Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-07

WESS1NGTON SPRINGS, I: y. I.
What is the intinity of silence."
asked IL philosophical of Il married man
Il don't know; but l should think it
would he what Il man had to say to his
wife. when she caught him trying to
Hiss the hired girl"
The Dakota state Journal is after
the Hand county officers with a sharp
stick. MrSage claims that the mass NEE
ting inStigated by the journal resulted
in asaying of between $1,000 and $4,000
III the tax payers Of Hand county.
y Mitchell saloon keeper was fined
$500 and costs by Judge Edgerton for
selling liquor to a nan after being for
hidden by his wife. The case was Civ
on to the jury, but celebrating upon
the case for nearly an h@aw without
i'aching a decision the Judge ordered
'hem to bring in a verdiet in accord
nee with the above.
The citizens of lie Beau need not
Worry about fuel If they keep solid"
it'll the Indians. Ten Miles south
'rest OF the town. on the Sioux Reser-
yation. are large hills apparently COM
posed of stph5d coal. When put in afire
',fis coal iAlins s%plendidly, leaving an
tn aInltst as white as sFovs. Large
bags ~ II. atu brought to LIE Beau ev-
cry day by Che chief Four. Bears. or
Solne of his tribe, aid exchanged for
tobacco. tia cups, or something of that
nature. Pierre Recorder.
some n has said the great thinker
j. seldom a disputant." The litigious
people who are habitually engaged in
disputes and wars of word are nearly all
intellectual light-weights. With but
poor employment of their time, with
their minds cramped through want of
intelligence and culture. there is moth
in@ left for them. if they have the per-
Snnal pride that leads to ambition after
prominence, but to become cavilers
and contestants in situations where
somebody will be compelled to take no
tirr of them.-Ch lifted PRESBYTERIAN.
We notice that some of the Dakota
newspapers are mis-spelling Ordway's
name. In the place of a y" they use
&C. making it appear in print as
"i'lmbo." Now gumbo is a purely Da-
kota ingredient a species of soil
which possesses such qualities of "stic-
katlve' that it adheres to everything it
touches and never leaves the opjeel of
its attachment. On the contrary our
Jumbo is not a native of Dakota. is a
slippery sort of AN article ard is liable
10 slide cut at any time, under instruc-
tions frc'rf Washington. Gumbo we
shall have with us always. but Jumbo
Is sent here only for q brief period as a
l'roviprnthal infliction like unto the
plaques of Egypt.-P. & ID.
NN's N'lt!llN CEDullp II teS 1t LOli-
bic organization. The governor first
appointed John Falde, Jr., a. Z. Van
Camp and L. +. Witcher as commits
sloners. Subsequently he assumed to
revoke Fades appointment, and issued
q commission to George w. Durham.
Fade continues to act. however. claim
ing that the governor has no power tc
remove him, and IN conjunction with
another commissioner, organized The
county and placed the county seat at
lilghmore. Last week, however. Dun
ham and one of the men first appoint
ed organized another board and I'D
pointed another set of county officers
such is the lamentable state OF affairs
which threatens to destroy the peace OF
Hyde for a year. 1t is charged that
ord"ay sought to remove Fade be.
cause it was discovered that he pro.
posed TO vote for Highmore for the
county seat.-Iiuron Times,
In Governor Ordway's annual report
no the secretary 0i the interior occurs
The following passage:
The act Of congress for tie Grgani-
z't'on pnd government Of territories
evidently did not contemplate impos-
ing upon the governor such importaut
varied ans extensive duties is the leg.
ilatlve assembly Of Dakota has i'm.
"ed. Among the most important
and difficult is that imposed by law in
The organization OF new counties.
chapter tWenty-one Of the political
t'ode provides that whenever fifty OF
upwards OF the legal voters iii an unor-
sFanlzed county Shall petition the gov.
rrnor. ne shall proceed, in case he is
satisfied that there are fifty or more se-
s&ll and qualified voters in the county
(" organize it by appointing three PEI.
IONS residents thereof as county com