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Show THIS TWO DAKOTAS. Harvest hands are hard to get in South Dakota and wages are high in consequence. There were myriads of hogs iu Bon Homme couuty last year, but this sea son they have all disappeared. K. P. H. Ashley, a fuji-blooded Indian,' In-dian,' w Sunday school director at the Crow Creek agency He is a good talker, well educated, and is a printer by trade, The falling of a chandelier badlv damaged the Presbyterian church at tiroton, scattering burning oil in all directions. At Fort Kice, in Morton county, in the post graveyard lie tho remains of some lifty soldiers who were massacred by the Indians some years ago while building the fort. The place was visited vis-ited by relatives the other day. who report re-port the graves in a woefully neglected condition. An effort will bo made to have congress puss a special act consecrating conse-crating the grounds as a national cem-etary cem-etary and thus secure proper care for the graves by the government. An electric battery tiend iu an Aberdeen Aber-deen hotel caught an old farmer with his infernal machine the other day aud narrowly escaped being a murderer. The old man was alllieled with heart disease and fell to the floor in an unconscious un-conscious condition and had to be removed re-moved to a physician's olliee for treatment." treat-ment." The man will recover and the practical joker can congratulate himself him-self on being ou the outside of the penitentiary. |