The Sully County watchman., December 08, 1883, Image 1

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

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WALTER 4 (iKOPKNGIKSER,
$2 Per Year in Advance.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TKItltlTOUIAL.
Delegate in Congress—J. B. Raymond.
Unvemor—N. *. Ordway.
Seeretary— J. II. Teller.
Treasurer—W. H. MeVay.
Auditor—Oenrge L. Ordwav.
Hurveyor Jenernl—Cortet 8. Fessenden.
Superintendent of Public Instruction—
V.
it. Headle
('hief Justice of Supreme: Court—Alonzo
Kdgerton
Astorintv Justice* of the Supreme Court
-Wm. K. J. Church, J. P. Kidder, S. B.
i 'udson.
United States District Attorney—Hugh
i
Campbell.
United States Marshal—Harrison Allen.
SULLY COUNTY.
Commissioner*.—(3. J. Millett, ftp., B. P.
Inover. N. H. Young.
Sheriff—(i. J. Milieu. Jr.
Treasurer—Churle* A^ar.
Coroner—Dr. J. A. Stevens.
Surveyor—William Ashley Jones.
Assessor—(n VV. Lee.
Clerk of Court-11. W. Edgerton.
Judge of Probate—Merit Sweeney.
Superintendent of School*—Davtd Sta
!•*.
Register of Decile and Ex Officio County
Clerk, J. A. Meloon.
JuHtices of the Peace—Wm. P. Rons, O.
W. Ev»-rts. P. T. Keily, D. I). Iiryant.
Constables—Henry W. Sprague, George
fluwer*. Geo. II. Pease.
CLIFTON HOUSE,
tVM. P. ROSS, Proprietor,
CLIFTON, DAKOTA.
First-class accommodations. lUlm rea
Miuahir. Livery in Connection. 13
JESSE M. SPOON BR,
Contractor and Builder,
PIEB2B, DAKOTA.
Parties who contemplate the erection of
h'lildings, either in town or country, would
•t well to get my figures. Estimates furn
ished on short notice. 18-6m
Wm. P. ROSS,
A N A U 3
CLIFTON, D. T.
Transacts a neneral
.xmling n Specialty.
Office
HOSm,
Land Business.
at Clifton House
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S. H. IUEAL.,
Attorney ui I.sw. ami
hi, Lou Inuun IgwL
CLIFTON, DAKOTA.
5RANT & EOBBETS, Huron, B. T.
Contests cjrtfnliy prosecuted. Finit
IV'Mifs made. fiJ»10,OOO t» Loan oil Ki
ital Proofs. Some excellent claims
hand. i7-im
J.. I'. li k .1 A Whl
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V
WESTS,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law :u|d
land & Loan Agents,
BLUNT. DAKOTA,
Vith offices nt Blunt and Huron, a
«—peciull
prepared to do prompt
tl
work in
and
care
Land matters before the
'•i. S. Land Office. $50,000 to Loan
on Sully county Final Proof- See them.
l)irKJ)VHR HOUSE,
S. B. DICKOVER, Proprietor,
BLUNT. DAK.
Headquarters for all Stage Lines for the
*orth and northwest. Good bathrooms
connection with house.
THE KIHHT I..\F« HOTKL or THK TOWS.
E. P. WESTOYER,
h\ blili ui lm Agent,
BLUNT, DAKOTA.
fllMil Proofs attended t. Locate par­
ties
on lands in liugbva, bully, and sd
lining counties.
\V PwVt I,!!**-, 'a*ltt«r
BANK ofBLUNT
BLUEST, DAKOTA.
TKAWBACT A OKSBIIAI. BASKISO BUSINESS
Refer by permission to Union National
:Vmk. Racine. Wis. lion. Wm. Lyon.
\-wot-late Justice
Supreme Court, Madison.
"A is. Hon. K A. Maxwell. State Treua
rcr of New York, Albany. N. Y. xvi
"lily Csnalj Prcjsrty a Spsdiit j.
Parties desiring to sell Deeded Farms or
Lnt*vH!lflnd f» pureliaser by addresaitig
.vith f'H |a! i i.-iiiar-
W. M. WHITTEMORE.
Ciucau'J, III.
HOME HAPi'ENINGS.
—Deeded Lands for tale by Orr W.
Lee, Clifton.
—Commissioner 6. J. Millett spent
Tuesday night in Clifton.
—II. II. Butts has been spending
the past week in Pierre.
—Clerk of Court Edgerton visited
Ft. Sully Monday, returning Tuesday.
Ira Cole and lrviu Itiekert, of
Clifton, left for a trip to the Black
Hills, Saturday.
—The Odd Follows have been mak
ing additional improvements to their
hall in Clifton, this week.
—Robt. Brandhuler, of Pierre, was
in town Monday, giving us a pleasant
call and subscribing for the
WATCH­
MAN.
—Since the organization of Faulk
count}' and the location of the county
scat at LaFoon, the usual cry of bribery
and corruption ia heard from the towns
which got left.
—The comet cometh and the young
folks will again have a plausible excuse
for bitting up and watching for it.
Them boys and girl* know how to
comet over the old folks.
—There were ten buggi»« and double
carriages, six or seven wagon rigs and
four or five saddle horses in Cliflon at
one time, Wednesday. This will do
pretty well, considering that we are all
heatliens and paupers.
—Two deaths occurred at Blunt last
Week from what was pronounced diph
theria, but no other cases are said to
exist This is a terrible disease but
we have little fear of it in this section,
the land being too well drained with
everything so clean and pura
—Life begins to have an additional
charm for the young man who has a
solid lest girl. Instead of tarrying
with her until ten or eleven o'clock be
fore the«old man rings down the cur
tain, as of yore, he can linger around
until twenty-two «r twenty-three
o'clock.
—A petition is being circulated for
the opening of a portion of the Gov
ernment Reservation in the southwest
ern part of Sully county, for the pur
pose of giving some of the people liv
ing in that section a school. A boat
landing for the accommodation of the
sutlers down there is also one of the
objects set forth by the petiti
residence of Benand Henry
Blair, a couple of colored men living on
their claims in sec. 31, lltl-79, was
burned the first of the week, together
with their supplhts accumulated for the
winter. A quantity things lelong
ing to John White and another man
were also consumed, the whole entail
ing a serious loss. The fire is sup
posed to have originated from the
stove, in which a good fire wae built
just before the parties left.
—Tjn-«fiHlH'rs, nan
ite and Francis Dunbar, deserted
from the 11th 1 nfantry stationed at Ft.
Stilly, one night last week. Two sol
diers traded their uniforms for citizen's
suits at Ilarrold, and were doubtless
the men in questiou. There is only
about 25,000 men in service in the
United States, and over one-half of this
numlier are foreigners, and the many
desertions taking place is evidence that
our people do not take kindly to mili
tary service no matter how well they
are treated.
—The Oniila Journal intimates that
the people of Okolojo and Carson are
fools, by asserting that they will com
bine forces with OnidaJ and against,
Clifton In the "coming county seat
struggle." Will the Journal please
tell us how many of the Okobojo ami
Carson people it ever heard express
such a determination. We are ac
quainted with many of them and know
them to be men of good sense and
judgment. If there is one who prefers
the county seat from 12 tq 10 miles
when they can have it from 4 to
i
milex, we have never heard them inti
mate it, but have heard many express
themselves as well pleased with ita
present location.
VOLUME I. CLIFTON, SULLY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1883. NUMBER U
—The residence of Chas. Butts, in
Clitton, has been painted.
—Henry Dunkle and W. J. Hid J.
W. Johnston, of Fairbank, made us a
call, Wednesday.
—Large numbers of prairie chickens,
grouse and rabbits are teing killed
down on the river.
—Commissioner B. F. Hoover and
Clerk and Register J. A. Meloon re
turned yesterday evening lxuiu a two
days visit to Fort Sully.
—Rev. A. Law prcnehed ton good
audience in the school house at Clifton,
and will again hold services there three
weeks from to-morrow at 11 o'clock.
—Miss Mate L. Moore will teach the
intermediate department of the Blunt
School. Out of eight examined she
was the only one getting a certificate.
—Misses Rinnie Snyder and Alice
Bower, of Pierre, were in town Wednes
day, coming from their respective
farms where they had spent the night
previous.
—Read the card of Andrew McFall,
attorney-at-law, elsewhere in to-day's
paper. Mr. McFall has had some 20
years experience in the practice of
law and we beKeve those employing
him will receive satisfaction.
—Ilarrold, Hughes county, has
solved the water question bv erecting a
1100 barrel tauk in town and putting in
a wind engine to force the water from
a well on the creek bottom one mile
distant Pipes with hydrants will be
run wherever needed.
Eayden Brothers.,
A short time since we received a
large and neatly gotten up catalogue
from the
u
Chicago House" of the
Hay den Bros., of Pierre. No wonder
this enterprising firm leads all competi
tion in the West, and have their large
store at Pierre crowded with customers
for they have advantages which no
other house possesses. With unlimited
means and a large wholesale house in
Chicago, they manage to scoop in
large stocks of seasonable bankrupt
goods from time to time at prices
winch enables them to sell lower than
many others can buy, and their Pierre
House gets the benefit Particularly
is this the case just now, they having
bought the entire bankrupt stock of
Cleveland, Cummingsdt Woodruff,con
sisting of blankets, comforts, linens,
flannels, shawls, cloaks, h»iery, under
wear, mittens, gloves, dress goods,
ots, shoes, clothing, &c., &c., which
ey are closing out at prices 75 per
nt below zero, (live them a call.
-It seems to us that it is about time
tilt Onida Journal ceased its outrageous
Ivmg about Clifton,else when the truth
liefomes known its maliciousness may
Htmcrang" back upon itself to its
n disadvantage. We have not paid
attention to its statements, here
(re, for those acquainted with it
know its reputation for contumacious
lying too well to place any dependence
upon what it says. As an illustration,
take the following from its columns of
last week Since the mud puddles of
the Okobojo have dried and frozen
up the citizens of Clifton have to haul
their water lYom ()nida towuship, a dis
tance of four or five miles. They will
have no relief untd the snow falls."
Now, the truth of the matter regarding
this subject, as every one of our citi
zens can testify, is that wc have one
well back of the hotel in which there
is seven or eight feet of water, and four
others within from thirty to eighty
rods of the town site which are only
from 10 to 18 fe»t deep, to-wit:—John
Deveny's, John Hoover s, L. J. Bald
win s and B. P. Hooker's. At John
Hoover's well there is a pump on a
raised platform so that with a spout
the water can IK run din-ctly in a bar
rel in a wagon driven along-side, with
plenty of water to supply the town.
These are facts, and liecause of the
Journal spreading itself to the extent
it has to injure Clifton, it would be no
more than justice and honor lor it to
tell the truth at least once, for if it
should die with all the load of false
hoot I it has uttered uncontradicted it
would go to -1 sure.
Counto toatcliiuan.
—The Pierre Daily Signal takes ex
ception to the article in the
WATCHMAN
of two weeks ago against the opening
of the Reservation, but some of its po
sitions are not tenable. The assertion
that "Sully and the counties north
will boom, settle and develop more
rapidly with the reservation opened
thin with it closed," is not borne out
in the past in connection with north
western Minnesota where there are
many counties yet unsurveyed. If the
rush to the reservation would settle the
counties east of the river, why did not
the great immigration to Dakota settle
up western Minnesota? To the con
trary, many from that section are num
bered among our population. With
out the opening of the reservation will
the people of the east flock into Dakota
for lands twenty or forty miles from
the railroad asks the Signal. We
should like to ask the Signal if they
can hope to get land in the reservation
within from twenty to forty miles of a
railroad, or even twenty to one hundred
miles, unless it may le for a few miles
opposite Pierre, where the land will all
be gobbled up by sharks. Once here,
attracted by the rush to the reservation,
they will settle in Sully, Potter and
Hughes counties as well as on the res
ervation,' says the Signal. While this
may be true as to one in a hundred,
yet for that one we will lose a dozen of
those we already have. We should l»e
very glad to have some one convince
tis that this would not be the result, for
then we should have consolation in
event of the reservation being opened
this winter, but we believe it to be in
evitable. The Signal bases its argu
ment largely upon the benefit the peo
ple of the Black Hills country would
derive from the opening of the reserv a
tion, as viewed from its standpoint,
and cites the high prices it has to pay
for many things and the great outlay
for freights. While it is true that the
cost of some of the necessaries of life
are now high in the Black Hills coun
try, it is equally as true that the remu
neration of labor out there is equal or
greater, so that the masses of the peo
ple suffer no hardship from this cause
and as regards the outlay for freights,
it now gives employment to many of
our settlers who came too late to raise
crops and enables them to earn some
thing to keep their families through
the winter, and the business of supply
ing these very freighting outfits is
probably the greatest source of revenue
Pierre now has. With the reservation
opened and a railroad extension this
profitable business would at once cease.
What we want more than the opening
of the reservation is the development
of the half settled border counties, the
construction of railroads, the building
of school houses and churches,
and more of the habiliments of civiliza
tion and the comforts of home life.
When the seeker after cheap and free
lands can secure them in our midst
with the advantages just alove alluded
to, from three to five years in advance,
where exists the necessity of going
west of the Missouri and beyond the
pales of civilization as it were?
Surely our friends in Sully county
will not le so utterly selfish as to wish
for stumbling blocks to retard the
progress of any great section of the
territory, for so small and questionable
an advantage to herself/' says the Sig
nal toward the close of its argument.
Of course Pierre is entirely unselfish in
the matter. That city is assuredly the
only "great section of the territory
Iwfore which any ''stumbling blocks"
will be cast, ami, from our standpoint
of reasoning, the opening of the reserva
tion would be a detriment, for it would
build up a rival town oppoMte on
the river, kill its freighting business,
retard the development of till its terri
tory east of the river, and injure it in
many ways. Writing upon this sub
ject the Blunt Advocate wry appro
priately says:
"Instead of holding a mass meeting
to advocate the opening of a vast ter
ritory west of the river, which will
•draw people aud business away from
Pierre, the citizens of that burg had
better U agitating for the opening of
I the Winnebago reservation, which pre
vents netllement the southern part
of Hughes and Hyde counties. Let us
get our own county settled and devt 1
ed before we seek other worlds to con*
quer."
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JJLXjL JUJLiJlY JLrJLVt%#SCr
The
PIERRE. DAKOTA.
WE NOW HAVE A VERY LARGE AND KXTFNSIVK
STOCK OP
I
Slanket.B«.,
uilta, 5 for $1, worth $1.50 and upwards.
$^ and $ per pair, worth $4 and $5.
I
Shoes and Groceries,
Whlcll hate come in car lots within the last few days. Consequent!? ww
our geods at the following very low prices, which cannot be beat anywhere in
the United States. This is very strong language, but nevertheless call and ae*.
and the following prices will be the proof
DRY GOODS.
Calico nnd Prints, good assortment at 4} cents, worth 7 to 8 cents.
(I 10 to cents.
Delaines. 15 35 cent*.
Oanhmere*. 40 #9 70 oeot*.
Good, heavy Winter Suits $6, worth $10, Good Wool Winter Suits $8, worth $14
(Jood Knelfoh Caasimere Huits, $14. worth $20. All 10, if
Oood and Heat French Worsted Suits $12.50. worth $'38.
Overcoat* of ull gradea and qualities. $4 and upwards, worth double what we a*k.
Boots and 81ioes
Of all kind*. We are now offering at very low prices* in Ladies', IVntl'DMits',
Youths', Boys' and Children**. Ladies' Pebble (Joat $1.85, worth $2.54)
Men's Boots, $2.50 to $5.
Groceries, Queenswaie, Crockery,
Buying all goods strictly for Cash and in larger quantities than any other
house in our line, enables us to offer many cash bargains unapproachable. A
goods marked in plain figures. One price for all. Money refunded at all
times if goods are not satisfactory. Orders promptly filled from all parts of
the country.
IFATBEUT BEOS
Pierre, D. T., & Chicago.
This space belongs to R. D. JONES,
of the Cash Star Grocery, Pierre, who
will occupy it with a new adv. lie
will make prices with any one in Da
kota. See him before buying.
JAMES O'NEAL,
HARDWARE,
Till \0K\ ST0VKS A\l ItAMiKS.
BEST ON EARTH
Westminster Heaters,
Which hai no Superior
A full line of all kinds of Hardware Com awl see toe when in town. It
will oost you nothing.
East Sids Pisrre St., 1*1 KItRE* 1).
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