Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-20
DAKorA CONVERSATIONS.

lOuuu ~ INDUCEMENTS.
Prairie fires around La Grace gave
considerable trouble last week.
The enrolment at the university of
Dakota at Vermill,on is nearly 800.
Gov, Pierce aud family go from Bis
msrck to Minneapolis to reside for a few
months.
Oliver Dairymple expects wheat TO be
worth 81 o bashel III Fargo before De.
cember.
The prisoners in the Deadwood Jail
recently made en- unsuccessful attempt
to break out.
The next annual meeting of the terri
torial Congregational association will be
held at Mitchell.
Alexander McKeuzie's family returned
t. Bismarck last week. There's o legis-
lstive session ahead.
Wheat threshed SO far in central and
eastern Stark county yielded 16 to 25
bushels per acre. Oats averages 40
bushels per acre.
Sir David, a recently imported Clydes.
dale stallion, valued at So 800 and owned
by q stock company at F~aulaton, died
suddenly last Saturday.
The Deadwood jail is full OF prisoners,
many OF whom have been sentenced to
the penltentiary for terms running from
one year 70 a life sentence.
t. 10 nok 3aRo;taly b,n~n -har Jp.Joo
Templeton will remove his family from
Fargo to Grand Forks, but he has rented
q house with that end in view.
Rev. Mr.. Bradley, who for the past
year has filed the pulpit of the M. e.
church at Scotland, will shortly leave
for Jamestown where he has been called.
Mrs. Theodore q. Brown, of Sioux
Falls died last week. Mr.. Brown vas
for many years district court reporter
and well known throughout the terri
tory.
The annual far OF the Sanborn county
agricultural society closed Saturday al
Artesian with a good attendance and a
creditable display in all of the depart
ments.
The Union county fair takes place OF
Elk Point on the Goth, Dist and 22d
Five hundred dollars IR to be given in
prizes for horse racing and $500 in pre-
NUNS.
Aberdeen defeated Ashton In q To-
inning game at the Y. M. o, A. athletic
tournament, at Aberdeen Saturday morn
Ing, by a score OF 5 to 5, winning q purse
of 500.
L G. Byne, proprietor OF the Hayes
farm neal Bismarck, has returned 80 hi
home in Columbus, Ohio. He saw
big field of wheat put into stack befor
he left.
Mrs. Gen. Harrison Allen has LEASED
her residence in the northern part o
Fargo to the Congregational college di,
~rectors to be used by them for colleR,
purposes. q
There was a large crowd of people ii
Aberdeen Monday TO attend the fair
Hundreds came over from James
town, Fergus Falls, Aberdeen FaFR,
and Hillsboro.
Belle McEwan's house, a ~notoriou
demimonde resort at Grand Forks, wa
pulled by the police. Sophia Ray, a
inmate, and Sheeny Davis, a ~frequente,
were also corralled.
Lieut.. Purcell, of the army, has on
rived at Bismarck to establish his head
quarters at old Camp Hancock and tax
charge of the military telegraph line
west OF the Missouri.
The republican Fsulk county CONVEX
tion will be held at Faulkton. Sept. 9
The republican legislative conventio
of the tenth district will be held {
Gettysburg. Potter county, Oct. 3.
Billy Taylor, a hard character, 90,
fined in the Watertown jail charged vii
rape, escaped Sunday afternoon. E
was taking an airing outside the Jail i
charge Of a deputy when he made traol
. and got away.
I Efforts viii! be made OF Glendale /
bring forward Hon. FL. j. Mallory 4,
re-elention TO the legislature. M
Mallory has been under the ban OF I'll
farmers displeasure since the season
1887, owing to his position on the usul
law.
Lincoln county republicans nominate
: Edgar Dean, treasurer; George Olsol
register OF deeds; K. O. Stobrek, aistri
attorney; A. N. Cooper, auditor, &c
l.. H%ustbard, judge OF probate; B.
Wright, sheriff; O. B. Isham, superi
u tendent, and l.. 7. Hill, surveyor.
Charles Wise was captured al
hanged in the Turtle mountains by viz
lantes whilst attempting to run q stri,
of stolen horses across the border in
Canada. His captors hanged him wi
one OF the stolen halters. Wise Yves W,
connected in Pennsylvania, his Q
home.
Forty-shree acres just south OF Dea'
wood have been bonded for $25 OF
!, Last year the same property could Z
have beer sold for $4,000. It will
plated and laid out as an addition
4, Deadwood. Street cars will run to q
III connect it with the business pogtlon
town.
The new Catholic church at Webs,
IL was dedicated to the service OF the Lie
Wednesday by Rev. Otto zsrdetti, D.
Of Yankton, vicar general OF Dakc