The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1885-11-27
WE AND OUR NEIGHBoRs.

Postmaster Bard at Hanson handles an
average of &c letters daily.
+. E. w. Miller has begun work as rcceiv-
er in the Huron land office.
The prospective marriage of E. w.
RobeY, Esq, of White Lake is announced.
Register LaFabre will give up his inter-
est in the Chamberlain Democrns.
AK. Johnson has been appointed post
master at Doland, Sphinx county.
The militia have all hcen paid in full
for the Fargo encampment.
Plankinton's third bank, the Farmers
and Merchants, is to open January 1st.
L. P. Chapman's oats went GO bushels
to the acre. He had 1850 bushels off 25
acrcs.-ilerandria Herald.
John Trainer and his sister Sadie Of
1OS- go, near Diana, are teaching south of
iIitchcllahls winter.
An effort is being made to oust Post
master Lewis of Nlllbank, on the ground
that he is mugwump.
Postmaster Thaxter of Diana is accus-
ed of being mugwump. VIM. Van Fps
of Sioux Falls is ouhis bond
Thomas Quigley has tbeeak appointed
postmaster at Buffaloy Gap, W kings.
ton at Warner, Brown county Find A. S.
Spowls, at LaF ,sFaulk county.
!; !; FaM, Smiths creamery att svermillion,
was burned "Wednesday with Sill 900 in
surauce, Which only partially covers the
loss.
A balance of s9s .54, left over from the
Ynnkton flood fund of 1881, has been
turned over to the hail and drouth suffer
ers of BEuletcounty.s 6
The Yankt5n wooler tmillsmill be shut
down In short time for the winter. The
business done this year is greatly in ex-
cess of that of 1884.
John Nelson, of Hutchinson county.
left home for Menno with load of wheat
October 1st. and /; has not been heard of
since. He was last seen PLAYING pool in
a saloon.
The Davenport Gazette of the nth inst,
appears under the new management,
which recently purchased the property.
George B. Armstrong, late register at
Huron, is editor.
The St. Paul Globe says that the only
explanation of the suicide of George R
Bolton in Aurora county Is that his mind
Was.nphalapced BY financial disaster anc
TtEaiit Eis S., ,0tj0 liYg lSsdfdhate woulds Pei
leive his family.
| A man by the name of Hooper is abou
to commence publication of newspaper
at Buffalo Gap; also John II. King viii
put paper IN at that place The Hooper
referred to is probably IN old.Auror'
county boy.-Plankinton Standard.
Major Alex. Sharp, paymaster in tn
regular army, who has been located a
!, Yankton for the past nine years, has beer
;; transferred to Ft.s Leavenworth, Kansas
the removal to be made ON December 10th
Hissuccessor in the Department. of Dakot
lWill probably be stationed at Huron.
w. V. Lucas s son, proprlctors of til
Castalla, (Dak.) Republican havc paid t
the attorneys of Mrs. Ada Bush of Masol
City S57S.50, the amount awarded til
women in an action for libel decide
against Lucas while he was proprietor 0
the Ccrro Gordo Republican.
tI A Sioux Falls merchant offered wir
mattress as prize to the person maxim
the best guess of the number of shot con
tained i'll bottle in his store. Joseph 1
Phillips, of Sioux City, secured the prize
He placed the number at 1882. and
count showed that the bottle contalne
1,343 shot.
!, A party, name not learned, presente
aforged wheat check on Cargill & Bag
ley, wheat buyers. at the First Natio1
al bank.at Aberdeen, for 1924, but wa
suspected and the check refused. Th
(. same. .party forged a checkfor $3.50 o
a bank at Brl.s !, and succeeded in ge
]. ing it:cashed there
q Parties who have visited Yankton witt
: in the past week intimate that considers
bic trouble for parties residing at Ga
Hollowis brewing before the U. S. gran
jury, relating to the strained manner
which various claims of considerable prt
sent value have been proved up. 1t
thought that there are numerous ill-gottc
tfacts in that neighborhood that will r.
y, "a vertto the vernmcnt.-Scatlund Citiz'
re ->.--