The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
SOUTH DAKOTA,

1000. he says $5O,OOO II needed TO enable
the bureau to do the work demanded Oft.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
1t iAestimated that the farmers of Brown
county will have to buy $4,000 bushels OF
seed wheat this spring if they seed all their
land.
Word has been received at Chamberlain
that q large colony of Canadian farmers are
preparing to leave the dominion to settle on
the reservation.
John Halloran, Hill City printer died the
other day from the effects of an overdose OF
morphine, which he had taken to deaden
rheumatic pains.
wildcat weighing twenty-five pounds
was shot at MarshalPs island, the other day.
1t was the first animal of the kind ever killed
in that vicinity.
COW belonging to VIM. McLane, near
Elkton, has given birth to four calves within
ten months-twins in April last and twins the
present month.
The Pierre Capital has succeeded in making
it too warm for the gamblers and they have
folded their faro layouts and gathered their
walnut shells and will start town of their
own somewhere on the reservation.
1t is sold man sentenced to state prison
for life at hard labor for the murder OF
young man at Mimic last July may lie seen
driving fancy team OF horses through tho
streets OF Bismarck sny day in the week,
with nothing to prevent his escape.
William Gilchrist, aged 81, committed sui.
eide at Madison by shooting himeelf through
tho hond s<v So - bc
the cause for the rash act. Young Gilchrist's
family were highly respected, his father be-
ing deacon in the Presbyterian church.
Frank Elliott, who elopsd from Centerville
last November with the wife of D. j. Rocky,
was brought back recently from Leadville,
COL, and he and the woman placed under
5000 and $500 respectively to appear for
trial on q charge of adultery.
In the Rapid City land district there ore
nearly 1000, 900 acres of land, about 2,OOO.-
900 acres of which are subject to entry under
the various land laws, while the balance,
which is situated in that section recently be-
longing to the reservation, is subject to entry
under the homestead law only.
Last year Lincoln county produced $685.
1874 bushels of wheat, 827 ,48O bushels ofOats,
1,OC3,OOA Uuouc1S VI COIu, OSs6CV uu6uclS vi
barley, 2,C47 bushels of rye, Its, 1886 bushels
of fax 81, 848 bushels OF potatoes and sc, 693
tons of hay. Lincoln claims to be the banner
farming county of the state.
A peculiar family reside in Pennington
county. consisting of father, mother and
seven children. The oldest boy and girl are
twins aged IA; the next two girls, aged 10,
are also twins, and the youngest of the fami-
ly are three little triplet girls, aged 3 years.
All the children are perfectly formed and very
pretty.
The Brookings agricultural college has re.
Gently been furnished with two three-inch
field pieces and gun carriages, $50 Spring
field rifles and q quantity of ammunition for
target practice and salutes. First Lieut..
Lazy, of the Fourth artillery. has been Or
dered to report at the college as professor OF
military science and tactics.
Rev. John Eastman, the Indian preacher,
of Flandreau, has gone to Washington in
the interest of the Flandreau Indians in the
matter of the payment of their share of the
proceeds in the sale of the Sioux reservation,
the proposed manner of which is not alto
gether satisfactory. He is also interested in
the manner in which the restored ann uities
of the Sisseton Indians shall be paid, claim
ing a share for some OF the Flandreau In
dams, who are Sissetons.
The snake story season has opened in tho
Black Hills. The Rapid City Journal tells of
a yearling calf belonging to farmer near
that city which had become sick without any
apparent reason, and which grew worse and
worse until it finally died. A post norton
examination was determined upon, and on
opening the animals stomach a snake glided
out. The reptile was captured and proved
to be a water snake, eighteen inches long.
The calf while drinking at a creek last sum-
mer had evidently swallowed it, but being
small it gave the animal no trouble at first.
In the meantime the snake had grown, and
the larger it grew the more troublesome it
became to the cali, growing SO large at last
as to cause death.