The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
is a purely philanthro pic move on

TN~ AAoNc On
the part OF Pierre, and. he intimatea
to the Mail that if Spearish was
real good and lent it's assistance in
getting the Office away from Rand
and located at Whitewood, that at
some time in the misty future ba
might be prevailed upon to ,rino
the old thing over here. He didn,t
like it a bit because the editor Of
the Mail refused to sign the petition.
and intimated that the editor didn't
know a good thing when he saw If.
Pierre says that only by his efforts
that the office was not removed To
Deadwood last fall. He speaks in
glowing terms of Whitewood as the
centre of gravity in the Black Hills
and says its has five trains a day to
Deadwood. Pierre is all right in
his wav, and so is Whitewood. bur
il is hardly likely that they will cut
any more ice in removing the land
office than Deadwood did a few
months ago, Notwithstanding the
fact that Pierre says he has the
unqualified support and assistance
of five congressman in this move
Spearfsh Mail.
Rapid City has long been afflicted
with the periodical visits of alleged
specialists" who would remain a
few days in the city, experiment on
"a few suffering mortals, charge
them a high price for their "ser-
vices and pass on to greene, fields
and pastures new. Another aggre-
CATION Of this character which will
be here soon announces that it comes
prepared to treat club feet, hump
back, cross-eyes, and ingrowing toe
nails" 1t is about time that the
people OF this community gave these
fakirsthe go by. Rapid City pos
sess as good physicians and sur
geons as can be found anywhere
and the man u woman who will
turn themselves over to a total
stranger, with permission to dope
the system and knife the BODY,
deserves to be 1eeced financially
and every other way.
Sands h Astleys circus and train
ed animal show entertained a goodly
throng of people in this city We'd
nesday afternoon and evening. The
trapeze work was good and the per-
forming horses and dogs formed a
pleasing feature Of the exhibition.
The three-shell game was worked to
some extent, but the suckers did
not seem as thick as in former years,
hence the harvest was limited. This
, show is a five-car aggregation, but
il up to the average of that size.
An exchang remarks that a brok-
en- wooden headboard and a neglect
ed mound Of earth in the Fort Yates
military cemetery mark the resting
place of Sitting Bull, the great
Sioux medicine man whose witty
brain planned the deathtrap of the
: Little Big Horn, into which Gen.
/. Clusters command fell. On the
broken headboard is written: "No.
81. Sitting Bull, Indian Relic
: hunters have cut most of the head
board away.
!. John Chitty "a a caller at THE
: UNION office last Monday. He left
the Hills something over a year ago
to look for a better place and after
. and after having looked the ground
3 over il five different states he
l finally came back over land and like
the country editor, he is 'shere to
stay He says he is glad to get
back and ne don't intend to squan-
der any more time looking for a
: better place to live.
Mrs. J. D. Croft, daughter OF
Capt. 9. V. Gardner, was a Sunday
a evening arrival from Piedmont and
spent the early part of the week
y with Mrs. Art. w. Grid. She came
/ down for the purpose of consulting
Dr.. Waldron regarding an abcess
which had formed on the neck OF
: her three months old child. The
swelling Was lanced Monday and the
J little one has since been doing
q finely.
Mrs. Levi MCGEE and little daugh.
ter Gertrude were Sunday evening
" arrivals home, after having spent
: the week with Mrs. c. A. Weigand
!. at Whitewood. The Judge had in,
: tended to 60 up on the Sunday norm.
ing train and accompany them home,
out when he got to a point within a
couple Of hundred Yards Of the depo,
h me train pulled out and-well, the
Q Judge didn't Sunday at Whitewood.
! By invitation Of Mr.. and Mrs.
: &c. Read their son, Burns, was
: surprised by a number his friends
at his home Monday evening. Those
going from town yer called for at