Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-09
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Parker claims coal find.
Canton is to have fire protection.
Marion Junction las q dramatic con,

tarker CLAIMS coal hnd.
Canton is to have fire protection.
Marion junction las dramatic com.
pany. !!
The Madison Lender has removed into i
q new Office of its own.
Sioux Falls reports an enrolment of
$50 in the CITY schools,
The Huron public schools open with
an enrolment of 2l4 pupils.
Water flowed from the artesian we'll
at Groton at depth OF $50 feet.
Huronite is dissatisfied with the man.
agement of the city water works.
The Merchants Exchange bank has
just been opened at Lake Preston.
Mitchell is building the handsomest
frame school building in south Dakota.
The Dakota Blizzard comes to the ex-
change table from Clapp, Potter county.
Tho salary of the marshal at Groton
has been reduced from S25 TO $40 q
month.
Drakola, Lakota, ard Koto, are the
names Of three of Dakota's youngest
towns"
A little daughter OF F. W. Smith of
Forestburg was drowned in well the
other day.
Klmball and Chamberlain have had
another round over the county seat
question, with the latter wine,.
\ corporation has been formed III Ash
ton with capital stock of $500 for the
purpose of putting in system of water
works.
The "Nettie Baldwin," or the Jim
river mud hen" has commenced max.
ing regular trips. up and down the
slough.
Huronite: w. w. Schumau is inst
reveliDg in grapes from his own vines
that were set out this spring, being Of
the Concord and Janesville varieties.
The laying Of the corner stone of
the new Mccormick Hall of the Presby.
telian university of southern Daokta
will take place on the college grounds
in Pierre Sept. 10Th.
| Alexandria Advocate: The largest
pickerel We have ever heard OF beng
caught Ill the Jim river measured thirty.
, four inches IN length, and was speared
, by II. A. Moyes OF our town one day
last week at the tail race of the Rock
port mill.
Vermillion Plain Talk: Dakota beats
the world for fruit. Mr.. J. A. Barnsback
gathered fifteen bushels Of, plums from
a tree on his place Monday morning.
The fruit was not large but very ripe
and rich and very thickly clustered on
the branches.
Howard Farmer: Occasionally a
thirsty denizen of the Hawkeye state
gets supply Of "liquid comfort" from
a quarter least expected. We heard of
a machine man, not thousand miles
from around here, who recently shipped
a few bottles of old rye to friend of
his in the machine business at Cedar
Rapids, marked REPAIRS"
A dispatch from LIE Beau OF the I'd
inst. says: The United States geopraph.
ical survey corps now prospecting in the
Sioux reservation has found coal sixty
miles northwest of LIE Beau, on the
Moreau river; one vein being seven feet
thick and another three feet, which
proves to be the same as that being
mined in Montana.
! Sioux Falls Press: The Bell boys
who run express wagons on our street
succeeded in beating band of profes.
sionul horse traders Thursday evening.
| They swapped ponies "unsight unseen"
and the pony turned over to the traders
died within six hours after the exchange
was made. The pony the boys got is
apparently mean enough to live thou.
sand years.
Citizen: Robert Roam, who was ar
rested in Scotland last week on the
charge of completely in stealing horses in
| Douglas county, had an examination
before justice in that county last Fri
day and was acquitted. Other arrests
have been made and it is the determine.
tion of the people to break up gang
which is believed to exist there, even if
the services of Judge Lynch must be
secured.
De Smet News: A brief courtship
and sudden marriage occurred at Iro.
quois last week. The parties deeply
interested met in the depot unacquaint-
ed and the gentleman was "mashed" on
sight, 60 to speak. After few moments
"brisk wooing" his lordship prevailed
upon the "bashful' maiden to take him
for what he was worth, and they "skun
away" were married, and went into the
broad land man and wife.
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