Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-09
WESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

The Rapid City school Of mines will soon be
under construction.
A convention Of South Dokota editors is to
be held at Watertown July 20.
All towns near the Missouri river secured
Indian contingents to aid them in celebrating
the glorious Fourth.
The vote was very light throughout the ter.
ritory on the election for delegates to the con-
convention.
UMiss Jennie McCsuley has taken two claims
about four miles from Dunseith. She has
thirty acres Of breaking already.
The Father De Smet mine paid out S20,0)0
in dividends for June. making q total of
$780, 600 for the first half of the year,
A company of fifty New York farmers will
visit Sioux Falls, and South Dakota generally,
next week, to look up q location for q colony.
The total number of homesteads, timber
culture entries and presumption filings made
in the Deadwood land office last fiscal year is
1888.
The Homestake mining company paid their
regular monthly dividend June %, aggrega-
ting S37, 500. Total amount paid this year
1925, 900.
Old residents in the vicinity of Yankton
report the crop prospects in that locality az
surprising any season since the settlement OF
the territory.
A man named Jacob Jordon was drowned
in Day creek, near Rapid City, last week. A
cloud burst suddenly, swelled the creek, and
he was caught.
In the Black Hills region the prospect of q
bountiful harvest of all kinds of grain was
never brighter at the same season Of year
than at the present time.
The Black Hills OIL company have made q
contract with an experienced oil miner from
Pennsylvania, to sink a we'll 500 feet deep, II
necessary, at a cost not to exceed s.. $50.
Tree roses abound in Rapid City, Five
varieties of roses are grated in the dogwood
tree, which Is easily protected In winter,
Each tree bears eighteen or twenty fine roses,
The North Dakota penitentiary was opened
for the reception of ~convicts July l, at which
date North Dakota prisoners inmates of the
Sioux Falls institution were removed to the
Bismarck pen.
The city authorities of Pierre have ordered
an election for August IL, TO vote on the issu-
ance of 5000 Z per cent bonds for the pur-
pose of buying fire apparatus and providing
for its proper keeping.
A herd of som forty head Of buffalo re-
Gently appeared within sight of the town of
Windsor, seventeen miles from Jamestown.
Citizsns pursued the animals into the coteaus,
WueEe tuey uleaPPoaiCN VIC SOoib,
Jacob F. Jordan, a Black Hills rancher,
was drowned last week by his horse falling
backwards upon the rider while trying to
Climb the steep bank of the stream he had
Just forded. A companion of the unfortunate
man witnessed the accident.
Pierre in losing the Black Hills freight
traffic in the construction of the Sioux City
and Pacific, is casting about for business to
take its place, the important question being
the extension of the Northwestern across the
reservation lands to the cattle ranges and
mines of the west.
A four-year-old daughter of Mr.. Clark, OF
Chamberlain, fell from a platform fifteen feet
high the other day, her head striking with
such force as to leave the imprint of her face
to the depth of three inches in the hard
ground. Strange to say the child was not
killed nor seriously injured.
The country along Battle, French, Beaver,
Squsw, Horsehead and other creeks, and even
the intermediate divides are rapidly filling up
with settlers-in fact none of the agrf'
cultural lands about the Black Hills have ever
been settled as rapidly. Where whole town.
ships were vacant only a few weeks ago squat.
ters' cabins may now be seen in almost every
direction, and each succeeding day the rush
increases.