New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-11
SOUTH DAKOTA.

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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 So
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 Che
Office of Martins livery stable at Rec Heights
and secured property to the amount of $375
belonging tot. M. Fisher, foreman of the
barn.
Huron has granted a natural gas franchise
for twenty years The holder of theiranchise
will 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 ii the
streams of the Black Hills as they are this
year. Box Elder Rapid and Spring creeks
are iull 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
| by the comm issioners. The consequences
| is that Sanborn has two clerks and a 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
emembered sunk up the river near Burberry
island few weeks ago, has been raised.
| There was a 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 penitenhary
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 Chamberlain judge
and will get his old room back at the open :
The Enforcement league, which was organ
lied to enforce the prohibitory law in South
Dakota has decided to take no steps unit
the legislature provides a penalty for the vi
olation of the law. A fund is being collected
for the prosecution of all offenders after thai
date, the first call being for 100000.
In quarrel over some cattle that were
trespassing on his fathers land, a son of N
O. Aylesworth, living near Clark, was SCI
upon by two men named Cation, the owner!
of the cattle, and pounded insensible with {
club. The Cations were arrested for ASSAULT
with intent to do great bodily harm ane
held in bonds to await trial.
A well at Clear Lake made record for it
self a few days ago. First o colt tumbled il
and was rescued uninjured; the next day an
other colt fell in and broke it's leg and hat
to be shot, and the succeeding day anothe
colt and calf tried their luck together, tn
colt escaping anG. the calf being drowned
The we'll is twenty feet deep.
The editor of the Washington SPRING
Herald SCOTS to scorn the idea of peopl
starving to death in that vicinity this winter
An admiring subscriber has presented hin
with an onion measuring eighteen inches il
circumference, and as there has beeu a sal
bed recently disc overed short distanc
from town he expects to live ,aromatican,
high until the flowers bloom in the spring.
In quarrel recently at IN. e." Flats
Fall River county, j. P. Lawrence shot Chri
Trudy in the stomach. The weapon used wa
a Winchester rifle and the wound is expected
to prove fatal. Lawrence, after the shooting
took refuge in house and defed arrest. Tn
latest accounts say the sheriff of Lawrence
county has been sent Tor and an armed poss
has surrounded the house to prevent tn
escape OF the murderer.