The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-17
Decided Lands for sale by Orr W.

Decided Lands for sale by Orr W
Lee, Clifton.
j. G. Baldwin was called home to
Minnesota, Thursday, by the illness OF
his wife.
Can any one tell us where the
buck-wheat iap-iack is sojourning :?
We long for its matutinal visit.
Every grist mill in Dakota has
more work than it can do. Let us
have more mills. Sully county needs
one.
Miss Maggie Rickert came up
from Pierre, Tuesday, and is looking
after her claim short distance east OF
Clifton.
We have many new final proofs
which will appear in due time, the day
being set so far ahead that their pub
lication is not necessary this week
ANY one caught slashing the tim
ber on the ranches of the publishers
of this paper will be sacrificed on the
spot. Somebody must be made an ex-
ample of.
NJ. V. Baldwin killed % pound
jack-labbit Tuesday night. If we
could only slip up on two or three of
tho sc long cared chaps we should have
meat all winter
M. l.. Simmonds, of n Y, left
for Fairholt, Mimi. Thursday, to join
his wife. Like everybody else, he
couldn't be happy until he had secured
some Sully county soil near Clifton
We shall look for him back in few
weeks.
Hon. Jas. X. Magic, late printer
expert of Illinois, and for many years
Reading Clerk of the Illinois Legisla-
ture, and one of the oldest, ablest and
best known newspaper men of the
State, now owner of fine farm ut
Kenesaw in 1l6-79, has our thanks for
valuable assistance in finishing our of.
fee up for cold weather. Doing good
to his fellow men seems To be Mr.. Ma
gies. religion, which he practices as
we'll as breaches.
The Indians across the Missouri
recently strrted 10000 buffaloes and
succeeded in killing $500 of them,
principally for their hides, though our
noble red brother may condescend to
sell few carcasses for the where
ithal to purchase some tire-water
He has no incentive to lay by any for
his own consumption, as the Govern
ment will keep him supplied with
beef Obout the only thing necessary
to make our Nations wards perfectly
happy is the addition of whisky to
their bill of fare.
The Onida Journal seems to take
a morbid pleasure in abusing some
one, and never lets an opportunity pass
TO get in dirty fling ut the Honorable
Board of County Commissioners. In
commenting upon any action of the
Commissioners, the farther it can get
from the truth the happier it seems to
be. Last week it worked itself up into
paroxysm of blind rage because the
Commiss ioners did not detach a por-
ton of Clifton School Township and
attach it to Pymosa Township. Right
in the face of the fact that the petition
asking tor the annexation of a portion
of Clifton Township was only signed
by twelve of the residents of Pym ,sa
Township, whereas the remonstrance
against Clifton Township being mutt
llted until its own school districts were
formed was signed ~ over twenty res
idents, the Journal has the dispicable
audacity to charge the Commissioners
with trying to suppress the voice of
the people We know that the Com
missioners would have been only too
glad to have complied with the request
of the petitioners, but can any sane
person make out how they could do so
i'm the face of a remonstrance from an
other Township just rs deeply interest
ed, signed by nearly twice rs many of
its people, without doing just what the
Journal accuses them Of supprcssing
the voice of the people?" Consistency
is said to be a jewel, but it is evident
a