Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-15
DAKOTA NEWS.

the wayside.
Pros without eyes hare been discovered
in several cities Of the territory,
The tin mines Of the Black Hills are
attracting considerable attention.
CLARK county has voted in favor Of
issuing bonds for new court house.
IT is thought that the great Sioux III.
dian reservation will be opened for settie-
ment in . few weeks.
THE q. AR. are preparing for grand
csmpRre At DeSmet on Washington's i
birthday, February ~. ss
ARs, CAxFl, llsje1 ". ~
making the second pair within year.
THE Pierre Press says: 1t is evident that
the crop of Pierre babies harvested during
the coming year will be the largest ever
known.
Two local pugilists fought seven rounds
at Spencer. The fight, which took place
in u wheat bin in order to elude the police,
was decided draw.
A SCHOOL teacher in Buffalo countv.
whose wife was one of his pupils, had oc-
casion to punish her one day. The next
day the school house door bore this in
scription: "School closed for one week,
owing to the illness Of the school teacher. =.
THREE cases of small pox are reported
at Mantlan
FARGO has raised $40, 900 with which to
enforce the prohibitory law.
Guy LEWIS, Of Blunt, recently killed a
splendid specimen of the eagle, measuring
seven feet from tip to tip.
Hon. l.. G. JOHNSON, of Aberdeen, is
gaining considerable notoriety in Wash.
ington through his endeavor TO represent
Dakota in her attempt to be admitted by
an enabling act of this congress as one
state. Col. Gale, who was also there, see-
ing that johnson was doing all that could
he done, has returned home, resting as
sured that the Springer bill will pass both
the house and senate.
Since the resolutions passed by Aber-
deems city council offering aid to the east
ern sufferers by the blizzard in New Eng
land, many counties in that vicinity have
followed suit, the citizens of Roscoe, in
Edmunds county, having passed similar
resolutions 10 aid the Atlantic states with
money and supplies.
The supreme court held recent session
at Bismarck
BISMARCK has had union revival meet
ings for the past five weeks.
The Record says insurance rates in Stur-
gis have got up to Z to 10 per cent.
The Bismarck 7ribnac says the Illinois
Central news has infused new life into
many of the doubling ones, and that the
old-time cheer chaacterizes the conduct Of
the Bismarcker.
THERE is a presiding elder Of the NJ. f.
church at Aberdeen, and as he has missed
but one appointment in the past three
months, the Ners says Aberdeen's import
ance as railroad center is strikingly illus
trated.
MRS. JASPER RAILsBACK, Of Sturgis,
after quarreling with her husband, went
into an adjoining room and wrote note to
Jasper about his general meanness, and
then took up a Sharp's rife and shot her.
self through the body. She was dead in
20 minutes. The husband is we'll known
character around the dives of Sturgis. He
plays the violin in one of the dance halls
there. The woman who shot herself de-
serted a husband in order to take UP with
Railsback.
ABERDEEN is putting in incandescent
lights.
COMMENCING the 9Th a per cent. PEN
atty is attached to taxes.
MANY towns in the territory are raising
funds for the assistance of blizzard suffer
ers in Kansas.
SIx-CoRNERED euchre is all the 20 at
Desmet, and is generally INDUCED in by
the elite Of the place.
THE ladies of Highmore W. c. r. IT,. in
conjunction with the Y. NJ. G. A., will es-
tablish a reading. room.
EAST PIERRE was alive with Sioux last
week, on their way to Fort Bennett to draw
their semi-monthly stock Of fodder.
BISMARCK feels itself fully assured Of a
creamery that will distribute $4,000 an
nually among the people of that slope.
THE engineers of the Duluth, Pierre
and Black Hills road have completed the
locating survey from Aberdeen to Pierre.
The county commissioners Of Hyde
county, have found County Treasurer
James TO be defaulter in the sum OF
$l1 ,050.67, and have ordered suit against
his bondsmen.
THERE are in the territory % cfeameries,
10 cheese factories, ll9 -four mills, 2S
breweries and bottle works, . packing
houses, electric light plants, street rail-
ways. and 10 railway shops.
A FIRE starting in the livery barn Of John
Manning, OF Sturgis, resulted in loss Of
$4,000. The Advertiser Office was partially
destroyed, and for time the destruction
Of the town was threatened.
EDWARD r. SMITH, convicted Of shoot
ing Jeremiah Clancy, at Sturgis, was sem
fenced by Judge Thomas to eight years at
hard labor in the p,nitentiary.
LEAN Cry was canvassed to raise
money to add to the fund the Omaha Bee
is raising for the benefit Of three Nebraska
school mistrcsscs who are The hsroincs Of
the late blizzard.
THE Black Hills Soldiers and Sailors
association was organized on the 3lst nlt.
at Sturgis. Nineteen states we're repre-
sented in the organization, with MI en-
rollment Of l07 membors,
=. 2. HudHEs will build complete set
of casting works to his machine khOn