Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-11

work Clay and Yankton counties unite
and large strip of land will be re-
claimed. The length of the ditch will
be nearly fifteen miles.
Ralph French, son of ex-Chief Justice
French, who was in Sioux Falls ye-
Gently, has decided to locate there and
engage in the practice Of law.
Miller will utilize her artesian wei
water for making lake. Several hun
dred dollars have been subscribed for
parks and forming the lake bed.
Grafton voted the Sth on PROPOSE
tion to bond the city for $4,000 to ex-
tend the water works, which proposition
was carried by vote of l42 majority.
The teachers of Brule county have
decided to publish paper to be known
as the "Brule County Teacher" four
column folio to appear once month.
Miss Sadie Davidson has resigned her
position In the Jamestown public
schools, which she filled in the most
creditable manner for five years. She
will teach in Grand Forks in the fu-
ture.
The seven months old daughter of S..
d. Brown, OF Plankinton, died last
Monday of cholera lnfantum, which
makes the fifth child the family of Mr..
Brown have been called upon to yield
up to the grim destroyer.
A d., a
last week on the charge of threatening
to murder his wife by drowning her in o
slough. He was acquitted of the charge
and III short time he had "made up"
with his wife and they went home reJoic.
ing.
The Mound City Journal, published
at the center of Campbell county, has
been established by j. E. Horton and
FL. t. Craig, two democrats, who at
present are occupying the positions of
probate Judge and clerk of the court,
respectively.
A matched game of base ball is to be
played by the attorneys of Sioux Falls
soon. Judge Palmer will act as umpire.
The delinquent tax list of Bon
Homme county, recently published,
contained one-third less OF delinguents
than any former year.
From all the indications the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway COM
pany intend to have three north and
south trunk lines in the .erritery The
Sioux valley and the Jim river lines are
already built, and the third will run just
east of the Missouri river.
The Steele Herald says: The latest
train orders throughout the territory are
that if q prairie fire Is seen anywhere
near the track the conductor is to stop
the train and all hands must endesvor
to extinguIsh the flames. The orders
are said to have been issued to both
freight and passenger crews.
An apparently perfectly healthful
young child, at Sioux Falls, passed into
an unconscious condition the other day
and remained in it several hours, having
every appearance of having died. but
after several hours hard work the physi-
| clans in charge of the case brought the
child to consciousness, and it is now we'll
and as natural as ever.
From Auditor CaldweIls report it is
seen that the comparison of the average
values and other items for the year 1885
and 1886 IN the territory at large, shows
an increase of about ten per cent. in the
scales valuation of lands and live
stock. The total valuation VI property
in the territory has increased from $780,
007 900 to $132.0OO,0 O,00o--about 241s per
cent.
The last issue of the Plankinton
Beacon contains three death notices,
one incest case, two marriages, one birth,
q dynamite scare, several church, school
and temperance items, camp meeting
announcement, besides any amount oi
other reading matter of interest to the
general public. For way up news-
paper we commend the Dakota Beacon
published at S2lankinton.