The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-27
Dakota Territorial News.

Foster and Geruald counties, have
been organized.
Charles Fuller Of Belviderc, III. wants
to step into Judge Kidder's judicial
shoes.
At an elect on at Lakota, the township
of Kane voted bonds to the amount of
81, $40 Tor the erection of school house
in Lakota.
Ira {. Fellows, who went from Man
dan to New York To defend his name
from charges Of embrzzlement, pleaded
guilty and got = $40 bail.
Gov. Ordway has pardoned Durham,
who was convicted in 1873 for the mur-
der of Chris Hoffman i'm the Black Hills,
and sentenced 10 TWEEN y-one wears iln-
p,isoment. The conditions are that he
shall leave the territory and no return.
Railroad building is TO be pushed
vigorously next wear in Dakota, the
Northwestern and the Milwaukee being
disposed to trespass on each 9th srs ter
rIto,y.
A. X. Nesbitt, postma ter Of Neche
suddenly left town and went to Mani
toha. |, was believed that he was a de.
faulter but his cash account proved, on
investi CATION, to be correct.
Julia Oslund has begun suit against
her cousin, John Oslund of Bismarck.
for S.. 0W, damages tor seduction and
breach OF PROMISE.
In September l95. 900 bushels of wheat
were marketed at Tower : itv, and re-
ceipts in October have averaged l0,0U
bushels day.
Judge West, late Of Yankton, will set
lie in Fargo as deputy collector of in
iernal revenue.
Colu,a ba claims to have expended
sl97 ,564 in building improvements the
past year.
Mclean county has been organized,
with her county seat ut Washburn.
The government wing OF the peniten.
tary at Sioux Fails, which has sto ID in
sta,u quo for yea :, only the area walls
being completed, is to be pmpleted at
once, all the contracts having been lei,
under orders from the secretary Of the
interior
Mr.. F. Lowth, late county superin
tendent of schools, died at his home in
Sioux Fal.s,o e 18th inst Mr.. Lowth
Was senior member of the late firm OF
Lowth 4 How, Owatonna. Mlnn.
Joseph II. Kelly, the man who at
temple to kill Mr.. Oliver for taking pos
session ,f his claim, had a preliminary
rial at Fargo and Was held to the dis
trict court. bali being Gxed at S3 900.
Not being able to furnish the bail, he
was committed to the Cass county Jail 10
await the action of the grand jury.
-Four carpenters employed by Peter
Ouher lin, ut Spirit ood Lake farm, near
jamestown, were poisoned by eating
canned corn beet.
Elevators are being built at Pingree
and Sykesviile ami first class elevator
Is to he erected at Darlington.
Diphtheria, OF u severe form, is ra-
gng in northwestern Union county and
several deaths have occurred.
Mrs. Philips is erecting q $50, 900 res
idence at Sioux Falls.
William S,ouch of Westport dropped
F, dead while threshing.
John Erickson Rem void who has been
missing from his home near Gardner,
WAS i"und dead recently about a mile
north o. Trysi!l. Suicide.
A steam threshing machine at work
| on the farm of Col J. Davenport, near
Mitchell set fire to the grass around II
while the men were at dinner and be-
| fore the flames could be checked they
| DESTROYED ltD bushels of oats, and ~
| bushels o flax. and e machine itself
was also burned up, causing loss Of $500
A big prairie fire started five miles
west Of Eyan which burned up abou. $40
bushels Of wheat and $50 tons o. hay
tor farmers living on its path. 1t also
burned A. j Walters residence, which
he was not occupy my at the time.
The Forest City Press is the title Of a
new paper which has been established
in Potter county-D. l.. Fry, editor and
proprietor.
One Hanson county farmer has
| rails, $50 bushels Of corn.
! The Free Masons OF Sioux Falls have
borrowe' $l5.Oo0 with which to com.
ple,e their Masonic temple.
Darlington is the county seat OF the
! newly organized Foster county. The
! commissioners are L. X. Casey, Horace
Clark, and f. w. Brenner.