Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-22
Latest Territorial Briefs.

NOTHING is quite so valuable in Dakota
just at present as hay.
DAKOTA farmers are figuring on about
$50 per acre for wheat this year.
DEADwooD, among other things, has
experienced brief postal card famine.
The Alpena Farmers Warehouse and
Elevator company is about to incorporate.
The latest craze at Aberdeen is jack
rabbit parties, but Just what they are is a
conundrum.
A cENTIPEDE was lately captured near
Rapid City. They are exceedingly rare in
the Black Hills.
The band of Gypsies that was in Bis
marck few days ago is now having har
vest in jamestown.
PROF. VANCE, instructor i'll modern
languages and literature at Nermillion uni
versity, has resigned.
RESIDENTS Of Deadwood are bowling
ing for city park. or some retreat where
they can go to cool off.
CUTwoRMs are becoming SO ravenous
in some parts of Hutchinson county that
whole beds of onions are being devastated
by them.
The boy and slingshot nuisance has
been revived at Yankton and birds have
considerable difficulty in remaining alive
just now.
The quail planted by the RapidlCity
Gun club have propagated rapidly. and
Rapid valley.
THERE is talk of holding reunion of
the running team of the Deadwood hose
company that attended the territorial tour
nament i'll 1855.
ABOUT $4,000 gopher tails have been de-
livered to the Barnes county commission
ers this season. At cents apiece this
amounts to over $4,000 worth.
The plainest but most significant deco
ration for the iremen's celebration adorned
the signal office at Yankton Saturday even
ing. 1t was cold wave flag labeled
Mitchell"
THE Groton artesian we'll. up to date. has
cost the town about Sl2, 600, and the hide
pc,.dent says that if it will now behave
itself, as it promises to do, it is worth all
it has cost
TURNER county farmers seem determin-
ed to get rid of the gophers. They now
propose to organize parties, make up
purse, and the party that kills the greatest
number takes it.
The prospect for an unusually prosper
GUS season among Black Hills farmers
seems to increase as the season progresses.
Corn is the only product Of the farm that
is at all backward.
A WEBSTER man owns horse that has
snake in one eye. 1t is said the snake
can be plainly seen wiggling around. He
has gone into the show business, and is
making big money.
The date fixed for the Methodist camp
meeting at Gary is the week commencing
July 5. Three thousand people can find
accommodations, and the local committees
are preparing the park for their reception.
A WAR is going on between Ashton and
Aberdeen, the former town claiming that
the latter place tried to buy up Ashtons
pitcher to throw the game of ball recently
played between the clubs of those places.
The people of Bismarck are disguised
with the law that precludes them from par
ticipating in the coming election for coun
ty superintendent. Bismarck pays half of
the taxes and has over half the children of
school age in the county.
THE Rapid City band has made a propo-
sition to the citizens to furnish them mu-
sic once a week provided a subscription
paper is circulated and persons are asked
to subscribe such amounts as they are will
ing to pay monthly to the support of the
band.
THE farmers in the northern part Of
Brown county are to hold a picnic at Sand
Lake next week. and it is rumored that
several special policemen have been en-
gagged to protect the unsuspecting granger
from the onslaught Of politicians and book
agents.
GEORGE ROBINSON and E. F. Turner
of Coal Harbor, Mclean county, announce
that hereafter they will observe Sunday
and will refuse to buy, sell or trade with
any person on that day. Some revival
meeting must have been getting in its
work in that vicinity.
AT It's recent meeting at Huron, the as
ISOLATION of loan companies adopted a
schedule of farm values by counties, eS-
cepting the counties of Yankton, Clay,
Union and Minnehaha, where the money
lenders are kindly permitted to put their
own estimate of value upon farm land.
D. A. HARPoLD, one of the several
candidates for superintendent Of schools
of Sully county, has been adjudged insane
and taken to the asylum. He has devoted
his whole time and attention to the race,
utterly breaking himself down in mind and
body. The examination showed that while
perfectly sane on business transactions
made in the past, he is wild on the subjects
ofpolitics and religion, which turn his in
sanity has taken, and he does everything
"by revelation"
AS the following from the Investors
Guide will show, Dakota takes the lead as
a hay producing district: "lf we should
tell you that $4,000 tons of has has been
shipped the past winter from the Missouri
river bottom in south Dakota between the
Jim and Sioux rivers, and that 81. 600 head
of cattle chewed 10000 tons more, you
won't hesitate to believe it, for it is so be-
You'd doubt. That $4,000 tons of hay has
been shipped to Chicago we have from
official railroad reports; that 200, 900 tons
of hay were fed to stock, we have from re-
liable cattlemen residing on their lands.
That this Dakota hay is finding ready
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