The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Pierre is to have another $40, 900 school
house.
Y two-leggcd calf has been on exhiki.
ton at Mitchell.
John Grass. the great Sioux chief, is
dangerously ill.
Pierre was lighted by electricity for
the first time Saturday evening.
Jesse Burchard. a Prohibitionist, has
been elected mayor of Nermillion.
Fire broke out in the office of The
Pierre Journal, and the Office was only
saved by hard work.
Lawren Dunlap, Dakota's first COM
missioner of immigration, died in Chi
cago a few days since.
Editor Bronson, of The Howard Ad.
vance, has been nominated for state SEN
ator from Miner county.
The Woonsocket Investment company
has decided in favor of Pierre for the
capital of South Dakota.
The farmers elevator at Ashton, con.
tanning 400 bushels of wheat, burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A 5 per cent. bond tax was voted at
Yankton to aid in building a road from
Sioux Falls through to Norfolk, Neb.
Samuel Cunningham, a well-to-do
farmer of Watertown, has been missing
since Aug. II. He went to Minneapolis
to look after a threshing machine and
has not been heard of since.
Chamberlain voted $19, 900 bonds for
the purpose of taking up the city's out
standing warrants, and sinking an ar
tesian well. Work on the well will DO.
gin as soon as the bonds are sold.
An Alexandria woman sold her wash.
tub to a party of rihemen for a target.
They paid her $3.50 for it, and after
they had gone home she went out into
the field and brought it back as good as
ever.
In 4ankton county, right on the
Missouri river, there are some of the
most powerful artesian wells in the
state. One of them runs the machinery
of a brick yard by day and the electric
plant at night.
During a heavy wind the coal shed at
Fort Sisseton was taken up and scat
tered over a half-mile uuare, The
building was 300 feet long, and is now
in total ruins. Some of the shade trees
near the barracks were blown over.
At a meeting of the Pierre city coun-
Gil an ordinance was passed raising the
grade about eight feet on the streets of
the city in order to get perfect drainage.
This grade gives an outlet for waste dur
ing high water. At this rate it is
claimed the cost will not be over $50 per
lot Of 25 feet front to fill with dirt from
the bluffs.
The official United States reports
show that last years wheat crop in Da-
kota amounted to IS, O36. 900 bushels,
thus leading every state in the Union in
wheat raising. The corr crop amounted
to 1S,slG,000 bushels, making a very
fair showing for a country where people
once insisted that corr would not ripen.
The potato crop amounted to $500, 900
bushels. Only five states raised more
than Dakota, these being Iowa, Kansas.
New York, Pennsylvania and Wis
consin.
Sam Small visited Watertown the
other day and purchased a tract of land
on the shore of Lake Kempeska, which
he proposes at once to improve into a
beautiful park, and erect a large hotel
and 200 cottages. and also put in water
works and electric lights. He will es-
tablish a Chautauqua camp ground SIM
liar to those at Chautauqua, N. y,
where editors, ministers and teachers
from all over the country will meet,
making the finest GUNNER resort in the
Northwest.