The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-02-04
20. Regarding the sad affair

Wellington at 6 O'Clock this morn
ing by drowning himself in cistern.
He was a former South Dakota
ranchmAn. Sickness and despon-
dency due to financial losses are
supposed to be the reasons for the
act He came to Wellington from
Omaha, Neb., month ago. Bad
investments in cattle in South Da-
kota left him financially ruined
Uncle Charley Howard is a firm
believer in irrigation as the follow
ing Pierre special will show. The
big engine and pumping plant for
the G. X. Howard ranch has just
been sent from this point across the
river to its future res ing place.
Mr.. Howard intends to put in an
excellent system of irrigation on his
large ranch and this pumping mach
merry is to be the head Of it all. It
was purchase at a cost Of 81 500
and weighs s, 600 poundc. 1t has a
guaranteed capacity OF pumping s.
600 gallons of water per minute.
This improvement to one of the fin
est ranches in the state will place it
well in the lead as one of the models
of the stock raising section
The Dakota Ruralist contains an
excellent article front he pen of Otto
Anderson OF Rockervile touching on
the vexing question Of fusion. Otto
bids welcome to all democrats, and
silver republicans who desire to CO.
operate to down the goldbugs, as
he puts it. The only condition he
places on their advent is that they
come into the douplist prim aries and
line up as poplists pure and simple.
This is his idea of fusion in nut
shell. Owing to the length of the
article THE UNION is unable to re-
publish it.
Numerous Black Hills newspapers
have been engaged during the past
two weeks aiding John r. Brennan
to dispose of Hotel Harvey in this
city and moving him to Seattle
Mr.. Brennan states that while he is
interested in the hotel business in
the latter city, he has no inten ton
of levaing Rapid City. THE UNION
hopes the Hills newspapers will al
low Mr.. Brennan to remain resi-
dent Of this city
Charlie Smith, who is now travelling
for an Omaha cigar firm, has spent
a good portion of the week in the
city visiting relatives and friends.
He was under arrest for murder in
the Nebraska metropolis a couple
of weeks ago, but it was case of
mistaken linden THY. Charlie was
not the man the authorities wanted,
SO he was allowed to 20 on his way
rejoicing.
James Lintz, miner in the Holy
Terror mine at Keystone, this conn
ty, was killed in the mine Tuesday
forenoon He was in the cage which
was coming from one level to anoth-
err one above when he was struck by
a projecting beam and instantly
killed. The deceased leaves wife,
two children and two brothers, all
living at Keystone.
Last Monday F. D. Gillespie leas-
ed his hotel in Hot Springs to Mrs.
G. M. Germond. Mr.. Gillespie has
not yet determined what he will do.
1t seems strange to have him out Of
the hotel business here, he having
been actively engaged in the bust
ness in Hot Springs since the pio-
neer days of this city, the days of the
old Minnekahta. Star.
A storm closely resembling biz
FARO swept over the Hills country
Tuesday night. but Wednesday
Grounding Day-dawned clear
and bright. His hogship saw his
shadow without any trouble all day
and went back TO his nest for a six
weeks stay-as the story goes.