Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-01-07
Dakota News.

PIERRE's improvements aggregate
$3.50, $50.
YANkToN's improvements aggregate
SASS, 317.
JUDGE Srour's residence at Ipswich
was burned.
PIERRE's two brick yards made 2 $780,
600 brick the past year.
THE rainfall at Yankton in 1890 was
21.24, 6.s5 below normal.
For the first time in It's history Brule
county is without q single republican
county officer.
A breeders association has been
formed in Edmunds county for mutual
protection and to promote sheep culture.
j. II. c. You've, of Yankton, late
deputy clerk Of the federal court of Da-
kota territory, has decided to move to
Montana.
W~EBsTER, Day county, expended &c.,
600 in building improvements.
THE Chamberlain Register Is publish
ing the Mckinley bill as q continued
story.
WESLEY ANDERSON, a prominent citi-
zen and old settler Of Lead, Is dead, aged
about So years.
THE Farmers alliance in Yankton
county proposes to send two car loads OF
supplies to the. drouth sufferers of South
Dakota.
The Yankton Journal, which claims to
be the only democratic morning paper in
both Dakotas, opposes Judge Bartlett
Trip for senator.
THE bleached bones of q buffalo carcass
will average fifty pounds. Minot shipped
$4,000 pounds this season. This is the
equivalent of 5000 butfaloes.
JOHN FITZPATRICK. q grader on the
Burlington & Missouri road in the Black
Hills, was killed by an explosion Of giant
powder, which he was thawing at Rock
ford. VIM. Mcdonald, who was with
him, was fatally injured.
THE coming OF the Seventh regiment
to Fort Sully has been q boon to q num-
Der Of Suily county farmers. II there is
anything an army officer is fond Of, it is
good fresh eggs, butter, milk, chickens,
and SO on. Forts Bennett and Sully have
thus always been quite q market to the
farmers in that neighborhood for their
produce, and the advent of another regi-
ment improves the market.
EARLY on the morning of the 31st ult.,
the dead body of DIR. Christensen, of
Belmont, was found In the road neal
Fisher. He left Fisher intoxicated on
Tuesday afternoon and fell out Of his
buggy. His leg caught in the wheel and
dragged him q long distance. The body
was badly muti!ated. He left . wife
and two children.
THE Lead Herald says: 1.-THE action
Of Mayor Star, Of Deadwood, in closing
all the saloons and then with the assist
ance of the city police turning the hose
loose upon the many hobos c~ongregated
on lower Main street, Is causing . heap
Of talk" The Herald thinks 1t was un-
wise, and that the fire of the Goth may
have been . result OF it.
CHARLES VALENTINE committed sui.
eide by shooting himself in the head at
Deadwood last Saturday. He was in
fatuated with q woman of the town
called Kitty Lambertson and jealous. A
letter which he left her stated that his
true name was Richard Calvert, and
that he was from Washington, D. C. He
was q railroad bookkeeper. His age was
about IS.
JOHN MILLER, who is confined IN Jail
at Redfeld, got the laugh on Deputy
Sheriff Hassell. Since his confinement
the cell door has not been locked and he
has been allowed to go into any part Of
the Jail at will. The other day Hassell
vent into the country, and, thinking he
would use y little more precaution than
usual, he locked Miller's cell. At about
3 o'clock Miller was seen on the street,
and asked j. E. Underhill, Of the Central
house, II he had the keys to the Jail,
saying: II got out Of Jail, but ID
II l can get In again"