The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
NEWSFROM THE DAKOTAS.

Yankton county has sixty-two artesian
wells.
The Pierre Daily Free Press has made
its appearance.
An election is to be held at Chamber
lain Jan. 10, to vote on incorporation az
city under the general law.
Governor Mellette has appointed E. H.
Huntington, of Webster, adjutant gen.
eral in place of Gen. ]. S. Houston, of
Redtield, resigned.
president Loucks, of the South Dakota
Farmers alliance, has resigned to accept
the presidency of the National alliance.
Vice President Gardner will succeed
him.
The South Dakota Educational insti-
tute will hold it's annual meeting at
,Yankton, commencing Dec. 26. Three
hundred visitors and members will bo in
attendance.
Congressman Hansborough has intro
duced a bill asking for $500, 900 to build
locks and dams in the Red River of the
North, to facilitate navigation and irri-
gate the low lands.
J. II. c. Young, clerk of the South
Dakota supreme court has announced
that the first term of that court will be
held at Pierre on the first Tuesday in
February, ID. Corson presiding.
The secretary of the Commercial club
of Sioux Falls, shipped three large dray
loads of clothing and sent $51 cash as a
Christmas gift fIom the pupils of the
public schools here to the Miner county
sufferers.
AT the annual oratorical contest at
Sioux Falls, between the students of the
Sioux Falls university and the State
Baptist college, Paul Ewert. of Pipe
stone, Mimi, vas awarded the first
prize, and +. V. Pierce the second.
About seventy-five men from East
Pierre went over onto the reservation,
opposite the capital, with teams and lum.
Der, Saturday night, and started to
build a town. They were driven of by
the blizzard and half-breeds, but claim
they will try again.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are cpl
demic in Campo ell county. Forty cases
are reported, twenty-six of which
proved fatal. Mitchell, Huron and Alb
erdeen also reported several deaths from
these diseases. Some of the public
schools have been closed,
Auditor Taylor and Public Examiner
Blanchard have revoked the charters of
the Dakota Mutual Life association,
Farmers Live Stock association and the
State Live Stock association, all of
Plankinton. Complaint had been made
that they were not sound.
Natural gas has been discovered at
Redtield, Sphinx county. The find is the
strongest yet found in the state, and its
quality of the best. The discovery was
made by parties digging for water. The
pressure is so great that it carries sand
and gravel sixty feet into the air. This
is the fourth discovery of the kind made
in South Dakota within sixty days.
w. L. Cooley, cashier of the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha rail
way, at Sioux Falls, is reported missing.
His accounts are said to be in bad condi-
tion. and while the amount of his short
age has not been made public, it cannot
be much less than S 1000. Cooley has
held the position for some time, and his
reputation has always been first-class.
DR.. Gamble, of Leola, has lust re-
turned from the Heyd settlement, in
Mcpherson county, and has the names of
thirty-seven Russian children who died
with diphtheria. OF all the cases only
two have recovered. The epidemic is
confined to fourteen miles square, but
unless the state board of health takes
prompt steps it will spread.
Reports of a massacre of settlers in the
vicinity of Fort Sully are unfounded.
Squatters have been moving upon the
reservation in the lowlands along the
Missouri river, and the Cheyenne Sioux
nave made ugly threats, but the whites
have not been molestcd. There are four
companies of the Twelfth United States
infantry there who are able so quell any
outbreak in a few hours.
f. P. Moore, of Louisville, Ky., who
had the work of alloting the land of the
Yankton Indian reservation to the Indi.
ans, has completed his labors. He says
that of 400, 900 acres of land in the reser-
walton the Indians have taken 200. 900
acres, leaving the same amount to be
taken up by settlers when the reserva-
ton is opened, every acre Of which is
choice agricultural land.
Ex-Auditor McManima is now engaged
in having published his annual report to
the governor of the Dakotas. All the old
territorial officials are making their re-
ports on a joint request of the governors
OF the two states. 1t is made for the
purpose of keeping up the records of the
territory up to the date of the admission
and will be taken up by the state officers.
The old officers were not obliged to make
the reports, but, upon the governors re-
questing it they all consented.
G. H. Vantassel, deputy collector of the
revenue department for South Dakota,
collected $500 in fines from the liquor
dealers of Sioux Falls last week. During
this year a large trade has sprung up De,
tween Sioux Falls liquor dealers and
Iowa parties, and this was carried on
under the retail license. The collector
appeared suddenly on the scene and sue
ceeded in collecting the amount stated
of the dealers, who felt relieved to get
off SO easy.
Pierre Free Press: Tony Hengle is the
happy possessor of a bone. 1t is a big
bone and was found fifteen feet under
ground where he is e~xcavating
for a building in Pierre. The
bone in question is evidently a portion of
the thigh of a m%astodon, and if complete
would measure eighteen inches in cir
conference. In this connection we
might add that a number of those large
bones have been found hereabouts, and
the theory Is that they were brought
here in the drift during the glacial pc
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