Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-02-27
some OfciaI Matters

the following nominations: L. H. Bailey,
register of the land Office at Pierre;
Fl. FL. Natwick, register of the land Office
at Chamberlain; E. W. Ekin, re-
ceiver of public moneys at Pierre;
w. T. LaFollette, receiver of public
moneys at Chamberlain.
THE president has appointed B. s..
Williams to be receiver of the land Office
at Yankton.
7. NJ. DUNNIGAN has been appointed
postmaster at Silver City, Pennington
county, a fourth class office.
THE committee on public lands have
made favorable report on the bill to re-
peal the timber culture laws, etc. The bill
was introduced by Representative Pickler.
SENATOR MOODY has secured the pas
sage of abill creating customs collection
district, consisting of the states Of North
Dakota and South Dakota.
Briehets.
The Mead County bank will be opened
at Tilford.
A LITERARY society has been organized
at Rec Heights.
STINGs is the name of new postofice
in Potter county. s4Z..s,.s -.
AposToFFIcE has been established at
Percilla, Sully county.
THEltreasurer OF Custer county is re-
ported to be short in his accounts to the
amount of $4,000. Examiner Blanchard
has obtained his resignation. His bonds
men are amply able to make the loss good.
In an equal suffrage speech at Wolsey,
Mrs. j. Fl. DeVoe, Of Huron, declared that
South Dakota was to be made the battle
ground Of woman suffrage and that some
of the best speakers on the question in the
country had been engaged to stump the
state.
MRS. K. L. ANDERSON, aged rs, was
frozen to death near her home, three miles
northwest of Aberdeen. She was blind,
and the family watched that she did not go
out of doors alone. She got up in the
middle of the night and went out In her
night clothes.
A PROPOSITION to amend section 1, ar
ticle 7, of the constitution, has been intro
ducedin the legislature which makes it nee
essary for any person to be capable of read
ing properly any article Of the constitution
or any section Of the compiled laws before
being voter.
AT meeting of citizens OF fort Pierre
resolution was passed expressing the
thanks of the city to Col. A. G.. Tassen,
U. s. A., for the able and gentlemanly
manner in which he and his command con-
Quoted the recent opening of the reserya.
tion at that point.
LOOSE DIRT, prominent Sioux chief,
died of la grippe at Chief Chargers camp,
near Forest City.
HUGHES county is the only county ly-
ing east Of the Mississippi river in the
Pierre land district.
A FLOUR mill of twenty five barrels Ca
pacity, to be operated by water power, is
to be completed at Beulah by May 1.
THE Master Workman, monthly de-
voted to the interests of the A. o. U. w.
of the two Dakotas, has been established
at Pierre.
ALL the G. A. R. posts in South Da-
kota have been supplied with maps of the
battlefelds of the late war at the request
of Congressman Pickler.
THE work of constructing the floats for
the pontoon bridge across the Missouri at
Pierre will soon be commenced, and will
furnish employment for fully 100 men.
THE Blunt Town Site company, owning
fifty acres on the Bad River junction, on
Mitchell creek, Nowlin county, sixty miles
west of Pierre, have plated town named
Midland.
THE new town of Sherman, across the
river from Chamberlain, was blessed with
a newspaper before it was week old. The
paper is named the Leader, and is pub
lished by Auld q Taubman.