The Wahpeton times., 1889-01-24


DAKOTA J()TlTINGs.
Out Of fifty six bachelors in Pierre
only six have been married during
the past year.
The Argus-leader announces that
the Methodist university will beyond
9 doubt be located at Sioux Falls.
q Dakota has about LIE, 900 sheep.
Hutchinson county has 11,346 and
Sphinx is second 1884.
The improvements, public and pri-
vate, made during the past year in
Sioux Falls, amount to 81, 500, 900.
The improvements made during the
past year at Madison amounted to
100000.
1t is reported that several "blind
pigs" which closed at Oakes during
the recent term of court have reopen
ed.
sThe Dog Got Left; or How She
Captured the Rooster" is the title of
q 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 at thepenitentiary
at Sioux Falls as admission fees from
visitors 1856, woich will be spent for
the library.
Anegro was recently confined in
the Yankton insane asylum for one
day. Whenhe was discharged he at
tached a red rag to a 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 q packing-house there.
City Marshal Dunn, of Deadw ood,
reports q total of seventy-nine ar
rests during the year, the heinous
offense consisting of too much stim-
ulant and too muc h noise.
Husband (confusedly)-Oh-er-two
or three gentlemen called to see 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-
lors are getting tired of boarding at
the regular boarding-houses and ho-
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 q few miles
assert that they have uncovered two
formations of coal on Dan Staford's
farm.
The Cass County Farmers alliance
he's letter from an eastern party
who is ready to invest $4,000 in a
creamery in Fargo, on the condition
that l 500 cows and sutf ground
for a plant be guaranteed.
One of the topics of conversation in
political circles at Bismarck is the ac-
tion 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-Leadersays:
'tThere is 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 made
!, 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 at Barnesville,
Minn., 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 large degree
of mental vacuity in one who en-
deavors to work the exclusive rack
ct in society in q western country
town like this
The county commissioners of Law
renee county adSpted q resolution
fixing the license for liquor dealers at
$500 a 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.