Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-15
DAKOTA NEWS.

With population Of ESQ, Cakes wants
pos.office.
Buffalo will build q new schoolhouse
in the spring.
Grand Forks is to have gas plant to
vt $4,000.
-Hans,,. County has more males BY 500
than females.
Water power now turns os. the Waph-
eton Gazette.
An eating house has been opened at
the Scotland depot.
A Farmers Alliance has been organ
lied u. Sioux Falls.
The liabilities of Codngton County are
little over $4,000.
The new eity directory Of Sioux Falls
contains 2,140 names.
sa.as-~srlsa Harnlin County Tires reioices
over $4,000 iibcl suit.
Stark County's treasury holds the snug
sum Of $4,000 at present.
The new school house at Egan is
ready for the school na'am.
AT Armour the other day four pigs, 10
months old. sold for $5799.
Rye, corn and barley are quoted at 25
cents in the Sioux Falls market.
The ladies of Steele will give Jap
anese fair and festival on the 23l inst.
Dick Kelsey, of Hamlin County, has
captured over 1900 muskrats this fall.
Grant County must come down with
$65, 900 to tide it over the ensuing year.
The trip from Deadwood to New York
can be made in three days and half now.
Some thief made haul of $75 in the
servant girls quarters at an Aberdeen
hotel.
-Tyndall claims that its crop Of fall
babies is unprecedented for number, size
and weight
"A society Mt Roscoe, called Die
Deutscheliterarischeg esellschaft, is said to
live and flourish.
Stark County has sent committee
east to boom the neighborhood and induce
people to locate there.
-Iroquois citizens throw their chins mp
in the blizzard over the record Of new
twenty-five pound boy.
The students Of the Baptist College al
Sioux Falls INDUCED in moot court on
the evening of the Sd inst.
Day carried eight counties in NORTH
Dakota and three in South Dakota in hi,
contest for the delegateship.
The counties that have thus far failed
to send in their election returns are Barnes
| Edmunds, Logan and Ransom.
The Copr Bhxsard, the Casseltor
| Blsso,M and the Elk Point Blizzard arr
three Territorial publications.
A large number Of Nebraska farmers
| are crossing the ice at Yankton and mar
keting hogs and grain in that city.
A ton of fax has been discovered b,
Dakota farmers TO be more valuable TO
heating purposes than ton Of soft coal.
Henry Stringham was severely iniuree
at Sioux Falls on the Sth inst, by a ston,
falling on him while at work digging well
Friends Of Judge Church authorize
denial of the Washington dispatch that ht
had withdrawn in favor of Day for the gov
| ernorship.
| Mammoth snowballs cover the prairi
in Brown County, which were rolled by III,
wind during the late storm, while the SNOW
was damp.
Henry Vessey and William Mason, o
Eldridge, have gone to England to organic
colony of Englishmen TO settle in Suits
man County.
A Red River Valley base ball league il
among the contemplations, including Fer
gus Falls, Wapheton, Grand Forks, Farg'
and Crookston.
1t was up in Clark County that min
lister with claim gave out his text As beini
in st. Pauls epistle to the Galations, sec
ton 8, lis, 81.
Houses are n scarce article in Roscoe
Every house built during the last 81
months for renting purposes, was enga ge
before completed.
A mink near Cooperstown, in Grigg
County, killed fifty chickens and turkeys il
one night. The farmer got his work in Of
the mink the next day.
| The Brulc County Teacher is ne,
publication issued from Pukwana, and de
voted to the educational interests of Brul
and adjoining counties.
An OK team, wagon and farmer wen
off bridge at Sioux Falls few nights ag
and fell ten feet below, right side up, wit
nothing broken or injured.
--Absalom Tilley was sentenced to on
year in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls for ~
sauIt with intent to kill Fayette Bowers, o
French Creek, near Custer.
| Two young men Of Minot went OF
hunting and shot an OK for deer. The
were arrested, and il cost them $50 each {
Burlington for their animal ignorance.
The Thermometer was 40 degrees b.
low zero at Aberdeen on thee morning Z
the 4th inst, ranging from 81 down to
below ut various other points reported.
| Mrs. A. E. Eckenbeck, OF Westpoz
believes in densely populating this grel
western expanse. She presented the Of
man with two boys and girl last week.
The Grandin farm, in Trail County
reports 214,534 bushels Of wheat as III
years crop, grown on $3.50 acres, an aveI
age OF oye1 twenty-five bushels per acre.
One evening as Ruel Geves, Of Tro,
was working around his barn two shot
were fired at him, one Of the balls cuttin
his clothes. No clue to the murderer
villain.
| -Deadwood papers tell Of An old gentle
man in that village, who has . suit (
clothes in which he has been married thre
times, and is now DESTROYS Of repeating II
performance.
Rev. W. H. Spoor, reported lost in u
storm Of Sunday last while on his way
Lake Minnie, arrived smelly at Tower Gil
on the al inst, much to the Joy Of hi
many friends.