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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Told In Brief,

The fax mill plant to be put in at Marion
will cost 1926, 900.
A DEN of ten young foxes was found
near Wolsey the other day.
POTTER county's seed wheat bonds, to
the amount of 81, 900, sold for 80 per cent.
A STAGE line now makes regular trips
between Pierre and Midland, Nowlin
county.
MILLER wants a manufacturing enter
prise to locate in that place and utilize the
surplus power of the %artesian well.
MRS. WALLACE, mother of Gen. Lew
Wallace, author of Ben Hur," is.expected
to lecture in the principle cities of South
Dakota this summer.
THE contract for building tho Fort Sully
water works has been let for 50, 900. The
cost of the plant when completed will be
about $25, 900, the government furnishing
all the material. A mile and a half of pipe
will be laid at the present time.
PROSPECTS are good for the building Of
alinseed oil mill at Aberdeen this summer.
TwERTY emigrant trains have passed
through Harold in the past few days en-.
route for the reservation.
TIE A. o. U. w. seed wheat fund for
South Dakota has SO far amounted to over
ST, 1000, which has been divided among 179
members of forty lodges of the order.
AN artesian we'll a few miles from Huron
promises to be a gusher. The flow already
shoots up a foot or more tho agh q four
inch pipe and drilling will continue until it
is increased.
THE Biggest Liar in Town" was the
title of a rather personal sermon preached
by a Huron divine. The Huronite says
the editors and lawyers of the city were
conspicuous by their unanimous absence
from church.
AN equal suffrage society has been or
ganized at Okoboio.
SOME criminal cases are to be tried in
the United States court at Sioux Falls in
q shortstime which are of vital Importance
to the prisoners. They are for outrage on
Indian women at Yankton agency. The
penalty for this offense, under United
States law, is death. Officers are now at
the agency securing evidence.
The bleached bones Of a man were
found in one Of the large boilers at the city
'gas works in Pierre. The boilers have
been in constant use for four months, and
the man must have been boiling all that
time. There, are no means of identifca-
ton, and his identity and how he got into
the boiler will perhaps forever remain d
mystery.
THE Mound City postofice is now .
money order Office.
a NEW Methodist church will be dedi.
Gated At Brady May II:
The Black Halls Chatatique assembly Of
Hot Springs has fled articles of incorpora.
tton yithsshs Secretary q stste.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Remnants Program.

At a meeting of the Exile Petition asso-
citation in Philadelphia, George Kenuan,
the Siberian traveller, gave his views as to
what can be lone for the relief of the ex-
lies. The petition which he presented last
fall, he said, promised to be one of the
largest ever presented to any ruler. He
did not anticipate that it would have any
effect in making the car acquainted with
any new facts, but by showing the intense
feeling abroad in relation to the unfortu-
nate exiles it would exert q great moral
effect. Every year, he said, the Rus
sian government is sending people
| to the remotest parts Of Siberia by
without trial. They are not charged with
any crime, but the government is satisfied
that their influence is political in the cir.
Giles in which they move, and they are ex-
lied TO the Arctic parts of the country, or
about 5000 or 6 1000 miles from st. Peters
burg, for five or ten years. Generally, he
said, wives voluntarily accompany their
husbands into exile, and, by the death of
the latter. are soon left without means of
any kind. If there is any reason why some
thing should not be done to alleviate the
AAiooAAto Va GAeoo PoOpAo 1 CAOoIldS uc
wished to know what it. could be. Mr..
KEENAN, read an affecting letter written,
q few hours before his execution, by
Kohan- Bernstein, an exile, to his child,
and he thought that such matters should
be published in pamphlet form for era
tuitous distribution. He suggested, also,
That the movement for the relies OF the ex-
lies could be carried forward in connection
with that of the petition, saying that the
former would heighten the effect of the
latter.
Rev. DR.. McVickar, the chairman of the
association, stated that the committee at
times was met with the objection that the
stories of Russian cruelty had been denied.
To this Mr.. Herman said he fell back on
the official Russian documents and if he
could not overthrow any reply of the Rus
sian authorities to his charges he was will
ing to sink into obscurity. He was ready,
he said, to go before the international
prison congress, which is to meet at St.
Petersburg, and prove his assertions, if
the Russian government would permit
him to call his witnesses. 1t was time
enough, be added. to defend himself when
he was attacked. He believed his case to
be impregnable.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
cHERoKFns-w11I. SELL.
~ Certain Things Are Conceded They VIM
Dispoae Of the Outlet.

~ Certain Things Are Conceded They WIN
Dispose Of the Outlet.
Il is no longer . question whether che
Cherokees favor a sale or NOT Of what 10
known as the Cherokee outlet. Since
Chief Mayes' arrival home from Washing
ton city there has been almost q constant
demand made upon him by both half
breeds and fnll-blood Cherokees to CON
yene the national council in extra session
and declare at once that they favor . sale at
50 per acre and certain notifications OF the
treaty Of 1856. They do not do this for
fear that the government will take these
lands, right or wrong, but it is because
they have ZONE to the conclusion that It Is
TO their interest to make the sale. They
say if the government will agree to remove
all intruders in their country east Of Sc
degrees and keep them out, abregate the
fifteenth article of the TREATY Of 1886 au-
taorizing the settlement of civilized In
dians east Of the SO degrees, repeal allland
grants to railrods running through their
country, recognize the jurisdiction Of the
Cherokee courts over all their citizens,
both civil and criminal, and give them So
per acre, they would prefer to sell rather
than hold the strip and lease it at the price
that it is now leased for.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
SOUTH DAKOTA SPRING NOTES.
Another spouter.

Avery strong dow Of water mas been
struck at the artesian well on the Day
Harrison farm just southwest of Huron.
The flow is equal to about 500 barrels an
hour. Just before the vein was reached
the drill suddenly dropped several inches
and was quickly followed by a roaring
sound, when the water shot through both
waste pipes several feet in the air. These
pipes are three and four inches and the
pressure sufficient to send up a solid
column of water from eighteen to. twenty
feet. ) Workmen are engaged putting the
farm in shape for irrigation, it being the
intention of Messrs. Day & Harrison to
give irrigation a thorough test by means Of
water from the artesian we'll. Much Of
the ditohing is already done. The farm
and we'll is visited hourly by scores Of peo-
pie. The we'll was bored by E. Robens,
of Huron, and is a perfect gusher, being
1926 feet deem.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02

A party of hunters from White Right, in
Grayson county, and Savot, Tex, while In
Indian territory were cut off by rising
water and compelled to take to the trees,
where they have been for two days. A
relief party has left Bingham with ropes
and boats, but as the Red river is full of
drift and the current very rapid it is doubt
full if they can help the hunters. the
chances are that the party will perish.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02

The steam gin and saw mill of Charles
Lawrence, situated in Sparkey county,
three miles from Rolling Fork, MISS, was
burned Saturday night. The loss is
small. Fifty or sixty of Mr.. Law
rence's tenants were quartered in the mill,
and in their efforts to escape from the
homes seven were drowned. They had
taken refuge there from the overflow, and
it is stated that their carelessness caused
the fire. The report that several lives
had heen lost in the Lobdell disaster has
been confirmed. A.family named Watson,
numbering five persons, was drowned.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Dissatisfied Redskins.

Word has been received from the troop
recently dispatched to the reservation al
Fort Meade to the effect that the Indians
on the Cheyenne reservation in Scobey and
Sterling counties are dissatisfied and that
trouble is brewing. Rev. Mr.. Riggs,super-
intendent of the missions at the Cheyenne
agency, has been sent for by the Indians to
talk over matters, and word has also been
sent for the Indian agent to come to the
front at once and use his influence. 1t is
said a large area of country on both sides
of the Cheyenne river has been burned
over by the hostiles.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Cyclone in Texas.

A telegram from Austin, Tex, to the st.
Louis Post Dispatch says: The little town
of Kyle, twenty miles south Of here, was
visited by a cyclone and houses were over
turned and several swept away. Several
persons were injured, but none killed.
The Kyle seminary, a large frame building,
was lifted from its foundation and carried
some twenty feet, but it was not seriously
hurt. The destruction Of fences and grow.
ing crops in the track of the storm was
very great,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Sarah Althea OH the Warpath.

Sarah Althea Terry made her. appearance
in the Office of {. G. Sayle, administrator
of the estate of David S. Terry, aud de-
manded some money. Sayle said he had
none on hand belonging to the estate, but
there were law books that might be sold.
She then went into the adjoining office of
Caldwell, who is the attorney for the ad-
ministrator, and after ~wrangling with him
she was elected from the office. She re-
turned and smashed the windows and
made a scene. Sayle left his Office and
she followed, threatening to shoot him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02

now proposed to do away with the present
numerous transfers by a uniformity Of
guage, though I think this will not he
done, the enormous expense Of the change
not being justified by the slight expense in
transferring freight. l have learned o
great deal during my stay in America, and
I shall probably make a report upon the
results of my American railroad observa-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
stowawaxs sufocated.

A steamship just arrived at San Fran
cisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama
brings the news that on the arrival of a
Japanese steamer in Hong Kong, March
26, from Nagasaki, the bodies of eight dead
Japanese women were discovered in the
hold, having been sufocated during the
passage. They had slowed themselves
away in the endeavor to leave the country,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Last of a Dangerous Gang.

], N. sigsby and his son, William, have
been arrested at Birmingham, Ala, on the
charge Of making and passing counterfeit
money. The Sigsbys are the last of the
family once famous as the Joe Bennefeld
gang Of counterfeiters and outlaws who
operated in Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bsma. They made and passed thousands
of dollars of counterfeit money and killed
six detectives who attempted to capture
them at different times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02

ACCORDING to the British National Sea-
Fisheries Protection association sea fisher
les all over the world are suffering from
the reckless destruction Of immature fish.
Communications have been sent to all the
European maritime states, and to the
United States Of America, suggesting q
friendly conference on the question, under
the auspices Of the society, with q view to
united action.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
French

Twelve anarchists have been arrested in
Paris. Among those taken into custody
were the Marquis De Mores ard his Sec
rotary. A number Of additional arrests
have been made at various places through
out France. The prisoners are charged
with melting the workmen to riot and
plllage.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
wiping Ont Miohigan's Bonded Debt.

On Thursday, May l, the last Of Michi-
gan's bonded debt, amounting to $229, 900,
will mature and the bonds will be called in
and paid from the sinking fund. The
bonds Issued for war purposes aggregated
$2,555,4O0. About one-half were payable
at the pleasure of the state, and were long
since retired. The remaining half are
payable May l, 1890. Efforts have been
made to retire all these and save the inter
est, but they commanded so high a prem
ium that all could not be secured until ma
thrifty.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Arteslan Well Conditions.

The flow of artesian wells in the James
River valley depends largely upon the
porosity of the water-bearinR sand rock
which they penetrate. This scientific
fact has recently found confirmation in e1-
periments made by VIM. Tenant, presi-
dent of the Aberdeen Roller Mills COM
pany and a close student of a~rtesian phys
les. During q recent trip through the
southern portion Of the James VAL
ley Tennant secured samples of the sane
thrown out from artesian wells, among
others those of Woonsocket and
at Mellette, Sphinx county. Having
noticed that the amount of wateS dis
charged from the wells located in the
southern portion of the valley was greater
than that of those farther north, making
allowance for the greater pressure of some
wells, due to their location, and the head"
secured, MIR. Tenant began his e1amina-
ton of the sand. expecting that the lower
wells would show rock Of a coarser grain,
and the result fully verifes his c%onjec-
ture. Scattered pon a polished steel SUR
face and exposed to the bright sunlight
the grains of the Mellette a~rtesian sand
were found to be perceptibly larger than
those from the Woonsocket we'll, seventy
miles farther south. A comparison be-
tween the Mellette sand and specimens
from the Aberdeen wells, twenty eight
miles farther north. revealed q slight differ
ence In size, p%erceptible to the naked eye.
Examined under au ORDINARY microscope
the difference in size of the grains,
especially between those from Woonsocket
and Aberdeen, was quite marked. The
size of the rock cells, however, seems to
have no great influence upon the pressure
of the wells, though Mr.. Tenant says that
the finer grain of the sandrock beneath
Aberdeen perhaps accounts for the greater
pressure of the local wells. Other expert
ments looking to the utilization of the
subterranean water power Of the James
valley are in progress.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
THE MARKETS.


Hoga-Estimated receipts, 1000; official
yesterday, 2,73I. Market opened fairly steady
and soon declined Sc Quotations: Light, 1895 .
400 mixed. s3.97kY1.OO; heavy, $500 I,CS,
urday, $40. Shipments, 23l. Market quiet and
steady; good grade cattle in small dehand:
co.nmen light scrubby stuff wi ! GO loser
Quotations: Fat steers, prime, $500 d
4o5; mesium to good, S3.e6 9.8.e5: feeders.
choice 900 to LOO pounds, 1896 49, Is medium,
to good, $2.75 2.90; stockers, choice.
g. 764 90 medium to good, 81 5Oa2 10 inferior,
$2s592,4 40; COWS, extra choipe, s2,76as.o0;
medium TO good, 1850 a.2.TO; common to infer.
Tor. S1.9o 2,S6; banners, 75c 81. rs; yearlinRa.
choice. $2,65@2. a0i common, S2.lO9aa,8O; bulls.
$3.50 ass.
South Omaha 1.-Two Stock.
aHosa-Estimated receipts, $500; official Sat.
urrday, 3,675. Market opened easy: seliifp
at Sli0@4.l0; bulk at S4.65.
Cattle-Estimated receipts, $500; Official
Saturday, 1925; shipments, 81 cars. Market
steady, quality common.
Chicago Live Stock.
Hogs-Reoeipts 28.000. Market slow, weak and
lower. Light S4.ooD1.25; heavy packing and
shipping, $4.15g4.30.
Cstle-Reoeipts, 1900. Market quiet and
shesp--Rsofipts, 1000. Market duist, steady
70 weak. Poor 10 best et,o005a0. Lambs,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
Gratifying Crop Prospects.


The crop prospects in Dawson and al,
joining counties are better this spring
than they have been since 1883. The soil
contains plenty of moisture and is in
prime condition for blowing and planting.
The small grain looks OF good color and is
growing rapidly. All the available ground
is being seeded. Indications are that a
large acreage of corn will be planted. Tree
planting is a part of the spring work
that all are engaging in to o greater
extent than usual, both in towns and
in country. A visit among the farmers re-
veals the fact that they we're never buster
and never so hopeful of a good crop as
they are at present. A year ago they sowed
Snsar SrSaRAn xhe dry ouse. ouo now rne
ground is as nearly right with respect t
moisture as nature could make it. If We
get the usual amount of rain in May and
June, with the present favorable start
which grain has attained, the crop will
be assured. With the exception of q few
windy, dry days, the weather has thus fa1
been cool and favorable, with o rather
humid atmosphere.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
STAGE PEOPLE HURT.
A SOUTHERN ACCIDENT IN WHICH ONE
WAS KILLED.

A Chesapeake 4 ohio Train Runs Through
Its Brakes-Eigl,ty Miles An Hour When
a Pullman Leaves the Tracks-Other
Sorts of News from Other Places.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02

Reckless Students at Rutgers College.
The members of the Theta MI Epsilon
fraternity Of Rutgers college at . New
Brunswiok, N. j., had what they call o
high old time Tuesday evening. The fun,
however, may cost the lives of several of
those whom they initiated into the mys-
teries of their circle. Eleven men had
been chosen as members without their
knowledge or consent and Tuesday even.
ing was selected for the initiatory cere-
monies. At IL o'clock a concerted raid
was made on the sleeping places of their
victims and the candidates captured. They
we're blindfolded and their hands tied behind
their backs. Then each man was stripped
entirely naked and marched into the street.
At a certain point the eleven were Brought
together and tied in line like a chain gang.
Tney were then solemnly walked through
tho streets, receiving chastisement from
switches which their drivers held. There
are several small streams in the neighbor-
hood of the college and one or two pretty
bad boys. Through these the naked boys
were urged and then they were brought to
the bank of the river and walked over the
sharp stones till their feet bled, and
through briars and unherbrush until their
bodies were lacerated. Even this did
not satisfy the thirst for excite
ment and d"eviltrY, and the poor
victims were united when in the center
OF the Albany street bridge, and one BY
one, by means Of a long rope, were lowered
down into the river and held there for a few
minutes with the water just to the level of
their mouths. The shlvering set was then
taken to the place Of rendezvous, dressed
and forced to drink large quantities of bad
whisky on the p%retense that it would coun-
teract the bad effect Of the dipping. The
men we're then taken to the hall, where
they were again stripped and on the back
Of each was tattooed in India ink the sacred
mark Of the Theta Mu Epsilon. The ini-
tiation closed with a general shaving Of
hair from the face, head and body. Avid
and hilarious debauch called a banquet
ended the nights orgies.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
An Indian Messiah.

A letter has been received by Gen.
Kruger, OF the department of Dakota, in
st. Paul, from Maj. Carroll, of Fort Gus.
ter, Mont, giving the details of a peculiar
excitement among the Indians Of the
Tongue river agency in Montana. The
Indians have been led to believe that a
messiah is soon to appear to them. The
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, of the Indian
territory, are greatly excited over the same
matter. 1t appears, that though these In
dian tribes are fully q thousand miles apart
they both have the same belief that a
savior is soon coming to them and that he
will destroy the white people of America.
The Shoshone Indians claim to have seen
Christ and that he has promised to roll the
world over IN the whites. 1t is believed
the Indians have mixed up the religion of
the missionaries with the mythology of the
aborigines. Mag. Carroll has been ordered
to the scene of the excitement.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
VERY HIGH WATER,
Condition of the Overlooked Districts in
Louisiana

Condition of the Overlooked Districts in
Louisiana
Both ends of the Martinez crevasse have
been secured and determined efforts will
be made to close it. The water is rapidly
filling the country to the rear.
The people Of Gross Etee and West
Baton Rouge are as fast as possible taking
their stock and cattle over to the hills for
safety. It is thought the highest places
in the latter place will escape the over
flow.
The steamer Wheeler, that has been do
ing relief work around Morganza, has ar
rived. Her captain says:
We went as high as the mouth of the
Red river in search of all that needed as
sistance. We brought down a few people
and some stock. The steamer Henry
Marks proceeded down the Aatchafalye,
but the people there refused to leave their
homes. So far there has been no loss of
life reported, and the damage in the over
flowed sections at and in the vicinity of
Morganza are confined almost exclusively
to crops in the field"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
a Slick SwindIc.

The Kansas City Stars Ulysses, Has,
special says: The investigation into Of
fetal acts of the commissioners Of this
county have proceeded far enough to war
rant their arrest and the arrest of others
implicated in the bounty swindle. To-day
arrests were made of County Clerk Geo.
w. carp and County Commissioners D. s..
Sullivan, G. L. Green and 1. M. Lenhart,
and $. D. Barber, O. A.. Robinson and
George D%oughtery. The clerks
and commissioners are charged
with the illegal issue of county
scrip given as bounty to the latter four
persons mentioned. The bounty was on
the scalps of wolves and the alleged lille
gal issue of scrip amounted in all to $1G,-
600. In the complaints for and against
the accused, it is alleged that the conspira-
tors would present a sack of scaips to the
county commissioners, who would author
ize the issuance Of scrip in payment Of
bounty. The sack would be placed where
another member of the party could steal
it, who would, in turn, present it again to
the commissioners In this way the one
sack WAS presented over and over again,
until bounty had been paid to the amount
of SIG. 600 OIL a quarter of a million scalps.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-02
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