Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-05-18
Latest Territorial Briefs.

YANKToN is rejoicing in new brick
yard.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to erect large
armory at Aberdeen.
Huron seems to be one of the towns
suffering from bean-bag craze.
The hardware store of Enos & Ballet,
at Gary, caught fire from timers stove.
Loss. 5000.
1T has been suggested that grain pal
ace be made a feature of the coming Tur-
ner county fair.
1T is expected that several business men
of Bismarck will be arrested for keeping
open on Sunday.
HE civil service examination at Fargo
and Bismarck did not call out single an
plicant this year.
The signing of the Sioux bill made the
mayday at Pierre the s'maddest, merriest"
day in all its history.
The roller mill at Devils Lake was sold
at public auction to A. j. Strade, of Grand
Harbor, for $4,000.
HURON is in state of excitement over
the report that workmen at the coal shaft
have struck vein of coal.
HE county commissioners of Moody
county have decided to build an iron bridge
of 100 feet span west of Flandrau.
HE express wagons and run of the Wells,
Fargo 4 Company's line have been re-
moved from Sturgis to Whitewood.
The annual encampment of the Sons Of
Veterans. of the division of Dakota, was
held at Mt. Vernon May 8, 9 and 10.
A REUNION of old soldiers and sailors in
the Black Hills will be held at Hot Springs
some time during the month of June.
The Bowman hotel, ut Ashton, enjoys
the distinction of being the first building
in the territory heated by natural gas.
MORE final proofs were made at
the Yankton land office during April than
for the same time during two years past.
THE capitalists at Lead City have come
to the conclusion that it wol1d be a good
scheme to organize Il building association.
PUBLIC attention is now being attracted
to the vast bodies of refractory gold ores
found in the immediate vicinity Of Custer
City.
BY the extension of the boundaries for
the free mail delivery, Huron now has %
letter boxes distributed in various parts of
the city. +
The Fargo incandescent light company
has been organized. Negotiations are pro-
crossing for putting in "a plant costing
$3.50, 900.
IPSWICH has a ladies' club called the E.
F.'s. Each member is under obligation to
gather and divulge dozen secrets at every
meeting.
JOHN GOTTLE1B, of Lebanon, who was
charged with rape, has been cleared. He
promptly sued his grass-widow neighbor
for damages.
MIR. AND Mrs. ALEXANDER GRANT, of
Scotland, celebrated their fiftieth annivsr-
sary of their marriage at their home in that
city last week.
The young ladies of Casselton gave a
leap year party last week in the rooms IN
the Cass bank block. About forty couples
were in attendance.
The first OF series of prize drills was
held by company E, of DeSmet, recently.
Sergt. Mitchell took the prize, with Corp.
Huntley good second.
JUDGE SPENCER has sentenced Ben
King, of Huron, to a years hard labor j.
the Sioux Falls penitentiary for assault
with deadly instrument.
year be put up BY the boys in blue, the
to let the work by contract.
The territorial assembly Of Knights of
Labor will meet at Aberdeen this year. At
this meeting delegates will be present
from all parts of the territory.
IT is said eastern parties will erect a
ladies' seminary at Sturgis this summer;
the first building to cost $4,000 and the
other three about $4,000. The site has
already been donated.
IT is stated that petitions in the near flu
ture will be circulated to secure one-third
of the legal voters in Aurora county for
the purpose of submitting the local option
question to vote again this fall.
The musical department of Yankton
college graduated three young ladies this
year. An evening was devoted to each of
the young ladies, Miss Annette Bruce,
Miss Jennie Ketchum and Miss Minnie
jerks.
The scholars of the the Aberdeen high
school are preparing anovel entertainment
to be given shortly. The main feature of
! the entertainment will be life among the
Sioux Indians, with the songs, dances,
| etc., peculiar to aborigines.
WHILE Mrs. Larson, of Egeland, was out
attending to some work the other morning,
in full blast when she reached it. After a
| desperate fight she got her baby out, but
so badly burned that it died. Mrs. Larson
is badly burned about the head and face.
The latest organization which has come
to light in Aberdeen is the Young Mems
Mustache Club" 1t YVES organized under
the provisions of the organic act of the
territory of Dakota and the rules and regu-
lations as set forth in the bylaws of the
Brown County Agricultural society. AT
| present there are but nine members.
The hopes of Custer people never ran SO
high as now; and with two railroads pitted
against each other for the place, and the
ample assurance Of the establishment of a
mining industry in their midst of sur
passing magnitude, which contemplates
the production of tin in quantity sufficient
to meet the demands of the nation, it may
be accepted as being not at all strange that
Clusters hopes have reached the acme
limit.
Hon. J. X. KLEINER, who has repre-
sented the interests of Pierre at Washing
ton the past winter during the progress and