Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-09-16
Dakota Daslles.


called the Tribune.
Volga has the foundation in for a
Congregational church.
Salem boasts that it is { g .;veliest
town in southeastern Da~,J.,.
Flandrau pays within IS cents of
the Milwaukee price for wheat.
New dwelling-houses are going up
in every direction in Vcrmillion.
The Methodists will dedicate
new church at Pierre oD the 11th
inst.
Rev. Joseph Ward Of Yankton, is
going east TO raise money for a col
lege.
The Elk Point Courier says r. r.
Green raised $50 bushels of apples
from his orchard this season.
The Republican says Vermillion
never had 80 large population as it
has now and never was SO lively.
Geo. Steckman of Elk Point, made
a record the other day Of thirty -four
prairie chickens in thirty shots.
The contract for building the pc
nitcntiary at Sioux Falls has been
awarded to r. d. Silver of Lincoln,
Ncb., at $34,8l3.
The two prisoners who escaped
from the Bon Homme county Jail,
recently, were recaptured on the lst
near St. Helena, Neb.
A court scene in Huron suggests
that the population Of Beadle county
is composed of two classes: Law.
yers and unnaturalized Canadians.
Steps are being taken by the pub
lic-spirited citizens Of Yankton to
reorganize the chamber Of commerce
and place it upon a working basis.
A. j. Cogau has retired from the
Scotland Citizen as its editor and
publisher. The paper has passed into
the hands of the Scotland Publising
company.
The Huron Times, in response to
an inquiry as to the chances there
for physician, says: population,
500; number Of doctors, 7. Climate
very healthy"
The grand jury at Canton found a
bill against Geo. w. Naylor for en-
bczz'cment. The jury in the case of
w. Charlotte, charged with rape,
failed to agree.
Capt. Tom Russell, representing
the Union Pacific company at Dead
wood has gathered an extensive and
valuable collection OF ore for exhibi-
ton at the Nebraska state fair at
Omaha.
Hugh Kelley, farmer living three
miles east OF Banning Water, has had
the misfortune to lose IL valuable span
OF miles and harness, and al! his
grain, hay and stables by pra,r;e fire.
lie was burning fire guard and the
fire got beyond his control.
Mitchell Capital, |: "'The wife Of
one Of our citizens, who has been Wis.
it'ng in Illinois, writes to her husband
a gloomy account Of the grain pros
poets there, bat referring to the baby
crop says there arc none missing as
far as heard from.' Yet it is not to
be presumed that the family contem-
plates returning to Illinois on that
account.
Deadwood Pioneer, 81: GA gale
Of wind, accompanied by some rain,
struck West Virginia Monday even
ing, and in its course completely de-
IN lished Stones hotel and slightly
injured the colored cook. The stove
being overturned and buried beneath
the rubbish, act fire to the building,
but the prompt action Of the men ex-
tingui>hed the fire. No other dam
age vas sustained"
Yankton Press, l: "Tradc is ex-
ceIent here, Notwithstanding the dis
asters of last spring. Money is plen-
ty and everybody feels hopefdl for
the future. A western city which
can 80 we'll withstand calamity like
the flood Of last spring, with all the
drawbacks which have succeeded as
results of the terrible visitation, pos
sesses vitality sufficient to take care
Of ITSELF"