The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-03-29
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Willie Potter went to Blunt Mon
day.
Mrs O. W. Lee has been i'll dur
ing the past week.
Buy your lumber Of Laird, Norton
! Co. Blunt. 43tf
The "soap men, passed through
town, enroute TO Fairbank, Tuesday.
Several teams en- route to Potter
county have passed through town the
past week.
S. III. Neal removed his family to
his claim b miles north of town
Wednesday.
A full line of wood and chain
pumps can be found at Warner Bros,
Pierre, Oak. AZ
Mrs. j. W. Carpenter, of 1l4-79,
visited her numerous friends in Clifton
Tuesday of this week.
j. W. Carpenter has been in town
this week doing the carpenter work on
Joe Kokesh's new blacksmith shop.
There are so many emierarss COM
ing to Dakota that the North Western
road is compelled to run wild freight
trains
Owing to the heavy snow storm
in Pierre Saturday morning last, the
stage did not reach Clifton until about
five clock p. m.
R. T. Whitman arrived in Blunt
last week, from Illinois with thirteen
head of good work horses, which he
has placed on the market.
Frank A. Leslie, ID. C. Nicol, post
master at Fairbank, and Henry Dunkle,
all of Fairbank, paid Clifton a visit
Tuesday last, Mr.. Leslie making final
proof on his claim.
II f. Stockton, who has a fine
homestead north of town, arrived here
with household goods and live stock,
Tuesday, from Ladora, Iowa, where he
has been spending the winter. We are
pleased to see Mr. Stockton return and
learn that he will remain with US per-
manently.
In another column of to-day's
WATcHMAN will be found the advertise
ment of Joseph Kokesh, our village
blacksmith, who keeps in stock full
line of blacksmiths' and wagon makers
supplies, and sells the Scotch Harrow,
price $40, and the Northwestern Har-
row, three sections, price $l5, which
are the best for sale in Sully county
Give him call when needing repairing
done or anything i'm his line.
"A Blunt teamster imagined that
his team had crowded the wagon off
the bridge crossing the Okobojo at
this point Monday night, and jumped
from the wagon, alighting in the creek.
He came up town, wrung his clothing
the best he could without undressing,
and hung himself up on chair beside
the Clifton House stove to dry. He
had a narrow escape from drowning.
The Dakota Territorial Republican
Convention will be held in Huron.
Wednesday, April 23. Each organized
county is entitled to one delegate, and
one for every $50 votes cast for the
Republican candidate for delegate to
Congress at the last general election.
County conventions are recommended
to be held on April ] 9Th and the pri-
maries on the Saturday preceding.
The Territorial Convention will name
two delegates and two alternates to
the Chicago Republican Convention.
We assume from the dispatches
that the Sioux Commission will need
to revisit the different reservations to
obtain the required signatures Of three
fourths of all the adult males. This
will likely take two months, and much
more time will elapse before the mat
ter can be presented to the President
for his approval. While it is quite
certain that the reservation will be
opened, it is doubtful if the opening
will take effect in time to accommodate
the incoming tide of immigration, un-
less the settlers are allowed to go upon
the land as squatters before the agree
ment shall be fully consumated..
When in Fairbank, Sunday last,
we had very pleasant conversation
with G. j. Millett, Sr., in the fine office
of c. Nj. Carr, lumberman of that place,
upon the subject of tree planting in
Dakota Mr.. Millett, who has had
considerable experience in the nursery
line, thinks fruit trees should not be
planted here until the ground has been
placed in good state of cultivation,
but that forest trees may be planted,
and, with proper care, will do well af-
ter the ground has been cultivated the
first year. Mr. Millett promises us a
letter upon this subject soon which we
will be pleased to publish, as the sub
ject oftree culture is Of great import
ance to the people now inhabiting Da-