Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-07-27
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"A Big Russian Colony Prepar-
ing to Bs,y Land in
Sul1y County.
Item Of Local Interest Gathered
Together During the
Past Week.

mence farming it for good. They can
acquire by purchase or entry about
township of soil in the northeastern
part of sully, and as that country never
presented better appearance than
right now the chances seem to be that !
there is where they will stick their /
stakes. The Huronite says: "Col. John
H. King has just returned from Sully
county where he located a Russian set |
Element on his Onida ranch, the first |
families to arrive next week. He says
that the crops have never BEEN better
in Sully and Hughes counties. Mr..
King has been misquoted in saying
that there was smut in barley and oats.
These grains are looking as well as pos
sible, but little smut is to be found in
the wheat. lie also stated ateSully
county is proving To be Il yis Lnlng IN
the way of real estate transfers. Many
quarters have changed hands during
the last month, one of the largest pur
chasers being A. s. Garretson, of Sioux
City, who is starting up huge sheep
ranch in that part of the country"
An unsupported rumor emanating
from the noted Miller correspondent
reads as follows: A Pierre man in
town says the Northwestern will Au-
gust begin building its line into Pierre
from Blunt over the prairie, saving six
miles over the present plan of dipping
south from there and following the
river up to the capital. Washouts and
changing of track have cost the COM
pany heavily in the past. The distance
by the new route will be twenty four
miles from Blunt, while now it is thirty.
The towns affected will be Canning
and Rousseau. Railway Commissioner
ID. H. Smith, who lives here, says the
leading men of the company have
wanted the change for some time,
though he does not know that an order
t. make it has gone out.
The Pierre baseball tossers, with one
or two of the best players Fort Pierre
had to offer, went down to Blunt Tines
day Tor game, and expected to have
things their own way pretty much.
When they got there, however, they
found the Blunt aggregation composed
of several parts Of crack college players
and the balance stiff local talent and
hard hitters. Under the circumstances
the Pierre team was satisfied to get out
of the scrap with score of two to one
in their own favor 1t was we'll played
game with very few errors but plenty
of strike OUTS The Blunt boys will be
down to Pierre Monday afternoon. for a
return game, and expect to make good
against Dick Purcelps colts.
John Hughes denies the story given
currency in Fort Pierre paper that
Joe Wandel said some three hundred
Indians were drowned years ago at his
(Hughes) place on Bad river, during a
flood that was even greater than the one
of July 4. Wandel has been in this
neighborhood for fifty three years, and
MIR. Hughes says the only statement
the old man makes as to floods is thai
some houses were swept away about
fifty years ago, that were standing nea
the mouth of Bad river. The Mssour
was responsible for their going, though
Bad river was sustaining its name a
the time.
Congressman Burke has accepted al
70 70 A.,
gust 8, and make speech at the frs
annual celebration of the opening o
thu Rosebud tract. AS Mr.. Burke wa
perhaps more responsible than a,
other man for all of the rich lands il
Gregory county, embraced in the Rose
bud reservation, being thrown open t.
settlement last year, it is fitting that h
: should be the principal speaker at tn
coming celebration. One of the livel
new towns in Gregory has been nance
Burke, in honor of the congressman.
The two big derricAs at the govern
ment building are being placed o.
platforms on the second floor, wher
they can more readily handle the block
of Bedford stone now going into tn
walls A secoud steam engine will b
placed in position to operate the secon
derrick, one of each Of which will b
anchored at the east and west ends G
the building. Contractor Maxwell el
poets to leave in few days for Lars
mie, Wyo., to look after his contrat
or the federal building in that city.
Brookings Register: 1t is now strong
~ predicted that the Milwaukee raj
way extension west from Chamberlai
will go through to the Black Hills, witt
out a stop in the work. Now just watc
the Northwestern throw dirt next yea
! G. Louis Allen and Ferd GoOdfello
are back from Sioux Falls where the
took part in the state tennis tonrn,
ment. These young men are good pla.