Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1889-10-31
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Items OF Interest from Various Sections
of the State.

| Hitchcock has new mill run by arte-
sian well power.
South Dakota has nearly 200 star routes
for U. S. mail service.
Yankton has had three new drug stores
established since election
Beadle county promises to thoroughly
test the artesian irrigation question next
| year.
South Dakota cast 5000 votes, North
Dakota 81 600, Washington SO, 200, Montana
/ $4,000.
/ The board Of directors OF the state Hol-
ticultural society meets December 18th ut
Madison.
Moody county papers have formed a
trust and will send out no more papers
without the cash.
Roche, the Aberdeen wholesale liquor
dealer, will, it is said, turn his house into
a wholesale drug store.
young farmer of Hamlin county raised
thirty bushels of beans on one acre, which
he sold for 50 bushel.
An equal franchise organization was
effected at Huron last week to push next
years campaign for woman suffrage.
Judge Clifford will go TO Washington
this week. Maj. PickIer has returned
from Oklahoma to Faulkton and viii. soon
depart for Washington.
party of Indian bUJs and girls from
the different agencies in the vicinity If
Chamberlain are Cnroute for Hampton,
Va. TO enter the government school located
there.
The Northwestern road has given Pierre
what is known as Capital Hill for TEN.
porary building site. The road is talking
OF putting in IS 800 brick depot, a round
house and machine shops,
Gov. Mellette was inaugurated at Pierre
in suit of clothes made from cloth man.
ufactured in the Sioux Falls wooden mills,
from wool grown OH the backs OF South
Dakota sheep. The suit WAS manufacture
ed by Fred Hoyt Of Watertown.
The next annual session OF the South
Dakota E( ucational Association will be
held IN Yahkton Dec. &c, 27. 2S. The
session viii open Thursday evening, and
the principal feature will be an address by
Hon. G. l.. Pinkham, state supt.
Squaw men are squattilg on all tie best
land near Ft. Pierre, and the residents of
that town, VINO have been holding on for
several years just for these snaps, say they
vii drive them of If the government does
not. Things promise to be lively over the
river next spring.
The soldiers Eonle is progressing nneiy.
The basement story is about completed
The location at Hct Springs aud sur
rounding country is said to be very beau
tiiul, and with comparatively small work
on parks, drveways, ETC., the place can De
made ore of the finest in the country.
The amount paid by the Methodist
Episcopal church, during the conference
year just closed, for preachers salaries in
southeastern Dakota is as follows Water
town district, $l5,03S; Aberdeen district,
Sl3, 4s3; Huron district, Sl3,163; Sioux
Falls district, Sl2, 800; Mitchell district.
$40, $50; total, $64, ia.
The plan Of The South Dakota prohibit
.iouists is to enroll everybody they car as
members of the league, charging 81 for
adults and 2s cents for children per year.
Life membership $40. The league ex-
poets in this way and by donations to
create fund of not less than $500 and
possibly $780, 900 which will be used in
aiding the enforcement OF the prohibition
laws.
Yankton Press:--By the terms of the
enabling act South Dakota is given five
per cent OF the sales of the public lands
within the state, sold by the United States
subsequent to its admission as state, gf-
ter deducting all expenses incident to the
same, to be used as permanent fund.
the interest of which only shall be ex-
pended for the support of common
schools
1t is said the Milwaukee railroad peo-
pie are busying themselves over the pre-
liminaries looking to the building OF
branch lines from Chamberlain to Sturgis
and Hot Springs in the Black Hills. Sim
ultaneous with the opening of the reser-
vation will come the active work of build
ing west by this company. Its immigra-
ton department will work hard this
winter to get up boom on the opening OF
the reservation.
Yankton p. & Dill is made plain
that the so-called traffic arrangement be-
tween the Union Pacific and the North.
western railroads Is something Of far
greater importance than a mere traffic ar
rangement. 1t means union of Union
Pacific interests and Vanderbilt interests.
producing a continuous continental line
from Portland, Oregon. to New York, VIA
Omaha and Chicago, with an arm reaching
northward to the lakes, VIA Sioux City
and st. Paul. 1t is the first consumma-
ton OF a series of gigantic railroad CON-
binstions TO be next duplicated in the
union of the Northern Pacific, Wisconsin
Central and Baltimore & Ohio, with the
Santa Fe as southern arm. Out Of the
Union Pacific and Vanderbilt consolida-
tion Is liable TO come some radical move-
nenis on the part of other western
railroads for new Missouri river crossing
and a new connection with the Pacific
slope. Other railroads are crowded out
OF the general through traffic and If they
continue 10 exist must seek Lew alliances.
They cannot sit Idly by and see the busl-
ness absorbed by one combination