The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-01-08
: DAKOTA ITEMS.


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bismarck has population of $500
y RSckport sends out gloves made from
.nHlve pelts. :
!. spak9tais soon to be cut in two, and
fmadc States
Dry co,tonwood sells in Vermlllion at
50 per cord.
Homesteak miners receive $4OO per
day; sAovelers get So so.
Dell Rapid Improvements for the year
1879 were nearly $4,000.
No more track laying will be done in
Division county at present
Theodore Tilton will lecture in Sioux
Falls some time this month
Sioux Falls is expecting an Episcopal
rector from New York soon.
The average daily attendance in the
Yankton public schools Is SOB.
Sioux Falls is to have the finest opera
house in the territory, says the Times.
The wedding boom is raging with un-
contrcllable fury all through the territory
A grea, ,hany deer have been killed
along the James river in Sphinx county
this winter.
There seven st ores, two hotels, two lum
Der wards, and three saloons in operation
in Scotland.
Antelope are SO numerous around James
iowa that some Of them seek for lodgings
right in town.
Spring Valley farmers raised more corn
this season Than was raised in all the rest
of Turner county.
Mr.. Perry, of Rockport has sown half
acre N pine seed on his claim aand p:"pos'
es to start a pincry.
Deadw ood is a good place to sell corn
if the corn was there. The Times says 1t
Is worth owe. g !, bushel.
Rock Valley peope enjoyed dance
at the depot Christm - night, III
WEIGH . couple participated
The Wholesale poisoning OF dogs III
Mitchell is the occasion Of an organization
called the Horse Thief protection society
The name of the town at The terminus
of the Milwaukee brapch is at last settled
1t is Shannon, being named after Judge
Shannon.
There was a fuel famine at Scotland
during the late blizzard and the inhabl-
tanis were compel led to burn fence boards
and other valuable lumber
A company has been organized for the
purpose of erecting mandatory and
sugar refinery a, Alexandria, to be called
the Jim Riyer Sugar Refinery.
Yankton wants 100000 from the gov
ernmenent for the improv ement of the
river front at that place, and congaess
will be petitioned accordingly.
The warmest houses in this country are
th. Russians abodes, walls two feet thick,
and heated by ovens built in the walls, in
which heavy fires are built twice day.
The new ST andinavlan paper to he pub
|ished at Sioux Fails will be issued fiom
the Pan,agraph Office. Mr. Fredricson
will be editor and Mr.. Wildt business
manager.
About twenty lodges Of Sioux Indians
cncamped for some weeks past within 30
miles Of Deadwood, have lately been en-
/ gagged in stealing cattle, the largest raid
! being 400 head. Sheriff Manning is view,
!! ing Tie situation. -. ..-.s
Two mail carriers, who left Grand
| Forks for Fort Totten about three weeks
| ago during the first northern blizzard
| have not since been heard from and are
given up as lost. Halfbrecds with dogs
and sledges ar. out IN search of the bod
| les.
A passenger train on the Northern Pa
cifc road was thrown from the track by
broken rail short time ago, demolishing
the engine and badly damaging the bag
gage car. The fireman and engineer
/
were buried beneath the engine up to the
mud and water, but were rescued with.
out severe injury.
The Times Of Springfield says. "The
people Of Yankon were shaken by an
earthquake last Monday night. The shock
was very distinct. and was accompanied
by a rumbling sound similar to thunder
1t extended as far west as Fort Sulley, but
we have yet to learn that any person not
iced the shock in this immediate locality,
sher # Ptak says that haviig just return
ed FROM Hutchinson eauasy Sunday eve
ming. and being engaged in writing in hrs
house at Haveljec, he was suddenly start
led by the violent shaking Of the house
and himself. He soon determined that an
earthquake had come along. and was
about right. On taking out his watch he
sev that 1t Was Just II