Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-08
IN THE WEST.

TERRIBLE forest fires have been rag
ing for over week in Eldorado county,
California, and more than forty square
miles Of country have been burned over.
TO the west of the Garden Valley many
dwellings, barns, hay, fences, and thou
sands Of acres of dry feed have been de-
stroyed. When the fire approached the
town of Pilot Hill all hands turned out
to attempt to check it's progress They
had no effect. Half dozen houses on
the outskirts of town, the postoffice, sa-
loon, store building and three large res
licences were quickly burned At Burner
Hill there is nothing left but hotel,
school house and two or three scatter
ing dwellings. Many farmers and ranch
ers are rendered penniless and homeless
by the fire.
SECRET correspondence at the con-
vention Of the Irish National League of
America just held in Chicago shows
Parnell to have been guilty Of the
grOssest pertidity. The league recog-
niZed no leader outside of the United
States. M. V. Cannon, of Omaha, was
elected to succeed Mr.. Fitzgerald as
president.
AT Chicago last week some increase
is seen in receipts of corn, oats and
cheese and an eighth In cattle, a third
in wool, and wheat receipts are five
times and rye receipts eighth times last
years, but decrease appears of a half in
lard, third in cured meats and fifth
in barley.
THE national executive committee
elected by the irrigation congress re-
Gently held in Salt Lake City, Of which
Gov. Thomas Of Utah Is chairman, are
vigorously organizing campaign in the
states interested in irrigation, the force
of which viii be felt in Washington next
winter.
BUTTERMAKERs from nearly every
state in the northwest are in session at
Chicago. The meeting was called for
the purpose Of forming an association
the main object of which is to raise the
standard of buttermakers and thus
raise the standard of butter.
FIRES in Eldorado county, Cal,
burned over section of forest thirty
five miles in length and twenty miles
wide and wiped out the little town of
Pilot Hill. Forty families lost all their
possessions, barely escaping with their
lives.
THE chairman of the Western Traffic
association notified President Hill, of
the Great Northern, that his proposed
reduction of grain rates will break up
the association, and Mr. Hill intimates
that he doesn't care.
UNITED STATES secret service men
are collecting counterfeit coins from
Chicago dealers who have taken them
in in the course of business. From one
firm alone they secured ten pounds of
bad coin.
The sorgham sugar industry in Kan
Sas and the beet sugar industry in Ne
braska, Utah and California will reach
fully 100000 pounds this season.
mortgage companies were ordered to
discontinue business in New York be-
cause they are unlicensed.
FIFTY houses were wrecked and sew
eral people hurt by an explosion of giant
powder in the hosting house of mine
at Butte, Mont.
AN Oklahoma judge decides that In
dian children cannot be kept in school
against the wishes of their parents.
FOREST fires are raging in Northern
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Two towns
have been destroyed and others are in
danger.
A WHOLE family is thought to have
persisted in forest fires near Turtle
Lake, Wis.