Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-06

pathy with the whole people, and who
q be relied upon to do their whole
duty.
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.
Bismarck has two brass bands and
three drum corps.
There is a great scarcity of potatoes
in Buffalo county.
The next term Of court in Brown ooun-
ty will commence Nov. 30th.
A governors guard drum corps has
been organized at Bismarck.
Pasturage is the best it has been for
four seasons in Buffalo county.
Frank Gage has been foreman of the
Fargo Argus office for six years.
There are over fifty men at work on
the new round house at Wahpeton.
The G. A. r. camp fire held at YER
million, last week was a grand success.
Huron has built $50 residences this
season and q number of business blocks.
Fargo's BARRIERS do no work on San
days and there is o general kick about
it.
Z. e. Ohamburn, OF Groton, received
thirteen premiums at the Brown county
fair.
A teachers institute Will open at
Wahpeton the 18th inst. and continue
four days.
Martin Hemmy, of Buxton, is a candi-
date for superintendent of schools of
Trail county.
Mike Mclean, a railroad builder, was
killed by a falling timber OF Aberdeen
on the and inst.
The Empire harvesting company have
concluded to remove their headquarters
from Sioux Falls to Mitchell.
w. I'll. Howe, an old settler of Rich
land county: died near Wahpeton re-
GENTLY, aged eighty years.
There are o few cases OF typhoid fever
reported from Miner county. One death
occurred at Carthage recently.
Leola, the county seat of Mcpherson
county, is having a little boom in antici-
patton OF the advent of q railroad.
There are about twenty-five persons
in Mandan who are trying to enioin the
collection of taxes on railroad land.
Two tree diggers, whose names are
unknown. were drowned in the Missouri
river north Of Bismarck on the Both ult.
A partially empty alcohol barrel ex-
ploded at Gary the other day creating
terrible havoc with surrounding prop
erty.
The Clay county fair at Vermillion
last week was decidedly a success. There
were oyer 800 entries and the premiums
will be paid in full.
Farmers in MCPHERSON county realize
only eight and ten bushels per acre
where last year the yield was from
twenty-five to thirty bushels.
One Sargent, of the Indian police at
Pine Ridge agency, on the I'd inst, shot
and killed a Cheyenne Indian, who re-
sisted arrest. Reports of serious trouble
are ahoat,
The grading of the. Aberdeen, Fergus
Falls & Pierre railway into Aberdeen has
been completed, and it is expected cars
will be running into that town by Nov.
1st.
The Hanson county coroner was lately
called on to sit on the body of q
stranger found in d corn field. With all
haste he repaired thither to ind.a man
dead drunk.
II. S. Miller has purchased the inter
est Of his partner, Charles Sweat, in
the Bank of Fargo, paying 100000 cash
down for the same. Mr.. Sweat will
continue to reside at Fargo.
w. w. Cole and r. Ell. Coshun have
purchased the Carthage Prairie Home
and changed its name to..the News. We
congratulate Cole & Coshun and wish
them success in their new field. /
The Flandrau Herald has completed
it's fourth year. The editor asserts that
he has never suffered financially since
VIC estaUIlSuuout VI tue paper nnu
he has turned his hand to
has been q success.
A stable belonging to J. F. Bradley,
Of Mitchell, was destroyed by fire last
week, the work of an incendiary. it is
believed. A few days before his house
fred and an attempt was also made
kill his watch dog.
The Carthage News says: Mr.. Thos.
Mcdonnell is too low to write his vale
this week but all his old friends
md patrons may expect to hear from
lin through these columns as soon as
lie is OF his feet again.
The Faulkton Times endorses Miss
haywood for superintendent of schools
md refers to her as one OF ''our oldest
'itizsns.o Miss Haywood has not seen
he article yet but when she does that