The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-07-19
South X Briefs.


FLANDREAU is putting in a fine n
TEN OF water works.
RAIN in the vicinity of Flapdra,
has broken the longest droutb m
has visited that section in twerI
years.
AN extra strong artesian well ",
struck near st. Lawrence, in cons
quence OF which st. Lawrence pecD
are jubilant.
THE official organ of the state aldi
tor, in a recent issue, takes the grclpI
that the state can we'll afford to put
a state printing house and binder}
and thus be in u position to do its owl
work.
A NUMBER of travelling men are d
good as stranded in the Hills owing 4
the Pullman strike. The mails and
delayed, checks do not come and
business is in a condition of innocueJ
d~esuetude.
REPORTS from the Hills ives. 4
Rockford are that deer are very nul
merOus and are as tame as sheep
Stray horses seem to have gotten in.o
that country. and it is said there we're
lots of horses with all kinds of brand.
Cd running around without anybody
looking after them.
THE roundup of the lower Bell
Fourche country is about over AM
that on the northern will be owe
about the 10th or 18th. The cattle ar
in good shape and the beef roundul
which Nill commence some time i
August, will be the best one for ia
beeves that has ever been held on hi
range.
FROM parties down from CAST
Creek it is learned that men are
present working from one end OF tn
creek to the other and all are maxim
good wages, says the Rapid City Jou
nal. The gold found on the numero'
bars is very coarse, while that ne'
bed rock on the creek is fine, brlsl
gold.
DIR. f. II. FILES of Sioux Falls r
turned from Humboldt Townshl
where he had been investigating Il
diptheria epidemic which now Pr
walls there to a alarming eXteI
During the past ninety days the
have been over forty cases in tn
township and vicinity. which result
in several deaths. There + at pre-
ent thirteen cases.
MAJOR 7. II. RUTH, commission
of school and public lands, has j.
filed for entry at the United sta
Land Office in Aberdeen a list OF
demnity lands covering from 5O,OOV
80, 900 acres in Mcpherson and
munds Counties. The lands are
place Of those rejected by the Inter
Department some months SIN
There are nearly $4,000 acres yet
select.
CHARLEY MCDONALD was 90
from his claim on Rapid Creek, 81
the Rapid City journal, and dispo'
Of two ounces and thirteen. pen
weights of placer gold. He has J
reached pay gravel on the bar anu
| poets to take out good pay for so
time. He stated that placer gold IT
his section Of the country Is woll
only $17.15 per ounce on account Oh
quality found.
GENERAL MANAGER NIX OF the
railroad, says the Deadwood Times
engaged with his corps OF engine
surveying and crOss-sectioning a !
from Belle Fourche to the polnt
Hay Creek where the original sur
bore off toward Minnesota. n |
is about q mile shorter than NH
sela, and it is now, pretty thorougl
understood that the road will be p'
from Belle Fourche.
A VERY sensational elopement
occurred at Bryant. Frank EaSlil
ii years OF age, and his cousin, LiA
Eastling. l3 years of age, packed tn
worldly effects and departed for CHI
unknown. The only clew TO
whereabouts Of the youthful lovers
a rumOr aloat that they had been SC
two miles east of Estaline. Inc
rents and relatives Of the couple .
very indignant. Both children ,
large and we'll developed, ana CO,
easily pass among strangers for pew
Is to 20 years old.