New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-15
DAKOTA BREVITIES.

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Ify opened to settlement, is being
rapidly taken up,
! From eight to a dozen is the num-
Der of tramps that show up every
day at Columbia. They don't stay
very long, however.
1t is estimated by Minnehaha coun-
| ty farmers that wheat will average
very much higher than the best year
during the agricultural history of
that county.
The dignity of the Sioux Falls
court is not to be monkeyed with,
John Dasche was recently fined 5000.
tor selling liquors after the service of
an Injunction.
Mrs. DR.. Porter, the wife of one of
the heroes of the Reno stand in the
cluster massacre, died at Bismarck.
| The remains were taken to her OVID
home at Oberlin, Ohio.
The camp-meetings at Whitewood
and Spring Valley, under the guild
ance of Elder Leighton, have resulted
in more than 100 conversions at the,
former place and a large number ait
the latter.
The Indian Spotted Grow was ar
rested and lodged in jail at Pierre
for holding up Fred Laplaunt on. the
reservation with a Winchester rifle.
| Spotted Crow is the hardest case on
! the reserv alton.
Fred Wood, of Union, as assignee of
the O. B. Chaplin hose team, has
brought suit for $1,000 against the
A. ID. Smith team, of Clinton, tore
cover prize money claimed to be, un-
lawfully awarded at the late freman's
tournament.
1t is now thought to be a fact that
The acreage of fax in YanRton coun-
ty for this season, which has hitherto
been considered very small, is as
large as the acreage of last year, and
the flax crop will be as large as the
crops of other cereals.
The guests of a Yankton Hotel
have been kept awake nights for a
week past by peculiar noises in the
walls. Asearch being made revealed
a family Of infant king birds in a
chimney, and the noises which have
made strong men nervous we're
found to issue from the tiny throat
Of those fedglings.
The worst hail storm ever seen
cleaned out the grain thorugh the
center of Kingsbury county. Where
| it struck nothing is left The extent
OF the storm has not been heard. AT
least twenty-five farmers around
DeSmet have nothing left. The hail
In some places was composed of
chunks Of ice.
A conflict of authority has arisen
between Judge Spencer and the county
commissioners of Grant county.
There was a vacancy in the office of
district attorney. The Judge and the
commissioners both appointed a man
to fill the vacancy. The court rec
ognlzes the man appointed by the
judge only, and the commissioners
pay the salary to their appointee.
J.. Lockhart "chastised" the editor.
OF the Millbank Review on the street
by knocking him down, and would
probably have inflicted severe punish
ment had not the bystanders inter-
fered. The occasion of the fracas
was an article in the Review reflect
ing onthe character of Mr.. Lockhart.
MI. Lockhart went Immediately to
the Justices office and paid his fine.
Last May John Lasche was en-
'oined from retailing liquor in Sioux
Falls. At his trial before Judge Car
land for contempt Of court he was
fined 5000. This is the first case Of
the kind under the local option law.
Since the 2Sth of June eighty-six ar
rests have been made in Sioux Falls
for selling liquor without a license.
Some of the salo onmen have been ar
rested from twelve to fourteen times.
The executive committee of the ter
ritorial board of agriculture held a
meeting at Huron. They decided to
hold farmers Institutes eachmorning
of the territorial fair at the amphi.
theater and have short addresses bv
specialists on agricultural topics. A
building will be erected especially for
press headquarters. Baldwin, the
baloonist and parachutist, will make
ascensious during the fair week.
Two-thirds Of the grain crop OF
Southern Dakota is in the stack, and
a small portion has been threshed.
Oats, fax, wheat and barley average
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