The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1886-02-05
DAKOTA AND DAKoTANs.
Pierre is building an Ice rink.

/ Pierre is building an ice rink.
Carthage, Miner county, is to build
Farmers Elevator.
Marshal Maratta has gone to tn
lBlack Hills.
! Yankton is talking about sinking he
artesian well deeper
Judge Palmer is to hold court il
Fargo this week and next.
Rapid City intends to become th'
metropolis Of western Dakota.
Money is being raised in Yankton te
enforce the Sunday law against saloons
The building improvements at Red
field for 1886 promise to be larger thar
ever.
The South Dakota Investors Guide
has just been issued at Scotland by
Eden Maxwell.
The saloon keepers of Devils Lake
have raised the retail price of Beel
from five to ten cents per glass.
The house of Jacob Penner, neal
Parker, burned the other night, with
the thermometer 2S below, and his two
children perished in the flames.
Hunters just returned to Bismarck
predict heavy floods in the spring, with
an immense June rise in the Missouri
when the snow melts.
In Cannon Ball Creek, are millions OF
curious stone rounded by the wear OF
the water so that they look like bombs
They are all sizes, and weigh from a
pound to ton.
The misunderstanding between j. II.
Drake of st. Paul and the Sioux Falls
authorities has been satisfactorily adj
justed, and the former will open the
granite quarries.
The Presbyterian college which has
been located at jamestown has pro.
gressed far enough to call for bids for
the preliminary work A $4,000
building is to be erected.
The DeSmet Land and Labor Spy for
January has handsome cut of the
Brookings Agricultural College, and a
descriptive article by President Lilly.
of that institution.
George Pease, a Black Hills miner
buried 500 penny weight of gold dust
near his cabin until he could take it to
bank. He went for it a day or two
later and it was gone.
Pierre Free Press: The latest in
formation from V. L. Prentice is that
he is canvassing the southern part of
the territory in the interest Of a yalu-
able patent right.
Hard coal has sold in Wentworth
county as high as $25 a ton, but the
local paper says the county pay s6 a ton
more than individuals. They hope for
a railroad the coming season.
The board of commissioners refused
to except the new court house which
the city of Ashton wished to present
to the county, giving as their reason
that it might have some influence with
the county seat contest.
Huronite: Mr.. Sheldon, who obtain
ed a street car franchise from the city
council on Saturday night is quoted by
r. G. Dun & Co. worth 100000. He
owns three-fourths of the stock in the
street car line of Lincoln, Neb., and is a
regular driver to put through his con
tracts.
Yankton is jubilant on the railroad
outlook. Two years ago j. II. King
and others made preliminary survey
from Chamberlain to LeMars via
Springfield and Yankton. 1t is now
rumored that the Northwestern COM
pany have bought the profiles of this
survey.
Canton Advocate: Should the Lin
coin county court house burn down to-
night the county as an organization
would be bankrupt tomorrow. All the
county, district and probate court rec
ords would go up in smoke, and it
would cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars and years of time to untangle
the mischief done in very few mo-
ments.
Two years ago when the Dakota and
Great Southern railway located its line
through west Lincoln county and Len
nox the managers secured deeds to the
right of way from farmers along the
line. These deeds are now being re
corded in Lincoln, Turner and Union
counties, some ten or twelve having
been spred on the records by Register
jacobson within the past few weeks.
Scotland Citizen: A young man in
Scotland undertook to cure his frost
bitten feet by an application of benzine
and while the benzine was getting in
its work he thought he would take
smoke. After starting his cigarette he
threw the lighted match near his feet
and then the circus commenced. When
the fire was extinguished and quiet re-
stored it was found that the pain from
the confagration had the best of the
frost by large majority, while the air
was filed with pungent odor of burn
ing meat.
"The New-York Graphic proposes
to reward Mrs. Wheeler, of Dakota, who
upheld flaming can of gasoline until
her arm was roasted to the bone, and
by this heroic sacrifice saved her two
children, who were playing on the floor,
by printing her picture-and the Buff