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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

Taken Up.
One red COW, FIVE or six years old, branded
with slanting N on left side, straight clip off
right ear. One red COW about four yeaas old
Righ! horn broken off. Branded open W on
right side with bar under W.
ANTHONY TnoMA, Rapid City.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

At the opening OF the Cheyenne rescr-
vation yesterday fifty thousand people
made desperate rush to get free goy-
ernment homes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

To the members OF Harney Post No.
28, G. A. r. You are respectfully re-
quested to meet at our hall the 23rd
instant at 7:3O p. m.
S. T.. FoRsHA, Com'n'd.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

The Exams crowd was cleaned up in yes,
terday's election at Hot Springs. The lower
town carried everything j. B. Dickovcr was
elected mayor,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

Other medicines might help bnt to
make assurance doubly sure use De Nlts's
Sarsaparilla to enrich, purify and renew
the blood
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

FLUToCEACY and machine politics are
the two great menaces, to American
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

styles, $40 to $40, exclusivestyie; at Price,
the clothier.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

FIVE different tickets were i'll the field
in the state election in louisiana yes
terliv
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

WcaUe NOunty commissioner FfOCcSulnSS.
APRIL IS.
The treasurer was directed to collect by
distress and sale the taxes OF c. X. Howard
and VIM. BorSt for 1890. The petition OF
Rasmua Anderson praying that his taxes for
years ISS6-S7-SS, in unorganized county Of
Mandan be cancelled was received and the
treasurer instructed to receive $40 as settle
ment for above years. The petition ,of Geo.
Runkcl for cancellation Of taxes against hin,
for 1855 amounting to S25, it being shown
he had no property i'll the county during the
above year. was granted.
The following bills were allowed on the
general fund.-
J. w. Gribble attendance on com'rs S. 90
Ed. Hight certificates 40
Adjourned.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

Disease never successfully attacks sys-
tenn with pure blood. De Wits Sarsapa-
rilla makes pure, new blood and enrichs
the old,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

The people are making genuine ''strike"
at Prices bankrupt shoe and dry goods sale
of The Fair stock, best of goods at sixty
cents on the dollar.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

John E. Hallman, Chicago; c. H. Ellis,
Lincoln; W. D. Marr, Omaha; r. ]. Hartford.
Chicago.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

rains until some future time which it wa.
agreed could be arranged for by zack Home.
the secretary.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
At the International. s
Mrs. Miller and Thomas Hale, Elk
Creek; jeff McDermott apd vile of the d.
& w. railroad.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

board that he was not in the county during
the above years, the tax was ordered refunded
The petition of Victor Charlton through T.
G. Cook, agent, requesting that his taxes on
the ne Of sc 4, sec s, twp n,r5 e, B. II.
NJ, for years go and 81 be reduced, was re.
jected.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22
APRIL II.

In the adjustment Of the taxes of the
Western Bank and Trust Co., for the year
1890. 1t appeared to the board that the bank
was taxed in excess of the amount agreed up
on with the bank for the above year and tn
board ordered valuation to be placed at S2I654,
and the treasurer was instructed to receive
So3I.I2 as settlement in full for taxes Of 1890.
An order was received from clerk of court
for fity-nne names to fill list OF two hundred
for Jurors, considered and list furnished.
The memorial presented to the board by a
committee of citizens in reference to paying
interest and principal Of the five per cent
bonds came up and the following resolutions
were adopted:
RESOLVED, That owing to the question
being raised as to the legality o. the five per
cent bonds OF Lawrence county, the board
being fully advised and requested by leading
business men and tax payers OF Meade
county, hereby order and direct the treasurer
of Meade county to refuse payment Of all &C
cruing interest and principal of the five pei
cent bonds issued by Meade to Lawrence
county as Meade counties share OF the said
FIVE per cent bonds.
Signed, E. S. MARSHALL,
]. w. ALLEN,
n n Din
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22

The treasurer was instructed to publish for
sixty days in the Deadwood Times and In
dependent and the Sturgis Record and Adver-
tiscr notice Of the above action. The fol-
loving bills for services were allowed
E. S. Marshall, $47.7o
J. w. Allen, 59-75
z. c. Phillips, 47.4o
F. II. Mcfarland appeared before the board
and asked that his poll tax for years SO, IS,
so, and 90 be refunded 1t appearing to the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22
--~o~
Taken Up.

Adjourned to meet April 80. 1892.
GEO. w. LADD, Auditor.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-04-22
I,207,7SO

Total open to settlement s75,sso acres.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
Fusing Of HitumtnOus Coal,

BY some German chemists tests
have been made to ascertain the
physical cause Of The coking or fusing
Of bituminous coal into the form OF
coke under a distilling heat. the con-
clusion being that such a phenomenon
10 connected with the chemical COM
position Of the coal, with especial re-
lation to the richness Of the coal in
what is called disposable hydrogen,
or that proportion OF it which il in
excess OF the quantity required to
form water with the oxygen present.
1t has recently been asserted, how
ever, that such a standard for the
coking quality in coal docs not corre-
spend with observed results, nor does
the richness of a sample of coke in
carbon determine its coking capa-
biiities, the fact being that two speci-
mems of coal OF practically identical
carbon composition will often he
found to behave very differently in
the retort Of coke ovens. 1t is argued,
therefore, that IL the property of cox
ing does not reside either in the sur
plus hydrogen or the fixed carbon. 1t
is certainly not to be found in the
content Of the coal in oxygen, which
gives no indication whatever Of the
physical behavior of the coal under
heat. Some coking Goals coke with
out much swelling, while others swell
to a considerable extent during the
process. In either cast the coal must
undergo a stage Of fusion, in which 1t
becomes a thick. semi-fuid mass,
through which the gas escapes.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
Dynamite.

Very few people have a correct idea
OF what dynamite is, Of what 1t 10
made, and the uses to which 1t Is put.
To the French belongs the honor oi
its discovery and its flrst practical
use.
NitrD-glycerine Is the force OF all
high explosives. DynaM te is the
name most usually given these ex.
plosives, though other II, 8 are
sometimes used.
Dynamite is simply nitro-glycerine
mixed with various ingredients.
Nitro-glycerine Is made by mixing
sulphuric and nitric acid with sweet
glycerine, the same that is used by
the ladies to prevent chapped hands.
Mixing the acids and glycerine Is
where the great danger lies In the
making Of nitro-glycerine. The mix.
ing tank, or agitator as 1t Is called by
dynamite makers, is a large steel
tank, filed inside with many coils of
lead pipe, through which, while the
mixing Is in progress, a constant flow
Of ice water is maintained. This flow
Of ice water is to keep the tempera-
ture OF the mix below eighty-five de.
grees, as above that point it would
explode, and a hole in the ground
would mark where the factory had
been. The nitro glycerine is stored
In large earthenware tanks, which are
usually sunk In the ground to guard
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
A New Chemical Element.

New chemical elements are not dis
covered as rapidly as new asteroids or
new comets, and when one is found,
as has recently occurred, q great deal
OF interest is aroused in the scientific
world.
The new element was discovered in
Egypt in the bed of an ancient river
which has been dried up for ages, but
Of whose former existence there are
said to be records dating back about
5000 years. A few little lakes, whose
water possesses medicinal properties.
exists in the old river bed.
The new element. which is called
masriu1n, from the Arabic name for
Egypt. is a constituent OF a kind of
tlbrous alum. 1t falls under the class
Of metals. and is said by chemists to
possess a strong individuality.
Moreover, it furnishes an additional
proof of the correctness OF the pre-
vailing theory Of what is called the
periodicity OF the elements, since its
atomic weight seems to place it Just
in a certain gap in the system whose
existence had been noted. This in
deed, is not the first instance in which
a newly discovered substance has
been found to I'LL IA vacant place in
the ideal system of the chemical ele-
meuts. Other gaps yet exist, and
chemists are becoming so confident in
the accuracy OF their fundamental
theory that they would not be sur
prised to see every one of these gaps
filed by the discovery OF new Gle.
ments, the general properties of
which they are able to predict.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07

against blows or cvere conclusions.
The other ingredients for making
dynamite are: Nitrate OF soda. which
is found only in Chill; carbonate Of
maXnesia, and wood pulp.
Dynamite is put in paper shells
usually II and a fourth inches in
diameter and eight inches in length,
and weighs about one-half pound to
each shell or cartridge. 1t has large
ly taken the place OF black powder
for blasting, as it Is many hundreds
Of times stronger and consequently
more economical. 1t is used chiefly
in mining al kinds Of ores, coal and
rock, and submarine blasting and
railroad building.
Dynamite will not explode from any
ordinary fall or jar; it will burn with
out exp'osion, and freeze at forty-two
degrees, ten degrees above ordinary
freezing point. The bomb OF the an
archist is made OF metal OF glass aud
filled with pure nitro-glycerine ar
ranged so Us to explode by severe con-
tact with any hard object. These
bombs are, OF course, never made by
a reputable dynamite factory.
Five or six millions of dollars are
invested in the manufacture of dyna-
mite in the United States, and its use
is constantly on the increase. The
fumes Of nitro-glycerine produce in
tense headache, which can be cured
by taking IA very small dose of it in
| ternally.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
NEVER DRANK NOR SMOKED.
nat Gsve His wife the Money He Might
Have Spent.

nat Gave His wife the Money He Might
Have Spent.
It Is pretty cxtravagant man who
will spend $50 per month on cigars
and drinks, but the man who will set
aside that amount OF money to his
wife, instead Of dispensing it, will find
asolid pile accommodating very rapidly,
says the Tacoma Ledger. There died
recently in Tacoma a lady who had
by that G accumulated $50, 600.
She willed the money to her five chill.
drcE
The Sdy's husband did not drink,
smoke or chew. He was working on
n good salary, and in four or five years
after Their marriage was getting
ahead very satisfactorily. One day
he said to his wife:
II think I will give you each month
the amount Of money l would spend
in smoking and drinking, How much
would it be-" .
They calculated the sum Ore
friend spent about 1926 per month,
another spent 800 and many spent
sums between these two extremes. 1t
was agreed that he would spend $50,
and this sun was regularly set aside
by him for her, to constitute a fund
for the education of their children.
Once or twice every year he would
contribute 500 to her fund instead
of getting drunk. When the fund
had reached comfortable proportions
it was invested. Some of it was
placed at interest. Once the husband
was in a close place and borrowed the
money paying interest for it, The
children growing up, were sent to
school from 1t. Many charitable acts
were performed with the money, but
still it grew. When they removed to
Tacoma some fortunate real estate
investments were made with the
money. One Of them netted IS, 900.
When the lady died her estate, &C.
cumulated in this way during
eighteen years, was found to he worth
$50, 900. 1t was willed to her five
children, with provisions securing
them an education. The generous
father, whose abstinence had made
this possible, added 81, 900 to the fund
belonging to each child. Besides the
sums OF money which were expended
for charity and in the education 81
the children q good deal was used FOL
gifts. The gentleman carries a $500
gold watch as a mementu of the fund.
''The fund had a little advantage, ]
guess" said he recently. II always
took pains to invest it carefully. But
compromising money makes it grow
very rapidly. The amount placed in
the fund was about $14, O00-rcrhape
4 little more-and ] added to my
drink money perhaps more than s200
per year. This amount almost any
smoking and drinking man would
spend in eighteen years. A good
many men in this town smoke 81, 2OC
to $1,000 per year. 1t does not take
much high-priced wine to make this
much larger.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07

The Democratic press Is already
crawfishing on It's Chicago tariff plank.
The New York World ate crow several
weeks ago. Now ven Henry Watterson,
who charged his party with cowardice
and denounced the Cleveland platforms
OF 1854 and 1883 as Republican protec-
tion. lie hedging. He seconds the predic-
ton OF Harper's Weekly, that Democratic
tariff reform" will not TO free trade,
nor even "a tariff for revenue only; but
1t will only be n step" That IL 70 say,
1t is tariff reform for campaign bun
combe only" something hat can be
conveniently hung on the fence to dry
between times; 80 that the country may
prosper under Jhe Republican syste.n
three and q half years out OF four and
retrieve the injuries o%ccasioned by six
campaign months Of free-trade agita-
tion and Brit oh proselyting. It is
customary for Democracy to get scared
Its own noise and spend three years
OF four In taking back its paper
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
THE WRITING ON THE wALL-(Newv ersion)

hey appear rather anxious to have it
understood that the statement is true.
and that their candidate 10 bound by a
seif-imposed obligation Of a solemn and
n.ost binding character to obey, II
elected, the behests Of Tammany Hall
and the Brooklyn, Troy AMI Buffalo
rings.
Never before In the history OF Ameri.
IN politics has a candidate placed him
self In such . degrading and humiliat-
Ing position. The obligation which
Cleveland has taken upon himself mani
testify means the surrender, in tine event
OF h $ election. OF national influence and
Z tilcisl patronage In the Empire State to
tho syndicate we have named. It means
the reversal Of all that Cleveland has
claimed as 10 being better than the
worst element Of his party. It means
for the decent and law-abiding p ople OF
New York something far worse than the
ougaboo with which an effort is being
made to frighten and alarm the South.
New York Is the gateway Of the
United States. With these spoilsmen in
control OF New York, aud having Cleve-
land In Washington at their back, they
might easily consider themselves in con
troll OF the nation. 1t remains to be
poem whether the people Of the United
States will accept as their chief mags-
trate . man whose ambitioa for office
has led him to take upon his neck this
humillating yoke.-New York Press.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07

ASsUven wv 1sS0oUuS H8otulst OAcvCtOuus
The Workingmen's Mutual Reform
League Of New York City has is sued to
the workingmen OF the United States
eleven reasons why workingmen should
not vote for Grover G eveland The
cas- ms are tabu a.ed as follows:
While Governor OF New York he was opposed
to the following Ab0r measures:
I. He vetoed the bill establishing . depart
ment OF labor and making the Secretary OF
:. He vetoed The Mechanics c@G Lien law bill,
making the wages Of workin9mcn engaged In
the construction of buildings q first mortgage
5. He vetoed The Life and Limb bill, making
employers responsible for the accidents hap
pening from imperfect machinery or inferior
construction of buildings.
4. He vetoed the Tenement House Cigar biz,
~forbiddinR the manufacture OF cigars in tene-
ment houses.
8. He vetoed tho bill compelling elevated
fare.
8. He vetoed the p~rinters' bill. requiring
all the State work to be done by union work
Z. He vetoed the bill making ten hours a legal
days work for all street-car employees.
9. He vetoed the bill aholishing convict labor
submitted to the popular vote of the people,
was carried by 2 majority Ct eo,o.;
for the inspection Of factories where children
were employed, and prohibiting the employ.
ment OF children under IL years Of age.
10. He signed q bill compelling the stationary
engineers Of New York City to pay a tax of ii
per year to the police pension fund or be de.
barred from following their vocation.
II. He siRned the bill reducing the fees of tie
New York harbor pilots, which bill benefited
only the foreign steamship monopolies.
1t would appear that Grover Cleve-
lands labor record Ia something like his
war and pension record, or like General
~Stevenson's soldier and civil-service
reform record. Cleveland would give
the laborers q recompense, however, in
the shape Of taxed sugar. tea and coffee,
and unlimited British competition In
the factory laEOr field.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07

: A curious condition of affairs exists
among the Seminole indians o. / lolida.
There are now only about 500, 200 of
these being males. Three conditions
limit the increase OF the'race-their re-
8 ricted hunting ground, Its malarial con
d.ion, AMI the law of tine tribe as to
marriage. This law forbids the mar
Rage OF anytwo OF the ir.be where there
Is the least known bod relation, and
1t is as unalterable a. those o: the
Modes and Persians. In c%onsequenc +,
OF this tribal u.ase boys of Is years
marry women Of - or more. 1t often
hapi ems that to marry at all they have
no other thoice. The dress OF the bucks
Is backskin trousers and a turban made
o. as II any yards Of red or yellow calico
as they can conveniently col around
their bronze brows. The women con-
fine their dress almost exclusively to
beads. They have an utter re;.usnance
for photographers, and their features can
be had on paper only by the Use o! a
kodak concealed from their sight. They
live in tire ,-sided palmetto "shacks,"
and thy care neither to improve their
minds nor to accumulate worldly goods.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
Supcrst ton.

Some people are superstitious. They
will not occupy a room in o Lotel that is
numbered thirteen. and SO great is this
feeling that in many hotels they have
to skip this number because no one
will take it. One will not set out on a
journey on Friday and other tremble
when they spill the salt. All these
are the remains Of old superstitions
connected with heathendom and the
Worship of the gods. Little things
should he regarded, but il should be
such small things as enter into the
daily life and tend, if neglected, to cut
short the span Of life. For instance
beware of indigestion. This is the
gate which if left nnguarded admits a
world Of enemies. When you are
annoyed in this manner take the Laxa-
tive Gum Drops. They are as their
name indicates, . mild and gentle
laxative. They contain nothing deleter-
ions, but they will c ure the worst c.se
Of constipation and any form Of bowel
trouble. Get them Of any dealr. The
small boxes are 10 e the large borea
arc q cents, SYLVAN RExEDY Co.
Peoria. III.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
Quite Legal.

A certain English laborer who was
noted for his great size and strength
once thought of an original fashion VI
avoiding toll. The incident is d.
scribed in the Autobiography Of all
English Gamekecpcr::"
The laborer was going along the
road mounted on his donkey. which
was a good-sized animal, when ha
came to a turnpike gate.
GLOW much do you charge for my
donkey to walk through?" he asked
the pikeman.
'sTwopence," was the reply.
"And how much do you charge for
carrying a parcel through the gatc?:"
"Nothing."
"Whoa, whoa" cried Joslin; and
quietly dismountinY, he deliberately
slipped his head under the donkey,
seized his ~forelegs with his hands,
lifted him Of the ground, carried
him through the gate and set him
down on the other side.
s.Gee un, Neddy," he cried, getting
on the donkey's back; and of they
went we'll content.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-10-07
How Fishes Eat.

The curious ways in which fishes
eat form quite a study. Some fishes
have teeth and some have none at
all. In some the teeth are found
upon the tongue, in some in the
throat, and in some In the stomach.
Some draw in their food by suction;
the sturgeon is n Of this class. The
jelly-tish absorbs its food by wrapping
itself around the prey it covets. The
star-tlsh fastens itself to its victim,
turns its stomach wrong side out,
and cngulfs its dinner without the
formality Of swallowing it through
a mouth first, much less of asking
permission, says an exchange.
There is a peculiar little crab--the
horseshoe crab-which chews up its
food with its legs or claws before it
passes the morsels over to its mouths,
while other crabs and Holsters mastl.
cate their food with their jaws, and
afterward complete the work with
IN extra set OF teeth which they find
conveniently located In their stom.
achs.
So there are all sorts OF methods
for those regularly toothless, and the
fishes which have teeth show almost
as great a diversity in the number,
style ard arrangement OF them. The
ray or skate has a mouth set trans,
versely acres, it's head, the jaws
working with a Killing motion like
two hands st back to back. In the
Jaws there &C three rows OF fiat
teeth, set like a mosaic pavement,
and between these rolling jaws the
fish brushes oysters and other mol
:usks like so many nuts.
The carp's teeth are set back IL
the pharynx, SO that it actually mas.
ticates its food In its throat, while
the sea-urchin has five teeth sur
rounding its stomach and working
with a pc euliar centralized motion,
which makes them do as good SER
vice as il they numbered hundreds.
And these are only IL very few oil
the odd methods in which fishes cat.