The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-11-06
pAkorA ITEMS

Ffeen baildinss are now being erected
at Pierre.
Tie Bismarck Tri6ass predicts an pen
winter.
The railroad bridge across the Jim at
Maxwell cost tS,OW.
Geo L Mckay . the father OF the nrst
child born in Marion.
Snow fell to the dcph of eighteen inch
Is in the Block Hills week before last
Over three hundred new buildiags have
been erected in Dsadw0od since ihs fire
Parker isliyely.s 1000 bushels Of wheat
was bought there NQe d4y last week be-
tween I O'Clock p. m, and dark.
Eight families Of Germans from Grun-
dy county Iowa, have recently settled IN
the north western part of Turner county.
Three power presses are enroute for
Desdwood, which means three daily pa
pers Tor that city-ths Times, Pioneer and
Press.
Nearly $4,000 acres of timber land has
been burned Oft near RAPID City. II Will
be safe to predict = scarcity OF wood in
that section.
A bass drum has been forwarded to the
iankton Indians, who, according TO the
Yankton Press, have their heart set upon
y brass baud.
The firin Of Taylor Bros, for more .han
six years past engaged il publishing the
Yanklou Herald, has been dissolved Jas.
relires aud Maris will continue the busi.
ness.
Mr.. S,ebbius had five acres Of coru Gu,
upon his ella III, ten miles out of RockpOrt
anu returning home after an absence OF
some weeks found that the wild geese and
cranes had completely demolished 1t.
Gus Gilbert, of Parker informs US that
the wheat buyers oi that place bought
1000 bushels Of wheat between O'Clock
and shutdown last Saturday afternoon.
That gets away with either Yauktun or
Sioux Falls.
Secretary Hand has been visiting North
ern Dakota. He express. $ himself TO the
editor of the Fargo Republican that No
word pictures TO this great country Can
convey All adequate idea OF it's extent and
inexhaustlble / 'rtillity.
Yankton Press 81: "Alfred NJ. Flagg
district attorney for the fourth judicial
district, and Miss. Jessie Marshall OF
Childstown, were married at Child~town
yesterday. The bride and groom cam {
TO Yankton last night by private convey
ance and left on this MORNINGS train fol
Sioux Falls"
Mr. Dunn. Of the London Times, while
ON his trip through Dakota with the roy
a. commission, was heard to say: AFTER
seeing such an .empire-of AS yet unsettled
aud highly arabic lands as we have seer
and continue to see, it is quite, indeed
laughable to think of Lord Brnconsf1eld',
speech, predicting emigration from the
United States 10 Canada" This expresses
The sentiment o! sl! who visit Dako!a
The tracklaycrs haye reached the ives
side of the jim river on the Springfield
and Ninbrarl branch ot the Milwaukee
road, and are laying down the rails be-
tween the river and Scotland this week =
| 1t is doubtless the intention of the com
pany to continue toward the Missouri a
iapaly rs possible, though 1t Is fact tina
they have refused % contract for the dc
livery of freight west Of Scotland thi
winter.
! Marion Gazette: cone Of the railroat
EMPLOYEES, whose name we were uuabl
to ascertain, had u very narrow escap
from death one day the fist Of the week
He was standing on the track aDd trail
of freight cars that were being side track
ed was baced on to him. knocking hin
down between the rails, and two cars pas
sing completely over him, As the thir'
car was passing he caught hold OF tn
break beam and swung himself up on tn
trucks. The cars were going very slow q
the time and were soon stopped. and h
crawlcd out apparently none tue wors
for his adventure, except few bruises an
q slight cash on his shin
The Fargo Republican says: "All alon
the line every warehouse and availab
store room is fl'ed with wheat, and gra.
in sacks is piled like cordwood along til
track AT all stations. AT Williams alon
the side track, are piled sacks Of whe
three or four feet deep, and twelve to fl
teen feet high for long distance. .
Wheatland a prominent huver remarke
Yesterday thar he couldn't buy anoth
bushel-no place tn put it-and 1t W
impossible to obtain transportation" Y
with all the amount Of wheat stored al
corded up at the various stations lar
amounts vet remain TO he thrashed Fro
present appearances 1t looks "a il naslg
tion would close, leaving immense qua
: titles Of wheat stored and in the hands
the farmers to await the opening OF t
r lake Yevt snrinp y