. The New England magazine . ress,launched the first daily paper of SiouxFalls, the Daily Press. The paper wasgreeted with ominous head-shakes; but,like the city of its birth, its success hassurpassed the most sanguine hopes, andto-day it is the leading Republican paperof the state. Mr. Caldwell stands with-out a peer in the newspaper fraternity ofthe state. The Daily Argus-Leader, anevening paper, held for some years thesame place in the ranks of the state De-mocratic newspapers that the Press oc-cupies in the Republican ranks. In thefall of 1889, it passed into the hands ofMessrs. Tomlinson
. The New England magazine . ress,launched the first daily paper of SiouxFalls, the Daily Press. The paper wasgreeted with ominous head-shakes; but,like the city of its birth, its success hassurpassed the most sanguine hopes, andto-day it is the leading Republican paperof the state. Mr. Caldwell stands with-out a peer in the newspaper fraternity ofthe state. The Daily Argus-Leader, anevening paper, held for some years thesame place in the ranks of the state De-mocratic newspapers that the Press oc-cupies in the Republican ranks. In thefall of 1889, it passed into the hands ofMessrs. Tomlinson & Day, the presentproprietors, and in politics became In-dependent. Mr. J. Tomlinson, Jr., thesenior proprietor and editor, is a Yalegraduate, and a man of large first railroad into Sioux Falls wascompleted August i, 1878, — the Chi-cago and Northwestern. In 1879 and1880 the Dakota Southern and SouthernMinnesota lines were built into SiouxFalls; both of them were soon after ab- 352 THE DAKOTA Episcopal Cathedral — Astor Memorial. sorbed by the Chicago, Mihvaukee, andSt. Paul system. The next road to reachthe city was the Buriington, in 1886, fol-lowed by the Illinois Central in 1887,and the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Mani-toba in 1888. The Burlington andIllinois Central companies have botherected magnificent stone passenger andfreight depots, and the other roads arecontemplating similar enterprises. On August 9th, 1871, Dr. Josiah had recorded the original town-site plat, called J. L. Phillips SiouxFalls. It consisted of nine blocks, themain business street (now, as then), be-ing named Phillips Avenue. Subsequentadditions to the village and city are to mention, the present citylimits covering about twenty-six squaremiles. The village of Sioux Falls wasincorporated in January, 1877, with apopulation of six hundred, and the cityin 1883, with four thousand. The big Sioux River, from which thecity derives its name and water pow
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