by
Fire Damp-Brevities.
It is very seldom that q proposition goes
through either branch of congress upon as
narrow a margin as was given one for q
prominent citiz n of South Dakota. The
house agreed, by vote of GA to SO, to retain
in the general deficiency bill the PROPOSE
ton to pay Geo. A. Mathews, of Brook
ings. $1,000 salary as congressional dele
gate. Mathews, it will be remembered,
was elected delegate to congress in 1883,
and was to have taken his seat March 4,
1889, but the omnibus bill which gave
statehoods to the Dakotas went into effect
before he was given au opportunity to take
his seat, and he was deprived Of Ills salary,
although he performed many of the labors
of the office. The house debated the qros-
ton for about two hours, there being many
speeches pro and con. Messrs. Rogers, Of
Arkansas; Mcmillan, Of Tennessee; Kerr,
of Iowa, and Buchanan, of New Jersey,
made the principal speeches in OPPOSE
ton.
Mr.. Kerr was very determined in his ef-
fort to defeat the measure, declaring that
it was an outrage to pay a mau n salary
when ne had never performed any Of the
labors in the capacity of a delegate. He
said that if Mathews was dead he would DO
willing to give him his salary, but he was
now lvino oo1 oorpipr hiu livipr
Messrs. Peters, of Kansas; Cutcheon, of
Michigan; Dunnell, of Minnesota, and
Henderson, of Iowa, made strong speeches
in favor of the proposition. Mr.. Dunnell
made a very telling speech in which he re-
cited how Mathews came to Washington
Immediately after the election and began
to perform the work which IS now lone by
the two members of the house and two
senators. Mathews, he stated, hired
three clerks and had m enormous
amount of congressional work to perform.
He started to Washington with his
wife, but she became i'll and stopped
off at Chicago. Within q short
time she grew violently i'll and Mathews
went to her and in attempting to haver her
removed to her home in South Dakota she
died. The expense attending her illness
and death was much larger, Dunnell
stated, than the amount proposed to pay
him, and Mrs. Mathews would never have
grown Ill nor have died, in all probability,
had her husband not been elected to con-
& ess and gone in advance to do his work.
Col. Henderson cited presidents from
two democratic congresses, and after pay
ing q high compliment to Mathews for his
y rsonal worth, said that there could be
u,thing dangerous in the precedent of al
loving Mathews this pay, as there are SO
few territories remaining that the govern
ment could not feel the loss, even though
the example was followed in every instance
possible.
The senate will agree to thu proposition
and Mr.. Mathews will get bis pay.
Death at the Bottom of Well.
Irueman Brockway, a car repairer on tho
Sioux Falls motor line. was overcome by
fire damp in a we'll and ~asphyxiated. The
accident occurred Thursday night while
Brockway was drilling at the bottom of
the company's we'll. Acomrade Was at the
top of the we'll when the accident occurred.
He heard Brockway say, IT believe there
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cending the ladder, but fell back dead.
The body was recovered and will be
shipped to Luverne, Mimi, where the de-
ceased formerly lived. A lantern lowered
into the we'll in search Of the body went
out before descending three feet, showing
conclusive evidence of fire damp. Brock
way leaves a wife and five children.
Told in Brief.
MINER county's assessed valuation is
Sl,277, 944; exemptions, S1O6, 399.
HELEN COUGAR says the equal suffrage
amendment will carry in South Dakota.
DEADwooD is hot under the collar on
the issue Of a base ball game with Oh adron.
ONE hundred and sixty acres of cement
land at Yankton were sold last week for
$S,0UO.
THREE soldiers narrowly escaped drown
ing at Fort Pierre by the capsizing OF o
sailboat.
The Yankton cement plant expects to
the manufacture of cement in
about sixty days.
MRS. JOHN A. CASTOR has received her
commission as alternate delegate from
South Dakota to the worlds fair.
THERE are between 200, 900 and 800, O0C
acres of land open for settlement in South
Dakota east Of the Missouri river.
IT is asserted that before snow flies al
least ten artesian wells will be flowing in
Biendon township, Dawson county.
WHILE coming down q steep hill near
Deadwood F.. @. Clark WAS thrown from
his wagon, breaking and severely crushing
his leg.
REPRESENTATIVES, Of a prominent Chi
cago Stock yard are in Pierre trying to
make arrangements to locate q stock yard
in Fort Pierre.
IT is said that an a~rtesian water powe,
company is to be organized at Yankton fol-
the purpose OF furnishing power for manu-.
featuring purposes.
ALTON is the name of the new postofhct
established on the Burlington, Ceda;
Rapids and Northern railway ct Paine.
%stntion, Covington county.
MRS. RANDOLPH SHOWER, of Peoria
Bottom, asked her little son to start a fir,
30 she could get supper. The little fellow
set tire to the straw surrounding the stable
which with its contents was destroyed, but
the boy and the supper were saved.
FARMERS in the vicinity of Lakota ore
engaging extensively in sheep raising
Seven thousand head arrived last week from
Montana and more will follow In a shor
time.
IT is reported that a rich strike has beer
made in the Blacktail Chief, a mimi,
claim near Garden City. The rock which
is being taken out is said to average S23C
per ton.
CYRUS j. FRY, United States marshal
for South Dakota, brought in two notet
horse thieves from Pine Ridge to Dead,
wood for examination before Commits
sioner Coad.
Rev. w. H. MAsToN has resigned as
pastor of the Methodist church at. DeSmet
aud will labor at the Yankton Indiar
agency. He will be succeeded by Rev. G.
T.. Beswick, of Brooklyn, N. Y.