Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-07
Daily 8ress and 9akataiaa
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Miller wants an artesian we'll.
Madison is 70 have . $40. 600 creamery.
f Flax sells for SLIP per bushel in Plank.
linton.
The flow Of water in the Mitchell arte.
sian we'll is increasing in quantity.
One hundred and twenty-five loads Of
small grain were sold in Plankinton last
Monday.
The Canton Advocate tells OF pump.
kin grown in that locality that weighs
l20 pounds.
A new mail route is to be established
between Mitchell aud Fort Randall via
Grand View. ..
Kimball had its first fire last Sunday
morning-a small stable and hay stack,
probably incendiary. I:
The Rush house. a new hotel has jus
opened up at Egan and is said to be first
class in every particular.
The second annual Brown county
teachers institute will be held at Alb.
erdeen, Oct. 18th to 18th inclusive.
The Chamberlain Register wagers
500. that Brule county has the best
looking clerk and sheriff in the territoy.
The bank of Charles Mix county will
open up at Castalia, the 10Th. A. b.
Lucas, of the Republican, has been ap.
pointed cashier.
A formidable petition has been pre-.
sented to the county commissioners of
Union county asking them to grant
license for the sale of liquor.
The q. NJ. & ST. P. company has paid
into the treasury of Sanborn county the
sum of S637.5l, as its portion of taxes
belonging to the county.
The Era says: Parker grain buyers
have bought 20 900 bushels OF fax already
this season, and have paid out over $780,.
600 to the farmers for that seed alone.
James Doyle, who was confined in the
post guard house at Fort Randall, for
assaulting Sergt. Burke, made his escape
last Monday, and has not been heard of
since.
Mrs. Obey Munson passed from this
life at her residence near Tooktay, in
Charles Mix county, last Wednesday
She leaves husband and six small
children.
The lecture of G. B. Armstrong before
the Hand county teachers institute, al
st. Lawrence, the Press says, was bril-
liant effort, repiete with sound practi
cal suggestions.
Plankinton Standard: There is talk
limited to few of the most staunct
prohibitionists of putting prohibition
ticket in the field, but it is not likely
that this will be done.
The Erie Telegraph and Telephone
company is talking Of running tele
phone line between Flandrau and Siou,
Falls, taking in the towns of Egan, Del
Rapids and Sioux Falls.
The Parker Era speaks in highly com
plimentary terms of the citizens ant
business men of that town. 1t says they
are stayers and the kind that will max.
big city of Parker in time.
Wheeler Record: The sod crop o
aax in the county averages ten bushels
strong to the acre this year. This
demonstrates to q certainty that fax is
the best pasturing crop for sod.
Miller Press: Register Armstrong
enlivened our sanctum with his presence
Friday evening. He has sold five mil
lion acres of land for the government
during his term Of Office and taken il
about S2,500,0OO.
While MIR. Winer. of Douglas county
was engaged in threshing his grain will
a steam thresher, the other day som,
stacks OF hay standing near caught fire
and about forty tons of hay, one wagon
two plows, one colt and all his etablinl
were burned.
| s. NJ, Lindley will probably be re
nominated for register of deeds o
Charles Mix county. The Record says
Mr.. Lindley has proven himself on
of the most attentive, honest and accom-
modating officials Charles Mix count,
has ever honored with an office.
| Charles Mix Record: J.R. Deuel., 9
Deuel. City, is giving employment to
greater number of men than any othe
man in the county. He is running hi
store, blacksmith shop, farm and sorghum
factory. He is making an immens
amount of molasses, some of the fines
We ever saw. He is also pntting down
stock we'll, which was one hundred an
ten feet deep at last reports, witt
twenty feet of water.