New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-02
SOUTH DAKOTA,

SOUTH DAKOTA.
The eastern counties Of the recently opened
reservation are being gradually settled
Black leg has broken out among the cattle
in the vacinity of the Dane settlement, Miner
county.
Brown county has issued seed wheel war
rants to the amount 1885, 900, which have
been taken to St. Paul to be negotiated.
Aberdeen has put up the 81, 700 required
by the board ofagrlculture for the location of
the state fair.
james Bennett traded overcoats with
dummy in front OF the Star clothing store in
Yanktona and was sentenced to twenty days
in jail.
Ex-County Treasurer Flynn, of Custer
county, in default of $5,OOO:bail, is an in
mate OF the jail at Custer City, charged with
embezzling the funds of the county.
AS a representative in the legislature Sol
Star voted against the prohibition law. AS
mayor of Deadwoodhe gives it out solid that
the law will be rigidly enforced.
Twenty-Five residents of Brown county
have been adjudged insane since the organ
lzation of the county-six Americans and the
balance foreigners.
Chief Spotted Bear fled deed for quar-
ter section of land in the registers Office at
Pierre the other day, being the lrst deed ever
fled:in that office by an Indian.
Henry Lang, OF Hartford, is an inmate of
the Turner county Jail, awaiting trial on
charge of disposing of $500 worth ofmort-
gagged property.
3, The smallest county in South Dakota is
Todd, which contains about thirty-six see
tions, and the largest is Dewey, which con-
talns about sixty-fve townships.
Aman Peterson, farmer living near Can
ton, was held up by footpads while on his
way home from town and robbed of $40
which he had just received from the sale OF
some stock.
The Harvey Peak Tin Mining company
propose to build pyramid of tin bars forty
feet high at the Worlds fair in Chicago in
1892. The tin will be- taken from their mines
in the Black Hills
A couple of farmers living near Aberdeen,
on the Jim river, will make practical test
of irrigation the coming season by putting
up windmills and pumping water from the
river onto the sod
There was shipped from Deadwood to the.
east $140, 900 in bullion, the result of opera
lions at the Homestake and associates, Cal
edonia, Monitor and Puma mines, for the
first half of March.
At Mitchell, Mrs. Louis Krummel was
thrown from q wagon with her baby in her
arms by the sudden starting up of the team.
She suffered broken collar bone and was
otherwise injured, but the baby escaped I'M
hurt.
A peculiar accident happened at masked
ball in Central City. Charles Pollock was
masked in female costume and wore tightly
fitting corset. During adance he slipped and
fell heavily, sustaining q rupture which the
doctors think will cost him his life.
Rev. DR.. Robinson has gone east to com
plete arrangements for the Northwest Cha
tauqua on Lake Kampeska. He will return
shortly with Rev. Sam Small, who is backing
the enterprise when the work ofpreparing the
ground will be Immediately commenced and
will be ready for the meeting i'll June
Cheyenne is the name Of a town just started
in Sterling county. It is located on the
Cheyenne river at the proposed crossing of
the Chicago and Northwestern and Chicago,
milwaukee and St. Paul roads. There is
plenty of timber, good water and excellent
farming lands in the country and the great
reservation coal beds are within short dis
tance. s5s ss$
The city marshal Of Yankton, among his
various obligations to the city, is charged
with the duty of impounding stray cattle,
and the marshal Is now considering whether
the title of his Office, owing to the activity Of
the cattle business, Ought not TO be changed
to city cowboy.
While his parents were away from home
little Nick Lester, 8 6-year-old youngster liv-
ing near sturgis, got hold OF q shotgun,
which, with the aid of q chair, he, succeeded
in aiming at his mothers pet canary birds.
He then blased away. When his mother Ne
turned the birds were dead, the window
smashed to pieces and the boy lying in q cor
ner in an unconscious condition as q result
Of the recoil of the gun.
WISCONSIN.
During the past winter 8,812 car loads Of
ice were shipped from:M dison The tonnage
was 158, 614. Three times this amount is
stored in the city. s;s
ohm y. Nelson left Barron for home. He
was intoxicated. The following morning he
was found dead on the railroad track, hay