The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-02-26
LOCAL BREv1TIEs.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Geo. c: Bennett Is improving.
| John Hart is in from Spring creek. I.
The NJ. E. church is being repainted.
Americas Thompson is up from the reser-
walton.
Hugh Mcmahon says that the water in the
reservoir is rapidly rising.
Mr.. and Mrs Charlie Caton are sojourning
in Rapid City for few days.
Another grand masquerade ball is spoken
of for the seventeenth of March.
The Northwestern roadis drilling for coal
in the country west of Minnesota.
Will Mack has left the bed and board Of
c. N. Spencer for causes unknow to the latter,
Drunken hoboes are becoming very trouble
some to families living along the ID. and W..
railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. johnson returned to
Hill City this morning after aplcasant visit
in this city,.
A leap year party will be given the twenty
ninth at the ranch of C. II. Mattoon, three
miles south Of town.
Pursuant. to the demands of the UNION the
county commissioners have put men at work
repairing the bridges on Rapid creek.
The case of Standminer vs.. Mrs. Cramer
for labor occu,,;a1 tba antira Iox, be(nre
Judge Lake. John F. Schrader and Edmund
Smith being the counsel.
Grading on the spur running from the coal
she'd on the F. f. and NJ. v. r. X. to the
chlorination works is progressing rapidly. The
ron is being laid as the work progresses.
County Auditor Farris has about COM
pleted a most labonous job in cancelling
duplicate tax receipts way back to 1878.
His Office and vault are now model of busi-
ness neatness,
In talking with Henry Frawley. the lawyer
of Deadwood, last evening, it was learned
that Fitzgerald Bros, the contractors against
whom Carroll & Donahue and others have
suits pending, had made an assignment for the
benefit of their creditots,
Danny DAILY and Ted Gallagher will box at
Library Hall February 27. 1t is said that
local sports will induce Jimmie Hannif to
stand up before DAILY for six rounds. If he
succeeds he will earn 5000, which amount
DAILY adyertises to pay any feather weight
who can stand before him for six rounds
George M. Nix, general manager Of the
Midland Pacific road, passed down last even
INF; on the F. E. and NJ. V. r. r. after visit
sela. While there he let a contract to run a
tunnel three hundred feet farther into the
mountain. He is enthusiastic over the pros
poets.
J. X. P. Graves, ex-mayor Or Dubuque, and
a large stockholder in the Larabee-Y oung
coal mine, west of Minnesota, went east over
the B. & M. yesterday. Governor Larabee
went along also. They were out visiting
their mine and professed unlimited faith in
their holdings. They claim coal vein of
six feet and are in about six hundred feet.
The other day while the street car driver
was satisfying the carvings Of the inner man,
at noon, hoboe boarded the car and sue
ceeded in breaking the outside lock on the
patent cash receiver. While in the act of
prying open the inside one he happened to
hear footsteps and fled. Had he accomplished
his aim he would have got hold of the muni6-
cent sum Of forty cents.
Testimony is being taken today at the U.
5. land Office, in the contested case of the
United States VS. Thomas Flynn. Special
agent Magner conducts the case for the United
States and Wilson and Mclaughlin of Dead
wood, for Thomas Flynn. The evidence will
probably be competed today.
d. N. Davis ond W. H. Johnson were in
from Big Bend on Elk creek today. They re-
port most enjoyable time at the dance given
at the new hall Eeb. 22. Over one hundred
were in attendance and all expressed them
selves as highly pleased. Another dance will
be given at the same place March II, to
which all are invited.
Applications for patents were made today,
at the local land office, for the Theodore and
Carpenter placer claims by the Deadwood and
Deleware smelling co, in the the Whitewood
mining district.
A marriage in high life may take place this
evening.
= lnhn r Brennan drove his two year old
hlly today by Byron Sherman and out of the
sorrel mare he bought OF c. f. Mayne. She
acted well.
Mr.. ]. A. Behrens and wife arrived Ill Rapid
City, Monday and will beat home to their
friends March 9TH at their residence on
Kansas City street
The much talked Of leap year party takes
place February 26th.
Hans Graves and another scrapper named
Chicago had a friendly bout last night Hans
is training him to meet the Chadron fighter
He also hopes to have him stand up before
Hanner tor the eight rounds advertised lately.
The republican central committee meets
touight.
w. H. Mitchell the legal luminary of Hill
City is attending circuit court here
James M. Daniels is registered from Fair
burn, at the International
w. +. Aston returned last evening from a
pleasure trip i'll the Hills. While gone Mr..
Aston visited the Springs, Deadwood and
Lead City. He is again doing duty in the
Harney, much benefited by his vacation.
]. K. Searle of Lead City and Henry Fraw-
ley Of Deadwood are at the Hamey.
]. NJ. crombie Of Detroit is in the city.
F..M. Marsh and ]. c. Carson Of Omaha
are domiciled at the Harney.
A call has been issued for a meeting
OF Black Hill's saw null men and lumber
dealers to be held in Deadwood Feb. 27.