The Dickinson press., 1889-09-14
SOUTH DAKOTA,

WORK mas begun on the Yankton street
railway.
A iankton syndicate will invest slO,-
O0o in Pierre real estate options.
Work OH the electric motor line at
Sioux Falls h's been begun. 1t will b.
six miles long.
Free transportation has been secured
Tor all exhibits to the South Dakota fair
which opens Sept. 26.
Secretary Noble has given it az his
opinion that the Sioux reservation can-
not be opened legally without approval
OF the report of the commissioners by
congress.
"A proposition looking to the removal
of the packing house from Oelrichs To-
Rapid City has been made to the citizens
of that city by the -Anglo-American
company.
1he Democratic convention in session
at Huron tele2raphed a tender of a
unanimous nomination for governor to
lion. L. NJ. Ziebach, of Yankton. He
answered ono" LIZ
1t is stated on what ia considered r.,;.
able authority that the CHICAGO. Milw.n.
kee and st. Paul road will build from
Chamberlain to the Black Hills as soon
as the big reservation is opened,
The Last Chance, a transfer boat has
arrived at Chamberlain to do the trans-
fcrilng to the Sioux reservation. A
steamer has also been ordered bv the
Cllrago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
way TO DO transferring for that com
pany.
Chief John Grass has been very ill for
the past week. and at one time doubts
were seriously entertained as to his re-
covery. ~ dispatch from Fort Yates
TO n New York World says that he
was poisoned by two young Indians of
sitting Bulls band and that if he should
ale there VIII be an uprising that will
extermina:e Bull and his band.
Pierre is greatly excited over an at.
tempt to burn up the town. Three fires
have been started within a week. the
last one being discovered in the rear Of
a saloon on Pierre street, which was with
difficulty subdued. A carpet rolled up
and saturated with kerosene was found,
which showed plainly that it was the
work of an incendiary.
The closing session OF the territorial,
supreme court will convene at YanlS.
ton Sept. 26. This will be the farewell
gathering of this territorial court and
the last session of the appointed mem.
bers of that body. This court began its
existence in Iankton twenty-eight years
ago, and 1t is appropriate that this CITY
should be the scene of it's final dissoli.
ton.
a party of forty Portland, Me-, capi.
tallsts, under the care of Rev. Theodore
Gerrish, are at Sioux Falls. They rem.
resent a capital Of $4,000, 900 and holIa
portion of the stock in the stock wards to
be built in Sioux Falls. Besides these
Mr.. Furnish, of Philadelphia, is in town.
lie employs 300 hands in wooden and
knit goods. He will build a factory in
Sioux Falls employing a6O people.
John Smith, living a few miles west
Of Yankton, recently lost four head Of
cattle by the prevailing epidemic, He
took the hides off the dead animals. and
in doing so ~inocculated himself through
a cut on one hand with the viru, of the
carcass, and blood poisoning ensued, his
arm swelling to several times its natural
size. His son, vino assisted. is also
showing signs of blood poisoning.
A letter from Senator Dawes, who
drew up the Sioux reservation bill,
written to Hon. John j.. Klimer, at
Pierre. is as follows: am in roceipi of
yours of the 18th ult. l do no think
that the Sioux bill requires a ratification
by congress. 1t has already been ratified
by that body. The twenty eighth section
admits of butone construction. ndthati is
that when the president issues the proc.
lamation therein provided for the bill
becomes a law without any further &C
tion. This Is as express as words can
make it.
At Deadwood Deputy Sheriff Smith
proceeded to search the premises of John
Mcleod, whose house was burned on the
Sth of August and his body almost con-
sumed. The cremation of Mcleod was
followed by the arrest of John Wood,
and the wife of Mcleod for murder.
The search to-day revealed two large
trunks filled with valuables and papers,
the property of the deceased. The
trunks had been put in the clubhouse.
covered with blankets and boards and
the clubhouse caved in on top of the
whole.