The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-21
the Red river valley indicates that seed.
ing will be commenced next Monday.
Dakota's Territorial University.

YANKToN, d. T., Special Telegram, April 18.
Saturday and to-day the Dakota university
1t Ncrmllion, Clay county, was formally or
gaDized, Gov. Ordway being ex-officio pres
ideht Of the board Of regents, and Gen. Beadle
-uperinten lent OF public instruction, also ex-
oiiicio member OF the board. The other men,
bers are + N Burdick. yermill;on, N. d.
Tanning, Jamestown. f. G. Erickson, Elk
Point John l. jelly, vermillion; +. T. Cressy.
Huron, and d. Elwell, Sioux Falls, all Of whom
were present except the two latter. The first
legislature passed bill locating the State
university at yermiion Nothing was done
ill a year ago, when tho people Of yermillion
Incorporated the university under Territorial
laws, with board OF trustees, otc Clay
county voted $4,000 bonds aud citizens
gave $1,000 in cash and land.
building was begun, and last
fall, under Rev DR.. Epstein. the university was
opened for pupils aud something over fifty
have attended, At once, the people OF Yer
million, not feeling fully satisfied with their
;!tle to the university, procured the passage of
ball last winter locating and endowing the
Dah9n university so oo a. hon, aGa 3"r
the completion OF tho building. The
institution thus came under the patronage
of the Territory, aud the cid board turned
over all the property and records TO the new
board Of regents ID. w. Inman was chosen
treasurer, aud Gen. Beadle secretary Tho
building aud purchase apparatus. DIR. Epstein
IL to continue in charge for the present.
Dakota now has free university in full
operation.
J.J. Patent is the new mayor Of James
town.
Jensen, the Fargo city treasurer, is
1000 short. His bondsmen, twenty in
nun'bor, ORC good 70. -. e'aA-r'" '
David Calhoun committed suicide at
Yankton by cutting the arteries in his
arms with pen knife and by cutting a
cash in his abdomen. Whisky did it.
Scott Higgins disreputable character
of Yankton, is in Jail for attempting to
ravish an elderly lady named Bancroft.
There is rush Of immigrants over the
Hastings & Dakota road this spring.
stock and household goods per day have
been coming for the past three weeks.
The passenger trains run from six TO ten
coaches filed with land seekers.
Fred Haselton, bomesteader living
twelve miles south of Mitchell fell dead
in the street. The family lived at Water
loo, Iowa. He leaves wife and eight
children.
The Grand Forks council has voted to
Issue bonds to build two iron bridges
across the Red River to connect East
Grand Forks.
At the government land Office in HUI
ron $4,000 acres were taken on the 5th
inst.
A fine flowing well, throwing three
inch sheet forty feet high, has been
stuck in Mitchell at depth Of 800 feet,
giving the town the best water supply in
Southeastern Dakota. water power
company will be formed at once to afford
facilities for manufacturing.
Sixty-one instruments are now con-
nected with the Huron telephone ex-
change.
A lumber famine in the towns west of
Mitchell is seriously delaying building
projects.
The Dakota Central railway company
have supplied fifteen extra engines for
the transfer of freight.