Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-12
Dakota Briefs.

THREE little children of Samuel Nc
Mackins, at Salem played with shot
gun. Now there arc two.
MRS. MAY BONE PARISH, who used to
live near Onida, has been remarked to
her former husband in Indiana.
INDEcRATs alternates with demopend-
ents is South Dakota name for the
political combination which is "agin the
guv'ment."
THE Deadwood Times notes the re-
ceipt of carload Of beer, ten barrels of
whisky and one of wine by firm of that
place on one day.
MOODY county is one of the three in
South Dakota that has neither warrants
nor bonds outstanding. The other two
are Hand and Lincoln.
THERE are 5000 sheep in Potter
county and as many in Sully county.
FL. T. rutland is under 81 900 bonds at
Deadwood for uttering counterfeit
money.
SPHINX county has $34, 900 in the treas
ury. The county has no bonded debt
and very few outstanding warrants.
CHINESE laundrymen are taxed $50 Ii
cense in Lead City. The slant-eyCd Mon
golians ''muchee no likee," but the au-
thorities are obdurate.
Four years ago Sphinx county had four
teen newspapers and now there are six.
The Worthwhile Advance is the latest to
give up the ghost.
PETITIONS are being circulated in
Charles Mix county asking the county
commissioners to call a special election
to determine whether or not the county
shall expend $4,000 in the purchase of
two or more artesian well outfits.
FRED PATTERSON, of Rock Bluffs,
Cass county, is good deal OF Pooh
Bah He is justice Of the peace, road
overseer, school district treasurer and
postmaster.
THE authorities of Lead are promised
some fun in collecting the $50 yearly IL
cense levied on Chinese laundrymen.
John objects to discrimination and says,
"Allee white woman pay, me pay"
The Dakota Irrigation company at
Aberdeen has contracted to sink three
more artesian wells in Brown county.
The company has reasonable expecta-
ton of putting down some twelve or fif-
teen wells during the coming season.
THERE is talk at Yankton of suing
Rand, McNally & Co. for damages.
They published railway guide crediting
Yankton with only 1880 population
while Mitchell was given 5000.
Col. JOHN I'll. BURNEs, of Deadwood,
has prepared a lecture on the Indian sit
uation, which he will deliver in the east
ern cities. He gathered a good deal of
data during the present trouble, being a
participant therein.
JOHN C. CARNE, at work in the 400
foot level of the Homestake mine, at
Lead, walked into an open chute and fell
to the 500-foot level. He was instantly
killed. He was an Engllshman and a
recent arrival. His age was % years,
and he leaves family in England.
SOUTH DAKOTA challenges the world
to beat or even equal the following
record: Christian Hansen, Of Gem
township, Brown county, is the owner of
COW o years of age that has given
birth to seven calves in the past four
years, all of which are living and are
called excellent stock.
e. j. COOPER, the Deadwood agent OF
the Wells Fargo express, was married on
Wednesday ct Denison, Ia. to Miss
Sadie Harker, formerly manager Of the
Western Union Office at Deadwood. They
90 on wedding tour to California and
on their return will reside in Dcadwood.
BULLETIN No. 10, of the South Dakota
Agricultural college experiment station,
is devoted to the sugar beet. 1t is q
pamphlet of twenty-eight pages and con-
tains quite an exhaustive examination of
the soil, method OF culture and analyses
OF results. Persons interested can OBJ
tain the bulletin free of charge by adj
dressing the college, at Brookings.
.sJUDGE FULLER Is of the opinion that
Mrs. Eckhardt. whom he sentenced last
summer to the penitentiafy for the MUIR
der OF her husband In Faulk county, Is
! innocent Of the crime, says the Redfeld
| Journal. ssThe Judge was OF this
opinion, we understand, at the time Of
the trial, and he gave her the minimum
sentence OF the law, four years In the
penitentiary. She has recently become
Insane, and it Is likely that an effort will
be made to secure her pardon.p