New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-09-11
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.

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Mrs. S. j. CroWhurst, wife OF a
Salem farmer, has been sent to the
insane asylum.
I North Dakota newspapers will
send out the new constitution in sup
Elemental form.
Sixty-eight harvesters and thirty
six selfbinders were sold in Rapid
City during the month.
The farmers in the vicinity ofHart-
ford have an abundance of hay for
winter and some to spare.
The wall of the new Morrison hotel
at Yankton will be of st Louis brick
trimmed with light stone.
Growers ofcorndo not bring it in
fast enough to supply the demand of
the canning factory in Sioux Falls.
John Baldridge, Of Iroquois,
thrashed thirty-fv acres of wheat
that yielded twenty bushels per
acre.
Petitions to congress for an appro-
priation for sinking artesian wells are
being circulated in Dickey, Beadle,
Hand and other counties.
Alfred Dickey, Of Jamestown, the
candidate for Acknowledgements, is
said to be the only old soldier on the
North Dakota Republican ticket.
Conductor Hayes, while coupling
cars at Crystal Springs, was caught
and seriously injured, having three
RIBS and an arm broken, besides be-
ing hurt internally.
Dakota towns are agitating the
question ofmaking fire breaks that
will protect them from prairie fires.
The experience last spring was not
with out some benefits.
There were five white men in Yank-
ton when the Sioux moved out in
July, 1859. There was one log
house. The first white woman ar
rived in the spring OF 1860.
An effort is being made to get up
q joint discussion between Rev. Sam
Small and Rev. P. F.. Ho1p, ofWater-
town, on the subject of "High Lii
cense VS.. Prohibition.
Anagent for a Sioux Falls directory
firm is in Deadwood writing a direc-
tory OF the Hills. He will do Dead
wood, Rapid City, Lead City and
other important Hills towns.
A petition will be presented to the
city council of Rapid City asking
that an election be called to vote a
tax to the proposed railroad between
Rapid City, Custer and Hill City.
A visitor at Huron one day be-
coming weary of being asked ques-
tions in reference to the capital,
pinned a card to his coat bearing
these words: II don't care a d
Where the capital goes.
Washington Springs True Republic
can, says: A specimen of a Russian
thistle was brought into the alliance
warehouse which measured fifteen
feet in circumference and must have
had at Leaf a million seeds.
W. T.. Wielder and C. A. Allen were
driving through the country near
Grand Forks, when their team be-
came frightened by asteam thrasher
and ran away, throwing the occu-
pants out and seriously injuring,
both parties.
A young man named NARROW, liy-
ing near Salem, was handling gun
the other day and accidently dis
charged it. The recoil was with such
force that the but end of the gun
struck him in the abdomen, causing
internal injuries from the effects Of
which death resulted the next dav.
"A gentleman named Applequist,
who lives at Glendale, has recently
invented a roller-bearing:a ttachment
which can be adapted to buggy
wheels, pillow coulters, etc, The axel
is surrounded with a number of rods
upon which it rolls, dispensing, it is
said, with grease or Oil.
Thomas A. Sparks, of Deadwood,
has obtained Judgment against Law
renee county for $348 for services
as census-t aker and statistician.
Sparks did the work while making
assessments. His bill was disallowed
by the county commissioners, and an
appeal was tax en- to the district
court.
T. Fl. Hall and Samuel Wood, liv-
ing in the vicinity of Valley Springs,
quarreled recently over the posses
sion Of some cattle, when Wood was