Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1890-11-21
SOUTH DAKOTA ITEMS.

Sioux Indians at Medicine creek are
killing cattle Trouble is feared.
! J. ID. Cowly, Of vermillion, has been
appointed pension examining surgeon.
A farmers institute is in session at
the Brookings agricultural college thiC
week.
BY the vote OF Brown county Aher-
deem becomes the county seat by 90
majority. @#
Huron and neighboring towns ed
coal famine last week, but plenty has
since arrived.
In Lake county tie is reported be-
tween +. F. Knight and B. b. Bowel,
legislative candidates.
I. All original package houses at Elk
Point have been closed and authorities
are after @bootleggers.
Gen. Ruger says the Messiah craze is
dying out, bat report has ii that Sitting
Bull is more rampant than ever.
A starch factory will be built at Cam
ton, the incorporation papers having
already been filed for a charter.
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charged with selling team belonging
to William Elinor. Of Marshall county.
The warehouse at Baltic owned by
farmers in that township was burned
to the ground Saturday night. The
house contained about $4,000 bushels OF
grain which was q total loss. The
amount of insurance is not known.
A SIC. 900 fire at Sioux Fails, destroyed
the barns Of George Burnside and p. III.
Edmison. In the former were thirty
four head of horses, all Of which were
burne1 to death, together with sleighs,
buggies. hacks, etc. 1t is feared one
hackman was also burned.
just after the recent snowstorm, j.
I'll. French, while hunting on the Sisse-
ton reservation, shot and killed large
golden headed eagle weighing thirty five
pounds. The bird is three and half
feet in height and nine feet in spread of
wing. 1t is a very rare bird.
Charles Mix county sportsmen are
talking of purchasing large quantity
of wild rice and sowing 1t on the shores
of small lake in that county. Those
who have investigated the matter say
that rice sown there will in three years
make one of the finest feeding and hatch
ing grounds for ducks and geese in the
United States.
Complaints are made by people living
on the frontier because of the action OF
the government in permitting the In
dians to have In their possession the
very best fire arms TO be obtained.
Every male Indian at Lower Rrule and
Crow Greek agencies has Winchester
rife and a brace Of Colt revolyers in ad-
dition TO knives and other implements
of war. The people want them dis
armed
The school land case at Rapid City
has been sent 10 the state supreme court
by the United States district court at
Sioux Falls. This lis siie celebrated
controversy over q school section near
Rapid City, on which NJ I'll. Day
claimed to have discovered coal. The
coal which was offered SIS evidence was
found ON measuring IL, to be one-eighth
of an inch larger than the drill With
which il was said 10 have been taken
out.
A tremendous fow of water was
struck at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon
In the artesian well being sunk hy
Northy a. Duncan, at Woonsocket.
AT q depth of $50 feet flow estimated
at 4, 900 gallons per minute, and fully
equal to the other great well at that
place. was made. The new well has
not affected the old one In the least.
The power will be used TO run the la-xe
Touring mill Woonsocket now claims
the two largest artesian. wells in the
world.
A telegram from Fort Robinson, Neb.,
says that Mr.. Roger, the Indian agent at
Pine Ridge. was there Saturday and
said that serious trouble is anticipated
as the result OF the ghost dance. He
says it is Grazing the Indians, who
openly defy the Indian police, and
threaten defiance to any small body Of
soldiers which may be sent against
them. Transportation there is being
overhanled Ind prepared for a cam
paign. Troops are being held in readi-
ness for orders TO take the field. DIR.
Tempany, Ninth cavalry, veterinary
surgeon, has left for Omaha for horses
for the troop.
There are ninety-six persons in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary, there being
only one woman in the prison. Owing
to the prison having no contract on
hand for work, the prisoners are idle.
A great deal Of the summer work has
been in the prison quarry blasting out
stone for the wall around the prison.
Most of the appropriation, s., 200, has
been used already in the furnishing of
this quarry. A new mode of tactics has
been adopted with reference to the ex-
ercise of the prisoners. An hour and q
half day is devoted to military drill,
special effort being made in the foot
movements.
Berlin the Consumptives' Mecca
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