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# DAKOTA. Wessington wants a flouring mill. The influx of Russians to the German Russ colony in McPherson courty and the northern part of Edmunds county, still continues to be large. The business of the Sloux Falls brewery has become so great that steady employment is furnished to four coopers, who are making beer kegs. The dyke which is belag built around Mandan to protect the Northern Pacific shopะฒ from floods is nearly completed. It will cost nearly $1,500. The county commissioners of Brown county have ordered artificial legs for Eli Huested, the young man who lost poth legs during the January blizzard. A Minneapolis building and loan assocda-tion is organizing a local board of directors in Yankton, with the purpose of establishing a branch office there. A candidate for treasurer in Lake county announces that he will turn into the treasury all fees received over $1,200, and asks support on those grounds. The grain dealers at Salem work up considerable excitement over wheat deale, and it is stated that one buyer became so excited that he raised his own bid 2c. Thomas Kleinegel, representing E. Shipley & Co., wholesale grocers of Minneapolis, was arrested at Wahpeton last Wednesday for peddling without a license. Frank Rice, a well known business man of atertown, started last Saturday, in company th his family, for San Francisco where he will make his home in the future. The Continental Hose company at Fargo will celebrate the eighth anniversary of its existence October 19, by giving a grand ball. The inhabitants of Harrold were jubilant last Monday morning because the water was flowing from their artesian well. The wel is now 1,485 feet deep. The Congregational church at Stoux Falls has extended a call to the Rev. Joseph T. Duryca, D. D., who is now pastor of one of the wealthiest churches in Boston. Ole Brostrum, an employe in Robertson's lumber yard at Grafton, was nearly suffocated by coal gas last Wednesday night while sleeping in the office at the yard. The receiver of the Insurance Company of Dakota thinks it will be fully six weeks before he will be able to make a report to the court of the condition of the concern. An attempt will be made by St. Lawrence to remove the county seat from Miller at the coming election and vigorous steps are being taken by the citizens of Miller to circutavent any scheme toward it. It seems that western Dakota has at least one prohibition county. It is Butte. The commissions of the county, according to the Whitewood Sentinel, have decided to issue no more licenses. One man alone in the city of Hitchcock refused to sign the petition to bond the city for an artesian well and now brings suit against the city for $1,000 damages because the water from the well causes about three acres of his claim to be inundated. Nine of the heaviest creditors of the defunct Bank of Hitchcock having become wearied of waiting for something to turn up, have sworn out writs of attachment and have attached the whole property of the defunct firm and will test the validity of the assignment. H. F. Jones of Columbia City, Ind., while attempting to board a freight train at Milbank last Saturday night and was run over. Both arms were horribly crushed and also his right foot. He was badly under the influence of liquor. Three local surgeous amputated his arms close to the shoulder and also his foot. H. C. Farmer entered the law office of R. 4. Taber at Grand Forks, last Monday morning and engaged in a discussion with htus ahout some mortgaged property. Worda led to blows, and Taber inflicted several wounds on Farmer's head with a hatchet. Valley Springs has had a hydrophobia scare. A young lady was bitten by a dog some time since. In a week or so the began to feel badly. A doctor was summoned and allayed the fears of the family with the statement that her symptoms were not those of the dreaded disease. Ladies' hall of Yankton college is to be completed by the ladies of the organization that made such a success of the bazar last spring. All the money that has been put into the hall has been secured by them, and they have enough on hand to complete the walls. The county commissioners of Minnehaba county are quite uneasy about the condition of the general fund of the county. There is only $9,000 available for this fund out of which the court expenses must be paid. They think this sum will be exhausted in the prosecution of liquor cases alone. Then there will be nothing left to pay the other expenses. Col. Minzer, commandant at Fort Meade, is a great lover of the beautiful, and has given order that hereafter no paths or trails be made over the parade grounds, and that officers and men in crossing must not go over the same course successively, in order that the grounds may present the appearance of a lawn. He has also ordered extensive tree planting. The Preas says: Sioux Falls has invested a million and a half so far this year in improvements, and all this large sura was put up without bluster or brass band accompaniment The Queen city doesn't make much noise in the building, but she plugs right along and lets the deeds tell their own story. It is believed more money has been spent here this year in improvements than in any six of the best cities in the territory combired. Grand Forks has got a genuine bad boy of