Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-04-02

Several or the foot and leg bones are fairly
preserved, but the ribs, thigh bones and
vertebra crumbled to pieces as soon as or.
pose to ths air.
To Battle for the Ballot.
The executive committee OF the State
Equal Suffrage association have arranged
TO put a number Of organizers and leo.
turers into the field ct once. Miss Matilda
Hindman. of Pittsburg, has arrived Il
Huron. She is sent to enter the field as 1
lecturer, her salary and all expenses being
paid by the California WomAns Suffrage
association. Miss Helen Cougar, Of
Indiana, will arrive soon, and others have
been arranged FOR. The association has
plenty Of money and outside associations
are daily adding to the fund.
State Bonds sold.
State Treasurer Smith has sold at auc-
ton S150,0O0 worth OF state bonds to the
Jarvis. Conklin Mortgage Trust company,
ofNew York, for s1.o9s. The bonds draw
4per cent. and run for twenty years. II
is the first sale Of state bonds in south
Dakota, and the price at which they sold 10
higher than any state bonds have ever been
sold west OF the Mississippi.
Convention OF Democrats Called.
Zack T. Hundly and r. M. Grain, chair
man and secretary Of the democratic ct ate
central committee, have called q meeting
in Huron on Wednesday, April as, for the
purpose of fixing the apportionment ard
naming the place and time tor holding the
state democratic convention for the nomi.
nation Of state officers.
sioux Reservation Surveys.
Surveyor General b. H. Sullivan states
that contracts for government Surveying
on the Sioux reservation have been let to
the number Of seven. He says surveying
will begin about April 10 from Chamber
lain, Pierre and points near tho Black
Hills.
In Shorter Meter.
LAKE PRESTON wants Touring mill.
The purchase Of county poor farm is
being agitated in Turner county.
AN artesian we'll is to be bored at James.
town to furnish the city with water.
CUSTER CITY man has patented
galvanized iron clothes pin which is said
to be the best in the world. He has also
cotton up machine for making them,
capable, with the labor Of three men, OF
turning out 100000 dozens every day. A
company has been formed and will 20 into
their manufacture at once.
CAPT. A. b. BURKE, Of Fargo. laws
claim to being the youngest soldier ia the
war. He enlisted in Company /, Seventy
fifth indiana infantry, At the age Of IL
years and month.
THE residence and barn on Gillette's
ranch, on the old road between Custer
City and Deadwood, were destroyed By
6re the other night. The loss reaches fully
$4,000, with insurance Of about half that
amount.
MISS LYDIA CLARK, living nea. Warner,
Brown comfy, after pounding her aged
mother on the head with chair until she
became unconscious, threw her out OF the
house and compelled her to seek home
among strangers.
The eastern counties Of the recently
opened reservation are being gradually SET
tied.
The new chlorination works Il Dead. .
wood have proven Q complete succsss and
are nov in constant operation.
GRAND LECTURER SckIvsx, of the Or.
der Of Free Masons. is making a tour Of
tho state in the interest Of the order.
THE bond Of e. II. Flynn, the dsfault-
ing treasurer Of Custer county, has bsen
increased from u, 900 to 46, 900.
TwENTy-NIEE residents of Brown
county navs bssn adjudgsd iusaas sincs
the organization Of Tie count sir Ameri.
cans and the balance foreigners.
CHIEF SPOTTED BEAR fled lssd Tor
quarter section Of land in the rsaister's
oflice q Pierre tho other day, being ths
6rst dad ever Aled ia that ONCE by an In
dian.
In the extension Of The Black Hills 4
Fort Pierre failfoad through Ell Crsek
cannon, It win b. nscessary to ca. ! tunnel
$50 feet long q one point, on account of :
very hsayy curve. Forty men are now
employed clearing the right of way.
TEE soldisrs' home II Hot Springs Il
expsctsd - be fsady for occupancy ~
August 4.
THE Catholic church - Tnston vas la1t
week prsssntsd with ! Z, 800 pound beli 81
. member Of the congregation.
THE wool growers 81 South Dakota vill
nsst q Huron, April 1, for ~ purposs 81
creantsing : sh2sp radssss' associAliop.
TEE work Of reorganisine branches 81
The Tarmsrs' alliancs, uadr ~ ssersl
system, y in psosfsss y " patts u ~
sta&s.