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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

Gilbert Haug, a respected citizen, COM
mitted suicide at Lansing ON the LIST. He
left his home the evening before, but his
family did not feel alarmed until about
midnight, when search was instituted.
The body was found hanging to a large'
tree and indications pointed to 4 deliber-
ate suicide. The cause for the act is sup
posed to be the death OF a favorite son,
who was shot while hunting a few weeks
ago.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Riotous' Outbreaks in Spain.

RiotOus' Outbreaks In Spain.
Attempt to cause riotous ~demonstra-
tions against the Government continue at
Valencia, Spain. That city Sunday was
placarded with posters reading, Long
live free Cuba, ""Long live social reyolu.
tion.' etc. The placards were removed
BY the police.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
A New Ferryboat.

A ferryboat large enough to carry five
teams and wagons or a good bunch OF
stock, has decided to locate at Oacoma.
1t Is rumored that the owners of this boat
have arranged with the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and St. Paul Railroad Company for
the crossing of stock from the range.
when they will be driven to Pukawana
Tor shipment, instead OF to Chamberlain,
as heretofore. 1t will make a better and
surer crossing and will enable stockmen
to have plenty Of feed for stock all the
way from Oacoma to PukaMana.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Tired OF Home Lifa.

Percy Nagel, son OF a prominet attorney
Of Winnipeg, was arrested at Grand
Forks, n. d. He ran away from home
with " companions, and claims that
when he does anything wrong at home he
Is beaten. so that he thought a rowing life
was preferable.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Big Price for a Prize Sow.

N~inety-0ne head of Poland China hogs
we're sold on the state fair grounds at
Springfield, ILL.,, which brought an aver
age price Of about $40 each. J. Williams
q Son OF Briant, Ind, paid $3.50 for a
prize sow-"Minus Model" This, it is
said, is the highest price ever paid for a
single SOW. A dozen others sold brought
prices ranging from $500 to $3.50 each.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST COLLECTED
FROM ALL SOURCES.
All the "Blind Pigs" at Huron lave
Gone Out Of BusiMess-Trade Did
Not Justify Keeping Open and
Paying $40 Per Month Fine.
Huron "Blind Pigs" Close.

All the ''biind pigs at Huron have gone
out of business, the proprie.ors saying
business did not justify them in keeping
open and paying $40 per month fine. At
a meeting OF the city council the other
night it was decided to require the drug
gists to take out license, or rather compel
those who sell bottled beer to pay fines,
the same as the proprietors of "blind pigs"
and disOrderIy houses.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
A Fine Vein of Carbonate.

AT the Richmond properties OF the Edge
mont Mining Company at Galena, a fine
vein OF carbonate has been cut, running
across the entire drift which averages
about 800 GUN ces of silver to the ton.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
TRAMPS TAKE A TRAIN.

Compel h Conductor to Let Them
Ride from Alpena to Wolsey. -
A north bound Milwaukee train was
taken possession of recently at Alpena by
a party Of about seventy five harvest
hands, who were nOrthward bound.
They told the conductor of the train that
they were not hunting for a fight and all
the trouble they would give him in eject.
ing them from the train would be that be
would have In pulling them loose from
the seats. They finally agreed to all get
off at Wolsey If they were allowed to
ride that far, and were carried to that
station, =
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

w. A|AOC1d W1Cl 1St1cD.
An Italian man OF war captured OF the
coast OF Erythrea the Dutch steamer
Doelwyk, laden with $4,000 rifles, which
was supposed to be Of Belgian manufac-
ture and which were destined for Abys.
ainia. The steamer and cargo will be
taken by the Italian warship to the prize
court at MassOwa.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
COXeY Viii Come.

Gen. j. 5. Coxey has written J, T.
Cogan that he will be at Sioux Falls.
August II for an address on campaign is
sues. The Populists have been irving to
get Coxey for several weeks, and had a
contract with him before the St. Louis
convention, but he was compelled to can
eel it on account of sickness.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Threatens to Swallow yerm,,,,o,,

Inc cutting OF the Missouri River to-
ward Vermillion has commenced araln
III spite OF all efforts to stop it. Ten feet
an hour are tumbliny into the water. and
prospects are unless something can be
done 70 check the advance OF the stream
mat Vermillion VIII be in the river before
AL.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Coursiny Meet at Aberdeen.

Twenty six dogs have already been
promised for the Aberdeen cup stake in
the approaching fall meet of the Coursing
Club. Entries are limited to 81 and time
in which to fill has been extended to the
1st OF September. Prizes have been di.
vided and arranged as follows: First dog,
the costly sterling silver cup now making
in the east and $500; second, 5000; third
and fourth. 500 each; fifth, SIXTH
seventh and eighth, $25 each.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Parkston's New Church.

The new Presbyterian Church AT Parks
ton has been dedicated. 1t is n com..lo-
dious structure and cost over $1,000.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

'tlhe Demereaux Mining Conn any has
incorporated with $1,000, 00D capital. Its
claims are at Pringle, south OF Custer,
where 1t has twenty-one locations. There
is a monster ledge OF ore $50 feet wide,
carrying gold, silver, copper and lead,
and showing values Of from "A 10 $50,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

Fly Causes the Loss of an Arm.
Isaac z me OF Chesterton, Ind, was Bit
len by a fly on the arm recently which
has swollen to three times its normal size
and physiciana will amputate the arm to
save his life.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
'Slide for Life Ends in Death.

Mile. Zoe, who has been doing her dar-
ing "slide for life" at Curtic Bay, q
suburban pleasure resort Of Baltimore.
was drowned there. Mile. Zoe's act was
to slide by her teeth across a cable
stretched from a tower on one side of the
river to the other. She had gone about
$50 yards when the tower collapsed and
Mile. Zoe was drowned.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Drowning at Centeryillc.

A boy about IL years of age, Forrest
Sinclair, WAS drowned In the Vermillion
River at Cenierviile. He was accom-
panied by his father and brother. All
were bathing in the river when the boy
was taken with cramps aud drowned be-
fore help could reach him. Mr.. Sinclair
resides at Beresford.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

Dead Man Found on tho Track.
The body Of . man, who had evidently
been struck by = train, was found bes ide
the Pennsylvania Railroad track near
Columbus, Ohio. He has not been identi-
fled, but q receipt in his pocket shows
that George Brier shipped q trunk I 0
Milwaukee, Wis, care of John Weaver.
Aug.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Hughes County Valuation,

The total assessed valuation of Hughes
County this year is ~, 1872, al, as compared
with 81, 1919, 40i for last year. This is ST.
S74,SO2 on real estate and ST. 1S. 1879 per-
sonal There has been an increase of 2O5
i'll the number OF horses, 1852 in cattle and
1890 in sheep for the year. The assess
ments have been lowered on some classes
OF property, which makes a slight reduce
ton in the total. The assessment of most
classes OF property is practically the same
as last year.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Will Select Sites.

inspector Mclaughlin Of the Indian
bureau has been directed TO select the
sit's Tor the new Indian boarding schools
70 De located at or near Chamberlain and
Rapid City, which will cost S25 900.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
One Hundred Bushels Per Acre

The rains of the past ten days have in
sured a larger yield of corn than has ever
been harvested in Charles Mix County,
Messrs. Burt and Colt have "a field that
stands from ten to thirteen feet high and
pears an average of five ears to the hill
seemingly most of the stalks haye two
ears. In the whole field there are a few
stalks on which the ears do not hang
h CHER than a mans head. II is estimated
this field will yield 100 bushels per acre.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Crudo ON In English L.aka.

Considerable ex citement prevails Mt
North Judson, Ind, over the discovery OF
crude oil floating on the surface OF the
water Of English Lake. A committee
will Investigate thoroughly and endeayor
r. trace 1t to It's source.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Fire Mt Parksfon.

A barn, together with 500 bushels of
oats and barley belonging to William
Miller, burned recently at Parkston.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Clara Bareon Starts Home.

GAIA H0rtOn Bt0Ft0 Homo.
Miss Clara Barton, president Of the
American branch Of Red Cross Society,
has started on her return to the United
States, her mission Of distributing relief
TO the Armenian sufferers having been
ended.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
HIS PATENT WAS INFRINGED
Henry M. Stow Sues the City of St.
Paul for $500, 600.

Henry NJ. Stow of Chicago through his
attorney, has brought suit in the United
States court against the city of st. Paul,
laying damages at $500, 900. His COM
plant alleges that he was the owner of a
patent for improvement in wood pave
ments, and that the pavement was used
by the city Of st. Paul, which gave him
no royalty.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
His Head Crushed.

Henry Berringer, a young married man
OF HOT Springs, was killed by falling
rocks while at work in the quarries at the
haKer stucco Mills. HIS head was
crushed aud death was instantaneous.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
E~ndeayorers Adjourn.

h Sioux Valley Christian Endeavor
Union, which has been in session at Sioux
Falls sine the LIST adjourned Monday.
About 100 delegates were in attendance
from the whole of the southern half of
the state. The delegates present repre-
sented 5000 members of the union in this
Stafa
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Standnrd OIL Distributine pian,

The Standard Oil Company has com
m"hced the erection Of a distributing
plant at EdgemOnt.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Lost Hand

George Warren, about II years old, had
his left hand taken of in the gearing Of Y
threshing machine near Yermilii0n.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Destructive Fire &C Niagara.

5000 OCDCks S~csvO - 1NHUBUrNs
The Park Theater, Tugby's Museum
md other buildings in the neighborhood
Nere destroyed by IRE ut Niagara Falls,
=. Tho International Hotel was on
dlre several times aud he guests led to the
sA6eet4.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Killed by u Train,

man named Dan Erickson was killed
Aear Snithwick the other dav nv tho
south bound Klkhorn passenger train.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

Lord Tennyson's Wife Dead.
A London dispatch $ iys: The widow
u the late Lord Tennyson, the poet lau.
re4te, Is dead.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Railroad Agent Disappears.

j. G.. Jones, agent OF the Plt,sbnrg and
Western Railroad at LowellyiIle. Ohio. is
missing. His accounts are short several
hundred dollars.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

During q quarrel between Richard Slep-
herd, q farm hand, and Cue, an emigrant
mover, at Springfield, H., the former was
shot and mortally wounded by the latter.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Experimenting with Artesian Wells

work On the government experimental
artesian we'll Oh the Rosebud Indian Res
GRAFTON is still progressing slowly. The
eight-lnch hole is now completed and
cased to a depth of a little more than $500
1eet. The contractor has decided to re-
duce the size from that point and drill a
six-inch hole to a depth of 800 or 400 feet
further in the hope OF securing sufficient
how to force the water over the top of the
we'll casing. 1t is extremely doubtful if
mis- can ever be accomplished, owing to
the high altitude of the country.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Like an OaSiS.

How to retain water for the dry weather
emergency seems to have been solved by
the originators of the EdgemOnt canal in
Fall River County. This canal is fed by
the waters of the Cheyenne River and
Beaver, Pass and Bigfoot creeks. The
floods that came last spring completely
filed the canal and reserve lakes, and
there is now sufficient water Oh hand to
last the settlers Oh the irrigated farms
along the canal for sixty days. The
water of the river and creeks is retained
and held by dams which have been
thrown across the streams. An immense
amount of work was necessary for the
successful damming OF the Cheyenne
River At the point selected for the dam
the river is nearly three-quarters Of p
mile wide. 1t was also necessary to put
in a back waite over 600 feet in length to
protect the canal.
The irrigated FIRMS along the canal pre-
sent a fine appearance, and crops there
will compare %favorably with those Of any
section in the west. These farms will also
solve the problem Of supplying the Black
Hills region with hay and grain, which
has heretofore been shipped i'll from
Northwestern Nebraska. BY reason of
the canal and the irrigation facilities
which it furnishes. thousands OF acres of
heretofore unproductive land have been
reclaimed, and the irrigated farms re-
semble oasis in the desert compared with
other sections OF the country in that re-
giOn which have not had sufficient rain
fall to ensure the raising of crops or even
hay.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Indians with Parlor Organs.

Many OF the Sioux Indians at Crow
Creek and Lower Brule Agencies, ada
cent to Chamberlain, are in a highly
prosperous condition-for Indians. In
addition to fine furniture, carpets and car
rlages, many CT them have purchased or
ans, II 1t is no uncommon sight when
travelling over the reservations to see
costly instruments of this character oc-
cupying log houses whose eXteriors pre-
SEM anything bu a prosperous condition.
Indian families who have invested their
surplus wealth in musical instruments are
the envy of their n%eighbors until the
envlouS ones can themselves purchase
organs, and then harmony is restored in
the Indian settlements.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-26
Marrying Mustaches.

This summer sermonette for young
women is from the New York Herald:
If boys will be boys, girls will be girls.
It may be unfortunate that many people
marry at time of life when the phreno-
logical bump of common sense has not
yet begun to lift itself from the prairie
like fatness of the Uranium, but we can't
reform the laws Of the universe, and must,
therefore, do the best We can under the
circumstances. II we could have sixty
year-old heads on twenty-year old bod
les we should be little more chary OF
assuming relations which can only be
broken by divorce court. We marry,
however, when the imagination is ram
pant, and before we begin to think about
consequences; after that we repent at our
leisure.
The first thing that attracted certain
young woman was "a pretty mustache."
Whether it was pointed and beautifully
wa1ed, like Napoleon IFS or was Of the
shoe brush order, like Bismarck's; wheth-
or it was golden brown or raven black
are matters not yet known, but that it
was "pretty," and therefore captivating,
catching the affections as fly is caught
on fly paper, is happily placed beyond
doubt. 1t was this mustache that did the
business.
Then came secret marriage under as
sumed names. The reasons given were
plausible, but the fact was forgotten that
when man doesn't want to enter the
honeymoon period in straightforward
way it is because there is something
crooked inside of him.
If you can't marry on broad daylight
principles don't marry at all-that is a
good rule to follow. 1t is better to marry
a man without pretty mustache than a
pretty mustache without any man behind
it. One is apt to get into tangle when
he goes it blind on the marriage ques-
ton. If man asks you to marry under
an assumed name, tell your father to use
his No. 10 boots.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-26
Trees Consumed the Bodies.

Forty years ago honey locust, i'm
ported from Europe, was planted in
the cemetery at Orrington, Me. 1t
grew and thrived, as the agent who
sold it said that it would, and for a
time its fragrant flowers and beautiful
foliage were the admiration of the
town people. Then the sexton COM
planned that the locust was sending
it's roots all over the cemetery, there
by increasing his labors when digging
a grave.
For several years the locusts con-
tinued to spread until the trees grew
all over the cemetery and ingress was
difficult. Efforts to kill the trees
were fruitless and cutting them down
only made them grow the more. FL
nally it was decided to remove the
bodies and this was done. The town
paid the expenses of moving-those
whose relatives had moved away and
could not attend to it.
Strangely enough many of the graves
contained no bones or traces OF the
bodies that had been buried. 1t is
supposed that the roots of the locust
trees broke open the collins and abb
sorbed the bodies, turning them
through the mysterious alchemy OF
nature into flowers that scented the
air. Now what was once cemetery
is tangled mass of shrubbery into
which rabbit can scarcely force its
way. -New York Journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-26
X Rays Find q Bullet in Lung.

TOLEDO, O., Aug. 1l.-Mrs. Mueller
the woman shot by her husband, Lon
Muchler, about month ago, and who
has since been in st. Vincents hospital
was supposed to be recovering, but with
in the last few days seems worse.
When her death was believed to be
near three bullets were taken out by
probing, but one Of the bullets is'still in
her body. In order that the exact loca.
ton of the bullet might be determined the
x rays were used this morning by Dr.
H. @. Haskins, assisted by DIR. G. M.
Harpster.
The patient was taken into the operat-
ing room and in the presence of twenty
or thirty physicians and many of the
sisters an exposure of the entire chest
was made to the tube for thirty minutes,
from II o'clock TO 1880.
The negative was developed this af-
ternoon and the result was highly satis.
factory. The bullet is in the lower part
of the left lung and will be removed in
such a manner that Mrs. Muchler's life
will be saved.
The apparatus used cost from S400 to
$500, and all experiments made with II
have proved successful, of hands, feet
and limbs, and also on animals. This is
the first experiment on the human chest
and the operation was watched with in
terest.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-26
Warped the Steel Rails.

1t has been pretty hot in Charleston
and in South Carolina generally, but so
far as reported no railroads have been
warped" North Carolina, it seems,
has been catching it heavy and the fol-
lowing shows that if they haven't broken
any records they came near breaking up
railroad temporarily. This extract is
from the Sails bury, N. c., Evening World
of the 10th instant:
"The north bound train, due here at
1920 this morning, was delayed over two
hours by most remarkable cause. Three
miles this side of China Grove the train
was tagged by trackman who had dis
covered that the track had 'bucked.' The
exceedingly hot rays of the sun pouring
down upon the track had caused the large
steel rails to expand until they bucked
where they were joined together and left
their original bed. For some distance
the track had been drawn crooked and ii
was two hours before it was possible fo1
the train to pass. Nothing could be heard
from the train and crowd of anxious
people awaited its arrival here"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-26
The Cotton Tie Fight.

The question of the utility of the wire
cotton tie as against the fat steel tie now
seems to be pretty thoroughly settled. A
test of binding bale or two has also
been made in Georgia, and it proved even
more satisfactory than that made in this
State. These bales are to be put through
the cotton compress in Augusta and will
probably be more favorably commented
upon than those pressed in Charleston, as
the wire used is larger and more flexible.
The resolutions Of the Charleston Cot
ton Exchange, published yesterday, while
they are not exactly what the advocates
of the wire tie would have liked to have,
indicate what may be expected when the
cotton goes to the ports tied with wire.
The crop is going to be short, however,
and the farmers know that the buyers are
not going to refuse to purchase the cot
ton. at the same time they are not after
sending the cotton to market in any im-
proper shape. The one thing that they
are unit on Is that they do not intend to
give the steel tie trust one dollar; they
have determined to fight the trust to
the bitter end, let the fight cost what it
may.
DR.. D. P. Duncan, the manager of the
State Alliance Exchange, in order to get
full supply of the ties on the market in
the shortest time possible, will leave to-
morrow for the East. He goes on to visit
one of the largest wire manufacturing
concerns in this country, which has or,
fered special inducements on the kind OF
wire that the tests have proven to be ne.
cessary. The company has offered to put
the wire up in neat bundles, and will dc
ANYTHING that is deemed best in the. max
ing of a proper catch or buckle. Col
Duncan will consult with these wire peo
ple and act at once. He hopes to have
the ties in hand ready for sale in very
short order.-Colum6iG State.