Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
NAKOTA NEWS.

ploys 5000 men.
Ward County is on a cash basis and
has good government.
George c. Barnes has organized a new
elevator company at Fargo.
A new postoffice is named Bartholdi,
in honor of the famous sculptor.
The base ball park at Sioux Falls is
being converted into a skating rink.
The Northern Pacific machine shops
at Fargo employ seventy-fve hands.
Owing to the drought in North Dakota,
tree seeds are scarce and dear article.
Tho pay roll at the Siox Falls stone
quarry last week amounted to $4,000.
The counts seat of A1cHenry County
has been changed from Newport to Towner.
The Collector of Internal Revenue re-
ports but one license SO far issued to retail
oleomarsarine.
The North Side public school building
of Fargo was supplied with an soo-pound
bell on the 10 inst.
The new Catholic Church Mt Devils
Lake was dedicated on Sunday last by the
Rev. Bishop Marty.
A new insurance company to be known
as the Pacific Insurance Company, is being
organized at Pierre.
Edwin Z. Page, one of the Oldest and
most prominent citizens of Sioux Falls,
died on the 18th inst.
C. A. Rode was bound over at Sioux
Falls on Monday in the sum of 5000 for
selling mortgaged property.
About fifty laborers, who have oeen at
work Oh the Milwaukee extension south
of Roscoe, quit work last Saturday.
w. y. Cook, Of Rock Rapids, has been
arrested for forging a promissory note and
taken to Sioux Falls for hearing
An old pioneer miner named Elisha
Lutman died ON Wednesday at the hospital
at Deadwood. He was go years of age.
The yield of one Dakota farm is given
as 10000 bushels of wheat, 5000 bushels
of barley and 10000 bushels of oats.
Jesse Love, living near Park River,
was bound over to the District Court
charged with selling mortgaged wheat.
between contests, final proofs and
numerous entries Of all kinds the Bismarck
land Office never had so much business as
now.
B. L. Solomon. confined in the county
jail at Washington Springs. tried to commit
suicide with case knife on Wednesday
last.
The different congregations of Sioux
Falls joined the Y. M. c. A. in a general
religious gathering at the opera house Sun
day evening.
Mr.. Zelenka, living short distance
from Springfield had a leg broken last
Tuesday, by the wheel Of loaded wood
wagon passing over it.
Ezekiel Everatts suicided by shooting
himself with shotgun at the Clifton house
at Newport, McHenry County. Sickness
was the supposed cause.
Platinum, worth 500 pound has
been discovered in the Black Hills. The
mineral articles produced in the Black
Hills are becoming very numerous.
-Dunseith Herald: Father Williamson,
OF Cloutarf, Mimi, has been around several
days gathering up half breed boys to edu-
cate them in the ST. Paul Industrial school.
The first self feeding hard coal base
burner made its appearance in Deadwood
on the 18Th inst. The next curiosity out
there is to geta glimpse of the fuel that
heats the stove.
Miss Emma Cody, lady compositor
GU the Plankinton Free Press was mar
ried last week to John NJ Randolph, a
business man of that place. He was re-
garded as fortunate.
In Logan County there were twenty
six votes cast, thirty-one candidates to vote
for, twenty of whom were elected. From a
revenue calculation, it would be lust as
well for the other six to move.
William T. Lambert has killed, this
fall, around Wheatland, nine big red foxes,
a badger, o white weasel and raccoon.
The latter capture seems to be the most
peculiar out on the open prairie.
The following patents We're granted to
Dakota inventors during the week ending
the 10th inst: H. A. Marland, Fargo,
measuring pump; Emanuel Clutter and A.
Mackenhaupt, straw burner; J. e. Duncan,
Lisbon, reversing mechanism.
A Washington telegram says NJ. H.
Day is credited with being candidate for
Receiver or Register of one of the Dakota
land offices. 1t has been limited that if
ziebach was made Governor, Day would
step into his shoes as Register at Yankton.
AT meeting of the North Dakota
Baptist Ministerial Union, last Thursday.
at Fargo, committee was appointed TO
draft petition to the Legislature to enact
a strict marriage license and registration
law at the approaching session of that
body.
The Walsh County Farmers Insurance
Company had rather severe test The past
year, as hailstorms We're numerous and
destructive. Their loses on g., 49O acres
of crops were $50, They paw rs
per cent Of the losses ana hope for better
luck another year.
The Cass County canvasscrs find that
the entire ticket headed by Col. Benton is
elected with but two exceptions, the ma
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