The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
SOUTH DAKOTA.

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The musical young men of Flandrau are
moving to get up a minstrel performance for
the benefit of the local poor
The Turner county Democrat says there
is not native Dakotan among the members
of the South Dakota legisla ture.
E. M. Coates, of Yankton, has sued the
Standard Oil company for $40, 900 damages
for appropriating his cars to their own use.
Thomas Bishop, editor of the Volga Trib-
une, has been chosen commander of the Cen
trail Dakota Veterans association.
A nine year old girl of Spring Lake town
ship, Kingsbury county, plowed eighty acres
ofland this fall with a three-horse eulky pillow.
A grand jack rabbit hunt was the feature
New Years day at Pierre. One hundred men
and an army dogs succeeded in killing
one rabbit
The Alexandria Herald says that the oues-
ton now agitating every town in the state
is the saloon. Can it be run? 1fso, how?
Can it be closed? Ii SO, how?
A valuable body of iron ore has been dis
covered near Hot Springs. new seven
inch vein of coal has also been discovered in
the gypsum beds below that place.
During 1889 Sioux Falls expended 80 ,5O2,-
521 in building improvements. About $50
residences and business blocks were erected
during the year.
Work on the Indian school at Rapid City
will becommenced early in the spring, and the
building is expected to be ready for occupan-
cy by October next
Antoine Swanson, of Lead City, had his left
leg broken in two places below the knee and
the ankle thrown out of joint by load oil
wood falling on top of him.
The full am cunt of the defacation of W. L.
Cooley, late cashier of the Omaha depot at
Sioux Falls. is $7S3, No trace of his where
abouts has been discovered.
A Huro II brewer proposes to turn hi s
brewery into a beet sugar factory. He
claims that the industry will increase the
value OF land in that vicinity to 500 an
acre.
The st. Lawrence Journal calls the atten-
ton of parents and guardians to the fact
that juvenile gambling with cards, dice and
other devices is going on surreptitiously to
quite an extent in town.
The Holland church in Signal township,
Charles Mix county, was burned down re-
Gently. The fire caught from defective flue.
Everything movable in the building was
saved.
An eastern capitalist has been looking
over the gypsum beds in the vicinity OF
Rapid City with view to putting in q plant
for the manufacture OF plaster of Paris and
stucco.
The Chamberlain Register editor, having
tried both, thinks it more profitable as well
as more agreeable to go west and let the
''rain belt" alone than to go south and be
constantly under the necessity of carrying
a revolver belt.
The dyphtheria epidemic which has caused
such q terrible fatality in the Russian settle
ment in Mcpherson county was brought into
the settlement by Russian family that lost
tn rec children just before leaving their native
land. and two more on the ocean voyage.
The disease is now well under con troll.
Mrs. Cora Belle Chaska, wife of Chief Chaska,
and heroine of the sensational elopement
about two years ago, played the role ofSanta
Claus at Chief Chargers camp near Forest
City christmas, and made the heart of each
licrle papoose happy with a present. Cora
Belle now has a little papoose OF her own.
Something is wrong at Lennox. The In.
dependent says "A newspaper editor is talk
ed about more than anyone else in the com.
munity, especially by those who lack enter
prise AID push Such drones are the GROWERS
and slanderers who are particularly loud.
mouthed in their abuse ola progressive editor
who is usually compelled to defend men and
measures which conflict with the narrow
minded ideas OF these stumbling blocks, who
lack the good sense to get out of the way aft
er being jostled about by thrifty, energetic
citizens"