Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-17

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Bon Homme has its drst bank.
The Rockport mill 10 now running.
Springfield wants a"solid banking house" !"
new paper Is talked Of at Bon Homme.
A Bohemian woman died near Tabor last
week.
Dooa, east of Canton, Is a new railroad
town.
Daily stages run between Niobrara and
Springfield.
Bishop Hare is in Springfield, overseeing
the work on the sc minary he will soon es.
tablish there.
A lodge Of Odd Fellows is about TO be or.
ganized at Mitchell.
Several buildings have been moved from
Firesteel to Mitchell
Business is better now in VermilIion than
last year at this time.
Turner county needs a Jail and Parker
needs temperance society.
Two horses were drowned in the Roscoe
mill dan about week ago.
Judge Dix of Rockport lately lost four
tons OF hay, in prairie fire.
Brookings county cast four times as many
votes this fall than it did last fall.
The Benedict neighborhood near Swan
Lake is petitioning for post office.
Railroad projects are being favorakly con.
sidered by the people Lake county.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Rowley of Parker has been
appointed U. S. examining surgeon.
A man living in Rockport killed nine
mallard ducks at one shot last week.
The district court for Clay county will
convene the third Tuesday 10 January.
The James river steamer Rosebud left
Rockport Nov. 9th for Sand Lake dam.
A farmer at Harrington raised beet
that weighed seven and one half pounds.
A steam Touring mill will be erected in
Springfield within the next ninety days.
Flandreau wheat buyers pay more for
wheat than Sioux Falls wheat buyers do.
The improvements put down inSpring6eld
during the year 1879 will aggregate $50. 600
Alexandria, on the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway, was plated last week.
The destruction of the Sand Lake dam is
hailed with rejoicing by the lower valley
people.
The Southern Minnesota grade is finished
from Flandreau to within three miles ol
Roscoe.
Rock Rapids has nearly doubled in size
since the people were assured 6! railroad
going there.
Vermillion has literary society called
Ready Hands. They are giving a series ol
dime readings.
There are Two men in Roscoe whose unit.
ed length is twelve feet and ten inches
How high is that apiece?
The frat passenger train from Sioux City
over the Dakota road reached the depot at
Canton, Tuesday, Nov. 1llh.
Major Wasson, formerly agent Of the
Flandreau Indians, has received an appoint.
men, at the Nevada Indian agency.
The Mitchell Capitol says the only build
ing at the late county seat of Dawson county
was moved to Mitchell on last Friday.
The Pembina railroad track has been laid
to within ten miles of Sioux Falls, and is
now nearing that place at the rate of mile
day.
Judge Kidder will hold court in Elk
Point this week. His next session will be
at CANTOR, and from there he goes to Min.
nehaha county.
Swan Lake Era: w. H. Heselton of
Yankton has erected building at Parker
aud opened saloon therein. The build
ins is about 1926 and one atory high.
Rockport Pioneer: DR.. J. B. Van Vel.
sor registered at the Gale house on Sunday
evening. His sister.in.law Mrs. Todd
was very low and he was on his way in re-
sponse to dispatch.
Every available corner in the Roscoe
mill is full Of unground grists. Farmers
coming from a distance wait often several
days to have their work done, aud many 60
elsewhere, 80 great is the rush.
The Springfield "city" Times, in speak.
ing Of the Sioux Falls Pantagraph's"special
election dispatches" says. at is amusing
to see how some country weeklies try to put
on metropolitan airs.'
The citizens Of Clay county have called a
meeting, to be held Nov. 22nd, in the
Bloomingdale school-house, for the purpose
Of reaching some conclusion in regard to
damages done by prairie fires this fall.
The new townsitc on the Milwaukee
IOau. UeaE Tue CenteI Ot Don f1Omme COu0
ty, will be located on Charles Maynard /
and Frank RichmoDd's claims, the company
buying so acres Of the former and 100 acres
of the latter.
The people 10 the neighborhood of Farm
ington are very much dissatisfied with the
location Of the depot on section Is and are
endeavoring to have a station established
on Wolf creek. They have offered the rail
road company half section of land an,
$500 in money and agree to grade the sid
track.
The official canvass of the vote of Mood.
county, declares the following officers elect
ed: Alfred NJ. Flsgg, district attorney
Dennis Jacobs, commissioner of FIRE, dis
trict; John S,monds. commissioner CT sec
ond district; J. q. Whalen, commissions
Of third district; Levi Gray, justice Of th
peace; James Daily, constable.
We learn that petitions are being circu
ated in northern Clay county to have tn
next legislature set off the two souther
towns Of Turner county into Clay. Th
branch road running from Rock Valley I
Yankton has given the people of norther
Clay desire to have the county seat cham