Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-10
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The Flandrau creamery has closed tor
the season. Three of the merchants are
running butter wagons.
SEVERAL Valley City ladies enjoy the
opportunities afforded by the Cheyenne
river for bathing purposes.
The new manager of the Bismark tele-
phone exchange will make extensive I'M
provements in the system.
DOUBLE high five, substitute for sinch
and the latest game for cigars, is likewise
the latest craze at Deadwood.
The BARRIERS of Sioux Falls have received
an anonymous circular warning them to
close their shops on Sunday.
HORSE races every Saturday at the fair
grounds at Miller attract large crowd,
and considerable money changes hands.
PLANS for Yankton's sewerage system
will not be completed before November.
The engineer is now at work upon Them
YANKToN's city council has unnani-
mously decided to have street electric
lights placed on masts sfty feet above the
surface.
CARTHAGE insists on having an altesian
we'll, and wants somebody to visit the town
is suitable.
THERE are a number of fine driving
horses in Rapid City, and the owners
thereof give them lots of exercise over the
fine roads now.
A GREAT many Rapid City people may
be addressed at the Hot Springs just now.
The sanitarium there is sought for baths,
rest and health.
CAPT. d. S. WHITE, of Flandrau, has
received notice of his appointment as
members of the South Dakota board of
pharmacy for the three-year term.
SOME of the people of Deadwood insist
much to the disgust of those who are in
clined to be law-abiding citizens.
A Mrs. PETERSON. of Prairie Rock
township, Turner county. was nearly killed
by vicious bull few days since. She
was twice tossed in the air by the Infatuated
animal, and is in a very critical condition.
The first bounty received in Jerauld
county for the cultivation of trees, came
to l.. G. Wilson last week from the terri
torial treasurer, in the shape OF a draft for
$40.
BARN belonging to Peter Clope, who
resides short distance north of Oldham,
was destroyed by fire last week, which was
set by his 5-year-o old boy.
WHAT is bothering the people of Me-
Cook county now is to figure out what
damage man should have for COW run
ming over his field when his crop was to-
tally destroyed by hail.
A DEADwooD investor in tickets for the
last lottery drawing is confident he paid
with bis usual luck, the tickets miscarried
and never reached him, though list of the
prizes did.
instructor. named F. j. Stanley. The
Restler now reports his having disappeared.
leaving some pretty large unpaid bills. He
was likely carried away by the music of the
band.
A MAN named Jack Hall, employed in
sawmill at Rapid City, met with an acct
dent. the other day, by which he lost one
of his fingers. He was employed about O
single saw, when he lost his balance and
fell forward toward the saw, which caught
the finger and completely severed it.
Jamestown is TO nave local MENACE
RE. The start SO far obtained is turtle
and public fountain. When first placed
there lots of the boys swore off. They
have now found out it was real turtle.
THE 15-year-old son of Ingwald Grove,
farmer living near Carthage, was helping
TO drive some wild ponies to town. when
they became frightened and turned back.
A long picket-rope attached to one of the
ponies caught around the boys ankle, and
he was dragged to death.
MP. TYLER, of Bismarck, had the best
average at the Fargo shooting tournament.
His score was forty out of possible forty
four birds, and his victory was won over
fifty competitors. among whom were cham
plons from st. Paul, Minneapolis and
other Minnesota cities.
The Yankton Driving club has COM
pleted arrangements for its 1883 meeting,
which will be held September 7th and Sth,
on the track formerly owned by the South
Dakota Far association, north of Yank-
ton. The track is to be put in excellent
condition and accommodation for a large
concourse OF visitors will be provided.
Two or three hundred circulars from an
eastern city notify as many Yankton peo-
pie that if they will send their photograph
and address, picture worth $35 will be
returned. This would involve an outlay
of from $1,000 to $4,000 in Yankton
alone, and it is not to be presumed that the
proposition is made in good faith
The existence of gold in the Black Hills
has for some years been known to many
people, and although it's presence in pay
ing quantities was questioned by the in
credulous, who are always ready to de-
nounce every new discovery as a fraud,
and then, when it becomes an assured fact.
are foremost in saying, Il knew it, or.
didn't tell you so?" Rich placers have
been worked with good results and free
milling quartz has been known to exist in
heavy bodies at Lookout and many other
places. Hon. H. M. Day has been run
ming his works at Lookout on limited
scale but with most encouraging results.
With forty stamps, a run of less than
twelve days gave return of 1866 of fine
gold, and this at cost not exceeding 81
per ton for mining and milling. This is
but one of the many rich gold deposits