Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-04-23
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

Sioux Falls seventh millinery establish.
ment will soon open.
4itobell's new city marshall IL giving
tmmenss sstisfaction.
A new postohlce named Vanderbilt
has been established 10 Campbell county.
Ninety-three foreigners vere natural
lied at the late term Of eaprt ~ swan
Lake
The Donglas County Chronicle has
entered upon the third year of its ex-
istence.
Eden Times: The immigration to the
interior of southern Dakota is simply
immense.
Otto Soldan, the renowned violinst,
will give an entertainment in Sioux Falls.
the night of the 2sth.
The Bon Homme county republican
convention to elect delegates to Huron,
met at Scotland on the 10th.
The prospect is that the Alexander
Mitchell house, at Mitchell. is about to
pass into the hands of q syndicate.
r. T. Tousley has been elected presi-
dent and VIM. Huntley corresponding
secretary, of the Turner county agricul-
tural society.
j. w. Simmonds has been elected pres.
ident and G. E. Culver professor, of the
territorial university at Vermillion, by
the board OF regents.
The finances of the village OF Cavour
are in excellent shape. There is plenty
of money in the treasury and warrants
are worth one hundred cents on the dol.
lar.
Henri Jean Abraham Simon Van Men
Wenhoven Helbach, HolIauder, at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself with revolver at Plankinton re-
Gently, but failed.
Charles Hollenbeck, postmaster at
Parker. has been Suspended. having been
found 81 100 short in his accounts with
the government and having borrowed
$500 worth of stamps from neighboring
postmasters. Hollenbeck's wife sur
rendered her house ana lot to pay up
her husbands deficit.
Bridgewater, McCook county, has a
population Of over 300, twelve stores.
two elevators, two banks. two lumber
yards, and first class stone quarry. The
aggregate business for last year was
nearly 100000. Bridgewater ships large
quantities of fax. wheat and general
produce. A -four mill will be put up
this year.
| The Harold Star says the only OBJ.
servance OF Easter in that town was an
attempt to move honse upon wheels, to
claim near by. But as six horses and
six oxen hadn't the strength to bulge
it. the house will remain in town. Per
haps if the effort had been made on some
other day than Sunday success wonld
have followed-animal nature. obedien,
to divine law, doubtless refused to exer,
itself on the day appointed to it for rest
Mitchell Mail: In 1876, James Foster
of this city, began to open stock farm
on the forth line OF Hutchinson county
containing GAO acres. There was muct
meadow. some timber and spring, and
. postoffice on the place. called Elm
Spring. Three years later, he sold the
place, with its stock, implements. and
! betterments, receiving for the land alon'
S3,5O0 IN gold. James Whipp purchased
it for colony of Russians from Odessa
> These Mennonites built house 6Ox20
! feet, and barn of even larger proper
!. tions. MIR. Foster informs US the las
visit he made to the place, l25 person
occupied the residence. By homestes,
e and tree claim, the colonists have adde,
/. materially to the area of this farm. Las
, week William Tideman, agent for al
English colony, plapked down s25.O00 il
cash for the place.