The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-12-14
Dakota Territorial News.

III. D. W. 0uib6li1S OnO VI khO uU0S
successful physicians in the Black Hills,
was thrown from his carriage at Dead.
wood recently receiving fatal injuries.
Chas. Boyken, who was tried at Yank-
ton for the murder of Sergeant Willis at
Fort Hale, last April, was acquitted on
the grounds that the shooting was done
in self-defense. - @
Hanson, the murderer who escaped
from the Yankton jail two years ago. has
been captured IN Montana. ss
The choir of the Baptist church e i
Fargo consists entirely of reporters.
The opium dens are in active opera
tons In Deadwood. .s..zrs .sa.zs
A little son Of Mr.. Hagman Of Red,
field, was accidentally shot and killed
while handling a shotgun. Il
Five cowboys, at Dickinson, filled withS
frontier fire water, for FIVE hours ket
up furious fusilade. Fully 500 sh6t@
were fired. No funerals. The editoEafsl
the Dickinson Press and three other
were pounded. No arrests. Ss;I
Hans Carstens, missing for q wesA
was found dead in his house at GsysT
Foul play was suspected, but q po9o
mortem showed heart disease.
Theodore Drew, chairman of the boar n
of county commissioners Of Wahpetonss
fell fourteen feet, receiving injuries a
which may prove fatal.
Judge Brookings is now proprietor Of,
the Sioux Falls Leader.
Sam Treadwell has leased the Devilss
Lake Pioneer to III. M. Creel. and -. 4
turned to his old home iii rf;ArkansaS, In.
tending to return in the spring.
Mr.. Burdick caught an elk on Cess
ham's island, Devil's-L~ke.l Last 1waak
which dressed 500 pounds. s.
Porter Warner, of the Deadwooa n
Times, declines to be candidate for "
postmaster.
At the examination of John T. and i;
Peter McCarrier, at Sioux Falls recently
on the charge ofsetting the fire whidb
consumed the Commercial house in thst
city Nov. 6, the witnesses on the part Of &Ss
the prosecution failed to materialize,
and the brothers we're. dismissed with
out any evidence on the part of the city.
The body of Christopher Carson, who q
disappeared from his home near Gary
about two weeks ago, has been found In
q gully near his house.. badly disagurad
by wild animals.
w. C. Gording succeeds Capt. Harmo1
as post trader at Fort Lincoln. He ha
managed the business for Capt. Harmol
for several years.
The Baptist church of Mitchell, one
the largest and finest church edi6ce
west of st. Paul, is fast nearing compile
ton, and will be dedicated in fey
weeks.
The burned Commercial hotel in Siouj
feet, three stories high, and will contatn
100 rooms.
The Mitchell Capital newspaper hA1s
been transferred to A. E. Dean and COLI
Ewart, who will continue to run 1t as g&ss
republican organ. Ssj ij
Crow Dog returnedto the jail at Des5
wood recently alone. He took Freuch
leave Of the deputy sheriff at Pine
Ridge agency, and when he presented
himself at the Jail in Deadwood he sal
that as he had gone away without com
pany. he considered himself able TO finl
his way back. Crow Dogs friends atthS
agency presented him with $40.
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November. business of the Aberdeenl
land office: Final proofs. $40: Homestead
entries, 40; premptions, III; timber
culture, 7l2; soldiers. declarations. -
This represents about Ala, 900 acres a
land, while the new entries aggretnt1
3l5, 600 acres. The cash receipts Or TN
month were Sal 800. s.s
The Rev. G.. A.: Brandt, ofths PrssbJ
terian church at Aberdeen. has 1. pro
osition from Q prominent minister
Chicago to build a university 8 ~
contribute the grounds, and erect 81 s
ings to cost $40. 600, 40 endovmsnt d e
of $l00, 900 will be assured. Tho uhiI
sity is to be nonsectarian, and thesos h
be taught only the higher branches
such studies as are not found IA S
graded schools. 5ss II B.