Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-05-08
In THE SOUTH STATE.

completed at once.
THE Britton cheese factory will COM
mence operations May 8.
THE crop outlook in the Black Hills
counties was never more encouraging.
THE postoffce receipts Of Pierre war;
rant the adoption Of the free delivery sys-
tenn.
THE Lyman County Journal is the name
of . neat and newsy paper started in the
new town Of Lyman.
THE antl-swearing society of Baltic has
dissolved, the members being unable TO
stand the pressure any longer.
A curious freak has recently come 10 light
in CLARK county. About year ago COW
belonging to farmer near Raymond was
struck by locomotive and badly injured,
but short time afterward recovered and
gave birth to calf. The calf is In no
way deformed and has the appearance of
being common, ordinary, everyday ami
NAL until it becomes excited, when instead
Of the soft, bass lowing, peculiar to its
kind, il utters series of sharp toots and
Kissing sound resembling the exhaust OF
q high pressure steam engine. It has been
named the locomotive calf, and q num-
ber of dime museum managers are after it
for star engagement around the country.
A LARGE colony from Bssdle county has
established town on the Bad river, in
Stanley county, and named it New Huron.
SEVERAL Day county farmers are ac-
cused of selling the seed wheat which they
secured from the commissioners on the
representation that they were in need.
STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
PINKHAM states there will be no school
election in June, and that the present
school officers will hold over to the regular
November election.
OF the twelve commanderies OF Knights
Templar in the two states South Dakota
has eight and North Dakota four. The
total membership Of the society in both
states is 621.
DELEGATES to the coming convention Of
the grand lodge Of Odd Fellows, which
meets at Deadwood this month, will be
presented with souvenirs manufactured
from Black Hills tin, the first output Of the
mines.
Louis DEcoNTA has been summoned TO
appear for trial at Fort Pierre on q charge
of alternating the affections of Ellen White
Horse from her lawful husband, Eli Spot
ted Bear. All are full blood Indians,
This is the first state case to be tried in
Stanley county.
CHoNG GoAY, the Deadwood Chinaman
who has made several unsuccessful at
tempts to secure ticket of leave" from
the state department to visit his family in
his native land, left for Hong Kong the
other day. Although unable to secure
a return passport, he 10 supplied
with credentials from the best people OF
Deadwood and will probably meet with
little difficulty in Ian ding on his return.
A BUILDING association is being organ
ICED at Fort Pierre.
The postofice at Goddard, Sully county,
has been discontinued.
A LARGELY increased acreage Of corn is
being planted in Charles Mix county.
WORTHWHILE, Sphinx county, has de-
cided to incorporate under the general laws.
THE farmers alliances in Sully county
are being organized on the secret plan.
GOOD water can be had in Lyman county
at depth Of from twenty-five to thirty
feet.
THE bullion output of the Black Hills
mines for the first half Of April wss $780,
900.
A THREE-FooT rattler, the first OF the
season, was killed near Forest City the
other day.
The annual meeting of the Hand county
Y.'C. T. U. will be held in Miller May 15
and IA.
NEW JERUSALEM is the name Of new
town on the boundary line Of South Da-
kota and Wyoming.
The wheat acreage in Hughes and Sully
counties is considerably larger than in
former years.
I'll. B. GILBERTsoN, of Garretson. was
seriously burned while fighting . prairie
fire.
TIE As,eyicam S,ei,eheyd, which has
been published in Alexandria since its
first issue, has been moved TO Chicago.
THE ferrymen at Pierre are engaged In .
rate war. The fare for crossing the river
has already been cut down from SO toto
cents.
THE site OF tho erstwhile booming town
of Sherman is now the property of Chief
Left Hand Thunder. Sherman was the
FIRST town in Lyman county plated by the
boomers, but was evacuated few weeks
ago by order Of the government.
A YANKToN syndicate is making prepa-
rations to lay out another new town on the
Nebraska side of the river to be known as
South Yankton.
SURVEYOR M. T. WooLLEv is en- route
for the upper Cheyenne river, where the
work of surveying township and section
lines on the late reservation will be com
menced. The surveyors will work east.
AUGUST JoRaENsoN, living near Rich
land, Union county, was kicked by horse
over week ago and has not yet rsgained
CONSEQUENCES. II is feared ne can not re-
cover.
THE explosion of can of alcohol badly
wrecked the residence OF John Gosres ct
White Lake the other day. Mrs. Goeres
and small child were seriously but not
fatally burned.
NEWS has reached Pierre Of the finding
OF an extensive vein OF coal ON the reserva-
tion about sixty-fve miles distant ia Stsr-
ling county. The location of the mine is
known only to the Indians, who assert that
there is plenty of coal on the reseryati1n,
but refuse to disclose it's hiding place sx-
cept stfor consideration.
HECLA will soon vote TO incorporate.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made toput
. steamer on the Cheyenne river to pif be-
tween Pierre and the new town cf Chey-
anna