Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-19

The Red Lake, Brule county. post
office lately re-established, was an i'm
portant Office in early history but. was
discontinued in 1888.
The sheriff u Lawrence county has
cGerea rewaEd of iity-Ise dollars
each for the apprehension of three OF
the escaped prisoners.
A progressive euchre club has been
organized at Rapid City. If the game
proves popular, the Republican saye,
clubs will be organized.
The fail crop of marriages in the
Black Hills promises to be an excellent
one, ii the columns of the Hills papers
are to be accepted rs authority.
In a flowing we'll at Maypille, Trail
county, the water forces itself through
an inch pipe TO the height of fifteen or
twenty feet. The flow is estimated at
1000 barrels per day.
A rosy-cheeked maiden of fifteen, Miss
Minnie Wilson by name, runs o stage
route between Hamlin and Minor, in
Sargent county, which is said to be
extremely popular.
Fred Hill, of Mitchell, q young boy
who delighted in riding running norses
of races, was killed at o small town in
Nebraska, the other day, while about
his iayorite occupation.
Some miscreant at Desdwoad, is
poisoning dogs in q most indiscriminate
manner, many valuable one having
yielded up the ghost. Threats Of ven
geance are loud and deep.
The Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany have agreed to furnish ell the
farmers along the line of their road
whose crops were q total failure, with
good seed wheat for next season.
In compliance with q petition signed
by s17 of the legal voters OF LINCOLN
county, the. commissioners of that conn
|ty will submit the question of liquor
license to the people at the coming cleo
ton.
Several jamestown parties have or
ganized q brass band, bought their own
Instruments and gone to work. James
town has long been in need Of O band
and naw it has one without any effort Of
Its OWE.
Deadwood Pioneer: There is q pain
full dearth of news at present, and it is
about az hard to edit o local page Of a
paper, as it would be to take a dose OF
cod liver oil and imagine it were peach
and honey.
The Cass county teachers institute,
which closed at Fargo, Friday, organ
lied the Cass county teachers associa-
ton, with J. If. Gleason, president; Miss
Minnie Hill, vice president; A. ID. Bur-
ham, secretsry,
Djphtheria has existed in some parts
OF Grand Forks county all summer and
several deaths have occurred. The
disease ia still abroad in the county and
the Herald advises that every precau-
ton be taken to prevent it's spread.
Col. Richard L. Dodge. OF the eleventh
infantry. who has been IN command at
Fort Snlly for four years has gone to
Washington where he will be retired
from active army service. He has served
his country honorably and faithfully
for forty years.
Sturgis' citizens, realizing the neces-
sity of an adequate water supply, have
organized o company for the purpose OF
sinking an artesian we'll. There has long
been q diversity Of opinion as to
whether q flow can thus be obtained in
the Black Hills country and this will
settle the question toa certainty.
Troon q. saventh Cavalry. Cantain
Edgerly, has returned to Fort Meade
from Fort Keogh, Montana. This
troop with Lieut.. Baldwin left Fort
Meade several years ago, and since then
has done good work up among the
Grows. They have returned by order
of the secretary of war and will remain
permanently.
The Bismarck Journal says: A petit
tion to the secretary OF war for the main
tainance and enlargement Of Fort Lin
coin. SO as to have at hand a sufficient
force to overawe the large body OF In
dams located close to the white settle-
ments OF Morton, Emmons and
Campbell counties, is being circulated
for signatures.
Armour Chronicle: Friday evening
the good people of Armour witnessed q
sight they have longed to see. It was
a real freight train, consisting OF twenty
cars of lumber, GOAL and merchandise.
High prices have reigned supreme in
this section Of the country the past few
.years. but they will have to seek new
fields from this time on.
The Walker saw mill at Grand Forks
manufactured five million feet OF lum-
Der, and the red mill two and a half
million feet, the past season. Che
Herald says: If the seasons out had
been hauled away by farmers. at one
time, it would have required 1900
teams and wagons, each carrying away
1000 feet of lumber, andi il placed one
after another, calculating twenty-four
feet to each team, it would make o
procession thirty-four miles long.
Don't Experiment.
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