Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-02-01
PROPRIETOR.
TIE NORTHWEST.
NEBRASKA

NEBRAsKA.
The city council Of Schuyler have imposed
an occupation tax of $500 on saloons, making
the license there 800.
President John Fitzgerald, Of the Irish Ma
tional league received check for q, 900 from
r. B. Hayes, Of Ottawa,
The commissioners Of Cass county have de-
cided 10 appeal the Burlington bridge tax
case 70 the supreme Court.
There are about twenty-five Nebraska towns
that are certain Of being upon the line Of the
Omaha q Yankton railroad.
The formation of business mans club in
Omaha is now assured, and much good Is ex-
pected as result Of It's labcrs.
No deaths In the late blizzard are reported
from Dawes or Sheridan counties, the two in
the extreme northwest part OF the state.
On Monday evening slide as sand bank
at Florence killed O, a. Sellers ]. B.
Smith and Joe White were badly injured.
The business houses of Fremont have agreed
to close Mt o'clock the remainder Of the
month, In order to give everybody an oppor-
tunity to attend the revival services now in
progress.
j. s. Riste, farmer residing four miles
south of Blue Springs, by mistake swallowed
spirits Of ammonia formedicine that had been
prepared for him. He died from the effects
of the poison few hous afterward.
An energetic movement Is being inahgu-
seat OF Dodge county from Fremont to Serb
ner. The German Farmers club agree to
raise and donate 5,000 In furtherance of the
project. &
Omaha's chief Of police sworc out warrant
for the arrest of Tor my Miller, who b now in
course of training for his eight with Weir at
Minneapolis next Menday night. The charge
b vagrancY. 1t is supposed that Miller will
give bonds and go on with his fight.
The yonng farmers residing west Of Murray
have been diverting themselves this winter
by holding shooting matches at yarioas Farm
houses Of Saturday, and shooting FOR beeves,
turkeys and the like. A beef animal is put
up to be shot for In Ave parts or choices, at so
much per chance, the first and second choices
taking the hind quarters, and the third and
fourth choices the fore quarters, and the fifth
the hide. and tallow. The contests are ami
mated and ara engaged in by the best shots in
she ncighborhood, both with rifle and shot
gun.
IOWA.
A. W. Futile, a farmer In Taylor county,
slipped and was killed while putting a. trunk
into his wagon preparatory to leaving the
country ON account Of blizzards. During q
blizzard two weeks before he said that ''if
there was such being as God Almighty, he
was without love or feeling for humanity or
he would not send such storms upon them, :"
at the same time declaring that if another
such storm came he would go to climate
that had never been cursed with such storms,
and escaped the vigilance of the Almighty.
Some Of his neighbors look upon his death as
Judgement
The alcohol works at Atlantic are to be
converted into a starch factory the coming
season.
The closing of the rolling mill at Burling-
ton for the want Of fuel threw fifty men out Of
employment.
Nearly s., 600 will be expended in build
ings and improvements in Sioux City the en-
suing season.
Ice still continues to 60 south from Keokuk
BY the trainload. 1t is taken from the gov
ernment canal.
DIR. s. B. Thrall, for many years secretary
of the State Medical society, died at Ottumwa
on the goth inst.
The Sioux City and Northern road is a GER
tainty. The city will also be included In the
Stickney system.
A Turkish and Russian bathing establish
mcnt is one of the things Council Bluffs is
reaching out for,
Four inches of snow Monday night and a
thaw Tuesday, is the way the McGrcgor News
OF the 18th puts it,.
DAKOTA.
A soldiers, reunion willb held at Sturgis
on Jan. 81.
Sioux Falls deaf mute school has an at
tendance of forty.
Aberdeen's city library contains over 600
volumes of choice reading.
jamestown will have new opera house
with seating capacity of LOCO.
It is predicted that $3.50, 600 will be spent in
prospecting for coal In the vicinity OF Mitchell
the sp s1roaching season.
Ernest Campbell had the misfortune to have
his leg broken between the ankle and knee at
Letcher, Sanborn county, week ago.
Mitchell Mail, 10: Another veinsof coal
has been discovered on the line of Wells and
Sheridan counties The vein is ten feet thick
and twelve feet wide.
The number actually known died from the
effects of the storm, according to the Press
and Dakotian Of the 18th, is 104. Many are
missing, and there are others whose hold up
on life is very uncertain.
1t is now thought that the danger of a
water famine In the Black Hills is past.
The Odd Fellows have dedicated an elegant
new lodge hall in Lead City. 1t cost s12, 900.
A stabbing affair in Hill City last Friday
Whisky was the cause. Parties will recover.
An additional company has been formed at
Huron for the purpose Of sinking "a coal
shaft
The Homestake and Associate mines in the
BILLS took out $780, 900 the first two weeks Of
January
Thirty three sacks Of mail were received at
the Huron Office at the opening of the
blockade
The Northern Pacific ice houses are being
flledvi 80 inch ice from the Missouri at
Bismarck.
There is said TO be flow Of natural gas in
an artesian well on the Manitoba road in
North Dakota.