Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-15
DARosA CONVERSATIONS.
Logan comfy is IN debt $1,000.

largest crop OF Wneat Ibis year.
The yield of flax In Lincoln county ii
fifteen and twenty bushels per acre.
Woonsocket's public schools opened
last week with an attendance OF 1l8.
The corner stone OF the new Dickinson
county court house was laid last week.
The United States petit jury was sum
moned to appear at Bismarck the l4th.
The yield of wheat in Cass county fal
exceeds the most sanguine expectations
The Pierre schools opened Monday
morning with an enrolment of 175
More hay has been cut in Turnel
county this year than any previous year
a xaminatien will be hea.s
OF Grafton the 2Sth and Park River thu
Both.
The Mimic schools opened the fall tern
with every prospect for q successful
term.
j. Randall Brown, the noted mlnc
reader, is giving entertainments in nortt
Dakota.
The Canton News prints twenty-five
and legislative offices.
Between 5000 and 6,000 bushels o.
wheat are being marketed at st. Thomas
Pembina county, every day.
The second annual fair of the CLARK
county association will open Sept. 22nd
and continue three daye.
The county and territorial tax this
year in Clay county is So mills, lower
than it has ever been before.
A Swede was found dead III his shack
in Oliver county the other day, supposed
to have committed suicide.
A. @. Jordon, of the Fargo Republi.
cnn, has been promoted to the governors
Rtgif, with the rank of colonel.
The lawyers and the printers of Cas-
Italia, played a matched game of base
bali Saturday. Result not known.
Al Stacey, for long years q prom
inent business man of Walsh county,
has been declared incurably insane.
The Parker Era predicts that the
coming year will be the most prosper.
GUS TO Turner county, in her history.
The Dakota Letter, published at
Wentworth, has passed into the hands
of L. f. Shaffer, a practical newspaper
man.
j. J. O'Connor, of New York, has
lately purchased twenty-three quarter
sections of railroad land IN La Mcure
county.
A heavy hail storm visited a section OF
Morton county last week, breaking con
siderable window glass and dolHg othel
damage.
The coach repairer of the Northern
Pacific was fatally injured while abonI
mis- duties at Fargo, by q switch engine
recently.
The fourth annual teachers institute
for Kingsbuiy county will be held IL
DeSmet September Goth to 24tt
inclusive.
Nick Bisklingvilie was arrested o
Sioux City the other day, for forging
note and selling mort2agea property q
Sioux Falls.
Tie steamer, Minnie Herman, is fill
ing q contract Tor carrying twenty tire
hundred ions OF hard coal from fierr
TO Fort Sully.
A new democratic paper will sool
appear from Grand Forks to be Gale,
the Spirit of the West, edited by Col
Jay b. Edwards.
q. A. Griswold, editor Of the Del
Rapids Exponent, is a candidate for th
office oil superintendent of schools q
Minnehaha county.
Five proofs ON timber claims hav
the Bismarck land office, since the oper
ing of that Office in 1874.
The county treasurer OF LIE Mour
county sent q keg of beer to some raj
road laborers neal his place the othe
day. Election approacheth.
There is a large amount of mortality j
the vicinity of Carlisle, Pembina count,
The disease is called cholera morbul
Ten children have died recently.
]. L. Cotton, of Ward county, hi
been1ndicted by the Lisbon, Ransol
county, grand jury for alleged conspi
acy against District Attorney Bnttz.
Frank Baliweg, eighteen years oil
disappeared from his home in Mario
Junction, some time ago, since whic
time nothing has been heard from hin
The Trail county agricultural sociei
has contracted for $4,000 worth of bull
ings to be completed before the count
fair which will be held OCT. 9th, 9th ar
18th.
The only child of Z. j. Martin,
Valley Springs, aged one month, die
Saturday. The mother of the baE
laid down her life for 1t when it VI
born
There are two ladies in Mimic who ii
the scales at 485 pounds. Mrs. job
McCoy who weighs 245 pounds to q d.
and Mrs. John Magulre who registe,
exactly $40 pounds.
The depot OF Lakota, Nelson count,
was destroyed by fire n day last wee
There being NO organized fire depRr
ment In the town not much was save
from the fiery element.
Gerald Pierce, son of the governo
has resigned his position as deputy to
~ritorial treasurer and will give his III
divided attention to his cattle ranch, i
the Mouse river region.
Judge Francis, of Bismarck, recent
Imposed q fine of fifty dollars, for cor
tempt, because o person failed to ODE
the court summons to appear as y WI
ness before the grand jury.
Six years ago the Northern Pacif
railroad company sold to the scho
board Of Mandan three lots for five do
lars each. The three lots are now wort
four hundred dollars apiece.
In conformity to a resolution adopte
by the press association at its Jur
meeting, the Estelline Bell has raise
the price IF the publication OF fin
proof and contest notices to $3.50.
Dickey county authorities killed tn
horses at Yorktown, not long ago. Thu
were .he property of Rev. +. NJ. Woo