The Dickinson press., 1883-04-28
DAKOTA NEWS.

A $4,000 hotel is to be built immadi-
ate'y at White Loke.
Several brick blocks are to be built at
Elk Point this season.
Races will be given at the Mitchell
driving park July 3 and 4.
Ten dollars has been subscribed by
citizens of Watertown for the purpose
OF erecting a S35 900 hotel in that city.
Rufus T%rowbridge was killed near
Huron, while %stoning up a we'll, by a
rock falling and crushing his skull.
John w. Turner, of Turner county, an
Old and we'll known Dakotian, died re.
Gently, aged eigllty-four years.
The Masonic lodge at Rapid City will
give a grand public reception June Ii
and IA, upon the occasion ofthe meeting
of the grand lodge.
Yankton county has $4,000 in the
treasury which will be used in paving off
a part of her railway debt. This will
leave about $500. 600.
MIR. George McNcir, assistant post
master of the national house of repre-
sentatives, will go to Fargo, to enter
upon the practice of law.
A new grade OF wheat will be estab-
lsled the coming season, to be known
as extra No. l hard, 1t must be clean
and very free from cookie.
Walter Drummond has been appoint
ed a special agent of the pension bureau
for northern Minnesota and Dakota,
with headquarters at Fargo.
George B. Coburn, Of the general land
office, will be designated lis a special
agent to visit the DEVILS lake land dis
trict to locate the new land Office,
1t is reported that a syndicate, COM
posed largely of railroad men, have pur-
chased 10000 acres of land contiguous tr
Ordway, paying for the same $4,000 in
cash.
The recent law passed in Dakota ex-
acting Il deposit from all the insurance
companies in that territory is being Sc
Nereiy criticised by the companies rep
resented in Chicago.
The firm of o. G. Meacham g. Co., has
been organized to do a general banking
business at C%arrington. OAK, on the
jamestown branch of the Northern Pa
citic, with a capital of S25 900.
Arson j. Rudsdill was arrested in HUI
ron on the charge Of attempting to COM
NIT rape on the person OF Mary Teuber
on the fourth day of April. The prison.
er was married a few days previous.
Numerous indictments, found in 1878
against III. w. Bingham, formerly Indian
agent at the Cheyenne River Agency,
AND others IN his employ, We're finally
dismissed at Deadwoud the interior.de-
partlment.
An immense deposit of coal is said to
have been discovered in the cotcaus be-
tween Grade Siding and Summit, in the
western part OF Grant county. The EN-
struck in three feet deep, of genuine
quality and promises 81 rich yield.
AT Deadwood during the street-clean-
ing al old revolver u~neartIled proved to
be that used by the notorious Deadwood
Dick in 1876, when he killed Texas
Charlie. At the time, and until now,
the most careful search failed to reveal
it.
Three other arrests have been made
i'll the st. Thomas murder case. Archer
the victim, and others were in Il saloon
nd had a general fight, when the de-
ceased drew 4 knife and attempted 10
stab one of the parties. Judge Cox OF
Grand Forks has been retained for the
defense.
Michael Colligan, whose claim isnorth-
east of Aurora, is mysteriously missing,
He left the residence Of MIR. Kelley, a
neighbor, for home on the night of pril
8 during the rain storm. and MP to the
present time Of writing has not been
found, although dilligent search has been
made.
Mrs. John Hayes OF Sioux Falls has
sued for a divorce from her husband
with q division of property, alleging
abuse and wicked treatment. MIR
Hayes is a Jealous Seventh Day Baptist
worth 500, 600, and the trouble arose be-
cause his wife would not adopt his be.
lief.
Miss Reise and Mrs Oskerday hold
claims near lIighmorc. ~Squatters de.
molished the sllanty of the latter, anG
Miss Reise, fearing similar treatment,
secured q pistol, and learned how tt
use it. Some men being near her shan.
ty, hearing a shot fired, went in, ano
found Miss REESE dying with a bulle
hole i'll her temple.
Charles Mix Chronicle: Quite q sen
alton has heen created at Fort Randall
" the action taken by the wife of the
late Capt. Hooker, who died last Jan
uary. 1t seems that his wife, who has
been separated from him over a year
claims that the captain was poisoned,
and che will have the body exhumed
and an examination made. claimed
the captain had $2O,0W in cash, which
she is making q point to look after.
A branch order of the railway con
ductors' association has been organized
at Fargo. 1T is named after Col. Greer
the Northern Pacific yard master. TIL.
following are the officers for the ensuing
year: j. II. Phillen, c. c.; L. p. Vim
cent, A. C. c.; F. G. Conlstock, secretary
and treasurer; b. II. Palmatier, Sr. c.
&. Il. Paine. Jr. C.;S. Newbery, 1. S.; P
j. McWonagle, 0. S.
A Mandan dispatch saysa round house
and railroad shops have been located a
that point by the N. p. Company. The
improvements, include a round house
with twenty-five stalls; q machine shop
S5xlWO feet; a boiler shop, S5x60 feet;
smith shop, 6hxl25 feet; a car shop
6Oxl24 feet; boiler, engine and coal house
24xl25 ;eet; s%torehouse, -4'NSO feet; OF
house, 2Ox3o feet; sand house, l4x42
feet; coal shutes, 4Sx3u00 teot, and two
l6X24 water tanks.
A prisoner in the p%nitentiary a
Sioux Falls, committed suicide in hi