The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-02
Dakota Doings.

shipment since midwinter
Ofthc 10000 Skandinavians who are
coming to this country this year, it is
claimed that ninc-tenths Of them will To-
cate in the territory.
About forty thousand rations have
been distributed among the food sufferers
at Yankton. The number requiring aid
is rapidly growing small.
David Kimbal, living near Sioux Falls,
had hog buried under a snow drift for
81 days, which time it went without any
thing but snow to eat
An Elk Point party, who has made
a trip through Clay, Turner, Union and
Lincoln counties, reports crops looking
splendid and farmers feeling good over the
coming season
At Egan the other day team backed
off the ferry when the man, wife and
child floated down stream in the wagon
box for mile and a half, when they tow
ed ashore by an Indian
At Nermillion a few days since, a young
man named Spowage attempted to swim
across the river, and was drowned. 1t is
supposed he was ovcltakcn with cramp.
The body was recovered.
Judge Brookings is authority for the
statement that POO new buildings VII '!e
erected in Sioux Falls this summcr-l00
by the Sioux Falls Improvement company
and the balance by private individuals.
Almost the entire population of Vcrmil-
lion turned out to welcome the first train
in on Friday, The train men report the
building boom on the new town on the
hill only bounded by the supply Of lum-
Der.
a man and wife at lNaphcton were sen
fenced to Jail, and the citizens got lad
der and took through the CRATES the little
child Of the unfortunate mother, and car
rIcd it to their homes to take care OF it
until the mother was released.
Alexandria Herald: Mr.. Mymcson has
been looking over Nebraska, as sheep
country, and after due investigation and
deIDcrat;on decides Dakota as far superb
or to any place he has seen, consequently
he will put thoushand head in here next
month.
Lennox Independent: A woman on
on her way to Mitchill on Friday nights
train, gave birth to bouncing girl baby.
The conductor never charged a cent for
the extra passenger, and our reporter
says that neither and child landed safe
and sound at their destination
Vermillon Standard: Southern Dako
ia looks lovely in her beautiful robes Of
green at this time Of year. 1t comes
pretty near being paradise on earth.
Nature here layished her most hounteous
gifts, and every man who has planted a
a grove has helped to improve them.
The citizens Of Yankton, have sent a
petition to Gen. Terry requesting him to
use his influence with the war department
for the retention of Capt. D. ID. Wheeler
as ouartermaster at Gankton. The SCI
vices of Capt Wheeler during the recent
floods have been appreciated by the peo
pie.
1t will be well for persons who hear big
stories about the winter We had in Dako
ia to remember tllat while, for several
days at time, not train rolled in Iowa,
Wisconsin and northern Illinois; there was
not day last winter but what seven hun
bred miles OF railroad was in full and COM
plctc operation in Dakota.
Bismarck Tribune: A Bismarck brake
man wants to know why railroad compan-
les do not take more women into their
employment. Most Of them know low to
manage trains, they can handle switches
very carefully, there is less color blindness
among them than mcn-and occasionally
one is found who can fire up boss.
Press: 1t is stated that the legislature
excursion arranged last winter, will come
off about the last of July. The intention
is for the members of the last legislature
to take a trip over all the railroad lines in
Dakota. +. ?. Wells has charge of the
arrangements for the northern delegation
Porter Warner for the Black Hills, and
S. 4. Boyles for south eastern Dakota.
Elk Point Tribune: Some of the news
papers along the path of the Missouri riv-
are trying to make out that the June rise
this year will be no greater than usual
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil does not an
ticipatc any trouble, and thinks that
the river broke up at the wrong end this
time, and that a great portion Of the wat
er that usually causes June rise was car
ried away in the freshet of few weeks
old.
Madison Journal: The matter Of &
Territorial exposition IL the ian OF 1851
is being agitated. The direct benefits O
an agricultural and mechanical exposition
on the farming interests already in opera
ton arc almost too numerous for enum
Grafton, not to mention the effect it would
have upon thousands in the east, whom
it would attract as a magnet to see the
productions OF this famous country group
ed and systemized. Let the show go for
ward
Yankton Press: Judge Kidder say.
that the people of Vermillion are at worl
rebuilding tIl,ir town on the bluff ant