Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-26
DAKOTA NEWS.

OF $50, 900.
Huron longs for Burlington road
connection.
-Flandrau has adopted system of
street lighting.
The artesian we'll at jamestown is
down $50 feet.
Scotland will indulge in lecture
course this winter.
A new town called Centralia, in Dickey
County, has been plated.
The new Masonic Temple at Webster
will be dedicated Nov. II.
Twin Brooks, in Grant County, is a
town of growing Importance.
Over $4,000 pounds of wool have been
shipped from Deadwood this year.
ALI of the diseased cattle in Oliver
have been killed and safely burned.
"A new postofice in Dakota has been
named after the sculptor Bartholdi.
Dick Owen, proprietor of the Owen
Hotel at Blunt, has recently failed.
Six townships in Miner County have
petitioned for township organization.
A case Of highway robbery is reported
from the neighborhood of Wahpeton.
-Minnehaha County sends thirteen pu-
pills to the Territorial Normal School.
A hunting party killed thirty-two ante
1ope along the Moreau River last week.
The Iron Hill smelter shut down last
week on account of being out of coke.
Oliver Dalrymple states that he will
put in $1,000 acres of crops mex! season.
The school debt of Aurora County has
been reduced $4,000 in the last two years.
I, The young people of Rapid City are
working up great interest in whist part as.
Gary claims to have more dogs to the
square yard than any other town in Dakota
-YanlSton is moving to have the Mil
waukee shops permanently located in that
city.
The establishment of club room is
being canyassed by the young men of La
kota.
Three saloons at Milbank were robbed
of small sums of money one night last
week.
"A Wolsey doctor gives notice that he
will not answer calls unless paid in ad-
vance.
Business in the Red River Valley is ex-
cellent owing to large crops and fine
weather.
"A farmer in Sphinx County had Weld
of 100 bushels of potatoes from one acre of
ground.
An extra freight train loaded with
building material is received at Roscoe
every day.
There is plenty of money in Beadle
County notwithstanding the light crop and
low prices.
The Huron Life Insurance Company
has added an accident insurance as one of
its features.
The male students of the Brookings
Agricultural College are required to take
military drill.
A project to build suspension bridge
across the Red River at Grand Forks is be-
ing worked up.
The average cost of maintaining pris-
oners per day at Bismarck is 81 cents and
at Sioux Falls 10.
Over 500 head of deer were killed south
of the Black Hills by Sioux and CHEYENNE
aians recently.
cont,ac ~ Watertown foundry has taken the
- ss' y, !. cast three styles of stoves fo1
ooo Company will furnish
ooo tons OF hard coal = tho Tndion no,art
ment at Fort Bennett. i'''N'
There has been four times.
shipped over the Fargo and South..I .,s:l
year than ever before. 'DAS
County Commissioner Hanson. of T.,
Moure County, was found dead in bed th,
morning of the Goth ult
Over 5000 bushels of wheat were taker
IN at Webster one day recently, and owe,
$4,000 was paid for it.
"A new insurance company has beer
organized in Fargo with $4,000 in bona
fide and actual assets.
Water from Plankinton's artesian we'll
is hauled six OF seven miles into the coup-
try by team for farm use.
The Grand Forks National Gas Light
and Fuel Company has been organized with
capital stock of 100000.
The workingmen of Millbank are TAX
ing steps toward the organization of a local
knights of Labor assembly.
The new roller mill at Glendale is
complete, having ten sets of rollers, and
will be operation this week.
Hon. M. 7. DeWoody is the happy
father of the first child born in the town
of Bowdle, Edmunds County.
There never was time in the history
OF Day County when SO many of its lakes
were SO nearly dry at this season of the
year.
Nellie May, the only daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. II. W. Webster, of Plankinton.
died on her ninth birthday, of typhoid
fever.
"A farmer in Beadle County has an mr.
tesian we'll on his place that flows 100
barrels All hour, is CTS feet deep and cost
$1,19O.
A Charles Mix County farmer recently