The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-09-15
Dakota Doings.


pleted to to the Missouri river at Cham
berlain last Wednesday,
Jim Ball of Watertown, while extract
ing a cap from loaded cartridge had
full load of shot blown through his hand.
Gen. Grant is to be one of the attrac-
tons of the Fargo agricultural mechani,
cal and art exhibition, to be held Sept.
l3, IA, Is and Is.
The second annual exhibition of the
Turner county agricultural society will be
held at Swan Lake ON the 2lst, 22d and
23d of this month.
The artesian well at Yankton has been
sent down 500 feet below the surface,
the officers of the well company instructed
the contractors to cease operations. A
measurement of the flow at that depth
places it at 2l0 gallons minute. .
Sioux Falls Times: Hon. Frank Petit
grew returned from his trip to New York
and the New England States. His health
is much improved; indeed he looks first
rate He will be at home one week, after
whiah he will go some distance north up
the valley and remain a few days.
Thirty feet has been added to the
Yankton artesian well, and the flow of
water has been increased one third, 2l0
gallons per minute, or $500 barrls per
day, which is enough water, the Press
thinks, to supply a town several times
larger than Yankton.
Sioux Falls Argus: We are informed
that a projects on foot for the purchase of
the Times by the temperance folks OF this
berg, to be converted into temperance
organ. 1t is their intention, we believe
to run it on the cooperative plan. which
will be new feature in the newspaper
fields of Dakota. Almost enough has
been subscribed to guarantee Success for
INC Undertaking
Brave Bear, the Indian who murdered
a family of nine persons near Pembina in
1876, arrived in Bismarck on the 7th inst.
and was turned over to the United States
commissioner. He was prisoner of war
at Fort Yates, but, hearing of the conteln-
plated removal, made an effort to escape,
and parties knowing of the reward offered
for him pursued and captured him, and
turned him over as above.
Yankton Press: Mr.. Parker, Ana
mosa, Iowa, who is practical tobacco
grower, says the soil and climate of this
locality are perfectly adapted to tobacco
culture He is so certain that the weed
can be here produced in all its excellence,
that he intends demonstrating his theory
if he comes here to live. 1t requires con-
siderable outlay to prepare for successful
tobacco culture, but there is great deal
of money in it.
Sioux Falls Paragraph Last Monday
afternoon the little three car-old daught-
cr of Lars Benson, living thirteen miles
northwest, had her right foot cut off with
moving machine, in front of which she
ran before either she or the machine could
be stopped. She bled for six hours be-
fore Drs Morgan and LeBlond could be
summoned, but after amputation of the
bruised flesh and the splintcrel bone she
rallied, and looking at the stump sobbcd
out, "Me never walk or play no more
Deadwood Times: Jas. Withespoon,
better known in the Hills as Timber
Jim, is the owner of the land on which
the flowing water well was struck at
Yankton recently. jim is in luck-he is
lucky under all circumstances and is never
without a bonanza. Twenty five years
ago he located farm on the banks of the
mighty Missouri, and in few years the
whites. run the lnnians cat Of that region |
and built city on it, and in due time in
duccd the general government to locate
the territorial capital there This was all
done without Jim's efforts or consent.
The people crowded these bonanzas upon
him. Now they have gone on to an unoc-
cupied parcel of land belonging to him
and brought forth water bonanza jim
who is now in this city, begins to believe
that it is better to be born lucky than
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