Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-09-19
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

AssRAAnCA WautS uEst-ciuaS opera
hous&.
DHLRoArE CLIFFORD has gone back to
Washington.
4 UNEMPLOYED laboring men are scarce
in Rapid City.
TnH boss milling wheat this year comes
from central Dakota.
MOVEMENT Is on foot at Grand Forks
to secure free mail delivery.
RAPID CRY, with population of $500,
has 4 school enrolment Of 2OG.
THk Aberdeen business college is hold
ing Dree regular sessions daily.
THe chicken hunter i, abroad IN she
land y the Dakotas for all he's worth.
Tn musical people Of Highmore, are
soon - render the Cantata Of Esther.
THx Tr;bsae denies the report of danger
to TIA Northern Psciic bridge At Blsmark.
AlosKs YoUxo. wife Of III hank.
er at Harold, died at her home in ,ha.
town.
TRAINS on the Manitoba railroad have
began running regularly between Huron
and Watertown.
HIGHMoRE is to have new hotel, the
Phoenix, the cellar excavation for which
is now being rapidly made.
LUKE MCDONALD, we'll known in the
Hills, is seriously i'll at Deadwood with
'argement of the liver.
WATER WAS struck at depth of l.lO0
feet in the Harold artesian we'll, but the
want more and will 60 deeper.
RAPID CITY comes to the front With n
young man % years old who but recently
took his first ride on a railroad.
The Rapid City board Of education has
adopted resolution excluding children
under years of age from school.
Rev. NORMAN w. CARY, principal Of
the Fargo academy, has been elected presi-
dent of the Groton collegiate institute.
LII is reasonably certain that a Presby-
terian church will be built ut whitewood
this fall. That is what the Sentinel SAYS
The gray wolf is still a very live issue IN
Butte county, where he occasionally plays
sad havoc among horses and other farm
stock.
JUDGE MCCONNELL, at Fargo, on his
own motion has continued all the liouor
cases until the December term of The
court.
PIERRE will vote October l on the
question of bonding the town in the sum
OF $1,000 for the purpose Of building two
school l-houses.
THE James River Baptist association has
closed is third annual meeting at Abcr
deem. -Four new churches were rece we'd
into the association.
The rate Of compensation for teams for
hauling hose carts to and from fires at
Pierre has been fixed ut - in the day
time and $3 at night.
The people Of Rapid City are at pres
ent removing their dead from the old eeme
tary to the new burying grounds about n
half mile out Of town.
FATHER b. j. HENS, formerly in charge
Of the Catholic church at Columbia. has
been appointed to the charge of a church
at Minot, Ward county.
| AYoUka man named Lukerne Cabern
mad his left hand terribly lacerated by the
cylinder Of a thrashing machine, which he
was feeding, near Ipswich.
IHE w. c. I. u. in session at Fargo
has decided to establish and maintain
headquarters at Bismarck during the
session of the Legislature.
The doctors played the ministers game
of base ball at Grand Forks recently, so
says the Pidindealer. The game stood IL
to IA in favor of the medics.
A. McBAIN, of Fargo, offered the direc-
tors Of the north Dakota fair at Grand
Forks 1000 for the privilege of running
wheel of fortune, but was refused.
The foot race at Deadwood between
Frank Graves, of Rapid City, and Frank
Lynch, of Deadwood, was decided in fav-
or OF Graves, who won by about twelve
inches.
The total tax levy in Hutchinson county,
including the territorial tax, is 10 4-lO
mills on each dollar OF valuation This i,
said to be the lowest tax ever levied in the
county.
MARK L. WILLIAMS. county superin-
tendent of schools, and Miss Mary Lynch,
Grand Forks belle, were married in st.
MitcLelFs church, Grand Forks, by Father
Conaty.
Miss LILLE d. BLAKE, of New York,
lectured at Grand Forks under the auspices
of the Woman's Suffrage association.
Her subject was is it crime to be a
woman?'
I. b. WALKER, whose saw mill at
Grand Forks burned recently, will rebuild.
The mill will he completed in two months,
and will give employment to 2CO men in
the spring.
ONE Of the next important commercial
enterprises that will have place in the
DeadwoOd field is a cigar factory, which is
| Ekelv IN sptinn into oxsctooco ~ no ,a,.
distant day.
The Fargo liquor cases have been con
tiaued until the December term OF court
In the meantime the continuance of local
option will be determined at the Novem-
bcr election.
Arthur KINGSTON, farmer living
near Verne, soundly threshed q man
named Kelly, at Aberdeen, for grossly in
sulting Mrs. Kingston during her hns-
bands absence.
JOHN RUSSELL captured the contract
for the construct on OF the Spearfish pub
lie school building. The amount Of his
bid was 81, les. The work is to be CON-
| pleted December 10.
SPOTTED HORSE, an Indian Of the
Lower Brule agency, is of the opinion that
the Indians have violated contracts oftener
than the whites. and Is urging his people
to sign the reservation dill.
f. G. FLoRENcR's shoe store at Grand
Forks was bnrglarized. the thieves effect
ing an entrance from the rear Of the store.
Thirty-one pair Of shoes in all were stolen,
the loss amounting to over 500.
HARVARD was the last scene Of Cupid
| somewhat erratic action in the Black Hilis.
George Scurlock and Hannah Williams, ol
that place, quietly decamped together, and
the general impression in the camp is that
| they have eloped.
HENRY GoTzIAE's granary, containing
4OO bushels of oats, together with eight
horses, burned at hls farm near EmeradO.
I'd Hansen. who tried to rescue the horses,
was badly burned about the hands and
face.
THE Dakota Editorial association met