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# DAKOTA MENTION. Condensed Happenings Throughout Both North and South Dakota. The Central Dakota Veterans' association will hold their fourth annual camp fire. and reunion at Brookings July 3, 4, and 5. The Chamberlain Democrat is is suing a reservation bulletin, giving the daily proceedings of the Sioux commissioners. South Dakota prohibitionists hare arranged for publication of campaign papers at Yankton, Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Pierre and Aberdeen. A Kimball man, a little the worse for a night's indulgences, picketed himself out of the prairie the next morning and left his cow in the barn. Many of the cities and towns in South Dakota are trying the experiment of setting one day in each month apart as "market day." A flow of water was struck at the artesian well at Devils Lake the 8th inst., in a quantity equal to 300 barrels a day. The water is excellent and clear as crystal. Dell Rapids claim to have the largest butter trade in South Dakota. One dealer handles 2,500 pounds per day, aside from the product of a large creamery. The City council of Columbia has adopted an ordinance compelling the saloons to take down all curtains and blinds on Sundays and after closing hours at night. L. Van Dervor, president of the Whapeton bank that tailed recently, says he will pay every dollar of the liabilities of the bank and have lots of money left. Rapid City offers as a new departure in Fourth of July sports a genuine, full blooded Sioux Indian hub and hub race, two teams from Pine Ridge offering to run for a purse. A lodge of the order of the White Cross has recently been established in Aberdeen with a membership of twenty. The organization is composed entirely of Norwegian citizens and is growing steadily. Word has been received that Dr. A. H. Webster died recently at Benguilla on the west coast of Africa. He was a young married man who left Grand Forks in February, 1887, as a missionary to Africa. D. L. McKinney, of Sioux Falls, a director of the Sioux City National bank, and a brother of C. E. McKinney, president of the bank, is believed to have been lost in the Johnstown calamity. The prohibition party, to raise funds to carry on the campaign this fall, are selling medals among their adherents, one of silver and one of gold plate, with the territorial coat of arms on one side and a Huron artesian well upon the opposite. A 5-year-old daughter of Ben Miller, of Charles Mix county, was instantly killed. The hired man had been rolling corn with a heavy iron roller, and the child asked to ride. A sudden jolt threw her off and the roller crushed her head in a terrible manner. The largest fire Grafton ever had occurred while the fire department of that town was attending the firemen's tournament at Fargo. The fire started in the Merchants hotel and not until over $1,000 worth of property was destroyed was it extinguished. The report of the Fargo land office for the week ending June 8 shows that 29 final homestead proofs and 3 cash final proofs were made. There were also 14 homestead entries. 10 declaratory statements and 7 timber claim entries made. The fees and commissions amounted to $1,334.67. A man by the name of Bowles, living alone on Chicago creek, thirty-five miles from Sundance, was found dead in his cabin with a bullet hole through his head and a revolver with one chamber empty lying close by. He was found on the floor with a sheet thrown over him, and whether it was murder ar suicide could not be determined by the discoverers. Clifton Watchman: Cora Belle Fellows-Chaska, with her hubby, Chaska, and their sweet little boy papoose, Chaska, jr., have returned from the East, where the metropoli-