The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-08-28
LETTER FRoM O

LETTER FROM DWIGHT.
The following is from the Sioux Falls
argus-leader of recent date;
"a letter was to day received from
Dwight, ILL.,, written by q Sioux Falls
gentlemen who is there taking the treat
merit. There arr 80 many items OF public
interest in the letter, that the Argus
Leader has secured permission to re-
produce it. After the customary in.
troductory remarks the writer says:
In the first place, Dwight is q success
with most people with whom 1 have
come incontact Il mean those who have
been here and gone away. As regards
those here now and those just going
away I can say nothing, as they haye
not had time to show any weakness yet,
but I met q number in Chicago who
had been cured for varying periods ex-
tending from one to five years. It has
not made any particular change with
me as yet, although even now l care
absolutely nothing for whiskey or any
other intoxicant. I shall stay here
about ten days more and then start for
home.
Dwight itself is q little t%umble-down
village OF about 1.5OO inhabitants, with
absolute prohibition-no foollshness
either. DR.. Keely owns the town, body
and soul and roots out ajoint OF any
kind before they start eve We have
plenty of waking and can jump on q
train and run out to any OF the adioin.
ing towns, but if one does so and should
get a drink they would mighty soon
find it out. The fact is that fellow don't
want to drink. One can't drink, it
don't taste good. They give US all the
whiskey we want as long as We don't
abuse the privilege-iree Of cost. All
you have to 90 is to ask for
it. After you have been here d week
though you don't care for it. In fact
they make you thoroughly sick OF it. ]
have a bottle Of whiskey in my now
that has been standing there untouched
ever since last Saturday Zone week.
One thing about it is: 1t makes a fel
low feel sleepy all the time. You know
how restless l ordinarily Am, well I car
sit still for an hour at a time and do
nothing but smoke and read. These
monkeys are coming money here-av.
erage gross receipts per week $4,000
last weeks RECEIPTS $17,5OO. Expens.
comparatively nothing. Six physicians
twelve or fourteen typewriters, two sec
retarles, three bookkeepers. treasurer
and assistant, and any quantity o
"supes." The physicians are mighty
fine fellows, good natured, but can "sit
down. on a fellow crushlngly. A fellow
can't spend any mony here, a ther;
is nothing to spend it for except fol
buttermilk and a package OF tobacco
or some fruit. Pears aid peaches go
cents a basket, apples rs cents a bushe
and n can take a walk in any direc
ton and get all he wants to eat for tn
picking them up. We have oyer 7Ot
patients here now. They come and g
all the time. Many OF them have theil
wives with them. We can board at on
OF the hotels or in a private family, a
we please. the price OF board rang1n,
from Sc to S21 a week (the last only a
the second best hotel, which is not quit
as large as the C%ataract.) The class o
people here though, are, or rather wer
a surprise to- me. They ar
all comparatively we'll dressed
very few as plainly az
am, and are an EXCEPTIONALLY fine, In.
tellectual crowd Of good-natured, Jolly
fellows; no lines OF classification what
ever. Every body knows that every
body came here for the same purpose
and they josh each other lndiscriminate
ly. We have several miilionalres here
thirty orforty doctors and dentists; owe
sixty LAWYERS, about twenty preachers
several circuit judges and one suprem,
court judge from Observation-Disclosures ever,
class of people-a great many editors
and journalists.
| The rough class don't come here, al
it is to expensive. Not only that bu'
they would feel lost here. We hav,
regular club rooms where we can com,
and read and write write letters and have
. good time generally, but no billiards o
pool allowed in town. You can com,
and 60 when and where you please
provided you report at the surgery for
~hypodermic injection at 7:3O am; 1:
M; 5 pm.
Any foolishness about not reportin
meets with a warning; a second time re
suits in expulsion, clean out and final.
The typical Modern CITY.