The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-06
souTH DAKOTA.

United States signal service ONCE is to
be established at Aberdeen at an early date.
The first house was erected in Aberdeen in
1881, and the city now has q population of
5000.
1t cost c. L. Marsh, of Dell Rapids, $42
for whacking A. ]. Van Scooter, a fellow
townsman over the head with hoe handle.
Ole Stevenson, of Spirit Mound, Clay
County, marketed a hog that weighed $40
pounds.
A Central City Chinaman was assaulted by
a crook named Murray who threw him down
and took 5000 away from him.
The weather of the past two weeks has
been the coolest experienced in the Black Hills
since 1881.
The Sioux Falls woolen mill can't supply
the demand that is being made for its goods
and the plant will be enlarged and & ger
force employed.
The authorities of the state insane asylum
$97 900 for the maintenance of that institu-
tion.
Fifty soldiers stationed at Fort Randall
are down with the grip and have sent to the
surgeon-general at Washington for a supply
of anti-grip medicine.
The new Lincoln county courthouse at
Canton is completed and is one of the hand
soonest structures of the kind in South Da
kota. The building cost nearly $4,000.
The horses attached to the Deadwood and
Spearfsh stage ran away the other day
thro wning the passengers into a snowbank
and seriously injuring Mrs. Germans, one of
the number.
A gold edal, offered for the best essay on
American Patriotism by the children of
the Turner county schools under 1S years of
11-year old miss.
J. B. Gals, n former res w
and at one time deputy
ton County, lost an arm.
otherwise badly injured in rail-
at Anaconda, Mont.
The grand jury in session at CoIumbia ha-
returned an indictment against William
Blood for embezzling money from the West
ern Union Telegraph company while manager
of the comp any at Aberdeen. Blood has
left the country.
Mrs. Anna Shabley, living near Wessing-
ton Springs, committed suicide by taking
strych nine. Continued i'll health was the
caus" She was As years old and leaves a
rnusU4 +"o Youngest be-
ing but year old. .9v>, - ..
Fred ]. Cross. of Rapid City, who represent
cd Clay county in the territorial legislature
of 1871, has in his possession the original
copy of the bill memorialzing congress to
divide Dakota. He was chairman of the en-
rolling committee during the session of that
year.
The jury in the trial of the Wade arson
ca sc was impanneled at Gary. The court
was ssked for seperate trials, and B. A. Wade
we MT to trial first. The state introduced
some evidence that was very damagi ng.
Cotton balls well saturated with kerosene
was said to have been une arthed.
Senator Moody called upon Land Commits
sioner Croft and inquired why the surveys
which have been made in South Dakota have
OF been reported and completed, especially
in Fall River county. Commissioner Croft
ordered the reports made out and the plats
OF surveys will be made in the land districts
in q short time.
Thirteen years ago, after q tussle with very
hard luck, Thompson left Spearfish for the
wilderness OF Bear Gulch with the VOW that
Hc NOuto HoFcE AcdNc LHe Cthnhou uhGh hS W DIS
rich enough to come out with "coach and
four"-fguratively speaking. He kept his
promise, and was for many years the only in
habitant of the gulf. Escaping the raids of
hostile Indians, who in early days of thcBlack
Hills were continually on the warpath, he
struggled along placer mining, making
enough to keep him in the necessaries of life,
and in all that time never was more than
two miles from his camp. The other day he
appeared on the streets of Spearfish, having
at last struck the "rich find" he had waited so
long and labored so hard for