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US & m):- K- ifrV: r* Pfc IfiK 1®, 5 I %f tit a V* VOL. VIII. 1 ,*L 4 4 Pierre Wee CHAS. L. HYDE, THE REAL ESTATE DEALER, IsCladTo Answer Any InquiriesConcerning Pierre. A. W. JOHNSTON & CO., REAL FLSWR LARGE EXCLUSIVE LIST OF Business and Residence Lots AND ACRE PROPERTY. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. PRATT & WELLMAN'S REAL 7 ESTATE vABENCY! (OLDEST IN THE CITY.) Sole Agents for Wells 2nd Addition, oniln-aciiif? one-third of pUteJ area of Pierre. Choice acre property suitable for platting for sile, at from $(H) to $200 per acre. PRin & WELLMAN'S ADDITION is now platted :uul on llu* imirUot. Tlu plat can be. scon at our office in Daxota Central 15anK, opposite Wulls House. BLACK HAWK MEDICINE CO PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA. DEA^EHSIN Orugs, medicines and Chemicals. Perfumery, Soaps, Combs and Brushes, Trusses, Supporters, Shoulder Braces Fancy and Toilet Articles, Books und Stationery, Grass and Garden Seeds. Glass, Potty, Paiots, Oils, Varnishes and Dya-Stuffs, Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal Purposes Paten Median}:-,' etc. Fam ily Medicines a..d Physicians' Presort tipns aceurt'.eiy Compounded at all lli.urs. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. CAPITAL, $50,000.00. Surplus S65OOO.OO DIltECTORS: THOS. H. GREEN. County Treasurer, II. F. BENNETT. Ca tullst. B. A. CUMMINS, Cashier A. O. CUMMINS, Wholesale Leatliet C. C. BENNETT, President. OFFICERS: C. C. BENNETT, President A. O. CUMMINS. Vice President B. A. CUMMINS, Cashier. Foroip and Domestic Exchange. Collections Promptly Made. PIERItE. SOUTH. DAKOTA. S. S. CLOUGH, President. J. L. KEYES, Cashier CITIZENS' BANK. Pierre, South Dakota. Transacts a General Banking Business, Sells Drafts on Principal Cities of Europe. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY .'. MADE. Established January 1, 1881. PIERRE ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CO. OFFICE in the HORNER BLOCK. Is Prepared to Furnish ARC OR INCANDESCENT gtll 6 !fe Prices will be furnished upon application. S. B. WALLACE, Secretary. AN OLD-TIMER TALKS Col. Laird Revives Reminiscences of Early Times Around About Pierre. The Oiiho Mission UOJJ l'L'p at Oabe mission Rev. Mr. Riggs, who had been working as a missionary among the Indians for years, iiad gath ered around him some twenty families of them, who had become quite civilized, had taKen land in severalty, and were therefore entitled to vote. Knowing this, our men decided that Rev. Air. Riggs would make a good candidate for super intendent of schools, and besides he would be 011 our side anyway. We found out the Ordway crowd was getting ready to give these Indians a dog feast. As soun as 1 got word 1 sent a messenger to Rev. Mr. Rings post haste to tell him what they were planning to do, and that if he would see the IndiaHs were all right we would give them a doe feast any lime it would do the most good. At this Kings held up his hands in holy horror. 'No,' he said, 'you need not worry. I know these Indians too well and have worked with them loo long to be fooled in any such way us this. You just leave it sill to me, and 1 can guarantee you it will be all right.' "So we left the mailer with him. I might mention here that the Ordway forces were in charge of lien Ash, Hughes' county's present democratic sheriff. Il seems Ash understood thy In dian character a little better than Riggs did, although in a rather different way. Ash had spent his whole life among them too, and besides is as shrewd as the next man you'll meet in a day's journey. Ash's mother was the first white woman in this country. They lived at Yankton. Ash was in the government, employ, and used to make trips as scout all through this country as far as Fort Laramie when there wasn't a white man in it and not even a trail. So he had a good chance, which he improved well, to learn some thing of Indian character. On election day the Ordway men loaded up several wagons with provisions and started liiein up the other side of the river to about opposite the mission. Hero they opened up a big pow-wow, to which all the In dians in lhat country were invited. Il was not long before Riggs' Indians scented the feast from afar, jumped into their canoes, and all but two or three of them were among the affair's most active par ticipants and hesi patrons. During the day the viands gave out, and there was a great scrambling 10 get more of them to keep the Irdiaus from leaving, and to further guard against this they took and hid Riggs'Indians'canoes, so that they could not get back to vote. "The feast cost them between $300 and $400, but they won the day. It was a shrewdly managed scheme, and resulted In our defeat by from three to five votes 011 every candidate except one or two. They knew the Indian nature better than Riggs did, who had been with thein all his life. "From that day to this I have rather lost confidence 111 all plans looking to the education and civilizing of the Indians. I have noticed that where any progress has been made there has been some white blood in almost every case." Col. Laird also related something of the cxperieuco of this Rev. Mr. Riggs which has been truly wonderful. White Swan, who is the chief justice—the highest ju diciary officer of the Cheyenno nation saved Rev. Mr. Riggs and his father's family in the Minnesota massacre, and 1 4 fc'S* Feast in Which lien Ash l'layed a Prominent Part. A Racy Story That Early Settlers Ite- HH'iiibtT and Like to Hear Re peated. Col. S. M. Laird, of Pierre, is widely known as one of Pierre's characters, says the Sioux City Journal, and he is on! in every way equal to Walter Scott's school master, who furnished such a fund of in formation and interesting reminiscences. Col. Laird was one of the early settlers there, and is 1111 old Ohio man, having lived a good many years in President Oar lield's town. He is the present United States commissioner and a member of Up state board of regents. It was he who largely figured in Pierre's successful cap ital campaign in the Black-Hills last fall. Hi-experience has been a wide one. in conversation with a Journal coi respon dent Col. Laird tells the, following inci dent, which is particularly appropriate at this lime: "During the time Ordway was governor of this territory there were practically only two parties in tlit country—the Ord way party and the Peuigrew party. The two factions asked few questions about a man's politics, whether lie was a repub lican or a democrat, outside of which side he favored, and men were selected for candidates particularly for their running qualities—the man who could roll up tin' tllost voles. "I remember one election it was extra close. 1 hail charge of the Pettiurew forces, and we had made a canvass of the county, so that we knew just how many men we hail to a man. The other side had done the same, and it was known that a few voles either way would decide the result. •7\eX^\^v FV "M PIERRH, SOUTH DAKOTA, l'HUKSDAY, APRIL 9, 1891. CJ 1 since that time his entire life has been devoted to these Indians. He came to where his mission is now in 180S, and has been there ever since. He has lived with the Indians, and knows their lan guage and habits better than any of them do themselves. He has spent weeks and months with them on their hunts and in their camps to learn the meaning of their signs and Restores. As is generally known, the sign language is bv far the most important part of the Indian lan guage. Rev. Mr. Riggs was the author of the first complete translation of the bible into the Sioux language, and is probably the best posted man on Indians in the world today, lie has gathered around him now a most prosperous settle ment of Indians, and has certainly done a great work among them. ELECTRICITY IN LAW. PotntH Alxinl. Invent ions That Have Opoll ttl Nciv Fields of Mtigiition. One of the effects of the rapid introduc tion of electrical inventions during the last quarter of a century lias been to open 11^ entirely new fields of litigation for the lawyer and new questions for the bench. This in a general way is true of every new creation of industrial property, but with electricity many of the problems to be solved are qui'e novel, and a judge has often to go wide of practice or precedent before he can determine the legal princi ple proper to apply in the case lefore him. Ttfus, lor instance, in Pennsylvania the question has been adjudicated upon wheth er 4»-local electric light, company was a manufacturing concern. The court says it is not, ami yet all that it does is to make current for sale. A similar point is that raised as to the durability of electric current. The law officers of tile treasury say it is intangible, and tlierefote pays no duly yet it cau lie measured to the minutest fraction. The Western Union company has had many a fighjus to whether pole lines had any right 011 tlle.public highway, and Massachusetts say they have, as transporting message is part'of the work of intercourse, for which roads are laid out and maintained. The American Hell Telephone company forbears spent hundreds of thousands of dofiars in defending the abstruse doctrine that, telephonic speech can only be trans mitted by an tindulatory current, that a make and break current would not do it, and that other (levies are simply a juggle to get around Bell's patent. In electric lighting millions of investments have hung on r. "lilameut," and 011 the exact meaning that the courts might attach to the word. Among late legal fights is one that prob ably the United States supreme court will have to settle—namely, whether the tele phone companies or the electric railway companies have a right to use the earth as a "return" circuit. The telephone people claim that the leakage from the railway throw? their service out of gear and ren ders the .instruments useless. The railway people reply that their telephonic friends have remedy in metallic circuits, ami that no one electrical interest anyhow can "own the earth." Already this dispute has crop ped up in nearly a score of state.s, and the increasing number and magnitude of the electric roads renders it more and more important. In the meantime, the tele phone companies as far as possible are putting their metallic circuits in, with a marked improvement in the service. **,•* New questions thus crop up every day. In the use, for example, of the alternative currents now becoming so common not little has depended on the patentability of the principle of transforming the current, and on whether a "step lip" An Outfit for Neuralgia. If there is any one in Macon who had little faith in hoodoos and charms a few weeks ago that person was Chief Kenan. But at liust all unbelievers are brought around, and it appears this was the case witli the doughty chief. Some days ago he was suffering considerably with neuralgia. After '.rjing every remedy under the sun he at last came upon a friend who had a recipe which lie was not caring particu larly to reveal to the chief, but seeing the official in deep trouble he dually consented to apply the remedy. Securing a spool of black silk thread, he cut o(T several bits. One lie tier! around the neck of the chief, another down the hack, and connecting the one from the neck with that around the waist, and a fourth down his breast, con necting in the same way the two bands. This completed the out.iit. When the operation was finished the chief, with an incredulous smile, asked what came next. "Oh, you will talk dif ferently in a few minutes," replied the friend, with a shake of the head. In a minute the official felt a strange sensation in the face, and within five minutes the pain had left him. To say that lie was amazed would be putting it mildly. Ho has already given the cure to a dozen suf ferers, and now lie is at work solving the problem of how he was cured. As yet he has found 110 one who cau give the cause for it.—Macon Telegraph. May lie* Watt—Wonder why they always call a locomotive she? Potts—Maybe it is on account of the hor rible noise it makes when it tries to whistle.—Indianapolis Journal. Next loor. When the woman of the home answered bis ring he began: "Madam, I am sorry to disturb you. bat I came here from Buffalo to find work at my occupation, and being unable to strike" "What, is your occupation?" she de manded. "I am a nurseryman." "Then drop in next door." "But, madam, I" "Next door, I sayl They have seven children there, while we haven't any!"— Detroit Free Press. £L r"V£\*- Free Capital Stock, Increasing to B. J. JAS. S. SKHKEE, AMOS N. WHS .Sic?--' BI.ANDIX, J. C. equiva lent £0 a "step down"—ill other words, whether raising the voltage and decreasing the ampereage was a simple and inevitable converse to decreasing the volts and rais ing the amperes. Another point around which legal controversy has gathered is the fine one :LS to where "low" potential ends and "hic h" potential begins.—Pittsburg Dispatch. O. J. BRONG'S TICKET AGENCY, KEEP THEIR tlREAT Stocks anil Bonds. EACKK, TAYI.OK, CITY DRAY LINE. Moving safes, buildings and nil heavy work a specialty. The only upholstered dray in the city. All ordets receive at tention at once and safely of movables guaranteed ill all cases. C/9 -1C3 oo A oo ^&u- v3- A I O A IJ Will save you 10 to 25 per cent to all points North, East, West, South. ALL TICKETS GUARANTEED -BY TliE- 1fjroI$cr2 Leet & Knowlton, NERAL fcSTOCK CONSTANTLY REPLENlbHED, laving what suits the public, hoili in quality and price, they ask for a call and In spection of their mammoth double store in the Karcher Block. R. A. LEGGETT & Co., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CRAIXT FLOUR. A Fresh Stock Always oil Hand, of Corn, Oats, Baled Ilay, Garland, Sunshine, Kampeska and live Flour, Corn Meal, Buckwheat, Graham, Bran, Shorts, Elo. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, OF PIERRE, ===Tlie New State Capital of Sooth Motp.T== OFFICERS: TEMPLETON, President. JEROME C. EAGER, Vice President. ADOLPH EWER T, Cashier. DIRECTORS: Register of Deeds. CHA.S. L. B. J. Dry Goods and Groceries. TKMPI.KTON, ADOU'II EWKKT, President of the American National Bank, Sioux City. T| O 30 T1 M. L. HECCL.UND, MERCHANT TAILOR, PIERRE, SOUTII DAKOTA. Spring Suitings in great variety have just been received. Call and examine goods and prices. Store on Pierre St. l*c 0. 47. l\ jj^Ksorintfon, $75,000.00 $150,000.00 IIVDK, Real E-tate. Mayor City of Pierre. Cashier. General Banking Business Transacted. Foreign and Domestic Exchange Bought and Sold. NEWELL MCGEORGE, F. W. EDSON Carries the mos, complete line of Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, In Hughes County, at Lowest Prices and Good Terms. His Line of Surreys are Popular And Sell Well. All Orders for General Blacksmithing Promptly and Satisfactorily Attended to. CktekMtc*1!Ki|Uih DUaaad Brui ENNYR0YAL PILLS JEN Orffffaal ud Only tteaaiae. A SARC, tlwajs reliable, "J »:T -T LADIES UK A\ |ao •the* Refute dangtrou* rataiftt* tfotuandiatifarioru. 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