The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-01-25
DAKOTA.
The Marion Sentinel expects boom at

the Junction next summer.
Alexandria claims to have expended
last year in improvements s62, 300.
The Hand County Press designates
Dakota as being 97,OOO,0o0 acre wheat
field"
Frank Moulton, formerly of Vermilllon
is erecting large blacksmith and wagon
shop in Rapid City,
Judge Hudson at the last term Of his
court at Fargo, sentenced nine criminals
to the Sioux Falls penitenitary
The Rapid City Journal, Black Hills,
says 'The gypsum deposits of this coun-
try are practically inexhaustable.
The cemetery for Madison is now on
the grounds where the normal school has
been located, which will involve remov-
al of the bodies buried there.
Sawaday the postmaster at Marion
Junction, was fined 5000, by Judge Ed
gerton at Yankton for making false re-
turns to the department.
Some of the Sioux Falls gentleman
have purchased three acres of ground at
Lake Okoboji for a summer resort, to be
called the "Sioux Falls camp
The Mechanis national bank of Dead
wood, Seth Bullocl, president, on the 2lst
inst. declared a selni-annual dividend OF
10 per Ct, and increased its surplus fund
$4,000, making total capital and surplus
$l40,O 600
A spirit of reform prevails at Bismarck.
The hecommissioners have raised the liquor IL
cense to $500, causing many saloon keepers
to decline taking ont license Dance and
gambling houses have been prohibited
and saloons must not keep open on Sun
day
Brule county has a tree planters associa
ton which held its second annual meeting
at Kimball, was attended by people from
all parts of the county, and from the re-
report of the proceedings in the Charles
Mix Chronicle, it appears great interest
was manifested.
The grand jury at Fargo returned in
dictments against the chairman of county
commissioners, five against the entire
board and one against the county treasur-
er. The amount Of $59, 900, was paid by
him on on,vouchers signed by two Of the
commissioners.
Graham, who has been long confined in
the Jail of Custer county upon the charge
of the murder of one Bell, has been re-
leased upon giving bail in the sum OF
81, 800. The killing is not denied, but
the sympathies of the community are with
Graham that Bell deserved death
The Lawrence county undertaken re-
ports the total number OF deaths in that
county during the year 1882 as being lO5,
the cause OF which were, natural deaths
IS, accidents u, suicides 4, murders 4,
and one executed not reported. Out OF
the IO5 the county has paid for but three
burials
4 large elk, weighing about 100 pounds
was run down last Saturday by j. &. Hol-
lister and Herb Gregory, about ten miles
north of De Smet. The horns measured
four feet, four inches in length, and have
thirteen prongs from thirteen to nineteen
inches long He was beauty and gave
the boys long chase.
The Mitchell Capital publishes list of
improvements during the year 1882, CIV
Ing the value in round numbers $3.50, ,0OG.
1t also states the population as increasing
during the past year from twelve to twen-
ty-seven hundred. On the first of Jan
uary, 1881, it had only twenty buildings,
including business blocks and residences.
The commissioners Of Dawson county
are exercised over the refusal OF the treas
urer, Applegate, to either settle or turn
over his books and Office to Prescott, who
claims to have been elected to the Office.
The commissioners have caused the arrest
of Applegate and have obtained tenn
porary writ of mandamus, commanding
him to turn over his office at once or show
cause before Judge Edgerton why he
| should hold the Office
Sioux Falls Press: cat midnight Mon
day, while John Garth, engineer on the
Chicago, Milwaukee andSt Paul railroad,
was standing by the locomotive turntable,
it was rapidly turned and one OF the levers
Of the table struck and cushed him be-
tween it and a water tank, causing very Sc
we're internal injuries Garth is an Eng
lishman, about 40 years old, and has a
wife and six children. -