The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-03
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

Dell Rapids is agitating the water
works question.
Sanborn's county Indebtedness is a
tritle over $751;
Parker public schools are closed on
account OF scarlet fever.
Mitchell means to have a second
corn belt exposition this year.
The sum total of improvements
made in spencer for 1892 is $4,000.
The Mitchell land office reports an
unusually large number of contest
cases.
Gary wants the legislature to allow
the town to issue bonds for a park
and fair grounds.
John Samuels, who was recently
run over by the cars at Plankinton,
has since died of his injuries.
Sven M. Halvardsgaard of South
Sioux Falls has just been granted a
patent on an Improved husking pin.
A survey of the Midland Pacific
railroad is being made through the
northwest corner of Hanson county.
1t is estimated that over 1000 jack
rabbits have been killed this winter
within radius of ten miles of Sioux
Falls.
Fred Checoat, a soldier was recently
sentenced to the penetintiary at Still
water for two years for violating the
articles of war.
Several parties running steam
threShers near Henry have been
arrested and fined for not filing the
required bonds.
The county treasurer of Sully
county has paid out $1,11O wolf
bounty for wolves killed during the
past three months.
The Armour roller mills have Just
let contract for an eighteen inch
artesian we'll to furnish motive power
for their machinery.
The coal sheds of the Milwaukee
railroad at Mitchell were destroyed
by fire caused by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp last Tuesday.
The Bee Hive department store at
Sioux Falls was almost entirely
destroyed by fire last week. Loss
100000, insured for one-half it's
value.
L. A. Craft will be appointed post
master at Clark to succeed Frank
COnklin who resigned to accept the
position of state railroad commits
siOner.
Mitchell is bound to have new
$50, 900 hotel the coming season. The
citizens stand ready to take stock TO
the amount of $4,000 in such an
enterprise.
Tow mills will soon be an ordinary
Institution in this state. The latest
towns heard from are de Smet and
Woonsocket, where tow mills are
being built.
Gus Anderson, young man, a
helper in the Milwaukee round house
at Aberdeen had his head crushed, by
a switch engine and was almost
instantly killed.
Capt. Dan X. Shields, who
delivered series of remarkable tenn
perance speeches in Sioux Fall about
one year ago, died at Greenville, ILL.,,
on the Goth inst.
Governor Sheldon has definitely
decided to appoint Editor Krause, of
the Yankton Free Press, state bank
examiner, and the nomination will be
sent to the senate this week.
The Yankton Light and Power
has determined to double
its capital stock, now $4,000 and to
make such improvements to its
present plant as will make it one of
the best in the northwest.
A joint meeting of the Mitchell city
council and board of education was
held, at which it was decided to call
an election to vote bonds for a 1925, 900
high school building and a $1,000
ward building on the south side OF
the town.
Landlord Turner of the Northwest
ern hotel, at Parker, was playing
with revolver, and is now minus a
little finger and plus hole in the
middle Of his hand. A bystander also
got shot in the calf of his leg by the
same bullet.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature providing for an amend
ment to the assessment law requiring
railroad and telegraph companies to
be assessed according to the actual
value of property without reference
to the earnings.
The First National Bank of Spear
fish, with a paid up capital OF $4,000,
has completed organization and will
begin business about Feb. /. Its
officers are: George c. Favorite, pres
ident; Anson Highly, vice-president;
and A. M. Baird, cashier.
A mortgage aggregating $4,000
has been filed by the Atlantic Trust
Company, of New York. 1t was given
by the YanktOn, Norfolk & South
western Railway Company on their
road now being constructed between
Yankton and Norfolk, Neb.
J. P. Ward, one of the old settlers
of Turner county, has just sold his
farm of 320 acres there for S35 an acre,
and will reinveSt a part OF the pro-
ceeds in cheap land on the reser-
walton. Ten years ago Turner county
land sold for from S. to So an acre.
Bud Mills and Aaron SherrOy