The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-07-03
Corn is backward this year.
Flax promises an abundant yield.

SJurglB ID GrOuDleO with peGGy ChleVeS.
In Wisconsin hay will be less than half
q crop.
The price Of wheat is declining IN the
London market.
England and Wales have a population
Of 29,OnO,OOO.
Kansas will have u very large fruit
crop this year.
Wild fruits of.all kinds are growing in
abundance this year.
VIM. Waugh has just returned from q
business trip to Wyoming.
Joseph Kriegler has a magnificent field
Of rye fully headed out,
New York has twenty thousand far
mers in the alliance.
The crop prospects in the northwest
are the finest ever known.
It is said that there will he a short
age in the crops Of Europe.
Complaints are being made against
parties for fencing up section lines.
According to the census u railroads
own 2S1, 100000 acres Of land.
The wheat harvest in Missouri is in
full blast. The crop Is reported good.
Iowa has added nine thousand mem
bers to the alliance since last, December.
A bill to abolish the fish commission
will be introduced into the nextcongress.
The ranchers on lower Spring creek re-
port serious injury to cropsfromdrouth.
Mrs. Mary Nc Mahon has several
good horses which she offers for sale
cheap.
More evictions occur among the lab
oring classes in Pennsylvania. than in
Ireland.
The township system of government
is being discussed in some Of our alli-
ances.
There are more tenant farmers in the
United States than in England, Scot
land and Wales.
The national cordage company Of
New York, has purchased all cordage
works in Canada.
The New York Herald estimates the
voters OF the Peoples party to number
2,476,OOO
Himebaugh and Maryott have com
menced the erection OF their grain
warehouse.
The railroad company is engaged in
fencing its track in the southern part OF
the county.
The stock OF the chemical bank, New
York is quoted at $2.121; par value
$500 per share.
The United States is said to be the
richest nation on earth and it Is mostly
owned by a few rich men.
Active steps are already being taken
to bring about an international labor
congress at the Worlds Fair.
A number of Rapid City carpenters
have gone to the upper camps recently.
in quest OF work,
C. H. Mattoon, has eighteen acres Of
wheat which he says promises a yield OF
fifty bushels per acre.
Hugh Lyle is at work this week with
a force OF men. putting up a building in
the country for Mr.. Bailey.
The assessor will complete his work
this week. He reports more stock and
larger assessments than last year.
The effect OF the S2,4OO,OOO put in
circulation last week by the treasury
was distinctly perceptible IN New York
and Chicago.
Bonds are the shackles which bind
American citizens in a system Of slavery
to the money Unconstitutional Econo-
mist.
Contractor Couch has q force OF men
at work on the motor line grading
across the Smith ranch. The road
bed will soon be ready.
Under the new d"ispensatlon our
county assessor has got it down so fine
that he is reported to be assessing rattle
snakes and bed bugs.
VIM. Largent sowed his wheat and
oats in January and has as fine pros
poets for q large crop as we have seen in
the county. We believe early seeding
pays.
Sixteen hundred architectural iron
workers, platers, molders and pattern
workers in Chicago are on a strike.
They demand the eight hour day and
thirty cents per hour.
The bankers in their interview with
secretary admitted that there was not
money enough'in the country to do bus
mess with, yet they oppose every effort
of the people to increase the volume.
When conditions are such that labor
must 60 from monopolist to millionaire
pleading "please for the sake OF charity
give me leaye to work" it is u dark hour
for the land where it is Sex.
In an interview with Rev. Nc Cready,
Of Spearfish, whoreturned last week
from an extended trip through the east
ern part OF the state, we learned that
farmers were jubilant at the prospects
OF a bountiful crop.
It is anticipated that the crop yields
all over the country will be the greatest
ever recorded. 1t will require an i'm
mense amount OF money to move the
crops and a s~tringeney in the money
markets is predicted,
In passing through Fort Meade last
week we observed that Messrs Young
and Holly were making excellent pro-
gress on their contracts. They have
three large buildings nearly ready for
the plasterers and four more in process
Of erectlon.
In Hungary the state is sole owner OF
the railroads. They have been oper-