Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-16

suspend unless it is accorded better
patronage.
QUITE number of saloonists have pur-
chased lots III East Grand Forks since the
supreme court passed upon the legality of
the local option enactment, and will erect
buildings there i'll which to open saloons.
A YOUNG ranchman went to Whitewood
recently and getting in a state Of intoxica-
ton and becoming unduly boisterous was
arrested and locked up over night in a box
car, which happened to be standing on the
track. A train came along and hitched on
to the car and gave the prisoner free ride
out of the country.
A MAN in Butte county. being anxious
to turn an honest penny as easily as posi-
BILE, invested dollar in strychnine and
put it out to kill wolves. Wolf hides are
in good demand and there is good crop
of'them. He was in big luck, as all of his
bait was taken, but instead of wolves his
neighbors' dogs got it, and now there is
trouble over their demise.
CHARLES SWAN, the Fargo wheat thief,
has recovered his health, and is now be-
hind the bars with his comrades in crime.
A FARGO minister suggests that tax be
levied to temporarily support the saloon
men who find it hardship to close up, or
a fund raised to start them up in elegant
lemonade stands, and that all prohibition
lists agree to take SO many drinks day.
REAL estate transfers in Grand Fork
the other week footed up $21,70O.
JAMESTOWN school children must all be
vaccinated or be dismissed from school.
ADAM GEIGER was arrested at Pierre for
keeping gambling house.
RUMoRs are afoat that the Leland ho-
tel, at LaMoure, will be opened this spring.
Peter Hoy, in Eagle township, Hyde
county, broke prairie February 23, which
is rushing the season.
The Touring mill at LaMoure is being
equipped with flour packers and will soon
be running night and day.
CHARLES A. GRAY was brought to Far
go from Minot recently i'll charge of dep
uty United States marshal. Mr.. Gray is
charged with receiving brihe from and
allowing a man to escape for whom he had
a warrant while acting as a deputy United
State marshal himself.
A JEWISH merchant of Gran Forksd has
been married to Larimore maiden under
slightly peculiar circumstances. The
bridal pair, having recently been sojourn-
ing in Chicago, were married in that city
according to the ritual of their church.
But the Illinois laws rendering marriage
between cousins illegal, the couple were
obliged to go into Indiana for the civil cere-
mony.
PATENTS granted: J. D: Brainard,
Highmore, earth scraper; F. Girlanner,
Big Stone City, straw burning stove; NJ.
B. Lloyd, Cavalier, weighing scale.
MRS. HANS E. HANSON, northeast of
Larimore, who has been sick for two
months. has become insane, and has been
sent to the asylum at jamestown.
THE death by suicide of VIM. H. Har-
rison was sad surprise to his friends in
Larimore. He was shot in the hip in the
Riel rebellion of 1885 in the northwest ter
ritory, and the wound has of late troubled
him so much as to gradually deprive him
of his reason. He left Grand Forks for
Lakota, but stopped at Michigan City,
where he purchased strychnine and laud-
anum, and started to walk back. His
body was found frozen stiff in a shanty.
LOCAL option has closed the saloons at
Bathgate.
THERE are 10S school districts in Min
nehaha county.
H1GHMoRE has prospects Of getting a
steam grist mill.
OLIVER MEs1cK, of Forest City. has re-
ceived a patent on a new hay and straw
burner.
BLAcKLEG has made its appearance
among the cattle at Valley Springs, but
not to any alarming extent.
The Bowman hotel, at Ashton, enjoys
the distinction of being the first building
in the territory heated by natural gas.
A. L. STEARNs has sued the Dakota
Central railway company for $4,000 for
the loss of a leg while in their employ.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the
completion Of the work on the grade for
the Minneapolis and Pacific extension from
Fargo to Grand Forks.
The home of Mrs. Conklingat Bismarck
was destroyed by fire. She and her two
4 daughters were asleep when the fire broke
out. and barely escaped with their lives.
A CREAMERY company has been organ
lied at Bismarck with a capital of 1875, 600.
A CHARLES Mix county man thinks the
prairie chicken crop this year will be up to
the usual standard notwithstanding the
severe billiards.
HEREAFTER liquor cannot be legally
sold in Sphinx county. The court claims