Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-15
DAKOTA NEWS.

wood.
Butte County boasts of its fine Goa
fields.
-Pembina County has a population Of
l1,o0o
-Stonemasons are in great demand il
Huron.
An iron mine has been discovered neal
Valley City.
"A gymnasium is to be established in
Rapid City.
The Rapid City street railway line is
completed
There are three John Stewards living
in LaMoure.
-Sturgis is moving for system of
water works.
Children at Lead City are suffering
from mumps.
Rapid City is pestered with a gang of
sneak thieves.
-Lennox is about to establish system
of water works.
The salt springs near Sheridan are to
be developed
"A sulphur spring has been discovered
near Deadwood.
The Presbytcrial Church at Mimic is
nearly completed.
Rapid City will soon have settled Epis-
copal clergyman.
The potato crop in Sully County is
very light this year.
The new postofice at Huron has at last
reached completion.
'-Dickey is the name of new station in
the Jim River Valley.
Over 5000 bushels of fax are marketed
at Scotland every day.
The Highmore artesan we'll has reach
ed depth of $50 feet.
The Homestake continues to pay its
usual monthly dividend.
An eighty foot electric light pole has
been raised in Deadwood
A camp Of the Sons of Veterans is to
be organized at Jamestown.
Grand Forks is moving to build a
county hospital for the poor.
The receipts of the Yankton fair We're
sufficient to meet all expenses.
-Ludden, Dickey County, shipped its
first carload of grain last week.
A toboggan club will probably be Or
ganized in Yankton this winter.
The town of Henry, in Codington
county, has been incorporated
"A secret wedding, recently consum-
mated in Mound City. is making food for
gossips.
Servant girls are scarce in Fargo
Some Of them are paid as much as $50 per
month.
One hundred and fifty carloads of
cattle passed through Bismarck one day re-
Gently.
1t is reported that Guy G. Weed, the
Sioux Falls defaulter has been seen in
Canada.
Lightning set fire to the barn of S. C.
Presba, at Whitehall, and it was complete
ly destroyed.
j. N. True, an Olivet lawyer, has been
disbarred. The trial took place before
Judge Trip.
Miss Emma Nichols, Superintendent
OF Schools in Potter County, is very sick
with typhoid fever.
A young girl residing in Gradd Forks
has recently disappeared. Her parents fear
that she has eloped.
A school-house two miles from Fargo
was burned one night recently by an incen-
diary. Loss, 1000.
-Dickey County is having boom.
E11an1o1 tho Ia
railroad by December 1.
Mrs. Linda Slaughter, of Burleigh
County, is the leading Democratic lady
politician Of the Territory.
John Grauwis, of Bon Homme County,
has raised peanut vine which bore over
100 nuts on single stalk.
An aged German tramp, who is par
TALLY deranged, has been around Sully
County most all Of the summer.
Prairie fires are raging i'll almost every
county in the Territory, but SO far no ser
ious damage has been reported.
A steam thrasher was recently burned
in Charles Mix County by incendiaries, to-
gether with 5000 worth of grain.
The supply of kerosene oil gave out at
Bowdle few days ago, and several of the
stores Illuminated with tallow dips.
"A mad dog was killed at Mandan one
day last week. Several persons narrowly
escaped an encounter with the rabid beast.
-Yankton is to have an electric light
after all, the council having finally con-
cluded to grant o franchise to the company.
Five of the sweetest babies were on ex-
hibition at the Edmunds County fair. Fond
mothers can see no justice in human ma
ture.
Rufus Cobb, of Pleasant Valley, has
just received $4,000 from the War Depart
ment for supplies furnished twenty years
ago.
A Rapid City Justice of the Peace left
that city recently between two days. He
left many creditors behind to mourn his
departure.
A little child belonging to Bohemian
family in Twin Brooks, strayed away from