Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-12
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.


Two men broke jail ct Aberdeen the
other day.
Aberdeen will soon have it's third tele-
graph wire.
Brown county is overrun with va
grants and tramps.
The Bottineau Pioneer has changed
hands and politics.
Flax in Day county averages fifteen
bushels to the acre.
A new democratic paper ia SOON to be
issued OF Alexandria.
More carpenters and mechanics are
needed at Bookings.
Il large amount OF sneak theiying is
going on constantly in Huron.
Prairie fires destroyed several tons OF
hay in Lake county last week.
DIR, Hill, OF Castalia, has thirteen
cases Of typhoid fever on his hands.
The new Masonic temple at Webster
will be dedicated some time this month.
j. 0. Perkins, of Ramsey county, will
market 81 ,0G0 worth of hogs this season.
DIR. A. ?. Fitch, of Indiana, has been
appointed physician at Yankton agency.
About thirty per cent of the popula-
tion Of Ramsey county is Scandinavian.
From 1000 to 1000 bushels of wheat
are taken in at Wheatlsnd, Cass county,
every day.
All legal notices will cost full illegal
rates in the papers OF Jerauld county
hereafter.
The Huron Free Trade Democrat has
changed hands. It's future politics are
undecided.
Three hundred and fifteen car loads of
wheat have been shipped from Wheat
land this season.
A plckerel weighing eighteen pounds
and Blk ounces was caught in Lake
Madison recently.
Two elevator companies at James
town shipped nearly o million bushels
of wheat last year.
Huron finds it's electric lights o little
expensive but one of the greatest con-
venienoes of the times.
Claims we're entered OF the Bismarck
land office one day last week from Hos
kins for 500 acres OF land.
More wheat has been received ut the
Aberdeen roller mills this year than
ever before during the same time.
There are eighteen residences in
l onu a re nN,,,f~,offo - nrnpI IN.uI,o
costing from $500 to $1,000 apiece.
1t 10 expected that 100 teachers will
attend the Brown county institute which
opened at Aberdeen the 18th inst.
The Huron p~ostofioe was moved into
its new quarters Sunday. 1t is said to
be the best outftted in south Dakota.
A man named Thos. Dowdell fell from
a freight train at Woonsoeket, one day
last week, and broke his shoulder blade.
a druggists association for south Da-
kota, will be organized at Mitchell the
goth inst, q call having been issued for
that purpose.
Gen Daniel Leasure, an eminent
practicing physician of st. Paul, father
of Mrs. j. W. RaymonA, of Bismarck,
died last week.
One hundred and fifty students are
enrolled ct the Brookings agricultural
college, whose prospects were never
more fattering.
The Cass and Barnes county fair at
Tower City last week was o grand
success. A veterans reunion was also
held at the same time.
Merchants at Mitchell have organized
for the purpose of putting an indepen-
dent grain buyer on the market to keep
the price of wheat up.
Two horses in Towner county have
died OIL the CHAMBERS. The authorities
have adopted prompt measures for ex-
terminating the disease.
Miss Marion E. Dickinson. died at her
home in Oando, on the 30th ult., aged
twenty-one years. Hers was the first
death in Towner county.
Levi Wake. = pumper in The yards at
Mandan, was run over by a switch en-
CINE, and suffered the fracture of his
collar bone, and other cuts and bruises.