Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-09-01
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

The Sphinx county fair will be n good
one.
Harold proposes to have Grand
Army post.
The building Of the Relfield Touring
mill progresses.
Mail service from Pierre to Clifton
il advertised for.
The Montrose Avalanche hos entered
upon its second year.
1t is reported that an immense deposit
OF soap has been found near Blunt.
Mitchell expects the machine shops OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul to be
located there.
A man named Hillsck was knocked
down and robbed of $3.50 at Columbia
the other day.
VIM. Hart of Bath, Brown county.
carried off first honors for the West
Point cadetship at Huron, the other day.
Ordway Tribune: The highest point
between Ordway and Bismarck is 2,e74
feet above the level of the sea, and ,12O
feet higher than Ordway.
The Frederick ladies aid society pass
vote of thanks to one another for at.
tendance upon their stated meetings.
Result. no absent members.
An alleged horse stealer named Tury.
shot and wounded the constable who
was trying to arrest him at Wilmot,
Grant county, the other day.
A quarter of million pouni is Of
freight were loaded at Pierre, by the
Evans line last Saturday, destined to
Deadwood. The Northwestern com.
pany took out as much more.
The special election held in Frederick
last Saturday to say whether that school
township should be bonded or not for
$4,000, to build two school houses, re.
suited in unanimous vote for bonds.
N. 81. Young has withdrawn his relie.
nation as commissioner of SulIy county.
MIR. Young is one of the Oldest and ablest
residents of that section and will prove a
valuable aid in setting the machinery
ofthe county in motion.
A citizens league has been organized
in Sioux Falls and a $4,000 fund
guaranteed by its members to be ex.
pended if necessary in compelling ODE.
diencs to the laws. Sunday liquor SELL
ing and gambling are the evils which are
to be suppressed.
A post Office has been established at
Gettysburg, Potter county, and one dis.
continued at Platte creek, Charles Mix
county. Special service has been estab-
lished from Candy to Plankinton, Auro-
ra county, and special service discontin.
tinued, from Eliza to Auburn in Hutch.
inson county.
Pierre Signal: The Behan left yester-
day for upper river points, with about
$50 tons of freight, eighty tons of which
was flour for the Indians at the Chey.
enne and Standing Rock agencies. This
flour is manufactured in the Black Hills
and freighted to the river by the Evans
Transportation line.
Frederick Free Press: Mr.. Shoultev
who lives north Of town, brought us in
some samples this week. One was a sun.
flower stalk that measured seventeen
inches in circumference and eight feet in
height; another was tuft of blue.joint
grass that was four and one-half feet
high; also bundle of oats, the first crop
having been cut, when another crop
sprung up from the roots which will
yield fully as much as the first crop.
Sioux Falls Press: The Calliops
branch of the Northwestern railway
which is now completed between Salem
and Iroquois, will be opened on the 10th
Of September. On that day President
Keep, General Manager Hughltt and
other officials OF the road will take pass.
age from Chicago on the through train
via Iowa points to Huron and Pierre.
The new route will be of the same mile.
age as the present line passing through
Wisconsin and Minnesota, its advantage
and value being found in its freedom,
from the dangers of snow blockade.