The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10

law SNNAA
IFS Lake, at a depth of twenty feet.
The report from New York that Sit
ting Bull took a bath in that city is not
credited in Dakota. 1t is thought there
is an impostor in the case.
While threshing for M. L. Squire in
the northern part of Sargent county, a
spark from the engine ignited the straw.
The separator was destroyed with 200
bushels CT wheat and a new wagon.
Brown county claims eighty eight
school houses, forty-eight of them built
the past year. which speaks well for
that fine county.
G. K, Howard of Sioux Falls killed
a cinnamon bear over twelve feet long.
aud weighing seven o eight hundred
pounds. .......
Wesley McLoud, at one time a police
man at Sioux Falls, shot himself dead at
Alpena.
The general store of p. j. Landin,
Flandreau, was closed by the sheriff.
Landin was rated a worth about
S. 1900.
An Indian visited Scranton, in whose
blanket half a bushel or so of fine
anthracite coal was found. He came
from the Moreau valley, and reported
that members of the government geo.
logical party had taken it out there.
f. M. Smith, of Vermillion is build
fng a monster barn, 82x110 feet and 30
feet high.
j. nj. Mcleod shot a gray eagle with
in the city limits of C~arrolton.
w. Pettigrew, a plasterer was arrest
ed and lodged in Jail at Bismsrk for
committing or attempting to commit, a
rape upon an eight-year-old colored
girl, p1rportIng to be the child of
Christ Carer eeisfea
Several artesian wells have recently
been bored near the Red river and pure,
soft water found in abundance at from
200 to 300 feet. Some of them have a
moderate flow rising several feet above
the surface.
The Grandin, one of the bonanzas ON
the Red river, has threshed 100, 900
bushels Of wheat, with an average Of
about nineteen bushels. 1T is not prob
able that any Of the big farms will av-
erage higher.
Devils Lake city will issue SIS, 600
bonds, with which to establish a fire de-
partment.
Mortality among children of Madison,
Lake county. IS unusually great.
Hanson county farmers state that the
cause of the difference in the growth
Of wheat this year-some fields giving
NJ abundanU yield whilo adjoining ones
will not give an average yields ow-
ing to the different depth of blowing,
the deep plowing bringing forth q
bountiful crop.
Mrs. Curtis, who was arrested OF
Chamberlain on the charge OF setting
out a prairie fire which burned up ali
III. s. Philips hay, had a preliminary
hearing, and was held to the grand jul
ny IN bonds Of 500.
The seventh Legislative district Re-
publican convention nominated A. b.
Smedley of Grant county, and d. ".
Kennedy of Brown county, for mem,
bers of the council, andN Il. De Woor-
ly of Ipswich, Il. Huntington, Franz
A. Eldridge Of Big Stone, and Fl. q
johnson Of Groton for members Of the
assembly.
Deadwood times: Five monster
bricks. the result Of two weeks run b,
the Homestake, Gold Star, Highland
Deadwood- Terra and De Smet mills,
valued in the aggregate at $97, OOO, wer,
brought dowp and with much otheI
treasure went east by the Pierre coach
The valuation Of Beadle county Is 81,
645, 476, with . tax Of S7b, $40.
The Fifth Dakota Legislative dis
trict convention met at Eqan and nomi
mated the following ticket Member
Of the council, w. il. Cameron Of LAX
county and III. III. Natwick Of Brooking
county; members Of the house, JOIN
Hobart and George Rice, OF Mood
county, and y. g. Southwick and Y. Y
~ Barnes. Of EfuoAburV n0uukv.