The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
DAKOTA NEWS.

Several brick blocks are TO be built at
Elk Point this season.
Races will he given az the Mitchell
driving park July ) and 4.
Ten dollars has been subscribed by
citizens Of Watertown for the purpose
Of erecting "A $35, 900 hotel in that city.
Rufus Trowbridge was killed near
Huron, while stoning upa well, by II
rock falling and crushing his skull.
John w. Turner, of Turner county, an
C,d and well known Dakotian, died re.
Gently, aged eighty-four years.
The Masonic lodge at Rapid City will
give a grand public reception June Is
and ~. upon the occasion ofthe meeting
Of the grand lodge.
Yankton county has $4,000 in the
treasury which will be used in paying off
part Of her railway debt. This will
leave about Sj0O,WO.
Mr.. George McNeir assistant post
master of the national house Of repre-
scntatives, will 90 to Fargo, to enter
upon the practice OF law.
A new grade OF wheat will be estab-
ished the coming season, TO be known
as extra No. hard, IT must be clean
and very free from cookie.
Walter Drummond has been appoint
ed 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 as special
agent to visit the Devils lake land dis
trict to locate the new land office.
1t is reported that syndic tie, com.
posed largely Of railroad men, have pur-
chased 10000 acres of land contiguous to
Ordway, paying for the same slJ,O0o in
cash.
The recent law passed in Dakota ex-
acting a deposit from all the insurance
companies in that territory is being se-
verely criticised by the companies rep
resented in Chicago.
The firm of o. q. Meacham & Co., has
been organized to do general banking
business at Darlington, OAK, on the
jamestown branch of the Northern Pa
chc, with Il capital OF 80 900.
Anson 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 q V of April. The prison.
er was married - few days previous.
Numerous indictments, found in 1873
against Ii. w. Bing CHAM, formerly Indian
agent at the Cheyenne River Agency,
and others IN his employ, were finally
a nI nf nI int arin Il
partlnent.
An immense deposit of coal is said TO
have been discovered in the coteaus be-
tween Grade Siding and Summit, in the
western part of Grant county. The VEN
struck in three ieet deep, Of genuine
quality and promises rich yield.
At DeadwooG during the street-clean-
ing an old revolver unearthed 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'm the St Thomas murder case. Archer
the victim, and others were in a saloon
nd had general fight, when the de-
ceased drew knife and attempted TO
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 mysterlously missing
IL, left the residence of Mr.. Kelley, q
neighbor, for home on the night of a pril
8 during the rain storm. and up to the
present time of writing has not been
found, although dilligcnt search has been
made.
Mrs. John Hayes Of Sioux Falls has
sued for divorce from her husband
with a division of property, alleging
abuse and wicked treatment. Mr.
! HAYES is a jealous Seventh Day Baptist
worth so 900, and the trouble arose be-
cause his wife would not adopt his be-
| lief.
Miss Reisc and Mrs Oskerday hole
! claims near Iiighmore. Squatters de
molished the shaniv OF the latter, anC
! Miss Reise, fearing similar treatment
secured pistol, and learned how L
! use il. Some men being near her shan
| tv, hearing shot fired, went III, ano
found Miss Riese dying with bulle
hole in her temple.
Charles Mix Chronicle: Quite a sen
:ation has heen created at Fort Randall
over the action taken by the wife Of thu
late Capt. Hooker, who died last Jan
uary. 1t seems that his wife, who has
| been separated from him over year
! claims that the captain was poisoned, !,
and she will have the body exhumed
and an examination made. ii is elaine,
the captain had S2O,O in cash, which
she is making point to look alter.
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. Th'
following are the officers for the ensuing
wear: J. III. Phillen, {. c.; l.. L. Nin
cent, A. G.. c.; +. G. Comstock, secre'ar.
and treasurer; b. X. Palmatier, Sr: Z;
G. +. Paine. Jr. c.; $. Newbery. l. s.; I
j. MeWOnRgle, .. ).
A Mandan dispatch savsa round hous'
and railroad shops have been located
that point by the N. p. Company. Th'
improvements, include round house
with twenty-five stalls; a machine sho
S5xlOO feet; n boiler shop, sox6O feet;
smith shop, 61xl25 feet; a car shop
6Oxl24 feet; boiler engine and coal hous.
2ixl25 ,eet; storehouse, +DxSO feet; ol
house, 20x3) feet; sand house, iix4.
feet; coal shutes, 4Sx30O0 feot, and Two
l6x24 water tanks.
A prisoner in the penitentiary a
Sioux Falls, committed suicide in hi
cell by hanging himself to the uppe
ventlator by his handkerchief H'
was John FaSco, aged about thirty. five
and was one OF the men transferre'
from Detroit last fall. He has been u
since October, 1881, and his term woui'
be no i'm December, 1884. The man ha'