The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-25
DAKOTA JOTTINGS.

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The Argus-leader announces that
the Methodist university will beyond
D doubt be located at Sioux Falls.
Dakota has about 175,OOO sheep.
county has 1,346 and
Sphinx is second 1884.
Out of fifty-six bachelors in Pierre
only six have been married during
the past year.
The improvements, public and pri-
vate, made during the pnst year in
Sioux Falls, amount to 81 100000.
The improvements made during the
past year ut Madison amounted to
100000.
1t is reported that several "blind
pigs" which closed ut Cakes during
the recent term of court havereopen-
I'd.
"The Dog Got Left: or How She
Captured the Rooster" is the title of
a new book soon to be given the pub.
lie by an Iroquois lady.
Thirteen saloonkeepers have turned
in $4,000 to the treasury of Sioux
Falls for the privilege of dispensing
booze during the next six months.
During the past two years there
has been taken in ut the penitentiary
at Sioux Falls as admission fees from
visitors $3.50, woich will be spentfor
the library.
A negro was recently confined in
the Yankton insane asylum for one
day. Whcnhc was discharged he at
taclled IL red rag to n long pole and
struck out on the railroad track.
The Rapid City Journal estimates
the trade Of the Black Hills in cured
meats during the past year at $780,
600 and agitates the question Of To-
eating a packing-house there.
City Marshal Dunn, of Dcadwood,
reports total of seventy-nine ar-
rests during the year, the heinous
offensc consisting of too much slim
ulant and too much noise.
Husband Observation-Disclosures
or three gentlemen called to sec me
on business, and they were shown in
there. That's the ante-room, my
dear.-New York Sun.
Many Of Lead City's young bache-
Tors are getting tired of boarding ut
the regular boarding-houses and no.
tells and consequently are setting up
establishments of their own.
A couple Of prospectors who have
been looking over the Turkey creek
region east of Yankton few miles
assert that they have uncovered two
formations of coal on Dan Stufford's
farm.
The Cass County Farmers alliance
he's u letter from an eastern party
who is ready to invest $4,000 in Il
creamery in Fargo. on the condition
that 1.5OO wsand sufficient ground
for q plant he guaranteed.
One of the topics ofconversation in
political circles at Bismarck is the ac-
ton of the retiring board of county
commissioners in reducing the salary
OF the district attorney from 81 200
to $500 per year.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader avs:
"There is q man in town who says
that four months ago he was not
worth $500, and that to-day he is
as easily worth $4,000. He ,."de
it in real estate"
The Press declares that nothing
would please Brookings more than
to enter into an alliance with Madi-
son and Mitchell to bring about the
extension of the Manitoba line from
Marshall, Mimi, to Mitchell.
Chief Fields of Fargo received in.
formation that Thomas Lagrange,
supposed to have been implicated
with Dick Wood in the robbery of
the store at Hickson some time ago,
has been arrested Mt GAINESVILLE,
Mimi, and will be brought to Fargo
at once.
The Press deals with social affairs
in Miller as follows: sit is pleasant
to see people nicely dressed and it is
proper, but it betrays u large degree
of mental vacuity in one who en-.
deavors to work the exclusive rack
ct in society in a western country
town like this"
The county commissioners of Law.
renee county adopted u resolution
fixing the license for liquor dealers at
$500 O year. In Deadwood twenty
licenses were granted; in Lead City,
eleven; Central, four; Galena, one;
Whitewood, one; Brownsville, one;
Terraville, one.
The district court opened at Graf
ton, Judge Templeton presiding
james Collins was brought before the
grand jury and indicted for the muir.
der OF Moore, which was committed
at Mimic on last Fourth of July
morning. His trial will take place
next week, Attorneys c. D. O'Brien Of
St. Paul and W. J. Hughes defending;
Prosecuting Attorney Spencer and
Gen. A. B. Ward of Grand Forks fol
the territory.
Several prominent Dakota Demo
Gratis will leave for Washington from
Huron in the interest of the imme
date admission OF South Dakota
Among them are Judge Spencer
Judge Bartlett Trip, Gov. F. NJ. lie
bach, Hon. E. W. Miller and Gen
Morris Taylor. Besides these. j. W
Shannon, editor of the Huronite, ant
I. H. Hole will go to Washington OF
the same errand soon. 1t ir<Jhought
that the presence Of these gentlemen
with other representatives of botl
| political parties, will have n goot
effect and hasten the disposition O
the Dakota question.