The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-07

Territorial News.
Pierre claims a. population Of 1890
while last October there were but SOC
people there.
A Dakota .schoolmistress sued three
young men for breach Of promise. Coun-
sci for one of the defendants moved for
a nonsuit on the ground that she was too
promiscuous. The court seemed dis
posed to grant the motion, whereupon
the fair plaintiff asked: "Judge, did
you ever 60 duck.shooting?" His Hon
or's eyes lighted up with the pride II a
sportsman as he answered: "Well, !
should say 50; and many's the time that
I've brought down a dozen at shot" ""I
knew it," eagerly added the fair plain
tiff; that's just the case with me, judge.
/ winged three of them" The motion
Tor nonsuit-was denied.
The sheriff sale under execution ofthe
personal property appertaining to the
Queen Bee mill took place at Sioux Falls
according to advertisement. The exc
cution was issued as a judgment against
the Sioux Falls Water Power company
in favor of Mr.. Watkins for the sum of
$57 ,S3l ,43. Except the horses and few
Of the miscellaneous articles, the prop
erty was bid in by w. ID. Cornish, attor-
ney for the plaintiff, and in the interest
of Mrs. Seney, for about one-thirtieth of
the amount for which they were listed.
The sale did not include the mill, water
power or real estate.
The statement recently made that five
thousand young women die every year
in london from physical diseases
brought upon them by fatigue and ply
sical strain in the shops and factories
leads the Chicago Inter. Ocean to.suggest
that the girls go west. 1t points out the
advantages of Dakota as a refuge from
drudgery, disease and death. School
ma'ams are in great demand, and, ac-
cording to report, the demand is likely
to continue. A member of school
board in Dakota recently told the wri.
ter who advises the girls to ego west"
that they we're never able to keep a
teacher more than two terms because
she always married. And those who
are not matrimonially inclined" contin-
ues he, "but have courage to undertake
farming, may secure l60 acres of
land upon the same terms that men
secure it. They need not cultivate the
tract themselves, but can have it worked
on shares, and secure moderate and
independent income. There are hun
dreds of cases in which young women
have accepted the benefcent provisions
of the land laws with large profits, and
Miss Cleveland, who is now in Chicago
booming Of the Dakota town Of High
more, is an illustration of what woman
can do"
The Valley City Times notices the
elopement of {. A. DOnnely, a married
man, with Mrs. Dahl, married wo-
man.
There is a great deal of talk about new
lines Of railroad to Bismarck but
ciphered down it appears that none will
get there this year.
The wheat acreage of the Jim valley
is three times what ii was last year, and
looking much better than at this time
last year.
Mrs. Charlotte Dwyer, a wealthy Chi
cago lady, is building large hotel at
Howell, Hand county.
The first shipment Of butter has been
made from the Lenox creamery-3,0OO
pounds.
Four children Of Alfred Valene OF
Brooklyn died OF diphtheria in one
week.
The crops throughout Southern Dakota
never promised better.
A snake with twenty-one rattles was
killed near Plankinton.
CT. Zimmerman Of Huron is 10 start
bank i'm Iroquois.
Tne jury at Fargo IN the case ofMarrs
sThe Northern Pacific railroad. re.
turned verdict of $4,000 in favor o,
plaintiff. 1t will be remembered that
about year ago Marrs had both legs
cut off by an engine, Counsel for the
Northern Pacific appealed for a new
trial.
The name OF the man killed by trair
near Volga, was ID. ID. Myers of Nord
land.
J.C. Nelson, a brutal Grand Forks
wife beater, Is serving sixty days on tn,
street gang, with ball and chain attach
ment.
Mrs. John Robiteau, Jr., is at Farg,
| hunting for her husbands father with
shot gun The senior had slandered her
Bismarck Special: The story from
Mandan that Bismarck Is meeting will
difficulty in raising capital fund grew
out of the fact that meeting was callet
TO take steps to reimburse those wh'
had guaranteed il, and committee wa
appointed to take the matter in hand
Twenty thousand dollars was pledged b.
these present at this meeting. Sixt.
thousand is now pledged, and several o
the largest owners of real estate hav
not vet been invited to subscribe. tn
city has SIS, 900 worth Of property in tn
original town site which can be contrib
uted if necessary. he entire amoun
viii lprobably be I''Ared in the bark al
though mot tyet called for by the car
ital commission.
| 1t is believed that Salvini, who Is b