Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-04

IR. CROW, PROPRIETOR.
DAKOTA.
Rapid City is shipping trick to Wyoming,
Bismarck,s water system is In running
order.
A bank will soon commence operations at
Oldham.
Desdwood is talking Of raising the liquor
license to $1,000.
An effort is on foot to establish packing
house at Tyndall.
The coal famine at ABERDEEN was raised In
time for the late blizzard.
MInot is taking steps toward securing q
United States land office.
Real estate transfers In Sioux Falls for the
year amounted to over S, Oco,0Oo
There is plenty Of CT al in Burleigh county,
few niles north Of Bismarck.
Dakota leads the record In railroad build.
ing Of the northwest for the past year.
Mrs. Kate Noel, the handsomest woman in
Fargo, has been divorced from her husband
Three railroads are surveyed to Deadwood
and asking the right Of way through the
gn'ci.
The internal revenue collector is looking
after violations of the revenue law in the
territory.
Custer City Is attracting considerable at
tent.on from abroad, owing to her large tin
resources.
TIE Brewster News is agitating the question
Of reaching prohibition by constitutional
amendment.
Sioux Falls is deriving many advantages
from the completion of the Illinois Central to
that point.
The EDDY group of tin mines, near Gus
ter City, were Friday sold for $50 ,000, to Eng
lish parties.
A new Location Of a valuable tin lode has
recently been maze Desr Sheridan by Henry
Shank and Oscar K eio.
Cant IN 10 taking exceptions to the Milwau-
kee dining car, because It closes up the rail-
road eating-hou there.
: DIRE. Goodrich, Cook and Duncan have re-
ceived commissions as the examining board for
pensions at Chamberlain.
The final surrey for the extension OF q
branch of TIE Mantle oa read from Sioux Falls
to Yankton is telng md.
w. q. Ellis, edt'o Of tae Cakes Republican,
AND Miss q ra Defendorf, Of oakes neighbor-
hood, were nh rried last week.
The brokers Of adweod gave Christ
mas tree to the . hi dren OF that city, AMI o
present fer each hild was on the tree.
Negotiations for The sal OF the Fordyce
group # tin mines, near Custer City, are now
going on, and the sale is pretty well assured.
A number Of business men of Huron have
raised fund for the purpose of prosecuting
pc sons who engage in Illegal traffic in intox-
icants.
The barn Of J. B. FITZGERALD, OF jamestown,
with ten head of cattle, burned Thursday
afternoon. The loss is fully covered by In
surance.
The metallurgical library at Rapid City
school Of mines is nearly completed, and a
special c.ass for miners will DO organized
january.
Cakes, though town but one year old,
claims more substantial i'm orovements than
are Possessed by the majority Of towns four
or five years old.
The infant son of F. Eastman, Of Spring
Valley, was Thursday morning scalded to
death by a pot of boiling coffee accidentally
overturned upon him.
An effort is on foot to establish packing
mousse at Tyndall.
The postofficr at Lost Lake, Turner ounty,
has been discontinued.
The Dryer mill at st. Lawrence is putting
out 1e5 barrels Of flour daily.
Deadwood contemplates raising the liquor
license OF that city to 81 900 per year.
ChIist,church, at Yankton, erecently dam
aged by fire, win be repaired at once.
Yankton Press and Dakotaian: It will take
SIX weeks of continuous work to make the
Monitoba survey from Yunkton to Sioux
Falls.
The Northern Pacific ticket office at Bis
marck was burglarized on the Goth and about
300 secured. man named James Hamil-
ton was arrested on suspicion.
The Msrion creamery has paid out S11, sos
to the farmers for cream In the past eight
months, and is increasing its facilities for
making butter to double its present capacity
Al SAPcCtdtIOu Oh an lncTeasc tne coming
year.
The Liquor dealers Of Aberdeen expect to
discontinue their business after the LIST of
January, provided their license lie revoked
and their money refunded.
The supreme court of the United States has
Affirmed q judgment for $4,000 secured by
Richard Maurer against the Northern Pacific
for loss Of both Il gs In Fargo.
Honestake Mining company, of Deadwood,
has declared Its 18th regular monthly dizi-
dend Of twenty cents on the ehsre, or S25 GOO;
total dividends to date, g, 900, $50.
A convention Of the anti.license party of
Brown county will be held at Aberdeen jan
nary 5. to take steps to enforce the local
option law throughout the county.
]. G. Hamilton, charged with burglsrizlDg
the Northern Pacific ticket office at Bismarck
Monday night last, has been placed under
bonds to await the action of the grand jury.
MINNESOTA.
The implement house Of G. P. Rinker, at
McCoof, was destroyed by FIRE Friday night
entailiug q loss Of &C, 90.
Chae. jackson, of Tekamah, forged check
on farmer near there, got 1t cashed and
then jumped the country.
The county seat war in Brown county is
waxing warm, and pet names are beginning