Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-02
n~e,easosuoou NEWS.

Brick side walks are being made in Fix
Point.
Dakota City is to have its second brass
band.
Mr.. Day, of Springfield is erecting a brick
block.
Roscoe is to have a large grain elevator
built this fall.
st. Helena, Nebraska, is soon to have its
first billiard hall.
Five mail routes centre at or pass through
Herman, Lake county.
Winter & Summer have dissolved part
nersbip in Sioux Falls.
The Brookfeld, Moody county school, is
the largest in the county.
There is a great deal of sickness among
the children of Vermillion.
An Indian recently died at Ysnkton
agency at the extreme age Of 1l2 years.
Corn planted as late as the fifteenth Of
June in Union county, promises a fair crop.
The stage line from Beloit to Sioux Falls
has been purchased by a man from Canton.
Canton is still having trouble with the
railroad company about the location of the
depot.
The new Dakota Southern bridge across
the river near McCook is the best structure
of the kind in the west.
The best wheat grown in the territory this
year is claimed to be produced in Deuel.
county in eastern Dakota.
Flandreau, Moody county, claims to be
the county seat Of a county which cannot be
surpassed in agricultural resources.
Vermillion is having a series of lawn
sociables, attended by old and young, grave
and gay, and much enjoyment is had.
Two men left Vermillion recently for the
Black Hills, with a couple dozen of as fine
horses as have ever been taken into the
Hills.
Two men, Ed Benedict and Fred Haskell,
had each a leg broken, from being thrown
from a wagon, about five miles north Of
Springfield Sundy last.
A number Of horses in the vicinity of
Dakota City, are sick with the same disease
that has taken of so many Of the horses in
that county late of years.
Thirty bushels to the acre is the present
estimate of wheat for Deuel. and Hamlin
counties, while oats will be produced at from
seventy to eighty bushels per acre.
Elk Point Courier: The Stockman boys,
James and John, have left for the Hills
with a very fine outfit. They take SOC
chickens, 65 hogs and 20 cats, from which
they will realize considerable money.
Moody County Enterprise: Chief Engi.
neer Dukes says that Flandreau lie one of the
very best situated towns on the lines of the
st. Paul & Sioux City and Minnesota &
Black Hills railroads.
Moody County Enterprise: The South
ern Minnesota folks are pushing the work
on their line with great rapidity. They are
evidently determined to carry away a share
Of Dakota's wheat this fall.
Five lightning rod agents wandered into
Elk Point one day last week, but rushed
out again in double quick time, when the
cannon was brought out for their enter
tainment.
Last Sunday a large buffalo was killed by
a Bohemian named Frank Barke, abou.
| eleven miles north of Bon Homme. Early
in June it was stated by the Indians that
the buffalo were moving east, and since then,
there has been stray ones killed in Deuel.,
Grand Forks, and now, Bon Homme coun.
ties.
The western bound mixed train from
Gary to Watertown, ran off the track two
and a half miles west of Kranzburg, on last
Saturday, ditching the locomotive and a
number of fat and box cars, but fortunately
the baggage and passenger coaches did not
run off. The engineer and fireman were
dangerously injured and scalded. 1t will be
some time before they will recover.
Hamlin county has been visited by Meth.
er g%rasshoppers, drouth nor chinch bugs,
and in one short year has been transformed
from a wild uninhabited prairie, to a region
of good cultivated farms, with thousands of
acres under the pillow, while miles and miles
Of rich prairie land are being broken. Es-
feline, the county seat of Hamlin county, is
a thriving, wide awake little burg, doing
its own share of building, and other i'm.
provements.
Dakota Republican, July 81: There is a
big stir at Riverside in regard to the discov-
cry Of gold. The facts, thus far, are these:
The Hon. MI. Vinton, we learn, was the in.
stigator, or the one who sent the prospect
ing party out. A small party commenced
by clearing away the surface, and placing in
the proper sluice boxes. For the real tes'
they ran five wheel barrows full of the ma
terial in which the color was first found and
the result was $1.5o of pure gold Of the same
quality found in Rapid creek, Black Hills
and obtained from the same material. Tn,
above discovery was on the Barton claim
one mile east and four miles south of Centre