Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-07

The Provo mills, in Utah, manufactur.
ed 100000 worth Of woolens last year.
The Umatilla Indians, in Oregon, have
raieed 10000 bushels of wheat this year.
Butte, Montana, has two more banks,
600.
Diphtheria is raging in some parts Of
Washington territory to an alarming ex-
tent.
The Kamiah Indians in Idaho will
raise about 1000 bushels Of wheat this
year.
The csbalistic sign OF the vigilantes is
visible at various points at Helena Mon.
tans.
Mora valley, in New Mexico, expects
to harvest $4,000 bushels of wheat this
year.
Some of the timber fires in the Sierras,
in Nevada, are said to be five or six miles
in length.
TheWestern Union telegraph wire will
be extended to Butte, Montana, within
two weeks.
There are about one hundred and ten
acres OF land planted in cotton near Pio-
che, Nevada, this year.
The Grant house. Rush City, MINI,
furnished its guests with delicious wild
Strawberries October I'd.
Eight new buildings in the town of
Manning, Iowa, we've blown down by the
wind storm of last week.
1t takes $4,000 per month to pay off
the employees of the Denver and Rio
Grande shops in Denver.
The Ice Cave creamery at DEBORAH,
iowa, is said to ke the largest establish
ment of its kind in the world.
A Side at the Blue bank hydraulic
| mine i'll Nevada county, California, last
week caused 100000 damage.
The Sioux City Evening Times has
opened a twenty-five cent subscription
for TIL Garfield monument fund.
| 1t is claimed that the yield of hax seed
in eastern Iowa has been reduced one
million bushels by the late rains.
There are 1886 children in Columbia
county. Washington, OF school age, zoos
enrolled, and 924 under four years Of age.
The Grand Lodge of African Masonic
bodies of Colorado. Kansas and Wyo-
ming, are in session ut Leadville, Colo
RADIO.
Austin, Nevada, was visited bv fire on
the 18th ult., and several houses de.
stroyed. Loss about $4,000; insurance
light.
There is more developing work now
going on in the Bntte district than IN
any other mining camp or district in
Montana.
The conference to consider state divis-
/ Not lnSt 7
forn;a. Another meeting will be held in
| February.
NtiningieNpel IS are becoming interested
in that part OF The Silver Grown mining
district that lies near Table mountain, in
Wyoming.
Miners are returning to work in the
Mogoiian mountains, in New Mexico,
confident that hostile Indians are out OF
the country.
A destructive fire has been raging in
Marin county, Cal, for several days. So
far about 60,00l acres oi timber land has
burned over.
The indications are that next year
there will be geat activity in Nevada in
the mining Of ,,lrre, borax, soda and such
like minerals.
A high wind last week DESTROYED the
two hundred aud sixty foot span of the
Oregon railway company'e bridge across
the Santiam river.
During the month of August, between
$1,000 and $1,000 have been collected on
freight shipped to Spokane Falls in
Washington territory.
4 A ladies' good intent society has been
organized in Dayton, Washington terri.
tory. Its object is to visit the sick and
aid the poor and needy.
The question of raising and expend.
ing the sum OF 100000 in building a
new court house at Davenport, Iowa, is
to be voted on at the next election.
The drainage act has been declared un.
constitutional by the supreme court, and
over million of dollars will be saved to
the people of California by the decision
A chime of bells has been placed in
Trinity church at Davenport, Iowa
They are ten in number, and their ag
gregate weight is eleven hundred
pounds.
The owners of the Silver Crown min
ing property, which is only four ur',
ride from Cheyenne, Wyoming, have beer
offered 200 per cent more tor it than Il
, cost them.
. 1t is reported that no less than thre,
, lines OF railway will reach the vicinity O
Iron Springs. Utah, within year-th,
/. Utah entral. California; entral aud tn,
Denver and Rio Grande.
\ Thirteen female physicians are prac
: tising in Clayton. Iowa, and at recen
l fire there were not well men enough il
; the town to run the engine out. It
J. one grand incorporated hospital.
]. s. Davis, living about FIVE mile
south Of Dayton in Washington terri
I tory, harvested over one thousand bush
els Of wheat from TWENTY-FIVE acres {
hill land. The wheat was fall sown.
1t is reported that the grave in whic
y "Billy the Kid" WAS laid at Fort Sun
I, ner, New Mexico, was robbed and tbs
the Young desperado's skull now orn,
!. ments the Office of Las Vegas doctor
The shipments Of coal from Seattle
: San Francisco during the first eigl
months of the present year aggregate
5ls,SB tons. an increase over the shi]
ments during the same period last We,
of 1881 tons.
A Colorado man advertises for vii
that "can sling on style ON the sire.
and can play hefty hand in the k,tcl
en-" She must Be 'tolcsably handson