Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-13
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN oA10rA.
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Mitchell has its tirt telephones
Scotland wants a base bail club.
Dell Rapids Ia sure Of her public hall.
Iron was laid in,o Mi,chsll one day last
week.
The Gary leap year party was u lovely
success.
McCook c%ounsy's second railroad in au
assured fact.
The new schml house y, Volga will be
completed May LIST.
A matched same OF baae ball occurred a,
Springfield last Saturday.
Early POTATOES were planted 10 Turne,
county the first If April.
A Methodist church and parsonage will
be bu'lt Immediately Ut Ty ndali.
Maria jane writes every week to III,
rd'tor of the Sioux Valley Journal.
1t is reported that Pnpre, Of the Spring
dtld Times, has sold ont his interests y,
cvndall.
Two car losds Of Immigrants passed
through Parker, April 9Th. bound IL,
Muchell.
Religious meetings are being held every
evening in the Presbyterian church at
Mitchell.
Mai, r. Harry Maxwell and Miss Ellen
Mcclellan we're married ut Rvsedale . shor,
time sgo.
A daily stage will soon be run to the
James river. leaving Volga aud Huron eve
~ morning.
A telephone il in succeasful operation be.
tween the Sioux Falls Times Office and INC
editors house.
Springfield. Tyndall and Scotland are all
anxious to become the county seat Of Bon
Homme county.
Til: Scotland Citizen saws there are NOR.
agricultural implements sold at that place
than in Yspkton.
The grist mill that was 10 operation a,
Sc"tlnnd has SOP ed grinding. 1t was too
small I" be practical.
Tontle. Livingston + Co., have sold GU,
their Sprinxteid business top. NJ. Leiddy.
their sormer msnager
A mud turtle. weighing thirty pounds,
was shot and taken from The West Vermil
lion river Last Sunday.
NJ. p. Wheeler, brother Of the famous
Wisconsin roetess, Ella Wheeler, has re-
Gently settled at Alexandria.
Land agents are as thick in Volpa as
"ihdlers in the internal region" it any
body knows how thick that is.
The party Of men who have been putting
in The wool at Rnnning Water, on Captain
Lavenders contract, have finished their b
The new steam ferry boat being bull, a,
Springfield il about completed. II il seven
ty feet long, twenty beam and thirty iucher
deep.
The Sioux Falls papers rejoice that the
Milwaukee and 81. Paul rnilIosd compan,
has leased the Dakota Southern lines Oi
railroad.
1t is rumored that the Hon. L. F. D
Poore, receiver ofthe Springfield land Office,
will resign because of the removal of tina,
Office to WATERFOWL.
A handsome Presbyterian church will,
he built 10 Parker this season. Nearly
four hundred dollars have already been
subscribed toward it.
The literary society Of Parker are think
ing OF giving an entertainment for the pur
pose Of raising funds towards procuring n
circulating library at that place.
A new town in McCook county, north Of
Cameron, has been chris,ened Salem. A
petition has been sent 10 the postmaster
general, asking for the establishment of a
postofice at that place.
The quarterly meeting of the Seventh
Day Advent church of southern Dakota
will he held at the Swan Lake church on the
l7th and 18Th insts. All the ministers ol
that denomination in the territory are ex
pec,ed to be present
I. b. Buchanan, of Turner county, met
With a serious loss from prairie fire, on the
10th lost. The loss foots up as follows;
Three hundred bushels Of corn. one hun
'red bushels of oats, a quantity Of II ,ur
several grain sacks and some farm ma
chinery.
A telegram dated Arril OH saws dpstruc-
tive prairie fires are raging north of Sioux
Fills Several farmers have lost buildings
and crops and it is rumnred that sevefal
persons have been fatally burned. Onl,
"ne name is given. ihHt nf Peter Brrge.
y farmer, near Sioux Faila, being burned
to death.
Springfield Timea: The transactions in
government land vt the Office in Springfield
for The month of March we're the larpe.,
aimee the rushing days last summer. Below
are the figures:
1873 homertead entries, 10 1894 rs acres
1914 timber culture entries, 81 2l9 II acre..
So pre.emption entries, 10 62S 80 acres.
129 homestead declar's, 20,6l4 35 acres.
10 caah entries, 866 81 acres.
q final homesteads, 2.309 As acres.
IA scrip and warrants, 1924 g. acres.
Total, 80, 8 "a acres