Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
DAKOTA NEWS.

Deadwood.
The Milwaukee has put in two steam
pumps at AIilhank.
The tax levy in Pennington County
this year is l6 mills.
The money order business of the Fargo
postoffice is immense.
The tax levy of Lawrence County is
nearly double that of Pennington.
"A large number of counterfeit 10-cent
pieces are in circulation in the Territory
The Yankton City Council has ordered
the purchase of twelve new street lamps.
The Fargo schools We're obliged to
close one day recently Oh account of the
cold.
Eighty thousand acres of railway lands
in Barnes County have not paid survey
fees.
A fine body Of ore has lately been dis
covered in the Queen Bee Mine near Hill
City.
Sioux Falls expects to save $4,000 on
coal alone, OH the advent of the Burlington
road.
City and Lead City by a narrow gauge rail-
road.
The Ipswich roller mill is now using
straw for fuel, for which they pay 81 per
load.
The house of William Zanszewsliie, of
Ordway, was burned to the g'sund. Loss,
$1,000.
Fargo is considering the s.dvisability of
altering her roller skating xink into an
opera house.
The name of the postof1ics at Loyalton,
Edmunds County, has been changed to
Vermont City.
John l.. Green has been appointed
postmaster at Bathgate, vice james A. Arm
strong, resigned.
-Hermosa is congratulating herself on
her tlatterinS prospects of having $4,000
Touring mill soon.
An unusal amount of sickness prevails
at Ipswich, which, it is believed, is caused
by the filthy streets.
A Devils Lake man recently walked
seventy five miles in order to pay ii note
when it became due.
Miss Eta Mccormack is candidate
for the Office of superintendent of schools
in Minnehaha County.
Settlers in Hyde County are putting in
claims against the railroad company for
losses by prairie fires.
The Black Hills people have registered
l. al, flo
rates they have to pay.
A Deadwood Chinaman recently drew
81 600 prize in a San Francisco lottery
upon an invest of Sl.25.
One Of the Fargo militia companies is
to be disbanded for not attending the mill
tia enc ampment at Aberdeen.
Daniel Vol Sol was recently discharged
from the Sioux Falls Penitentiary, having
served out a three years sentence
Judge Church has decided that County
Commissioners have no right to employ adj
ditional counsel to prosecute criminal
cases.
Arthur c. Phillips, of Sioux Falls, will
represent the Odd Fellows of that city at
. in Boston
Ralph French, son of ex-Chief Justice
French, who was in Sioux Falls recently,
has decided to locate there and engage in
the practice of law.
1t is reported that about 200 families
of German speaking Russians will join
their countrymen now in Mercer County
some time next spring.
A county seat fight has been begun in
Deuel. County. The contest will be be-
tween the new town of Clear Lake and the
present county seat, Gary.
A party of youthful iayhawkers is
making things interesting for owners of
gardens i'll Yankton. If caught they are
promised a dose Of the law.
Some one poisoned valuable dog be-
longing to a Deadwood Alderman the other
day. \ reward of $50 is offered for the
discovery of the miscreant
In some sections of Dakota farmers
raised flax this year for fuel. ton of flax
being considered more valuable for that
purpose than 4 ton of soft coal
Two years ago there were only two
public schools in Burleigh County, outside
of Bismarck. Now there are thirty schools
and twenty-five good schoolhouses.
Elk Gov. Ordway and Abe Boynton. it
rumored, will purchase aud reorganize
the First National Bank at Sioux Falls.
now i'll the hands of Receiver Thompson.
Aurora County contains eighty school
houses, an increase of fifteen over last year.
The current school debt of the county has
been reduced from 1900 to about So
COO.
The Black Hills Salt Company has
been organized at Deadwood, with capital
of $125,000. This company owns GAO
acres Of land near the wcll-known salt
springs.
The average yield of 1850 acres OF
wheat on the Grandin farm was % bushels
and Is pounds per acre. On the Mayville
farm 4,006 acres averaged % bushels and 3
pounds per acre.
Indians of the Bertbold Agency are on