Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-02-28
DAKOTA NEWS.

DAhO1A NE w -.
The saloon license in Plankinton
is $500.
Brookings county Jail is without a
tenant.
An odd fellows lodge was organic
ed at Aberdeen, the eth.
Secretary Hand issued 2lO Ger
tificates during the year 1882.
The Homestake mine in the
Black Hills annually produces "
100000.
The proposed city of Jamestown
will embrace an area of 1906 acres
about nine sections.
The odd fellows of Madison have
a new hall, and claim it to be the
largest in southern Dakota.
A good many Stutsman county
farmers contemplate raising u large
amount OF onions next season.
Fargo has a society composed Of
agrass widows" who meet every
week for mutual consolation.
Morris Mutt, of Alexandria,, real
lied a profit of S35 per acre from
broom corn raised on sod and ship
ed to Chicago.
A bonfire built at Deadwood on
the night of the presidential cleo
ton in 1880, communicated to a
coal bed beneath and is still burn.
ing.
A gentleman Of Lisbon, Ransom
county is plating a townsite in the
shape Of a wheel, the market house
representing the hub and the streets
representing spokes.
One half of Dakota is as large as
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Jesey, Delaware, Maryland and
West Virginia combined.
A home insurance company has
been organized in Sioux Falls with
many good names to back it. The
Capital stock is 100000, which can
be increased to 100000 at the
pleasure of company.
A German by the nam of Jacob
Engle was frozen nearly to death
near Fort Thompson not long ago.
The Indians found him and like
good Samaritans took him to the
hospital at Fort Hale. q ta'
" Potatoes must be. scarce up north.
The Grand Forks Herald says: "Po-
tatoes IRE very scarce at the present
time. Owing to the recent cold
snap, many We're frozen and they
now command S1.25 per bushel."
An Indian at Brule agency COM
mitted suicide, last week, by shoot
ing himself through the heart, and
another Indian, a member of the
police died, and his wife committed
suicide by hanging herself by the
neck.
The Huron Leader says that snow
drifts twenty-three feet high are re-
ported in some of the cuts of the
Dakota Central road. The snow
plows are powerless to remove
them, and the only recourse is man
ual labor.
The Sioux Falls Exposition made
a deficit of s1S3S.O4 last fall. The
bulk of this deficit is for premiums,
and an effort is being made to have
them donated by the winners and
to raise enough money to place the
association on a firm basis. 4
White Lake Times: The first
question asked concerning a man
when he locates here is whether he
has any girls. There is no doubt
that a carload of females shipped in
from the over stocked cities of, the
east would do well here even on sod.
The Argus says a youthful AMMAN
las of Sioux Falls, only five years
old, put in his time the other day
trying to borrow some eggs of the
neighbofs. He claimed that his
mother had sent for them to set the
cat, as she wanted to raise some
puppies.
Duluth Tribune: A little boy Of
Duluth was called in 10 see n new
brother. He looked at the tiny
mite a moment, and said impressive
ly, Little one. you struck this town
at a mighty hard time. Hold your
grip, though, and hook out for the
boom like the rest of us are doing"
The father IL a real estate man.
The Grand Forks Herald is re-
sponsible for the following: "On the
farm Of Mr.. Findlayson near Rey-
nolds, in n day there was ushered
into the world within a space of
twelve hours a fine hahy n hrno5 of