Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-17
South Dnkotn News.

Pukwana reports a scarcity Of suitable
dwelling houses.
1t is estimated that this years woor CLIP
yielded South Dakota sheep raisers about
5000, 600.
William Blankartz, a progressive McCook
county farmer, Is building a 10,000-bushel
granary and says he Will have enough grain
this fall to I'LL 1t.
Arrangements are being perfected for a
race meeting and base ball tournament at
kimball September IL and 10. The purses
will aggregate $500.
A stock company is in process of forma-
ton by the business men of Clark, having
for its object the construction of a $40. OOC
opera house in that town.
Some one who has taken the trouble To
keep a record finds that during a period OF
sixty days this summer 266 head of live
stock were killed in South Dakota by light
ming.
Disbarment proceedings have been insti-
tuted against G.. p. Harden of Scotland, ex.
county judge of Bon Homme county. The
hearing has been set by the state supreme
court for September 6.
This is a great potato year in South Da.
kota, and there evidently win be no limit to
them. A Parker man, Oscar Elce, dug a
hill of potatoes In his garden and got los
potatoes, ranging in size from a marble up
to a goose egg. The vine was green and the
potatoes growing when dug.
The nnua meeting of the Old Settlers
association of Aurora county has been post
poned from September 6 to September 2S, in
hopes that the Aurora county boys in the
First regiment, South Dakota volunteers,
will have returned from Manila by that
time, so they can participate in and be a
feature of the celebration.
Charles Walters, a Sanborn county
farmer, has an artesian well which in the
value of increased crops pays for itself each
season. This year during the dry spell he
used the water on 100 acres of wheat and
the grain as a result is very heavy and will
yield a full crop. Water from the welr is
also used to operate a separator in a skim
ming station.
The little 5-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Sedgwick had a miraculous escape from in
slant death near Kimball. She was run over
by a wagon loaded with two tons of hay.
The hind wheel of the vehicle passed
directly over the center of her body. She
fell on the remains of an old straw stack.
Had it been on hard ground she would have
been instantly killed. A doctor was sum-
moned after the accident, but found the
little one as sound as a dollar.
Although the town of Clark is only one of
seven railroad shipping points in Clark
county since the crop Of 1898 was harvested
a total of lis, 900 bushels of wheat, AZ, 900
bushels of flax and 1000 bushels of rye have
been shipped from that station. During
thdl llnlS ti6hty SdlS. VI Cdllit, 1--WE
cars of hogs and five of horses were also
shipped from there. This is a gratifying
increase over 1897, when the total grain
shipments from that point aggregated only
$1,000 bushels. 1t is estimated that the
farmers in that vicinity yet have on hand
10, 1000 bushels of last years wheat crop.
The postofice robbers who have been
operating in South Dakota for the last few
weeks are liable to find their future opera
tions seriously hampered, and 1t seems
likely that they will be captured in the
near future and the gang broken up. Post
office Inspector Wood, who has been sent
into this territory to run down the thieves,
has taken hold of the task with energy. 1t
is learned that the money taken from the
Artesian postofice on the night of the 7th
inst, which was the last Office robbed in
South Dakota, had been sealed up for ship
ment the next morning, and accordingly the
number and denomination of every bill
taken is known to the authorities, and the
thieves will have trouble in getting rid of
the money without detection.