The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-02-21
HOME HAPPENINGS.


Gaming children are speckled witt
the chicken-pox.
--THE WArCHMAS received the dan
dy valentine-prctty rs a picture.
A Deadwood treasury coach land
ed sl39,000 worth of bullion mt Pierre
last week.
The progressive euchrc' craze is
spreading rapidly. Both sexes of all
ages have got it.
The highest cash price paid for
Sully County Warrants at the Dakota
Central Bank East Pierre, ID. I. AZ
This will doubtless prove a hard
winter on pralrle chickens and grouse,
the weather being cold and the snow
deep.
F. NJ. Chamberlain, three miles
south, lost horse last week, of some
acute disease, it only living three or
four hours after being taken.
The storms i'm Illinois. Wisconsin,
Michigan, Indiana and the Eastern
States, last week, utterly discount any
thing we have had i'm this part of Da-
kota.
Councilman Westover has intro
duced the bill authorizing Sully to
issue bonds to pay off its Indebtedness
and strengthen its credit. The bill
will doubtless pass rs there is no doubt
about the masses of the people being
in favor of it,
Because of the sickness of some of
the pupils of the Clifton public school
and the fact that the weather during
March is not likely to be such that
those from distance will he able to
attend, it has been thought best to dis
miss the school until Monday, April 6.
Willie Wolter, alias Wild Bill the
terror to gophers, was accldently shot
in the left hand 10y the premature dis
charge of Il cartridge which he was try
ing to force into an old revolver cylin-
der, Thursday. The wound is not
dangerous but painful. Another warn
ing to boys not to fool with such things.
There is a "nlgger in the fence
somewhere, on this county division
business and we would advise all to be
shy about signing petitions to divide in
any shape It's the only safety against
being sold out. Better let well
enough" alone and sign the remon-
STRANGE against division in any shape
at least until you know how it is to he.
: Robert s. Tambling, formerly from
the southeast part of Sully comfy. who
in the early part of last simmer skipp-
cd the country for illegal transactions
in mortgaged chattel property, by which
the Blunt Banks and one Mt Pierre were
victimized, was arrested ut his old home
in Illinois, last week and brought back.
We understand that he has fixed mat
ters up with some of the parties.
Frank c. Wafer. his partner in crime
has not been apprehended.
F. M. Chamberlain, three miles
south of Clifton, has thus far used only
600 pounds of coal, with wood for
cooking, and yet has kept SO warm that
the south windows of his residence are
filled with house plants in blossom,
where they have stood all winter. OIL
course he has an unusually warm
house, being plastered and the inter-
vening space filled with sand poured in
from the top All extra expense in
will be more than saved in
fuel in one or two winters to say nothing
of the comfort derived.
We understand that there has been
an innocent looking petition circulated
among a few in town, tins week, simply |
to divide sully county north and south |
on the township line between ranges
II and 7s. "Only this and nothing
more SO far as said petition states.
After this division, what ? This is a
point upon which those who may sign |
it should inform themselves. There il |
more to follow. After a |
goodly number of names had been pro
cured to this petition, how easy it
would be to cut the heading off and at |
tach the names to petition of an al
together different nature to be sent to