Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-09
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS

Reddeld has orgsniz-i q company to
engage in the manniautare of piows.
The city OF Devils Lake has voted
$4,000 for an artesian well and city hall.
Redield college opened lite second
term Friday. A large number of new
students are already on the ground.
In sinking a we'll at Elkton, IN Brook
ings county, the drill at a depth OF
seventy feet struck a lake seventeen feet
deep.
The through fast Northern Pacific
train to the coast has revised it's
schedule SO as to stop at Steele, one of
the liveliest towns in Dakota.
y. O. Aalvsrson has disposed OF the
stock and fixtures OF the "a. A. r." store
at Aberdeen to Barnes, Henerer & De.
moni of Minneapolis for $lS, 600, Mr..
Halverson will remove to st. Paul.
Quite a delegation of Canton people
will leave for Washington this week to
combine business with pleasure. Those
expecting to start are Col. Gale and wife,
D.. "a. Kean and A. l. Garter, OF the
Advocate. They will be absent about
two weeks.
B. 3. Holland, OF Bachelors Grove, in
the western part of Grand Forks county,
was frozen to death in the storm of
Monday last. He had gone to Larimore
to procure medicine for his sick wife,
and when returning on foot was lost in
the storm and died.
More snow has fallen in the Mitchell
section than ever before known thus
earlyiin the winter. Trains have been
more or less d~emoralizsd, and business
is quiet, but farmers CONSIDER the heavy
snowfall the surest Indication OF plenti-
full crops next year..
The Farmers Alliance urges the APP
pointment of j. w. Hardin to succeed
NJ. v. Miller on the board Of regents Of
the Brookings agricultural college, and
the governor desires to favor the farm
ers; but Hardin wants TO go to Plank
ington. The matter is not yet settled.
John Maxwell. a footpad aud tough Of
the worst kind escaped from the county
Jail at Grand Forks Thursday. He was
serving q term tor assault and battery
while two other warrants awaited him,
one for highway robbery and the other
for forgery. He was sent into the yard
for q bucket OF coal and skipped.
George Dayis, living near Worthing
had both fest am%putated Monday, by
Drs. Smith and Lewis, OF this city. On
November 81 Dayis INDUCED in too
much Lennox prohibition water, and
started for home in q binding snow
storm, but Loaf his way and ora We'd into
a hay stack. His feet stuck out too far
and froze, eauelng an amputation OF
them on Monday. He is now a county
charge.
The RsnnhIinan hAa in preparation o
special edition which will show up the
building improvements and material
growth OF Mitchell for 1887, whrctla in
spite OF the dull times has been one Of
the beet years in the history of the place.
Among the improvements Of the early
spring Will be a creamery. a hay press.
ing concern and q warehouse for one oil
the largest machine companies in the
country.
At the spring session the commission.
ers of Brookings county ordered an OK.
~aningtioE of the county treasurer's books
for the past six years, and the result
showed $4,000 for which there were no
vouchers &c show that it had been paid
out as charged IN the books, but after
considerable trouble and expense Won.
cheers have been secured to cover the
amount. and probably show the county
in debt to the treasurer for q small
amount.