Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09
in THE WEST.

THE weather crop bulletin for last
week says: Over the region east of the
Rocky mountains, the week has been
warmer than the corresponding week of
any previous year of which there is
record in this office. This abnorma al
condition OF the weather applies espe-
cially to the central valleys and lake
region, where the average daily temper
aturc was from ten to twenty degrees
above the normal. 1t was from six to
ten degrees above the normal over the
greater portion of the cotton belt and in
New England and the middle Atlantic
states. The unusually high tempera-
ture with continuous clear weather. has
made the corn crop mature, and the
large crop is practically safe from in
jury from frost. The weather condi-
tions were unfavorable for fall work,
owing to continued drought and dryness
of soil in the winter wheat region. The
temperature was slightly below the nor
NAL to the west of the Rocky noun
tains, except at the Pacific coast, where
the normal temperature prevailed.
A REPETITION of the scenes in the
rush for farms week before in the
Sac and Fox reservations was witnessed
at Chandler, a new town in the rcserva-
ton, when the government threw open
the plat for the town site. When the
volley of musketry announced the sig
nal for entry 5000 men and women, in
q cOnglomerate mass on horse and foot.
started pell nell in a race for the choice
lots. The advance lines from the con-
verging angles met in the center and
many were endorsed and trampled I'M
der foot, number killed and many
wounded and bruised. The insane
crowd rushed over the dead bodies and
acted more like savages than Christians.
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 a campaign in the
states interested in irrigation, the force
of which will 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
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 27,0oO,0OO pounds this season.
r NUMEROUS Iowa and other western
mortgage companies were ordered to
discontinue business in New York be-
cause they are unlicensed.
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 aud others are in
danger.
A WHOLE family is thought to have
persisted in forest fires near Turtle
Lake, Wis.
The Oklahoma rush was not accom-
panied by single killing.