Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-23
South Dakota Doings.

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South Dakota Doings.
PosToFFIcE has been established at
Fislo, Campbell county.
THE United States land Office at Pierre
opened for business on the 18th.
THE work of building the second pom
toon bridge at Pierre has been COM
menced.
SEVERAL head of cattle died from
"blackleg" in the vicinity of Leola last
week.
The new town OF Piedmont is to have
a newspaper, the Pioneer, which will APP
pear May 90,
THE farmhouse of j.. NJ. Mead, near
Blunt, with all its contents, was destroyed
by fire q few nights ago. Loss, 81, 800.
The steamer Chaska, which passed up
the river a short time ago en- route from
Pittsburg, Pa, for Bismarck, has arrived
at her destination.
TIE Dakota Knights of Labor Printing
and Publishing company has filed articles
of incorporation with the secretary of state.
The headquarters of the company will be
at Aberdeen.
WHILE boring for water on o farm in
Sully county the other day a strong flow of
gas was struck at Il depth of 200 feet. Mud
and gravel We're thrown from the well sew
eral feet into the air.
IHE annual spring roundup on the Lit
tie Missouri ranges begins May 20. The
calf crop has been exceptionally large, and
Gf0okrQn oyoonf fhic W - - .no1.o -. r.
all the losses OF the past two or three
seasons.
THE Brown county Sunday school con-
vention will be held at Aberdeen, June is
and 10.
MANY acres of old lake beds in the
vicinity of Volga are being plowed AND
seeded with fax.
IT is expected that 1000 Russians will
settle in Mcpherson and adjoining coun-
ties this season.
CONTRACTS have been let for the sink
ing OF six ~artesian wells in Sphinx county at
an average of $1,000, Oh a basis Of 1000
feet to each we'll.
THE Brown county Farmers alliance
will meet at Aberdeen on the 23d inst. for
the purpose Of recognizing the order on
the secret plan.
NowL1N citizens are considering a prop
osition to establish a fifty barrel Touring
mill at that place.
CHAMBERLAIN and Kimball will send a
combination hose team to the fremen's
tournament at Pierre.
A STAGE line is now running between
Chamberlain and Rapid City, taking in the
new towns on the route.
THE w. C. T. U. of the Third distric.
will meet at Faulkton June 8, A and S. The
district comprises ten counties.
liz is predicted that Nowlin, one of the
reservation counties now being settled,
will cast 1000 votes at the fall election.
EAD boy in the Plankiuton reform
school is lG years old, weighs 200 pounds
and shoots up into the air 6 feet and 3
inches. r 3 "a
The Norwegian holiday, May II, will be
appropriately celebrated at Miller, one of
the features being a balloon ascension with
q parachute descent. &
THE government supplied the Flandreau
Indians last week with twenty-five horses,
sixty COWS, and a large quantity Of house
hold furniture and other articles.
IN the first criminal case in Stanley
~county-that of the state against Love La
kota and Mrs. Eli Spotted Bear, charged
with adultery-the defendants were dis
missed fol lack of sufficient evidence to
convict them. This is believed to be the
first time on record that au Indian has an.
peared in a civilized court Of Justice to he
tried for the above crime.
IHE Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val.
ley will work shortly on the
tunnel route between Whitewood and
Deadwood. A change has been made IN
the tunnel location whereby the length of
the same is reduced from 1850 to $50
feet.
IHE South Dakota republican state con-
vention is called to meet in Mitchell on the
9th OF August. That point being settled,
the Repu0tacdn suggests: "Now, let's all
go out of politics for a month or SO and at
Tend to business. The outlook is most
promising for a prosperous year in this
section"
ELEVEN business blocks are in course
OF construction at Pierre.
THERE are twenty five Sunday.schools
in Charles Mix county, with an enrolment
of 1900 scholars.
HE joint commission to make a final
settlement between North and South Da-
kota organized by electing Auditor BRAY.
OF North Dakota, chairman, and Auditor
Taylor, of South Dakota, secretary. Ex-
Deputy Territorial Auditor Gerton. of
Pierre, and the deputy public examiner of
Fargo have leen appointed clerks and will
prepare q statement to present to the com.
Whiea meets on the goth.