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

another person. All We're injured, but the
aged lady received serious injuries about
the spine and the head, and is in critical
condition.
A Miss Clipperton, of Minnesota, who
was visiting at Bottineau, became suddenly
violently insane and had to be put in close
confinement.
Larry Chairman came near being suf-
located by foul gas from q we'll he was
digging at Montrose. He was insensible
when rescued.
The Rapid City Gun Club will import
prairie chickens and quail into the Black
Hills for the purpose of stocking the coun-
try with them.
The Black Hills Sampling Works is
the name of an organization at Deadwood
whose purpose is to sample and buy all ores
offered for sale.
Two Mormon elders preached il Union
Township, Sanborn County, last week.
One of them claimed to be a grandson of
Brigham Young.
There are many destitute families in
| Bottineau County. Poor crops and prairie
| fires have left them without any resources
for the coming winter.
| &C. E. Place, of Sioux Falls, has been
appointed by Gov. Pierce delegate from
Dakota to the cattlemen's convention in
Chicago, November 16.
John Godfrey is charged with crimi-
nally assaulting 6-year-old girl ut Huron,
and has gone to Jail in default of $500 bail
to await the action of the Grand Jury.
The young ladies of Valley Springs
have formed an anti-slang society, and it is
| said that young men from far distant coun-
ties are going to that city looking for wives
Rapid City has 5000 inhabitants and
two banks doing a business that amounts
in the aggregate to $3.50, 9S1 81 per month
1896, 356.67.
John Hobart, of Egan, will be the only
second term Legislator sent to the Assembly
this winter from South Dakota. No other
| 1cnominated.
AS showing the inspiring effect of d.
| kota ozone, Father Francis, Fargo Cit.
Zen, in his S7th year, lately went out hunt
ing, Travelled sixty miles, and brought in
'airteen ducks.
Charles Myers, telegraph operator at
Freeman, Hutchinson County, has fed for
parts unknown. Rumor tells pretty hard
stories about the cause of the young man
sudden departure.
B. t. Scoville, on the Missouri River,
is the champion deer hunter or narrator.
He claims to have killed two at one shot
holds up both hands.
A daughter of E. Paulison, of Wheat
land, aged - years, left her home in the
night recently, but was overtaken at Cas-
selton and taken back. Some mental
trouble is given as the cause OF the childs
strange actions.
The residents of Grant Center, Grant
County, presented q petition containing
seventy-eight signatures to the County
Commissioners recently, praying that NO
license be granted in that town. The pc
tition was tabled.
Gary is fortunate in its location, which
is in the foot Of the hills of the coteaus,
protected from the piercing winds of the
level prairies, with one of the purest
streams of running water in her midst, and
no matter how dry the season or how wet
it never varies in depth.
Seventeen hundred pounds of ducks
and geese have been shipped East from
Lakota, Nelson County, the present sea-
son, and the Meas thinks it safe to say 1ha,
there have been killed and brought into
Lakota at least 5000 pounds of game dur
ing the last month alene.
An average Of fifty men have been en-
ployed at the brick yards at Rapid City
during the summer, who have manufac-
tured over 100000 bricks, representing q
money value of $4,000. Twenty five
thousand machine made brick were turned
cut per day, and sold for $40 per 1000
while finer qualities Of ornamental brick
which were made by hand, sold for $3s
pc. 900