The great West., 1889-12-20
SOUTH DAKOTA,

muscular thief entered blacksmith shop
in Deadwood recently and lugged off an an
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Fifty farmers of Ingham county Mich, will
form a colony and locate in the vicinity of
Pierre next spring.
Two Onida marksmen fired ten shots apiece
at steer one day and finally killed it by
shooting it with an ak.
Arlington has q town marshall but no Jail,
and when the marahal lmakes an arrest he
has to take the criminal home with him and
lock him up in the cellar.
Butte county claims that by next year it
will be better irrigated and have more miles
of ditching than any other county in South
Dakota
Postmaster Miller. of Pierre, has telegraph
ed to the postoffice authorities at Washing
ton that if he is not relieved at once he will
turn the office over to his bondsmen.
While playing "pigs in clover" with live
pig Theodore Dean, of Washington springs,
was severely bitten on the arm and hand by
the animal
c. D. Sava ge, OF Kimball has in his posses
sion relic of the revolutionary war in the
form of an old powder horn. tits covered with
engravings, representing soldiers and old In
dependence hall, and the date 1776. is plain
ly legible.
A number of chiefs of the Sioux tribes will
go to Washington on the 10th of this month
to confer with the Sioux commission in re-
gard to the opening of the reservation. Old
Red Cloud is ''red-headed' because lie was not
selected one of the number.
son OF M. A. Gilmore, of Winfred, rode
one of his fathers horses onto the ice in
pond near that place to see..whether the ice
strong enough to skate on. The ice wasn't
strong enough and the horse was drowned
and the boy rescued with some difficulty.
An arctic owl was captured alive by a
Pierre sportsman. The bird was shot at at
short range, and was SO surprised at the bad
Workmanship of the hunter that it forgot to
fly away. 1t measures four feet from tip to
tip and is beautiful specimen of the owl
family.
storekeeper at Link postofice, in the
Black Hills, who has his eye on the $50, 900
reward, recently bound with ropes and kept
in his cellar for two days an itinerant Metho-
dist minister under the impression that he
was the much-wanted Willie Tascott. The
reverend gentleman finally proved an alibi
and was released.
bad wreck occurred on the Milwaukee
road at Dell Rapids Sat Seven cars ran
down grade and crushed into part of the
freight train standing in front of the depot,
demolishing two box cars and tearing up
part of the depot platform. One of the
wrecked cars was loaded with oats. Some
unknown person is supposed to have un-
coupled the seven cars from the rear part of
the train, which had been left short distance
up the track to facilitate switching.
Capt. Charles Runkle, of the Souix Falls
Salvation army, held court-martial on
High Private John McDougal and proceeded
to put the finding of the court into execution
by using John as a street sweeper. John
demurred to being used as duster and laid
his superior officer out by a well-directed
kick in the stomach. Both were arrested
aud fined 50 and costs each for disturbing
the peace and dignity of the city on the
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One day young man named Armstrong,
living near Vermillion went to that city to
fix himself up for his wedding which was to
occur the same evening. While making his
ronnds he stopped into Brfdgeman's shoe
store where in some inexplacable way, q
number of pairs of shoes became entangled
beneath his overcoat. The bride waited, but
10, the bridegroom cometh not. She finally
went in search of him and found him behind
against him for larceny. The wedding has
been postponed until the groom feels little
more at liberty to become Benedict.