The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-29
Told In Few Limos.

HE prairie CnlCkon crop IS now ma
tured.
THE Episcopalians of Deadwood Gre
talking Of building a church.
SOUTH DAKoTA's wheat crop is now
estimated at 90, 1000, 900 bushels.
J. H, KL1NEFE1T, o postal clerk, died
at Tracy last Wednesday afternoon.
E. F. WEsTFALL, of Aberdeen, this sea-
son cut with one header about 400 acres of
grain.
FREEMAN KNOWLES has been prospect
ing for a building at Deadwood to which
to move his Tilford printing plant pre-
paratory to the publication Of o daily in
the interest Of the independent movement.
asst week, OF Harvey City, Milton
Everly met with an accident which will
lay him up for some weeks. He was riding
bareback and his broncho, making q sudden
stop, threw him off. He went over the
animals head and the fall broke one of his
legs.
STEVE Drown, Of Artesian, became in
volved in a little unpleasantness with the
rest of the family the other day, after which
he gathered together his personal effects
and departed with the avowed intention of
never returning, and thus far he has kept
his word.
A CASE Of rare presence of mind on the
part of q 12-year-old boy at Kampeska re-
Gently is worthy Of notice. A little 3.year-
old boy fell into the %cistern; his 12-, cor
old brother, Matthew Elgie, saw the &C.
cident and ct first started to cali his
mother, who was some distance away, but
thinking his brother might drown before
he could get buck, slid down the pump
and grabbed hold of his brother, holding
him above water until both were rescued
by nelghbors.
YANKToN is organizing IN independent
military company.
FOREST CITY has some light-fngered
gent who makes q business of stealing
picket ropes.
WOLsEY's arteslan we'll is now over 400
feet deep. A flow of natural gas was
struck at $40 feet.
CUSTER City hopes to receive its row
railroad between the goth of September
and the LIST of October.
REV. JoRGENsoN, of Fort Pierre, is
working to establish a religious hospital
" JIG 1AulhAo ~ ludl p!uCes
WILL, Reddy and Henry Youngman
wrestled side hold" at Deadwood for SO
q side. Reddy won the stakes by three
straight throws.
The regular mid month cleanup of the
belt mines of the Black Hills was shipped
east Sunday, and the aggregate amount of
the Same was $156, 000.
IT is likely that the buildings at the
lower Brule agency will be donated to the
Indians when they cease to be of use to
the government officials.
IHE Burlington & Missouri River rail-
road company has opened up q fight on
the original package dealers and boot
leggers who are infesting the line it is
building through the Black Hills, and has
many of them under arrest.
WILLIAM j. MILL, while at work in this
Caledonia mine on one of the ore cars, had
his hand crushed in o terrible shape, TAX
ing the entire top of the middle finger off.
It was on his first shift in the mine. He
is on engineer by trade, mining being en-
tirely new to him.
The following granger item comes from
Sully county: Some of the west end farm
ers are attaching hay rakes to their mowers
and making one team do the moving and
raking at the same time. As the hay is
cured before it is cut the scheme is a good
one and saves time and work.
MIR. VAN DoREN, who has been running
q herd on the line between Aurora and
Douglas counties, obtained permission to
water his cattle at Arcon's lake on the
reservation on condition that he drive bis
cattle to the lake and right back. Not
satisfied with doing this he in o few DAYS
got bold and drove the entire herd over
on the west side of Andes creek, and was
herding 266 head there when the Indian
police swooped down o. him, and together
with his cattle, he was taken to the agency.
The fine is 81 per head for al, animals
found on the reservation not belonging
there. Mr.. Van Doren will, in all prob
ability, have to put up the sum of 1885
for q few days herdi ng.
The Sioux Indians at some Of the
agencies are protesting against the recent
order OF the Indian bureau requiring that
in the future beef shall be issued to them
from the block instead 81 alive. Thew
are e~ndeavoring to have the order re-.
scinded, as they prefer to do their own
~butchering.
ANoLA LANDINGHAM sustained q very
painful accident last week while herdine
cattle near her home OF Wolsey. Her
mother was cutting hay near by, when the
little girl undertook to drive the cattle
awayfrom the mower, when har foot was
caught ia the gulrds and the sickle nearly
1-.--.na In. $50 f~a~eE hav Eoy1y1a - IL -
thought emputationsRilI not DO necesssry.