Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-04
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Blunt has a female base ball club.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Blunt has female base ball club.
Pierre is to have the Holly system Of
waterworks.
The LeBeau coal find hasn't panned
out as expected.
Ipswich expects to remain the county
seat Of Edmunds county.
The Farmers and, Traders bank OF
Kimball has opened for business.
Two citizens of Madison lost hand
apiece last week while trying to open
unexploded shells.
The office of the Ipswich Bulletin has
been sold at sherlff's sale. Ipswich has
but two papers left.
The Castlewood Times claims that
place to be the best town in Hamlin
county by S400 valuation.
Cora Harkins, seventeen year old
damsel of Sioux Falls, attempted suicide
Monday with creosote but failed.
The funeral of Mrs. NJ. F. Durham,
the first woman to make her home at
Mitchell, occurred at that place Sunday.
A corporation has been formed 10 Ash
ton with a capital stock Of $4,000 for the
purpose Of putting in system Of water
works.
All the employees on the Jim River
valley railroad have been paid off and
discharged and work suspended for the
season.
All Masons are fraternally invited to
attend the dedication ceremonies at the
new Masonic temple at Sioux Fails,
Dak., on Thursday evening, September
II, 1884.
Joseph L. Cornet, editor of the Grand
Army Scout and Mail, Philadelphia, has
resigned his position on that paper and
has removed to Dakota, having accept.
ed the position OF principal of the city
schools at Flandrau.
Sioux Falls Press: A lady in this
city has female canary that sings as
nicely as the male bird. There is an.
other feature about this bird and that is
that its eggs are barren. None of its
fruit has ever hatched out.
The steam whistles from the Touring
mill, the machine shops, the planning mill
ana the Republican wake the echoes on
the Dakota prairies, and make Mitchell
appear like a veritable manufacturing
center, says the Mitchell daily.
Estelline Bell: A large party of New
York railroad men, including son ol
Vanderbilt, with special train, were
here Wednesday. The party we're in
quest of game and spent the day in
hunting, returning east Thursday.
HigLmore Herald: Two carloads oi
emigrants came in Monday and went tc
their claims in the north part of the
county IN the Zemlicka neighborhood
They brought with them cattle, horses
farming implements, &C., and all ready
for first class work.
Howard Farmer: The railroad com.
pany have built vault or oven under
the water tank at the depot, in which,
during the coldest weather in winter, a
stove will be kept fred up to prevent
the valve, which cuts off the water from
the pipe supplying the engines, from
freezing.
A correspondent at Pierre writing to
the Iowa Messenger says: Governor
Sherman paid Pierre q visit last week.
They say the governor was charmed with
Pierre, that he remained up quite late
the first night that he came to see her
sights, and before morning he thought
he was governor IT Dakota in place of
Iowa.
Miller Press: We gather meager par.
ticulars Of the sad death of little child
that occurred last Tuesday, some fifteen
miles southwest of Miller. It appears
that the little one ran out to meet 9
wagon loaded with wheat. The person
driving did not notice the child was
near and when he heard its scream
looked down, and found to his horror one
of the wheels had passed over the upper
portion of it's head crushing 1t to jelly.
Sioux Falls Press: Railroad men who
have come in from tho late cyclone.
visited region of central Dakota have
some odd things to report. At Villas a
house was taken from its foundation and
scattered broadcast over the prairie. The
occupants had all taken refuge in the
cellar upon the approach of the twister
and escaped injury. 1t was as quiet as
q Shaker meeting in the cellar. The
bowling elements did not reach below
the top of the stone walls. The build.
ing above them was taken away so sud-
denly and smoothly as not to drop even
silver on their heads. At the same
place the railroad boys found rooster
with every feather blown from his body.
Not fuzz was left on any part of him.
One leg and his head were also absent.
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