The Sully County watchman., August 25, 1883, Image 1

About The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894

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VOLUME I.
THE SULLY COUNTY WATCHMAN,
Published Ever) Saturday,
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WALTER & GROPENGIESER,
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$2 Per Year. in Advance.
OFFICIAL I)TRECTORY.~
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate In Con^n s»—,T. B. Raymond.
Governor—N. 1. Ordwav.
8cTr»'tary—J. II. THIrr
Tmi.Min-r—\V. II. Yav.
Auditor—(icor^'c L. Onlwuv.
Fum-yor (irntTiil—
Corn*/. M. Ft'ssemlfMi.
Hupcrintcndt'iit of Public Instruction—
W. 11. II. Hciulle.
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Justice of Supreme Court—Alonzo
J. !Kl!X*rto».
A-sociate Justices of the Supreme Court
—VVm. E. J. Church, J. P. Kidder, 8. H.
Httdson.
United States District Attorney—Hugh
J. Campbell.
United States Marshal—Harrison Allen.
sullycointy!
Commissioners.—G. J. Millett, 8r.» B. P.
llOwvcr.
filieriff—O. J. Millett, Jr.
Tn-aMirer—Charles Ajfar.
('oroner—Dr. J. A. Steven*.
Surveyor—William Ashley Jones.
Assessor—Orr W. I*ee.
Clerk of Court—H. W. K«li ertn.
Judge of Probate—Merit Sweenev.
Superintendent of Schools—Iav!d Sta
ples.
Register of Deeds and Ex-Offlcio County
Clerk, J. A. Maloon.
Justices of the Pence—Wm. P. Ross, G.
W. Everts. P. T. Keily, I). D. Bryant.
Constables—Henry VV. Sprague, George
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CLIFTON HOUSE,
WM. P. ROSS, Proprieor,
CLIFTON. DAKOTA.
Flint-class accommodations. Hate* rea
sonable. I.ivrrv in Connection. 18
JESSE M. SPOON KK,
Contractor and Builder,
HEBB5, DAKOTA.
Parties who contemplate the erection of
buildings. either in town ir country, would
do well to get my figure#. Estimates furn
ished on short notice. IU Gin
Wm. P. ROSS,
A N A E
CLIFTON, I). T.
Transact.^ a general Land Business.
ItOniting a Specialty.
Office at Clifton House.
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CLIFTON. DAKOTA.
«EA1TT & EOBEETS, Huron, D. T.
ContestH carefully prosecuted. Final
Proofs made. O to Loan on Fi
nal Proofs. Some excellent claims
on
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It. I' H"-Vrn. .? A Whitf.
EANDJLPS I WHITE.
Attorneys and Counselors at Law ami
Land & Loan Agents,
HU NT. DAKOTA.
With offices at Hlunt and Huron, art*
especially prepared to do prompt and care
ful work in Land matter- before the
U. S. Land Office $0O,OOO to Loan
OB Sully county Final Proofs. See them.
DICKOVKR IIOl SET
8.E. DICKOVER, Proprietor,
BLl'NT. DAK.
Headquarters for all Stage Lines for the
north and northwest. Good bath rooms
in connection with house.
TlIK KlItST-CLAHb HOTKL OF THK TOWS.
E. 1\ WESTOYKR,
hi and Lou Agsat,
BLUNT, DAKOTA.
final Proofs attended to. Locate par
tte* on howls in Hugtio, Sully, and ad
joining counties. xvl
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BANK of BLUNT
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GENKIIAI. BANKING BWINEHH.
Kefer hv permission to Union National
Bank. It wine, Wi- lion. Wm Lyon,
Associate Justice Supreme Court. Madi-on,
Vflb. Hon. It. A. Maxwell. Stale Truat
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W o.esale and Retail D«.iler»in
fineries, Prmiou, Crockery, Qlui-
waro. Cigars and Toba:c:s,&c.,
HU NT. DAKOTA.
By selling good goods at small profits
and by fair dealing, we hope to merit the
Confidence and esteem of our patrons and
friends. Call and see us. augil-y
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__H0ME HA1TKNINGS._
—H. W. Pickard, living six miles
south of Clifton, was in on business,
Wednesday.
—-Frank 1 Lee, of the Clifton
and Blunt stage line, haa pat up a
bam in town this week.
—B. P. Hoover has commenced a
well at his fine new aeaidcace iu the
north part of town.
—E. (r. Winner, of section 83, 113
79, leaves with a part)- to take in the
Black Hill* country, the first of the
weeK.
—This office has received two boxes
of new type from Chicago the past
week. It belongs to tu and is paid
for, too.
—Carlton O. C. Barker, on s. e. 24'
about three miles south-east of Clifton,
has 54 feet of pure cold water in a
26 foot well. No water in Dakota!
What are you talking about!
—R. H. Proud foot, of sec. 33, 113
79, has received the appointment of
postal messenger between Pierre and
the Black Hills, with $50 per inonth
and feed.. It is conceded that he will
mukc a good one.
—Hon. Thomas George, a prominent
gentleman of Lake Benton, accompa
nied by his wife and duughter, Miss
Helen, readied Clifton to-day, on their
way to (irand Crossing, on the Missou
ri, but will tarry with us a day or two.
—We this week publish a supple
ment. Our readers can rest assured
of getting all the local news that is
"gctatable." We shall never let ad
vertisements crowd out home news,
but meet the emergency in some man
ner, no mutter how great the pressure.
—Commissioner G. J. Millett, £r., a
resident of the Territory for many years,
who has considerable experience in ar
bor-culture, 'advises planting cotton
woods for an early timber, to he follow
ed by the more valuable kinds. The
cottonwood is a rapid grower and Mr.
Millett affirms will soon afford a wind
break and consequent protection for
the muple, beach, waluut, &e., besides
making earlier ftiel,
—The constitutional convention at
Sioux Falls will le petitioned to incor
porate in our statute a clause forever
prohibiting the manufacture of intoxi
cating liquors in Dakota, and prohibit
ing their sale except for mechanical
aud medicinal purposes, and we trust
their uyer will be granted. Liquor
has leen the curse of our land, and we
trust our fair Dakota will be spared.
—A. M. Winner, down on Spring
Creek, sec. 33, 113-79, who returned
from Iowa a few days ago, brought
with him a car load of seed rye. stock,
&c. He has sold 50 or (50 bushels of
rye already, and if any of our readers
desire some for seed, it would be well
to see him soon. Rye is said to do
well on either old ground or new
breaking. Sown this fall when you
have nothing else to do, it will ripen
the last of tine and can be harvested
and out of the way liefore oats and
wheat come on. It makes tine feed for'
either horses or cattle, and ground is
about the lest substitue for milk lor
hogs and bigs, known.
—The Onida Journal baa prepared
for itself a very convenient hole in
which to crawl to shield itself from the
consequences of its dirty and con
temptible flings. Our editor, it fre
quently asserts, is only a boy, not vet
of age, meaning by this, we suppose,
that he should neither be held re
sponsible in the eyes of the law or
for the silly, slobliering articles that
have appeared in the Journal from
time to time. We will therefore ex
cuse the -infant" so far an may te, but
would advise the -old man," if he can
still do anything with his itnlicciie
offspring, to take him across the knee
and try and fan a little sense and de
cency into him. tie a sugur-tcat in his
mouth aud relegate him to the protec
tion of his mother's apron strings
until lie knows enough to cany
dough to the chickens, A lny whose
intellect is so sadly dwarfed is not safe
on the prairie. Some toothless old
buffalo roaming around iu search of
si food might eat him up.
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—John Hoover has put a pump in
his well just below town.
—The county safe arrived, and iB
now in position at the court bouse.
She's a daisy.
—The prairie chfeken is now law
ful game and old ''Nimrod" is after
them with deadly intent.
—All kinds of land and other legal
blanks in stock *t this office, or neatly
printed r-u short notice.
—J udge Wm. p. Ross has charge of
about 30 tree claims, which lit ia hav
ing broke for different parties.
—Frank Davenport, a keen yonng
lawyer, and J. J. Novak, a wide-awake
land agent, both of Blunt, were in
Clifton. Thursday.
—We are pleased to learn that Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew McFall. about a
mile and a half south-east of Clifton,
will move into town this fall.
—Four townships in Potter ffffffnty,
120-74 and 118,119 and 120-75, came
into market on Wednesday of this
week. It has been partly settled by
squatters since spring, nuwy of wJiom
will soon be proving up.
—Rev. A. C. Law writes us that he
will preach at Clifton (to-morrow) Sun
day, August 26, at 10:30,
A.
Onida at 3, p.
and at
M.,
and requests the
people to secure a room, Who will
attend to it and let us have services
—At its lost meeting the County
Commissioners re-elected N. ll.Young
to the Board. Mr. Young is a man of
fine attainments and good jndgment.
His long residence and familiar ac
quaintance with the country and its
needs makes him well qualified for the
position, and we are pleased to know
that he has so arranged Us business
as to again accept.
—B. P. Hoover and Richard C.
Fosdick went to Blunt, yesterday, to
buy lumber for the new Odd Fellows
building to be erected in Clifton. The
building will be two stories with (.Kid
Fellows hall above, but the exact di
mensions have not been decided upon.
Work will be commenced at once, un
der charge of Walter N. Meloon, boss
mechanic. The building will be a de
cided ornament to town.
—The people of Onida and the east
earn part of the county will now please
take notice that we
DO
get up and
'•howl" that the Onida Journal is a
liar when is asserts, as it has, that the
WATCHMAN has called the people of
Onida and the eastern part of the
county "bastards," or ever either tried
to reflect upon their chastity or moral
ity or coupled the name or people of
Onida, Sully county, with Oneida. N.
Y., and is no ordidary liarat that, but a
mean, contemptible one. The Journal
commenced by alluding to Clifton as
the "alxrtion" on the bluffs. It is
possible that the Journal uicunt to ac
cuse the mothers of the people of Clif
ton and the western part of the county
of criminally hastening their births,
but we tlid not so construe it. In re
ply to this we said there was more
significance in calling Onida a "bas
tard town, as it had refused to ac
knowledge its father (the town site
proprietor) anil had drove him out of
town"—this and nothing more. No
allusion whatever to the eastern part
of the county, and to Onida only ns a
t*wn site. But we suppose "that boy"
did it, and isn't to blame—he is young
and didn't know any better. The peo
ple are asked to judge whether or not
the Journal lied.
Land Office Deoisioa.
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S. LAND OKKICK. Huron,
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Under new ruling of DejMirtment
claimant must state in Final Proof No
tice lefore what particular officer—
whether Probate Judge or District
Court Clerk—proof is to be made also
the place at which it is to made. In
pre-emption proof witness can go be
fore Notary, provided Notary is named
and place and date are named.
But claimant must go lefore Judge
or Clerk, otherwise Register or Receiv
er. In homestead pn)of witness and
claimant must go tiefore Register or
Receiver or Judge or Clerk and so
specify. G. B. A&MSTKOXO,
Register.
CLIFTON, SULLY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1383. NUMBER 19.
Thrifty Young Trees on Sod!
Wm. W. Botsford, on sec. 33, about
three miles south of Clifton, sowed a
barrel of soft maple seed on sod the
last of June—a)out two months ago—
and the young trees now stand a foot
high and are young and thrifty. He
also put out some small willow cut
tings, alnuit six inches, which now
stand two feet This would demon
strate that it is not necessary to wait
until the sod is rotted and the ground
cultivated to put out trees. A year or
two gained in this ini{ortnnt matter is
of the greatest consequence, and if the
seed will come and the young trees do
well on sod, we hope to see the culture
of forests pushed vigorously until we
have both fuel and protection from
this source—a necessity of the greatest
importance to the people of Dakota,
Prospect of Another Bailxoad for
Clifton.
Some of our readers may not be
aware that the Chicago Milwaukee A
St. Paul is extending their line west
from Alerdecn 40 miles to Roscoe, a
point in Edmunds county, but such is
the fact. This brings it to within a
little over thirty miles of the north
east corner of Sully county, and be
cause of their making Roscoe the ter
minus for the time U'ing we can see
considerable encouragement for its ex
tension via Clifton. It has long leen
talked that the C. & N. W. and the C.
M. & St P. would join in bridgiug the
Missouri, and there is not only a
JJOS-
sibility, but a great probability, that
the C. M. & St. P. may lear southwest
from Roscoe and strike the RcdAeld
extension of the C. & N. W. near the
north-east corner of Sully county and
thence down the Okolwjjo, both using
the same line from the junction. This
would practically give us two roads,
though only one track. Many stranger
things than this have happem«d.
Stebbins' Hew Opera House, Blunt
On the evenings of October 1st, 2nd
and 3rd will occur the opening of
Stebbins' new Opera House, at Blunt,
by the Peerless Dramatic Company, of
Chicago, under the local management
of II. L. Sherman, eorres|ondent of
the New York Mercury. This house
is one of the finest in the Territory.
It is 50x71, with a stage 10x20 and
two large dressing rooms, with a seat
ing capacity of 1,000. It is heated by
steam and has a full outfit of scenery.
On the first night will be produced the
powerful drama, Black Diamonds,"
and on that evening each lady attend
ing will be presented with an elegant
souvenir programme. The plays for
the other two evenings will be an
nounced in due season. Our readers
who attend can be assured of a rare
treat
The Lazy Han's Paradise!
Dakota is pre-eminently the lasy
man's paradise, though we are glad to
know that but few of this class get up
ambition enough to reach our Territo
ry. All the necessaries of life flourish
remarkably and are grown with but
little labor. Corn, potatoes, beans,
and all manner of garden truck put in
on sod without a minute's labor with
the hoe or cultivator have pnxluced
marvclously, so that from "seed time
to harvest'' the indolent man has only
to bask in the glorious sunshine,
breathe the health-giving atmosphere
and live on the fat of the land. Oats,
too, and even wheat, sown on the sod
have yielded well, while millions of
acres of the richest grasses fairly leg
for the herbivorous animals to convert
it into flesh for the subsistence of man.
Of course this lazy way of doing busi
ness is not the kind of farming that
pays the U'st, but it enables the sloth
iul man to eke out an existence with
out the sweat of the brew—something
which lie abhors—and serves to illus
trate the grand possibilities of the
country to the man of enterprise and
industry.
—What is going to be done about ft
school in Clifton this winter? This is
a question altout which a good many
are more or less interested. Does any
body know
Attention, Settlers!
Probate Judge Sweny, of Sully Co.,
D. T., desires to call the attention of
parties proving up on their claims to
the fact that final proofs can be taken
before him at Clifton, Carson, Onida
and )kobojo. Parties desiring to make
final proof before him will so state in
their application, and see that such ap
plication states the place at which they
desire to make final proof. By attend
ing to this parties can save an unneces
sary amount of travel. 19-tf
Boots & Sh068, Hats
B. P. HOOVKR,
ORR OT.I.EI:,
J. J. STEBBIU S CO.,
IN OPERA BLOCK, Lone Tree Avenue,
BLUNT, DAKOTA,
Are now opening the LARGEST STOCK of
Ready-Made Clothing, Gents' FurnishingGoodSi
Hoover &. Edgerton,
Money Loaned on Final Proofs.
NOTARY PUBLIC,
CLll'TON, DAKOTA.
Orrrcx POSTOFMCK Buruonio.
Clifton Blacksmith Shop.
Lsdussi fries! and fird-Out fat
Sharpmilng 14-lnch Plow as cents.
12 ao
Nfw Ilnnw Nhw* **t for
Setting Wagon Tir«
One Price Clothing House!
& Caps, to be found West of Winona.
LOOK AT Ol PRICKS :—Full Suits for 3, 4 and 5 dollars each suit.
Better SuiUi for 6, 7, 8 and 9 dollars each. Best suits $10 upwaids
Overcoats, from $1.50, $5.00, $10.00 and upwards.
Gents' Furnishing Goods in endless variety and at Bottom Prices.
SQUARE DIALING.
INSURAIT E ON FARM PROPERTY.
Improvements made on Tree Claims and Taxes Paid
for Non-Residents.
Collections Made.
PUTS CORRECTED TO LATEST MAILS.
MR. HOOVER, having been a resident of Sully county for seven years, is
familiar with all lands in Sully and Potter counties, is well prepared to do
locating.
REFERENCE i—FIRST
V. (i. FROST,
Attorney at Law.
AND CITIZENS' BANK. OF PIKRRE EDMl'NDS, HUD
SON & CO., liANktUiS, YANKTON,!). T.
FROST & FROST,
CLIFTON, DAKOTA.
Land, Law, Loan and
ABSTRACT OFFICE.
REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Claims Located. Abstracts Made. Loans Negotiated.
Final Proofs a Speeailt?.
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Wfttfnn or BUKEV repairing And nil kind* of
wood-work in flrot-clun manm-r.
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(X C. FROST.
Notary Public.
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