Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-01
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Prot. Dempssei, Of Rsdde.d, IS con-
dacting q territorial examination OF
teachers at Huron.
The five days session Of the Methodist
camp meeting at Simpson pars, Big
Stone City, closed Monday night. There
was a tsir attendance.
John Ward, of Elk Point, a section
foreman, who was thrown under o hand
car, having shree ribs broken and being
otherwise bruised, 10 convalescing.
d. Blair, OF Union county, has con-
tEacted the product OF his apairy. The
bees have done we'll this season ana Mr..
Blair will have some twelve tons surplus
Of honey.
The application for AN injunction
against the Manitoba railroad company
by the Huron city rail way company was
argued before Judge Spencer and the
injunction denied.
At Grafton Wednesday fire destroyed
T. o. Johnson's stock farm, together
with o jack, two buggies and a quantity
of small grain. The loss Is 81, 800, with
$400 insurance on the barn.
Highmore is to hs ye q new brick hotel
three stories high. II will be built ON
the site OF the burned National house, on
Commercial avenue, and will furnish the
best and be first class in every way.
President McLonth, of the Bookings
agricultural college, has issued q notice
to the effect that commencing November
%, 1888. a farmers institute will DO held
In the college, lasting three weeks.
Ia Griggs county hot, dry weather is
fast destroying the heat that was slight.
ly.hurt by frost, and there will be but
very little wheat cut in the county. The
damage will be from rs to 90 per cent.
On the Brooking college experimental
farm there are thlrty.four varieties of
corn planted on as many different days.
Some of it is beyond the reach OF frost /,
while later varieties Will not mature
until next year.
A l4-year old son OF james Dubois,
living northwest of Huron, was kicked
by o horse. His skull is crushed above
the right eye and several pieces have
been removed. One was IL inches. The
boy may get we'll.
Fifty saloons that were in full blast at
Grand Forks are closed. The injunctions
have prevailed. AT q meeting OF saloon
men 81 .006 were pledged. This pow
makes upwards OF $4,000 in the hahds OF
the Grand Forks liquor element as Q
campaign fund.
Through the carelessness of children
the barn OF ID. Q. Baasett OF Woonsocke,
caught fire Tuesday afternoon and wal
consumed, together with harness. tools
etc. A slight wind from the nortt
would have seriously endangered sever
al dwelling houses.
Is. q. Ramsey, as United States cour'
commissioner, at Woonsocket, has bound
over to the United States court severa
persons from Howard for q violation o
revenue laws. To Deputy Geo. s.. Nav,
is due much credit for efficient work il
D6neiI OF OuCl6 DAN.
Sioux Falls is suffering from a lack o
laborers. Some OF the granite quarrlet
have besn obliged to refuse orders To-
paving blocks and ba,ldlng stone OIL
account of the scarcity OF help. Rail
road contractors are also retarded il
their work for the same reason.
At Scotland Thursday Alexander
Strachan, A. M and Miss Mamie Tore,
were married, Rev. FL. O. Cursor ~ofieiat
ing. The couple left Immediately afte
the ceremony for Mandap, d. T, wher,
Prof. Strachan has accepted the posi-.
F.. tion of superintendent of public schools
On Tuesday Herman Atwood, a farm
or living six miles northeast of DeSme,
lost his house and all its contents b
fire. The fire caught from a gasolin
6 stove while the family we're out of th,
room. MIR. Atwood was hailed out
few weeks ago with no insurance, whic
/. makes this loss an especial hardship.
The farm huuse OF W. G. Oroskle, fou
miles east Of S%piritswood, Stutsma
county, burned Wednesday. The furni
ture and building ere an entire los
and uninsured. Oroskel was in the hsr
vest field driving a harvester at tina tim
of the fire, his wife being in the garden
and q t~wo-yesr.old girl was burned q
: death.
The man who committed suicide Ii
the city jail at Mitchell by hanging ha
baVn identified as Herbert P. Vonton
who was convicted of %defraudipg tt
internal revenue laws at Bismarck las
March, and sentenced to o term In th
United States prison. he was release
Aug. II. Since his release he has bee
drinking heavily. His family reside
Traverse, Cal.
While there has been some damage b
frost in the Deviis' Lake region, Il
y general crop condition in the territor
= is very encouraging. Advices fro
western, central and southern DRkot
are ss q rule encouraging. They coul
not be expected to be uniformly 8
l. There will be a very large general croE
but whether the damage by frost an
81 the blight in some sections will |
made up by the exceptional yield !
others it remains for the thrashers
declare.
The greatest foot running race ev
oaap in Dakaka took nIaHa in Siov