The Sully County watchman., June 25, 1892, Image 4

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HOMINY JOHNSON'S BULL RACE,
OpflB
to
Everything that Wore
Hair
Ud
Went on Four Leg».
A Portland gentleman was discuss
ing the breeders' association and its
preparations with a party of friends
yesterday afternoon. Presently he
asked:
"Did you ever see a bull raceP"
No, no one present had ever seen a
"bull race. So the old boy went on to
tell his story.
"The race of which I speak," he said,
"took place on a little half-milw track
along the Monogahela River just above
the old town of Brownsville, in Fayette
tjounty, Pa., about fifty years ago. It
was a noted event, and no liouse
w&rming gathering on the old Fayette
pioneers or their children, where the
apple-jack and walnuts are passed
around in those parts, ever recurs
without a repetition of all the particu
lars of 'Hominy Johnson's bull race.1
"In those palmy days of the olden
tide, a half century ago, the horse
lfc.ee and the militia-training day were
the special events for fun and amuse
ment for everybody—a sort of free-for
all. And on this particular occasion
the horse-race committee had adver
tised a race free-for-all that 'wore hair
and went on four legs,' never dream
ing that such generous latitude might
let in a representative of the bovine
race. But a colored brother by the
name of Johnson, who made his way
by peddling hominy, saw in this race
an opening to turn an honest penny
and gather in the $10 stakes, which
would provide 'Sally and the chil'ens'
with shoes for the next winter. John
son had a scrub bull which he had
trained to work and ride like a horse,
so that he could ride him to town,
carrying his sack of hominy, or hitch
Mm in shafts and sled in his winter's
wood or plough his crop of 'cawn and
taters.' So he resolved that the bull
should run for this money. And while
the 'bloods1 used the track in the day
time to train their horses. Johnson
would repair thither at the 'wee sma1
hours1 to put the bull round and round,
so that there would be no 'throw off1
for want of an understanding of what
Was wanted of him on race day.
-Finally the day came, and with it
Johnson and his bull: but the presence
of the bull tied at the fence was not
noted, for Johnson rode him as other
people rode their horses. The whole
country side was there, and not the
least noisy of the delighted gamis was
little Jim Blaine, with his trousers sus
pended by a single 'gallus1 and rolled
up to his knees.
•"The free-for-all race was finally
called, and promptly Hominy Johnson
bestrode his bull and appeared in front
of the judges1 stand and demanded to
be assigned a place. The judges
promptly ruled him out but Johnson
refused to go, appealing to the words
of the advertisement. The crowd was
not slow to see the point, and rallied
to the support of Johnson seeing that
if the bull spoiled the race he would
make bushels of fun. Loud cries were
made to give Johnson and his bull a
show, and threats were not lacking
that if there was not a fair deal there
would soon be a free-for-all fight. The
apple-jack had got in its work, and
finally, seeing no alternative, Johnson
on his bull was assigned to the outside
of the track, the word was given, and
away went the motley gang of racers,
quarter nags, family nags, old stagers,
plough horses, and Johnson's bull
lickety Brindle down the first quarter,
Johnson hanging to the flanks of his
aristocratic rivals.
"'But knowing that the bull could
not hold out for more than 200 yards,
Johnson had provided means to make
up by strategy what his nag lacked in
speed. His saddle was a dry cowhide,
and he carried a dinner horn and wore
a pair of revolutionary spurs, and as
soon as Brindle showed signs of slack
ing up, he applied his whip vigorously
to the hide, plunged the spurs into the
bull's flank, and between the rattling
of the hide and the bellowing of the
bull, every horse on the course ffew
the track, broke across the field, and
no efforts of the jockeys could return
them to the race. But the bull stuck
to his work, going the rounds of the
entire track, and as he came down the
homestretch the 'bulls of Bashan1 were
•*not a patching1 to the bellowing of this
bull, with tail waving aloft, with John
son thrashing the cowhide and tooting
his horn in triumph, while the crowd
broke into such roars and cheering that
pandemonium itself seemed to have
broken loose.
Johnson got the stakes,with a gener
ous voluntary contribution of 'lips1 and
•le vies1 from an hilarious crowd, which
voted the 'bull race' to be the greatest
thing since the days of John Gilpin's
ride.— Oregonian.
Behind the Times.
"Toungman," said the adored one's
father in a businesslike way, "I don't
care anything about your* ancestry,
and as for your financial standing I
find it very satisfactory." "Indeed,
it's very kind of you. I'm grateful—"
"As I was saying when you inter
rupted me," continued the old man.
In a tone almost severe, "I don't care
about those things, and your charac
ter and habits seem to be quite worthy
of approval." "You can1! know how
glad I am to have pleased you," began
the happy lover of such a father's
daughter, only to be shut off with:
"I am considering the matter of offer
ing you a partnership in our firm."
"You overwhelm me." "But there is
one question I wish to ask you—and I
want a candid answer." "Any thing,any
thing!" assented the bewildered youth
joyfully. "Is there any tendency to
insanity in your family?" "Not a
trace, not a trace," was the prompt re
ply of the delighted chap, who had
been half fearing some awkward in
quiry. The look of pleased enthusi
asm that had pervaded the prospect
ire father-in-law's face vanished. He
eeemed utterly crushed. "Go!" said
jbe. "I feared there was some hidden
obstacle. You are not fitted for mod
ern financiering. I cannot listen U
^©ur suit."—Detroit Tribune.
The woman suffrage movement has
«oined a new word—"intersphering."
Jt is used when polite allusion is to hft
jaade to feminine log-rolling.
HOW HE ESCAPED.
A Tennessee Convicts' Neat and
Clever Way of Securing
Freedom.
He Changes Clothes With the
Guard and Makes off'With
His Money.
In Tennessee most of the convicts
are worked in the mines and are not
guarded by walls and bolts, but by
men wlio stand over them with shot
guns and Winchesters. As a matter
of course these task masters are not
of a very high social order, and do
not excell either in humanity or edu
cation. If a convict leaves the line
as he and his fellows are marching
from mine to stockade in the first
shadows of evening, or if he drops his
rake at the coke ovens and starts to
run, he will certainly be pursued by
one or more bullets aimed with con
siderable precision. It is therefore
not a rare thing for a convict to be
killed or maimed for life. The guard
is only doing his duty and seems to
enjoy shooting at such big game by
way of a break in the monotony of
long days of watching and loafing.
But frequently convicts do escape to
the mountain wilds, where they are
never pursued. In fact, if a convict
manages to get half a mile away from
the mines without being shot or
killed, the New York Sun declares,
he may count himself safe so long as
he keeps away from the villages and
towns. The trouble is in getting his
convict garb exchanged for a less con
spicuous clothing. And all the
escapes that are planned by convicts
who have no friends on the outside
are planned with this in view. Every
convict guard has some story of an
ingenious escape and is willing to tell
it if he was not too badly involved
in it.
Not long ago there was a white
con
vict named Reed working at the
Briceville stockade. He had been
put in for ten years for a series of
forgeries, and as he was not very
strong they let him do the light work
around the stockade and only worked
him in the mines when there was a
particularly heavy run. He had been
in stripes about a year and had
behaved himself so well that the
guards thought he was resigned to
his lot. Futhermore, Briceville is far
away from civilization and he had no
friends to give him clothes even if he
had succeeded in getting away.
THREW HIM IN HEAD FIRST.
One morning he started for the well
to draw some water, a guard with a
Winchester over his shoulder accom
panying him. They walked along
side by side, the convict carrying two
big pails. The well is about 400 feet
from the stockade, around the side of
the mountain and shut in from any
sort of view by trees and bushes. The
guard sat down on a stone near by
and the convict stood at the well box
looking down into the well. Pretty
soon the convict leaned over and put
his head far down into the well box.
"What's the matter?" said the
guard.
"A big wauer snake," said the con
vict, standing up and looking around
him. "The biggest snake I ever saw."
The guard left his Winchester lean
ing against the rock he had been sit
ting upon, and came over. He looked
down the well.
"I don't see no snake," said he.
"Draw your water and come along."
"You don't lean over far enough,"
said the convict. "He's lying on the
ledge about half way up the side of
the well."
The guard was interested, and,
holding to the well box with both
hands, leaned away in.
"A little further," said the convict,
"and you'll see him."
The guard leaned still further in.
The convict grabbed him by the legs,
lifted his body to a perpendicuarl,
and with one tremendous jam
loosed his hold on the box, and
tuffeds him into the well. The guard
lfel with a yell and a huge splash. But
the yell was muffled by the close walls
of the well and dy the small box.
Fortunately for him the water was
not so deep and he struck it in such
a way that he came to the surface
right side up. There he was splutter
ing, splashing and cursing resonantly.
He looked up at the small square of
daylight far above him and saw the
convict's face and heard him laugh.
"l)o you see the snake?" said the
convict.
"Just wait till I get out of this,"
said the guard, I'll make you sweat
for it."
But I won't wait," said gb# convict
His face disappeared from the hole
and the guard began to yell. The
convict reappeared with the Winches
ter. "You needn't trouble yourself to
yell," said he. "Two l'eet away from
the box it sounds no louder then a
frog's croak. Now undress yourself
quickly and I'll let down the bucket
for your clothes."
THREW ROCKS AS AN ARGUMENT.
*'If you shoot, they'll hear you, and
then it'll be all up with you," shouted
the guard, triumphantly.
The convict was silent a minute,
then called back: "That's a fact, I'm
much obliegd. I'll drop big stones
in at you if you don't hurry up those
clothes." And he dropped in a small
stone just to'show how it would work.
The guard dodged, but the stone
caught him on the shoulder and made
quite an impression, coming from
such a distance.
"Hurry up," said the convict. "Ill
undress, too, and pass down my
clothes. See that ledge over there?
You can get on it and keep dry until
some one comes. I am really doing
you a favor in letting you have my
dry clothes for your wet ones."
The convict was undressed first and
hurried the guard with a couple of
good sized stones that just missed
liim. When the clothes were ready
the convict let down the empty
bucket, which was caught by the
shivering guard and filled with the
wet clothes. The convict raised these
to the surface, took them out and put
his dry clothes in and lowered the
bucket again. When the guard had
got the dry clothes the convict raised
the bucket again.
He wrung the wet clothes out over
the mouth of the well and put them
on. He leaned over the well and
said:
4
Say, old man, you forgot to
take your money out. I'm ever so
much obliged, as I need your month's
pay worse than you dot Good by. 1
hope you get out 60cn, but not too
soon."
And he was gone with the Win
chester over his shoulder before the
howl of rage from the guard reached
the surface. About two hours after
ward they missed the guard and the
convict and set to searching for them.
As soon as the guard heard the faint
sound of footsteps he started yell
ing. It was nearly an hour before
they got him out and started in pur
suit of the convict. But everbody has
to go afoot in those wilds, and the
convict had too good a start. He was
clever enough to keep away from the
railroads, and, with the guard's pay,
he was able to support himself and
avoid suspictoa. They have not
caught him.
The Largest "Flume.**
The flume which conveys the water
from the mountains to the reservoir
at San Diego, Cal., is said, by those
who know whereof they speak, to be
the largest and longest thing of the
kind in the world. It is thirty-five
miles long and is composed almost
wholly of redwood. In its course this
monster flue crosses 215 streams and
canons on trestles, the longest of which
is 1,700 feet and 85 feet high. In con
structing this trestle 250,000 feet of
boards and timber were used. It is
known as the Los Cochos trestle. The
Sweetwater trestle, the second longest,
is 1,200 feet long and 85 feet high.
The timbers used in them were put
together on the ground and raised to
their present position by horse-power.
Besides its many trestles this flume
passes through eight tunnels, the
longest of these being 2,100 feet in
length. The tunnels are each 6x6 feet
in size, with con vexed roofs.
Each mile of the flume required on
an average 250,000 feet of lumber and
timber of all kinds, that used in con
structing the water-box itself being
redwood two inches thick.
Building a water-tight box thirty
five miles long over fathomless chasms
and through the hearts of mountains is
a gigantic undertaking, which many
believed could never be accomplished.
The result has proved different.—St.
Louis Republic.
Food at the North Pole.
There is no trouble about living in
the polar regions except lack of food
supply. No danger exists that the
provisions once placed would be dis
turbed. Among the people who dwell
in those frozen regions a cache is sa
cred. Nothing short of starvation will
compel a native to interfere with one,
and even in such a case he leaves pay
ment behind him for what he takes.
Snow shoes and extra clothing are
hung up in the open air in summer,
and are as safe as the accoutrements
which city persons "hang up" at their
uncle's during the warm season.
Seal oil is buried in the ground in
bags of skin. Meat is heaped upon
platforms built among trees, which are
peeled of bark in order to keep bears
from climbing up to them. Little
sticks with sharp points upward are
buried in the ice to distract the atten
sion of the bears from the provisions
overhead. Another kind of cache is in
the shape of a strong pen, the main
supports of which are standing trees,
with brush and longs piled on top to
keep out wild animals. During the
salmon catching season in arctic Al
aska the heads of the fish are cut off
and put into a hole in the ground.
When they are half putrefied they are
dug up and eaten, being esteemed a
great delicacy.
Leprosy in Spain.
Leprosy is increasing at an alarming
rate 111 Spain. From Alcanta it is re
ported that several villages are afflict
ed with the terrible malady. In Beni*
dorm there are eight families every
member of which is a leper. At Gata
the number of lepers is so great that a
hospital is to be built for them, and at
other points the plague is increasing in
a frightful manner and the doctors are
unable to cope with it.
i ^***4
The oldest spoon in the world be
longs to George A. Warren of Indian
apolis. It is 229 years old and was
brought from England.
The average life of a tradesman
aoout two-thirds that of a farmer.
WIND AND FLOODS.
Destruction by the Illinois Cy
clone Far Greater Than
First Accounts.
Several Lives Lost at Galva and
the Town Almost Com
pletely Wrecked.
A Cliurcli Blown Down and the
Congregation Imprisoned.
—Lives Lost in Chicago.
A destructive tornado struck Galva,
111., at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. The
storm approached so suddenly that
the citizens had no time to reach
places of safety. In the Methodist
church there was a congregation and
in the rink a committee had met to
arrange for a Fourth of July celebra
tion. The church was quickly a mass
of ruins and the congregation impris
oned. A number of people were
injured. The rink was blown down,
but the inmates fortunately escaped
without injury. The roar of the
storm was terrible and accompanied
by midnight darkness. The wind
carried everything before it. Nearly
every business house on the main
street was unroofed and much dam
age done by water. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy roundhouse
was totally wrecked. Barnett's ele
vator was unroofed and 10,000 bushels
of grain deluged. The Rock Island
elevator and part of the depot went
next. The steeple of the Baptist
Street church was blown off, hurled
into the street and the church badly
damaged. The residence of August
Olson was blown down and Olson
killed instantly. Other members of
the family escaped miraculously.
The town today is in a state of
demoralization. Business is sus
pended. The streets are filled with
debris of every description. Nearly
every building in the place is more or
less damaged. Considering the wide
spread damage it is remarkable that
no greater loss of life occurred. The
injured are as follows:
George Erickson, arm broken.
Mrs. Albert Erickson, injured inter
nally.
Mrs. John Erickson, injured on the
head.
Mrs. H. Anderson, injured intern
ally.
Mr. and Mrs. '1ST. Yarger, slightly
injured.
O. M. Hemstead, hurt about the
head.
E. Dickenson, leg broken.
A. Erickson, hurt internally.
Hulda Carlson, leg broken.
Nellie Moline, hurt internally.
The damage is estimated at $200,
000. The path of the tornado was
about four miles wide.
AT CHICAGO.
Here the storm was more detrac
tive than first reports indicated. At
least seven lives were lost in Chicago
and vicinity and fifteen persons were
more or less injured, whiie it will
probably take hundreds of thousands
of dollars to repair the damage done
by the tornado.
Following is a correct list of killed
and injured. Killed:
Gustave Doering, Emma Klinima,
John Michon, Charles J. Roberts,
Harvey Stewart, three unknown men.
A LIST OF THE INJURED:
Dave Burns, E. Erickson, injured
internally Edward Bouseman, Max
Jacobs, Anna Klinima, Maggie Klini
ma, John Lial, will die: William Los
sea, may die: James McGinn, J. J. P,
O'Dell, S. Olson, injured internally,
may die Mrs. Annie Faddy, condition
critical Mrs. M. Slaitery, Mrs. Shoal
May Wesley.
When the storm struck State street
its violence seemed to have been at
its height. Then it seems to have
lost strength as it howled towards the
lake. Its greatest force centered be
tween Twenty-third and Twenty
fifth streets, and the manner in which
it twirled and destroyed objects along
its path would indicate that it had a
rotary motion and was a veritable,
though not a highly dangerous
cyclone. It was violent enough, how
ever, to tear the roofs off the build
ings and send them flying through
the air, and to break telegraph poles
as if they were pipe stems. While it
lasted its path on State street was a
scene of intense terror and excite
ment and the people between Twen
ty-third and Thirtieth streets every
moment dreaded death, and there was
reason for their fear amid the flying
bricks and signs and limbs of trees
and the crashing of glass and tele
graph poles. On the west side of
State street every telegraph pole from
the one in front of No. 23^0 to the one
in front of Kb. 2948 was snapped
asunder.
A seven-story brick building at 274
West Madison street was so badly
shaken up that it is thought it will
crumble. A rumor was circulated
that some world's fair buildings were
damaged, but this proved untrue.
The telegraph and telephone poles in
the path of the storm were torn
down and the wires completely tan
gled, completely demoralizing the
news service as well as the commer
cial business. Not a click of the
sounders was heard in the Western
Union office for a few hours. Line
men were sent out immediately, how
ever, and the usual prompt ser­
vice was soon restored It was
the worst storm Chicago has
experienced in many years. The
manufacturers'building at the world's
fair was damaged $6,000. The portion
of the north end of the building
between the center and northwest
corner pavilions was blown down and
almost entirely ruined.
TRUE TO LIFE.
How the Red Man's Sons and
Daughters are Being Edu
cated.
The Closing Exercises
df
the
Government School at the
Capital City.
They Present Vivid and Realistic
Scenes from Longfellew's
Hiwatha.
"The closing exercises of the govern
ment Indian school at Pierre took
place last week. There was a large
attendance of people from Pierre and
many of the parents of the Indian
children were present—there being
one hundred lodges
of Indians camped
near the school and many more left
their wagons and tents on the oppo
site side of the river.
The exercises consisted of songs,
readings, recitations and tableaux
rendered by the Indian children.
The exercises were very well executed
and some are deserving of special
mention. The tableaux representing
the Indian school base ball nine was
rendered by nine little fellows and
was a good take off on the Indians
who composed the nine. Frank
DuPree sang a solo entitled ''Three
Sailor Boys" which was exceedingly
well done and shows what can be done
for the Indian in a musical way. A
Sun Flower quartette was rendered
by four little girls. They were
dressed to represent sunflowers and
stood behind a garden wall with only
their heads in sight. The heads
noded and bended to the breeze quite
lifelike. The most interesting part
of the exercises was the series of tab
leaux representing scenes from Long
fellow's Hiwatha and were true to the
story. The portions of Hiwatha were
read by Mrs. Hallet, one of the teach
ers, and the sections were vividly por
trayed by the tableaux. The first
tableaux scene was Nokoini's warning
to Hiwatha not to seek a wife among
strange people. The second scene was
where Hiwatha appears before the
tent of the arrow maker and his
daughter Minnehaha. Third repre
sented departure of Hiwatha and
Minnehaha after their successful
wooing. Fourth, the wedding feast
of Minnehaha and Hiwatha. This
was a regular Indian tepee camp
scene. Indians were seated around
the camp fire and the bride was wait
ing upon them. Fifth scene was
where the famine and fever appeared
in flhelndiah camp. The sixth was
the death scene of Minnehaha.
The average attendance of children
at the school during the past year has
been 160. Taken altogether the year
has been a fairly successful one for
the school. Superintendent Davis
has had innumerable obstacles to
encounter in getting the school
started. In the first place when the
school opened last year the main
buildings were none of them com
pleted, and it was several months
after the school had been running
that things were gotten so they were
fairly comfortable. Then the appro
priations made by the government
for the maintenance of the school had
been less than they will be in the
future. Notwithstanding these difi
culties the school is now on a good
footing in every respect. The improve
ments which have been completed
are sjch that the inspectors who have
recently visited the school say it is
among the most completely equipped
schools in the service. The buildings
are entirely heated by steam, are sup
plied with hot and cold water
throughout, has a good system of
sewerage and a fire apparatus has
recently been furnished.
For the coming year 340 acres of
land have been leased in the vicinity
of the school to be used as a pasture
and for farming purposes. Superin
tendent Davis' estimates for mainten
ance for the coming year have all
been approved by the Indian depart
ment and will very likely become a
law. Appropriations will no doubt
be made for additional new buildings
and a $2,000plumbing contract during
the coming year.
The Indians appreciate the advan
tages of having this Indian school
located at Pierre. Mr. Davis informs
us that it is doubtful if the majority
of the children who attend the school
would go at all if they had to be sent
to an eastern school. The Indian
parents like to have their children
near by where they can call occas
sional and see them and have them
go home on vacations.
The Dakota Republican, of Ver
million, is the oldest paper in the two
Dakotas, having been issued first in
1860.
THE MAD WINDS.
Southern Minnesota Visited by a,
Most Destructive and Ter
rible Storm.
Funnel Shaped Clouds and
3k,
Haze Plainly Seen by
Those in Its Path*
The Cyclone Started Near .Jack
son Causing Death and
Destruction.
One of the worst disasters that
ever visited southern Minnesota,
occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. The funnel
shaped tornado laid waste scores of
homes and sent forty or fifty souls to
eternity. Starting near Jackson, on,
the Southern Minnesota division of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
road, the funnel-shaped cloud swept
eastward and passed four miles south
of Minnesota Lake, then took a broad
circle and passed away south of Wells.
About 5:30 a wind sprung up and off'
to the west a circling black clood was
seen rapidly advancing and demolish-'
ing everything in its course. Itpassed
near Sherburne and it is reported
that it struck a district school house,!
in which were the teacher and eigh
teen scholars, demolishing the build
ing and killing sixteen, iBicluding
the teacher.
At Easton three buildings were'
destroyed and several people injured.
At Lyndon, one family, man, wife„
and child, were killed and others
injured.
Four miles south of Minnesota
Lake farm houses and other buildings,
were demolished and four people
killed. The body of John Brown, one
of the victims, was taken to Minne
sota Lake next morning. His wife,
hired man and a school teacher were
aiso injured. It is reported that
forty or fifty were killed south and
west of Wells. It is expected that
later reports will increase rather than
diminish the extent of damage as
well as loss of life.
The house of the Bohemian family
at Bowen Mills, near Minnesota Lake,,
was blown entirely away, and the
family,man wife and six children spent
the night in the rain without shelter.
At Wells a section man received a
terrible injury in the breast from a
flying board. ^.The air was so'close i%
was stifling and seemed like gas and
everywhere was tilled with a wliitte
haze.
All along the line of the C. M. & St.
P. R'y, from Jackson to Minnesota
Lake the scene is one of devastation.
Wires have been down all forenoon.
On account of the debris on the tracks
the train to Wells got no further than
Mapleton last night and the morning
train was four hours late. Telegraph
poles and trees were blown over.
Owing to a washout at Blakely, on
the Omaha road, last night's passen
ger train from the Twin Cities has
not yet arrived. This morning's
train from Sioux City was held at
Kasota to wait repairs on the track*.
A washout at Rochester, on thd^ $
Northwestern road, delayed the
morning passenger train from the
East.
Several section hands between
Wells and Minnesota Lake were in
jured. A farmer named John Brown
was killed, and his wife and hired
man injured.
MANY HEAKTKENDING SCENES
occurred during the cold rain that
beat upon the unprotected, homeless
ones throughout the night.
A dispatch from Mankatosays that
it was the worst tornado, followed by
a terrific electrical storm, that was
ever witnessed.
The first damage was' at R.
W.
Sherin's. It demolished a log house,
in which were Mrs. Mat Nagle and
child. It took the child in a baby
carriage some distance, not hurting
it. Mrs. Nagle was landed inn tree
some distance away also without
injury. It then went west to R.
Hewey's, where it took a house and
completely tore it to pieces. Here it
evidently split and the west wing
passed to the south to Critton Sut^jp
ton's place and took the roof off his''
barn. It then struck northwest to
Henry Adams' house, taking the
kitchen about four rods south and
landing it right side up. The bal
ance of the house was torn to pieces.
It then came directly east, passing
about three-fourths of a mile north
of this city and unroofed T. School's,
house and destroyed his windmill,
and then passed east and disappeared.
The. next heard of it was from Wells,
where considerable damage was done
and a number killed.
Jsl.
Flandreau has issued the program
for the Lake Madison Veteran asso
ciation encampment at that plactf
June 21,22 and 23. The 21st will be.
governor's day. Governor Melletto
will speak at 5:30 p. m. and command
dress parade at 7:30 p. m. The next
day addresses will be delivered by
Judge Palmer, Judge Bennett, Lieu
tenant Governor Hoffman and others.
The encampment will be held in a
wooded bend of the smiling Sioux.
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