Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-08-22
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
The Fairbanks News has gone hence.
The Watertown Daily Courier has
completed its second year.
A Sioux Falls brick manufacturer is
shipping 100000 brick to Madison.
There's blood on the moon in Potter
county over the county seat question.
An effort is making to adjust the diff.
culties in the Hyde county organization
amicably.
The Pioneer.P Press is authority for the
statement that Judge Seward Smith will
make his home in Huron.
Sioux Falls patrons of the telephone
want reduction flom five dollars to
three dollars on their machines.
The Missouri is washing rapidly, op-
posite Pierre, having eaten into the
banks 800 feet in few weeks.
Le Beau is building a $4,000 school
house on ground donated by MAJOR w.
p. Ledwich, the owner of an addition to
tho town.
Huron Times: Miss Hattie Laube
has now in her possession Chinese
coin made in the twelfth century, which
is over six hundred years old.
1t is rumored that q respectable sized
drove of buffalo has been driven from
the upper ranges to the country lying
between Bad and Cheyenne rivers, and
that the Indians are having fine sport
hunting them.
Lightning struck the house of Peter
Peterson at Mitchell Tuesday morning
and prostrated Mrs. Peterson, though
she was not fatally injured. Her child,
which was in feather bed in the house,
was unipjured.
Judge Alonzo Kinyon. who owns o
large and valuable stock farm near
Plankinton, has recently returned from
Illinois. where he purchased car load
OF Durham heifers. He intends making
especially OF raising fine stock.
Free Press: Pierre gamblers are un-
happy this week because they are afraid
the law will be enforced against them.
Poor gamblers! tt is pity that they
should be thus humiliated by being
placed on an equality with common peo.
pie and compelled to obey the law.
Hughes county has quite number of
Indians who have proved up on land
under the homestead law and some of
them have fairly cultivated farms, but 9
majority prefer the lazy, vagabond life
they have been accustomed to, and refuse
to till the soil with the exception of q
small corn and "truck" patch.
A cave has been discovered about
twenty miles from Stanton, Mercer coun.
ty, in which was found hideous looking
idol carved out of cedar, four skeletons,
copper spear heads, small cutlass,
implements of copper, and stone mill
for grinding, such as were used in
ancient Egypt and parts of Asia.
Halabird Advocate: In many of those
counties in this section of the territory
where Ordway's disciples paid good
round prices year or SO ago for county
seats. will have to spend large sums OF
money this fall if they retain them, and
then run their chances. Faulk, Sully
and Hand, with other counties in the
immediate vicinity, are now sweating
under the harness.
Sioux Falls Press: John Lasche, the
Holstein stock grower, is extending his
ranch. Recently he purchased 100 acres
adjoining his old farm and is now en-
gagged moving his dwelling and barns to
more desirable site on the new pos
sessions. A farmer who will give intel
ligent attention to livestock growing
will be able to buy out one or two of his
grain raising neighbors every year.