Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-05
the NEW NORTHWEST.
Miles City il infested with thieves.

Miles City is infested with thieves.
Oat. are selling in Helena, Montana,
for two dollars and twenty-five cents pet
hundred.
Ex.President Billings, of the Northern
Pacific, has invested 5000 in Glendive
property.
A timely rain storm recently quenclled
anna extensive forest fires near Butte,
Montana.
Citizens Of Burlington, Iowa. have
subscrlbed $50 to the Garfield monu-
ment fund.
The taxable property OF Madison G.: coun, 1Ic
", Montana, has increased over o1uo'oOV
In the last year.
The Benton. Montana, building asso.
citation, has been organized with cash
capital Of $4,000.
Thirty thousand head Of Montana
sheep have been driven to California this
year BY one party.
Miles City. Montana. is TO have tele.
phone exchange. The line will connect
Keogh with that town.
A dollar fund, for Mason, the soldier
who shot at Guiteau. has been started
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Glcndive, Montana, is booming. Par
ties there have made single contract
with Mandan firm for 2.OOO.0OO brick.
A plot for general jail delivery at
Miles City, Montana, several niRhtss M 9
WAS nipped in the bud by the jailor's
wife.
The Dubuque Times announces the re
cent connection Of that city by telephone
with Waterloo, distance of ninety
miles.
A Nationalj bank with paid up capl-
tai of $5O!OO6. has been organized in
Mason City, Iowa, aud is now ready for
business.
Marshalltown, Iowa, is claiming to be
the second city in the United States to
open contribution for the Garfield
monument.
One man. two boys and horse were
killed ct Minneapolis last Monday NOR.
ming while attempting to cross the rail.
road track in front of tlain of cars.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
is forwarding immense quantities OF
construction material to various points
in Iowa for its extensions and b, anches.
A now oat meal mill has recently beef.
erected in Davenport. Iowa, aud the
Gazette speaks Of it as the largest anu
most complete mill of its kind in the
United States.
Thousands Of acres of pasture in til,
Little Blackfoot country 10 Montana
have beon destroyed by tire, the resui
Of camp fire not having been thorough
" extinguished.
Clayton, Iowa, has thirteen femai,
phyaicians aud 1t is said there are NOR,
sick men IN that town IN proportion
the population than Gan be found in IN,
other community in the state.
Mn Emma J. Vriedsnbe Of Bur.
ington, Iowa, aged twenty four, commit
ted suicide Tuesday by shooting. the
ball entering the left breast aud pene-
trating the heart. Melancholy produc-
ed by long illness WAS the cause.
Wort Oh the Northern Pacific round
house and machine shops ut Glendive liz
to begin soon. The round house is to he
large enough to contain folty-four loco
motives. The machine shops are to be
240110O feet.
An unknown old man stepped on the
track q few rods in front of freight train
near Winona Junction, Minn,. the other
lay, took off his hat, looked toward the
train an instant and then turning his
back towards it walked slowly between
the rails. The engine struck him and he
fell across the pilot dead.
While nn Idaho girl was sitting under
tree waiting for her lover. grizzly
bear came along and approaching from
behind began to hug her. But she
thought it was Tom, and so leaned back
and enjoyed it heartily, and murmurei
"tighter." and it broke the bear all up;
md he went away and hid IN the forest