Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-12-27
Territorial News.

at Jamestown.
The Waterfowl hotels are
thronged witt. guests.
Prairie fires continue their
ravages in Miner comfy.
Hanson county has built
twelve school houses tins year.
Deputy Sheriff Mair OF Cassel-
ton. lost his dwelling 10y fire on
the 1lth.
nL~ "a i.;.-... G.is. Ur work
ingmen" has been organized a
Alexandria.
Two hundred and twelve far m
houses have been built in IIuro n
county IN 1882.
The old soldiers at Fiandresu
are agitatihg organization of a
grand army post. 10
Graad Forks 10 to have an
overall aud duck clothing fac
tory that will employ twenty
girls.
Forestburg continues to grow
in spite OF the bad fortune which
attended the county seat fight.
The Baptists Of Huron will
give an old folks con cert and a
New England supper some time
in January.
Rev. L. Harris ough, presiding
elder of .he Huron district of
the NJ. +. church, viii make his
residence at Huron.
Tie Vuiga Gazette reports
that a woman and chld were
frozen to dea l. IN Sphinx county
claim cabin last week.
Nearly fifty-four thousand dol
lars worth OF real estate chang
ell hands during the week end-
ing Dec. IA, at jamestown.
Don. A. Shove has been adj
judged insate by the commits
sioners af Beadie county eaa
will he semitic the Dakota hos
pital for treatment. (
Huron band has employed an
ILLINOIS professor to teach them
how To toot their horns. That
portion OF the people who are
not members of the band do not
need u teacher.
Experienced bee keepers, says
the Alexandra Herahd, are of
the opinion that the Jim river
valley is destined to become one
ot the best honey producing DIS
tr,cts in the United States.
There are two Indian schools
near Fort Totten attended by 80
pupils, and three schools at
Standing Rock. The young In-
dlans are taught te work as well
as to read. write and cypher.
The Pierre line has changed
the running time OF their sta
ges on leaving Pierre, owing to
the trouble in crossing the Mis-
souri, river Stages POW leave
Pierre about noon. and arriv,
atsRapid City alter madnight
~ John o. johnson, successful
trapper on jim river, took 'ronl
his traps during the mouth ot
November 134 muskrats, seven
skunks, three minks, and two
beavers, one of which weighed
seventy pounds.
Col. Lounsberry, postmaster
at Bismark, has gone to Wash
ington as a witness in the sta
route cases. 1t is reported tia
this gentleman is a formidable
candi date for governor OF th'
new territory in case of division
4 Medary. Rrookings county set
tied in 1857 while part of Min
nesota, and one of the first point
occupied by the whites in tn
present territory OF Dakota, ha
been almost entirely abandoned
even the postoffice which ha
been kept there having bee
removed.
Marion Sentinel: We onl,
await spring to see one OF tn
largest booms OF Turner count
ever witnessed by the eye I
man. Her rich aud beautii'
soil soon to be traversed by abo,
80 mi,es of railroad, can NJ
help but attract the home-seeke
who is tired OF the rocky al
barren soil OF the cast.
Alexandria Herald: A Farm
er who has 100 acres OF land tai
en- three years ago as o home
steud stated to us last week TIL,
he had cleared this year fro
his farm over aud above all e'
penses $500, without countir
the profit on his young stock.