The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-03-21
DAKOTA JOTTINGS.

transacted in Glendale amounts to
over 100000 annually.
A number of persons were arrested
I'm Deadwood for refusing to remove
snow from their sidewalks.
An effort is being made in Rapid
City to form a stock company for
the purpose of building a creamery.
South Sioux Falls is going to swell
it's manufacturing enterprises by
putting in a broom factory.
A Chinaman living at Spearfish
claims to have lost 30, 5OOgambling
at Deadwood.
A term of court will be held at
Milbank March 10 for the first time
in nearly two years.
The citizens of Blunt have passed
resolutions asking the county COM
missioners to expend $500 to ad-
vertise the county.
An Aberdeen syndicate has pur-
chased a quarter section of land one
mile from the city limits of Pierre.
The consideration was $4,000.
The Press says the manufactures
in South Sioux Falls that are to be
set in operation this year will furn-
ish employment to 800 men.
The patrons of the p~ostoffice at
Blunt will hold an election to decide
whether or not they want a change
in the p~ostotfice administration.
George Cowling, mail carrier, while
crossing the Missouri river on foot
at Yankton with his mail pouch,
broke through and narrowly escaped
drowning. The mail pouch was lost.
The office of clerk of court for Fall
River county is said to be n of the
most lucrative in the district. Final
proof fees average $3.50 per month,
whilst the amount taken in for fiji.
ings will swell that to about $500.
The second floor in Wards livery
barn at Aberdeen gave way. Amin
mense quantity of grain and fax
was stored in bins in the loft. Four
men were more or less injured in the
wreck. A hearse and several cor
riages were crushed to pieces.
The Yankton Press says: "The
fact that the Manitoba company has
decided positively to build to Yank-
ton, leaving the question of time as
the only open one, has already Civ
en- Yankton considerable of a lift,
which is aided by the certainty Of
the Norfolk link"
Arthur Springer, a young man at
Vermillion, is a veritable fire-eater.
1t is said that he a take red-hot
Goals into his mouth and after hold
ing them there a short time produce
them cold and black. He is an en-
tire stranger to the arts of the magi.
clan.
The Woonsocket Times contains
the following: "F. H. Campbell,
weight 229; Bunker, weight 2SS, and
Frank Anderson, weight 239 pounds,
have agreed to confine themselves
to a diet of bread and water, and
one cup of coffee per day, for the
space of thirty days, the object be-
ing to reduce superfuous fesh."
A Sioux Indian named Chasing
Crane has been arrested at Chamber-
lain for testifying falsely in a liquor
case. 1t is an old scheme ofthe In
dams to accuse some one off selling
whisky to them, and is done for the
purpose of getting them a trip to
tankton at government expense.
Rev. c. M. Arthur of Springfield
was arrested at Yankton, charged
with abducting Amy Haines. H was
released under habeaus corpus pro-
ceedings. Judge Trip appointed H.
A. James of Springfield guardian of
the girl pending the trial of the STEP
father for criminal assault upon her.
The approval of the Sioux bill by
the president has caused the most
intense excitement in Chamberlain,
There is no fear entertained what
ever as to securing the consent of the
Indians to the measure, as the pres
ent bill was framed with q view to
removing all the objections.
A large and enthusiastic meeting
of the citizens of Redield, met in
the opera house and decided to en-
ter the capital race. A company
with a capital of $500, 900 has been
Incorporated for the purpose of pur-
chasing property in and about the
city, and a large number Of wealthy
and influential citizens are interested.
Railroad property was on the mar
ket at Pierre and a crowd beseiged
the office, All the property was sold
in less than an hour. Over $75, 900
was sold in one day. The average
sale of lots daily is 500. Hyde Of
Sioux Falls bought fifty lots by wire.
Eastern parties bought SIS, 900
worth of land by letter. The news
papers are issuing daily land bulle-
tins. Sioux Falls people are negoti-
ating for 500 acres east Of town.
The citizens of Mitchell r most
deeply in earnest in their fight for
the capital of South Dakota. A
meeting was held for the purpose of
making arrangements to carry the
war into Africa. Earnest addresses
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