Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-09-02
Dakota Dashes. .....
Huron has board of trade.

Canton is having a sidewalk
boom.
Scotland Catholics are raising
money to huild a church.
| St. Andrews church, Elk Point,
has new 200.pound bell.
Watertown citizens rusticate at
Punished Woman's lake.
The Illinois colony in Beadle
county is a thriving community.
Dell Rapids shipped over 200, 900
bushels of last years wheat crop.
Lincoln farmers are making but
ter on the creamery plan, 1t is
said to pay.
The Salem Register is happy over
the advent of the iron horse at that
place.
A little child of Joseph Mullet,
Yankton was bitten by vicious
dog on the 18th.
The hog nuisance, as well as the
dog nuisance, is being abated in
Deadwood.
Mrs. Catherine Gore of Yankton
has been adjudged insane and sent
to the asylum.
| Bishop G. D. Foss dedicated the
Methodist Episcopal church at Lead
City OH the 14th.
! The Methodist camp-nleeting at
Lake Herman has been postponed
to September l.
Grand Forks has a flowing mag
netic well which the citizens think
a big thing ON ice.
A herd of $50, Montana cattle were
shipped from Pierre to the Chicago
market on the llth.
Two newspapers were started at
Aberdeen on the same day and both
called the Pioneer.
The Baptist church society Of
Vermillion will remove their church
building to the bluff.
| Deadwood expects to have the
care and keeping Of the Crow Dog,
Spotted Tails murderer.
Canton had professional crazy
tramp the other day.. He was sent
to the YanISton asylum.
The ice supply at Spearfsh has
run out and the natives go to Dead
wood for their cocktails.
Rapid City sighs for brass band,
and will give a ball to star a fund
for the purchase Of Instruments.
Bessie Wagner, the schild who
was injured by Il runaway pony
near Springfield last week, is dead.
Mrs. S. 4. Duxstad, % years of
age, a former resident Of Watertown,
died the other day in Beloit, Wis.
D. C. Thomas sold the first new
wheat at Watertown the other day,
receiving $l.OS per bushel therefor.
H. Lespearance was instantly
killed by lightning the other day
on Lower False Bottom, Black
Hills.
The Union Sabbath-school at
Huron received 16O books the other
day from school at Franklin
Springs, Pa.
On Tuesday 10000 pounds of bar
gold we're withdrawn from the bank
of England for shipment to the
United States.
Ed Calhoun, former resident of
Yankton, was seriously " injured the
other day at Mitchell by his pony
falling on him.
The team which pulls the Mer
chants hotel bus, Elk Point, ran
away on the 18th, seriously injuring
D. L. Pettis and smashing the We
hicle.
Jimmy Smith, Huron boy, was
considerably hurt the other day,
while in bathing, by the accidental
discharge Of gun in the hands Of a
com rade.
The name of the lunatic who es-
capped from the asylum at Yankton
the other day is John Pickard. He
is still hid in the woods and cannot
be coaxed out,
The coming feature in the.,Black
Hills is the hot springs, the waters
of which are said to equal those of
the Arkansas hot springs. They
are located near Custer.
Williams, the Fountain City fire.
bug, who started the great confa-
grafton there recently, was fving
for tall timber at last accounts with
Deadwood officers at his heels.
The most encouraging report
from the new carbonate camp in
the Hills is that everybody who
owns claim has gone to work
with determination to develop it.
On the evening of the 18th large
and brilliant meteor was seen at
Deadwood. A local paper describes
it as looking like a ball of fire,
which lit up the earth as it coursed
through the heavens, and says it
was undoubtedly the grandest thing
of the kind ever witnessed by hu-
man eyes.
A farmer visited Vermillion the
other day and filled up with bug
juice. On his way home at night !
he rolled off his horse into colony
of skunks who had met in solemn
body to pray for rain. The prayer
meeting was broken up, but the
stink they raised smelled to the
heavens and almost to hades,
Yankton Press:-The corn crop
of Yankton county never was better
and it always was first class, two
weeks more will place it out of the |
way of frost and some of II is now