New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-24
DAKOTA JOTTINGs.

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The northwestern stages trans
ported sixty EIGHT people from White
wood to DeadWood in the last three
days.
The total expense to Clay county
for it's clerk OF the court during the
past two years has been $3.50, or
$75 per year
The inhabitants of Harold are
jubilant because the water is flowing
from their artesian well. The well is
now / ,435 feet deep.
Anna Burke, Of Warner, a young
lady about 10 years of age, has lost
the use Of her mental faculties, and
IN all probability will speedily be
sent to the asylum.
Prairie fires destroyed considerable
hay and grain around Ypsilanti, ten
miles south, and ArroWwood twenty
miles north of Jamestown. The
losses are numerous but small.
BY a unanimous vote the Hand
county commissioners ordered a vote
on relocation of the county seat at
the annual election, a ST. Lawrence
project.
The Howard Press says that an at
tempt was recently made by a we'll
known female Of that city to black
mail a most virtuous old bachelor
who resides in that city.
Mayor Paulson, of Mayville, dis
gusted at the inemciency of his police
force, raided a gambling den few
nights ago in person. and seized the
apparatus, including chips and the
rake-of.
A young man, a Swede, at work on
the Syndicate block in Deadwood, is
the champion hodcarrier ofthe Hills.
He carries at each load forty bricks,
which aggregate in weight 24O
pounds.
1t seems that western Dakota has
at least one prohi bition county, it is
Butte. The commissioners of the
county, according to the Whitewood
Sentinel, have decided to issue no
more liquor licenses.
A valuable house situated in the
southern section of Sioux Falls, was
burned. The building was isolated,
being half a mile from others. 1t is
thought that it was set on fire as no
one was about the premises.
Great hopes Of a boom have been
inspired at Blunt on account of the
recent coal find. The last ten feet of
the shaft was through slate, and ow-
ing to the presence of water above
the slate it has been impossible to
determine the extent of the vein.
Andrew Fludstrom, an ex-saloon-
keeper, at Fargo attempted suicide
by cutting his throat. His little
daughter, seeing him, raised an
alarm, and he threw the knife away
without completing his work. He is
thought to be deranged.
The Prohibitionists of Sioux Falls
have renewed their war upon the sa-
loans. Over half of the liquor deal
ers Of Sioux Falls were arrested I'M
der the local option law-some upon
twenty counts. The balance will
be waited upon later.
Nine of the heaviest creditors of
the defunct Bank of Hitchcock hay
ing become Wearied of waiting for
something to turn up, have sworn
out writs of attachment, and have
ATTACHED the whole property of the
defunct firm, and will test the valid
ity of the assignment.
A party from Ortonville, MINI, is
at Aberdeen in search OF a truant wife
and a man with long list of aliases
with whom she eloped. He traced
them to that city, but has lost all
track Of them there. He has wisely
concluded to go to work on the sew
er.
The Press says: "Sioux Falls has
invested about a million and a half
SO far this year in improvements and
all this large sum was put up with
out buster or brass band accom-
paniment. The Queen city doesn't
make much noise in building, butshe
plugs right along and let's the deeds
tell their own story.
Five additional skeletons were I'M
earthed at Grand Forks by Prof.
Montgomery. This makes a total of
eleven skeletons dug out of this
mound. The professoris sanguine of
unearthing more and is still excavat-
ing with the aid ola couple of work
men. The bones found were nearly
perfect and were those of mammoth
individuals.
The Spearfsh Register comments
on the marriage of George Ward and