Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-11-27
THE NEW NORTHWEST.

The skating rink at Davenport is in
full blast.
The first snow of the season fell at
Burlington. Iowa, on. the 18th.
It is reported that gold has been dis
covered in northern Minnesota.
The Ada people are working for di-
vision of Polk county, Minnesota.
The corn crop of Cherokee county,
Iowa, averages forty-six bushels per
acre.
The Winona, Minn., mill company
holds one hundred thousand bushels OF
wheat.
Scarlet fever has broken out among
the school children Of Lake City, Min.
nesota.
The cost of the new hotel in Benson,
Minnesota, when furnished will be about
$4,000.
The question of sinking an artesian
we'll in Cherokee, Iowa, is being
agitated.
In the vicinity Of Clarence, Iowa
school houses are to be closed, on account
Of fuel famine.
Ten marriage licenses were issued yes
terday from the Ramsey county, Mime.
sofa, district court.
Iowa City claims that since the census
was taken it has increased from 1000 to
800 in population.
The diphtheria is raging in Luni
Iowa, in . most malignant form, and
with great fatality.
Des Moines polled four hundred more
votes at the late election than any Other
city in the state of Iowa.
A free night school was opened in
Keokuk, Iowa, on the 18th, with an at.
tendance of ninety-eight pupils.
One of the missing lunatics at st. Peter
Minnesota, has been found in pile oi
straw in pig-sty, nearly dead from
Up at st. Vincent, Minnesota, on the
British American line the thermometer
has touched the zero mark but once this
winter.
| Edward Pite was chased by wolf in
the streets of Davenport, Iowa, Thurs.
day last. Pretty wild country around
Davenport.
There have been tifty-two deaths from
dlphtheria in Dubuque county, Iowa
during the season of children under ten
years of age.
Sara Barnhardt, the slim French
actress, has been engaged to open the
new opera house at Cedar Rapids, Iowa
about April l. Her pay for one evening
will be $500.
A shot tower is to be erected and shot
factory established in Council Bluffs al
an early day. The shot to be manufac
tured will be of iron instead of lead and
made under new process.
Great suffering from lack of fuel is re
ported In many sections of Minnesota
In some places fences and outbuilding,
have been torn down and burnt to say.
the women and children from freezing.
A mortgage given by the st. Paul
Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad com
pany to the New York Trust compan,
for $6,OOO,OOO is being recorded in Moor
head. It will take three days to tran
scribe. the bulky document.
The section hands near Rock Rapids
, Iowa, discovered the head of a calf pro
jecting from snow drift tho other day
Upon shoveling it out the critter prove,
to be alive, and Immediately began eat
ing. It belonged to Hoval Olesen, an
had been tightly bound in the drift fo
. ten days.
Wolves are swarming In Washingto
county, Minnesota. A few days ag
Myron j. Clark shot three large ones
the town Of Mclean within five miles {
st. Paul. About Langdon and Newpor
their howlings fill the air at night, an
the farmers have had to kill or sell off a
their sheep and smaller stock.
Fl -Four million two hundred tLoussn
, tons OF hot water, averaging 1856 f., al
: annually pumped from the Comstoc
D rnines. To heat this mass OF water b
! artificial means would require COZ
!, sumption Of over $4,000 tons OF coal
4 year. The water from some OF the dee,
! est shafts, 5000 feet. has temperatul
i Of 157 f.
The assessment rolls of the city
I, Denver show eighteen million dolla
8 worth OF property, upon which they ha,
levied ten mills on the dollar, a net
one hundred and eighty thousand de
lars; and in addition 10 this, the licens
and revenues from all other sources vi
aggregate sixty thousand more, makil
:. grand total Of tax to collect for the q
= OF two hundred and forty thousand d,
y lars.
The nev capitol at Des Moines pl
sents the following measnremer,
d Length, north aud south, 2l5 feet; heig