Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-20

not succeed in carrying the undertaking to
an immediate communication, be will have
made the first great step towards the newt
able. It is not within the range of human
possibilities that 20 valuable . portion Of
Dakota shall remain forever under control
Of The non-rroduetiye red msn.
souasERsb DAKOTA.
Sioux Falls wants an organized IRE com.
pany.
A tannery will soon be started At Her
man.
The town of Alexander was plated las
%. .'....o / B,oakos. l.,sbstn chris
IA reading room is being talked Of in
Canton.
The Madison lyceum club is on the road
10 success. Eyt
Parker has . semi.weekly mail via
Meckling.
Nsdison especially needs = 6rst-claas
tshoemaker.i
Sioux Falls i full, of sharpers and conf
dence men.
Land in Kingsbury county is being rapid.
" taken up.
Watertown has q population Of five hun.
bred and six.
Back yard clothes line thieves are opera
ting in Marion.
A broom mandatory 10 in operation
south Of Madison.
Sioux Falls claims to have but one unoc-
cupied store room.
There is an unusual scarcity Of game this
fall in Lake county.
Prairie fires are doing great damage near
Ashwood, Brookings county.
Postmaster Flick of Rockport, is prepar-
ing to build q residence.
1t is reported that parties from The east
will start a daily at Sioux Falls.
The building of a church is to be the next
public enterprise in Dell Rapids.
The Canton postofhce is to be moved to a
position near the court house square.
Engineer Kimball thinks that the rail.
11oad will be completed to Alexander next
week.
The Harlan house, of Canton, walked up
the street" all last week, according to the
News.
Twenty.four tons of coal are consumed a
day, by the engines that coal up al
Marion.
A Sunday school convention will bs held
at Mount Zion in the western part of Lin.
coin county Nov. 2sth.
The proposed plan for . steam mill at
WATERFOWL, will be four stories high, run
with steam, with four run of stone.
} The track layers on the Pembina reached
Nine Mile creek Friday evening, and doubt
less will be in Sioux Falls by Friday next
Mr.. and Mrs. Putnam, Of Dell Rapids
celebrated the seventh anniversary of theil
marriage under the name Of "woolen wed
ding"
The first quarterly meeting of the NJ. E
church ever held in Madison, will taxi
: place in the school house On November &c
( and 23d.
Nelson, of the Sioux Falls gun club, wor
the badge for the best Workmanship at til,
last monthly shoot. This is the second tim,
he has taken it.
Rockport Pioneer: E. B. Cushmar
passed up q few days since with . herd o
: stock for his ranch which is located on tn,
d river above here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whipple, . newly marie.
If couple at Herman, Lake county, gave
swell" party II a public hall at that place
one evening Last week.
The "evrent Of the season" the marriag
u of Mr.. Nm. J. Clark and Mrs. Mary Nc
Killop, occurred at Cameron, McCool
u county, last Wednesday.
;o The report that Sam Alexander and party
Ia who,lsf Sioux Falls for the Hills some tw
). or three weeks ago, were murdered near F
. Pierre, is feared to be true.
~ A man in Minnehahs county produce
y. the following number of bushels of graf
I'll from his farm this year: Wheat, 2,8s
,r- bushels ; oats 1850; barley. 6s; rye,50; cor
The following officers for Codinetc
hs county, were elected ct the last election
n District attorney-A. N. Flagg; Commi
IA sioner-F.M. Grant; Surveyor-Geo. v
Carpenter.
AZ zBrookinss calls for the town site survey,
er to survey out lots,as they are being Jumped
In order to hold lots it 10 necessary 70 stan
on them with revolver.
of Canton News: Last Tuesday night SON
IN parties, at present unknown, drove up to IL
Harlan house and rather quietly loaded u
two loads Of ties which they carried off NUT
TO- to Mr.. HllRs disgust. As one of the parti
Of carried of . tie heavily charged, with n
al Ipowder,a dissection Of the criainal il; almu
sure 70 follow. S
=, Some men at work in Sioux Falls maxi,
'sr ~ excavation in a hill, played a joke on
ern farmer living near them, BY making hi
M. believe they were digging for gold, and b,
nj. struck . bonanza The granger staksd o
-. his claim and worked for Two days, with ,
'n good result when he tumbled to the rack
: Of andsleit il disgust.
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