The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
TERRITORIAL NEWS


hiS' vi uiopiouio.
The federal grand Jury in vt. Louis re-
turned amended indictments agains.
Russell, Cameron and Carpenter, charged
with being concerned in Dakota land
scrip frauds.
The farmers hotel at Big Stone City.
was burned. Several people narrowly
| escaped with their lives. Loss, 5000;
partially covered by insurance.
A prominent local politician insulted
the wife Of a gentleman from Dakota on
Mason street, Milwaukee. and was
promptly punished by the irate husband
But for the interference OF the woman
the politician would have been seriously
| hurt.
Col. +. c. Geary of Plainview, Mimi.
has entered upon his duties as receiver
of the Fargo land office. His predeces-
sor, Thomas NJ. Pugh. will return to his
business interests in Mankato.
A melee occurred in Dawson few
days since, arising from the county seat
war in Kidder county, and Mike Nc
Laughlin was shot in the ear, and per-
haps fatally wounded.
4 coach load OF passengers. and twe1-
| ty-fve car load of immigrants movables,
will leave Grand Rapids, Mich, for Da-
kota this week; Their point Of settle,
ment is New Buffalo, which they will
seven car loads of furniture, agricultur-
al tools and passengers took the North
| ern Pacific one evening for Dakota. The
| .,Ia ~ n H.,
| for February are stated mt 1924 $50, of
which $62 $50 were for town lots. The
sales to actual settlers are Of very great
! importance as an indication Of the course
of business, not on this road only, but
on others east OF it.
| Huron is to have new three.story
| hotel, 40XlO0 feet.
| Under the new apportionment law the
legislative district Of which Yankton
coun,y is Il part is the only district in
| he territory which has but one repre-
sentative in the house. All the others
have two, except the Black Hills district,
which has three.
The newspapers Of southern Dakota
are giving a hearty second to the prop
osition for constitutional convention
at Huron made by the executive COM
mitee. This is purely south Dakota
affair and il is proposed to make a
constitution for south Dakota alone.
The election in Kidder county,to vote
bonds for $25, 600 court house at Steele,
was carried by seventy-seven majority
Mr.. McNally, Of the great railroad pub,
fishing house of Rand, McNaIly q Co,
lOld Col. Donan. We hove got nni
more maps Of Dakota than we ever did
of any other five states and territories
| never saw anything like your Dakots
BOOM"
The city council Of Fargo recently rat
fled the contracts for two bridges across
the Red river. The expense will be
borne bv Fargo and Moorhead. They
will cost about $50 900 each.
1t is seini-ofiicially stated at Washing
ton, that Indian Agent Parkhurst, o
Brule agency. will speedily be reques
ted to resign. He Is charged with no
aiding the Sioux commission In theII
treaty with the Brlles last fall, and will
having, through his vacillating course il
that and other matters, lost the respec,
and confidence of his wards. His sue
cessot's name has not yet been men
toned
State Superintendent Atkers has ap
pointed convention of county schoo
superintendents at Spirit Lake, July 3-iO
at which will be represented the counties
of Beuna Vista Cherokee, Hamilton, Har
din, Humboldt, Pocohontas, Plymouth
Webster, Woodbury., Wr ght, Allamakee
Brewer, Butler, Clayton, Cerro Gordoo
Chickasaw, Fayette, franklin. Floyd
Howard, Mitchell, Winnishiek. Worth
Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock,
Kossuth, Lyon, OBrien, Osceola, Pail
Alto, Sioux, Winnebago.
Bowen & Kingsbury Of the Yanktol
Dakotian have been designated to prin
: the territorial laws their bid being tn
lowest
J.H. Teller. the newly appointed sec
retary Of Dakota has taken the oath O
Office, George II. Hand retired from tn
) secretaryship.
The Redfield Journal risks its reputs
ton on the prediction that before sno,
flies ne xt fail there will not be a claim I
. be had in either Faulk, Potter, Walworti
Edmunds, Hand, Hyde or Sully cour
} ties.
, George Knowlton, alias "Rebe
George" tried in YaDkton for the muI
/ der of David Rauck, at Fort Pierre, I
Q 1877, was on the 18th inst, IN compan
I with the notorious Doc. Boggs and ar
J, other ICON" man, arrested III Chicago D.
j. detectives for completely in crooke
J, work.
J. Larimore, is agitated over u report ths
b. Theodore Hotten. machine agent. Was "a
> tected i'm improper relations with on
e Eliza Anderson of Excelsior, Wis,
= the sherman house Of the former plaC
: Friday. An observing servant girl gav
the couple away. Hotten is said
2 have wife and family at Lake Parl
- MINI.
:. Col. Lounsberry has spent the winte
II in Washington as a well-paid star rou'
y witness, putting in his spare time at I'll
: postofiice department, with the resu
that his salary as postmaster at Bismarc
1t has been increased 81 600, and add
,. tional clerk hire allowed.
e Cne numbered and fifty cars OF imm
grants moyables were at Winona dep'
ID Friday morning, en- route to Central Ds
,e kota.
y Grafton claims to have had trade
}. 81, AS. 900 the past year, with 277 ne
al buildings erected at cost of 1926 ,N5.
- A colony of 25O members, has bee
formed to locate at Aberdeen. of Wels
families from Milwaukee and Racin
II Wis, and Chicago.
J. An English traveller In America rsoor
!. as one result of his observations the gener