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DAKOTA. An interesting divorce case was heard before a jury at Parker. The plain. tiff was Station Agent Phinney of Harley, who asked for a divorce from his wife on the ground that she had been cruel to him and that he was afraid to live with her. Mrs. Phinney said the cause of the disturbance was Miss Conklin, pretty assistant of Phinney's in his office. Mrs. Phinney said she came into the office suddenly one day and found the pretty office girl sitting in her husband's lap. She then insisted that her husband discharge the girl. This he refused to do, and out of his relations to the other woman grew the family troubles. The jury was out about an hour and, when it returned a verdict in favor of the defense. A syndicate is being formed at Grand Forks to dispose of the thousands of tons of straw in the valley to farmers of South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. whose stock is liable to suffer for want of food during the coming winter. It is estimated that throughout the Red river valley 500,000 tons of straw will be burned during the next sixty days unless some other disposition can be made of it. The scheme is to get this vast quantity under control of one body of men as near as possible and allow the farmers from the drouth stricken states to ship it to their homes or drive their stock here to feed. The Guild hall. belonging to Christ church, Yankton, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The second floor was occupied by Rev. Wyatt Hamath as a parsonage. The fire originated from the explosion of a gasoline stove in the Kitchen and spread so rapidly and so fiercely that nothing was saved. Mr. Hamath was quite severely burned about the face and hands while endeavoring to check the flames. A remarkable break of nature is presented in a Siberian crabapple tree growing in Dr. Harding's orchard on Ingleside, seldom. if ever, known to occur, says the Black Hills Times. The tree has been a prolific bearer for several years past, but this season it is trying to surpass all previous records by bringing forth two crops. Fully developed fruit and blossoms are now to be seen on the same tree. Many farmers in the central portion of the state have within the past year expended from $400 to $800 on small artesian wells on their farms for the purpose of irrigation. In several instances their additional crop yield has more than paid the cost this year alone when compared with their neighbors where they depended on rainfall. Plowing by steam has become a reality in Codington county. On one farm may be seen two sets of gang plows attached to , threshing engine and by this method twenty-five acres are easily turned over in Asp B u The accounts of the defunct Plankinton bank are being gone over this week by an expert accountant for the purpose of using his report in the coming trial at AlexanIria on the part of the state. The Pierre Daily Capital, now run independently, nails the name of J. A. Ward o the mast head. but continues the republican ticket without break except the governor. Diphtheria has broken out in Canton and other parts of Lincoln county, particcularly in Highland township. in a very malignant form. As yet no deaths have occurred. Charles A. Ryan of Charles Mix county has been bound over at Chamberlain to appear before the next term of the United States court on the charge of countereiting. In Sully county farmers and others hoot horses when they are found trespassng on farm lands. Horses are a drug on he market and it does not pay to herd hem. I. H. Hall, a farmer of Garden Prairie, ost his house and contents by fire caused y a gasoline stove last week. A subscripfor raised 0008 and ion
