Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-13
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organized ut Milbank.
Roberts county debt was s.. ooo
1884 and is 100000 now.
License has been granted to ,m.
saloon keepers of Hurley.
The fall term OF court for rr,,s.
county will begin Oct. 18th.
Twenty cases of typhoid fever Ve,.
reported at Madison last week.
@. B. Stuart and j. A. Ingham s,s
both sspirants for the Diana post of;co
Aberdeen has a very successful kinda,
garten school, taught by Mrs. Granger
Typhoid fever is still prevalent in
Sanborn county. One death occpr,sa
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. a. Clark, of AIar.
andria, celebrated their silver weddino
last week.
j. e. Shields has been appointed
station agent at Armour by the Nil.
waukee company.
The ware houses now being built q,
Armour, will be ready to receive grain
the latter part of this week.
Armour's first lot of freight over the
railroad consisted of seventeen car loads
of lumber, coal and merchandise.
The twin babies born at ValIAy
Springs a short time Ago., both died on
the same day, at the age of one week.
The residence of Mr.. E. N. Wright, of
Wakonda, was burned last week. Loss
$500. Insured in the Yankton company.
Hecla. q new railroad town in Brown
county, has taken in over 10000 bushels
of wheat during the past three weeks.
Wheat is marketed at Alexandria that
is raised within five miles of Mitchell,
and within q similar distance of Canoya
and Diana.
a meeting of indignant settlers was
held ut Biiou Hills the other day to
protest against speculative claim
holders.
A relative of the Marquis de Mores,
at Medora, was about being welded to a
stockman's daughter when his father
stopped the ceremony.
Oass county has 100000 acres broken,
100000 of which were planted to wheat
this year and $4,000 to oats. The county
: is assessed at S12.O60, 900.
The board of trustees OF the uniyer-
} sity OF Dakota at Vermillion have con.
tracted for the sinking of an artesian
well Oh the college campus.
Onida Journal: Onids township has
a population of 204, ITO males and "a
females. Summit comes second with
I20l, liz males and SO females.
immigration Commissioner Dunlap
has nearly really new map, showing
the railroad building in the territory in
1856 and the lines to be laid in 1887.
Parker has enjoyed more than her
share of prosperity the past season, in
spite OF the general dullness, and has
added many thousand dollars to her
valuation.
Meesrs Folsom & Bowman, of Dell
Rapids. have bought the Diana Monitor
and will make it o first class sheet.
This is the fourth time the Monitor has
changed hands.
Several hundred bushels of wheht
were raised on the agricultural college
grounds at Brookings this year, for ez-
p%erimenting purposes, under the direC.
ton of Prof. Foster.
Knute Moserson, of Flandrau, SUI
| tered the fracture of an arm some time
ago from which that dread disease,
lock jaw, soon developed causing bis
death il q few hours.
The artesian well at Brookings at
last reports was down 372 feet in a bed
of gravel of unknown depth. The
formations thus far penetrated are
similar to the Jim river valley.
Maggie Gratz, a young girl at Elan
drau, whose case was q sad and pitiaols
one, died on Sunday. The Herald says
she was a deeply wronged and innocent
sufferer. She was but fourteen years OF
age.
Miss Alice J. Sspborn, of Pukwana'
has been nominated for county super
intendent of schools, by the democratic
central committee OF Brule county. Inc
Chamberlain Democrat says Miss San
born is sure to be elected by a handsome
majority.
A business firm at Brookings offered
three premiums for the best half bushei
OF potatoes delivered to them his iaii'
e. @. Squirting was the fortunate WIN
ner of prize number one, five dollars
P. Mandahl, second, three dollars ana
John Hugleson, third, two dollars.
!, WakNnda Independent: Typholu
fever is prevalent almost to the extent
of an epidemic around Berssford. III
one family. Johns by name, three miles
west of Beresford, there were last sun
day the father and a daughter lying
dead in the house, and four Others sloR.
Gentlemens' tea parties are quite th'
rage in Canton. In other words the
hostess invites a small compapy OF
gentlemen to take tea of her house anu
entertains them with q delicious repast'
button hole bouquets, card Souvenirs
etc The wives remain at home. This lie q
new order of things and bids far 10
become popular.
Grant County Review: Orlia Gary