Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
Doings in South Dakota.

cases have been begun and Attorney Van
Nletere will handle them for his people.
Doings in South Dakota.
A scHEME is on foot to build a NAM
moth hotel at Lake Kampeska.
A E yacht will be one of the at
fractions at Lake Madison this summer.
ABERDEEN temperance saloons have
been ordered to desist from selling hard
c;ler.
The big Redwater irrigating canal, in
Butte county, is completed and in full
operation.
THERE was bonded in the vicinity of
Custer City during the past week $l75, 900
worth of tin property.
IT is estimated that fully 10, 600 people
have moved upon the reservation since it
was thrown open for settlement.
JOHN WENDELL, of Bookings, shot Mt
a snipe the other day and hit a young man
named Saddler in the face, tearing a hole
in his cheek.
IT has been decided by Attorney General
Dollard that all county superintendent of
schools of the state shall be elected at the
general election the same as other officers.
DURING his trip up the Missouri to the
Indian agencies Capt. Jack Crawford will
deliver several lectures on his experiences
on the frontier, the proceeds to be added
to the Mary Washington monument fund.
AN extensive barrel factory is to be To-
Gated at Yankton to supply the Western
Portland Cement company with barrels. 1t
is estimated that 1000 barrels will be
packed and shipped daily to the eastern
market.
JIM river fish are beginning to "bite"
pretty freely. A Brown county man is
willing to make affidavit that while he was
sitting in the stern of a boat the other day
a big fish suddenly Topped out of the water
and bit q chunk out of his back.
OVER a mile of new water mains are
being laid in Jamestown.
AN equal suffrage club with thirty-fve
members has been formed at Hecla.
The wool clip of the Dakotas this year
will be about 5000. 600 pounds, an increase
of 40 per cent. over last year.
AT Mayville the livery barn and feed
store of D. Ellerton, with twenty head of
horses, were destroyed by fire. Loss, ST.
600; insurance, $1,000.
THE Pierre land office is doing q "lan6
Office business"
THE new p%ontoon bridge just completed
at Pierre cost $3.50 0
AN original package Joint" is soon to
open up in Aberdeen.
WORK has commenced on q new hotel at
Moreno Beach, Lake Madison.
THREE silver tip bears were killed neal
DEVILS Tower one day last week.
PIERRE ladies have decided to hold q
bazaar during the iremen's tournament,
May 26 to 80.
The first teachers examination TO,
Stanley county will be held in Fort Pierre
May 2b and 81.
FORT PIERRE claims a population OF
LOCO. A vote on Incorporating the tow
will take place on the 2Sth inst.
WHITEWooD is to have a new reservoir
with o capacity of $4,000 gallons, to be
located 1870 feet above the business porto,
of the town.
AN old French ranchman named Duprt
owns a ranch OF the reservation which is
y "ACA A,oOO AOdO VI CdLll0, Jul
horses, and 26 buffalo.
CAPT. JACK CRAWFORD, the noted poe
scout, is making q tour of the Missouri
river agencies looking up cases of selling
liquor to the Indians for the government
SHERMAN BUTLER, of Orland, hired
tramp to work about the house, and dur.
ing the absence of his employer the tramr
hro1-a 80. =, &,r-lx ,k1 /.
of wedding clothes and got a brisk move
on himself.
CHARLES FINCH, q placer miner in Beal
Gulch, the other day stubbed his to-
against a gold nugget weighing four ounces
the largest found in the Black Hills TO,
some time.
KATE Ho1NsTA, daughter Of o farme,
living near Springdale, committed suicide
the other day by drowning herself in a
small lake near her home. She was tc
nave been married in afew days toa younf
man in the neighborhood.
In grading a railroad near Deadwood the
other day a huge rock was blasted and be.
hind it was found a small cave or well full
to the brim with snakes. Thousands O,
the reptiles were killed by the men, but no,
one rattler was found. They were of the
varieties knowD as bull and garter snakes
BUFFALO county comes to the from,
with O natu ;al gas we'll. While boring fo1
water five miles west of Duncan one day
last week q strong flow of gas was struck al
adepth of l@5 feet. Pebbles and mud were
thrown high in the air, and the noise Of
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siderable distance.