Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-13
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS

DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.
Alexandria wants better fire protec-
tion.
Bismarck's city council has decided
to abandon their street lamps.
The Mandan city council has just
ordered sixteen new street lamps.
Three deaths from typhoid fever oc-
ourrsd at Sioux Falls last Sunday.
Hon. Hugh Langin, of Centreville,
starta FOR California the 18th lust.
The Riverside mill runs day and night
and q hardly supply the demand.
The Parkston school district will
bond for 81, 800 to build a school house.
Sixty car loads OF gram have been
shipped from Parkston in the past three
weeks.
Upwards Of seventy five new buildings
lave been erected in C%entreville this
summer.
A destructive prairie fire swept over
q portion of Deuel. county last week,
doing great damage.
A drayman was arrested,at Fargo the
other day, for refusing to move on and
make room for other drays.
T. d. s.. Mcdonnell is one OF the
pioneer residents OF Fargo. He saw the
Red river of the North sixty-two years
ago.
Olivet cast the largest vote ever cast
in that precinct Nov. 2nd and Hutchin-
son county's vote was the heaviest aver
pooled.
Hurley claims to be ono of the best
grain market in southern Dakota and
is now aiming to take front rank as a
stock market.
The free bus system has been done
away with at Sioux Falls, Everybody
whacks down their little twenty-five
cents or takes o walk.
Webster Williams, q brakeman in the
Mitchell yards, in attempting to jump
| aboard s7iGtHh sngins ::sh under the
wheels, crushing his foot terribly,
Plenty OF good water has been found
at Parkston at q depth of no feet. 1t
is thought that an artesian How could
be secured by boring perhaps a hundred
feet farther.
Lieut.. =. A. Darlington, who has been
ordered to Washington from Dakota, has
been selected. at the request OF Gen.
Maury minister to Bogota, as military
attache to that legation.
Rev. Sill and family, of Hurley, we're
presented with q purse of fifteen dollars
by their many friends ami 90 .laborers,
previous to their departure for Cali
@fornia, which place is to be their future
home.
Frank g. Small died at Huron after a
short illness, last week. The week
before an uncle of tho young man was
stricken with death and only a short
time before that another uncle and also
an aunt died quite suddenly.
The people of Huron are very much
agitated over the fact that a large force
OF men worked ell day Sunday construct.
ing,the new street car line. Indignation
meetings we're held and much feeling
was expressed over the matter.
The Centreviile Chronicle says: We
are the proud pa OF bran new boy.
and don't care whether the paper comes
out or not. Arrived Tuesday morning,
with lungs double B fat tenor, and q
strong kicker. Father and SON doing as
well as could be expected.
Miss Ssnborn, democratic nominee for
school superintendent OF Brale county.
received 942 votes while Hiatt, reuub,i.
can nominee received 500, giving her a
majority of 436. Miss sanborn made a
thorough canvass of the county and has
been named the 'srustler.n
The second annual teachers institute
Tor Hanson county will convene ct Alex
andria, N..ss a2nd and continue in session
i've days. Gen. W. n. H. Beadle, of
Yankton, will give a lecture during the
institute, on the subject Of "Ihe Eyolu.
sAoh VI lapefty.
DISTRICT court at Brookings will adj
lonrn Saturday the 18th inst. Most of
the cases tried were Of that class where
the claim is i've dollars or under and
the costs fifty dollars or oves. Judge
Church is highly commended for his
fair and impartial rulings.
Nelson county court presided over BY
Judge MCDONNELL has just closed at La
kota. An indictment Tor murder was
returned against q boy, named Wheeler,
who shot and killed a man while in
charge OF an elevator at Michigan City,
eighteen months ago. he was tried and
acquitted.