The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-08-02
DAKOTA ITEMS.

a street car company has been organic
ed at Pierre.
There are 2S7 lodges Of Good Templars
in the territory.
There are Is prisoners in the territoria
pcnitentiary at Sioux Falls.
The long dry spell about Aberdeen la,
seriously shortened the crops
The distance from Fargo, Dakota, te
San Francisco by way Of the Northern
Pacific, is given as 2,2l4 miles
During the storm last Saturday morn
ing at Sioux Falls, lightning came i'll the
telegraph office and lifted the operator of
his chair
The row over the slO0, 900 capital bonus
gees on at Bismarck. The Tribune sug-
gests a tax to repay the men who put up
the money.
The creamery at Flandrau, it is csti-
mated, brings 81, 800 more per month to
the farmers Of the county than they would
receive without it.
Ex-senator Conkling is to visit Fargo iu
few days, special car having been sent
to convey the distinguished guest to the
Northern Pacific country.
Helena Trummer a little German girl,
ten years old, whose parents resides few
miles from Worthwhile, Sphinx county. was
killed by lightning last week.
Minnehaha county assessed valuation
foots up 81, 26s. 52S, gain OF over halt
million in year About one half Of
this total is in taxable lands
Miller Journal: The Chamberlain
Register says that thunder can be
heard seven miles and lightning seen for
ty. Our opinion is that when the ques-
ton Of division comes before the people of
Dakota that the Bismarckians will think
thunder and lightning can be heard and
seen at least 200 miles.
The storm of a week ago was severe on
the Geissenycr family, whose place was
some twenty-five miles northwest of HUI
ron. The mother was killed outright, a
little son has since died and daughter 5
leg has been amputated. Of the 5000
in bills blown away from the house, all but
$40 has been found
The voters Of Edmunds county have
met in convention and nominated cer-
tain lumber of commissioners. They
have done this becruse Goerenor Ordway,
in pursuance ofhis dilatory plan, has re-
fused so orgaize the county, though it
contains the requisite number of people
and is fully entitled to organization under
the statutes.
The Norwegians are going in possessing
the land toward Turtle mountain and the
Mouse river country, distant seventy miles
from Church 8 ferry and 100 miles from
Devils Lake Some twent-fve families
of Norwegians, former residents Of the
Red river valley south of Grand Forks,
have located there
Salem Register There can be seen on
the farm Of Thos. Kean, south of Salem,
as fine piece of cotton as was ever grown
in the south NJ. B. Murphy, who
brought the seed from Mississippi, says it
is far ahead of the cotton grown there.
What next? McCook county and Dakota
against the world for anything and every
thing
Chamberlain Register: Dakota mirage,
one Of the singular and interesting in this
county. Is it mirage? Fl. Kimball a
distance Of fifty miles, The Missouri riv-
er above BUou hills, from Maj. Kellam's
above Chamberlain, and other as pbenom-
inal sights. Morning and evening is the
time when most common.
Thirty special agents Of the general
land Office have been to work quietly hunt
ing up fraudulent entries. Upon the
strength of their reports the commission
els have cancelled about $50 entries, thus
restoring nearly Sc, 900 acres to the public
domain and saving the government about
sl25,OOO.