Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-03
DAKOTA NEWS.

The Western Union will extend it's
wires to Deadwood at once.
Campbell County produced about 49,
534 pounds of butter last fall
A destructive prairie fire swept consid-
cradle territory north of Holabirtl.
-McCauley & Reynolds variety theater
at Grand Forks burned to the ground.
1t is said that the advance guard of the
Salvation Army has reached Yankton.
Young trees in large numbers have been
killed by the drouth in Benson County
The machinery for the Huron electric
lights has nearly all arrived in that city.
A great many fields of grain have been
destroyed by gophers in La Moure County.
The Little Bonanza is said TO be the
most promising mine in the Black Hills
country.
&C. A. Stream, of New York, has been ap-
pointed Clerk of Grant County by Judge
Church.
The government steamer Tompkins is
on her way to Benton with government
supplies.
and costs for shooting prairie chickens con-
traly to law.
A horse at Bathgate was so frightened
at the sight Of steam thrasher that he
dropped dead.
-Yankton is experimenting in stone gut
ters. Cobblestones and cement are the ma
terials in use.
Some unknown person recently stole
$50 feet of thing out of the Sioux Falls sys-
tenn of drainage.
Bishop Hare writes to friends in Sioux
Falls from Europe that he is greatly i'm
proved in health.
Hope Township, Steele County, will
vote on a proposition TO issue $4,000 bonds
for a school house.
Judge Francis will not allow any news
paper men on any grand jury that he has
anything to do with.
The new Buxton Mine Company, of
Lead City, recently made shipment of
800 worth Of ore.
The Wahpeton City Council has de-
cided to purchase a hose cart for the use of
the local fire department.
The Burlington Depot at Sioux Falls
will be built of Sioux Falls quartzite, and
will be 40x115 feet in size
Principals OF the great tin importing
houses of New York are investigating the
tin mines in the Black Hills.
A sharp from the East has been work.
no NJ, -
swindled the Deadwood First National out
of $50.
1t is expected that the town of Okoboio
will be free from debt at the end of the
present fiscal year, for the first time in it's
existence.
Ole Spanburys barn at Mt. Rose, Cav
alier County, was destroyed by fire, with
500 bushels of wheat and all his acricultu-
raj implements.
Mrs. Atwood, of Estelline, attempted
suicide by taking Rough on Rats" Fam
lily trouble led to the act She is not ex-
pected to recover.
The fifth annual fair Of the ST. Law
renee County Agricultural and Industrial
L.. n.
mencing Sept. 8.
Edward Blanchfeld's house, near
Grand Harbor, was burned so quickly that
the family had hardly time to get out. The
loss is 5000; partly insured.
A daughter of Col. Uline. of Devils
Lake, eloped with a young man named
Stewart. The parents of both parties OPP
posed the match, hence the elopement
The Red River Elevator Company's
elevator at Hope was struck by lightning
and, together with its contents of 5000
bushels Of wheat, burned to the ground
Frank Barrett, a colored soldier, has
been sentenced by the United States Court
at Deadwood to one year in the Sioux Falls
Penitentaly for stealing pair of shoes.
E. G. Foster, who SO mysteriously dis
appeared from Chappelle some three weeks
ago. has been heard Of in Indiana. 1t is
thought that over-study affected his brain.
One man in Edmunds County with one
machine cut lao acres of wheat in sixty five
consecutive hours. He stopped only to
change horses, eating his meals while at
work.
The Chicago and Northwestern Com
pany wants $4,000 for its property at
Watertown, which a citizens committee
wishes to buy for the Manitoba depot
grounds.
An Indian named Red Breast, living on
the Cheyenne Agency, is the happy possess
sor of a Agar buffalo COW that runs
with his cattle and acts much the same as
any other bovine.
A stock company, with capital Of
$25,0o0. is being formed at WATERFOWL.
The project is to heat the city by steam by
using n plant Of boilers, and also to light
the city by electricity.
There is some talk at WATERFOWL of en-
trapping the monster sea serpent inhabiting
the waters of Lake Kampeska, and of pre-
pairing small pond fenced in with al iron
railing for his reception.
"A farmer living fifteen miles west of
LaMoure, while stacking hay was struck in