The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-04-03
LOCAL MATTERS.

- ne Couuty COMMISSIONERS VIII mctl
for the April session on Monday next.
Mr.. Knowlton is erecting a dwelling
house in the rear of the St. Croix Lumber
yard.
Monday the streets were thronged
with many of the fire sufferers, obtaining
! supplies and lumber.
M. H. Grigsby and W. VanEpps. O
Sioux Falls, were down Monday talkin:
up Railroad matters.
-O.J. Taylor, OF the firm of Chase s
Taylor, Attorneys Of Sioux City, register
ed at the Harlan House Sunday.
Mine miles Of the extension of tht
Milwaukee road beyond Pattcrsonvile
was let for grading on Tuesday.
David Herman has draught and car
rage horses forsale at the Livery Stable
of NJ. II. Herman, Lower Canton, D. T.
-Benzlne bcfuddled a genius from thu
country yeste rday, to.such an extent tha
the Sheriff gobbled him for nights lodg
ing in the cage.
Hon. A. Jackson, Speaker of the Da
kota House, passed through town Satur
day on his return from Yankton, where
he had been completing some Legislative
matters pertaining to his office.
"A Mr.. Nelson was severely burned
while endeavoring to fight the fire tina
was raging around his home. He was
brought into town Sunday. His sutferings
are intense, and he is not expected to re
cover.
The Sioux Falls people have held 6
meeting at which a committee was ap
pointed to arrange for securing the "first
road that could be gotten" They are In
hopes of obtaining a branch of the Mil
waukee road.
Mr.. Hurd, of Lincoln township, has
been very unfortunate as to fire. A shor,
time ago his house and all its contents
was BURT. Last week his stables,
mules and all Of his grain and hay was
destroyed by prairie fire.
A fire was indiscreetly set in corn.
field near Gillespies place west of town
Monday morning, during the high wind
and the town people were alarmed and
turned out en.masse, but fortunately the
fire kept on the west side Of the creek, and
no particular damage was done.
1T is reported this morning upon the
streets that Engineer Kimball has reached
Rock Mills with his locating corps, and
that he has been instructed to locate his
line down School Section Creek, which
would bring the road to the crossing of
the Sioux east Of the Court House.
Another fire came down from Nine
Mile Creek Wednesday during the high
wind, the citizens turned out en.masse
and succeeded in keeping the fire from
entering Gown. Leon Bcrtrands house
came near burning, also John Ber,rands
new residence west of town. The stables
of the latter caught but by the efforts OF
the citizens the fire was extinguished and
only some hay was destroyed.
Under the law passed at the late con
gress framing the new judicial district in
Dakota, Lincoln county, is within the new
district, Judge Kidter has been appointed
as The Associate Justice, the ability Of the
appointee is too well known to the people
of Dakota and the old practitioners of thu
Territory will welcome the return of tht
'hitching post" to the bench.
The Watertown Independent, Vol. 1
No. I, has reached our table, and it file.
at The mast head the name of G. L. Conk
lin as editor. 1t is a Z column folio and
neat. spicy sheet, bearing the motto "De
voted to the interests of Watertown, an(
Coddington county," and in the Salutato
ry the ear marks Of George arc plainly Wis
ible. One passage says Family quarrel
and religion will be cussed and discussed
respectively from the household and pul
pit" We wish the Independent Success
which its first number promises.