The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-09-29
Dakota DOings,

~ Grow Dog, the murderer OF Spotted Tail
has been indicted by the Deadwood grand
jury, and will be tried for his. offense be-
fore white mans court. s
Dakota's contribution to the internal
revenue for the year ending last June was
larger than that Of any other territory,
amounting to s4s,6o3. &c.
The clerk OF the court of Hamlin county
has been arrested by government de-
toctive for making fraudulent aihdavits in
final proof cases, and been bound over in
the sum of 81 900. t...a .. '
Gov. Ordway and several eastern cap
arc org.-nizis {. ana 4: AIM iv :ii S> :tE
pany which will operate in Dakota and
will establish offices at Yankton, Fargo
and Grand Forks. '..
Parker Era: Holmes Upper, son of
Mrs. E. S. Upper of THE Thousand
Hills three miles west Of town, intends
to bring one hundred head of cattle in
from Colorado and locate them on the
thousand hills.
Niobrara Pioneer: The news reaches
he Pioneer from reliable source that
the Milwaukee company are getting ready
to ship 1000 cars of stone to Running
Water which means that they have bond
ed themselves to build at Niobrara is GO
ing to be commenced, to cost $500 900,
Yankton Press, 90: ''There is strong
suspicion that the Milwaukee railroad COM
pany intend to run the Yankton extension
to Chamberlain The diagram furnished
by the engineers shows that the road will
pass to the west of Scotland, and the di-
rection, taken, if followed out, would take
the road to Chamberlain. ~ XXX.
Mitchell Capital: 1t was reported in
one Of the Chicago papers last Saturday
that a snow storm had visited this part of
Dakota, but the report was false. The
weather has been and is delightful for this
time of year. There has been no appear
ance of frost, even But in western Iowa
snow fell last Friday to the depth of from
two to four inches. . r. ia. -sr,.,..,a
Dell Rapids Exponent: Last Monday
passenger and freight trains commenced
running from St. Paul, MINI, to Aber-
deem, D. T., on the G. NJ. & st. P. rail
road, distance OF 300 miles, and from
thence south to Ashton, 80 miles, and
north to Frederick, AZ miles, thus open
ing rail and mail facilities for a distance
OFF, miles up and down the Jim river
valley. after reaching Aberdeen.
Sioux Falls Paragraph: Supt. Egan
OF the Southern Minnesota was here last
evening, and gave orders for the payment
of - IS to $3.50 per day for hands to
hurry the completion of the line from
Dell Rapids to this place. The track is
now laid to point midway between here
and Dell Rapids, and will be completed
in two weeks
Yankton Press: After the new arrange
ment goes into effect, Yankton freight
trains will be run through to Sanborn
without being made over. Under this
arrangement traffic between this section
and the east will give Sioux City the go
BY A mixed freight and passenger train
/ is to be run between Sioux Falls and
Eden. S,s8. ss5R
Paragraph: The Sioux Falls Times
has been sold by f. @. Kimberley to a
stock company comprised largely of the
gentlemen who were most intimately iden-
tilted with the recent reform prosecutions
here, including Il. A. Sherman, w. r.
Kingsbuy, j., 3. Young, R. J. Wells,
+. T. Fuller, and others, Mr.. Fuller will
be editor under the new management, and
laMr. Kimberley will have mechanical
charge. j
| Rapid City Journal: For raising mann
Emoth vegetables we believe the soil Of the
Black Hills is equal to any in the world.
During a trip to Rockford recently we saw
! ,beets 1T Trask' S ranch on Deer creek one
of which weighed seven pounds; potatoes
| raised at Pactola, one of which weighed a
trife less than four pounds, and cabbages
!, as large as ever seen in any country. The
potato crop throughout that section is
very large, while wheat and oats have
yielded largelys5is aiita ee
| Sioux Fails Times. G. X. Gunderson,
of Sioux Falls, has just completed a II
pound double barrel breech-loading shot
/ gun for Clay, the celebrated lithographer,
ofBufaln, New York. The cost Of said
4 gun, which may be considered just about
perfect, is to be nearly $3eo Mr. Clay is
a tony VI sportsman, and has had other guns
from thispelebrated manufacturer Mr..
! Gundersonfs home rs in Chicago, he came
1Fhere for his health. He enjoys the dis
tinction Of being the finest gllnsnith on
1.-THE continent. u saai zeg aai 4alis,
As Egan Express, %: We holdthe paper
TIL 9 o'clock this evening, for the purpose
| Of telling q1H readers that a, few minutes
,Isaeo the Egan mill, having become entirely
undermined, droppcdinto the river, broke
lup, and how lays & mass . Of rims, rnachin-
cry and all, in the midst Of seething water.
i All that eouldtbe done to save the mill
4 was done; but the late sudden rise of watt
! Of, and iii Eact TINT the break was such as
\ Ito throw the whole volume of,water under
i the NIL, whore it has washed away the
dhbank, leaving the mill supported by tteni-