The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-01-29
DAKOTA ITEMS.
Eggs are $l.00 dozen in Dcadwood.
Three funerals day occur at Dead

Eggs are $l.00 dozen in Dcadwood
Three funerals day occur at Dead
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Two children of Norwegian living in
Fairview, Lincoln county, are totally
blind
There Is a good demand for dairy and
farming products in the Yellowstone
country.
The Bismarck Tribune will publish an
edition of lfty thousand copies about the
first Of April
OWING to the delay of trains ithe N
P. road for eight days, one ton and half
of mail matter arrived at Bismarck from
the east Jan. IA.
The correspondent of the Yankton Press
| good in Swan Lake as present, although
not railroad town.
| The citizens Of Marion are talking Of
raising a fund by subscription, with
which to buy and plant shade trees Oh the
principal streets OF that town.
The motion for new trial for Silas F.
Bebee, convicted of the murder of George
Land phere, will be argued at Yankton on
the 9th of March. New evidence, favor
able to the accused, has been discovered.
Dakota was admitted as Territory
March 2, 1861. 1t contains 9G,596,4SO
acres OF land of which in June, 1878, 81,
450,4l2 acres had been surveyed. In SO
her population was, by census return
14,1SO
Vermillion Standard: The amount OF
| Territorial funds appropriated to Clay Co
\ schools this month was 81 ,4SO. Dist
Court, in and Clay county, convene las
| Tuesday. There is not much to do this
term
Pembina just lays back and chucklcs
I! Us she rafiects that, with her thermome-
,ers fer days down to from so to So de
grees below zero. she stands peerles,
| unrivaled and unrivab;e as the coldest
| spot IN the United States.
Sickness and death arc steadily on the
increase in the gulches and towns through
out the Hills. The epidemic is attrib uted
to the large amount Of arsenic taken INTO
the system by drinking gulch water which
| invariably is taken from bed rock.
Since the first Of January, when naviga-
| lion of The Mississippi river was resumed
| between ST Louis and New Orleans. about
| 900, 900 bushels Of corn have been start
ed for Europe by way of the Gulf of Mex
CO. More grain would have been shipped
this way, but for the scarcity of baGges.
The FIRST newspaper published IN North
America was the Boston News.Lete
commenced April "a, 17O4 1t was half
sheet of paper, 1878 inches, two columns on
IA page. 1t survived "a years, notwith-
standing ali the shallow-brained people
turned up ,her noses and refused to read
| it because it was small.
The Marion Gazette makes mention Of
an accident al one of the Milwaukee
bridges west Of Jim river, by which Chas.
Irvine had beth arms broken and was
otherwise severely jured He fell from
the bridge, a distance ot thlrty-five feet.
The injured man belonged 10 Wood &
McNamara's gang of ridge builders.
Seventeen persons were mysteriously
poisoned in Yankton last Friday a1d for
time suffered severely. The following
lay lay, a.s,,w,=s7 a.. we're oa: danger. The
greatest havoc WAS in the faGs;ly; CT J. e.
Bruce, where Mr.. Bruce and nine youn-
ger Bruces were prostrated. The cause
is being investigated.
The Yankton Herald says 1.-THE new
town or Running Water, at the present
terminus of the Niobrara branch of the
Milwaukee road, is fast coming to impor
tance and by spring promises TO be live
ly point. bustllng with business and active
with building. Severed business places
have already been established and every
day adds to the population of the place.
Sioux Falls Times: The Sioux Fall.
Water Company, of Sioux Falls, DIT. ha!
determined 10 adopt measures to increas,
its capital stock to $4,000. OF thi
amount 100000 will be sold ut $50 pc
sL are, payable IN instailmen,s ~ the treas.
urer may issue his call. For the remain.
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