The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-06-28
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Northern extended to that town.
The commissioner of pensions at Wash
ington has appointed examining sur
geons in South Dakota as follows: Drs.
c. j. Lane and E. w. hurry, Redfeld;
DR.. N. S. Reed, Ashton, and DR.. j. L.
Foxton, Huron.
Sioux Falls claims the youngest SOL
dier. c.. H. Wynne, a lawyer, enlisted
at Vermillion, Ills, in Company I, Thir-
ty-fifth Illinois volunteers, at the age of
IL years, II months and 2 days. His
service extended though a periodic three
years.
Work has been commenced on a new
gas plant at Pierre. According to the
terms of the franchise three miles of
mains must be laid and the works in full
operation by Jan. /. Work has also
been commenced on an $780, 600 brick
block on Pierre street to he built by q
Minneapolis syndicate.
Lawyer Kratx, vice president of the
Mitchell Security bank, well known
throughout the state, and a candidate for
register of the Mitchell land Office, was
seriously injured at Sioux Falls, by being
trampled by a runaway team. He can.
hardly recover. Judge A. J. Edgerton
had q narrow escape.
William Hamlick, a former convict in
the Sioux Falls p~enitentiary, and who
was terribly crippled in a polishing ma
chine at the Drake polishing works dur
ing his Incarceration, has brought suit
against d. 8. Glidden and the Drake
company for $4,000 damages. Glidden
was warden of the ~penitentiary at the
time of the accident.
The excitement still runs high at Salem
over the natural gas we'll which was
struck on the farm of M. Duclose. He
has conducted it into his house and is
using it successfully for cooking and
heating. On account of the lateness Of
the season and the supply of fuel on
hand, it may not be brought into town
before spring.
of the Yankton reservation, Charles
m Mix e epo,ssd o are b bec t%n %glo,s very
arrests which have lately been made BY
Deputy United States Marshal Simpson,
of Douglas county, on the charge Of cut
ting timber on the reserve. 1t is claimed
the timber was taken simply to keep the
settlers warm.
The enforcement league. which was
organized to enforce the %prohibitory law
in South Dakota, has decided to take no
steps until after the legislature provides
q penalty for the violation of the law.
A fund is being collected for the prose-
cution of all offenders after that date,
the first call being for $1O0,0 DOC. The nom
partisan prohibition organization which
so successfully managed the last cam
paign, is in debt $4,000.
While digging cellar for a house
about q mile above the town of Fort
Pierre, workmen made a ghastly find in
the shape of seven human bodies. Four
have been fully identified IS those Of
four soldiers who were missed from Fort
Bennett on Jan. II, last. Their names
are Lawrence w. Chandler, Corporal.S.
S. Ioman and Peter Mckinney, regulars,
and Lieut.. Edward Donnelly. They
were frozen in the storm of Jan. 10, and
| afterward found and buried by q band
Of Sioux Indians.
Sioux Falls was excited last week over
a rumpus between the chief of police,
| Mayor Wildly and the Salvation Army.
When the Salvation Army opened its
usual street services the chief Of police,
at the command of the mayor, interfered,
arrested the leaders of the organization
| while engaged in devotional exercises,
dragged them ruthlesly from their places
of service. %andlocked them up in the cal
aboose. a crowd demanded their re-
lease, which was granted. The army
! will sue the chief.