Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
DAKOTA NEWS.

Iron Hill mining stock is quoted at ~
cents in Deadwood.
The Northwestern road is building
depot at Violin siding.
The Fargo and Southwestern road is
now open to La Mour.
The hill cities complain Of abominably
inefficient mail service.
Considerable real estate has been set
ahoat by the spring thaw.
-Lesterville, Yankton county, had
$4,000 fire the other night.
--Vermillion is on the ragged edge OF
real estate boom.
The Dakota Star is a new paper at
White Lake. devoted to wit and humor.
-Rioe Brothers. of Flandrau, have the
largest and most expensive horse farm in
Dakota.
A Yankton clergyman from his pulpit
Sunday lectured small boys who play mar
bles for keeps.
There is quite an oil excitement in the
vicinity of Lead City, and several wells
are going down.
| Aberdeen has refunded 800 to each
saloonkeeper who had paid his license that
amount in advance.
Black Hills tin. the product of Gus
ter county mine. is now quoted in the Chi
cago market reports.
| A Holstein COW at Holabird last week
gave birth to calf that weighed l24
| ,ounds when 4 hours old
By actual count twenty eight Dakota
papers headed their local columns the
other week April showers"
Material is being delivered for the
erection of public hall in Bridgewater to
be built by Joint stock company.
| Aberdeen elects two aldermen from
each ward each year instead of one. as is
the practice in most other towns.
| -Flandrau has Just formed creamery
company. The Dakota towns that have
not done so are like angels visits
II. F. Mentzer, mayor of Mitchell. has
been heartily endorsed for denomination
and election by the w. c. L. u. of that
town.
| Fargo cast 1926 votes Mt her last cleo
ton against 1878 year ago. The prohi-
bition wave has struck that city the above
result.
| The next and most startling sensation
at Bismarck promises to he one in which a
prominent politician appears in the role of
a polygamist.
| At jamestown the other day double
wedding occurred. the bride of the one
ceremony and the groom Of the other being
brother and sister.
| The Odd Fellows of Alpena, Jerauld
county, are preparing to build store
building "a by 70 feet, with hall above
for their lodge room.
A man with his boots on narrowly es-
capped drowning in the main street Of Dead
wood the other day. He was fshed OFT
with graphing hook.
| The new Lawrence county hospital
building, a very commodious one. has
twenty acres of land in connection. much
of it under cultivation.
-Yankton cast SIG votes in the recent
municipal election; Aberdeen. $50; Fargo
1.226; Mandan, 1852; Grand Forks. O1l
Huron, 757; Milbank, 315.
The first case of drunkenness which
has come before the police court at Aber-
deem since the saloons were closed a},-
peared the other morning.
Col. w. C. Plummer. the silver
tongued Dakotaan, addressed the students
Of the Brookings agricultural college o.,
"Paternal Government" recently.
The preliminary survey for the twe
new bridges over the Red river and Grand
Forks is completed. The city voted fonl
Years ago to bond in $4,000 for two wears
A young man of Lead City was So be-
side himself when beside young lad, liz
was visiting that when she was snd.lenl.
seized with nose-bleed he rushed to The
door. locked it and taking the:efrom Inc
key. thrust he key down the lady's back.
Her mother soon arrived outside, bat wa4
thus barred from getting in.
-Rudolp phi Uhlman, a ho1nestcatc. of
New Salem. after seeding his place in
1881. went to Montana. Having earncs,
considerable money he started home in
company with stranger, and as he uove:
re cached New Salem and no news of his
whereabouts has been received. foul pIay
is suspected. His homestead entry il,
now being contested for abandonment.
The Northeastern Railr0u0er is COM
m"nting upon the probability of the open
J ing for settlement this year of the Sioux
reservation adds: "Thele is no reasonable
doubt that at least two lines will push
westward across the newly opened laud.
| heH'ilng for the Black Hills, at the earliest
| opportunity. From Pierre, the Missouri
| Tlver terminus of the Chicago and North
| Western. it is, on direct line, about $50
miles to Rapid City. From Forest CITY
following the Missouri to it's junction wit.
| 'he Cheyenne and then following the latter
liver across the reservation, it is 1856 miles
t. karid City. Chamberlain, the Missouri
riScr terminus of the Chicago, Milwaukee
nd St Paul, is, on a straight line, about
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