The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-02-19
DAKOTA ITEMS.

Southern Dakota is snowless.
Custer City will be divided into seven
wards. .-
Turner coun,y's warrants are worth GO
cents.
The Yanktea Postof1ice scored 1900
valentines.
Building is going on extensively in
Custer City. - .-. ..aaaa..
The Red river was open for navigation
2Gs days las! ason.
There were five hundred people in Scot
land last market day.
The Episcopalians 1T Mitchell will erect
a church cdificc neIt season. rs.
The Yanktou Post Cttice clerks handled
1900 valentines the 14,h inst.
Lettuce has attained the growth: OF sew
eral inches in the BlucG Hills.
Three of the Black Hills are now pay
ing monty dividends aggregaling $S5,CU)
The citizens near Bluff Center, Clay Co
will make grand circle hunt for wolves
next Saturday. at
there are two Indian farmers near Bis
marck who come TO that city quite often
in a 500 buggy. So.
Ono hundred thousand valentines were
distributed hy The letter carriers at Chira
60 on Valcni inc day.
Evans the ireigh,er from Pierre to
Deadwood, is preparing tor second c'ass
passengers to the Hills
Yanklon is to have two lines of steam
ers this season. A boat will leave every
Saturday for Ft Benton.
1t is estimated that 10000 people will
locale in the James r:uer valley ,hss ccm-
ing spring aud summer.
Cho,euu creek, Bon Ilomme Co., is
furnishing iun for fishermen. pickerel
being caught in abundance.
There is now but one company of SOL
tlicrs left a; Fort Bennett, and it is no,
more than than forty men strong.
A Deadwood concert and ball, for tn"
Irish relief 1und, ne,tcd $64325. Of the
amount $l19, was in subscriptions.
The fall of the Red river between Abcl-
combie and Fargo is thirty feet. The fall
between Fargo and the boundary line is
1870 feet r. ....
Last Friday mornings Sidney stage
carried out Of Deauwood several th"us-
and dollars IN solid gold bricks. ESCORT d
by seven armed messen gers.
The late fall of snow along the North
ern Pacific line west of Fargo is said to I've
the heaviest and the storm of longer dura
ton than ever before known.
The clean up ofthe Homestake, High
land, Giant and Old Abe, Golden Terra
and Dead .ood mines, for the month Of
January Is estimated At $2s5, 900,
The first impol tation Of millinery fo'
the spring Is made up Of medium sized
bonn-ts, and turtans, and wide brimmed
round hats. The yellow Tuscan brsid'
will he the fashionable choice, and wi
rival French chips and straw laces.
One hundred cars Of stone will oe .aker
from Sioux Falls TO Vermillion to be uset
in protecting the railroad track from hi
encroachments Of tho Missouri, SO say
the Paragraph.
The 7,h cavrlry hand gave concert II
Dead wood Feb nth, for the benefit NJ tn
! Irish relief fund. Choice ses,s sold a
auction. prizes varying At from $50 to $l3'
TIL, committee will realize several hun
d.ed dollars
Tic sound Of the ringing Of the nev
Congregational church beii in Cenira
carried the miners back 10 their home
in the states and made the whole CAM
homesick. Ore Of them offered fise dol
lars Sunday II they would never ring
a
! again.
There are about 10000 Meunoni'cs Il
the United States. They have 80
| meeting houses. never take an oath. inflic
no punishment. accept no political nfsace
End never 60 to law. They sre nearly u
farmers. A large colony have settled i
this serr!l.ry.
| Spe"rflsh Is to be made aseat ct learf
Ing and An educational point for the Who'll
of the Black Hiils country. Forty acre
of the town plat haye been devoted to til
use of an institution 1t earning, to /
known ss the speardsh academy.
The Rapid City Journal offers = pri,
of one hundred thousand dollar worth |
,own lots IN Rapid City to the arst COZ
pany thst viii bring locomotive ths'
over 4 continuous railroad track. cith'
between there and the ..tissourl river, {
the Unien Pacific railroad.