The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-07
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

An artesian gusher was struck near
st. Lawrence, at depth Of ll36 feet.
D. E. Robinson, of Ki-nball, claims
to have the first souvenir half-dOllar
received in the state.
John Westdahl, of Huron, was for
tunate enough to draw 5000 horse and
cutter at rattle Christmas eve.
The Eureka postoffice has been
made a presidential office and Frank
H. Hooper has been made 2. NJ.
! Codington and Hamlin counties
want to get married. They are a
pretty couple and there is no objec-
uion to the union.
Miss Bertha Kalder, an Artesian
school teacher, has the measles. The
only curious thing about it is that she
had them twice before.
The city of Worthwhile, in Sphinx
county, will soon bond for an artesian
we'll, and an effort will be made to
secure mill. Artesian wells furnish
excellent power.
Christ Olson, abou| 20 years old,
living five miles north OF Dell Rapids,
committed suicide Tuesday at noon
by hanging himself in the barn. Dis
appointment in love is the cause
assigned.
The next annual encampment of the
| Central Dakota Veterans association
will be held at Lake Preston. The
time has not been definitely set as
yet, out will probably be about the
middle Of June.
The city of Madison is delighted
over the prospect Of having passen-
ger train service on the run from
Bristol to that city, and sleeper from
there to Chicago. 1t is said that the
change will take place about January
1st.
Twamley Bros. of Alexandria,
shipped a car of hogs to Milwaukee
Thursday. D. F. Dolan was sent
along to take care of the hogs. He
proved to- be the biggest hog in the
lot as he collected the SS6O.0O and
skipped out.
The annual report of the state board
of pharmacy for 1892 has just been
issued. DR.. G. M. Excel, of Alexan-
dria. is mentioned as having received
the highest honors. There were four
examinations during the year and
thirty-nine applicants examined.
The long-drawn-out state printing
row was finally settled when the sec
retary of state entered into con-
tract with the Carter Publishing
Company for the first and second
classes of printing, comprising all leg
| islative work.
A house occupied byJ. J. Bowden,
five miles from kimban, caught fire
from stove Thursday night and
burned, with all its contents. The
family barely escaped with their lives
receiving serious burns. There was
no insurance. The temperature was
II degrees below zero.
Mrs. Williams, who recently got a
decree of divorce in this state from
her husband, who is q member OF the
wealthy shoe manufacturing firm OF
Williams, Hoyt & Co began suit last
week at Rochester, N. Y, to enforce
the decree, which gives her S32, ,OOC
alimony.
Hon. Harry Hunter is contemplate
the equipment of an electric light
plant for the purpose Of furnishing
Mellette and Worthwhile with the
light. The two towns are four miles
apart and Hunters artesian we'll is
between the two, which will furnish
sufficient power to run it.
e. H. Flynn, the eX-treaSurer of
Custer county, who has been on trial
at Hot Springs for the past few days
charged with embeZZling $4,000 of
the county funds, was acquitted. The
jury was out about eight hours. This
is the third trial for Flynn. the pre-
vious juries having disagreed.
The Sioux Falls Commercial Club,
after an investigation into the
methods of the Guarantee Investment
company, a sort Of a building and
loan association, which is doing bust
ness in Sioux Falls and other parts of
the state, came to the conclusion that
they cannot approve Of the same or
recommend it to the public.
The business men of WatertOwn
have organized a company called the
Sioux immigration Company of
Watertown, to be beincOrporated with a
capital stock of S25, 900, to be distrib-
uted in shares of S. each, the shares
to be paid for one-fourth down and
the balance in quarterly payments.
The company will begin business as
soon as a thousand shares are taken.
During the trip to the agency to
get ratiOns last week nine of the
horses of the Bad River Indians gave
out on the journey. Something ought
to be done by the government so that
these Indians would not be compelled
to make round trip of over two hun
dred miles to get their rations. At
this rate their horses will all soon be
used up and they will have no way of
getting to the agency to draw rations.
Henry J. Young, who came to Sioux
Falls recently from New Hampshire,
has secured divorce from Rosella S.
Young. Mr.. Young left his wife
after having lived with her for six
months. He discovered that she
already had husband liying-John
L. Bench, Of Wentworth, n. II. This
led Bench to investigate, and he dis
covered that Rosella had been mar
ried to man named Gould before he
led her up to the altar.