Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-05-22
south Dakota Events.

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SULLY county farmers are planting q
larger acreage of corn this season than ever
before.
ONIDA citizens have asked to have the
postoffice at that place put on the money
order list.
| A LIME kiln is being put in at Forest
City, being the only one within radius of
200 miles.
The Okobojo Times. one Of the biggest
weekly papers in South Dakota, has just
started in on its seventh year.
The Wesleyan chapel at Aberdeen was
broken into the other night and the contri
button box robbed of between 90 and $4.
L. w. RTGGLE, a Blunt attorney, was
thrown from his buggy by runaway
broncho and sustained internal injuries
that may prove fatal.
tHE tusk of mastodon was recently
unearthed near Whitewood. 1t evidently
belonged to monster. It measured feet
4 inches in length, ID inches in circumfer-
ence at the large end and 8 inches at the
small end,
A CONVENTION of officers of the law in
South Dakota has been called to meet at
Huron June 8, for the purpose OF organ
lzlng an association looking to the most
careful and thorough enforcement OF the
laws OF the state. The attendance is ex-
pected to be large.
The Frederick Free Press says Roswell
Miller. manager of the Miiwauk 90 railroad,
has shipped 200 barrels of salt into the
southern part of the county, to begiis-
tributed to the farmers and sown by them
on growing grain. 1t is believed that salt
ls good fertilizer and will also hold mois-
ture In the ground. This shipment is made
Tor the purpose Of experimenting. The
result will be looked for with interest.
FEW days ago three families of Fin
landers sattled on farms in the northern
part Of Beadle county, near Broadland.
In one of the families there are nineteen
children, in another seventeen, and in the
third nine, the parents of the last family
having been married hut ten years. These
families will soon be joined by four others,
all relatives, numbering forty-six persons,
making total of ninety-seyen persons in
seven families.
FARMERS in the neighborhood of Fort
Abraham Lincoln are alarmed at the propo-
slt1on to abandon the fort at the present
time. They say they settled in the country
with the understanding that they were TO
be protected agaiest the raids OF hostile
Indians, thousands of whom are camped
within days journey of the fort, and that
If the protection is withdrawn they will be
compelled to abandon their farms. A petit
tion will be forwarded to the war depart
ment.
The new town of Piedmont has bank.
The South Dakota theological institute
will meet at Yankton July 8 and continue
in session one week.
ABOUT 1880 men are employed in grad
ing the Burlington & Missouri road from
Dudley to Deadwood
MIss JosEHHTNE CRowFRATHER, q
fuil-blooded Sioux maiden, has taken the
veil at Yankton and become Benelictine
nun. Her father is Sioux chief.
Gov. MELLETTE refused to approve
leases of school lands made April 16 whore
the price was less than cent per acre, and
all such lands have been released.
The expenses of the recent session Of
the South Dakota legislature amounted to
$95, ,O34. 90. The senate cost the state $2s,-
553.10 and the house $50, 49,. 80, while
$4,000 was expended in legislative print
ing.
Mrs. Ollie GIBSON, of Elm Park, Doug
las county, became respondent over money
matters and attempted suicide by taking
laudanum. doctor was summoned, and
after some hours of hard work succeeded
in saving her life.
SUPERVISOR OF CENSUS WAKEFIELD.
whose district includes all that part Of
South Dakota east of the Missouri river.
states that ne mas diyided his disSfies into
420 sub districts, all the enumerators for
which have been appointed.