The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-12-01
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Lee, Clifton.
JAS. X. Magic is visiting friends
at Pierre and Canning.
Judge Sweny was in town on final
proof business, Wednesday.
%. Featherstone took in the sights
at Fairbank the first of the week.
-Okobojo has hopes of a Touring
mill in the spring. We trust she may
get it.
Lieutenant Emery and family, of
Fort Sully, have returned from an ex-
tended visit east.
John Hoover is fixing up his well
adjoining town and putting in a pump.
He will have an abundant supply.
-F. H. Meyer, a town site platter,
and Jno. r. Marsh, steamboatman
both of Yankton, spent Saturday and
Sunday in Clifton. They are genial
gentlemen.
Frost, of the Carson Herald, adj
mits that he " lied like thunder" when
at Clifton No need of the confession
for everybody knew it, and he hasn't
got over it yet
The Pierre Recorder says that du-
ring their recent hunting trip through
Sully county Messrs. Wade, Prentice.
Green and Bruner killed three deer and
about fifty prairie chickens.
Fred. Boyer, who has been pros
pecting for water on his place about
three miles east of Clifton, struck il
rich, last week, finding an unlimited
supply at a depth of 20 feet. 1t came
in rapidly all around. He is now per-
fectly happy.
A rattlesnake was killed in the
western part of the county. 1t had
crawled out to get sniff of warm Da-
kota sunshine Had it read about
those terrible billiards. chronicled by
some of the eastern papers it might
have been intimidatcd To remain in its
hole and its life thus spared.
Wolves raided the poultry house
of w. III. Baty, about three miles east
of Clifton, Friday night of last week,
during the absence of himself and fam
lily, and sadly decmated the number,
killing some 63 in all. This is Sc
rious loss in this country where chick
ems are so scarce Others who have
fowls should see that their coops are
securely closed nights.
The many friends of l.. j. Bald
win, of Clifton, will regret to learn that
week before last he had the misfortune
to get thrown into a cattle guard at
Huron, while attempting to reach n
passenger train, breaking his arm be-
tween the wrist and elbow. He has
returned, temporarily, to his old home
Mt Lewiston, MINI.
On Saturday afternoon the hotel
team ran away with Willie Ross. spill
ing him out of the wagon and bruising
him up considerably. The team cir
cled around over the prairie for some
time, with John Blaisdell in pursuit.
-the-way, guess John has a meal
due him from the Clifton House, for
owing to the exertion in running after
the team, his stomach capsized and
split his dinner Only the reach was
broken-this to the wagon, not John S
stomach, for it can 'reach' after just rs
much grub Us ever.
Frost, of the Carson Herald, sniv-
els around and admits that he don I
know anything about any one connec-
ted with this office ever being drunk in
Pierre, but says that he was so inform
ed by one of the editors of the Pierre
Daily Recorder We don't believe any
one connected with the Recorder ever
told him any such stuff, and, if so, he
can certainly get an affidavit to that
effect, which we emphatically call for
Furthermore, we will give fifty dollars
for such an affidavit from any rcspon.
sible party. VIII Mr.. Frost now trot
out his testimony without any more
beating around the bush and malicious
insinuations, or acknowledge his ina.
bility to do SO and make decent apol
ogy for the wrong he has done US. lie
has made so much ado about it that
this is as little rs we can ask, and if il
goes much farther we give him fail