The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
TERRITORIAL NEWS

secretary; w. II. Hardy, Genesee, treas
urer.
Fire at Waupacca destroyed two frame
buildings on Main stseet. One building
was owned by Lars Peterson. and was
used by hun as a grocery and dwelling.
The other was oEne! Dv Nels Jensen,
and occupied by Jens Peterson as a sa.
loon.
Alarge number Of settlers aboutseven
miles up the cut from Chamberlain have
moved on the reservation. Abouttwenty
houses have been built and more will be.
There is a report tjlat.a secret organic
alton composed Of oversize men has been
organized to go upon the reservation and
stay there.
Mr.. Hauge of Aberdeen ahandons the
boot and shoe trade with $3.50 liabili-
ties.
A new bank has been incorporated in
Groton with a capital of 10000.
There were 2O4 deaths in Lawrence
county last year..
Mark Welstein, the Fargo merchant
arrested for securing $4,000 WORTH of
goods from Milwaukee on alleged false
pretenses, has been held to trial in the
sulh of 5 1000 in Milwaukee.
The Mennonities' colony, who have
been Lying about seven miles south of
Dakota City, have sold their farm and
effects to Yankton parties for $50, 900,
and will return to Pennsylvania.
The First National bank of Deadwood
reports loans and discounts for 1883 of
$21, 304 ,581.
The price or liquor licenses in Huron
has been fixed at $685..
The wife OF Rufus Earl Of Mount
Vernon, committed suicide. No cause is
known tor the deed. She leaves a iami-
ly of small children. \
The experiments OF the Northern
Pacific i'll tree-planting are satisfactory
10 the company and very encouraging to
the settler. Reports from this depart
ment show that cotton wood slips plant
ed last year are now eight feet in height,
and box elders have grown three fee:
from the seed during the n season.
The Barnes county commissioners
have decided to regard the law exempt
lliE lukiIOdu pIOpOIby mum LdAd5AOA 10
unconstitutional, and levy the same taxes
on railroad land as are assessed upon
other property.
The Dakota Territorial tax commission
has appointed T. M. Hit secretary and
stenographer. Judge Edgerton con-
cluded Mr.. Hit could not hold that Of
nee ana DE clerk or the district court for
Bon Homme county, and appointed y.
Ii. Stillwil clerk of court.
The first marriage in Campbell county
was that of E. c. Chilcotta and Miss Alice
M. Bushley. As no minister or civil of
Fl ser authorized 10 perform the ceremony
could be found, a marriage contract,
wherein it was naturally agreed TO &C.
cept and acknowledge each other as man
and wife unassigned by the contracting
parties, and acknowledged before q 10
tary public.
Search is being made for Nels Larson
of Coopertown, who disappeartd on the
night of Dec. y.
Joseph w. Fogarty, formerly Of Roch-
ester, Mimi, died suddenly at James
town.
A. G. Leach & Brother of Lake Ben
ton, a made an assignment to A. G.
Matthews.
De Smet has no liquor saloons.
Jerry Warner, the man charged with
abducting the girl from Eden, appeared
before Justice 5tTfi al Parker, and on
preliminary examination was bound
over to the district court and bail fixed
at $500. Parker has telegraphed to
EIa.. - f~.nnln f1~ h~l- 49, ~ kl1 -
CURED bail, but with little prospect of
success.
G. Hauge, boots and shoes at Aber-
deem, has just made an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors. Liabilities.
81 800; assets the same, not including
exemption. He can probably pay GO
cents on the dollar.
Mrs. Sager of La Grace, committed
suicide by drowning herself in a barrel
of water. She has been in poor health,
and is supposed to have been temporarily
insane.
Michael Stolier. indicted at Yankton
for adultery and Incest, plead guilty TO
the former charge Saturday the 18th and
will take a term in the ~penitentiary for
his offense.
Business of the Grand Forks land of
fee for the past year: 1,276 homestead
entries, 1893, loe 70 acres; 2,576 pre-emp-
ton filings. 412, 14O acres; SS6 timber cub
ture entries, l26, 42l SO acres 2,7S5 cash
entries. $l.25 per acre, 49l, 6l4.9O acres;
l28 final proofs, Fl ,853.95 acres; 81 sol
dier's declaratory statements, 1850
acres; 20 excess entries. 663 SO acres; to.
tai number of entries, LAT: total number
of entries, 7,747; total number Of acres,
/ ,249. 1908.
Grand Forks Herald: According to
the statement Of Mr.. Pillsbury. the fol-
lowing are the amounts of wheat and
ner CENT Of trade af the stations namad