The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-09
DAKOTA.

| The Bismarck penitentiary 10 completed.
Butte is to have an 8Ox14O feet natatorium.
The Huron public schools have an enroll
ment of go.
| The oat meal mill at Parker will soon be
| ready for business.
White Lake buyers expect to pay out $780,
600 for fax this fall.
Gopher tails are full legal tender for i've
cents in LaMoure county.
Many farmers are now doing sentry work 1T
night, watching prairie fires.
The Yankton fair was success, the receipts
having exceeded the expenses.
John l. Blair is said to be building the new
road from Huron to Bismarck.
Judge Edgerton will give Mitchell term of
court, commencing October 81.
The new mill at Springfield will have steel
boiler rated at l00-horse power.
The Bon Homme county fair has been post
poned until October ., 10 and II.
The Bismarck Tribune says the new capitol
building is practically completed.
line Of boats carrying freight between Bis
marck and Chamberlain would benefit Pierre.
The new Methodist church at Kimball was
dedicated on the LIST inst. BY Bishop Andrews.
Wesley McLoud, at one time policeman at
Sioux Falls, shot himself dead at Alpeua Sun
day.
Hard coal is selling at $l1.5O per ton in
Yankton, which is about the lowest figure ever
reached in that city.
The new Touring mill built at Brookings is
grinding only about 125 barrels per day. Its
capacity il 900 barrels.
From the sandhil!s of Hope comes the rumor
that the thriving Hope branch Of the Manitoba
is to be extended at once
steam Touring mill Mt Madison uses hay
Tor fuel, OF which it burns three and half tons
every twenty-four hours.
c. K Howard, of Sioux Falls, killed CHINA
mon bear owe" twelve feet long, and weighing
seven Or eight hundred pounds.
A fire started in the elevator of the Cascade
mills in Sioux Falls, on the Both, caused by an
overheated journal. Loss slight.
Surveyors are engaged in laying out a road
from Spiritwood, on the Northern Pacific, to
Spiritwood lake, distance of twelve miles.
new military company at Bismarck has
been mustered into service. 1t is styled the
Governors Guards, and is commanded by Capt.
0. W. Bennett.
The Morris Il Southwestern is a new road,
said to be started from Morris, south to Gary.
thence to Montrosc, and finally into Yankton.
1t is still on paper.
There was a t1reman's tournament in Fargo
Oh the 81, with grand ball in the evening.
The f1remcn Of north Dakota and northern
Minnesota participated
fire. originating from an over-heated box.
was discovered in the Cascade mill at Sioux
Fails Tuesday afternoon, but was cxtin:uished
with only about $50 damages.
Some Turner county farmers have raised this
season as high as 1000 bushels of flax seed.
and with ready sale for it at sll0 a bushcl
they are not particularly afraid of hardtines.
Huron hotel has letter from Pierre
woman asking if her husband had recently
been guest there and particularly if a woman
had shared the LONELINESS Of his room with him.
Trains on the Watertown branch have conf
menced rnnning from Brookings instead of
Volga. the new round-house, coal-sheds and
turn-table put in the past summer being ready.
Lincoln county will send to the New Orleans
exposition pumpkin which weighs 1S5
pounds. 1t is over eight feet long and meas
ures trde more tan six feet in circumfcr-
encc.
Mitchell man had neighbor arrested the
| oil y 60, go
sells at Is cents bushel, and anyone good in
fractions can estimate the value of the stolen
property.
Duck hunting is now the field sport which
monopolizes the attention of Sioux Falls gun
ncrs. The Press says it was ne trick at all for
one or two hunters to go out and bag from
forty to afty Of these juicy water fowls
The Yankton Press says that Nelson H.
McDuffie, who borrowed $500 from F.. T. White
by getting mortgage on another mans
cattle, has been captured in a Kansas town and
will be brought back by Sheriff Brennan.
| The annual conference Of the Free Netho-
dist denomination will be held at the Free
Methodist church in Sioux Falls on Wedncs-
day, October Is, and continue several days.
Superintendent Hart will be in attendance
Referring by name to family who created
great disturbance in church, the Valley City
Times says: At present the Times prefers not to
comment on the utterly unworthy and de-
spicable conduct Of the promoters OF this
| trouble.
Waterto~ n Courier: Phillip Phillips saws
that wealthy citizen in New York is ready to
loan In Dakota one-haif million dollars at low
rates Of interest as soon as the people endorse
prohibition. The singing pilgrim is delighted
with this great country.
A. B. Goodsell, Of Steele, was seriously
wounded a few days since by the explosion Of
Winfield rife cartridge, a small, ragged piece
OF the shell entering his breast. The wound
was probcd several times to the depth of four
or five inches without any result 1t may
prove fatal.
An Indian visited Scranton, in whose blanket
half a bushel or so of fine anthracite coal was
| found. He came from the MOreau valley, and
reported that members of the government geo.
logical party had taken in cut there. This
region will be opened by the Chicago Milwau-
kee aud st. Paul railway next spring.
The University Of North Dakota at Fargo is
now in full progress, with nearly Atty students
A boarding house has been erected on the
grounds and work i, going forward on the OBJ
servatory. The president, Mr.. blackburn,
lives with his family at the university. The
vce-prcsident, Prof. Montgomery, will soon
take up his abode there. There are four pro-
fessors employed.
Vcrmillion Republican, 2: At the Riverside
cane mill Tuesday night, at IL o'clock, Mr.
John Johnson's LETT arm was caught in the
machinery and so badly laccrated that it had to
be- amputatcd about half way between the
wrist and elbow. The operation was done in
this city, yesterday, By DR.. Burdick, who was
| skilifully assisted by Drs. schott and Call, and
the patient is now doing as well as could be cx-
pccted.