The Dickinson press., 1884-08-23
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

Judge Seward Smith, of Dakota has
decided to take up his abode at Huron.
Dakota has a large batch of new pos.
tai order offices.
At Groton 23s harvester have been
sold this season.
Gov: Ordway is spending the summer
at his home near Waterloo, NY.
A band tournament will be held ct
Watertown Sept. 16 and IL, ut which
prizes of 5000, 800 and $50 will be
given.
James Erby, living near Aberdeen,
shot and killed q buffalo which weighed
600 pounds dressed.
Albert Erickson, a young swede boy,
aged seventeen, was drowned in the
river at Fargo.
The fourteen-year-old daughter of
Mr.. Christman, o farmer living near
Jasper, was killed by lightning during
the scorm Sunday morning.
Sixth district Dakota Republicans
will convene at Redfeld Oct. 8,
The vein of coal recently discovered
at Yankton is over eleven feet in thick
ness 1852 feet from the surface.
During the storm Elisha Douglas, who
lives near Yorkville, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
Robert Cook, a we'll known citizen of
Pembina, was cleaning his gun recently
when it was discharged and wounded
him so badly that he died soon after.
Billie Smith has been arrested at
Dell Rapids, for keeping a house of ill
fame in rooms in the Merchants hotel
building.
The county commissioners of La
Moure have just paid 1857. so for $3.50
gopher scalps. Kidder has settled for
3,627 at the rate of five cents apiece.
Editors of the Third Dakota legisla-
tive district met and resolved to EXTERN
mate rings and bosses.
The storm which passed over town
ship l45, range 81, Grandin, made a
complete wreck of all the crops in its
path.
About two weeks ago the body of an
infant, recently born, was found in an
outholse at jamestown. Andrew j..
johnson, of Mclean county, the reput-
ed father of the child, has been arrest
ed.
Frank Shelly, of the Store theater
variety show in Fargo, fell from a
stairway eighteen feet about midnight.
When picked up he was insensible and
is not expected to live.
Further developments in the H. H.
Hackett murder case zeal Glendale,
show that he was seen there in COM
pany with other parties about July 25,
and the sheriff is now tracing them up.
The drowned boy found last Saturday
in the James river, in Dakota in all
probability belongs in Milwaukee.
He is supposed to be Parker j. Owen,
fifteen years old, who worked at the
Gugler photographic establishment.
The corner stone of the new Catholic
church at White Lake was laid amidst
the booming of cannon and music from
the Plankinton band. In the afternoon
Bishop Marty went to Plankinton and
performed q like service for the Catho-
lies Of that place.
j. W. Sims was acquitted of the
charge of numbering Frank Shelley at
Fargo. Judge Stacks stated that
while there was no doubt q murder had
been committed, there was no evidence
to hold the defendant. Who struck
the fatal blow is still a mystery.
Three months ago Mason's livery
barn in Pembina, with eighteen horses,
was burned. and the cause attributed
to incendiarism. Since then it has
leaked out that Mason himself was the
aus of the fire, and those whose
horses were consumed have Instituted
proceedings against him.
Hon. e. L. Spence, probate Judge of
Brown county, Dakota, has prepared a
work of some 500 pages, entitled the
probate Code and Practice of Dakota
Territory"
This years appropriation for surveys
in Dakota is SAC, 900, of which 100000
will be used this fall and $40, 900 held
back for future use.
The annual reunion of soldiers and
sailors of the war of 1865 will be held
at Yankton on the 9th, 10 and 18th of
September.
A woman in Berseford was crazed by
fear during a recent thunder storm.
The Sioux Valley fair will be held at
Sioux Falls on the "a, 25 and 26 of
September.
Valley Springs has anew bank by the
Messrs. Mckinney, of Sioux Falls.
Dell Rapids is to havea twelve thous-
and dollar brick business block.
Methodists are building q $1,000
church in Springfield.
The county of Cavilleer has been Or
ganized. Its location is on the bounala-
ry directly north of Devils Lake. The
county seat is called Langdon, and is
three miles south of Doyle's lake. The
chairman of the board of county COM
missioners is L. G.. Uracong.
Huron Oak, Special.-Eastman. &
Nance, proprietors of the Bank of Hu-
ron, made an assignment to Probate