Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-12

eooseberres, flowers and garden vege-
tables.
"A comparison of Gov. Mellette's proc
lamation of the result of The election of
Nav | ltl shows that of oil the IS delegates
who sat in the convention Of 1885 only
IL were returned to the present constitu-
,ional conversion, namely: Berdahl of
Nlinnehaha. Beiich!er of Hutchinson,
Corson of Lawrence. Edgerton OF Dawson,
Fellows of Aurora. Clifford of Minnehaha,
Goddard of Hanson. Hurtley of Hand,
kellam of Bru!e, Murphy OF McCook,
Neill of Grant.
There can be nc question, admits he
Pembina Register, that the crops of this
county are injured BIZ the drouth. Partic-
ularlv is this true i'll the northern and
% stern part of the county. Rain within
week or len days will hep somewhat. but
every DAVIS delay makes the situation
more serious. While we have no desire to
eSagerate, we fe r thar many farmers
will have total failure and but few an
ave: age crop.
"A Mandan man who recently returned
from Fort Yates was heard to remark: 1T
was a sight worth looking a: to see the,
thirty five hundred sheep, owned by the
Riverside Ranch and H. S. Parkin. which
l saw a lew miles below the Riverside
ranch. AsI came past the sheep were
just coming out of the cotrals. and it
seemed to me that could see nothing but
sheep in ali directions, and still they Kept
on coming.
Interest in the famous Gen. a. B.
Ward, WHO SO sensationally worked Da-
kota last year, has been revived by the re-
port of letters from Boston detective
agency. stating the general" has been
located in New York under an assumed
name. where he is the husband of his
eighth wife, a wealthy divorced woman.
F. II. Hagerty, commissioner Of i'm
migration, is distributing some elegant
posters, representing the two ID lsotas ar
irving un Ter triumpha! arch into the
union where they are being welcomed by
their admring sisters. Each bears a ban
ner upholding all the marvellous figures of
its growth.
An effort is being made to select the
college lands in the Sisseton reservation.
Some Of these lands are remarkable for
their fertility. and as their location is ex-
cellent, it assures quick sales sud good
prices and would give the college an estab-
lshed income in Very few years.
-Pettigrew e. Tate and the Maine syn
cicate who are to put in a S1.d00.0oo
packing house and establish stock yards
covering 1000 acres of ground at South
Sioux Falls, have secured 5000 acres of
rnd around the plant, outside of what
they previously owned.
j. B. Gould, of Buxton. has made
proposition to the incorporators of the
Fargo Congregational college to donate
$4,000. to be used in the erection of a
building on condition that a like sum he
elsewhere raised for the same purpose
within sixty days.
Prof G. E. Bailey has been selected
to fill the chair of metallurgy at the Da-
kota school of mines, Rapid City, Prof.
Hoffman, the late incumbent, having ac-
copied an assistant principalship in the
Boston School OF Technology.
There is room enough in Dakota for
few thousand more good, honest, hard
working tillers of the soil. and a cordial
hand of welcome is outstretched to greet
the newcomer who accepts this invitation
to share our prosperity.
Towns and cities throughout Dakota.
are already discussing the public building
question and by the time statehood arrives
tuere will be many a claim on the plums of
this character that are to be shaken from
the national tree.
Theodore Poole, under arrest at ST.
Louis for working the badger game, Is
wanted at Ipswich for mortgaging prop
erty he did not own and leaving the cuun-
try as soon as obtaining money on the
mortgage.
1t is estimated that less than 10 per
South Dakota are yet located. The 81 per
cent yet unoccupied is capable of sustain
ing population Of 5.u00,O00.
The arsesian we'll recently sunk on
Henry Strunk's farm on jim river is a
great saccess. Through the two-inch
piping TIE water flows at the rate OF l25
GALLONS a minute.
1t is certain that cement works will be
built in Yankton. The scientific test of
the clay found there shows the cement
will be as good as the famed goods labeled
L
The trustees of Jamestown. college
have elected Rev. II. g. Mendenhall, until
recently pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Grand Forks, president of instruction
The wheat crop will not be an average
crop in North Dakota unless the conditions
from this time to 'threshing are perfect.
Anything else will be unsatisfactory.
The contract for grading the James,
town and Northern extension from Min
newaukan to Leeds has been awarded to
Ed. Mccormick, of jamestown.
According to the latest AMI most re-
liable reports the acreage planted in corn
in South Dakota this year exceeds by far
that OF any previous year.
The South Dakota Base B II league
as finally arranged is composed Of clubs
from Red6eld, Aberdeen, Watertown and
Huron.
The last territorial fair for North d.
kota will be held at Grand Forks during
the week commencing September lG.
Nick Halverson. who was shot by the
marshal of Devils Lake while resisting ar
rest, has lost the use OF his right arm.
Farmers are feeling very much en-
couraged since the late rains. Crops are