Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-27
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DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

The river froze over at Pierre, Nov.
oath.
Aberdeen's telephone exchange has
forty subscribers.
Travel over the railroad from Pierre
to the Black Hills is brisk.
The Homestake mine employs in the
ne%ighborhood OF 1000 men.
The oratorio of Esther will be given at
Elk Point two evenings next week.
1t ~ estimated that over $50 pairs of
boots and shoes were sold in Elk Point
last Saturday.
The proprietors OF the Huron Aloaid
have sold that paper to Davis Il Ketchum
OF the Daily Huronite.
The 7. N. @. A. of Huron gave O din
ner Thanksgiving day tegall their mem
bers who had nc homes of their own.
| r. ;. Wells, of Sioux Falls, has sued
the Minnehaha Mail for libel. He thinks
$4,000 would ease his lacerated feelings.
A large agricultural implement estab-
lishment ct Aberdeen lately made ON
assignment. Liabilities $4,000; assets
$4,000.
Frank MCCARTHY, who ran with the
Sioux Falls running team last year, was
Killed In q saloon fraaas at Revillo.
Grant county, not long ago.
The Mitchell fire department will open
a five days fair Dec. 18th to raise funds
with which to pay the expenses OF a
tournament in the near FUTURE
n D. Kelly, for long years connected
with the Deaawood Times, has severed
bis connection with that paper and
bought q half interest in the Deadwood
| Pioneer.
The house Of . man named Peterson,
ut Brownsville, in the Black Ellis, was
entered during the absence OF the family
q few days ago and $500 that was hidden
in q bed, was ~purloined.
Sully county was stirred to its very
depths by the elopment OF Bert Lilly
and Caddie Otis, two young society peo-
pie CT Clifton, whose parents thought
them too young to marry.
J.H. Bartholomew. OF Grand Harder
Ramsey county, has been held in $3.50
bail to answer TO the charge of selling
mortgaged wheat and running away
with mortgaged property.
Bad proof reading has caused the land
office commissioner at Deadwood to
order a discontiruance Of patronage to
papers with regulations of typographical
carelessness.
Three men have been arrested at
Revillo, Grant county, on the charge OF
the murder of two men who were prob.
ably fatally wounded in a saloon row at
that place not long ago..
Seven Grow Indians are reported
drowned while crossing the Missouri
river ear Bismarck recently. Big
Thunder, the Grow chief and his son
White Eagle, were amongsthe number.
TIE divorce case of the Davisona, now
on trial at Steele. is the most sensational
ever known in Kidder county. Mrs.
Dawson. the plaintiff, t~estifies to snfi.
Gent grounds tor . legal separation, and
Mr.. Dawson swear as seriously to the
same.
The steamer Tompkins, with her crew
and cargo, is frozen in near lie Beau
where she will have to remain the
greater part Of the winter. The cargo is
the property Of the Evans transporta-
ton company and consists of grain, fuel
and hides.
The United States land office at Huron
has been removed from the Times build.
ing to more commodions quarters in the
Odd Fellows block. The surveyor
generals Office and the mutual insurance
company are also to be located in the
same building.
The artesian we'll at Brookings has
been abandoned. The contractors
thought they encountered granite dur
ing the boring process but further an
alysis has proved that they probably
made q mistake and the consequence