The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-19
kind must re rorrn and drink water or leave
Dakota.
SOUTH DAKOTA.

muscular thief entered a blacksmith shop
in Deadwood recently and lugged off an an
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Fifty farmers of lngham county Mich, will
form colony and locate in the vicinity OF
Pierre next spring.
| Two Onida marksmen fred ten shots apiece
at steer one day and finally killed it by
shooting it with an AK.
Arlington has 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 10y next year it
will be better irrigated and hPve more miles
OF ditching than any other county in South
| Dakota
Postmaster Millor of Pierre, has telegraph
ed to the postotice 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. Savage of Kimb all, has in his posses
sion relic of the revolutionary war in the
| form . fan old powder horn. It's covered with
engravings, representing soldiers and old In
! dependence hall, and the date 1916. is plain
ly legible.
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 he was not
selected one of the number.
A son OF NJ. A. Gilmore of Wnfred, rode
| one of his fathers horses onto the ice in a
pond near that place to see whether the ice
strong enough to skate on. The ice WASH 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 a beautiful specimen of the owl
family.
A storekeeper at Link postoffice, 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.
A 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 o. 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 a short distance
up the track to facilitate switching.
Capt Charles Runkle of the Souix Falls
Salvation army, held court martial or
High Private John McDougal and proceeded
to put the finding of the court into execution
by using John as street sweeper. JOIN
demurred to being used as q buster and laiC
his superior officer out by a well-drecter
, kick in the stomach. Both we're arrested
aud fined IS and costs each for disturbing
the peace and dignity of the city on the
Souix.
One day young man named Armstrong
living near Nermillion went to that city tc
fix himself up for his wedding which was tc
occur the same evening. While making hi
ronnds he stopped into Brfdgeman's sho'
, store. where, in some iDexplacable way,
, number of pairs of shoes became entangleC
beneath his overcoat. The bride waited, bu
10, the bridegroom cometh not. She fnall,
went in search of him and found him behinC
the prison bars with fine of $25 registered
against him for larceny. The wedding ha
been postponed until the groom feels q littl
more at liberty to become Benedict.