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Meats. Fish. Poultry. Game
Thr Frufhfst *nd Be*t, »t *ll Season*-
Oooda delivered free to any pert of the citj.
Bargain Store.
The Cheapest Place lu the City For
Lamps. Glassware.
Notions. Paints.
Wall Paper. Etc.
KURIKO, a peerless blood purifier,
and OLE*OID,an excellent liniment.
CHRISTIAN HANSON.
NEW JORDAN HOUSE!
W. r. JORDAN. Prop.
iggTTbis new brick hotel is the
largest, most comfortable and
arranged house in the city. Every
thing is strictly first-class.
pleasant rooms, elegant furniture,
and the best service.
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Council Bluffs, Omaha, Den
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i California, British Columbia.
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the Denver Limited. For time of trains,
tickets, and ail information, an ply to Bta
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•ra or the General Agent at
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SOUTH DAKOTA NOTES.
South Dakota wavranlt a»»
quoted at 90 cents 01 ihe «»<»ilar.
One thousand hogs were -lopped from
Tindall one day last wee*.
A. D. McGill. Highmore's leading dry
goods dealer, has assigned.
The government sigual offle has loaned
the Yankton observation outfit to Yank*
ton college.
Sioux Falls gets $150,000 for a public
building, according to the house bill
passed Tuesday.
Gettysburg only has a train three days
a week. Before the railroad came the
town had a daily mail.
Yankton Sioux Indians in council
voted, SOU to u, set to sell their surplus
lands to the government.
The sheriff of Minnehaha county wants
$882.00 for closing the Sioux rails sa
loons, according to a bill presented.
Daring October and November 434
entries, comprising 80,289 acres of land,
were made at the Huron land office.
H. C. Sorenson, dealer in agricultural
implements at Webster, 8. D., has
failed. His assets equal his liabilities.
The annual meeting of the South Da
kota Educational association will be
held at Sioux Falls Dec. 29, and con
tinue for three days.
From 300 to 600 men are employed by
the three quarry companies Of Sioux
Falls, and the annual output of stone
reaches over $400,000.
Governor Mellette lias issued a proc
lamation calling for a special election
Dec. 30, for the purpose of electing a
state senator for the First district, vice
Crill. deceased.
President Orr and Secretary Hackett,
of the S >uth Dakota Republican State
league, have issued a call for the meet
of that body at Pierre, Tuesday, Jan. 6,
the day set for the assembling of the leg
islature.
Dr. C. P. Biased, of Valley Springs, is
arrested charged with manslaughter in
the second degree in poisoning a man
named Scheffer, to whom he gave an
overdose of morphine. Biased asserts
his innocence.
Business men of Yaukton declare the
prohibitory law a failure, and it is pro
posed to start up* two breweries that
nave been idle since May, with the aim
of keeping at home some of the money
which is now sent out of the state.
During the progress of the Pease con
test case at Mitchell. Mr. Pease at
tempted to strike ,Mr. Hannett, the op
posing attorney, when Timor Spangler,
a stenographer, interfered. Pease
tripped Spangler and assaulted him.
Dick Hibbs, a printer, got on a big
drunk at Hot Springs, and while in that
condition net fire to a printing office
there, from which he had been dis
charged. He has been sentenced to
seven years in the Sioux Falls pen. He
has a wife and seven children.
The Bank of Britton, the pioneer bank
of Mitchell county* has closed its doors.
Berston and Guil lander were the pro
prietors. and G. E. McDougall the as
signee. All obligations wiu be met,
and it is supposed the asxiru’oent was
made to close up the bosiues
Gen. Pease, appointed under the
Sioux bill adi*v»* the las- m* incurred
by settlers on the Crow Creek reserva
tion who suffered by reason of Presi
dent Cleveland's order with i-awhig the
same from market in 1885. iiaa estab
lished headquarters in Chamlwrlain.
The civil actions instituted last sum
mer agaiust “hole in-thc-wal!" keepers
of Aberdeen have t»een dismissed by
consent of the county commissioners,
the accused agreeing to disco itinue the
sale of original packages and paving the
cost of the suits.
Supplies for distribution among the
needy in northern and western counties
of South Dakota are beginning to arrive
at Huron. Considerable feed and fuel
went through there rhnrsdav, destined
for points vsffiere the giv»; e*t need ex
ists. Committees are striving to get sur
plus supplies in while the pleasant
weather continues.
A short time ago a Sioux Falls family
received a l*>x of clothing from friends
in another state, and just ten (lays from
the receipt of that box, two ease* of roa
lignant scarlet fever brok oat. It has
juat been learned that four years ago
there was a case of scarlet fever in the
family of the sender. The clothing had
been in a trank for four yean and the
germs of the disease retained their fatal
power daring that time.
On a late trip to town from his Little
Castle Creek ranch. Joe Reynolds told
The Rapid City Reunblican a story of
the finding of two skeletons, one of a
man the other of a bear, lying together
near the head of Little Rapid creek.
The find was made by a party of hnnters
about a month ago. An old mated
banting knife was also found near the
spot. These are no donbt all that re
main to tell the tale of a terrible forest
tragedy of many years ago.
A meeting of court clerks from various
parts of the state at Huron Thursday
haa resulted In the formation of
an organization to be known as the
Sonth Dakota Court Clerks’ association.
J. L. .Spaulding, of Huron, was chosen
president; W. M. Rogers, secretary and
treasurer. The object, of the organiza
tion is to secure certain legislation and
to establish a uniform scale of feed and
manner of keeping court records. An
executive committee was appointed to
take charge of legislative matters.
A * wo days’ session of the joiut terri
torial commission,was held last week at
Bismarck, and the finances between the
two states adjusted. Several heated
discussions were indulged in on differ
ent points, the principal one being
whether South Dakota should pay in
terest on the warrants outstanding from
the time of the admission of the states
mn ■»
into the Union, or npon filial settlement
of the commissions. It was finally
compromised, beginning with last
July. South Dakota’s share of this debt
is $150,000.
The Bioux City and Northwestern lias
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state of South Dakota. The
capital stock is $10,000,000, and the in
corporators and directors A. S. Garret
son, D. F. Hedges, 8. L. Dows, T. P.
Gere and J. T. Dunoombe. The road
will run through Dixon, Cedar, Knox,
Holt and Kevapasha counties in Ne
braska. and Gregory, Tripp. Meyer,
Pratt, Wasliabaugh, Logenoeel. Jack
eon,' Nviwliu, Zeibach, Penuingtou,
Meade, Lawrence, Washington and
Cuater in South Dakota.
EVENTS EPITOMIZED.
Hew* From All Section* of Thl* «n<l For
eign Count rlee.
A mechanic’s lien for $76,643 h«s been
filed against Dr. Tal mage’s Brooklyn
Tabernacle.
The masons of Lippe, to the number
of 12,000, will strike in a fortnight for
an increase of wages.
Benjamin M. Stillwell, an old and
well know’ll lawyer of New York, died
suddenly Wednesday night.
Polk Wilson was convicted at Cham
bersburg, Pa., of uttering eighty oaths,
and sentenced to eighty days iu jail.
Two sons of the czar eff Russia, Nich
olas Alexandrovitch and George Alex
androvitch, will come to America next
spring.
The schoouer sank off Harborville, N.
S., in the gale of Dec. 1, when all hands
were lost, is believed to have beeu the
Daniel Marcy. of Boston.
The Dun-Wiman agency reports con
siderable increase in failures in Canada
during the last quarter, as compared
with the same period last year.
Henry George is at present lying at
his home in New* York suffering from
nervous prostration, caused by over
work. His condition is not serious.
Chief Mayes has received a telegram
from the Lucas Cattle company, of Col
orado, askiug him if lie wili entertain a
bid of $30,000,000 for the Cherokee strip.
A joint note has been sent to the gov
ernment of Holland by the European
powers with regard to Dutch in the
Congo state. It is thought the colleague
will have the desired effect.
It is reported at Zanzibar that the
sultan of Vitu and his followers have
destroyed an English mission station on
the Tana river. Several native Chris
tians were killed by the sultan’s people.
The owners of the Dominion Cotton
mills company, which now controls all
the mills in Canada, have decided to sell
out. An advance in cottou may be
looked for, as the mills have lost money
of late.
Steamers to convey troops to Mozam
bique have been chartered by the gov
ernment of Portugal. Four hundred
students of Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra
universities have already enlisted for
the expedition.
3 Rubinstein's resignation of the direc
torship of the "St. Petersburg conserva
tory is said to have been brought about
by the anti-Semites. The* distinguished
composer, it is avid, drill leave Russia
and go either to Rome or Paris.
There is a grain blockade on the
Northern Pacinc road and Manitoba
branches in Manitoba, and the Canadian
Pacific railroad has been asked to take
transfer shipments to i,he seaboard, but
refused unless local rates are paid.
Six business places in Dustin, Pa.,
were burned Monday night. Lon,
$10,000; insurance small. The cause of
the fire was an explosion of an oil stove
in a drug store. The village was de
stroyed by fire only a few months ago
and was being rebuilt.
Much havoc has been wrought by
storms on the southern coasts of Europe,
taped ally arorind Sardinia, in which
vicinity eleveti persons are known to
have been killed and fifty injured, while
many vessels were wrecked and a num
ber of houses shattered.
Mrs. David Zimmerman, whose hus
band sold her to John J. Stqwart for 25
cents, was convicted of marital infi
delity at Sunbury, Pa., and sentenced
to six months imprisonment, and Stew
art was convicted of unlawful cohabita
tion and fined SIOO and costs of prosecu
tion.
The steamship Wyoming, from Liver
pool to New York, passed two water
spouts on Dec. 4, in mid-ocean. It was
snowing at the time and the roaring
cylindrical column was tilled with
white. The appearance of the water
spout created no alarm among the pas
seugers.
The question of immigration is excit
ing lively interest in England, whither
large unmbers of Jews are docking
from Russia by way of Germany. The
British government has justructed its
consuls on the continent to discourage
such immigration and to warn passen
gers not to rely upon assurances of find
ing employment m Great Britain.
The five youug ministers of the Re
formed Presbyterian church at Pitts*
burg who have been on trial for acting
contrary to the church’s discipline in
that they believed in taking part in
civil election.!, were convicted of being
guilty of a heinous offense, and were
suspended from the ministry. The
young men will appeal to the synod.
A. Colyer, Jr., a son of A. S. Colyer,
of Nashville, Tenn., baa been brought
back from Mexico by the authorities of
Coffee county, Tennesse, where be is
wanted for horse stealing. While in
Mexico Colyer represented himself as
John B. Carlisle, Jr., a sou of Senator
Carlisle, and was feted by the leading
dignitaries of the city. He swindled
the secretary of state, (Jen. Frisbie, oat
of SIO,OOO.
St. Petersburg advices state that the
betrothal of Prince Ferdinand, heir to
the throne of Rem mania, and Marie,
daughter of the Dnkeof Edinburgh, is
viewed with mixed feelings. The pro*-
pective bride i« niece to * the ci tar, ant 1
only 15 year* of age, bnt it i* feam
that her British paternity and training
will outweigh her Russian connections,
and that the marriage will rathei
strengthen the anti-Russian attitude o!
the royal house of Roumanla, already
connected by blood with the emperor of
Germany and the ruling house of Great
Britain.
To At toad the Postal longruM.
Washington. Dec. 13.—Capt. N. Jd.
Brooks, superintendent of the foreign
mail department, and William Potter,
of Philadelphia, have been appointed to
represent the United States government
at the international postal congroas, to
meet at Vienna. Austria, May 3d next.
Yankton Hiitm YYan’t Kell.
Washington. Dec. 13.—The commis
sioner of Indian affairs has received a
telegram stating that the Yankton
Sioux Indians, in South Dakota, at a re
cent council, voted 300 to 0 against the
sale of their surplus land to me govern
ment.
Cough-Cures
Are abundant; but the one best known for
Its extraordinary anodyne and expectorant
qualities is Ayer* Cherry Pectoral. For
nearly half a centuty this preparation has
been in greater demand than any other rem
edy for tolds, coughs, bronchitis, and pul
monary complaint* in general.
“1 suffered for more than eight months
from a severe cough accompanied with hetn
orrhage of the lungs and the expeotoratlou
of matter. The physicians gave me up, but
my druggist prevailed on me to try
Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral.
1 did so. and soon began to improve; my
lungs healed, the cough ceased, aiul l be
came stouter and healthier than 1 have ever
been betore. I would suggest that the name
of Ayer s Cherry Pectoral tie changed to
Elixir of Life, for It certainly saved my life.”
—!•* J. OUdefl, Salto, Buenos Ayres.
“ A few years ago I took a very bad cold,
which nettled on my lungs. I had ulglit
sweats, a racking cough, ami great soreness.
My doctor's medicine did me no good. 1
tried manv remedies, but received no bene
fit ; every body despaired of my recovery , I
was advised to use Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
and. as » last resort, did so. From the first
dose 1 obtained relief, ami, after using two
bottles of it. was completely restored to
health F. Adams. New Grata*. N. J.
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
Dr. J. C. AYER A CO., Lowell, Has*.
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induced largely by
depriwa securities.
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eted and a general era of hard^^j
Water B*», tw , .
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prenent indications f Q )i r « Z***'
be on hand to file claim,
when the Water reservation \S
to opened. Crowd* of
the t it} by every train.
Souo T«^
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Through Sleepers ami Qni
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On line of this road in Norbnmunui
•southeastern Mlnnesou. and Cental
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Thousands of choice acre# of hind vvUan
Lex ill Excursion rates given. PerMfll
(nation as to prices of land and rates sf«
addressGen’lTVckotand PassengerAMl
All of the Paaaengor Train*on «aK3J
of tbla Railway are heated by Str-arafmr
! engine, and the Mam Line Day'PassuKtirtal
‘ire lighted with tho Eleotrtoliffct 1
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points in the Union, and by its AiemTal
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