The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02

Is purely pnllantnro pic move on
the part OF Pierre, and, he intimated
to the Mail that if Spearish was
real good and lent its assistance in
getting the Office away from Rapid
and located at Whitewood, that at
some time in the misty future no
might be prevailed upon to BRING
the old thing V e 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 II.
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 dav to
Deadwood. Pierre is all right in
his wa,v, and so is Whitewood, but
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
Speartish 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
d few suffering mortals, charge
them a high price for their "ser-
vices and pass on to greene, fields
and pastures new. Another aygre-
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 rs good physicians and sur
geons as can be found anywhere
and the man or woman who will
turn themselves over to a total
stranger, with permission to dope
the system and knife the body,
deserves to be f1eeced financially
and every other way.
Sands Il Astleys circus and train
ed animal show enterained a goodly
throng Of people in this city We'd
nesday afternoon and evening. The
trapeze work vas 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 q 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 was 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
!, over III five different states he
finally came back over land and like
the country editor, he is "here tc
stay" He says he is glad to ge,
back and he don't intend to squan
der any more time looking for q
: better place to live.
Mrs. J.. D. Croft, daughter Of
Capt. 9. V. Gardner, was a Sunday
, evening arrival from Piedmont anc
!, spent the early part Of the week
I, 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
! little one has since been doing
finely.
Mrs. Levi MCGEE and little daugh
ter Gertrude were Sunday evening
arrivals home, after having spen,
: the week with Mrs. G. A. Weigant
at Whitewood. The Judge had in
tended to go up on the Sunday morn
: ing train and accompany them home
but when he got to a point within ;
couple Of hundred Yards of the depo'
The train pulled out and-well, tn,
Judge didn't Sunday at Whitewood
!, ! By invitation Of Mr.. and Mrs
: y, 9. Read their son, Burns, wa.
surprised by a number his friend.
at his home Monday evening. Thos.