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

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The location of the north Dakota ag
ricultnrsl fair for 1888 will not be fixed
until April 10.
There were twenty-six houses bull
in Miller the past year, and yet there il
not an empty houee in town.
Since the fine corn crop last year
Hand county farmers are going into
stock raising as fast as they can.
Nine Children, ranging in age FROM
Z to II years, were immersed at Brook,
ings Sunday in the Baptist church.
Black Hills papers deny in the most
emphatic manner that there has been
any serious loss of stock as o result oil
storm.
b. I. Smith, OF Deadwood. on trial for
the murder of Jeremiah CLANCY, was
found guilty OF m~anslaughter in the
frst degree.
Faulkton's Good Templar lodge is in
q very hourishing condition. One hun
dred and fifteen members have already
been initiated.
Charles Eaton, living east of Faulkton,
WAS arrested at Redfeld on Monday for
disposing of property on which there
was a chattle mortgage.
q. F. Bond. proprietor OF the Sanborn
house at Mitchell died Tuesday after
noon of blood poisoning. The remains
we're taken to Milton, Wis, for burial.
The board of trade of Huron is ar.
ranging to send q carload OF corn and
-four to the Kansas sufferers in response
to an appeal from the governor for aid.
News was received at Fargo Monday
of the death in New York of A. e.
Henderson, a popular business man and
pioneer resident and hardware dealer OF
the Red River valley.
The Huron committee having in charge
the disbursement OF the funds for the
relief OF sufferers by the atorm of Janu-
airy IL do not receive as urgent requests
for aid as was expected.
There are four prisoners in the terri
torial penitentiary of Sioux Falls draw
ing pensions from the government. One
gets $25 per month, another $12 a month
and the other two 81 o month each.
The Faulk county farmers mutual in
suranoe company elected officers for the
ensuing year as follows: President,
John L. Cham; vice-president, W. H..
Bailey: treasurer, w. G. Faulkner.
By order of Dell Coy, president OF the
south Dakota firemen's association, the
board of control will meet Feb. 10 in
Huron, to make out a programme and
arrange details for the June tournament
to be held in that city.
Manager CrsHss= failed 70 provide
indemnifying bonds as demanded by
Sheriff Miller, at Wapheton, and the
latter released the Foote dramatic COM
pany's goods Saturday afternoon and
the company departed the same evening
for Watertown.
The public installation of Occidental
encampmens, I. o. o. F, at Dell Rapids,
on Wednesday evening last, was pro.
nounced by ell who attended "a very
pleasant affair. There were about 800
present, invited guests, members of the
order and their families.
The officers of the Landlords mutual
protection association of Aberdeen,
whose charter Gov. Church has asked
for, are engaged in preparing a state
ment of it's financial condition, which
they assert will show that the charter
has been in no wsy violated.
Twenty dollars Will be awarded end
paid by the Rapid City board of trade
for the best slab of marble procured from
a quarry within ten miles OF Rapid City
before March l. The slab must be at
least four feet long, two feet wide and at
least two inches in thickness,
Rev. M. Borge, the Lutheran minis
ter at Brookings has received O call to
the pastorate of the church OF that
denomination In La Crosse, Wis, but
although this is a broad field, and she
pay not large, he thinks he 10 too young
and strong to leave 1t for the compare
tive case and better pay of the new field
1.-THE bodies OF the Hutchinson boys
were found Monday near Gary. They
wandered four miles south OF home on
the 12th, becoming exhausted they laid
down and went to sleep. Their bodies
had not been mutilated by wolves, and
when found they were in esch others
arms the same as il they we're in o warm
bed.
Much trouble and vexation has been
experienced at the Huron coal shaft for
the past two or three weeks because OF
water and quicksand. Work, however,
is now going on nicely, the shaft being
down a little more than 100 feet. Ii
nothing serious happens the company
will resch the vein, which lies at g depth
Of 3O5 feet, by the frat or middle OF Jnns,
When the books of the Bookings
county treasurer were examined last foil
there was $4,000 for which there we're nc
vouchers TO show that the money
had been paid to the several towns a.
charged. although the books were bal.
anced. Treasurer Nichols has visited
every township treasurer in the county
and claims that he has secured receipts
not only for all money charged but more,
thus making the county in debt to him
News OF the freezing to death Of two