Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

Gov. Mellette, by whose appointment
President Harrison emphasized the repuh-
Ii, an policy of home rule for the territory,
has been resident of the territory fol
eleven wears. But he came here originally
from Indiana with federal appointment.
He was register of the land Gil ut
Springfield, and then at Waterfowl. for
four years. after which lie wipe cut tho
reproach of being carpet Dagger by seven
wears residence and practice of his pro-
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Look on tho Bright Side.
A philosophical North Dakota paper
contributes this bit OF advice to all sec.
tons where is pertinent:
Dakota soil is the best on earth. Hel
grasses are the richest that grow. He1
wheat is the best the world produces.
Where is the country that does not ex-
perience an occasional failure? 1t does
not exist.
Brace up. We know that it is discour-
aging, but where will you find anything
better? Go back to the older states and
encounter not only drouth. tut gr.s shop
pers, chinch bugs, Hessian fly. weevil.
cutworm, cyclones, floods and malaria
one or more of these pests and attiic:ious
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endure an occasional set ba.k AID have
good health.
The man who loses his crop is not a
pauper. Morally he has the same claim
upon the county orthe state that he would
have if he were made destitute through
other causes. 1t is no disgrace to be poor,
especially when poverty is the result OF
circumstances over which men have no
control.
| 1t is stated that Devils lake recedes
two feet per annum. The Fargo Argus
presents the following theory as the cause:
1t is said that every time a new artesian
WELLS opened DEVILS lake water lowers
correspondingly. Those who have in
spected the water from Lee Clark's flown ,
we'll just north of Casselton say: Its
Just like Devils water" Can it be that
there is great subterranean passage from
that lake to South Dakota?
Very many of the pale faces unjustly
hold that dead red man is the only really
good Indian. 1t must have been the curl
osity to see how really good Indian
looked which prompted some sacrilegious
whites to open an Indian grave and steal Il
corpse while they were out fishing on the
Sisseton reservation last week. how in
quisitive these Yankees be.
Samuel Field was overcome by car
bonic acid gas in we'll which lie was help
ing Eugene Strout to dig at Maurice, west
of Grand Forks, and died. Both he and
Strout were in the we'll, aud burned coffee
thrown in revived strout, who was taken
out alive.
William Walnack, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary for rape from Scotland
for twenty years five years ago, has been
pardoned by the governor. Late develop
ments have tended to create serious
doubts of the prisoners guilt.
| Within week of the time when the
papers and the farmes began talking OF
artesians, irrigation and rainfall, the rain
began falling, and continues with two to
four good showers weekly.
The large fish pond of A. NJ. Morse,
near Tilford, was was washed out during a
heavy storm. ihe pond covered about an
acre and was filed with carp. The loss
is estimated at $1,000.
Charles Hilzon, q brakeman Oh the
Milwaukee road, was killed at WaLpeton
while switching. He fell from the end of
the tender while the engine was undo.
backward motion.
| Some Huron sportsmen are shooting
prairie chickens, and as it is contrary to
law to kill the birds before the 1st Of Sen
TENDER, they are threatened with ,4rosecu-
ton.
Two orphans, aged 3 and years,
ave arrived at Hermosa. They came all
the way from Portland Ore, being for
warded by the authorities of the orphan S
| home.
The school census of Watertown is
complete and shows an increase in one
year of children of the school age of 400
and a total school population of LIS.
Pat Mahoney of Fargo, met death in
attempting to loosen the barrel of shot
| gun by placing in the stove The charge
passed entirely through his breast.
The North Dakota newspaper BOYS
have completed an organization Of Their
own and will hold their annual meeting al
Fargo on the Goth OF next month.
The premium list of the third annual
territorial fair of North Dakota has been
issued. The premiums offered are liberal
and numerous.
Lawrence county claims to have the
tallest man in the territory. His name is
Vim. lynn and is feet II inches high.
The scheme of securing direct tele.
phone communication between Yankton
and Sioux Falls is being agitated.
Chris. Johnson, living near Grand
FORKS, was XII ked in the side by mule
and it Is thought he cannot live.
There is 1-year- old colt in the Black
Hills said to be the larges; of Its age in the
United States, if no. in the world.
The LaGrace cornet band will furnish
music for the Campbell county fair, Sep.
TENDER 18th and Goth.
The postotiice at Andover was enter.
ed by burglars and aquantity of stationery
and cigars stolen.
The Beadle County Agricultural asso.
ciation fair will be held September 18Th
18th and goth.
-Hrule county owes but $4,000.
Crops are in excellent condition in
Buffalo county.
Parties in Rapid City held lucky tick
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