The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-02-14
Owing to the sickness of Rev. &. T

Black, there was no meeting of the
Ncwtonian Literary Society of Clifton,
at the College Thursday evening.
Should the Rev gentleman sufficiently
recover. the Society will meet as usual
next Thursday evening, and render the
programme prepared for last Thursday
evening.
AT the school election held i'm town
ship llI74, on Saturday last, the fol-
lowing named gentlemen were elected:
Director Stephen Stephenson; Clerk.
\. L. McGee; Treasurer j. {. Hanson.
Is votes were cast. The name adopted
was Pearl, which, according to the laws
of the Territory, will have to be chang
ed, rs we already have one Pearl town
ship in Sully county, ll5-79.
In the counties in the eastern part
of the territory which have been settled
from three TO five years, land Is selling
Mt from five to twelve dollars per acre.
As a whole the land does not begin to
compare with that in Sully county, and
is not so favorably located, bordering,
as it does, on the Missouri and in close
proximity to the big coal fields on the
opposite side.
Mrs. III. VI. Butts died at the home
of her husband in Clifton on Sunday,
last, of dropsy, after Il lingering and
painful illness She bore up under the
pains of the disease and seven surgi-
cal operation-in which 12I gallons of
water was taken awav-with the heroic
tortitude of the martyrs of old. Short
lv before her death, when the knife was
about to be used and her husband had
given away to his feelings, she said to
him: " Now, Hiram, don't be chicken
hearted" and stood the ordeal herself
without murmur. The funeral ser:
wees took place from the residence
Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev.
G. T. Black, the remains being tempo
rarily inferred on the homestead. She
leaves II husband. two sons and host
of friends to mourn her irreparable loss.
4 biographical sketch of her life will
be found elsewhere.
The Fairbank Tribune wants to
know if the "ring organ will explain
how much of the cost of the District
Court would have been charged To Sal
IL county had it not been for two Ger
tain cases whisky and assault-which
were taken from Sully county. Though
not in possession of all the exact items
of cost, we can probably give enough
to enlighten the ignoramus who asks
the question. In the latter case six
witnesses were examined, whose mile
age and per diem amounting to $50;
the attention of the grand jury was oc-
cupied about 20 minutes, about dol
lar more, and the costs of the officer
serving the subpTnas, possibly making
$50. This is the bill made before the
District Court i'm this case. Or this
sum Sullv pays less than $40 and
Hughes, Hyde and Potter the rest
On the whisky case we cannot speak
authoritively, though as it did not come
before the Court-and probably not be-
fore the grand jury-with a fewer num-
Der of witnesses, the cost made before
the District Court was probably not as
much as in the other. At liberal esti-
mate it is safe to say that both cases did
not cost Sully county s2S in the costs
of the term OF Court alluded to, which
would leave it an even $500 without
these cases,-so that $500 would be the
answer to the Tribune .conundrum
Had Sully county furnished every case
on the docket of the court, it would
have had but 1923 of the costs to pay
the other counties paying the other So
s72. On the other hand, Sally coun.
ty only paid IS per cent. of the costs
of the cases from its own county; the
other counties Of the district paving
the other 81 per cent. If the ignora-
mus who makes the numerous fool
breaks in the Tribune don really know
any better than to believe that Sully
county would not have had any of the
costs of the District Court to pay if it
had no cases in said court, he had bet
ter go out and butt hls head against