Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-21
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

UNEMPLOYED laboring men ere scarce
in Rapid City.
The boss milling wheat this year comes
from central Dakota.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at Grand Forks
10 secure free mail delivery.
RAPID CITY, with population Of $500.
has a school enrolment of 206.
The Aberdeen business college is hold
ing three regular sessions daily.
The chicken hunter i, abroad in the
land of the Dakotas for all he's worth.
The musical people of Highmore, are
soon to render the Cantata Of Esther.
The Tribune denies the report of danger
to the Northern Pacific bridge at Blsmark.
MRS. MOSES YOUNG, wife of the bank
er at Harold, died at her home in that
town.
TRAINS on the Manitoba railroad have
began running regularly between Huron
and Waterown.
HIGHMoRE is to have a. new hotel, the
Phoenix, the cellar excavation for which
is now being rapidly made.
LUKE MCDONALD, well-known in the
Hills, is seriously ill at Deadwood with
enlargement of the liver.
WATER vas struck at depth of 1,10o
feet in the Harold artesian we'll, but they
want more and will 60 deeper.
RAPID CITY comes to the front With
young man % years old who but recently
took his first ride on railroad.
The Rapid City board of education has
adopted resolution excluding children
under 6 years of age from school.
REV. NORMAN w. CARY, principal of
the Fargo academy, has been elected presi-
dent of the Groton collegiate institute.
IT is reasonably certain that Presby-
terian church will be built at wildwood
this fall. That is what the Sentinel says.
The gray wolf is still 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 oil the LIQUOR
cases until the December term of the
court.
PIERRE will vote October / on the
of $1,000 for the purpose of building two
school houses.
THE James River Baptist association has
closed it's third annual meeting at Aber-
deem. Four new churches were received
into the association.
The rate of compensation for teams for
hauling hose carts to and from fires at
Pierre has been fixed at So in the day
time and So at night.
TIE people of Rapid City are at pres
ent removing their dead from the old GENE
'tary to the new burying grounds about q
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 church
at Minot, Ward county.
A YOUNG man named Lukerne Caber,
had his left hand terribly lacerated by the
cylinder of thrashing machine, which he
was feeding, near Ipswich.
The W. c. T. 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. SC
says the Ptaindealer. The game stood IL
to IA in favor of the medics.
A. McBA1N, of Fargo, offered the direc-
tors of the north Dakota fair at Grand
Forks 200 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 Ak
mills on each dollar of valuation. This ie
said to be the lowest tax ever levied in the
county.
MARK L. WILLIAMS, county superin-
tendent of schools, and Miss Mary Lynch
q Grand Forks belle, were married in St.
Mitchells church, Grand Forks, by Fathe,
Conaty.
MISS LILLE D. BLAKE, of New York.
]ectured at Grand Forks under the auspices
of the Woman's Suffrage association
Her subject was us it crime to be 8
woman?"
L. B. WALKER, whose saw mill q,
Grand Forks burned recently, will rebuild
The mill will be completed in two months,
and will give employment to 200 men in
the spring.
ONE of the next important commercial
enterprises that will have place in the
Deadwood field is cigar factory, which is
likely to spring into existence at no very
distant day.
The Fargo liquor cases have been con-
tinued until the December term of court.
In the meantime the continuance of local
option will be determined at the Noyem-
Der election.
ARTHUR KINGSTON, farmer living
near Werner, soundly threshed man
named Kelly. at Aberdeen, for grossly in
sulting Mrs. Kingston during her hus-
bands absence.
JOHN RUSSELL captured the contract
for the construct on of the Spearfish pub
lie school building. The amount of his
bid was S7,lG8. The work is to be com
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. FLORENCE'S shoe store at Grand