The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07

total failure OF their crops Immediate aid
is asked.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Over ton of butter. was shipped from
Plankinton to New York the other day.
In Lawrence, Pennington and Custer coun-
ties there are 81 900 mining claims recorded.
Civil service examinations for the railway
mail service for South Dakota will be held at
| Yankton on Tuesday April p.
| Several Sioux Falls, parties lost money by
the collapse of the American Building and
Loan association OF Minneapolis.
I've first protection system of Woonsocket
is being remodeled and perfected. the water
supply being furnished by the big artesian
we'll.
Dividing Dakota into two states compelled
New York publishing house to cut up and
sell for waste paper over 10000 new geos.
raphies.
The Farmers alliance Of Potter county
has been organized into branch of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union.
The Scotland city council closed al the sa-
looms in that place by demanding 1925 as a
license for the privilege OF running until
closed by the law.
| 1t is estimated that the Bald Mountain
and Ruby basin mines of Lawrence county
have more than $5OO,OO0 worth of ore in
sight
Henry Lyman, young halfbreed Sioux,
formerly of Yankton, is studying in Yale
college, where he is reported to stand very
| high in scholarship.
| E.L.Abel, of Bridgewater, has been ap-
pointed as one of the trustees of the Sioux
Falls penitentiary to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of O.S.Pendar, of Salem.
The old man named Lomen. whe was struck
on the head with hammer during the
woman's raid upon the saloons at Hatton
Trail county, few weeks ago, has died of
his injuries.
While digging we'll in Liewellyn township,
Sully county, recently, the workmen found
at depth OF thirty feet a deposit of fossil
fish. The deposit W as several feet in thick
| ness.
1 The ladies of Rapid City have formed a
society for the purpose ofprosecutings saloon
keepers who sell liquor to habitual drunkards.
A fund OF $500 has been subscribed for the
purpose.
reward of $500 is offered by the state of
| South Dakota for the arrest and conviction
| of the person or persons who murdered Mrs
Minerva Gier in Pennington county on Sep
! TENDER % last, or any information touching
the circumstances of the murder.
The manufacture OF wicker baskets is one
of the home industries ofSully county. The
lake banks in that county are lined with
willow groves, which furnish abundant ma
terial, and basket factory of large proper
lions is being talked of.
| Postmaster Reeves, of Carthage, recently
received a letter from young lady school
teacher, who lives in Illinois, which contain
ed $25, with the request that the money be
used to buy feed for stock, as the sender
could not endure the thought of cattle going
without food.
Nels Paulsen is held for trial in $500 bonds
at Sioux Falls for grand larceny in stealing
his own horse. The horse was in livery
stable and owed respectable amount for
board. Paulsen went to the stable and re-
moved him without squaring the bill.
| Thomas Sorenson, n farmer living near
Deli Rapids, has invented a wind pillow, which,
| it is claimed, can be propelled by the gentle
| zcpbyrs that hustle across the prairie The
| machine has a windmill attachment set on
pivot SO as to adjust itself to the wind.
| The pillow consists of u number of shoves on
| q cylinder, which revolves when the machine
| is in motion and pulverizes the ground thor
| oughly.
| An effort is being made to secure the par
don OF Christian Sorenson. who was sentenc-
| ed to twenty-.our wears in the penitentiarv
| from Moody county for killing a neighbor in
| dispute over some property. Sorenson
has become insane, and his friends want him
transferred to the Yankton asylum.
WISCONSIN,.
Mary Freyburg was divorced at Racine
from Charles Freyburg, on the ground of
desertion.
The Shipman engine in the Office of the Mt.
Horeb Sun exploded, owing to q detective
steam-gauge. No one was injured.
An inmate of the new Outagamie county
insane asylum named Sillers was seriously
burned by accidental contact with an open
fire.
John S. Sullivan has been held to trial at
Ashland, under $500 bonds, on a charge of
obtaining money under false pretense from
an Indian woman.
freight train was wrecked on the Wiscon-
sin Central road at Miller, thirty miles be-
low Ashland. Trains were delayed several
hours. None Of the train hands were injured.
An effort is being made to secure pardon
for Fred. Williams, who was sentenced to lite
imprisonment foar years ago, for killing o
man near Nedford.