The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1886-02-05
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Il SSAAAVy AAoO
Montrose, McCook county, is to hav
agrist mill.
jamestown is to have an artesian sys
tenn of waterworks.
A term of supreme court will be hell
at Bismarck. beginning next Tues
day.
A specimen of tin ore from the Eta
mine, weighing 5000 pounds, is to b,
shipped to New York.
Aberdeen has appointed coal weigh
er, who is required to certify to tn,
weight of all coal sold.
Efforts are being made at Dunseitt
to secure the location in that section OF
fifty families from New Jersey.
| The coal vein at Dunseith grows
thicker as the miners advance. The
company is talking of sinking another
shaft.
Grant county sued Roberts county
for a settlement of accounts. Roberts
was set off from Grant by the legisla-
ture of 1883.
Sioux Falls Press: The mail facilities
are still demoralized. Yesterday, the
26th, the Huron Times of the 21st and
22d reached this office.
The board of control of the South
Dakota Firemens association will meet
at Pierre, February 9th, to arrange for
the coming tournament.
A Valley City man named Root has
gone to Washington with measure to
divide Dakota on the seventh standard
parallel, and admit both sections.
A. Bergman, Hungarianliving near
Howard, drove Ills daughter out of
doors, the exposure causing her to give
premature birth to dead child.
sionx Falls Argus: Every few days
some young man bids good bye to Sioux
Falls without paying his board bill
Life is too short for such course.
The Aberdeen Pioneer is authority
for the statement that Brown county
raised one-hundredth of all the wheat
raised in the United States last year.
The commissioners of Ramsey county
and the board of trustees of Devils
Lake have adopted stringent measures
to drive the saloons and gamblers from
that city.
The territorial grand jury has found
an Indictment against the Indian Little
Moon, who attempted to kill Agent
McGillicudy, of Pine Ridge agency,
some months ago.
ID. w. Wiltmarth, young business
man of DeSmet, recently married a
Minnesota girl, and is the first person
to secure a years subscription to the
Dakota Farmer.
Huronlte, 26: M. F. Wright has de-
cided to build on his property west of
the Huron National. lie will there
erect three three-story buildings, each
thirty feet front"
Iankton Press: What's the matter
with Yankton's having toboggon
slide The city park hill is an admi-
rable location for one, and could be
fixed up at very little expense.
The senate judiciary committee has
decided to report fayorably on the
nominations of NJ. w. Sheafe and ID.
L. Brainble, register and receiver res
pectivcly at Watertown.
Huron scoquetting with the Duluth,
Huron Il Denver aud Duluth, Water
town & Pacific Railway companies,
both of which follow almost the same
route and were incorporated last fall
within q few days of each other. There
is still another line incorporated on the
same rlght-of-way.
The Dakota Agricultural College has
now 220 students in attendance and the
present buildings are insufficient for
their accommodation. The college is
badly in need of enlarged quarters and
teachers, as it is far ahead
of all other educational institutions in
the territory. Its friends hope for a
large appropriation at the next session
of the legislature.
Yankton Press: A newly employed
attendant reported for duty at the in
sane asylum last week and was direct
ed to one of the upper wards as the
scene Of his duties. Arriving there he
was seized by one Of the veteran at
tendants, carefully undressed, tucked
away in bed with a crazy man and
locked up for the night in spite of his
protestations and attempted explana-
tions. In the morning he sent in his
resignation.
G. I. Legg, manager of the English
firm r. Sykes Il Co.'s immense agricul-
tural interests in Dakota, with head
quarters at Jamestown, has received in.
structions from the general office locat-
ed in Manchester, Eng, to forward
samples of products grown on Sykes
farms in Iowa, Dakota and Manitoba
to be placed in the American exhibit at
the London exhibition which opens
May l. The Dakota specimens are now
being prepared for shipment, No. 1
hard wheat being given the most prom
inent place. The Northern Pacific will
transport the entire lot free.
2.
Elk Point Courier: 1t is understood
that Col. Tyner, postmaster at Fargo,
is soon to be released. The Col. was
desperately wounded at Gettysburg,
and lived as by miracle. He wears a