The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1886-04-02
DAKOTA AND DAKeTANs.
Canton wants the Burlington road.
Rapid City is talking of gas works.
Tho sfon,oara4. faT Io,n.4

organizing.
Scotland is going deeper with her
aftesisn well.
A. Sheridan Jones is seriously i'll
with pneumonia.
Mt. Vernon is working for the loca-
tion of creamery.
The Chamberlain Opera House is to
change hands soon.
w. H: Wilkinson has been appointed
postmaster at Lennox.
The Dakota Mutual lost 81 600 in the
Fargo Argus office fire.
Springfield will have a q. "A. II. camp
fire on the 9th of April.
1t is said the Northwestern will not
build west of Yankton this year.
The Sheridan House at Bismarck is
to be rebuilt this season of brick.
The territorial Sunday school conven-
tion will be held at Pierre, June 10.
The editor of the Bismarck Saturday
journal has been indicted for libel by
Col. Steele.
Bismarck's system of water works is
under way, and she hopes soon to have
the elecric light.
And'nOw comes the Diana Monitor
with 80 much advertising it has to is
sue a supplement-.
The land flooded in Union county is
estimated ut 1900 acres, most of it
timber or grass land.
Frederick Larson of Lake Preston
disappeared on the 23d inst. and has
not been heard of since.
Frank w. Thaxter. of tho Diana
Monitor, is threatened with $4,000
libel suit by Rev. Jno. G. Ahern.
Unless the Northern Pacific lands in
Griggs county are plated by April 1st,
the company will be out 5000 taxes.
The diana Advocate issued two
page supplement last week with the
premium list of the Sanborn county
fair.
Another $4,000 attachment suit has
been brought against the late president
Young of the First National Hauk of
Sioux Falls.
The milkmen Of Aberdeen have to he
quite careful in getting water ut the
artesian well as small fish are quite
numerous in it.
The farmers of the Jim River Valley
will meet at Aberdeen, OAK, on May
1lth, to form an organization for the
cooperative handling of grain.
It's . cold season when Dakota's
wheat don't get into the ground early.
E. T. Losey Of Beadle county has
sowed fifty acres Of 1885 wheat.
It'll proposed to run regular line of
steamboats, this season between Omaha
and Bismarck. The Pioneers line has
secured the contract for carrying the
government freight.
1t transpires upon a complete reckon
ing of accounts that Treasurer Rookie,
of Towner county, left his bondsmen to
make good q shortage OF some 1893,
which was promptly paid.
Huron Times Poet: The larks are
not singing from the tree-tops around
Huron, but they have commenced their
mirthful notes in the suburbs, from the
fence posts and barn tops.
The right of way and subscriptions
for the stock in the Wolsey Il Bismarck
railroad are secured in Hand and Faulk
counties, and grading may be com
menced before the first of June.
Washington News: Say, if Judge
Tripp opens court here on the Goth of
June, how would it strike our patriot
ism to have him boost the American
eagle at Washington Springs July 4th.'
1t is learned that agents of the North
ern Pacific Elevator Company have
orders to ship at once to Duluth all
wheat stored in the company's eleva-
tors; on the Jamestown & Northern
railway, about three hundred cars.
Letcher Blade: Mr.. Joseph Shat
rsnek left some very fine cabbage upon
our table Saturday. When he was
threshing last fall his straw was stack
ed on the cabbage patch, and he is just
taking his cabbage out in good state
Of preservation.
f jamestown Capital: Quite sensa-
tion was created among some of our
mechanics. who occupy the shop on
Fourth avenue by the announcement
of one Of them that he intended to
make Miss Fanny Mills. the big footed
Ohio girl, permanent resident of
jamestown. As Miss Mills feet weigh
60 pounds.and her shoes are as big as a
coal-scuttle, she will make quite an
addition to our city.
/ Miss Clara A. Root, one of the teach
ers;in the public school of Valley City,
and q sister of Herbert Root, President
Of the Farmers and Merchants National
bank, died suddenly under circum-
stances that led to the belief that she
had committed suicide. An inquest
was held over her at which it was
shown she had drank about an ounce
of carbolic acid. Family troubles are
supposed to have been the cause.
The wedding festivities of William
Nolan and Mary Heintz at White Lake
had notable features. The groom was
native of Ireland and the bride of
Germany. There were $50 guests in
vited. The popular national melodies
Of "fhe Bingen on the Rhine" "The
Wearing of the Green" "The Bonnie