Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

the groom on the south side, in Dakota
The minister straddled the line end per.
formed the ceremony.
. Maj. Edwards, of the Fargo Argus
warns certain minister of that city about
dabbling in politics and thrsaters terrible
things should he persist in % doing.
"A new prisoner has been received al
the Sioux Falls Penitentiary in the person
of Fl. A. Coleman, of Elmnnds County.
He will serve a ten months sentence for
burglary.
The average yield of $3.50 acres of
wheat on the Grandin farm was % bushels
and Is pounds per acre. On the Mayvlle
farm, 4.o0G acres averaged IS bushels and 3
pounds per acre.
Luke Quinn, Huron tough, insultad
and abused q well-k known farmer living
near that city. The farmer caught Luke
and hammered hole i'll his head With u
blick. Luke will recover.
An artesian we'll at LaMoure sunk for
railroad uses, is attracting attention on ac-
count of its medicinal qualities. 1t is said
that its continual use will put an end TO q
desire for alcoholic drinks.
William Gerling, of Lockwood, is hay
ing a peculiar sort of trouble with his
neghbors. 1t is claimed some one covets
GerlinSs wife, and that others are aiding il
fonentns a family quarrel that will end il
a SEPARATION.
Austin Powell has discovered peat
bog covering an area OF 100 acres, i'll the
couteaus, nineteen miles west of Glendale.
Mr. Powell clams that ii reaches to depth
| OF ten feet, overlaying a surface of ice Of
an unknown depth.
Charles Carson, who was recently ar
rested at Chamberlain on charge of horse
stealing, proves to be the noted highway
man and desperate who has operated in
The Black Hills country several years. He
has been taken to Deadwood.
Joseph Kopranek. Young man who
has for years held situations of trust in
Yank'on, has lately been discovered to be a
sneak thief and Il midnight marauder He
was detected in robb'ng n dry goods store,
and confessed to several petty thefts
A young lad named Whipple, aged / 5
years, was taken in by two sharpers at
Sioux Falls recently. The boy traded Il
fine pony to the sbarpers for $40 and
watch, apparently gold. 1t was, however,
only a Waterbury silded. The Sheriff is
looking for the swindlers.
A large building is being erected at
Stevens, eighteen miles north of Fort
Thompson, on the Grow Creek Reserva-
ton, under the auspices Of the Dominican
Fathers, to be used as a school for Indian
children. 1t will be 40 by 100 feet and
three and a half stories high.
A draw bridge crossing the Red River
between McCauleyville, and Abercromble,
Oak, has just been completed, it having
been built by the counties of Wilkin. Mimi,
and Ricklnnd, Dakota, at cost of $4,000.
The work was done by z. M. Hewitt, of
Minneapolis, under the supervision of r.
II. Mclean.
A suspicious looking man who gave
the name of John Small traded horses with
w. J. Moulster, depot agent at Gary, and
after Small was gone it was learned that
the horse he had traded had been hired at
the livery stable of Meadows & Randall, at
Ortonville, Mimi, and had not been heard
from since. Officers were sent after the
fellow and captured him near Porter, MINI.
He was taken to Candy and given over to
the deputy sheriff of that county.