Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-24
nAKOTA NEWS.

-COdtnStCn county Is IN deDt SAG, tOJ.
With population of $50, Cakes wants
o postof1icc.
Buffalo will build new schoolhouse
in the spring.
cost $4,000.
Hanson County has more males by 500
than females.
Water power now turns out the Waph-
eton Gazette.
An eating house has been opened at
the Scotland depot.
A Farmers Alliance has been organ
lied at Sioux Falls.
The liabilities of Codington County are
little over $4,000.
o-The new city directory of Sioux Falls
contains 2,140 names.
The Hamlin County Times rejoices
over n $4,000 libel suit.
Stark County's treasury holds the snug
sum of $4,000 at present.
The new school-house ct Egan is
ready for the school maam.
AT Armour the other day four pigs, 10
months old, sold for $3.50.
Rye, corn and barley are quoted at Is
cents in the Sioux Falls market.
The ladies of Steele will give Jap
anese fair and festival on the 23d inst.
Dick Kelsey, of Hamlin County, has
captured over 1000 muskrats this fall.
Grant County must come down with
$65,000 to tide it over the ensuing year.
The trip from Deadwqod to New York
can be made in three days and half now.
The Dakota Packing Company began
killing hogs at Sioux Falls on the 18th inst.
Some thief made haul of $75 in the
servant girls quarters at an Aberdeen
hotel.
-Tyndnll claims that its crop of fall
babies is unprecedented for number, size
and weight
"A society at Roscoe, called Die
neutrality-suspicious., is said to
live and flourish.
Stark County has sent a committee
east to boom the neighborhood and induce
people to locate there.
-Iroquois citizens throw their chins up
in the blizzard over the record of new
twenty-five pound boy.
The students of the Baptist College OF
Sioux Falls INDUCED in q moot court on
the evening of the Sd inst.
Day carried eight counties in North
Dakota and three in South Dakota in his
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 Bhs-ard, the Casselton
Blizzard and the Elk Point Blizzard are
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 by
Dakota farmers to be more valuable for
heating purposes than n ton of soft coal.
"A Red River Valley base ball league is
among the CONCENTRATIONS, including Fer
gus Falls, Wapheton, Grand Forks, Fargo
and Crookston.
1t was up in Clark County that min
lister with claim gave out his text as being
in St. Pauls epistle to the Galatons, Sec
ton 8, us, 81.
Houses are n scarce article in Roscoe.
Every house built during the last six
months for renting purposes, was enga ged
before completed.
A mink near Cooperstown, in Griggs
County, killed fifty chickens and turkeys in
enc night. The farmer got his work in on
the mink the next day.
The Bya.le County Teacher is new
publication issued from Pukwana, and de-
voted to the educational interests of Brule
and adjoining counties.
An OK team, wagon and farmer went
of bridge at Sioux Falls few nights ago
and fell ten feet below, right side up, with
nothing broken or injured.
-Absalom Tilley was sentenced to one
yearin the penitentiary at Sioux Falls for as
sault with intent to kill Fayette Bowers, OH
French Creek, near Custer.
Two young men of Minot went out
hunting and shot an OK for deer. They
were arrested, and it cost them $50 each at
Burlington for their animal ignorance.
Tile thermometer was 40 degrees be-
low zero at Aberdeen on the morning of
the All inst, ranging from 81 down to 18
below at various other points reported.
Mrs. A. E. Eckenbeck, of Westport,
believes in densely populating this great
western expanse. She presented the old
man with two boys and girl last week.
The Grandin farm, in Trail County,
reports 214,53 bushels of wheat as this
years crop, grown on $3.50 acres, IN aver
age of over twenty-five bushels per acre.
One evening rs Ruel Geves, of Troy,
was working around his barn two shots
were fired Mt him, one of the balls cutting
his clothes. No clue to the murdcrous
villain.
-Deadwood papers tell of an old gentle
man in that village, who has suit of
clothes in which he has been married three
times, and is now DESTROYS of repeating the