The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-06
SOUTH DAKOTA.


and took 5000 away from him.
The weather of the past two weeks has
been the coolest ex perienced in the Black Hills
since 1881.
The Sioux Falls wooden mill cant supply
the demand that is being made for its goods
and the plant will be enlarged and & ger
force employed.
The authorities Of the state insane asylum
at Iankton, ask for on appropriation of
$97 900 for the maintenance of that institU-
ton.
Fifty soldiers stationed at Fort Randall
are down with the grip and have sent to the
surgeon-general at Washington for a supply
OF anti-grip medicine.
The new Lincoln county court house at
Canton is completed and is one of the hand
soonest structures of the kind in South Da
kota. The building cost nearly 10000
The horses attached to the Deadwood and
Spparfsh stage ran away the other day
ROWING the passengers into a snowbank
and seriously injuring Mrs. Germans, one OF
the number.
A gold dal offered for the best essay on
american Patriotism by the children of
the Turner county schools under IL years Of
age, was captured by Gertie Harmeling, an
11-year old miss.
J. B, Gals, n former res W
and at one time deputy
ton County, lost an arm
otherwise badly injured in rain
at Anaconda, Mont.
The grand jury in session at CoIum bia h,.-
returned on indictment against William
Blood for embezzling money from the West
ern Union Telegraph company while manager
Of the comp any at Aberdeen. Blood has
left the country.
Mrs Anna Shabley, living near Messing
ton Springs, committed suicide by taking
strvch nine Continued i'll health was the
caus~ She was Is years old and leaves q
.lueuu *"H Youngest be-
ing but ear oId.
Fred j. Cross. of Rapid City, who represent
cd Clay county in the territorial Legislature
Of 1871, has i'll his p OssessiOn the original
copy of the bill memorializing congress to
divide Dakota. He was chairman of the en-
rolling committee during the session of that
year.
The jury in the trial of the Wade arson
ca Sc was impanneled at Gary. The court
we mt to trial first. The state introduced
some evidence that was very damage ng
Cotton balls well saturated with kerosene
was said to have been une arthed.
Senator Moody called upon Land Commits
sioner Croft and inquired why the surveys
which have been made in South Dakota have
OF been reported and completed, especially
in Fall River county. Commissioner Croft
ordered the reports made out and the plats
OF surveys will be made in the land districts
in short time.
Thirteen years ago, after q tussle with very
hard luck, Thompson left Speartish for The
wilderness of Bear Gulch with the VOW that
he would never leave the cannon until he was
rich enough to come out with coach and
foul" -fguratively speaking. He kept his
promise, and was for many years the only in
habitant of the gulf. Escaping the raids of
hostile Indians, who in early days of thcBlack
Hills were continually on the warpath he
struggled along placer mining. making
enough to keep him in the necessaries of life.
and in all that time never was more than
two miles from his camp. The other day he
appeared on the streets Of Spearfish, having
at last struck the rich fine" he had waited so
long and labored so hard for
WISCONSIN
Mr.. Sam Malcomson, of Palmyra has killed
sixteen fying-sQuirreIs that had made their
home in unfinished walls OF his house.
Ten of herd of eighteen cattle belonging
to B. F. Clark. of Berlin, broke through the
ice ut the old Rhodes ferry and were drowned.
W. Mckay's logging camp on Jump river
was DESTROYED by fire. The loss was quite
heavy.
Rev. Charles Irish, who went to Georgia
last spring. has been given an appointment
in the agricultural department at Washing
ton.
Peter Nolan pleaded guilty at La Crosse to
the charge OF obtaining goods by false pre-
lenses and was sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary.
DIR. Goerss, the itinerant tooth DOCTOR
pleaded guilty in the circuit court at La
Crosse to a charge of violating state medical
laws, and was fined $40.
Herman Robbins, head brakeman on the
Milwaukee & St. Paul line. fell under the
| wheels and was instantly killed, at BelOit
Robbins resided in GAINESVILLE.
Racine lad has confessed that he set fire
to the works Of the J. l. Case company, to see
if the pant would burn. destructive con-
fagration was narrowly averted.
J. ]. Hogan, Of La Crosse. has sold 10, 800
acres of land in Clark County to J. W. Bah.
cock, of Necedah, for $4,000. Mr.. Hogan
still owns 10000 or 900 acres of land in
| that county.
The grip has invaded the pineries to On
alarming extent, and the woodsmen are easy
victims. 1t has spread to nearly every camp,
and in some nearly the entire crew have been
Frustrated with it at the same time,
Edgar K. Swain. who was reared in Bara.
boo and aft erward spent a term in the j oliet
prison for bigamy, died Jan, 16, in Denver,
Col, aged 30 years, He came from a good
family, but was always wild.
The Florence Mining News says that
homesteader named Christ Knad, aged about
| so years, was frozen to death while going