The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-03-18
VOL. ~.
DAKOTA ITEMS.
Dell Rapids wants a public hall.

Bycicle clubs at Yankton and Dead
wood.
Numerous school houses being built in
Moody county.
The latest thing III Deadwood is Chi
naman hash pedler.
There are about twenty carpenters in
Scotland, and all busy.
More business is report in the Red river
valley than ever before.
Lumber IS So to 81 thousand cheaper
at Running Water than at Yankton.
A grlst mill a couple miles up the river
from Sioux Falls, is now talked Of.
Eastern tourists are returning to their
CLAIMS, says the Express Of Roscoe.
Some of the jim river counties want a
legislative eapportionment-right off.
The Fiandrau Enterprise rejoices over
a large addition to its subscription list.
Delegate Bennett has written oa what to
name it,-that new .territory-North Dakota.
Business Of all kinds is better in the
Hills at the present time than it was last
year,
A horse railroad is to be built between
Deadwood and Central and up the gulch
some lime this spring.
Dick Adams, OF the Deadwood Pioneer,
is the only newspaper man in the Hills
who sports diamonds. ...
Deadwood boasts of having more good
looking men and woman than any other
city OF its size on the footstool.
A letter to the Exponent from Usage.
Iowa, speaks Of a heavy emigration from
that section Of country to Dakota
Rapid valley land is worth twelve dbl
lars and a half an acre, before filing has
been made upon it in the land office.
The party that rode from Sioux Falls to
Canton because they mistook freight
car for a hotel is claimed for Flandrau.
Charley Church, of Deadwood, the boss
typesctter of the United States, set up 18,
900 ems Give columns) in nine hours and a
half.
The Black Hills Journal says NO doubt
a thousand miners Will fcd employment
in Pennington county, by the month, as
soon as the working season opens.
A Deadn ood hackma2 ordered bus
from Minneapolis last August, which
order was at once filed, and on the 9th Of
March lie was surprised to be notified OF
its arrival,
The Sprin gfelu mill company have de-
cided to rebuild their mill that was burn
ed, of chalk stcEe, and have procured a
portable engine that will be used n saw
ing out the blocks.
Hannah Gcrtmaker of Turner, Turner
County, young woman about l8 years OF
age, was severely burned few days age
clothes taking fire from a stove, around
which she was working.
There is man in the western part OF
Lawrence county who, some years age
married the widow Of his own son and she
was also his niece, The woman has hao
children by both husbands.
Yankton Press: Yankton has twenty
three practicing attorneys, nine practlclns
physicians, and any number OF generals
Judges, governors, colonies, majors, cap
tains and few lesser dignitaries.
The railroad trars1er boat for Running
Water is expected there at an early day
1t will he a powerful boat, with Two en-
c1nes and boilers an double track, ans
will be capable of towing 2 barges a 1t
wide and sc feet long.
A man in Deadwood has relic OF the
great fire, a cat with its hind legs burneo
oft. The feline is clipper as ever, anc
terror for rats and mice. The cat is quite
curiosity, and valued highly by 1t:
owner.
Bernt Oleson Hoff, we'll to do Norwe-
cian farmer, living four miles from Crane
Forks in Polk county, was run over by
the cars last Tuesday night and instantly
killed, his body being literally cut apart
a portion of it being fonnd each side o
the track.
A boy thirteen years old, living at Rock
eryillc, went out prospecting one day las
week. He dug out painful Of gravel OF
Blacks Gulch and washing it out founo
glitterlng in the bottom of the pan fou1
dollar nugget and thirty cents worth ol
fine gold.
The Deadwood Times enters into cal
culat,on on what is said to be reliable in
formation that the mineral outcome OF th'
Black Hills this year will amount to St2,
600 900. The stamps will be doubled, ant
it is said that the quartz of nearly all thu
mines is growing better as development:
progress.
The Fargo Argus mentions an inciden
as evidence Of the remarkable climate o.
the northern section that during recen
trip of train over the Northern Pacific
from Bismarck to VALLEY City, child Or
hoard was taken with the measles, passet
completely through the siege, and wa:
well and hearty again before the las
named place was reached
The Pioneer says there is more WINE
and champagne drank by the denizens O
Deadvcod than of any other town foul