The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.

Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.
Sioux Falls saloons we're oil closed
last Sunday in obedience to the
mayors order.
AlbertH Fl. Osborne, ofLake Preston,
has been adjudged insane and sent
to the Yankton asylum,
Grand Forks has organized a Bust
ness Mems association for the pur-
pose of booming the town.
Ground has been broken at Sioux
Falls for the Pettigrew $15O,0OO
opera-house.
The Sioux Falls canning factory
has contracted for 800 acres of corn
and wants $50 acres more.
Huron has more children in Sun
day-school every Sunday in porpor-
tionto it's population than any town
in South Dakota.
Yankton county people, by vote,
have ordered the county commits
sioners to buy a track of land for a
poor farm.
Sam Glover, of Sioux Falls, on the
strength OF a telegram received the
other day says he is practically as
sured OF the consulship at Sheffield.
Montrose is notin the capital race,
but claims a steady growth and the
best trade ofany town of it's size in
South Dakota.
o. W. Smell, af Norfolk, has been ap-
pointed to run on the railroad in
the mail service between Gettysburg
and Redfield.
Ex-Treasurer Lawler has returned
to Mitchell from St. Paul and is
making preparations for housekeep-
ing at Mitchell again
The plum orchards of Charles Mix
county are in full blossom and no
lovlier sight can be seer than that
found along the river at this time of
the year.
R. II. Leigh is operating a pottery
in Rolette county very successfully.
The fine quality of his ware attests
the purity of the clay, which takes
fine enamel.
The experiments in cement making
from the chalk rock about Yankton
have been successful so far, and a
valuable industry will be added to
that section.
The e wooden mill at Water
town will have capacity of about
100 pounds of wool per day, and
will have the latest improved ma
chinery for the manufactures of
fannels, cashmeres and blankets.
The wheat crop of Mclean county
will be at least 10 per cent. greater
than that seeded in 1888. Many
fields that were seeded early and
rolled at once are now looking nice
and green.
The Chicago and Northwestern
railroad officials who are developing
the coal mines near Centerville an
nounce that their work is highly sat
~isfactory and that they have found
coal in unlimited quantities.
Fifty business men of Sturgis have
fled a bond with the board ofcounty
commissioners. pledging them
selves to donate a $15 200 court
house and Jail to Meade county in
case the county seat is located at
that point.
Sioux Falls journal. Charles How
ard has recently invested in a fine
$4,000 cattle ranch, which is locat-
ed near the one he now already owns.
lie evidently believes there is more
money in a cattle ranch than in real
estate.
Charles Lear, a colored man living
near Aurora, was instantly killed by
a kick from q vicious horse. He was
hitching the team to a seeder, and as
he stepped in behind the horse re-
ceived a tremendous blow on the side
OF the head, which broke his jaw and
neck.
Three brothers named Kalberer,
living in Emmons county, have re-
Gently returned from their old home
in Switzerland with three young la
dies. A triple wedding took place at
Bismarck and they left for their
homes on the prairie as happy as
could be.
While digging a cellar at Mandan,
a man named Reinkenburg: found the
skeleton of a human being. The flesh
had entirely disappeared from the
bones, which We're in a very crumb-
ling condition. It is thought that
it is the frame of an Indian girl who
existed long before that region was
civilized. ~. s.- a.~. ~
Sully county farmers r out gun
ming for railroad surveyors, says the
Onida Journal. They do not object
to railroads being built, but they are
not going to have a parcel OF sur
veyors running over their farms
tramping down the corn and wheat
and setting up pine stakes like they
did last year.
The Lake county commissioners
have adopted a novel'plan to eradi-