The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16
SOUTH DAKOTA.

It was22 degrees below zero at Aberdeen on
the I'd.
The musical young men of Flandrau are
moving to get up minstrel performance for
the benefit Of the local poor.
The Turner county Democrat says there
is not a native Dakotan among the members
of the South Dakota legisla ture.
E. M. Coates, of Yankton, has sued the
Standard Oil company for $40, 600 damages
for appropriating his cars to their own use.
Thomas Bishop, editor of the Volga Trib-
une, has been chosen commander Of the Cen
trail Dakota Veterans association.
A Anine-year-old girl of Spring Lake town
ship, Kingsbury county, plowed eighty acres
ofland this fall with q three-horse sulky plow.
A grand jack rabbit hunt was the feature
New Years day at Pierre. One hundred men
and an army of dogs succeeded in killing
one rabbit.
The Alexandria Herald says that the ques-
tion now agitating every town in the state
is the saloon. Can it be run? Ifso, how?
Can it be closed? If so, how?
A valuable body of iron ore has been dis
covered near Hot Springs. new seven
inch vein of coal has also been discovered in
the gypsum beds below that place.
During 1889 Sioux Falls expe nded 80 5O2,-
521 in building improvements. About $50
residences and business blocks were erected
during the year.
Work on the Indian school at Rapid City
will becommenced early in the spring, and the
building is ex pected to be ready for occupan-
cy by October next.
Antoine Swanson, of Lead City, had his left
leg broken in two places below the knee and
the ankle thrown out OF joint by load of
wood falling on top of him.
The full mount of the defalcation of W. L.
Cooley, late cashier of the Omaha depot at
Sioux Falls, is $7S3, No trace of his where
abouts has been discovered.
Huro IL brewer proposes to turn his
brewery into o beet sugar factory. He
claims that the industry will increase the
/ ne st. Lawrence journal calls the atten-
ton of parents and guardians to the TACT
that juvenile gambling with cards, dice and
other devices is going on surreptltlously 10
quite an extent in town.
The Holland church in Signal township,
Charles Mix county, was burned down re-
Gently The fire caught from defective tiue.
Everything movable in the building was
saved
AZ eastern capitalist has been looking
over the gy psnm beds in the vicinity OF
Rapid City with view u. putting in plant
for the manufacture of plaster o. 1p!"is and
stucco.
The Chamberlain Register editor, having
tried both, thinks it more profitable as well
as more agreeable to go west and let the
''rain belt" alone than to go south and be
constantly under the necessity of carrying
a revolver belt.
The dyphtheria epidemic which has caused
s:Ich O terrible fatality in the Russian settle
ment in Mcpherson county was brought into
the settlement by Russian family that lost
tn rec children just before leaving their irnative
land. and two more on the ocean voyage
The disease is now we'll under con troll.
Mrs Cora Belle Chaska, wife ofChief Chaska,
and heroine of the sensational elOpeme mt
about two years ago, played the role OtSanta
Claus at Chief Chargers camp near Forest
City Christmas, and made the heart OF each
little papoose happy with present. Cora
Belle now has u little papoose of her own.
Something is wrong at Lennox. The In
dependent says: "A newspaper editor is talk
ed about more than anyone else in the COM
munity, especially by those who lack enter
prise aud push. Such drones are the gro wlers
and slanderers who are particularly loud
mouthed in their abuse OF a progressive editor
| who is usually compelled to defend men and
measures which conflict with the narrow
minded ideas of these stumbling blocks, who
! lack the good sense to get out of the way att
er being jostled about by thrifty, energetic
! citizens"