Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-05-01
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

Seeding is about finished in Spinl
county.
Ascend artesian we'll is being bored
in Aberdeen.
Polo 10 the name Of new post ohice il
Hand county.
Town lots in Woonsocket sell ior
$1,000 and $1,000.
Charles Mix county has q new post
Office. named Flora.
Plankinton Is prosperous town viii
excellent prospects.
At the last term of court at Swan Lake
ninety-three foreigners were naturalized
A lot OF claim shanties near Mitchell
weredestroyed by prairie fires recently.
The Jerauld county commissioner,
have refused to grant license to saloons
The Madison Sentinel is five years old
and the pioneer newspaper Of Lake
county.
The war drama Crank and File" is in
rehearsal by the Grand Army post Of
Mitchell.
A number of cases Of malignant diph.
theria are reported from Dell Rapids,
and several deaths.
One hundred and seventy.fve cars Of
immigrant movsbles have been received
at Redfeld this spring.
J. O. Lorenson and Miss Thorimer
Christainsen, were the first couple mar.
ried in Onida, Sully county.
Csunty Commissioners Labrie Of Sphinx
county, will plant Thousand acres to
wheat and oats this season.
Willie Clayboots. of Frederick, boy
ten years old, was accidentally shot and
killed while out hunting, Sunday, the
Doth.
The democrats of Dawson county will
meet at Mitchell for mass meeting Nav
Sd. and will elect delegates to the terri.
torial convention at Pierre.
The board of commissioners OF Aurora
county contemplate establishing 6
county poor farm somewhere betweer
Plankinton and White Lake.
The business men of Alpena,, Jeraul6
county. have raised over hundred
dollars with which to build needed
bridges in that part of the county.
Springfield Times: The small grain
crop throughout the country is about al
in, and in many fields the wheat anG
oats are showing green above tn,
ground.
Castalia Republican: A great deal o
grain is being sown this week. Th
farmers report the soil in fine condition
and everything looks favorable for hi,
crop the coming season.
Mitchell Republican: Yankton college
under the control Of the Congregations
church, was the first in the field.
has strong corps of teachers, and be
entered upon career of great useful
ness.
! In Clark county, last year, E. NJ. Curt
raised twenty acres of potatoes, ayerae
ing 375 bushels to the acre. The,
brought thirty -one cents tushel, thu
footing up the sum Of s2,325 produce
from twenty acres of land.
i Mrs. Carrie NJ. Pierce, wife Of the lat
Joseph 7. Pierce, of Mitchell, has sue
her husbands murderer, Hank Levi
for $25,oo0 damages for killing her hui
band. Mrs. Pierce has removed to he
former home in Manchester, Iowa.
A meeting of the bar of Minnehah
county was held in Sioux. Falls, Tue
day evening, to commemorate the deaf
of Judge Kidder, by the adoption Of aI
propriste resolutions. A number {
memorial addresses were delivered.
A farmer at Athol, who has exper
mented for number of years raisin
corn in Dakota, finds that the yello
dent, the white dent and the strawberr
have done the best From ffty.fve
eighty bushels is the yield on sod with
ont cultivation.
A fourteen year old boy named Jaoo
Emerson, who disappeared from Thaye
Iowa. ten days ago, was captured .
Huron, and placed under ARE
at the instance Of parties in Iowa on
! charge of stealing $40. He confesse
the theft and gave up s735. He v.
taken back to the scene of his crime.
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