Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-28
Dakota Dos.

JERAULD county equal suffragists have
formed an association.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG will give a
concert in Huron April l.
The building of a new court house is
being discussed in McCook county.
THERE is talk of putting in alarge butter
and cheese factory plant at Mitchell.
BOOKINGS county has money enough
on hand to pay all outstanding warrants.
WORK has been resumed on the big
Redwater irrigating canal in Butte county.
THE Harvey Peak Mining, Milling and
Manufacturing company will be prepared
by May l, 1891, to place upon the market
from the Black Hills all the tin required for
consumption in the United States. An idea
OF the enormous proportions of the COM
pany's plant can be had from the fact that
it will furnish employment to from seven
thousand to nine thousand men and will
require q railroad eighty miles in length
to form a circuit of the different mines
within the territory.
The name of the postofice at Sandman,
Turner county, has been changed to Mon
roe.
A WE'LL defined lead mine has been dis
covered less than a dozen miles from Min
nesela.
MRS. NATHAN STONE, a pioneer resi-
dent of Yankton, died at her home in that
city at the age of Sc years. During the war
She resided in Lawrence, Kan, where her
husband, Nathan. Stone, was killed in the
celebrated Quantrel massacre. In 1865 she
removed to Yankton aud had made her
home with her daughter, Mrs. G.. W..
Kingsbury.
THE Frankfort Advocate declares that
from August l to February l that city
shipped 327 carloads of wheat and twenty
two carloads of -four, and that there is now
on hand in the warehouse about %, 900
bushels of wheat and in the hands OF the
farmers tributary to the town from rs. 900
to 100000 bushels. The Touring mill has
local trade.
The Bald Mountain and Ruby Basin
mines in Lawrence county have over $780,
600 worth Of ore in sight.
OTTO LINDLoFF. a young German, and
foreman of the men laying gas mains
through the streets of Pierre, was killed in
the ditch. While kneeling to put a cap on
the gaspipe, from which it was supposed
the gas had been turned off, the gas was sud-
denly forced into his lungs before he could
escape from the ditch and he died in
stantly. From letters found on his person
it appears that he is highly connected in
Germany.
ALFRED BRUMwELL, Of st. Michaels,
Neb., and late postmaster of that city.
died at the residence of his brother. f. r,
aged 26 years. About half an hour before
his death his little daughter Nellie died of
la grippe.
AN effort is being made to secure the
pardon of Christian Sorenson. who was
sentenced to twenty-four years in the pen
itentiary from Moody county for killing q
%neighbor in a dispute over some property.
Sorenson has become insane and his
friends want him transferred to the Yank-
ton asylum.
DIVIDING Dakota into two states COM
PEELED a New York publishing house to cut
up and sell for waste paper over 10000 new
biographies.
a COLONY of Blunt boomers will estab-
iisu IL l"WH Ill Tue center OF NOWIln cOl0tT
said to be the cream" county Of the
whole reservation.
REPORTS from stockmen along the
Belle Fourche and Little Missouri rivers is
that the calf and colt crop for 1899 will be
SO per cent. or better.
The Scotland city council closed all the
saloons in that place by demanding Sl25
as & license for the privilege of running
until closed by thu law.
In concentrates are now being shipped
to Chicago from the Glendale mines near
Hermosa.
THERE are $1,000 mining claims re-
corded in Lawrence, Pennington and Gus
ter counties.
Red Oak, Butte county, has heen esta5-
llshed as a postotlice with Carl Harrington
as postmaster.
HENRY LYMAN, a young half .brted
Sioux, formerly of Yankton, is studying in
Yale college, where be is reported 10 stand
very high in scholarship.