Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-05
Dakota NEWS.


"A new school building is being erected
in Warren.
A large amount of sneak thieving is
going on in Huron.
buffalo County warrants are worth 80
cents on the dollar.
Flax in Day County averages fifteen
bushels TO the acre.
Tho Huron Postoffice needs an add-
tional force of clerks.
-Dakota's wheat crop amounts to 1S.00o,=
coo bushels this year.
Huron has a very prosperous organiza-
ton in the Y. NJ. C. A.
--Is,wdle claims to be the second best
town III Central Dakota.
A pottery mandatory is soon to be
established i'll Rapid City.
-Yankton is moving for an ice skating
rink for the coming winter.
The Deadwood papers complain that
the city is too we'll behaved.
The new Masonic Temple at Webster
will be dedicated This month.
Trains will be running over the Duluth
road to Aberdeen by Nov. ID.
About $50 students are enrolled at the
BroolSings Agricultural College.
-Abou, 80 per cent. of the population of
Ramsey County is Scandinavian.
Mound City is candidate for county
seat honors in Campbell county.
One thousand shares in the Far West
r..
= A Farmers Legislative ticket has been
nominated in the Twelfth Districts.
Prairie fires in Benton County have
destroyed many hundred tons CT hay.
A new packet line will operate on the
Missouri in both directions from Pierre.
Mclean County is sort Of Sports
mems paradise just now-great for geese.
Two gallons of Huron's artesian we'll
water have been sent East to be analyzeG.
The High Heeled Hub of the Hills, )"
is the nickname recently given Rapid City.
A fair quality of coal was struck at
Jamestown while drilling for an artesi,n
we'll
The Fargo City Council are consider
ing The ACCESSIBILITY of damming the Red
River.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. D. Mabey, Of Fargo,
celebrated their golden wedding few days
since.
The Territorial Musical Society will
hold convention in WATERFOWL next
month.
Ole Lars Haug, who lived near Dwight,
was burned to death while sleeping at u
camp fire.
The mills and hosting works of the
Homestake Mine burn ninety cords of wood
every day.
There is a noticeable increase of big
game in the Black Hills, such as antelope,
deer and bear.
An unlimited amount OF English capital
can be obtained TO develop the tin mines of
the Black Hills.
A large quantity Of wheat was raised
this year in the Cannonball region, back OF
Mandan, by Indians.
1t is reported that the Deadwool mar
row-guage railroad will be built to the coal
fields early next spring.
There are eighteen residences in course
Of construction at Grand Forks, costing
from $1,000 to $4,000 each.
Three hundred and twenty-five car
loads of wheat have been shipped from
Wheatland SO far this season.
milwaukee, Railroad surveyors are run
ming line through the town of White
Lake, from Armour to Highmore.
A Deadwood paper tells of man
there who has made $4,000 gathering up
and selling empty beer and liquor bottles.
The question of moving the Campbell
County seat from La Grace will come up
before the voters of that county this fall.
Il. c. Wade of Jamestown, lost all his
buildings and his winter feed and fou,
thoroughbred cattle by prairie fire recently.
A dwelling house, occupied by Rev. j
A. Seaton, Pastor of the Christian Church
Mt Watertown, was burned recently. Loss,
$1,000.
A 3-year- old child of L. X. Lee fell
into an open cistern at Valley Springs the
other day, and was nearly dead when
rescued.
Gen. Forsythe has forbidden the SOL
diers at Fort Meade to play cards fol
money, either in the barracks or private
quarters.
Nothing has as yet been discovered
concerning the whereabouts of the six Jail.
birds that recently escaped from the Jail a
Deadwood.
C. M. Durgan, a Sargent Count,
farmer, lost his residence. granary ani
the yield from $50 acres OF wheat by prairi,
fire recently.
Prairie fires recently ran almost into
the city Of Fargo, burning Jacob Powells
log house, the first building ever con.
structed in that county.
An Incorporated manufacturing com.
pany, known rs the Dakota Rubber Com.
~ -" shortly begin the making of rub.
ber supplies at Ylnkton.
"A new trial has been granted BY the
Supreme Court to the soldier Woods, WHO
killed man at Fort Burord and was sen.
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