Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-07
Dakota COMBINATIONS

Wssertown was again blockaded last
Saturday.
The city of Fargo has raised $4,000
to enforce the prohibition law.
Alexandria will have o new creamery
April /, with q capacity of 1000 pounds
q day.
Guy Lewis of Blunt recently killed q
splendid specimen of the eagle, meas
uring seven feet from tip to tip.
Grafton has raised $1,000 toward
securing the meeting Ut the north Dsko-
ia freman's Tournaments next June.
Mrs. Jasper Railsback, of Sturgis,
suielded Thursday night by shooting
herself. Domestic trouble was the
oause.
Postmaster Klaus, of Jamestown, tells
q story OF how he once traded o business
lot, now worth $4,000, for o hostile OF
champagne.
Commissioner ofimmigFation Mcclure
has got his Office IN the Horner block
Pierre, in shape, and is there IN person
to take charge OF sffaIrs.
Flandreau democrats were loud in
their denunoiation of the Sioux Falls
star chamber meeting Of Messrs. Church,
Sheafe, Boynton and Inman.
At jamestown they are having diff
Guilty in getting the proposed ice Kinks.
as the water from the artesian we'll is SO
warm that instead Of freezing it thaws
the snow and runs off.
Patents granted: Thomas Holiday,
SamborD, car replaceF and portable
switch; o. e. Mesick, Potter county
hay and straw burner; Jacob Peterson.
Niagara, drawer for furniture, etc.
Georges Geiger, ST., of Hanson county,
has suffered the loss of some toes and
several fingers as the result OF the bliz-
card. He is the only person in the
county who had to submit to amputa-
ton.
The daily mail route between
Alexandria and Scotland is to be discon-
tinued. Rockport will be supplied from
Alexandria, Olivet from Scotland and
Midtown from Parhston three time o
week.
Father Collins tells Fargo that il that
city is selected as the headquarters of
the Catholic zee of north Dakota, that
he will guarantee that buildings costing
$500 900 will he erected within five
years.
United Statea Commissioner Stroube
at Chamberlain Saturday held Eagle
Thunder, o Sioux Indian, to answer be-.
fore the United States court at Yankton,
for cutting wood on the reservation
south of White river, Upon giving a
bond he wat released.
The Fidelity insurance company. of
Huron, has been merged into the Farm
ers' Alliance insurance company Of Mil
bank, and the two take the name of the
alliance insurance company. Four Of
fcers OF each become officers and di-
rectors OF the new company.
Tuesday night a farmer near Cavour,
named Besserud, put some snow on the
coal FIRE to smother it, and then went to
bed. The fumes and gas awoke him,
when he found his youngest child dead
and his wife SO near death that ii re-
CURED a physician to save her life.
The Mitchell Daily Republican is
gathering the official statlstics of the loss
OF life to persons and stock in the biz
zard Jan. IL in every county in south
Dakota. with a view to refuting the
ISLANDERS Of the Eastern press aided and
abetted by Maj. Kinney, OF the Yankton
agency.
Fire al Ssurgis Saturday destroyed
John Palmer's livery stable, the Adver-
tiser office. a restaurant, tailor shop and
Chinese laundry. The contents of the
buildings were saved. The buildings
were owned by Charles Frances. Loss
81 900; insurance, S1.500. The fire ORR
ginated from a defective hue.
julius Schneider, Of Grand Forks had
q narrow escape from death poisoning
Friday evening. He has been confined
to his for some days with pneu-
monia, and a table beside his bed was
covered with bottles. Reaching out for
the bottle containing the medicine he
was using he got hold of o bottle OF
linament containing o deadly poison
and took q big swallow, He immediate
ly discovered his mistake and a doctor
hastily summond. Prompt efforts on
his part put the man out Of danger:
The Northern Pacific rotary snow
pillow has done great execution. Within
the lest week the jamestown g. North
ern jamestown River Valley, and Fargo
81 Southwestern branches have been eff
fectiveiy cleared OF snow, and the roads
Dakota lines are now in excellent run.
running shape. The opening Of the
Fargo & Southwestern from Lisbon to
Larimore was completed Saturday.
The Sykeston branch of the jamestown
Northern is the only piece OF blockaded
road remaining, and the pillow is expected
to commence operation there tomorrow.