Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-25
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

A Touring mill for Grand View is be-
ing talked up.
The Aberdeen library association has
been organized.
The firemen Of Estelline gave ball
the night of the a2nd.
Fraud is charged on the holders of the
funds Of Hanson county.
Brookings celebrated Washington's
anniversary with grand ball.
Mt. Vernon has prospect Of securing
the location of a canning factory.
A steam Touring mill would be q
profitable investment at Webster.
Brookings has secured a grist mill be-
yond the possibility of any slip up.
Tho Express says that Egan'a pros.
pects never looked better than now.
The soldiers at Fort Sully anticipate
an order sending them to For Meade.
A daily mail from Woonsocket is what
the Washington Springs people want.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Mcbride of the
Mitchell Mail, have gone to Washing
ton.
The itinerant merchant, the cheap
John swindler, is abroad in Minnehsha
county.
Squatters continue to locate on the
Indian lands north of Pukwana, in Brule
county.
The Brookings public school has been
closed because of the prevalence of scar.
let fever.
Mrs. Oliver Cormor has been appoint.
ed pcstmistress at Friesland, Charlie.
Mix county.
The territorial board of wheat inspec.
tors held meeting in Bookings the
ether evening.
Iroquois has organized citizens asso.
citation for the purpose of promoting
their local interests.
Tho Sioux Falls Leader will club with
the Dakota Outlook, at two dollars a
year for both papers.
Yonker Roster has been arrested in
Charles Mix county, on charge Of steal.
ing government timber.
The Mitchell directory, now in process
OF preparation, is expected to indicate a
population of abeut 1000.
A mystic temple is talked Of at Kim.
ball to be erected by the united efforts
of the Masons and Odd Fellows.
White Lake, in Aurora county, looks
hopefully forward to $500 population
and $4,000 postoffice building.
The Hutchinson county commissioners
have decided to take no steps toward
building court house, until June.
Snow in unusual quantities has fallen
all over southern Dakota. Another sea-
son of abundant crops is thus promised.
Miller boasts of one of the best public
schools in the territory. There are over
one hundred and fifty pupils who attend
regularly.
A movement is on foot among the
business men of East Pierre and West
Pierre to build street railway to run
the whole length of the city.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
company has sold double the number of
emigrant tickets for points IN Dakota
that it had at this time last year.
The wives and daughters of Water
town Masons, have taken steps toward
organizing q lodge for the purpose Of
comforting the Eastern Star degree.
The granary on the farm of Rev. Robt.
Kirk, about six miles from Springfield,
was burned the other day, together with
its valuable contents, at loss of $4,000.
A few citizens OF Sphinx county insin-
uate, in column article in the Redfield
Journal, that the commissioners Of that
county arc not Us honest as they might
be.
Missouri river ice at Pierre is twenty.
two inches thick. If there should be q
sudden breaking of winters back bone, q
food in the Missouri valley may be e1.
pected.
John Lien and John w. Gillings have
been held to answer before the United
States commissioners court at Castalia.
on charge of perjury in connection with
a land case.
Mason Bros, hardware dealers, dong |
business OF Wells addition, near Pierre,
OAK, have made an assignment for the
benefit of their creditors. Liabilities,
S15, 900; assets unknown.
A petition is being circulated through
central Dakota asking congress to set
aside Pease Island, near Chamberlain, as
! small national park for the use of re-
iglous and literary societies.
Phillip Hart, Of Aberdeen, committed
uicide at Alexandria. Minn., by taking
NO ounces of laudanum. The deceased
vas seventy-six years of age and one OF
be early settlers of Brown county.
De Smet News: The temperance peo.
le are kicking because our merchants
ell "brandy Drops" sort Of candy. All +,
he brandy in a ton of these candies
'ouldn't make taste for temperance
,cturer.
George f. Misler, has been held under !,
!. 900 bonds by the United States COM
lissioner at Pierre for selling liquor TO ,
u Indian. Not having the bail Misler /.
as placed in Jail to await the. action of
ne grand jury.
The contract for furnishing paving
;One for two miles of streeta in Connc,l