Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-27
nAKofA CONVERSATIONS.

Michael DerriR has been commission
ed as postmaster at Mes leton.
On Sunday. $500 was collected "a
Huron to pay the debt ON The refnrnlsh-
cd Methods. church.
Cameron the Winnipeg. absoonding
cashier, has been at Grafton for q day or
two and has left for st. Paul.
a forest fire has been burning for
three days near Rapid Oity, and much
valuable timber has been destroyed.
A teachers' institute convened at
Redfield Monday for q weeks session.
Nearly 100 teachers are in attendance.
The blacksmith shop belonging to the
Milwaukee road, OF Fargo, was burned
to the ground Tuesday night. Loss
$1,000.
Charles Hess, living in the southwest
part of Reae..e county, bad his barn and
property worth S 1900 destroyed by fire
Sunday night.
The first term of court ever held in
Faux county was convened Tuesday
A calendar of only 40 cases he's aecumu-
lated within Eve years.
calamity jane" of Green river.
giving her name as Mrs. Steers, recently
had her so-ealled husband arrested for
assault and lodged in Jail.
John Lafabor, the founder of the
Democrat In that CITY, but now receiver
of the land Office at Deadwood, IS in
Chamberlain for o few days on business.
The north Dakota fair will be held at
Bismarck some time IN September
Among the attractions Will be q Goa,
palace, q wheat palace and q corn palace.
At Pierre Tuesday Mayor johnson
appointed Charles q. Alsop auditor, p.
w. Comford marshal, e. A. Witmore
attorney and John Griffin assessor, for
two years.
Prairie fires are raging in the vicinity
of Aberdeen and throughout Brown
county. The wind is blowing o gale and
it is feared great damage will be done
to property.
An Odd Fellows lodge was instituted
at Gary Monday. Brothers we're present
from Watertown, Toronto, Montevideo
and other points. They paraded the
streets headed by q band.
Fred Goode, living near Marion juno
ton, had o runaway Monday during
which he had one OF his eyes completely
Ronged ont of his head by q SPLITTER of
the wagon tongue being run into it.
Joseph Holt was shot dead at Diokin-
son Wednesday morning. Frank Chase
has been arrested. Both are old timers.
They quarreled over q game of poker
which the parties had been playing all
night.
The ladies OF Watertown have just
closed a very successful military fair.
which was glvan for che purpose of rails
ing money to assist in paying the ex-
penses OF company a to Nashville. Re-
oeipts S75G. :
The Citizens National and Minnehahe
National bapLs of Sioux Falls, have
consolidated. y. Nj. Bailey, il. vas elect
ed president. The business will be
transacted under the name of the Min
nehsha National.
Farmers in Stark County are busy
seeding and are jubilent over the fine
prospe rts for q large yield. Old farmers
say there is every evidence OF the season
being &C Of. Which they say is good for
wheat and other grain.
A prairie fire four miles southwest of
Verndon destroyed the buildings, con-
sistlng Of houses, granarles, barns, etc. ,
along with between 1900 and 1000
bushels of grain Of Judge D. w. Poin-
dexter and his son David.
The house committee on Indian affairs
he's agreed TO report with favorable
recommendation a bill to pay the Wah-
peton and Sisseton Indians in Dakota.
$4,000 in one iustallment, which is now
due them IN annual instalIments.
There are no prisoners in the Bismarck
Jail, but two or three at Jamestown, and
there are not ovAra dozen criminals
confined within Judge Francis' district,
which 10 larger in area than the state OF
New York, and contains over 10000
people.
The fourth fire in two weeks occurred
at Watertown Wednesday morning de-
stroying two barns owned by d. Wayne
q Co., and o house owned by Matherson
Bros, grocers. a high wind prevailed
and Tor a time q great confagration was
expected.
81. u. Dow, who lives on the school
section one mile east of Burbank, went
to Elk Point on Saturday last with his
family. While absent his house caught
fire il some unaccountable name and
was entirely consumed, together with
the contents.
An Indian woman who liyesxat Lower
Bruls agency is said by the Indians to
he 1877 years old. Looking at her one
Will not dispute the longevity of the
squaw. She looks more like 3 dried up