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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
The Big Rain.
done.

Flooded cellars, lowlands under
water and good black mud knee
deep is a condition seldom exper-
fenced in this section, but it has
been thankfully received and there
is rejoicing in the city and country
alike over it's advent. Not in fifteen
years has the Black Hills got such
a thorough wetting down as it re-
ceived from the big rain which end
ed Sunday night. The Coolest
inhabitant" had to refer to a very
remote period in the history of this
section to find the equal of the late
downpour.
Rain began failing at $3.50 on Fri
day afternoon and the way it came
down was a caution. It continued
without a moments cessation until
almost Monday morning, falling in
torrents. Streets were turned into
rivers, cellars we're flooded, the
river was bank full land the flats
down along the river ere trans
formed into n vast sheet of water.
Many Inconvenience were expert
enced, but the benefits to be derived
overshadowed all these and every.
body joined in rejoicing. From Fri
day afternoon until Monday morn.
ing over 5 inches of rain fell, accord.
ing to the government register al
weather signal station in the Lakots
block. 1t was the banner rain Of
years and It's benefits are beyond
all computation. There is Joy on
ranch and range, city and country
as the downpour was general al
over the state. Waterholes are
filled and streams which have MOI
flowed for years / running again
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Piano Recital.

Following is the program for the
piano recital to be given at Library
hall on Monday evening, June 5th,
by the pupils of Miss Olive Howe:
PARTI
1. Quartette, Persian March. .. de Koutski.
LIST Piano End Piano
Laura Bower, Marian Price.
Sadie Morris, Gertrude Young.
9. Solos. (a) Evening Polka. 49,. Patterson,
Wilma Coad.
(b) PrinCass"-Spanish Dance.
Ruth Brennan.
3. Duet. "Silver Stars'-Mazurka 49,. .Bohm.
Bertha and Pearl Chapman.
!. Solos. (a) sonatine".., ........Beethoven
Esther McElroy.
(b) Valse-Op. "a. No 2....Chopm,
Juliet Mosier. ~
to) Polonaise Brilliante "(Mar.eJ'
........ ......... ....... Baumfelder,
Frances Morris.
8. Trio. ''Fcstival March. Behr
Gerda Coad, Claudia Thompson,
Louisa Mallow.
6. Solo. "L'Argentlne, = Fantasia Mazurka
.ketterex.
Marion Coad
z. Duet. Galop Briiliante.... 49,. Spouholtz
Earl Stewart and Algern Holcomb.
PART II.
8. Trio. "Mat ic Mozart
Leona Tester, May Lynch, Aurelia schleun,
.....-.t......... ing
8. Solos. LAY Melody In F.......R ubinstein
Laura Bower.
~ Valse-Op. "a, No. 1....Chopin
Sadie Morris.
(c) Norweg an Bridal Procession -
Passing By. ). .............. Grieg
Miriam Price.
10. Duet. La Refine des Fees .......Jackso
Bertha Morris Julia Poznanskv.
Solos. fa) SonAta-Op. 81, No. 2. Beetho
ven. Adagio Sortenuts, Allegro.
~ Kondo Capr'cciso Mendelssohl
edna Hill.
icy Spring Song ....... Mendelssohn
Gertrude Young.
(d) Polacco Br,lliante. C. M. Vol
49,. ...!..-. weber
Marie Duhamel.
IL. Quartette, March Mnitiare ....S Schubert
LIST Piano. End iano
Adeline Duhamel. Edna Hill,
Marie Duhamel. Miriam Price.
Il E.p4r#sHH= E.Er-s LEANEEL 4EE -EEn=ZaEa IS
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Shut off the Bunco Games!

Rapid City is to be blessed with
a real circus and menagerie next
Wednesday and no doubt a crowd
will be in town on tnau day 10 see
the show. Whether or not the
aggregation booked for this city
that day carries with it a gang Of
three shell manipulators and other
grafters, THE UNION does not know,
but the chances are that something
of this character will accompany
the elephant. Right here we rise
to suggest that the city authorities
take prompt steps to protect the
city's visitors from the festive bunco
man. A legitimate circus takes
enough money out of the country
without allowing a lot of grafters
to ply their trade on the crowd.
TIE UNION calls upon the city
authorities in advance to see that
the operations of all bunco men arc
prevented next Wednesday. 1t
can be done, is should be done and
The UNION believes that it WILL be
done,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
The Best Thing Out.

The Dain Junior Hay Stackers
and Power Lift Push Rakes are the
greatest l~abor-saving haying tools
ever invented. They will take the
hay direct from the mower and
build it in a rick to any height de-
sired. These stackers are the only
ones that deliver the hay into the
middle of the stack from bottom to
top. They are very simple in con
struction and are a third lighter in
draft than any other stacker made.
The Dain Sweep Rake is the only
rake ever made that will positively
carry the teeth entirely off the
ground when heavily loaded, while
they work SO easily that any boy
who can drive a horse can handle
them with ease. They are the best.
Don't be persuaded into buying any
other, which dealers may recon
mend as being "just as good"
Remember, these machines are
hardled exclusively by the Ton
Sweeney Hardware Co., Rapid City
Others will say they can get then
for you, but we r the manufacture
ers' agents and have the sole agen-
cy for Pennington county and trade
tributary thereto. We have a big
stock of both stackers and rakes-
the genuine Damon hand now anC
will be glad to furnish any informa
ton regarding them.
Tom SWEENEY HARDWARE Co.,
Rapid City, S. D
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Wants an Organization.
EDITOR BLACK HILLS UNION:

EDITOR BLACK HILLS UNION:
Would it not be an advisable step
to take to call a meeting in the zeal
future for the purpose Of organizing
an Anti %Imperialist League in Pen
nington county? I am certain that
a great many good citizens would be
interested in a movement of this
kind at this time. Such an or
ganization properly conducted
would do much to c%ounteract the
false education that many are receiv-
ing from reading one sided press
reports of the part that our admin
istration is playing in the pros
ecution OF the present unholly war
i'll the Philippines. No true Ameri-
can patriot can view our present
policy with other than feelings of
regret and a consciousness of ma
tional humiliation. No consistent
christian citizen can analyze the
situation and iE the light of sacred
or profame history predict other
than a severe scourging of our ma
tior, if not the complete downfall
there of if we persist in waging a
war of subjugation and extermina-
ton in the name and under the
guise of a war for humanity" The
west, which is becoming famous for
taking the lead in all reform move
ments, should not take a back seat
in this matter. Let US at least vie
with the New England states. Let
us by our example and influence teach
the youth of our land that the dec
laration of independence is not a
collection of "glittering general.
ties, but instead that a violation
of it's principles means the down
fall Of our republic. Also that it
is not necessary "to subjugate the
Filipinos with powder and ball and
exterminate the one half Of theil
population in order that we may
lift the other half up from theil
semibarbarfc state to the civilization
we are ready to give them as pei
Gen. Shafter to the students o.
Stanford University, California
What a t~ravesty on civilization
10 civilization, civilization! What
iniquitous crimes are committed il
thy name! We patiently await thu
call for organization.
Yours Respec fully,
A. j. Mccain.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Rapid City, May %.
A Big show.

EFEag-4G--- EH4-#Hes
Sands & Astley's big shows will
exhibit in Rapid City on Wednes-
day, May 81.
This show comes highly endorsed
by the press of every section. and it
is pronounced one of the very best
that travels. 1t has with it some of
the most famous actors in the circus
profession, and it presents many
acts that are real and true novelties,
not often seen. The motto OF this
firm of showmen seem to be, The
ordinary will not do; only the best.
It's collection Of animals includes
only the finest and choicest speci-
mems to be found in geological col
lections. The performance il a long
one, presenting cores of finished
artists, American and foreign, in
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26

dangerous and daring acts, while
the educated ponies and dogs and
monkey do all but talk, and accom-
plish many things that human
beings would find difficult to per-
form with out considerable practice.
The dog that dives 60 feet down
ward is certainly a wonder. Sands
Il Astley's are sure to draw big
crowds in Rapid City next Wednes-
day.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
The Eycenti0na.

Diggs-I never yet saw a man who
could meet death without blanching.
Biggs-What's the matter with your
two sons? Diggs-Why, what do you
mean? Biggs-I should think they
ought to be able to do it; one is a doc
tor and the. other an undertaken.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
Her Easel Ia Growing.

Mrs. Mary Crane of Deskertown. N.
~, was very much surprised to see her
highly-polished and vanished easel
leaving out the other day. 1t is Of will
low and the warmth, in the room work
ed the seeming miracle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
spoils the story.

A New York mans life was saved
the other day by a pack Of cards that
stopped a bullet from entering his
heart. They probably did it just as
we'll as a testament would have done,
but 1t doesn't make so good a story
Elk,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
An Appropriate Name,

Shopper-Show me some Rip Van
Wrinkle rugs. please. Clerk-Pardon
me, but ! don't think I exactly under
stand? shopper-Oh. something with
an unusually long nap.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-05-26
gatibn Joined In making the event
On ENJOYABLE one.

NJ. It. Lord, the restaurant man,
closed up shop voluntarily Monday
and will locate elsewhere. With
four or five restaurants and three
or four hotels already in the field he
found competition too sharp for
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
WE'D MEN THEY NEVER SAW
Bad Results in One Case Doesn't Pre-
vent Another From Trying.

Winsted. Conn.,, March 1S.-Miss Anna
Burns, a factory girl. left Winsted yes
terday for Los Angeles, Cal, to marry
a man whom she has never seen. On
the same train was Mrs. Ida Newbro,
who left Los Angeles, Cal, nearly three
years ago for Winsted to marry a man
whom she had never seen, and is now
returning to her parents home in Los
Angeles a divorced woman.
Miss Burns, who is young and pretty,
was employed in the hosiery mill here
up to Saturday night last. She noticed
an advertisement more than a year ago,
which said that Walter Null of Los
Angeles, Cal, wanted a wife. She re-
replied, and Null wrote to her. Photo
graphs were exchanged and soon after
he proposed marriage. She accepted on
condition that Null would send $50 to
help pay her fare to California. Miss
Burns received the $50 Saturday and
Immediately resigned her position in
the mill.
While living in Los Angeles, Mrs.
Newbro, like Miss Burns, answered a
matrimonial advertisement. 1t was to
the effect that Irving w. Dean, man
with money, residing in Winsted, Conn,
was looking for wife. After exchang-
ing several letters and photographs
Dean sent Mrs. Newbro $500 and told
her to come east, and, if he thought he
loved her we'll enough to make her his
wife, he would do so. She came to
Winsted and they were married.
Dean, who was boss in the Nor
gan silver plate factory and could then
draw his check for $4,000, left his wife
last summer. Mrs. Dean sued for a 61i-
Vorce, asking the restoration of her
maiden name and $4,000 alimony. The
case was holly contested in the super
Tor court here last December, and after
a trial lasting a week Mrs. Dean re-
ceived an absolute divorce, with the
right to use her former name, Newbro,
and $500 alimony. Dean disappeared
after the trial and has not been seen in
the state since.
Mrs. Newbro, unable to locate any of
Deans money or property, yesterday
departed for home without the 81, 500
awarded by the courts. Both Miss
Burns and Mrs. Newbro, who are
strangers to each other, left Winsted
for Los Angeles on the same train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
WAR ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Passenger and Freight Business
Promise Rate Cutting This
Season.

Clinton, Ia, March 18.-All kinds Of
war on the Mississippi river is prom
Used this season, both On passenger and
freight business. Local packet lines
have formed combinations by which
passengers may travel without long de-
lays from Dubuque to Quincy. The runs
are made by having separate boats ply
ing between the principal towns. There
will be two boats between Dubuque and
Clinton, two between Clinton and Dav
export, two between Davenport and
Burlington, and SO on down the river.
In this way tourists may take a ride on
the river and stop at various cities for
a few hours. Travelling men have used
the boats considerably and find it a de-
SRA BILE way in which to make the cities
on the river. The boats running at
night are fitted with stateroomS and
fine dining halls.
This movement on the part of the
local packets has stirred up the Dia-
mond 10 line and it is preparing to put
on some fine upper river packets, some
of which will make through runs be-
tween ST. Louis and st. Paul. The fight
was warmed up because the Diamond
10 evicted Capt. Blair from its ware
house at Burlington, which led up to
the inauguration of its local packet
lines In addition to the through pack
cts, the Diamond 10 will put the Sidney,
one of the finest boats on the river.
into commission between Quincy and
Davenport The ice is passing out of
the river and boats may be running
within ten days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18

said he had just received information
that two bodies were coming instead of
one. Who the other dead man was he
didn't know. They were to arrive at
the Market street station on the $50
train from the south, and he would have
to be there himself to open the collins
and get out the Identification papers.
AS he delivered this information there
was a ring at the telephone and word
came for Douglass that Miss Gould was
in the home of Olden'S widow with
check for $1,000 to meet funeral expen-
ses.
We'll" said the lieutenant, you'll
have to meet the train without me.
Bring the bodies to your establishment.
I'll go to the widows home and meet
Miss Gould and be back as soon as
possible" The undertakerss carriage
waited at the station until after the
midnight train pulled in, but no body
came. Today Mr.. Pearce sent out to
find the widow, but no such person was
known at either of the addresses given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18

horse IN the lead pulls in vain when
The wheel horse lays back in the breechiug.
A mans body is good deal like team of
horses, and must work tremendously. The
head may want to work, and strive ever so
hard to work, but if the body is balky and
sick the head will make no progress.
The man who is out of condition physical
~ may well give up trying to work men
tally. He will not be able to do good work
on satisfactory work. and in the cndeavor to
do SO will only do himself further harm.
The reason that men have nervous exhaus-
tion and prostration is that they try to work
the brain when the body is balky. The
right thing for man to do when he finds
he is out of sorts physically is to give the
mind little rest, and promptly resort to
the right remedy for his physical ailments.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is
the best of all medicines for a balky body.
When the head aches, the appetite is poor,
the sleep Is restless, the nerves are shaky
and both body and brain suffer from dull
ness and lassituda, it Is time to resort to
this great remedy. 1t restores the appetite,
corrects all disorders of the digestion,
liver and puTihes and nouTishes the blood.
It is the great blood maker and flesh
builder. It Is the best of nerve tonics and
rcstora.ives- 1t makes both body and brain
alert and active. Medicine dealers have
nothing "just good"
II suffered FIVE years with an ulcer and the
doctor here could not do me any good" writes
MT John Jenkins of Haywood. Madison Co,
Va :" I took twelve bottles of DR.. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery and well.
would have been IN my grave If 1t had nes been
fer your medicine"
For constipation and indigestion, Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the most nat
ura1 and perfect cure ever devised They
act gently bat surely, and effect q 1sSvsG-
GsaS csST7e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18

and as its representative had spent
much time in New York and at the
Waldorf, where he always registered.
He was in the habit of letting his hotel
bill run from month to month, together
with the amount of small loans, which
he secured at various times. These bills
We're supposed by the Chicago company
to have been paid from money advanced
for travelling expenses, and it seems
proba BILE that the 81, 200 covers the ex-
penses of himself and wife previous to
their having sailed, and such loans as
he secured during that period, which
covered three weeks.
Mr.. Robinson is in London and there
is no property on this side of the water
which the Waldorf can attach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
WAS PAID $11,4OO.
Atchison Globe Prints a New Story
About w. II. h. Young.

The following appears in the Atchison
Globe with reference to W. H. H. Young,
who was elected superintendent of the
soldiers orphans home at Atchison by
the state board of charities:
Mr. Young is Tennesseean by
birth, but came north just before the
war, and enlisted in the Tenth Missouri
He entered the service a private and
was mustered out a lieutenant. He lost
his arm while acting conductor on
the Union Pacific at Lawrence, in 1867.
Billy Buchan was one of his brakemen
at the time. The company paid him $11, =
400 in settlement.
Mr.. Young has lived in Wyandotte
county thirty-two years; a greater part
of the time at Pomeroy, where he ran
mill, and acted as station agent of the
Missouri Pacific. He has preached in
Lancaster, Huron, Shannon, Dillingham;
Monrovia, Parnell, Pardee and Potter as
an evangelist. He says that he has been
interested in the orphans home a num-
Der of years, and that twice, as a mem
Der of the Legislature, had assisted in
passing measures favorable to it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
SOLDIERS LEFT BEHIND.
Will Spend Long Time on the Island
of Malta

Washington, March 1S.-Reports from
the consul at Malta to the state depart
ment show that six men-sailors and
sOldierS-who were on board the trans
port Sheridan were left behind at that
place and that he is caring for them.
He has asked what he shall do for these
stranded enlisted men of the two ser
vices, who have no possessions save
what they carry on their persons. The
war department has instructed that the
men be held until the arrival of the
transport Relief, which has been cabled
to stop at Malta. The order to this eff
feet was sent to Gibraltar, but the Re
lief may have left the latter place be-
fore the instructions reached it, in which
event it would not be likely to put in at
Malta, in which case the men in the
care of the United States consul, who
have already assumed the status of de-
serters. or at least guilty of absence
without leave, would be in a more awk-
ward position still.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

Two performances of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" will be given at popular prices
a t the Crawford theater Monday by the
Forest company. TIE matinee will be
especially for school children and will
not commence until $3.50 o'clock.
Mile. Cameron and her concert COM
pany will be the attraction at the
Crawford theater next Tuesday evening.
The soprano has associated with her
Daisy Kerr King, contraIto; Chas. Hig
gins, violinist, late of the Pittsburg or
chestra, and Q. Herbert Kerr, pianist,
formerly conductor at Hammerstein's
Olympia in New York city. A varied
concert program will be given. The
prices are 75, so and 25 cents.
1.-THE DEVILS Auction" will be at the
Crawford theater next Friday, and
Coon Hollow for matinee and night
performance Saturday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18
has been embodied in another police bill

which is now in Albany.
This new scheme, which has Governor
ROoSevelt's endorsement, provides for
the establishment of a state constabu-
larry in first and second class cities, and
If it goes through Teddy" will be vir-
tuaIly at the head of the police depart
ment in all of the states cities. The
organization of the constabulary force
is to be under the direct supervision of
the governor, who is to appoint BIZ
partisan boards to direct the operations
of the police. Tammany, strictly speak
ing, will be ''out of it," for the governor
is to have the power of removal which
he exercises over the heads of other
state departments. Tammany Of
course does not view this bill with any
degree of pleasure, but there seems to
be an excellent opportunity of it's be-
coming a law. The boiling Republican
senators have agreed to the bill If it
does pass, goodbye for the dives in the
Tenderloin. and all of the policemen
who are in the habit of shutting their
eyes to duty will soon be things Of the
past.