Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
DAKOTA. NEWS.

Several forged deeds to real estate have
showed up at Fargo.
-Edmunds County has fixed the license
to sell whisky ut S400.
The Brown County Court House at Co.
lumbia is nearly completed.
The School of Mines will be opened in
Rapid City early in September.
1t is now authoritatively stated that
Fort Lincoln is not to be abandoned.
Mai. Snider will edit the Herald, the
new Democratic paper at Deadwood.
Little Bull has been arrested for steal
ing six head of cattle near Dunseith.
Work on the school building to be
erected at Fargo will be begun at once.
Young trees in large numbers have been
killed by the drouth in Benson County.
The safe in club house at Deadwood
was tapped one night recently for $3.50.
The cause of childs death at Lee
Beau, was eating too many choke cher
ries.
"A catfish weighing a trifle over 100
pounds was caught in the Jim River re-
Gently.
The engineer corps surveying the route
for the new road have nearly reached Grand
Forks.
In Hand County the loss by the recent
hail storm was $4,000. Some farmers are
ruined
Mercer County is S12 1000 in debt, and
has nothing to show for it but 81, 500
bridge.
The remains of Gus CHASER, drowned
some days ago near Rapid City, have been
recovered.
The affairs of the late John B. Ray
mond, at Fargo, are daily becoming more
complicated.
The careless emptying of a pipe near
LaFoon cost Mr.. Chapman ten acres of
good wheat.
The Garfield Guards, of Bismarck, have
disbanded, and q Grand Forks band been
mustered in.
About thirty druggists met at Fargo
and organized the Dakota Pharmaceutical
Association.
Miss Dougan and Miss Hankey took
the white veil of the Ursuline Order at
Grand Forks recently.
The biggest blast of rock in the history
of Sioux Falls was made at the Cameron
quarry at that place.
The time for holding the North Dakota
Methodist Conference has been changed
from Sept. Is to Oct. IA.
Pierre Malbong, the butcher of Dun
seth, lost his tent and oil his furniture and
money by fire last week.
The badly decomposed body of an I'M
known man was found near Highmore. 1t
is thought to be case of foul play.
The arsenical ore which knocked the
Iron Hill higher than kite has been ship
ped to Omaha. Stock down to $1.35.
The recently organized Dakota society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals has
large list of members already at Fargo.
A Womans Christian Temperance
Union Society has been organized at Dead
wood, with charter membership of fifteen
"A 12-year- boy was drowned a,
Grand Forks recently, and although the
body was almost Immediately recovered
life was extinct.
-Blanding, the new town on the Mani.
toba at the Junction of the Cando branch
is growing rapidly. Over twenty business
houses are in full blast.
The trustees of the School of Mines
will secure Prof. G. r. Fletcher, of Boston
to preside over the institution. The RAPID
City school will open Sept. l.
The Rapid City Republican calls fo
stock exchanges in the Black Hills countr,
to regulate quotations and transactions ant
stop the wild cat mining business.
A Huron girl was too fastidious to b,
married by a justice of the peace. She tolt
the would be groom he would either hav,
to get minister OF take her home.
In Mrs. Killan's house, near Shutdown
lightning smashed the family lamp, injur
ing no one, and then leaped to the stable
killing all the horses, cattle and chickens
An Odd Fellows encampment has bee,
formed at Rapid City with membership
of forty. The organization is named til,
"Tin Belt Encampment of Odd Fellows
Nelson Huntley, farmer living few
miles south Of Watertown, was found dea,
in his bed one morning recently. TIL
cause was acute inflammation of the bow
els.
"A young Indian in the Cheyenne Res
ervation fell from the horse he was riding
and becoming tangled in the fall in a rop
tied around the horses neck, was dragge
to his death.
Besides editing the Hawley Star, Mis-
B. S. Mills has planted five acres of tree
on tree claim, built mill, 'and whe
she has proved up on her homestead, vii
have $50 acres in her own name.
"A Prof. Fisher, o dancing teacher, ha
made for himself an unsavory record il
several Of the cities Of the Red River Val
ley, collecting for dancing lessons in ad
vance and then quietly leaving the city.
Walter Simpson, of Central, walked
from the Deadwood postoffice to the post
Office at Central, distance of two and one
fifth miles, in twenty-on minutes. II