Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-05-02
DAKOTA NEWS.


! DAKOTA NEWS.
.-Yankton is anxious for sewerae
system.
Huron owes ~, 900 in bonds and out
standing warrants.
-Eliton offers good place to Arst
class blacksmith.
The latest organization in Ipswich is
detective association.
A summer hotel is to be built thi.
| season at Wall Lake.
Lawrence county warrants are worth
| 66 cents at Deadwood.
Temporary injunctions are scoring the
saloonkeepers at Fargo.
-Dandance will be The fifth town in the
Black Hills q have water works
UGl1l6g teSh lor the season 81 1855
is soon to be organized In Huron.
Tho Aberdeen Touring mill turned out
600 barrels Of -four during the past week.
"A territorial mass convention Of the
union labor peTty was recently held in
Huron.
"A musical festival of the northwest
will be held in Fargo during the last week
In June.
spencer is forming stock company
for the furnishing of etone TO building
contractors.
"A number Of Indian churches are be-
ing constructed on the reservation above
Fort Bennett.
From all over the territory come re-
ports Of farmers returning from Washing
ton and Oregon.
--McPherson county cattle have passed
through the winter in good shape. Very
few losses are reported.
The citizens of DeSmet are making an
effort to have the Sioux Falls and Aber-
deem road come to that place.
John Gottlieb, the Potter county rape
6end, was identified at Warner one day last
week, but he escaped arrest.
The republican territorial convention
to elect delegates to the national conven-
tion will be held at jamestown May l6.
More final proofs have been made at
the Yankton land Office during April than
for the same time during two years past.
The Black Hills papers say that with
the pleasure of nearer railroad commune
cation is mixed the pain Of book agents.
AT the head Of gildcd palace Of sin
at Deadwood is the widow Of distin-
guished union officer during the rebellion.
Edward Starck, a young Swede, living
near Gary, recently traded thrice e-mort-
gagged horse to T. F. Sparbor, and has left
for newer fields.
Calamity Jane" of Green river, Civ
ing her name as Mrs. Steers, recently had
her so called husband arrested for assault
and lodged in Jail.
-Rumor says that lack Of funds will de-
prive Dakota Of the joys Of its annual
militia encampment, togs ther with its sor-
rows and headaches.
--Less wheat than usual will Be s0wn in
Sully county thls spring, ~ the farmers
are turning their attention to cattle, hogs
and the coarser grains.
-. Robinson, the bogus draft man who
deeced Yankton people, has gone to fnd
new pastures and suckers. His other
name is J. G.. Robinson.
Work has been resumed on the gas
we'll at Aberdeen, and a pressure Of thirty
pounds to the square inch has been OBJ
tanned in four-inch hole.
The North Dakota fair will be held at
Bismarck some time in September. Among
the attractions will be coal palace,
wheat palace and corn palace.
The city assessor At Yankton will here
after be appointed by the council. It is
thought that better equalization Of taxes
will be secured by this method.
"A new corporation has been organized
in Aberdeen for the purpose Of conducting
q general investment business under the
name Of the Union Banking company.
Capital stock, $5,OOO,OO0.
Charles Molloy, the young man who
is confined in the Yankton county Jail
awaiting trial for tampering with the
United States mail, is suffering with con-
sumption, the disease being assisted in its
course by his confinement.
George Pollard, an engineer on the
Milwaukee road, who pulled the first pas
senger train into Aberdeen in 1881, re-
Gently died at that city. He had con-
tracted consumption by exposure during
the blizzard Of January IL.
Some farmers who left Mandan for
points further west few weeks ago, are
coming back as rapidly as they can. They
say that things are overdone on and near
the coast, and the happy medium is, in
their opinion, somewhere ON the Missouri
slope.
Bail has been secured for NJ. v. Miller,
the Agricultural college trustee who OBJ
tanned large sums Of money on fictitious
mortgages and skipped out last fall. He
has been in jail at Huron for q month, but
as soon as released went TO his home at
Washington.
DIR. Emmons, IN expert from the
mines Of Cornwall, England, has made
careful examination OF the Black Hills ore.
He expressed himself as satisfied that
great future was in store for the tin in
terests Of the Black Hills, and declared
that this must become great tin produc-
ing country.
while j. w. Porter was burning stub
BILE on his farm three miles west OF Warner
the other afternoon, his little fve-year -old