Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-08-29
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

Mitchell wants cheese factory.
Dell Rapids is to have fire engine.
Corn is expected to be out of the way
of frost in about ten days.
press banquet will be one of the
features of the Pierre convention.
The Ipswich Bulletin has suspended
and the Loela Banner has been reduced
to folio.
Walworth county is to have another
paper to boom another new county.seat
candidate.
Mltchell's big hotel is still without
landlord, though several parties are
looking at it.
The Madison Sentinel has changed
hands again, going back to its late yner,
w. H. Jones.
An effort is making to connect the
three river towns in Walworth county
by telephone.
The Milwaukee and Northwestern rail-
reads will give special rate of one and
one fifth fare to Pierre.
The water-mains at Sioux Falls have to
be laid under the river between the east
and west sides Of the city.
Mail is now carried over the Jim VAL
ley line seven days in the week, the ex.
ira service being put on last Sunday.
Last Wednesday, VIM. O'Hara, Of
Hamlin county, caught beautiful fawn
about three months old. The mother
was seen in the distance. ...
An immense amount OF breaking has
been done III Mcpherson county this
season, and next spring will see large
acreage of wheat, oats, etc.
The Estelline Bell remarks that Water
town people are already beginning to
take to the sage brush III view of the
coming band tournament.
The Jim river contains about the same
amount of water one hundred miles
above rs it does at its mouth. 1t loses
almost as much by evaporation, as it re.
ceives by rainfall and atlluents.
Charles A. Crissy has received the ap.
pointment of clerk of the court fer Miner
county from Judge Edgerton vice Geo.
A. Martin, who resigned to engage in
the newspaper business at Diana, San
born county.
Tribute: The lumber trade of Ips-
wich. is assuming vast proportions.
Large numbers of teams are loaded at
the yard daily, and it is no unusual
thing for parties living 100 miles distant
to come here for their building material.
The Enterprise is informed by reliable
parties that there is a colony of forty
prospectors about to locate at or in the
immediate vicinity of Valley Springs,
who are possessed of ample means, the
poorest man in the colony being worth
$4,000.
Howard Times: Conductor Burt Lewis
had "picnic' with rough passenger
who refused to pay his fare near Wells.
The fellow shot at the conductor, but
missed him, when Burt put an old fash
ioned head on the scallawag and put
him off his train in state of total col
lapse.
The Blunt Advocate says that Ed.
Rankey and w. L. Freeman, two Black
Hills miners, have discovered gold on
the claim OF Miss Kate Cook, in ravine
OF the foot of the rugged Buttes. A
number of pieces of gold bearing rock
will be sent to the governme mt assayor
to be tested Iron and coal were also
found
Pierre Free Press, %: Yesterday as
west bound passenger train was leaving
Miller, colt started to run a race with
it, and for distance of perhaps five
miles kept in sight, running at full
speed. The train was making fully thir-
ty miles an hour, and the colt must have
made twenty for distance Of five or six
mile at least.
Mitchell Republican: Father J. ".
Hamilton is sixty.six years Of age, yet
he has this season accomplished en-
amount of work that ought to shame
many of our young farmers. He has
sowed by hand 1875 acres Of flax, thirty
five acres of wheat and ten acres of oats,
and with the aid of self binder has
harvested the entire crop alone. He has
also planted ten acres of corn and in
tends to gather the same himself.
Campbell County Courier: Surveyors
Wooley and Fessenden have received
contracts for surveying the remaining
four towns in this county not already
contracted for; the reservation near Reig-
stad, recently opened; the reservation
opposite Fort Yates, and several towns
in Emmons and MCPHERSON counties.
This contract will complete the survey
OF all lands in Dakota south of the 46th
parallel and east of the Missouri river
not inn1ndad in anu racaruafinn