Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-25
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

All of the diseased cattle in Olive,
have been killed and safely buried.
Rapid City claims more expert bill.
lard players than any town in the west
The directors of the Jerauld county
agricultural sooiety held O meeting on
the 10TH inst
Mrs. Merryweather, mother of Mrs.
W. r. Bali of Fargo. died suddenly of
apoplexy the goth.
A farmer in Splnk county had o
yield of 100 bushels of potatoes from
| one acre OF ground.
County Commissioners Hanson, of La
Monre county, was found dead in bed
the morning of the Goth.
There has been four times the amount
of wheat shipped over the Fargo
Southern this year than ever before.
The Herald says more grain will be
shipped from Alexandra this year
than from any other two stations on that
line.
The plat of the new town of Centralia.
in Dickey county, formely known as
Thatchervi,le, was filed with the register
last week.
The young people of Rapid City pre-.
fer the modern scientific game whist to
progressive euchre. We commend their
good taste.
Grand Forks is proud of its position
financially and of its increased number
of handsome residences and its excel
lent school facilities.
A ten year old daughter of MIR.
Tucker, of Moody county, died of con-
gestion of the brain short time ago
after only few hours illness.
The finances of the city OF Deadwood
are in first class condition and with ordi.
nary expenditures the city will be en-
tirely out of debt by February 1st, 1887.
jamestown suffered $4,000 fire the
goth. Among the buildings destroyed
are the Fifth avenue hotel, tailoring
establishment, cigar mandatory, q
livery stable and O saloon.
Property owners in Keystone have
| all been donated lot in the new town
of Monengo, Dickey county, by the
| Milwaukee company and buildings are
being rapidly moved to the new site.
A lady up in Sphinx county, the other
day opened small sized pin cushion
that had been in use number of years
and inside of it she found 357 perfect
needles and any number of broken ones
An average of fifty men have been EN-
| ployed at the brick yards at Rapid City
during the summer, who have manu-.
| factured over million and half o.
bricks, representing q money value O.
S25, 900. Twenty-Five thousand machine
made brick were turned out per day
and sold for ten dollars per Thousand
while finer qualities of ornamental bricl
which was made by hand sold for thirty
five dollars per thousand.
| Onida Journal: Some epidemic dis
ease is now raging over Potter Sully
and Hughes counties, and probably owe
other sections. 1t resembles typhoid il
many respects, but there is much dis
pute as to its real nature. Some call i
typhoid, others think it is mountain ant
still others think it is neither. Gettys
burg appears to have the most seriout
seiRe of the epidemic, owing, no doubt
to their poor water. Several scattered
cases have occurred in Sully county, but
only one death he's resulted.
Since the Watertown roller mill wa
started in the winter of 1882 its fire
have hardly been out and there has beer
no cessation in its steady out put of th
finest -four made in the country. Th
utmost capacity of the mill is $50 bar
rels per day and it averages over 20
barrels each twenty.four hours. Their,
are twenty-one men on the pay roll VIII,
receive $l4,500 annually. The cost o
the fuel per year is $4,000, The vel
elevator has storage capacity for $500
bushels and the warehouse capacit
for 1000 barrels.
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