Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-07-01

A $40, 900 hotel as to be built a
Mandan.
BARRIERS charge 25 cents a shaw
in Pierre.
| Sioux Falls will celebrate in picni,
style on the island.
Deadwood and Spearish will sool
be connected by. telephone.
The machinery for q steam girls,
mill at Canton is ready for shipment
There are now nearly Z 900 Indian,
| within scventy.fiEe miles Of Bismarck
Capt. ]. C. McVay of Yankton i.
gong to invest 1000 in new resi-
dence.
Lincoln county will hold its second
annual fair at Lennox, October 4, S,
Gov. Ordway will be one of the
attractions Of the Fourth Of July ce-
LIBERATION at Pierre.
Pierre wants village organization
so 1t can regulate the conduct of
evil disposed beings.
The Western Stage company has
purchased the stage line from Water.
town to the Jim river.
Immigrant teams are passing
through Watertown every day on
route for the jim river country.
The Mitchell United States land
office shipped $l7,0 in hard cash
to Yankton few days since.
The FIRST steps toward the construc.
ton Of the Congregational college at
Yankton will be taken very soon.
The proposition to issue bonds to
build bridges in Minnehaha county
was defeated at the special election.
The Deadwood Times will hcreaf.
ter be an evening paper. 1t started
as that, but Of late has been a morn.
ing paper.
About 100 immigrants are on the
road from Carroll county, Iowa, to
locate in McCook county, around
Salem.
L. D. F. Poore has sold the Spring
field Times to Bub Todd. MI. Poore
will engage in the law business at
Watertown.
The transfer of the survevor.gen.
erals office, from Gen. Esperson to
Gen. Fessenden, took place at Yank.
ton on the 10th.
From and after July l the mail
service upon the railroad will be ex-
tended from Flandrau to Dell Rap
ids and Madison.
Advices from Chamberlain, Brule
county, report an immense boom tax.
ing place there. Three hundred peo.
pie arc camped on the towsite.
At Pierre on the Fourth a party of
Sioux will give the Indian grass
dance, after which there will be a
feast, when a rostcd OK will be served
whole.
A movement is on foot for organic
ing lodge Of Knights of Pythias at
Sioux Falls, and a Knight Templar
c"mmandery has already been detin.
itely decided upon.
In Minnehaha county lives a brute
of a man who has been in the habit
Of severely whipping his father, aged
Is, because he thought the old gen.
tleman didn't take proper care of the
cattle.
DIR. Cheney has been ordered to
leave Central City for malpractice.
Philip Mercer, miner, injured his
leg, and it was so unskillfuily treated
by DIR. Cheney that other physicians
had to finally amputate the limb to
save the mans life.
Marshal Remhardt of Y ankton had
hand.to. hand conflict with three
burly rutfians at 2 O'Clock on the
morning Of the 18th. FIe whipped
them single.handed and after he had
pounded the fight out of them drew
his revolver and marched the three
to the lookup.
In the Codington County Courier
OF the 18th, DR.. j. Bennett charges
that Chas. Il. Scoville was responsi.
BILE for the death of his wife, Mrs.
lnez Scoville. He beat her, forced
her to flee for her life and when sick
ness followed from his brutality, he
refused to send for q physician.
Miss Cleveland, the temperance
apostle, is going to tackle Deadwood,
which causes the Pioneer to exclaim:
"Sister Cleveland is coming to the
wrong place, for it is we'll established
fact that nothing stronger than sum-
mer squash strained through a caness
bottomed char is ever INDUCED in
in Deadwood."
Yankton Press and Dakotaian, IA:
''There is still trouble in the Red
Cloud camp. A letter received from
there last night says the Indians have
called upon their agent to resign.
Should he decline the invitation,
they express a determination to put
him off the reservation. The letter
says that Red Cloud delivered the
message mounted upon his war horse,
and clad in the habiliments of battle,
which consist of streak of feathers
running down the spinal column.
Red Cloud is down on the agent for
attempting to depose him from the
chieftainship.
NEWSPAPER NOTORIETY.
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