The great West., 1889-12-13
SOUTH DAKOTA.


the Western Union Telegraph company
has removed Manager Pike from duty at
Redfeld for alleged crookedness in handling
the company's money.
Robert Baum living near Huron, recently
caught turtle in the Jim river weighing Sc
pounds, on the shell of which was engraved
the date "a. D. 1776," shaving him to be
1913 years old.
Burglars went through trunk in the
Office of Martins livery stable at Rec Heights
and secured property to the amount of 1915
belonging to J. NJ. Fisher, foreman of the
barn.
Huron has granted a natural gas franchise
for twenty years. The holder of the franchise
VIII commence prospecting ut once, and after
fishing for the allotted time without catching
any gas the franchise will be extended
Beavers were never SO plentiful in the
streams of the Black Hills as they are this
year. Box Elder, Rapid and Spring creeks
are full OF them, and their dams can be en-
countered every hundred yards on some of
these streams.
The clerk of the district court of Sanborn
county refuses to resign and give possession
to the district court clerk recently appointed
is that Sanborn has two clerks and q law
suit.
Three convicts, Henry Utes, James Corri-
gan and Henry Mayes, were discharged from
the Sioux Falls penitentiary. Utes served
| sixteen months for dangerous assault, and
the other two put in two years and four
| months each for robbery.
The steamer Bachelor, which it will be
remem bered sunk up the river near Bullberry
island few weeks ago, hass been raised.
There was hole in the bottom 7x3O feet.
The water was only four feet deep where she
struck the rock.
An Indian named Crow Walker, who had
just been released from the penitentary,
broke into the house OF one of the mission
aries at White River and stole everything in
sight except the bible He was arrested and
blended guilty before a Chamberlain judge,
and will get his old room back at the 'pen."
The Enforcement league, which was organ
lied to enforce the prohibitory law in South
Dakota, has decided to take no steps until
the legislature provides a penalty for the vi.
olation of the law. A fund is being collected
for the prosecution of all offenders after that
date, the first call being for 100000.
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trespassing on his fathers land, a son of N.
0. Aylesworth, living near Clark, was set
upon by two men named Cation, the owners
of the cattle, and pounded insensible with
club. The Cations were arrested for assault
with intent to do great bodily harm and
held in bonds to await trial.
we'll at Clear Lake made record for it.
self a few days ago. First q colt tumbled in
and was rescued uninjured; the next day an
other colt fell in and broke it's leg and had
to be shot, and the succeeding day another
colt and calf tried their luck together the
colt escaping anC the calf being drowned.
The well is twenty feet deep.
The editor of the Washington Springs
Herald SCOTS to scorn the idea of people
starving to death in that vicinity this winter.
An admiring subscriber has presented him
with an onion measuring eighteen inches in
! circumference, and as there has beeu a salt
| bed recently disc overed a short distance
| from town he expects to live aromatically
| high until the flowers bloom in the spring.
In quarrel recently at IN. G." Flats,
Fall River county, ]. P. Lawrence shot Chris
Trudy in the stomach. The weapon used was
Winchester rife and the wound is expected
to prove fatal. Lawrence, after the shooting,
took refuge in house and defed arrest. The
latest accounts say the sheriff Of Lawrence
county has been sent for and an armed posse
has surrounded the house to prevent the
escape OF the murderer.