The Wahpeton times., 1889-08-08
DAKOTA MENTION.

| DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed happsnfsgy ThrssgAeut
Both NoHJl and South Dakota
Hay is selling at $15 per ton IN
South Dakota with the prospect o
q good crop.
The proprietor Of 8 gambling
saloon at Sioux Falls nan1sd Bersey
was fined 500 and costs.
An electric street railway company
has beer organized at Grand Forks,
and will build road.
The Bmfngton and Missouri rail.
road IL advertising in the Deadwcod
papers for afty tic choppers.
Regular Kentucky bluegrass is
growing finely in Buffalo county and
is two feet high. So says the Gam
Valley Chief.
The present season has been un-
precedent in the history of the Black
Hills tor the number of deaths that
have occurred from lightning.
Christopher Lewison, living near
Lead City, while trying to hold q
runaway team, had an arm broken,
and was internally injured.
During recent storm at Spear
fish, Frank Shannon, q laborer, was
knocked down by lightning, and re-
mained insensible for six hours.
A reward of $5Ois offered for the
apprehension OF James Buckner and
Marshal Miner, the menwho are ac-
cused of taking valuable property
from parties at Ipswich.
Albert Burton, . stone cutter at
Rowena, had his left arm badly
shattered by a splinter from his ham,
mer being driven into the flesh near
the elbow.
A short time ago workmen were
engaged all day lathing and paint
ing q new church being built in Sioux
Falls. The press referred to it as a
pleasant little inconsistency"
The large fish pond of A. M.
Morse, near Tilford, was washed out
during a heavy storm. The pond
covered about an acre and was filled
with carp. The loss is estimated at
$5, 900.
The Deadwood Central railroad
has increased it's rate of fare between
Deadwood and Lead City, with the
result that a hack line has been put
on in opposition to it between those
points.
The county commissioners of Rol.
lette county have appealed to the
chief executive of Dakota to have
him enforce the payment of taxes by
the half-breed and Indian farmers
living in that section.
During the progress Of a court trial
at Mandan District Attorney Voss
and J. E. Campbell, attorney for the
defendant, had an alteration which
resulted in Campbell knocking Voss
down in open court.
The dealha been inclosed which in
sures the establishment of cement
works in Yankton. Ground has
been purchased and work ON the
building, which will be Is by 500
feet in size, will commence immedi-
ately.
Deadwood Pioneer: An aggregate
of $13, 900 has been received at the
treasurer's Office for liquor licenses.
As the fee in each case is $3.50 for the
half year, this means fifty-two sa-
looms now doing business in the
county. OF the number twenty-one
operate in Deadwood.
Sioux Falls Journal: With state
hood the Dakotas are bound to
grow, and nothing can prevent it.
1t will not be IN unhealthy and un-
natural growth, inspired by specula-
tors who skip from one green pas
ture to another. but an honest,
steady and straightforward growth
in town and country.
An Aberdeen man, says an ex-
change, has hit upon a scheme to
make stake in the capital contest.
1t is to go to each town which is a
capital aspirant and make O bet
against that town. He will only
lose in one and win in all the rest,
and is of course bound to come out
ahead in the deal.
A man in the western part of the
territory advertized for a wife the
other day, and in about twenty-four
hours he began to receive innumera-
BILE letters from married men, saying
he could have theirs. The fellow
has had his advertisement taken out
and has also changed his mind, hav-
ing come to the conclusion that