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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS

Of the Board of Commissioners of Meade
County, South Dakota.
STURGIs, July 26, 1889.-Board met
pursuant to adjournment. Present
Samuel III. Martin, Bland Herring, E.
Nichols, E. G. Lane, auditor.
The minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
The assessment roll of the city of Stur-
gis having been equalized by the city
council of Sturgis was examined and on
motion was accepted.
In the matter Of the petition of s. S.
Littlefeld ct al for highway from east
corner of section township range
east thence north IL miles.
Petition was filed with Lawrence coun-
ty board and viewers appointed by that
board and all papers referred to this
board for action. Report of viewers was
read and being found favorable said
highway was declared open to the public
in accordance with the report Of said
viewers and the plat Of the same on file
in auditors Office.
Report of viewers appointed to run
highway from northeast corner township
7, north, range 5, east, running thence
southwest to Crook City and Belle
Fourche road was read and being found
favorable said highway was declared
open.
Report of viewers appointed to view
highway from southeast corner section
Is township north range s to west line
of township north range east, was
read and being found favorable was
declared open in accordance with said re-
port.
The petition and affidavit of Justus
Schnell for a reduction Of taxes for the
year 1883 ON account of said property
being destroyed by fire in October Of
said year, was read and the board being
fully advised in the premises it was or
dered that a reduction of $15 be made in
such taxes.
The numbers and boundaries of the
several road districts in the county were
changed and it was ordered by the board
that the numbers be established followS:
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22

than that east of it, and the surest and
quickest to develop it is to locate the
capital on the great watercourse that
runs through the center. The people Of
South Dakota should bear the fact in
mind that this location is being made for
all time, and that a mistake now can
hardly be remedied hereafter. Vote the
capital to Pierre because it is right ito do
SO, and because the greatest and best re-
suits to the whole people will followsuch
location. Yankton Telegram.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22

legislature from the Black Hills will be
straight and solid for Moody first, last
and all the time. That is sure thing.
Now, republicans, do your duty.
Do not let any petty pickering nor per-
sonal spleen work to the detriment of the
party. Work, from now to the close of
the polls and just as sure as night fol-
lows day we will win everything in sight.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22
OUR DELEGATES.

The following named gentlemen will
represent the Black Hills in the first
state convention of South Dakota, to be
held at Huron next week: Y -e
FALL RIVER COUNTY.
Sanford Parker, e. Z. Pierce, George
Roach.
CUSTER COUNTY.
D. w. McFadden, j. K. Hunt, I. Scho-
field, j. A. Stanley, Odo Reder.
BUTTE COUNTY.
S. A. Wheeler, FL. G. Wilson.
MEADE COUNTY.
j. d. Patton, Colonel Wilcoxen, I. r.
Grow, Max Blatt, Frank Gardner, A. NJ
Morse.
PENNINGTON COUNTY.
w. T. Coad, A. j. Simmons; NJ. Will
sic, J. R. Brennan, j. M. Fortier, R. c.
Lake, w. F. Steele, a. G. Boland, j. W.
Fowler.
LAWRENCE COUNTY.
T. Clark, George Wells, L. G. Jenkins,
w. E. Smead, j. Treweek, j. O'Calli-
han, j. G. Jones, James Carney, j. w.
Baldwin, F. M. Burroughs, Sol. Star,
James Conroy, W. III. Parker, A. E.
Frank, J. A. Harding J. F. Edmonds,
A. J. Knight, e. W. Martin, R. E, Grim
shaw, Geo. F. Robinson, John Elliot,
William Cable, A. M. Harding.
Every mothers son of the above is a
thorough Moody man and also for
Mellette.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22

Prohibition will work real injury to
the cause of temperance. 1t is specie
of intemperance in itself, for it goes be-
yond the bonds of reason in that it at
tempts to control mans appetite by
Legislation, and in making crimes out of
things which are not crimes. A pro-
hibition law strikes blow at the very
principle on which our government was
founded. Abraham Lincoln.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22

For county Judge
CHAS. C. POLK of Sturgis.
Hon. James s. Laird, congressman
from the Third Nebraska district, died at
his home in Hastings Saturday morning,
from complication of diseases. He
was 40 years old June 90 Mr.. Laird
was a popular statesman, and was fa-
vorably known to number of the Hills
nennla
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22

The Black Hills Union-an alleged
republican newspapers nothing more
nor less than democratic aborotion.
Its republicanism is too badly contain
mated with democracy and the feeble
mind Of an Iowa mugwump to bear any
good fruit for the party it now claims to
champion. According to its marrow
minded views the minority should rule
in the Black Hills.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-08-22

Ex-Judge David S. Terry was shot
and instantly killed by Deputy United
States Marshal David Nagle on Wednes-
day morning of last week at the depot
hotel, Lathrop, Cal. Terry assaulted
Stephen j. Field, United States supreme
Judge of California, at the breakfast
table by striking him over the head from
the rear, and the deputy marshal shot
Terry dead. Terry is the man who muir
dered Senator Broderick in duel Sep
tember 13, 1859, in California. The
former was rebel and the latter an
abolitionist, which lead to the trouble.
In conversation Saturday with repre-
sentative men from all parts Of Meade
county with reference to temporary loca-
ton Of the state capital Pierre was the
only place mentioned. Everyone who has
given the matter consideration favors
that point, as it is the only candidate
for such honors centrally located
and accessible from all parts of the ter
ritory. All realize that the Hills coun-
try will have direct communication by
rail with Pierre within very few months
after the reservation has been declared
open. The Hills will unquestionably
give sold vote of 5000 for Pierre.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
killing Seals.

While breeding has been going on in
the rookeries, the natives have been har-
vesting the crop Of fur from the bache-
lors. The fur is at its best only during
some forty DAYS Of the first part of the
season and all the killing has to be
done in that time. Three or four OF the
natives get up early in the morning and
going 10 the hauling grounds, get be-
tween two or three thousand seals and
the water and begin to make a great
clatter. The frightened seals start in
land and the natives follow them, keep
ing up the noise and guiding them
toward the killing ground. When the
seals seem tired the natives let them
rest awhile. If they get heated it spoils
the skins. The seals move on whenever
the natives resume the clatter and never
offer any resistance. BY the time
breakfast is over the seals,
enough having been driven off
for lay work are on the
killing grounds. Each killer has a club,
two knives and a milestone. Each
gang surrounds a group of seals. and
the foreman points out which are to be
spared on account of defects in the skin
or for other reasons. Then the rest of
the seals are struck on the head with a
club, one blow stunning them. Each
man drags out a seal, and, bending over
it, sticks his big knife into lis heart.
1t bleeds to death in short time. Then
he strips off the skin with a few dexter
GUS strokes. A skilful skinner can skin
a seal in a minute and half; four M in
utes is the average. The skins arc
taken to sheds and packed in salt for
three weeks, at the end of which time
they are ready for shipment. The car
cases are left to lie on the field. In
that climate they lie a year before they
lose shape, and three years before they
are reduced to bones. The odor is ter
rible; but the natives don't mind it, and
other people soon get used to it. 1t
seems not TO be unhealthy. -NelO Yorh
Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Heat and HydrOphObia in Russia.

Never within the memory of the oldest
resident at Odessa has such intolerable
heat prevailed in that region of Southern
Russia. Deaths from sunstroke occurred
almost daily even among the native labor
ers. For ten days the thermometer never
registered less than LA degrees at noon.
One day it was $50 degrees in the shade.
Out of reach of artificial irrigation all
vegetation was parched and withered.
The long, scorching days, unbroken by
even passing thunderstorm, succeeded
each other with perfect regularity. Even
after shutdown there was no breeze, and
the nights were SO sultry that sleep was
impossible. A sunshade was necessary as
early as five Am. From what saw and
heard at the meteorological Station one
morning, says correspondent, it would
appear that there is, after all, some truth
in the old theory of the dog days. On
one day alone twenty-one cases of bites
from rabid dogs were received at the
station, and duEing twenty days no fewer
than thirty-eight cases of hydrophobia
occurred within the city, and were
treated by Pasteur's system of inocula-
ton
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Horses and RattIesnakes.

Horses fear Tattlesnakes as much
as children do, and they will run
from one every time. The scent of a
rattlesnake will make a steady horse try
to run away when nothing else will.
While riding on horseback or driving
through regions that are full of rattlers
l have had to hing on to the lines
pretty tightly to keep the horse or
horses from getting the advantage of
me, and all on account of the scent OF
rattlers in the air. A horse doesn' need
to see rattlesnake or hear it rattle to
know that it is near. Instinct tells a
horse that rattlesnake carries a deadly
poison around with him, and that he
is ready to dispose of it on the slightest
provocation. Rattlesnakes are never
found in sections where ash and beech
trees grow. There is something about
ash leaves that is very unpleasant to
rattlesnakes. have put the leaves in a
box along with rattlesnakes, just to see
the reptiles squirm and make fuss.
They won't be easy as long as the leaves
are near them. Deer stamp every rattle
snake to death that they can get at, but
l don't believe that rattlesnake's bite
will kill deer, for the reason that a
deer has no gall. 1t feeds on the low
sheep laurel, a shrub that contains q
poison that is deadly to sheep, for
have seen many sheep die after they
had eaten it. The laurel acts as G
stimulant on deer. 1t is peppery and
warns them up, and they eat much o.
it in the winter. "-New York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
A Colt Killed by a Black Snake.

II know a man who lost two year
old colt in peculiar way" said G. A.
Drinker, of Scranton, Penn, to New
York Sun reporter. 1.-THE colt had
been in the habit of straying away to a
row of button wood trees about a mile
from the mans place, and one day the
owner of the colt asked the stage driver
to give the colt a whipping, and start
him toward home. The stage driver
saw the colt lying underneath button
wood tree a little way off from the road,
and he stopped his stage, and ran tc
the colt with his whip in his hand. He
was a rough kind of a fellow, and he
was going to wake the colt up good;
but he was taken aback when he saw
the colt lying flat on his sile, with an
enormous black snake around his neck.
The snake had choked the colt to death
out of pure dcviltry; for it couldn't
feed on the colt, and the suppositior
was that it had dropped from the tree,
and wound itself around the colts neck.
1t began to uncoil as soon as the stage
driver got there, and he dashed it tt
death. They said the snake was clever
feet long"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A DIAMOND trust is proposed.

"a DlAMOND CFuSU Is pIOpOSeu
FLORIDA reports big sweet potato OPP.
THE cotton crop of the South promises to
be the best on record.
ALL the Adirondack resorts have this year
been crowded with visitors.
THE potato bug is making its appearance
In various parts of the country.
TYPHOID fever continues to spread in Lon
don, and people are getting nervous.
THE Delaware peach crop is smaller this
year than it has been i'll many seasons.
IT costs the city of New York $3.50 a year
to keep its "wells and pumps" in order.
REPORTS of the French wheat crop were
not so satisfactory as was anticipated
Ice houses containing 10000 tons of ice
were destroyed by fire near La Porte, Ind
A NUMBER Of stage coaches have been
robbed recently in California by masked
highwaymen.
KALAMAZOO, Miss, expects to realize
$1,000, 900 for celery this year. The business
is chiefly in the hands of Hollanders.
THE average flow of petroleum in the Baku
region of Russia is So, 600 barrels per day. as
against rs, 300 barrels i'll the United States.
OUT Of twenty-eight murders committed
in London last year, in only six instances
were the perpetrators brought to justice.
UPWARD of twenty eight large bales of
human hair were brought to France in the
last steamer that arrived from the Orient.
CAPITALISTS are preparing to start a huge
meat-canning establishment at Galveston,
Texas, to compete with the giant Chicago
concerns.
THE heat has been so intense in Foochow,
China, that the authorities, in the hope of
bringing rain ordered the killing of pigs to
be stopped.
The new cruiser Charleston, built by the
Union Iron Works. of San Francisco, for the
Government, has failed to come up to the
contract requirements.
A RECENT cargo of Java sugar, landed at
Philadelphia, was infested with swarms of
sugar-heas resembling potato-bugs, and in
flicting sting like bees
THE Lutherans of Maryland, Pennsylva-
MIA, Virginia and West Virginia are holding
their annual reunion at Penmar, Ind. Ten
thousand people are attending it.
WoRKMEN digging a ditch near Renns-
selaer, Ind, discovered $439 in gold, several
watches and other valuables, believed to be
the plumber Of an old gang of robbers.
AN irrigating scheme is under way in Utah
in which &, 0O0 900 are to be invested The
reservoir for the canal will cover $50 square
miles. The canal will irrigate 200, 900 acres
in Salt Lake Valley.
RECENT statistics show the stock of horses
in Russia to be 81 900, 600, exclusive of the
Caucases, Finland and the Asiatic Territory.
There are six Government studs, besides a
large number Of private ones.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Gold Mines of South Africa.

The gold mines of South Africa,
which are now in the full swing of
their development, are grad ually attract
ing the notice of financial men and
spectators in all parts of Europe. With
only few properties working the last
month, the production was $4,000
ounces of gold. There have been great
drawbacks to the speedy development
of the mines, not the least being the diff
6culty of transportation and the expense
of fuel and labor. Every inch of ma
chinery has to be conveyed over the
worst roads in the world, for more than
800 miles, by the slow bullock wagon,
but railways will soon be constructed to
the fields, and then better things may
be expected.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
A Clock RnrIed In Ice.

On the desk of Edison b. Brace, chief
clerk of the bureau Of equipment and
recruiting in the Navy department, is a
little rosewood case, bound and inlaid
with brass and bronze. 1t is in the
form OF a cube about Is inches high,
and contains a chronometer such as is
used on all naval vessels. This little
instrument has quite a tragic history
and is held of considerable value. 1t
was the ships chronometer of the I'M
fortunate Polaris that was sent out on
an Arctic exhibition by the Navy de-
partment in 1871. When the Polaris
was nipped in the ice Captain Hall saved
this instrument and some other things
from the vessel. As long as Captain Hall
survived he kept the chronomoter with
him. When he persisted it was buried
in the arctic SHOWS and abandoned. This
was sometime in 1872. For four win
tiers it lay buried in the snow and ice.
In 1876 Capt. Mares of the British
navy, then in command of the last ex-
petition TO the arctic region, discov-
| cred this chronometer at Newman's bay.
He dug it out of the snow and took it
to England with him on his return. 1t
had then been buried in the snow for
four years in region where the mer-
curry sinks to 104 degrees below freez-
ing point. 1t was found TO be in per-
feet order and was wound and ran all
right as soon as taken from its cold bed.
On returning to England Capt Mares
turned the instrument over to the
British admiralty office, whence it was
sent as present to this government
With all this experience it loses only q
single second in "a hours.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

1EMfEhANCB NEWb AND NOIEos
Melbourne Australia, is to have a temper
ance hospital.
The man who is always in his cups is sure
to bring up in the jug sooner or later
Baltimore has $500 saloons and $50 churches,
and fifteen saloons for each public school.
Cardinal Manning has written a letter
warmly approving the Irish SundaY-closing
bill.
Lady Guinness, the wife of the we'll
known brewer, has given an order for a
diamond necklace to cost 1925, 900!
In Switzerland seventy per cent. of the
young men are said to be untitled, by the use
of alcohol and tobacco, for military service.
Thomas Carey, of Columbus, Ind, took
home keg of beer, and made brutal at
tack upon his mother, seriously injuring her
and destroying the sight of one of her eyes.
Frank LeSlie's Magazine says that rum in
the United States makes more than 1900
funerals of inebriates every day, and that
the people have to help to pay for the collins
and grave-diggers.
A prominent physician states that out of
623 moderate and immoderate drinkers with
whom he has conversed, 161 acquired the de-
sire for wine and other alcoholic poisons by
their use in articles of diet.
DR.. BoUCHARDA is of the opinion that the
slight mental exaltation consequent upon
drinking single glass of champagne, is usu-
ally accompanied by a corresponding 'obfus-
cation" 1.-THE mind scars, but it scars into
clouds"
Bechuanaland, country in South Africa,
lying to the north of Cape Colony, has no
distilleries or public houses and consequently
no drunkenness. Khama, the chief, has Off
cially forbidden the traders to sell or give
strong drink to his people.
A judge in "a Chicago court is reported as
saying: 'Of all the boys in the reform school
at Pontiac and in the various reformatories
about the city, ninety-five per cent are the
children of parents who died through drink
or became criminals through the same
cause"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Arsenic Eating.

At meeting of German naturalists
and physicians held in Graz in 1875
two ars enic eaters were produced, who
consumed-one thirty centigrammes of
yellow arsenic, the other forty cent?
grammes. A dose of six centigrammes
would to most men be poisonous. The
beneficial results derived from the con-
sumption of arsenic seem first to have
become apparent to the peasan ry
through their having treated their cows
with it for certain diseases. INDUCED
in as remedy, then, as pleasing
Stimulant, it comes gradually to be
taken as matter of habit, and cannot
be discontinued with impunity. Strange
to say, all the symptoms of arsenical
poisoning become apparent in those
who leave off the drug suddenly. The
body wastes away, feverish thirst sets
in, the limbs lose all their force, the
skin dries up, the gait becomes I'M
steady, and the voice thick and hoars C.
There are, of course, remedies which
can alleviate the pain accompanying
these symptoms, but fail to cure, and
the body can only be restored to its
former condition by a renewed in
diligence in the poison.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup.

There is certainly something remarkable in
this preparation, as it is meeting with a sue
cess never attained by any other medicine. II
never fails If used as directed.
For over twenty years 1 have been great
sufferer from the effects of diseased stom.
ach, and for three years past have been unable
to do business. Two years ago my case was
pronounced incurable visited different wa.
ter cures and climates, all to no purpose. Last
JuneI began taking Hibbard's Rheumatic
Syrup prepared by Rheumatic Syrup Co.
jackson, Mich.), and at once began to feel bet.
ter. have used thirteen bottles and am
well man. EDWARD BAKER,
Master Mechanic and Blacksmith,
202 Jackson street. jackson, Mich
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Attacked by an Army of Owls.

Gabe Hill of Portland, Oregon, who
is camping out at Craig Mountain, 1.
T., had a remarkable adventure while
out hunting. He lost his way and
made a camp at the foot of pine tree
During the night he was attacked by q
flock of large owls, numbering at least a
dozen, which piled their beaks and
claws on him vigorously.
1t being too dark to use his gun, he
seized a club and laid about him with
such good will that in ten minutes he
had killed seven of the birds, and next
morning he brought their wings into
camp as trophies. San Francisco Ea.
dmineT
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
A Peculiar Sweet Potato Vine.

Colonel James E. Richardson, of Main
street, has in his window queer com
bination in vegetation. Some time in
April he planted several sweet potatoes
in some large boxes that stood on his
window sills, At the proper time the
vines came up, and on one of them
several beautiful little morning glories
shot out their soft-colored petals. The
Colonel, who is great admirer of every
thing in the plant line, examined them
carefully, and though he was an ex-
perienced sweet potato raiser yet the
anomaly puzzled him. Several scientific
men have examined the plants and can
give no solution Grasshoppers have
frequently sat on sweet potato vines, but
this is the first instance where morning
glories were ever known to select the
vine as a home. - Cincinnati Enquirer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Her Face was Her Fortune.

She was as pretty as p.c;ure and so animated
and lively that it did one good to look at her She
ross lineer no more in her cheeks, the former
luster of her eys is gone. She is woe-begone
looking piece of humanity now She has one OF
those troub e, 80 common to women and needs
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20

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Dyspepsia BilliouSness; and, as an appetizer,
they excel any other preparation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
Zoo Late.

"No, George" she muttered, as the
miserable youth knelt in a passionate
frenzy at her feet 81 never can be
yours.
'Wcll, Clara" he answered bitterly,
as he rose quickly, ''you might at least
have told me so before, and saved me
from bagging these trousers. - Clothier
and FurHisber