Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-04
SOME SOUTH DAKOTA GOSSIP
Plans to Be Sprung on the Worlds Fair
Meeting at Yankton.
TROUBLE IN GRAND ARMY CIRCLES.
Hon. \. H. Mcllctte Spouts About the
Gushing Artcsian wells in
the Ncighborhood
orHurou.

/ PIERRE May g. Special to TnE BEE. H.
/ south Dakotas meeting to arrange for au
exhibit at the Worlds Fair will be held at
| Ganktou on the 2ith of this month, ana it is
/ expected that it will be well attended. Pres
idcnt Loucks has agree to appoint four Nom
! bers OF the farmers alliance to represent
| thclr organization for the state at large. The
! regular appointment of each city and county
| promises 20 be large. Everything indicates
| that the state is thoroughly alive to the i'm
! portanco OF creditablc representation at
! this the greatest fetc OF nations that has ever
| been held, and "A full attendance at the Gank-
I ton meeting, as there is sure to be- will find
/ some way "out of the woods" There are q
! number Of schemes already suggested Sen
| atur PettigrCw proposed that stock company
| with capital of 100000 be formed, the stock
! to be distributed equally among the different
! counties, IN proportion to the population.
Hon. NJ. II. Day, of the national Comms.
/ sion, has a similar plan.
SONS OF VETERANS TROUBLES
The Sons Of Veterans Of this state hold
their annual eucampment at Pierre, begin
| ming May - aud continuing until the 22d
! One hundred and ttty members Will be in at
! tendance, besides the usual quota of visitors
| from different parts of the state At meet
! ing held at Falkton to establish camp of the
! sons of Veterans Major Humphrey yrosc and
/ denounced the order as a "scCrCt military
! organization dangerous to the country" This
! was duly repeued by Congressman Pickles
and others. At the annual cucampmcnt of
| the Women's Relief Corps at Naukton Miss
| Marietta NJ Bones created quite a sensation
| 10y having herself interviewed to tho effect
that the order was run for purely selfish
purposes" and that suffering among its own
members received no attention from its
leaders.
GOVERNOR MELLErTEs MOVEMENTS.
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MELVILLE ON AK1E'I\N WELLS.
Hon. \. h. Melville of Huron. who came
50 near being elected United States senator,
when asked for news political or otherwise,
answered that he knew of none except bust
ness. "DOwn our way he continued, I'VE
| are confident that tue artcsian basin is about
! to prove the greatest natural rcsoursc that
| this country possesses. For instance at
| Altoona, small town north of
| Huron, there is a three and five
eightns inch well that for the
| past yOar has run u SiXty-harrcl
Touring mill day and night Pretty fair sort
of pressure for a well of that size! No other
power is used. Then after the mill gets
through with the water 1t is utilized for irri-
cation. None of it is wasted. II waters two
sections of land very nicely and last year
raised twenty bushels of A No / hard wheat
where land adjoining it that was not irrigated
did not average more than five bushels of
wheat of a very inferior grade.
Our new well is the dandy, 1t is an
cight-inch one and the flow Is something
wonderful 1t Is down 500 feet and goes
through a hard stratum of rock at which all
the others have stopped. | said it was an
Cight-inCh. 1t is that to this hard rock
when with the flow that there then was, it
was necessary to have a six inch hole until
the lower vein was reached. This is the
present condition of the well, but the other
two inches will be reamed out rs soon as the
machinery eau be received