The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21
Dakota Doings.

Rapid City embraces GO acres.
A pasture of 1000 acres is fenced in
nea~ Rapid City with barbed wire.
Plenty Of berries Of all kinds in the
Black Hills.
Vennor promises us some cool weather
after the 18th.
A new station has been established As
miles west of Mitchell and named Kim
ballsas
Flour is only So per so lbs in the Black
Hills The price was $40 a few months
ago.
Dakota is gaining more rapidly in pop
ula5ion than any other state or territory in
the union.
The Yankton Press says there are no
idle men there, business is good and build
ing on the increase
There is yet no end to the undeyeloped
riches in the Black Hills, SO say the set
tiers in that country.
During the recent wet spell the water
rose in the Elk Point Jail so that the soil
tary prisoner had to be taken to hotel.
An army Off ;er has lately been dismis
sed for failure to pay his debts. He was
| first lieutenant of sixth infantry, and owed
nearly $4,000.
Trains are expected to run through to
the Missouri river to Chamberlain over
the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul by
| the first Of August.
Two hundred thousand buffalo pelts are
awaiting transportation in the Yellowstone
valley, owing to low water boats are not
running as often as usual.
Grasshoppers are reported as flying
the line of the Northern Pacific railroad.
and as for east as Shakopec. They were
reported as moving south, but flying high.
John Dillon after being dead and buried
has turned up. He is going to put up
several hundred tons of hay in Knox
comfy on his farm.
Vermillion has between 80 to 40 new
buildings already put up in the new town
located on the edge of the bluff, just north
of the old one, which the food destroyed.
The Northern Pacific is now completed
to Glcndive, and will be finished to Miles
City, Montana, in September. Grading
is going on at the rate Of two and half
miles day
There was strike last week at Bis
marck, by the steamboat hands. a COM
pany of soldiers soon intimidated the des-
perate ones, leaving those willing to work
to keep on in the right track.
Two young lads at Sioux Falls tried to
runaway to the Black Hills, after helping
themselves to variety of articles at differ
ent places. The youngest boy 10 years
of age was captured, but the other at last
accounts was still hid.
Mitchell Capital: The severe winter Of
1885, was in way grand thing for Da-
kota. Old Boreas did his best and there
was no more suffering here than in Mime
. sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois. Tho
people know now that there is nothing to
fear from the cold weather.
E. c. Kennedy, of Swan Lake, who used
to be clerk at the Palmer house in Chi.
cago, knew Charles Guituau, rhe assassin,
as hotel beat. After two or three un-
successful attempts he finally got week
board at the Palmer without paying for il
and the account is still open.
The Moody County Enterprise gives a
sad account of the result of an attempt by
Sheriff Clark OF that county to arrest d
Mr., Mcdonald of Flandreau, in which at
tempt the Sheriff either purposely or by
accident punched out an eye of Mcdonald.
z Clark has fed, or cannot be found.
Kingsbury County News: Never in
the history of the west has there been
| such rush for Dakota lands as has been
pouring in this season. The covered wag-
on of the pioneer is to be seen in almost
every direction and every train on the
railroad is loaded with people who kavt
come to stay. Surely Dakota is develop.
, ing rapidly.
: Mitchell Capital: There is no trouble
labout wells in the valley of the jim. The