Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-02-14
NEWS,

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The only saloon at Iroquois has
been closed.
Canton has several cases Of malig-
nant scarlet fever.
Buffalo county claims a popula-
ton Of just forty souls.
The aggregate capital of the banks
of Dakota is 8 100000.
The w. G. T.. U. of Huron is to
have q free reading room.
A move is on foot to build a $4O,-
600 opera house at Sioux Falls.
Mitchell has its third weekly
newspaper-tke Mail-published by
Stockwell Il Sherwin.
The Dakota physicians are taking
steps toward securing registration, in
order to expel quacks.
True bills of murder have been
found against Tim Coleman and
VIM. Thather, in Lawrence county.
The Citizens Constitutional Asso-
citation of Dakota will have a con-
vention at Huron on the 22d of
March next.
A child was found on the side
walk in Bismarck one night last
week, and a piece of paper told the
finder to 'name it Annie"
G. K. Carpenter, a Minneapolis
man, has disappeared from Sioux
Falls, and suspicious of foul play
are held. He had considerable mon
ey.
According to the Mandan Times,
husbands are in demand at Man
dan, several ladies being red hot az
ter Postmaster Mitchell Of tn t
town.
Three Bohemians were caught in
the storm while on their way 10
Wheeler, Charles Mix county, and
all suffered terribly. One froze to
death.
The average temperature at Pen .
bina, North Dakota, for the month
OF January as given by the Pembi-
ma Express, was eighteen degrees be-
low zero.
Huron Tmes:-Ten barrels of
whisky were received at the freight
depot Saturday night. The existing
blockade will no longer be a source
of trouble to many citizens of HUI
ron
David McVane, a saloon keeper
of Madison, started from his saloon
to his home on the Sd inst. in an in
toxicated condition, and persisted
from the cold before reaching there.
Another victim of the curse, alcahol.
Sioux Falls Press:-The number
of chattel mortgages being filed is
twenty-five per cent. less than at
this season last year, and the num-
Der of warranty deeds is fifty per
cent. greater. These facts tell their
own story.
The Pembina Express tells Of a
sleigh-load of jolly young people
riding toward the river. The sleigh
struck a stump, stopped, but the oc-
cupants went along down the en-
bankment each n stopping when
he or she got ready.
The Sioux City Journal of Thurs
day says: Sheriff Alex Mckenzie of
Bismarck was in town yesterday
with an insane man whom he was
taking to the hospital at Yankton.
If north Dakotaians continue going
TO this hospital at the recent rate,
there will not be enough left to form
a territorial government.
Mr.. Ford, living north of the Fire.
steel, reports to the Plankinton
Standard that, in digging a well, he
struck an eight foot vein Of coal. 1t
has been tested and proves to be
equal to any Illinois coal. We pre-
sumo that further prospecting will
be the order of the day, and if coal
can be found in paying quantities
Aurora county will be wonderfully
benefited.
Mrs. Barnard, of Cooperstown be-
ing caught out in a blizzard, threw
her blankets on the snow, covered
herself with the robes, and began
rubbing her wet and chilled limbs,
first freeing them from the frozen
skirts. Soon the winds of Heaven
covered her with snow, thus provid-
ing her with a covering that assisted
her in keeping from freezing. For
fourteen terrible hours the coura-
geous woman fought the elements,
and to-day is able to be about as
usual. her two little fingers being the
only part frozen, having recovered
from the nervous prostration the
fearful ordeal brought upon her.