The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-03-03
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.


tramw.'r between Deadwood and
Lead City, -
The Elkhorn has decided to extend
it's line to l. cad City by way Of
Poorman's gulch.
Pennington county jail is now
without an occupant, something that
has not happened before in the
past two years.
Samuel Payne, an aged farmer Of
Parker. enroute to Nanderbfit, N. D.,
dropped dead in the Milwaukee depot
4in Aberdeen, Of heart disease.
The Yankton woolen mill has been
purchased by Jencks & Son, who will
put down an eight-inch artesian we'll
to furnish power for running the
same.
The lodge of the o. f. S. has been
organized at Milbank, with Mrs.
W. W. Dowine. wife of Editor
Dowine of the Herald, as Worthy
Matron.
Hon. Morris Taylor, of Huron, is in
| Washington and will remain until
after the Inauguration. He expects
to be appointed commissioner gener-
|
A dividend of seven per cent. has
been directed to be paid to claimants.
whose claims have been approved,
against the defunct Fidelity Fire
Insurance company.
The wife of a gambler named
Percy, who has been running a den
at Mitchell for some time past, COM
mitted suicide at the Merchants
hotel last week by taking poison.
At the directors meeting of the
Black Hills National bank at Rapid
City, which suspended business
December II last, it was decided to
resume. All depositors will be paid
in full.
The Santee Indian band, under tie
leadership of Prof. Linger of
Niobrara, has been secured by the
management to attend the worlds
fair, This is the only Indian cornet
band in the world.
Hon. A. NJ. Bowdle, of Mitchell.
who has spent the winter in Wash
ington for treatment of a serious kid
ney trouble, is about to undergo an
operation, with the assurance that it
will completely cure him.
The contract for the survey of the
boundary line between South Dakota
and Nebraska has been awarded to
Samuel G. Shilton, of Springfield
| S. d. He is to make the survey and
furnish the necessary monuments for
$40, 600.
T. J. Foley, Of North Platte, Neb.,
and S. d. Wadsworth, of Council
Bluffs, IVA, have closed their ar
rangements to locate wholesale i'm
plement house at Sioux Falls. The
capital stock is $4,000. The firm
opens for business May l.
M. H. Day, of Rapid City, has been
arrested upon the charge Of selling
mortgaged property. The directors
of the Rapid Valley Horse Ranch
company made the complaint and are
looking for the equivalent of $50, 900
or 100000 which Day invested for
them A ranch, mortgaged for S10,-
900, and some 600 horsez, half Of
which are held under mortgages and
judgments, are all there is to show
for all their cash.
Fire at Clark consumed buildings
occupied by B. A. Tibbetts & Co.,
hardware; A. G. Waite & Co., drug
gists; S. Anderson, general store:
E. A. Jordan, wagon shop; f. Gerber,
blacksmith shop; Mrs. G. Arpin,
millinery store, and the Odd Fellows
and Knights of Py5hias hall. Losses
; estimated at $4,000: insurance
81 900. Those suffering the greatest
,, loss are Tibbetts s. Co. and s. Ander-
son. Mr.. Anderson carried out 81, 900
insurance on $4,000 stock. The Odd
Fellows loss is 81 900.
L. Willsie, of Hill City, chief en-
gineer of the D., 2. & 3. III. railway
company, has been in Faulkton look
ng over it's advantages as a location
for the division and machine shops of
that read. A meeting of citizens was
held to see what could be done in the
matter. 1t is reported that the COM
pany have already completed arrange
ments with the G., NJ. s. St. P. COM
pany for the purchase Of thirty acres
of land for depot ground, ana it is ex-
pected work will commence ironing the
road as soon as spring opens, thus
giving another competing line to the
Twin Cities and lake ports.
Manufacturing interests in Wolsey
have been reviyeaeby the appearance
of two men from Washington, To-,
who propose to erect a $4,000 beet
sugar plant there the coming summe"
They asked for bonus of five acres
of land and a guarantee of not less
than 200 acres Of beets. The lro-
position was at once accepted, and
they left for the east to purchase the
machinery and material for buildings
They also propose to feed 1000 head
of cattle, using the beet pulp and
ground feed mixed. The Germans
are very enthusiastic, and say they
will grow 500 acres of beets if they can
use them.
During the month Of April the
commissioner of school and public
lands will sell about $4,000 acres of
school lands. Commissioner Ruth
and Auditor Nipple will start out
; early next month to visit the various
localities and, in connection with the
: county superintendents, appraise the
lands. Major Ruth declares his be-
lief that the appraisement will be
r raised fully 50 an acre over that of