The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-05-12
Dakota Dots.
Tramps are numerous in Northern Oak

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Deadwood IN thirty six hours.
!. Yankton is called the Haven of th
: Homeless, by the Pioneer Press.
Fred B. Close of Sioux City gave $50
toward the relief fund for flood sufferers
Mr.. VanDuscn, of the Troy farm nea
jamestown, will SOW 400 acres this yea
There will be from 10000 to 900 acre
Of grain sown in Strutman county thi
spring. .. e..-...... ...-....
Cortez Fesscnden, Of Michigan, ha
been confirmed as general O
Dakota.
1t is estimated that the Northern Pacific
bridge ,ross the Missouri at Bismarck
will cost 100000.
The government will give each dcsti.
tute farmer, caused by the food, horse
COW and some household goods.
The machinery warehouse Of K. Thomp
son at Sioux Falls was destroyed by fire
lately. Loss 81 1900, no insurance.
The Hudson Bay company will aid in
| increasing the tide Of immigration to the
! boundIess northwest.
The journal claims that Rapid City is
employing more carpenters and masons
| than any other towE in the Hills.
/. The Yankton Herald estimates the los
! scs in property in Yanllten county, by the
| foot al S175 900, not including the dam
| age to the railroad.
t The steamboat Perrauh was picked up
by the flood naar Yankton and pitched
against the machine shops, demol1shing
! them, after which it settled on the prairie
| about q milc from the present channel of
the river, high and dry.
At u point near Bcforl, Dakota, trees
two feet iii diameter were cut through like
| willows by the ice. Two men killed over
100 deer in single day, The deer were
were hemnled III, unable to escape
When the gorge in the Missouri river
below Mandan, broke away, the railroad
lost every lie, 10 the number of about 3d.
coo. The ice extended in the streets in
every direction in solid chunks, closely
packed, from three to eight feet thick.
\ mother in St. Paul, Ncb., murdered
her three infant children and then took
her own life. The report says there was
no evidence of Insanity, though what but
Insanity would impel mother to take
The lie cf her babies is not clear.
Til, Vermillion Standard Of the 9Th
gives detailed statement OF the losses
theIc by the food. There were 1872 build
ings totally destroyed, many others wreck
ed and much other property swept away.
Il places tie to tai value Of the property
lAus aanl1iiatel at $ lag, 2G0.
Cnc thousand Swedes are en- route for
the golden northwest by the Cunard line,
and as many more will take passage for
the promised land next week, by the same
Inc. \ Txorc brilliant sunlight that
beams fron far Italian skies Will greet
them in The new Northwest and smiling
harvns's Will gladden. their hearts.
Grand Forks Dispatch A large imri-
grafton is daily pouring into Grand Forks.
She is to-day enjoying boom never be-
fors tqn,ed. Building is rapidly going
going ,or~aEd, SIX He'd labor is in good
demand, and prospects ware never bright
CT. |, is estimated that her population
will dcuUc during tue present year,
giving her the second or third place
among the cities o fine territory.
Springti III Times: People il the up
per country had a pretty rough time Of it
towards the close Of the winter, aud actual
suffering from want of food was experts
faced. Mr.. Geo. Cham berlain tells lis
that at the stage ranch at B;jou Hills the
people WIRE six weeks without -four.
During this time corn and oats were
grrunl in a coffee mill and ca en-
by the ranch people and stage drivers.
The snow was four feet dcey on a level
during this time, and it WAS absolutely
impossible to travel.
Ncrmillion Standard; It is estimated
that between 1000 and 5000 cattle, horses
and hogs were drowned on the bottom in
Clay county during the deluge, and that
between 200 and 1900 Of these animals
lie IN three square miles aroung Meckling.
3ince Warm weather set lu this stencil
from these decaying carcasses is becoming
What is to DO done to do
away with this stencil is difficult Prob
lem to solve. They have laid there SO
long while The water has been running
Of that We can see no way out of the diff
Gculty except to let them lay where they
are, and trust TO the high Dakota winds !
20 wait the unpleasant smells elsewhere.
In that case Vermlllionites will pray tina,
east and southeast winds may prevail dur.
Ing tic next three months.