Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

Salem NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that
measured five inches eachin circumfer-
ence, raised within two miles of Salem,
were in the market here last week.
Talk about Dakota soil, why there is no
state or territory IN the Union that can
equal it.
The Bismarck Journal says ten hum
dred and fifty tons of buffalo bones have
been shipped from that place, and the
immediate vicinity, and estimates that
amount of bones represents eighty-four
thousand animals. AS thousands of
tons have been shipped from other pla-
ces in North Dakota, one can form
some idea of the immense number of
buffaloes that used to subsist on the
boundless prairies of Dakota. The
bones, which bring on all average about
eight dollars per ton, are shipped east,
ground up and manufactured into fer
tiliZers for the poor and worn out land
of that country.
Huron Times:-The Indian is d great
card to draw in a Fourth of July cele-
bration. He is also a good drawer of
rations, as the good citizens of Miller
can testify. They made a requisition
on Fl. Thompson for forty braves to
help celebrate the Fourth, and three
hundred and forty-three braves, squaws
and pappooses came a week before that
date to rehearse the parts they were to
take in the performance. They played
their parts without a fault, receiving
great praise from the spectators. The
expense of this feature Of the pro-
gramme is now; the only question with
our Miller friends whether or not it
will do to repeat on a like future 6cca-
sion.
Huron Tiim,i,es:-A. H. Risdon has
very much improved his hay land by
sowing timothy seed on the sod, with
out ever running the harrow over it or
otherwise trying to cover the seed.
Some of this seed was sown late in the
fall and some early in the spring. Only
an expert. could tell therewas any other
grass than timothy on many acres
treated in this manner. Not only is
the quality Of hay improved, but from
twenty to twenty-five per cent. more
hay can be cut to the acre than from
wild grass. This is a subject that will
pay farmers to investigate. The
experiment can be tried at such a tri-
fling cost and the benefit is so pronoun-
ced that all can afford to test it.
Washington correspondence Bis
marck Journal:-The keenest judge of
human nature Ihave ever scents Judge
Smell, of this city. lie has a hard class
to deal with, and seems to have become
so thoroughly familiar with the physi-
ognomy Of the people who appear before
him from day to day, that he can tell
the character of his man, or woman, at
sight. I have had the timeto spare re.
Gently and have attended the police
court occasionally. A number of cases
have come up which 1 happened to
know all about. The judge would not
wait to hear all Of the stories that were
told, but would shut off the witnesses
before they were half through. He is
very abrupt but never is known to make
a mistake in his judgments. Some OF
the oldest attorneys and detectives have
told me that they never see, or have
seen, him make any mistake in his rap.
id decisions.
Ralph Wheelpck, of Mitchell, secre-
.tary Of the capital commission, says
the funds provided for carrying on the
capitol building at Bismarck are ex-
hausted and the commission is virtual.
ly bankrupt. and that if the. territory
does not come to The rescuethis winter
Bismarck's pride may never be complet-
ed, and it's walls will become pile OF
ruins to serve only as a monument OF
the foolishness of the last legislature
and the commission which. they Great.
ed. In commenting en- this statement
the Yankton Press declares that the
lots which were to be sold to create a
fund for the construction of a building
ore practically unstable. Of the $4OO,.
600 guaranteed. in Bismarck's bid only
$4,000 has been secured, and yet the
commission goes on: piling up a debt
which will be foisted on the territory
just as soon as a%.legislature is secured
which can, be worked to that purpose.
This emphasizes the, necessity for the
people in southern Dakota to see to it
that none of its share Of the legislators
shall be chosen in the interest of the
bankrupt gang. There is no question
whatever that there is d scheme opfoot
to pack the next general assembly 50
these men who have used the location
of. the capital as a real estate boom can
unload upon the territory the expense
of the boom. The plan is.to make the
| cow counties and the R1ac1< Hills nav