The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-30
Dakota Doings.

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Col. B. L. Campbell was thrown from
Il buggy at Scotland ON the evening Of the
oath and had his shoulder fractured.
W. II. Bell, Bismarck crack shot, bets
on being able to break nine out of ten
glass balls, using rife instead of shot
gun.
information from Red Cloud agency is
that the Indians there have held another
pow-wow, at the conclusion of which they
notified the agent that unless he resigned
they would remove him from the rcserva-
ton, and he returned it would be at his
peril.
A suspicious mother near Tyndall says
the Scotland Citizen, plated some nitro
glyccrine in her daughters corsets on the
evening her fellow was coming. The girl
loaned it to the cook, and they had to
scrape the old man off the ceiling to get
enough to hold an inquest over
Huron Times: j. NJ. Sncaiger sa;s
that fax sown on his land about three and
one-half weeks ago, was Is inches high
last heard from. 1t will require large
supply, but the indications are that Oak
ota will soon raise tow enough to furnish
neckties for the traducers who declared
the territory to be reproductive.
Yankton Press: In removing the bod
les from the old Catholic cemetery to the
new one, the grave of Jack Mccall, who
was hung in Yankton on the lst of March
1877, for the murder of Wild Bill, was
opened and the body removed with the
coffin 1t was discovered that Mccall
had been buried with the rope around
his neck that strangled him. .
Flandrau Enterprise This seems to
be great church building season in OAK
otaa. In almost every town in the terri
tory one or more churches are going up,
which speaks well for the character of the
people. People coming into the territory
will have to push into extremely recently
settled regions to find an absence Of school
houses and churches.
Bismarck Tribune, %: "John Dillon,
who was probably fatally stabbed at Dead
wood few days ago, used to be prince
among contractors in the Missouri river
country He received 100000 for trans
fcrring the Indian agency from Grand riv-
or to Standing Rock, and although squan-
dering money recklessly, only four years
had a bank account of over 100000. Eff
tv dollars to treat the house or thousand
on single blowout were common occur.
rcnces. Five dollars for shave, or SIC
for single meal were also frequent. HI
never took any change, and never was
known to asky any but once, whenhe came
into the Tribune office and offered check
for 50, 800 for a puff for his transportior
line from Pierre to the Hills He wantcc
$25 back. His usual salutation to news
paper man was, Here's $50; send mt
your Cd id old newspaper. OF cours
| his fortune was soon gone, and for thepas
two years he has been chopp:ng wood 70
a living.
Yankton Herald: Bob Mathieson, tn
Yankton boy who has won great renow1
during the past few years not only in hi
own country but in England as foot
racer, and who is now visiting at his oil
home here, recently successfully contested
race in Denver that gave him the cham
pionship of the world, making the bes
time heretofore placed on rccord-ont
hundred yards in nine and one-half sec
onds. The race was with McComb, thu
California champion, and thousands o
dollars were staked on the contest which
Bob gathered in for himself and his back
ers. The race was run about two week
ago and the Denver papers contained lens
accounts of the exciting contest at thu
time. Bob is know on the turf and il
the sporting circles by the name Of Floyd.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: Dakota is de
ycloping so rapidly that one can see i
grow, even in the winter when passing
through town after an absence of
week or two from the locality. Within
the year 1880 thriving villages sprung VI
where there was only untroddcn prairie
in 1879, and the thrifty characters Of tn
settlers, together with the nature of thci
homes and their home improvements
plainly indicated that the towns were 0
solid, substantial kind the people havin
come to stay. There is certainly nothin!
. apt to be firmer in its growth, being de
void of all kinds of unnatualness, an the
steady upward movement of an agricultur
t al community. Dakota has never know
setback in crops; its wheat shows q
many bushels to the acre as that of an
state or territory, and in its uncultivate'
land there is still a mine of wealth
I. s. Grain, writing to the Bismarc
Tribune, makes an interesting statemer
with reference to the Bad Lands. Fl
says: This country is changing ffasi
TIE Bad Lands are turning to soil Their
, is a great change in the last fifteen year
I and ever since | have been here. Nj
, Cheney was through here seventeen yea
ago, and remembers places where ther
i was no grass for the stock at that time
where now is good meadows of a fine blu
= joint grass as one could wish to SEE
There are five dikerent kinds of grass here
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