The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
SOUTH DAKOTA,

Christopher Berg, dealer in groceries at
Aberdeen, has assigned.
A branch of the South Dako ia Enforce
ment league will be organ lied at Faulkton.
A Norwegian night school for the benefit
of boys and girls has been established at
Sioux Falls.
The citizens of Deadwood has enjoyed bet
ter sleighing for the past few days than at
any time last winter.
A full blooded Indian girl from Rosebud
agency hos been received as a pupil at the
deaf mute school at Sioux Falls.
George McKlin, an old resident of the Black
Hills, was crushed to death by the caving In
Of the bank of a tin mine near Hill City re-
Gently.
Aworkman employed in laying gas mains
in Aberdeen was suddenly taken with a fit
and tumbled into one of the excavations,
sustaining serious injuries.
Fort Meade has a new postmaster. An
drew Capri has been appointed to succeed
Garrison, late post trader and postmaster.
who has removed from the fort.
Eighteen inches of snow fell in some por-
tons of the Black Hills. At Deadwood the
fall was twelve inches, with the thermometer
registering three degrees above zero.
Sheriff Clifford, of Fall River county, re-
Gently received the $500 reward offered by
Gov Mellette for tho capture of Lehman,
charged with the murder of Constable Burns
at Farburn last SUMMIT.
sufferer from the central part of the state
passed through Elk Point recently in his
prairie schooner, on the outside of which was
printed the legend: "Busted-Going home
to my wife's folk to winter"
A. c. Mcdowell had his hard crushed while
coupling cars in the Nor thwestern depot at
Watertown. He was not in the employ of
the company, and just wanted to show peo-
pie how to couple cars lie lost a thumb
and two fingers
Charlie Sundling, aged g. while playing
near an old we'll at Beresford, slipped and
fell to the bottom, distance of thirty feet.
His father was near by, and procuring a rope
the little fellow was rescued apparently none
the worse for his tumble.
Twenty thousand delinquent shares of the
Deadwood Reduction works stock were sold
for the assessments and cost at Deadwood
recently. The stock was bought by a
broker at 81 and costs per share. The own
ers filed protest before the sale, claiming
that the stock was worcestershire
One night Sam Clark, o. Pierre; had occa-
sion to visit his barn and took a lanter n
along to illuminate things. He set the Ian
tern on q stool and an inquisitive pig came
along and upset it. spilling the burning oil
all over its back. Then there was o wild
chase between Sam and the pig The animal
finally bolted out of the barn and made for q
haystack, with Sam a good second. He cap
tured the blazing porker just as he reached
the stack and succeeded in saving his bacon.
Miss Agatha HIM and William Plane were
lovers in the fatherland. Some time ago
William came to this country to gather q
fortune unto himself so that he could we'd the
fair Agatha. He settled in Red6eld and pros
pered few weeks ago brlght-eyed, rosy
checked German girl alighted ut the Redfeld
depot. William welcomed her with open
arms, and the co urse of true love was run :
ming with it's accustomed smoothness until q
few days ago, when Agatha skipped out with
butcher named August Schmidt and they
were married at CrandOn.