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SOUTH DAKOTA.
The First National Bank of Clark has surrendered its charter as a national bank, and will open as the First State Bank of Clark.
The president has nominated Lee Stover for register and G. V. Case for receiver of public moneys for the land office at Watertown, S. D.
Harry Clarke and his pal, Francis Marion Davis, were sentenced at Parker to two and a half years, respectively, in the penitentiary for driving off another man's cattle.
The enrollment of the Springfield State Normal school has passed sixty, and is increasing steadily. It already boasts two brass bands, one of them composed entirely of ladies.
There has been a large amount of thieving going on around Yankton for a good many months, and though the officers are very sure they have the right men arrested, it seems impossible to convict them.
John Warner, the pioneer liveryman of Canton, has decided to go out of the business, and will sell out at auction on the 26th. Many patrons will regret that he has decided to quit the business.
A camp of the M. W. of A., consisting of twenty-one charter members, was organized at Forest City recently by Deputy Head Consul Johnston, assisted in the work by a delegation of about twenty-two from Gettysburg camp.
A stock company was recently organized at Gettysburg called the Gettysburg Improvement company, with H. T. Meacham, president; O. E. Mesick, secretary; A. G. Williams, treasurer. The company will immediately begin work on a new town hall and opera house.
Sunday School Missionary M. Rogers has started on a tour of the Sunday schools he recently established at Beresford, Elk Point, Vermillion and other places. He is a thorough worker in his line, and is meeting with flattering success in his field, the State of South Dakota.
Intense excitement was created at Aberdeen by the news of the destruction of the battleship Maine. An enlistment office was opened and several scores of names affixed to the roll in short order. Brown county would quickly furnish a regiment in case of a war with Spain.
Miss Maggie Shaff of Canton accidentally spilled some gasoline on the floor while filling a gasoline stove at the home of A. L. Jones. The gasoline caught fire, and but for the prompt assistance of neighbors a serious fire would have occurred. The flames were extinguished before much damage was done.
The Bagley Elevator company has entered suit at Aberdeen against Ed A. Deitz and wife of Groton, to recover the sum of $250, which, it is alleged, was company funds and was recently used by the Deitz in cancelling a mortgage upon his residence. Dietz is the defaulting agent of the company, and is now a fugitive from justice.
Three hundred dollars have been deposited in the First National Bank of Rapid City by the sheriff of Meade county for the capture of Hank Smith, or, as he is sometimes called, James Miller, who is a noted cattle rustler from the Wyoming cattle country and has been wanted by the authorities for a number of years.
The house on Mike Galvan's place, a mile north of Canastota, was burned recently. The origin of the fire is unknown. The family of George Dawson were living there, and were all sound asleep, when they were aroused by the cries and choking of their baby. They escaped from the house with what clothing could be had quickly, and just in time to get out alive.
Ex-Congressman Pickler and his partner, P. H. O'Neil, have opened up an extensive stock ranch near Faulkton, their home. They control several hundred acres of fine, well-watered grazing land, and have over 700 head of cattle, 400 sheep and fifty horses. They are constantly adding to their herds, and will continue to do so until spring. Maj. Pickler declares he is out of politics.
T. J. Mitchell of Sioux City, Iowa, recently, through local parties, placed 460 head of high-grade Eastern Iowa cattle with parties near Blunt, and on the same day a train of thirteen cars of young cattle came into Pierre for the range and the market. Several other car loads arrived recently, and from all reports there will be thousands of head of young cattle placed on the range of this part of the state by the time the grass is green.
An attempt was made recently to blow up A. A. Mallow and family of Rapid City, consisting of his wife, three children and his aged mother. Mallow found a piece of two-inch gas pipe in the back kitchen, a foot long, plugged at both ends with wood, a foot of fuse protruding. In the stable back of the house was also found a keg half-filled with excelsion saturated with kerosene and a candle, half-burned. Later, a stick of giant powder was found in an old building near by.
The United States land officials at Aberdeen have been notified that the secretary of the interior has decided the famous Vermont City, Edmunds county, litigation over an eighty-acre tract of land, in favor of Capt. B. F. Bowman of Ipswich, and against the claims of Wayland Davis. The litigation has been pending over ten years, and was commenced when Vermont City, now Loyalton, seemed likely to make quite a place. A portion of the tract was included in the original town site. The secretary's decision is final, and sustains the findings made by officials of Aboudo
