Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01

Elk Point is blessed with five or six
sign painters.
Many OF the merchants of this city
have received their spring stock.
The hackers OF Tillsbury are looking
for q man to try their man against
William Kropp has signitied his in.
tention of running AS An independent
candidate Tor city marshal.
II the license law is ratified 1T the
coming city election there will be two
saloons to take out licenses.
Evangelist Houser, now holding II
series OF protected meetings in this city
is former Sioux Falls boy.
The school board expect to meet in Il
few days to determine on the corps Of
teachers for the ensuing year.
Miss Lulu Comfy entertained num-
Der of her friends Tuesday evening in
nonor of some friends from Sioux City.
Roadmaster Bowen is working on the
Sioux Falls line from the north end.
Trains are expected to go to Sioux
Falls by Saturday.
All the tracks on the Milwaukee be-
tween here and Sioux Falls are in good
condition now, but the bridges will
have to be fixed before traffic will be
resumed.
The daily Press and Dakotan, Of
Yankton, in its write-up of the closing
exercises of the Yankton college pays
Miss Mrytie Talcott of this city a fine
compliment of the excellence of her
production in the programme.
The telephone lines between here
and Hawarden are not working at this
writing. Considerable difficulty is be-
ing met with in getting the lines into
working order. BY the first of the
week it is thought everything will be
in apple pie order.
Jerry Ryan returned from LeMars
yesterday where he went to identify a
man who was suspected of being Nc.
Crum, who broke Jail here few days
ago. The man proved to be McCrum
and he is now landed safely behind the
bars.
The Jim river is reported to be on
| another bender According to the
Geographic reports the Jim river at
Yankton on Monday took jump of be-
tween ten and fifteen feet. The rail
way bridges are said to in precarious
condition at that point and liable at
any moment to 60 out.
On Wednesday there was considera-
BILE rain in these parts. 1t is thought
that the rains, which have been falling
over the state during most Of the week,
will cause the Sioux to come up again
to its high water mark, for this season.
A telegram from Sioux Falls indicates
that the Sioux has risen in that neigh
borhood and is now even higher than
any time this spring.
John Goodnow, general superintend-
ent OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul, has been in the city most OF the
week with his special car. A COURIER
Representative had pleasant converse.
ton with the gentleman in regard to
the recent floods. He said that his
road had been extremely I'M
fortunate during the past four months.
That during the winter they had ex-
pended $50, 900 in keeping their tracks
clear Of snow, and that the washouts
and floods along the Sioux had cost
them in the neighborhood Of another
100000. Now the report comes that
the Jim river is raising and there is a
possibility of the river taking out q
large number Of bridges on the line
In all likelihood the ones at Yanktou
will 20 out.
The following is description OF an
event in the Hawarden flood taken
from the Independent: "Adam Scot,
can give you few pointers on how tc
cross the river in boat. He has tried
it and knows. He tied his boat to the
tail of pony with q rope. The hired
man, AZ pilot, straddled the pony and
Adam seated himself In the boat and
away they went. About forty rods from
the shore they came to fence post
which protuded above the water about
q foot. The hired man stepped onto
the post In order to look around and
get his bearings. While thus engaged
the pony suddenly started down stream
in spite Of the violent expostulationt
Of both men. Scott swore he would
cut the pony's throat the minute they
reached shore. With this in mind the
pony padded down stream for about
two miles before he would venture Il
land. He seemed to have finally cor
cluded that he might q we'll bleed t.
death a. drown and 90 pulled his cargo