Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-14
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

HAND claims to be the banner corn
county of central Dakota.
The artesian we'll for the sewer at Aber-
deem is down nearly $50 feet.
SCHoOLMA ANS are a scarce article in
western Sully county this fall.
SIX persons united with the NJ. E.
church at Huron last Sunday.
A SPECIAL freight train carrying $3.50
head of sheep passed into the territory last
week.. The stock was shipped by three
parties at Fox River, Wis, and is destined
for the great ranges of Dakota.
JUDGE MCCONNELL issued injunctions
against the saloon men of Pembina, COM
handing them to appear before the court
at Grand Forks Oct. and show cause why
the injunction should not be made perma-
nent.
PC. TRYNER, of Hitchcock, has made
an assignment to 1. j. Mouser, of Huron.
in favor of creditors. Mr.. Tryner was en-
gagged in the banking business and was be-
heved to be on firm financial footing.
His liabilities and assets are not given. as
no schedule has as yet been filed. 1t is
ru1nored that the liabilities will exceed
the assets several thousand dollars.
ROBERT l.. McCooK post, with Com
pany G.. Dakota National Guards, as an
escort, held the Sheridan memorial services
in the opera hall in Brookings last Sunday.
The entire town was present Rev. A. NJ.
Work preached from the tenth verse of the
eighty fifth Psalm, and while the sermon
was mainly historic, many traits it the
character of Sheridan were held up as
worthy of imitation by the Christian war
rior of to-day.
The Rapid City Journal reports that
John S. Warner. boy IA years of age,
was returning from that town to his home
driving a pair Of ponies attached to
blackboard i'll which We're a number of
empty milk cans. In crossing the railroad
an engine pulling the pay car struck the
wagon. knocking it into smithereens and
throwing the boy twenty seven feet, into
wire fence. He will lose two toes.
Otherwise he was nniniured, as were also
the two ponies.
Two boys named Warehouse, living
north of Bookings, aged IA and 16 years
respectively, while making cartridges the
other day, exploded one of the shells which
ignited about two pounds of powder. and
as result the roof was raised on the
kitchen. and door and windows broken,
and the older boy lost finger and was
otherwise mutilated. while the younger one
was fearfully burned from the top of his
head to his waist. Although neither are
probably fatally injured, it is safe to saw
that the explosion made a more deep and
lasting impression than any discourse to
which they have ever listened.
DR.. McGlLLYcUDDY, says the Rapid
City journal, has a sheet of paper having
large number of signatures of Indians
obtained to the Black Hills cession treaty
of twelve years ago. The names of the
slgners are represented by designs so
significant that they could be read by:
almost any one, whether familiar with
Indian signs OF not. For instance,
"Bear- Goes Out" is represented by the
picture of a bear in the act of stepping
forth from a teppee. ''Old Cloud" is a
representation of man leaning on a staff.
to denote age or feebleness, with n rude
scotch of a cloud over his head. Hump
is representation ola man with hump
on his back, and SO on through a list of
several dozens.
AMONG the effects of wealthy New
Englander. now deceased, the Yunkton
Press and Dakotaian reports, was tele-
scope valued at Sl5, 200. The heirs to the
estate arranged with Dr.. Ward, president
OF lankton college, that when the college
was able and willing to pay 81, 500 for the
instrument it would be sent to Yankton.
The faculty has succeeded in raising
Sl.000. The arrangement is that the
other $500 may be paid at the pleasure of
a Il
the possession of c. NJ. Brown of James,
town, N. T.. will be shipped to this CITY
within ten days. 1t will be located in a
temporary building to be erected for its
accommodation, but eventually there will
he an observatory built. The largest lens
~ the instrument is eighteen inches in
diameter and the telescope is one of the
finest and largest in the northwest.
HE name Of Gen. William S. Harney
is familiar to every one in the territory,
and hence short sketch of his life may
not be inappropriate. Harvey was End
lieutenant of infantry, Feb. Is, 1918, and
promoted list lieutenant Jan. Z, 1919.
Transferred to the LIST artillery, Nov. 16,
1921, and transferred back to the Ist in
fantry, Dec. 81, 1929. May Ii, 1895, he
was made a captain and promoted to ma
jor. May l, 1898. August Is, 1886. was
made lieutenant colonel of the End dra
goons aud accepted the position the follow
ing day. June 30, 1S49, he was made col
onel of the End Dragons and was commits
stoned brigadier general June II, 1858.
Under the act of July II, 1862, for forty
five years service, he was retired Aug. /.
1863. and on the 18th of March, 1866. he
Was made major general by brevct. He
was one of the commissioners of the treaty
Of 1868, having his head quarters at Fort
Randall. The general tells a rather anus
ing anecdote i'll connection with the treaty.
The Indians could not sound the in Har
ney, but framed to pronounce it Honey.
When they asked the general what that
meant, he told them it was honey. such as
The bees made. Ever after that the indians
called him Tulmaga the honey bee. The
name Of Gen. Harvey has been perpetuated
by attaching it to the highest peak of the
everlastings hills of the Black Hills coun-
try. Rapid City has kindly remembered
the man and his services by naming the
largest and most deservedly popular
hotel in the Hills; The Hotel Harvey. ;"
Gen. Harvey was in command of a body of
United States troops in 1858, and while