Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-02-21
DAKOTA NEWS.

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jamestown has a new 800 ERE en-
CINE.
Deadwood has a female house.
breaker.
A s'bald head social club" has
been organised at Bismarck.
The Huron schools are closed
owing to . shortage Of fuel.
The governor has signed the bill
making obscene language punish
able.
Two anxious land seekers waited
outside the Huron Office all night
last week.
Fargo is soon 10 have two moro
national banks, with capital Of 500
600 each.
The Custer City Chronicle says that
money commands from IL to So per
cent in hal town.
Proctor Of Bismarck is given the
place Of being the best pale-face
pony rider since Custer.
C. A. Wheeler Of Preston, MINI,
will build a wooden mill at Yankton
if sufficient bonus is put up.
It is claimed that a six foot vein
Of good coal has been found near
the Yellow Banks, Deuel. county.
jamestown proposes to raise a
bonus Of $4,000 to be given to the
first railroad building into the town.
Casper Ziegler got on a jamboree
in Sioux Falls and was relieved Of
or lost 500 on the night of the 18th
inst.
Chief Of Police Hennessy, of
Grand Forks, has frozen both
hands while dragging DRINKS to the
lookup.
Dakota pays more revenue
through its post offices than either
Delaware, Florida, Nevada, West
Virginia Or Oregon.
In Beadle county three newspa-
pers were made official by the
county commissioners at full legal
rates for the ensuing year.
An artesian well at Kimball is
down 200 feet and more. Water
was reached ut 100 feet hut not a
sufficient flow, and SO the work goes
on.
Parties who have investigated the
matter declare that there is plenty
Of coal within thirty feet Of the sur
face in Union county.-Dakota HUI
ronite.
Madison, D. T., claims a fourteen.
year-old girl who several days be-
fore the burning Of the Newhall
house, Milwaukee, dreamed about
the whole affair.
The Carver Comedy Company
disbanded at Fargo the other day
because Esther Williams, the lead
ing actress, objected to the amount
Of hugging called for in the play.
Miss Hattie Lawrence of Huron,
is writing a novel entitled The
Young Brides Trouble, a compan.
ion piece Of Seven Buckets Of Blood,
or the Chamber Maids Revenge.
Another outbreak Of claim jump
ers at DEVILS Lake is progressing,
and it is rumored that two men
have been killed. The feeling is
bitter and serions trouble is antici-
pated.
The Catholic mission building for
the education Of Indian children at
Devils Lake agency, was burned on
the 10th inst. The FIRE originated,
it is supposed, from q defective flue.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
There are many reasons why the
capital Of Dakota should not be re-
moved from Yankton, at least not
until the territory is divided, and
we hope the legislature will sit
down heavily ON Walsh's BILL
Egaa Express.
The Sioux Valley Neus tells Of a
peculiar well in that vicinity that is
q natural curiosity. 1t is . twenty
inch bored well, 100 feet deep, and
the popularity about it is that when
ever the wind blows from the south
two days in succession, q strong cur
rent OF air issues from the well with
. roaring sound like that Of q cat.
aract.
Two young girls at Mandan the
other night donned the garb oil
New York sports and went out in
town to make q "mash." After
meeting and winking at several oil
the girls the marshal accosted them
and suggested the alternative OF
home or the cooler and they both
chose the former.
Dell Rapids Exponent: At a
meeting held in Lincoln, Illinois.