Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-21
Dakota CONVERSATIONS.

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Fargo shipped 13O acres of wheat los
Sunday.
| Mandan and Bismarck young ladle
play base ball
Bathgate, Pembma county, has ne,
postofiice building.
| Several dee. have been seen In Ed
munds coupty recently.
| Sioux Falls' electric light is giving
Eunbounded satisfaction.
A school is taught at Fort Pembina
which is highly creditable.
The Turner county exhibit took thirc
premium at the territorial fair.
| A good deal of building is being done
in the country around Flandrau.
There was cold rain at Elk Poin
Saturday accompanied with hail.
| The G. A. r., of Vermillion, or,
arranging for camp fire the 30th.
Sully county horses are dying of {
disease which resembles diphtheria.
Court me-: at Elk Point yesterday, til,
Goth. with docket of forty-fve cases.
| Loyaiton, Edmunds county, has bond
ed for $4,000 to sink an artesian we'll.
a r Appleton is candidate 70,
register of deeds for Pembina county.
Land in Tyner county yielded an
average of eighteen bushels to the acre
Track on the Manitoba extension has
been laid l76 miles west OF Devils Lake
The Ransom county fair will be held
at Lisbon on October 18th, l4th and
18th.
Grazing was never better at this seq.
son of the year in Edmunds county than
now.
Flannery & Cooke, leading lawyers oil
apolis.
Huron's electric lights can be seen a
distance OF twenty -four miles on clear
night.
heavy frost visited Sully county last
Thursday. Ice formed in several
places.
Eighty thousand acres of railway
lands, in Barnes county, have not paid
survey fees.
An eight year old child OF A. Schass,
of Grand Forks, was fatally kicked by q
horse Saturday.
Tripp has two general stores, two
| saloons, three ware houses and three
boarding places.
The Chicago and Northwestern sur
veyors are operating in Kingsbury
county this week.
A stallion the: took a $500 prize al
New Orleans was on exhibition at the
Grand Forks fair.
/. B. Griffin, of Mitchell, closed up
his gun shop and joined the Chicago
comedy company.
A, e. Rome, of Elk Point has traded
his stock of merchandise to VIM. Shields,
OF Cannon, for land.
The Webster Reporter aud Farmer
bas commenced volume six under most
favorable auspices.
Some miscseant burned buggy be.
longing to Chas Winchester of Forest
burg, the other night.
Faux county commissioners have or
dered vote on the question OF the loca
tion of the county seal,
Elroy Wethy of Mandan he's been
appointed special administrators of the
Frank Farnswolt th estate.
j. r. Butte, OF Ransom county, has
forty acres of corn that will yield seven
tyfiye bushels to the acre
Dave Thompson, one of Wo,sey'a
brightest young men, died at the Hot
Springs last Tuesday, aged eighteen.
a new town has been plated in Ed
munds county, called Hoamer. Material
for democratic paper is on the ground
Elk Points band and base ball club
will both be 10 attendance at the Ponca,
Neb., fair, which is in progress this
weak.
A man named Waldron has been ap.
pointed postmaster at Henry, in place OF
Mr.. Whitney, who committed suicide q
shortstime ago.
The Potter county court house has
been converted into hospital during
the prevalent epidemic of typhoid fever
at Gettysburg.
There are several thousand head oi
cattle grazing in the Mouse river valley
and it is claimed that there is no superb
or country for stock raising.
The Masonic lodge rooms, at Elan
drau, have been newly furnished and
they are said to be the best outftted
lodge rooms IN the territory.
The Castalia steam Touring mil
began operations the 18th. The mil
cost $4,000 and takes the place of th,
one that was burned last January.
Jacob Schaetzel, ST., and William
| Schaetzel have withdrawn from th
Union county bank at Elk Point and Nj,
George schaetzel is the proprietor.
A man named Coleman was sentence,
to the penitentiary at Sioux Falls for te,
months, for attempted burglary. q
the late term OF district court at Ipswich
] Hon. 0. 8. Clifford delivered the an
nual address before the Turner count
agricultural society which closed it
third annual session at Parker las
Heek.
-Four hundred head of cattle that wer