The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-12-25
DAKOTA ITEMS.
The young men of Parker have organic
ed brass band

The young men of Parker have organic
: ed a brass band.
A new station on the Milwaukee roaG
beteen Scotland and Springfield is called
Tyndall.
i Judge Barnes received and discharged
the grand jury while lie was lying on a
bed Of sickness.
1t is rumored that stage between Bis
marck and the Black Hills was lost during
last weeks blizzard.
Antelope around Cameron are making
sport for the boys, according to the ac-
counts in the Pioneer
Main st Bismarck. hld fire last week
that destroyed twelve buildings, and nearly
burned the Sheridan House.
Jas. NJ. Edmunds, late Post Master at
Washington, D. G. and brother of Gov
Edmunds at Yankton died at the capital
on Saturday last.
Elizabeth Wambole, wife Of Charles
Wambole, one Of the proprietors of the
Yankton variety theater, died at the latter
place on Sundy the 14th, of consumption
Judge Barnes, being too Ill to appear
in the court room at Fargo, receiv-
ed the pleas Of guilty Of two men to the
offence OF smuggling horses at Pembina
One was find $l25, the other $50.
The railroad company are erecting ar
engine house at the end Of the road oppo,
site Niobrara on the Missouri, to which
point pass enger trains will be run when
building is ready-probably by Jan. is,
next.
The Iowa and Dakota division of the c
NJ g. st P road have issued $l,00O,00O IN
bonds due in 1902. Their last quotation
was 1917. The Dakota Southern has
$55S,O00 mortgage, due in 1894, quoted
at 81.
The Moody County Enterprise says tina,
the papers in the Sioux Valley have unan
imously agreed to charge the uniform
price Of So for final proof notices. and
States that nowhere outside OF this district
is the charge less than 81.
The Olyet Chronicle says, Bowen &
Swanton, of Memo, paid as high as $l.1O
for wheat last Saturday. they claim to
pay Yank,on prices. and those having
grain to dispose of will find them fair and
square in their dealingst
Nation City now, and probably the win
ter terminus of the main line Of the Mil
waukee road, 16 miles this side of Mitch
ell, Is the subject of a land contest be-
tween J B Nation and d Cameron, both
of Sioux Falls. Cameron seems to be
some on town sites.
The trial OF Rev D Finman of Santee
Agency is ended. A verdict of guilty up.
on two counts was rendered, and one ol
acquital upon the remainder oftle charges
Tie court adjourning without passing
sentence, renders the verdict imperative
under the cannon law.
/ Dell Rapids Exponent: From five to
seven hundred registered letters are handled
at the Dell Rapids post Office every month
and that is a small part of money business
as most remittalces are made by post Of
flee money orders. Our town presents al
good an opening for rirst banking bus
ness as could be desired.
. A stock drover in Nemaha county KAs,
was driving cattle from . Beld was killed
by u falling meteor or aerOltte The me
teor passed through tall maple, cutting
the limbs as clean as by . cannon bali
striking the mar obliquelv, passing clcal
through hin. from tbs I:Eh: shoulder &
the left hip, burying itself two feet in tn,
ground 1t appeared to be formed oi
what ia called iron pyrites and was about
the size of patent pail. The greater par
Of the body WIS crushed Into the eartf
beneath the meteor, leaving the limbs and
head uninjured.
The entire population OF the world
placed side by side, and allowing two fee
to each person, would encircle the eartt
3 twenty times. The States Of Maine, New
T Hampshire and Vermont, taken together
q arc as large as England. Any one of th'
States Of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa ant
North Carolina are as large = England
Kansas IS as large rs England ana Scot
land together. Ireland Is abNut the siz'
of Name. France is moro than twice q
large as England, Wales and Scotland To-
gether. Texas ,s thiriy-five times as larg
as Massachusetts, OF as large as Maine
, New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusett
Rhode Island, Connecticut. New York
New Jers,y. Pennsylvania Dtlewars
! Maryland, Ohio aud Indians combined
OF ehav tod fAt a
gould be provided fer in the S:ase Of Tex
N. allowing esssi uiaI wntnsn sud child
. acres of land. The entire populatinn .
J. the world could be provided lor In tn
J. United States. allowing each nesson on
: aud half acres OF land
. Charles 0srdnsr wsa fto1ea TO death o
tho Sidney stage road between Hosso Hsa
! and State Springs ruasdsy nleht Of IL
) week. Ho was formerly hon 0maAA "a