The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
SOUTH DAKOTA

A single mine in the Black Hills has already
paid nearly $4,000, 900 in dividends.
In answer to a correspondent the Parks
ton Advance says that peanuts can be grown
with success in South Dakota
The mineral water of Hot Springs prom
ises to become world famous. 1t is now be-
ing shipped by the carload.
Twenty-three members of the lower house
of the South Dakota legislature are bald
headed.
Fourteen years ago the Bluck Hills were
settled by white men. The average popula-
tion since then has been about 10000.
An idea of the growth of Yankton can be
had from the fact that in 1880 the tax levy
was $4,000. while in 1889 the levy reached
$4,000.
Fifty two different minerals are found in
the Black Hills of South Dakota. Twenty.
five of these are mined. Several other miner
as are found not yet determined.
There was entered under the pre-emption
homestead and timber culture laws in South
Dakota in 1889, 2,392, 94o acres of farm
land.
George Burnam, the young man who got
lost on his way from Newcastle to Deadwood
q few weeks ago and was badly frozen, has
had both his legs amputated.
Eastern parties are making an effort to &C.
cure the gaslight franchise of Rapid City, and
if successful will put in plant cost ting in the
neighborhood OF 100000.
The Salvation army has raised the siege of
Mitchell for the present. The Republi can
speaks very highly of the manner in which
the meetings were conducted in that city.
In q shooting scrape ut Pierre a COW punch
er named BalIou had his ear shot off by a
tough named Hull. Hull was arrested and
bound over to the grand jury in the sum of
$500.
At the meeting Of the Farmers alliance of
the Black Hills district, held at W hitewood
recently, resolution was adopted protest
ing against the proposed reduction in the
number of members in the general assembly.
The opinion expressed was that where there
is a large membership there is less danger of
robbery.
At Waterbury the other day Squire Atkins
had miraculous escape from serious injury.
He was being lowered into a we'll fifty feet
deep by aid of bucket and windlass. When
about twenty feet down the crank slipped
from the hand of the man above and Atkins
tumbled clear to the bottom. When taken
out he was found to have escaped with few
bruises.
The Oneida Waterman has received in
formation that the Chicago and Northwest
ern company has concluded to continue it's
line from Gettysburg to Pierre, and that the
lire when constructed will cross the Okobojo
near Clifton 1t is thought the survey will be
made and grading commenced early in the
spring. The reason for building this short
line is to connect the north country with the
Black Hills extension at Pierre and to pre-
vent the Manitoba from building it's surveyed
line from Aberdeen to Pierre
While oiling the shaft Of an ore crusher in
the Old Abe mine at Lead City, the clothing
of William Fullerton became entangled in
the machinery, and he was whirled around
the rapidly revolving shaft for some time be-
fore he was discovered and the belt thrown
Off When taken out it was found that his
lower limbs were terribly mangled, the flesh
torn from one hand and one rib broken.
He was removed to the Homestake hospital,
were both both legs we're ampututed and his
sufferngs eased rs much as possible, but
there is small hopes of his recovery.
WISCONSIN,.
William Thompson, who took poison in
the Reedsburg jail died a few hours later.
Will J. Walther, of Fond du Lac is under
bonds OF q charge that he robbed the mails.
William Witzcl an Oshkosh teamster, has
CHAMBERS. He contracted the disease from q
horse.
Judge Briggs, of Ipswich S. D., is at Sparta
soliciting aid for the suffering people of his
county.
The draw of the bridge across the river at
La Crosse is the longest on the Mississippi,
and the third longest in the United States
VIM. B. Shaw, native OF Amigo, has gone
from Johns Hopkins university to New York
state as state librarian.
The warm weather OF the past few days so
honeycombed the ice at La Crosse that the
icemen were obliged to suspend operations
Mrs Rudolph Kinsley. an old resident of
Palmyra, fell dead while preparing meal
1t is supposed that her death was due to
heart disease.
Phelps Perrin is to be arrested ut Hurley
for embezzling 81 500. He is the chap who
is supposed to know more than he will tell
dOouo OHC CHelC vi %f4 ,OOO VI cApTtb6 MOucy
from a Hurley bank.
Alter digging a we'll through DRIFT forma-
ton, twenty five feet deep, on he farm OF
John Crawlay, at Little Prairie, Walwortl,
county. the workmen struck pieces of cedar
that were in good state of preservation.
G. Auwater, an old resident of Eureka, left
| ostensibly to visit his sons in the West. No
information being received of him, it was sup
posed to be a case Of mysterious disappear.
ance until the family learned indirectly that
he had recently been seen in Germany
While E. L. Perry. a dentist at Springfield,
Marquette County, was heating his vulcaniz-
er in the kitchen stove ut his residen &c, it
exploded. and blew the stove to fragments.
There were four persons in the room, but no
one was injured.
Congressman Caewell, who has return cd to
Washington from FIT. Atkinson, is accom-.
panied by Miss May and Harlow Caswell, his
daughter and son, who will remain in Wash