The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-03-26
Dakota Items.

Dakota is looming up in the east amons
the western home seekers and capitalists
and we predict an addition to our popula
ton the coming season of $4,000 souls and
millions Of wealth. There is no use d
talking, we cant keep the finest country
in the world hid away out Of sight any
] longer. The people Of this age and day
are OF an lnquiring and evestlystlng turn
OF mind, and they are bound to ind u,
ou:.-Elk po;a. Courier. ...... ...'a,aas t,l.,
Never before in the history " thfs 6oun
ty was such an acreage Of grain put in a,
is being sowed this year. Old fields that
have laid idle for years are being plowcd
up and sowed to wheat. No such tavora
able spring for plowing and seeding has
been known for years, and the crop here
if successful, will be simply magnificent
-Vermil!inn Republican. #5
A.F. Line oln and Gen. Bishop of the
Sioux Falls Railroad Co., Judge Farmer,
attorney for the road and Engineer Brown
arrived in Sioux Falls last evening. The
object of their visit was to organize a
company under our existing corporation
law so that they can complete the road to
this place whether the bill now before
congress to allow them to build the road
under their present organization becomes
q law or not. They have established a
railroad camp on the Sioux near the
mouth of the Split Rock and work on the
extension from Beaver Creek to Sioux
Falls is now under full Neutrality-suspicious.
Falls Pantagraph. ~ f. 81 9Z..s "
The Indian situation on the Upper
Missouri is represented in certain quarters
to be critical. Cap. Williams, stationed
at Fort Bclknap, Ia communication TO
military headquarters in Chicago. under
date of Feb. %, says: "a stronger combi-
nation will 90 on the war-path this spring
than that which threatened the frontier
two years ago. The Indians preparation
of last fall and winter ,hayc been more
thorough, the equipments more complete,
the confederation of the hostile bands
more carefully manipulated, the determiua-
ton to exterminate whites stronger, and the
prospect Of a stubborn strife greater than
when Gen. Crook took the field in the
vv},+nr fC~c ), a t-
Sioux City Journal. "The United
States grand jury at Yankton last Thurs.
day reported document to Judge Shan
non setting forth the occasion for militia
ry protection on the Niebrara and asking
the court to recommend that such pro
lection be granted. The jury presented as
follows: THAT various parties, chiefly
white men, of a low, degraded CHARACTER
have, for some time, stolen horses and po
MES belonging to the agency Indians, and
running them into the neighboring states
and territories have disposed of them
In some cases the Indians have recovered
their stock. but IN the majority of cases it
has never been found. This causes among
the Indians very bad feeling and they
have retaliated upon the settlers living in
their vicinity, whs had nothing to do
with the theft and who we're good, honest
people. TO SUCH an extent has this thiev-.
cry been carried on that in some sections
especially upon the Running Water, that
the settlers have left their homesteads for
fear of further retaliation end depreciation
by tie Indians" Y .e :i