Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-25
DAKOTA J0TTINGS.

DAKOTA JOIllNUS.
The northwestern stages rams
ported sixty-eight peoplefrom White
wood to Deadwood in the last three
days.
The total expense to Clay county
for it's clerk OF the court during the
past two years has been $3.50, or
$75 per year.
The inhabitants of Harold are
iubilant because the water is flowing
from their artesian well. The well Is
now Labs feet deep.
Anna Burke, of Warner, a young
lady about 10 years of age, has lost
the use of her mental faculties, n
in all probability will speedily De
sent to the asylum.
Prairie fires destroyed considerable
hay and grain around Ypsilanti, ten
miles south. and Arrowwood twenty
miles north of jamestown. The
losses are numerous but small.
BY a unanimous vote the Hand
county commissioners ordered aVote
on relocation of the county seat at
the annual election, a st. Lawrence
project.
The Howard Press says that an at
tempt was recently made by a well
known female of that city to black
mail q most virtuous old bachelor
who resides in that city.
Mayor Paulson, of Mayville, dis
gusted at the ~ineficiency of his police
force, raided a gambling den a few
nights ago in person. and seized the
apparatus, including chips and the
rake-off.
A young man, a Swede, at work on
the Syndicate block in Deadwood, is
the champion hodcarrier ofthe Hills.
He carries at each load forty bricks,
which aggregate in weight 240
pounds.
1t seems that western Dakota has
at least one prohibitions county, it is
Butte. The commissioners of the
county. according to the Whitewood
Sentinel, have decided to issue no
more liquor licenses.
A valuable house situated in the
southern section of Sioux Falls, was
burned. The building was isolated,
being half q mile from others. 1t is
thought that it was set on fire as no
one was about the premises.
Great hopes of a boom have been
inspired at Blunt on account OF the
recent coal find. The last ten feet of
the shaft was through slate, and ow-
ing to the presence of water above
the slate it has been impossible to
determine the extent of the vein.
Andrew Fludstrom, an ex-saloon-
keeper, at Fargo attempted suicide
by cutting his throat. His little
daughter, seeing him, raised an
alarm, and he threw the knife away
without completing his work. He is
thought to be deranged.
The Prohibitionists of Sioux Falls
have renewed their war upon the sa-
loans. Over half of the liquor deal
PRS of Sioux Falls were arrested un-
der the local option law-some upon.
twenty counts. The balance will
be waited upon later.
Nine of the heaviest creditors of
the defunct Bank of Hitchcock hav-
ing become wearied of waiting for
something to turn up, have sworn
out writs of attachment, and have
attached the whole property of the
lefunct firm, and will test the valid
ity of the assignment.
A party from 0rtonville, Mimi, is
Mt Aberdeen in search of atruant wife
and a man with a long list of aliases
with whom she eloped. He traced
them to that city, but has lost all
track of them there. He has wisely
concluded to go to work on the sew
er.
The Press says: "Sioux Falls has
invested about a million and a halt
so TAR this year in improvements and
all this large sum was put up with
out buster or brass band accom-
paniment. The Queen city doesn't
make much noise in building, but she
plugs right along and let's the deeds
tell their own story.
Five additional skeletons were I'M
aarthed at Grand Forks by Prof.
Montgomery. This makes n total of
eleven skeletons dug out of this
mound. The protessoris sanguine of
unearthing more and is still excavat-
ing with the aid ola couple of work
men. The bones found were nearly
perfect and were those of mammoth
individuals.
The Spearfsh Register comments
on the marriage of George Ward and
Mrs. Alice Daley in that city recently
as follows: The groom was, until
last July, champion sack racer of
this vicinity. The bride is a blush
ing young widow who recently ar
rived under a sort of contract to
marry another fellow, but not liking
the appearance of her future home,
went back on the arrangement"
A Yankton telegram says: N. E.
Gale has been obliterated rs presi-
dent of the theinsaneh hospital board.
The trustees met and surprised Gale
by electing Robert Cox of Yankton
president in his stead. This result of
a new combination in the board,
Trustee Quigley leaving Gale and
Peemiller and going to Cox and
Wooley. At the last previous meet
ing of the board Quigley and Gale
had a serious difference. Since then
they have not spoken and Quigley's
hostility eliminated in the removal
of Gale from the presidency.
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