Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-15
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
.Miltown wants doctor.
The MCPHERSON county Standard has
quit.
Hanson county corn is out Of the way
! of frost.
Alexandria Is to have cheese factory
and creamery.
The first school in Potter county be.
gan last week.
My partner" was played at Huron
last week by home talent.
Pierre has voted down a proposition
to build $1,000 town hall.
The Mitchell Capital came ont last
week IN handsome new dress.
R. Babb, Of Miner county, was kicked
to death by fractions horse the other
day.
Lightning demolished the farm and
crope of Frank Wood, of,Roberts county,
recently.
A Hanson county farmer lost wagon
load of hay by the carelessuess of a hired
mans pipe.
Hughes county has three candidates for
the legislature up to date, Bullard, Tenn.
pleton and Prentice.
A Brule county man unearthed a nest
of eighteen ratttlesnakes at depth of
twelve feet the other day.
Walter Brockman, brakeman on the
Huron and Columbia division. had his
shoulder badly broken while coupling
cars near Brookines.
| Golden rod, which grows in such lux
urious profusion hereabouts, is fashion
able flower in eastern cities for button
hole bouquets. Fair sized punches of
the weed bring twenty-five cents in the
Chicago market.
Bilou Hills Times: Miss May Nokes
is not one of those girls that gets scared
ct mouse, or trembles at the sight OF q
spider. No indeed! with her little cane
she took the life out of twelve rattling
rattler, and bore the rattles home in tri.
umph.
Sioux Falls Press: The stone musons
are now engaged IN laying the granite in
the walls of the first story above the
basement Of the peuitentiary shops.
The warden's house is progressing
slowly. but all the improvements will be
enclosed before the snow flies.
i Harold Star: A funny accident oc.
Cured to the Pierre and Carson stage
last week. 1t is supposed that fire
dropped from the cigar of q passenger
smoking, the result being that the pack.
ages in the stage was set on fire and
every thing burned but the mail pouch.
no one observing the fire until too late.
Stock raising is the panacea for low
grain markets. Farmers can raise stock
in this country at u cost merely nominal
and it finds a ready market at good
prices. Fifteen car loads were shipped
from Scotland last week and the $40, 600
paid for the cattle was almost clear gain
for the raisers.
| Mitchell Republican: City Marshal
Durell has put on extra force of night
watchmen under orders from
the city council, and every
man is ordered to keep his eye
peeled for the demon who is attempting
to burn the city, and with further orders
to shoot the fend on the spot. 1t ,s Ger.
tain death to the fend if discovered. It
is further ordered that every suspicious
character found in town be arrested and
made to account for himself.
The Mitchell Republican says Of the
sufferers by the late fire: Letcher &
Co. furnish the Republican with the
good news that they have decided to
rebuild Immediately, and that the new
structure will be finer one in all res.
pect than the old. Messrs McGovren,
Gale, lndra & Bingenheimer and M. d.
Rowly will in all probability JOIN them,
making SIX brick stores that will 20 up
between the bank of Dakota and Second
street.