Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-10
STATE NEWS.


STATE NEWS.
Pierre's new pontoon bridge has been
scattered.
Prime timothy hay, new crop, sold on
the streets Monday at $40, the lowest
ever realized in Deadwood. -Deadwood
Times.
Rain is needed in Pennington and
Custer counties. Crops are already
slightly damaged to some extent for lack
of sufficient moisture.
Three Of the original package houses
at Aberdeen have been closed by the
sheriff on iniunctions issued by Judge
Campbell, OF the circuit court.
On July the Missouri river was ten
feet above low water mark. 1t is not
often that it has remained so high after
the June rise as it has the present year.
The Highmore Herald says more
women voted at the late school election
in South Dakota than there were men
who voted at the school election in 1889.
1t is said that upon the completion OF
the Cheyenne & Northern to Douglas
about July 15, through trains viii run
from Denver to Whitewood, making the
run in fifteen hours.
A very extensive fire RACES in the
brush near the Elkhorn tunnel. II
started three days ago and has burned
over large area. No particular dam
age has resulted. The atmosphere is
heavy with smoke for miles around.
Deadwood Times.
The report that there is plenty oi
work in the Hills is discredited by the
Lead City Herald as follows: "Why
don't the proper officials call time or
those rascally employment agencies o
Omaha? They are deluging parts o.
the West with men whom they have
swindled out of couple of dollars each
which is charged as a commission fol
getting them a job-to walk back to the
East"
Intense excitement was caused a
Chamberlain Monday by the repor
brought there by Indians that ID. w
Spalding, clerk of the courts of tina
county, and his companions, have beer
killed by Indians. Agent Anderson a
once sent out a strong posse of Indiai
police for the purpose of investigating
the matter. Mr.. Spalding intended Il
| go west eighty or ninety miles and it i
believed he may have ran across part,
of Cheyennes from Pine Ridge which
may have been going to join their breth
rem in Montana. He has been in thi
country over twenty years and is proba
bly, better acquainted with the Indian
than any other white man. Further in
| telligence from the reservation is awaite
with the utmost anxiety.
i Pierre Free Press, July 3: Big prep
arations are going on at the famous Du
pree ranch on Cheyenne river, for an
other wedding which occurs, we are in
formed, next Saturday. The contracting
parties are Ed Dupree and Miss Mar
| Traversee. Miss Traverse is teache
at the Indian school at Noble and thos
} who are acquainted with the young lad
speak of her as being bright, pretty
, well educated and lady capable {
adorning the parlor of our best people
, Ed. Dupree is spoken of as steady, ir
dustrious, honest young man who wi
bring to his young bride worldly posses
; sions which will enable her to live j
ease and contentment-l live the life of
J lady. Miss Traversee has some India
) blood in her we are informed, and e
: Dupree's mother is full Indian. Thel
: will no doubt be grand time at Du
: pree's ranch Saturday night.
A dispatch to an Eastern paper frol
Glendale, N. D., dated July 5, say
that farmers there and throughout bot
, North and South Dakota are becomin
agitated over the scarcity of labo
: Hundreds of men are needed in ever
county to save the big wheat crop whic
4 AZ AoW SOAiA1s5 LOlWuiu. WuSCS WILL
from So to $3 per day from the openin
OF haying till the end of the threshin
season, July 15 to December /. OWN
to the partial failure of the crop last se
!. son the laboring men have been seekir
a employment elsewhere during the pa
# eight months, and thousands have gol
t to Washington, the West Superior r
L gion and the Sioux reservation. HUI
= dreds of farmers who have hitherto hire
n one or two men are doing all their ov
Q work this season. They have been alb
to get to the present stage without Il
K usual force OF laboring men, but viii
o stuck when harvest time comes unle
. there is a large Immigration. It is pro
> able that the railroads viii be petition'
IS to give special rate to harvest han
p and threshers.for ninety days, in ord
\ that the surplus labor of Mlnnesoi
% Wisconsin and Illinois may be induc
" to go that way.
at The editor of the Walla Walla, Wasl
)f Journal has tried FARMING and 10 II