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

markets.
Tiffany has been made the county seat
of Eddy county.
Pierre polled it's lightest vote for three
years lest Tuesday.
jamestown IS talking of building I'm
ice palace this winter.
e. N. Libbey has been reelected audi
tor of Dickay county.
Pneumonia is prevailing at Marion 10
a considerable extent.
The White Lake Dispatch and Demo-
orat are to be consolidated.
Mr.. Lingo is building the first brick
house in Prairie Rock. Turner county .
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fl. Miller, OF Huron,
will celebrate their silver wedding the
10Th.
The n~o-license ticket carried in Pleas
ant township, Union county, by thirty
majority.
Mitchell has o Shakespeare club, and q
Chaatauqua circle, also a poker club in
process of organization.
The clerk of the court for Aurora
county has resigned. There are sew
eral applicants for the place.
A car load of relief goods has been
shipped from Memo to the Russian
Sufferers in Edmunds county,
Eggs are fourteen cents q dozen at
Tyndall, butter eight cents a pound and
potatoes sixty cents per bushel.
Farmers in Bon Homme county are
still blowing, with no prospect of having
to stop on account of cold weather.
Mrs. Belle Sampson was elected
county superintendent Of schools in
Barnes county by a plurality of sixty.
The vote of the three most populous
towns Of the Black Hills is as follows:
Rapid 1.045; Lead City 700; Deadwood
656.
A dramatic club has been organized
at Pukwana for the purpose of raising
money with which to purchase q public
library.
Marion physicians report scarlet
fever in q malignant form at Freeman,
in Hutchinson county. Ten deaths have
occurred.
The granary of Geo. W. Laing, near
Bridgewater, was broken into the other
night and a quantity of wheat, flax and
-four stolen.
Last Friday night at Huron there
were two church sociables, an historical
society meeting, a private party and q
q. A. R. gathering.
Mrs. Alex. Hughes, OF Bismarck, gave
a delightful lunch party IN honorof Mrs.
N. G. Ordway, a short time ago. There
were fifty ladies present.
Mitchelps high school course of
patriotic lectures was i%naugurated last
week by a lecture by Rev. @. B. Clark OF
"What Our Liberties Cost u.s.
The Western Union telegraph gire to
Deadwood is in good working order and
gives excellent satisfaction. 1t will not
be extended to Lead at present.
A farmer near Sterling, in Burleigh
county, lost his barn and all it contain
ed by fire not long ago. Several horses
were burned end the loss was $1,000.
The Tribune says: Lead City has got
more pretty girls to the square yard
than any town in the Hills. There is
hardly a girl you meet on the street but
what is good looking.
Each term some choice selection eff
literature is memorized by all the pupils
of the Mitchell high school. The
selection for the present term is .Bry-
ants death of the Flowers"
The nine year old son Of H. P.
Phoenix, OF Tyndall, died lsea week after
q short illness, OF membsaneous croap.
This is the third child taken by death
FROM this family within a year.
chicago and st. Paul merchants re-
port that their Dakota customers are
making their payments more promptly
than usual this season, and their credit
is. good. The only drawback alleged is
the large exemptions allowed debtors
ander the lsws of the territory.
The house of Theodore johnson, of
Caniatota, was struck by lightning one
day last week, the bolt passing through
the roof and down to the floor where it
exploded. Although the family were
all seated in the room not one was
injured. A wonderful escape.
A railway collision occurred near
Tower City last Friday whereby two
engines were demolished, seven stock
cars broken up and sixty-nine head of
cattle killed. Many were injured and
a large number were scattered over the
prairie and will probably never be re-
covered.
Col. P. N. Laird, of Tower City, COM
mitted suicide recently by filing his
pockets with iron and jumping into the
mill pond, where his body has Just been
found. He was an old north Dakota
pioneer, generally beloved and respected.
Mrs. Laird is reported insane over the
catastrophe and the whole community
is shocked.
The Rev. w. q. Hoadley died at Huron
Friday night of consumption. He was
lieutenant colonel of the seventy.fourth
Illinois infantry during the war, where
he contracted the disease which killed
him. He was pastor OF the Huron Metho-
dist church in 1881 and 1882. Tn 1894 and