Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-13
sTRAYED AND STOLEN

Revival meetings are the rage in
southern Ohio.
A Northern Pacific agent at Seattle
is short S5O,OO0.
The condition of trade is reported
practically unchanged.
The farming prospects in the south
is the worst for forty years.
Colorado reports state that portions
OF the state are buried in snow.
Peter Cadotte, of Dunseith. Dakota,
shot a mammoth lynx last week.
President VanHorne of the Cana
dian Pacific denies some stories.
Emperor William did not succeed
very well in his naval project.
The trustees of the Chicago sanitary
district issue an address to the people.
Three-fitths of the taxes collected in
Moody county are for school purposes.
The Mayville normal school approp-
Ration bill got through the house H.
nally.
Clark Haggart has been selected
wardea of the North Dakota peniten-
tiary.
Indian Commissioner Morgan gives
his opinion in regard to the expediency
| OF disarming Indians.
Mayor Shakespeare Of Orleans is
threatened with assassination if any
Italians are convicted.
Some of Sanborn county's citizens
are working up county seat removal
scheme. Forestburg is said to be the
choice Of the alliance.
Prof. Homer B Sprague has rendered
his resignation as president Of the
North Dakota State university. He
will remove to California.
The package" houses are not doing
such a rushing business at Pierre as
they did before the legislature adjourn
ed. The Pierre journal is authority
1t may be taken AS settled fact
that the farmers of North Dakota have
gone into the sheep raising business.
There were 100000 sheep brought into
the state last year.
The Northwest News Office was de.
stroJed by fire at Grand Forks Friday
morning. Nothing but the Office books
were saved. Several other buildings
were also consumed ~.
Forty-two printing offices in North
Dakota made reports to the commits
sioner ofagriculture and labor. These
Offices paid for labor during the last
year the sum of$l46,282 nearly as much
as all the other manufacturing indus
tries combined.
The first artesian we'll sunk in Sphinx
county expressly for irrigation pur-
poses has just been completed on j w
Bakers farm, about five miles south
of Mellette. The well is 92O feet deep
and the volume of water is estimated
at about 1000 gallons per minute.
The sheep industry is growing in
this stste says the Iroquois Chief. The
more sheep the more wool; the more
wool the more money; themore money
the more good times; Get sheep; raise
them; shave them. Shake off your
mortgages. Start new and beware of
debts.
VIM McLaren, of Bachelors Grove,
gathered a full crop OF apples last from
trees set out by HIM five years ago.
The trees were planted in sheltered
place,:but received no more than ordiu-
airy care necessary to raise any trees.
The apples are said to be of very fine
quality.
A civil service examination will be
held at Yaukton on Tuesday April IA
when any party wishing to apply for
a governmental position can be ex-
amined as to proficiency and have
their names enrolled for place. The
state is entitled under the census to
more appointments, and 1t is probable
that parties who pass an examination
in April Will get employment at an
early date.
Hans p Moe, a Sioux Falls stone
mason, lmagines that the masons are
after him and want to kill him. His
insanity became very noticeable Sat
urday when estated to his boarding
house keeper that he proposed to Gus
an artery in his arm and drink his own
life current as it ebbed away. He
further applied to a minister and in
sisted that his funeral ceremonies be
performed in advance. The matter
was reported to the police, but the de-
luded man has disappeared: His fam
lily IN Hanlay Falls, Mimi, have been
notified.
HARMsTON EXPLAINS.