Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-01-11

State Items.
IT is reported that Dakota s~aloonkeepers
have assurance from the breweries that il
they keep right on and sell in spite Of the
law they, the brewers, will see them
through.
DAKOTA is having much trouble over the
liquor question. The Letter, published at
Wentworth, expresses itself in this wise:
Whisky, the offspring Of the Devil, ia the
consort Of Anarchy. Murder, I:apine and
Arson are full sons and daughters. I'm
morality and All U~ncleanliness are blood
relations.
CERTAIN druggists of the territory have
published a notice that they will not sell
intoxicating liquors of any kind except
upon the written prescription Of q physi-
elan, and agree mutually with each other
that any one who shall violate. the agree.
ment shall be prosecuted by the others.
They do this voluntarily. for the purpose
Of maintaining the dignity of their pro-
| fession.
THE Vermont City journal has been re-
moved to Eureka.
"NIaHT-CAP suPPERs' is the way they
express it in Elkhorn.
LEoLA needs q c~ommodious and COM
Portable hall. The old school-house which
has served them SO faithfully has been in
adequate.
At the recent term Of the district court
at Aberdeen 1879 civil cases were disposed
of, 80 indictments were found and 80 GRIM
NAL cases were determined.
THE saloons at Huron are refused IL
censes from either the county commission
ers or the city council. The talismanic
word is, the saloon must go.
Boy CHIEF, an Indian sentenced last
fall to three years in the North Dakota pen
itentiary, at Bismarck, for criminally as
saulting a white woman, made his escape
from the guards while with a prison gang
working on the capitol grounds. He was
easily tracked through deep snow several
miles and recaptured.
HURON has an amateur dramatic COM
pany.
DAKOTA has already shipped Is, ZOO, 900
bushels of wheat.
Over 900, 900 bushels Of wheat have been
marketed at Westport.
FARGO is to have a new society, to be
known as the Oriental Order Of Humility.
RICHARD HOLLIS, living near Columbia,
recently had a large cancer removed from
the back of his hand.
The extreme cold weather is interfering
seriously with the Burlington and Missouri
in Custer county.
HuRoN's eight saloon keepers have given
notice that they will comply with the law
and close up their business.
The citizens of Aberdeen have agreed to
take $4,000 copies Of a special edition of
the Nems, setting forth the advantages OF
the Central Dakota metropolis.
IT is said that a couple Of Mormon elders
will start a paper in the interest Of their
faith at Aberdeen.
A CAss county COW stands six feet high,
and though thin in flesh weighs 1890
pounds.
A Two-foot ledge Of solid carbonate ore,
carrying both gold and silver, was recently
unearthed in the Elk mountain district.
The farming lands Of the territory are
now passing into the hands of actual set
tiers at the rate Of nearly four million acres
each year. The government now has at its
disposal but 90, 81 ,445 acres, or about 81
per cent. of the whole area Of the ter
ritory.
IT is announced from Bismarck that the
governor is about to send special messen-
gers to counties which have failed to file
with him the division election returns, and
that when the returns are secured he viii
figure up the results. From this it appears
that the official" canvass given forth al
Bismarck was not the official canvass.
KINGSTON coal mines are developing
finely and coal is now selling at the mines
for 81 per ton.
STURGIs talks loudly Of the superiority
quality, style and general makeup Of it,
society.
WHITEwooD citizens took a vote and
decided o to incorporate.
JAMES CHADWICK, of Hecla, was fount
dead in his bed a few days ago. He wal
35 years old and unmarried.
The prohibitionists of Dakota will hole
a convention in Huron January II FOR ths
purpose OF effecting a more perfect organ.
ization.
S. 8. WILLIAMS, school and town treas.
urer in Britton township, in Hughe,
county, has been discovered $500 short II
his accounts. His bondsmen are good.
DEER skins are ready sale in Deadwoot
at 81 each.
The Manitoba road has carried to Ii.
east this season, from Manitoba and Da,
kota ranges, 2l,0Oo head Of beef cattll
and 81 1000 head Of sheep.
WALLACE McLyMAN was allowed III
alternative Of giving bonds to kssp ~
peace, or Of leaving Deadwood. II
chose the latter.
JUDGE MccoSxnL decided q 1aaet
that , Justice q the psaes had - ju1G'
dictios 70 Ane ! sAeri6 q his dsysky Il
sssslty 70 animals.
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