The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-08-16
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.

the cause OIL m0ch mefrlmenG on tnc
streets of Sioux Falls recently.
The Truax and Garfield groups of
tin mines on Spring creek, in the
southern Hills, have been sold for
$4,000:
The crop Of small fruit grown in
the Black Hills this year is far better
in quality and quantity than in any
previous season.
The great skeleton find near st.
Helena, iankton county, proves to
beonly an old Indian buryingground,
and IL small one ut that.
The people of Palisades are good
deal worried with the fear that the
new railroad will cross the Manitoba
two and IL half miles north of them.
Overloaded shelving in Spearfish
drug store gave way last Monday
morning. smashing bottles and de-
stroying $500 worth of drugs and
medicines.
The new portion of the insane
asylum ut Yankton is now wholly
occupied and the patients arc made
more comfortable than in their
crowded condition.
Col. c. I'll. French, IN old hotel man
from New York, has leased the Hotel
Dacotah, ut Grand Forks, and will
put $40, 900 worth of furniture into
it.
There are two eggs on exhibition
in the office of the White Lake Times.
One measures SH inches in circumfer-
cncc and the other just eight inches
less.
One of Mitchcll's reasons Tor asking
for the location OF the capital is that
it's educational advantages are in
keeping with the demands OF the fu-
ture capital city"
Judge Moody says that in the
Black Hills more grain is raised of
forty acres of irrigated land than on
100 acres that is left to the mercy OF
the average rainfall.
Harry Highly holder of the single
couplcrs badge OF Dakota, intends to
compete for the 500 prize offered ut
the tircman's tournament to he held
mt Denver this month.
Charles ii. GARRISON, in attempt
ing to stop IL fight between two bulls
on S. L.. Beams stock farm, near
Grand Forks, was SO badly gored by
one of the animals that he died.
Newton Bcal, of Dcadwood, was
assaulted by James Merrill with n
crowbar and nearly killed. lie had
500 on his person that Merrill was
inter. The assainnt was arrested.
a sensational clopement story was
nippe,l in the bud ut Plnnkinton by
the father of the cxpcctnnt bride mr.
irving ut the depot two minutes be-
fore the train started.
South Dakota is threatened with
nh important election every year
under the proposed constitution.
What popular state Dakota will
he with politicians and officeseekers.
A campaign prohibitionpapcr with
IL weekly circulation Of 10000, to be
called "The Bulletin" is to be issued
in Yankton during the coming eight
weeks OF the campaign.
About 100000 bushels of wheat
were shipped from Eureka. On ac-
count OF the largely increased acre
age, it is estimated that n greater
quantity will be shipped this year.
Commissioner Hagerty: The two
Dakotas could accommodate the en-
tire population of the United States
80, 000, OO0-and give them an
acre and II half piece for breathing
space.
A Mitchell father fixed n chair to
upset if greater weight than 40
pounds rested in it. The first night
afterward his daughter got IL brok1
shoulder and her young man haJZis
nose skinned. +
The Canton News says th1 guam
tity OF binding Irvine that has gone
out through the country from that
city during the past week is a pretty
sure Indication of an immense harv-
est this year.
The convicts o. Sioux Falls COM
plain that the chains ON the balls
there are shorter than those at HUI
ron, and nn effort will be made to
have them heightened. What Sioux
Falls wants is population.
John Williams, living five miles
southeast of Mellettc, in digging n
well tor water, struck ut depth of
fifty feet n strong flow of natural
gas. He intends to run pipe to his
house and also to bore the well deep
or.
The base ball craze has taken n
new turn at Aberdeen. The old game
of poker dice" has been discarded
and the devotee now shakes aces for
nine innings to determine whether
lie shall pay 10 cents for u cigar or
get it for nothing.
Hall-breed smugglers along the
boundary line from Pemhina to rur-
tie mountain have, for n long time
been cutting timber on this side and
smuggling it across the boundary.
They had Il regular code of signals
conveyed from one butte to another
by half-breed woman. Ten hulf-
breeds have been arrested.
Gunny ellison, u farm hand near
Speartish, was hauling hay, and up
on reaching the stack attempted to
pull from the top OF the stack
:, large, heavy harpoon fork to
which n rope was attached, extend
ing to the ground. The heavy I'M
plement slipped from it's resting
place and the descending tines down
ward with great force struck him on
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