Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-01-07

reelected to the position OF president
Of the high school and college depart
ment-a position he has filled for
several years with ability. Among
those attending from Union county
were Prof. French, wife and daughter,
Prof. O. s. Smith, and wife, Supt.
Crawford. Misses Gettings, Nash,
Doyne, Carrie and Nettie Murphey,
Hunt and HAPPIER. The next meeting
will be held in Sioux Falls
The annual meeting of the State
Teachers association took place last
week at vermillion and possessed q
larger attendance than any former
meeting. A fair estimate places the
enrolment at 400. There were fully
fifty from Union county. The meeting
was an enthusiastic one and all were
royalty entertained by the vermillion
people.
Someone has discovered that the
| amendments were not lost at the late
election, after all. A Pierre dispatch
to the Minneapolis Journal has the
following to say about the matter; Gan
investigation of the various statutes
passed at the last session of the legis-
lature show that there were two acts
passed making provisions for the sub
hitting of amendments to a vote of the
people. The first one which was APP
proved March IL. 1895, is chapter SO
| which provides that amendments shall
be printed on each ticket on the ballot
and the second is chapter 81, which
was approved the next day, which pro-
vides: Whenever the secretary of the
state has duly certified to the county
auditor any question to be submitted to
a vote of the people the county auditor
shall have printed on the regular bal
lots the question in such form as will
enable the electors to vote upon the
questions presented This act con-
tains the usual clause providing for
the repeal OF all acts or parts Of acts
conflicting with the same, and as it is
later law than the one approved on the
18th, it will rule in the present ques-
ton, and the technical question which
has been raised as to the failure of the
amendments to carry has lost all it's
force"
Those feeding cattle hereabouts will
read the following taken from The
Sioux City Journal, with regard to the
effects of the storm upon the cattle on
the range. A telegram was received
last night by man in this city, who is
heavily interested in the cattle on the
ranges west of Pierre, which states
that the storm was doing deadly work
in that district. The worst is yet to be
learned. A short detour was made
yesterday morning, and an inspection
OF less that two hours showed that the
effect of the storm would be disastrous.
In one little valley seventy-eight head
OF matured cattle were found frozen to
death. The cattle were all OF one brand,
and when found they were haddled in
bunch. The snow was drifted in
upon them, and when discovered only
four or i've of the herd were visible.
The banks and drifts in the valley
we're from ten to fifteen feet deep, and
every few yards there would be seen
the frozen carcass of q steer. An ex-
in0 If ho IT hn Ia
succumbing SO easily to the storm is
that they we're weak from the effect Of
the blizzard of one month ago. A
cattleman, in talking of the matter,
said: "Cattle will stand two or three
severe storms ic one season, apparent.
ly recover their former strength, and
then will die in storm not nearly 80
severe, it Is my opinion that these
cattle on the ranges west Of Pierre,
while fat, were not in condition for the
storm" No word was received from
the northwestern Nebraska and Black
Hills cattle districts.
Silverites of Delphi, Ind, have in
augurated a new fashion in basket
parties to which the girls take baskets
of good things covered with white or
yellow napkins, according to their po-
litical preferences. At the party the
men select baskets according to their
preferences and must pay for them &C.
cording of the weight, not Of the baskets
but OF their owners, who thereupon be-
come the purchasers partners for the
evening. Ea.h buyer lifts his girl to
the scales and those OF the white cloth
get sixteen kisses to the gold mems one.
SCOTS Down Trip.
The Sioux City Journal gives the fol-
lowing account of Conductor SCOTS
down trip Monday morning:
1.-THE line of the Milwaukee was