The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-24
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

The Scotland military band has
been organized.
Hot Springs is to have an electric
street railway system.
There is talk of discontinuing the
Lead branch of the DeadWood Central
railroad.
Mabel Schraudenbach has been ap-
pointed pOstmiStresS at Franklin,
Brown county.
John J. Wynn, the convict who es-
capped from the state penitentiary,
was recaptured at Sheldon, Iowa.
The poultry fanciers of Sanborn
county have decided to have pOul-
try show the last Of this month or
early in March.
1t has been definitely decided to
have the Daly-O'DOnnell sparring
match take place in Sioux Falls, the
date to be fixed in a short time.
The governor has appointed G. W.
Stafford, of Day county. Oil inspector,
and John Krause public examiner.
They were Immediately confirmed.
The South Dakota Millers' associa-
tion at their meeting in Mitchell ap-
pointed a committee to look after the
matter of a milling exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
J. f. Merry, assistant general pas
senger agent for the Illinois Central
railroad, is assured of a big influx OF
land buyers into the state the ap-
preaching spring.
AS a result of the war made on the
Standard Oil company by the Aber-
deem papers, the price of gasoline and
kerosene has been reduced two cents
on the gallon in that place.
The South Dakota Mail says that
on the first of March Hon. Joseph
Frudenfeldt goes to Minneapolis to
take charge of large jobbing house
put there by New York parties.
Rodney Keith, the l4-year-old son
of Hon. Charles Keith Of Volga, presi-
dent of the state board of agriculture,
was kicked by a horse which he was
leading to water and almost instantly
killed.
About the first o. December Swan
& Co. commenced an elght-inch ar
tesian well to furnish power for the
Ashton roller mills. An enormo as
flow was struck Friday at depth of
1000 feet.
South Dakota Odd Fellows are to
have home paper in the interest of
their order. 1t is to be called the
Odd Fellows Gavel, and is to be
printed at Iroquois by G. L. Landon.
I proprietor Of the Herald of that
place.
The Tow Manufacturing company
of Huron find that the tow milf
which was erected last year cannot
supply the demand by half. They
have therefore decided to enlarge it
to double its present capacity and will
then employ between forty and fifty
hands.
M J. Hogan, one of the best known
and most highly respected citizens OF
Turner county, died at San Antonio
Tex, last week of consumption. He
was an active member of the United
WOrkmen and Odd Fellows, and four
months ago was married to Miss Kate
Powell.
The bill re-establishing the bureau
l
tiOn was indefinitely postponed BY
the house and the duties of the offic,,
imposed upon the commissioner O.
lands. A clerk is allowed and a con
siderable sum will be granted fol
printing and postage.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul Railroad company has LEASED
900 freight cars of the Northern
Pacific, and the same are being trans
ferred via the Edgeley and Aberdeen
line. 1t is figured this addition tt
the "Milwaukee's" rolling stock will
enable it to meet all demands.
L. M. Powers, formerly Of Huron
, has been convicted of bigamy at Ash
land, Wis. Powers and his wife
with their two children, left Huron
about four years ago, he leaving ;
lucrative position with the Dakot;
Farm Mortgage company, withou
notifying them Of his departure.
The jury in the Thompson murde
case at DeSmet agreed on verdict 0
+ murder in the first degree. The pen
atty is death. Thompson was visibl,
affected. His council immediatel,
moved for new trial. The verdic
SatiSfeS the popular demand. In
general opinion is that new tria
will be denied.
/ The United States grand jury ha
reported to the United States distric
court, now in session, four indict
ments for murder against marks
and "Too Too" the two Indian
charged with being engaged in tn
: recent battle at Humphreys ranch
thirty miles north of Pine Ridg
agency, and now in jail in Deadwood
! There are now ninety-eight Baptis
= church organizations in South Dakt
. TIA, sixty of which have houses {
I worship, and eight have parsonage:
E A late tour through the Black Hill
I country developed gratifying ev
= dences of prosperity in that localit,
The work is also very enc0uragin
e among Scandinayians and Germans
The case which has been on trial b'
n fore the tribunal OF the Siene q
t Paris, in which Madame Elliot Zbo
{ owslli petitions for the custody Of he
" child has hpan finished The com