The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28

against them.
T Ii North western; Omaha and
Northern Pacific railroads have issueda
special joint freight tariff announcing
the rate on all Black hills freight, ex-
cept explosives and classes higher than
first-ciass, via Dickinson, Oak, from
Chicago, Milwaukee, Racine and Keno
sha, to be rs cents per 100 pounds.
The rate will go into effect tomorrow.
This has fairly knocked the bottom out
of Black Hills rates, upon which q war
has been raging for several weeks.
There promises to be a lively fracas
over this business.
A fire broke out at Grafton in Mickle
Bros. saloon, next to the railway coal
house, destroying this, also the build
ings of Frank Winship, and Clelland 20
Saulter adjoining it. No wind was
blowing, or the whole city would have
been in ruins. Miekle Bros loss was
81, 900.
Ephriam Bonner of Frederick was ar
rested for kidnapping Elizabeth Brisle,
on complaint of her father. Two years
g Bonner brought a fourteen-year-old
girl with his family to Dakota, claiming
that he first verbally adopted her, the
girls parents c~onsentinu. The father
repudiates the alleged adoption, and
claims his daughter. The father is from
Rockwell, Iowa, Bonner's former home,
and has been at Frederick two weeks
searching for his child.
Business of the Devils Lake land Of
fee for February: Presumption declar-
atory statements, 900; cash entries, 50;
soldiers declaratory statements s.;
homestead entries, II; timber culture
entries, 1913; scrip locations, IL. The
land thus taken under the several acts
for the past month amounts to 50, 035
acres, and lies within six townships.
The Dakota encampment of the'G A.
r., will convene at Sioux Falls, April
L. Over fifty posts will be represent
ed.
Lieut.. Cameron, at Fort Meade, was
robbed of $3.50 by Private Voc, who es-
capped with the plumber.
Gen. Cortez Fessenden of Huron,
surveyor general of Dakota, is in Wash
ington.
The Keller case was called at Grand
Forks by Judge Dewey, and as no one
appeared for the prosecution, the pris-
oner was discharged and the case dis
missed.
Ole Sobre, who was mysteriously
knocked in the head, a few days ago,
near Eddy's saloon, Grand Forks, is In
a ~precarions condition, Eddy was put
under $500 bonds.
The day before his death Bishop
Clarkson dictated: "Give the Dakota
clergy my love and tell them Of my con-
dition."
Bathgate is to have a new Touring
mill, built by farmers who contribute
wheat toward the enterprise.
Tildeman e. Taylor of Maitland,
Douglass county, have purchased the
property of the Mennonite colony, IL
miles northwest of Scotland. The
property consists of 3, 200 acres OF land,
upon which there are several houses,
barns, sheds, ETC., and several hundred
acres under cultivation. The price
paid was $50 900.
Mcpherson county has been organ
ged with the county seat at Leola,
with the following officers: Register Of
deeds and county clerk, Charles N.
Herried; sheriff, s.. p. Hardenbrook;
assessor, Joseph Worthy; Judge of pro-
bate, w. w. Cornwall; surveyor, X. ID.
Haynes; justices, Henry Hoover, An
drew Williams; constables, David E.
Collins, JIM. Hooker.
Capt. Griggs of Grand Forks hal
ought from Alsop Bros. of Moorhead
and the New York capitalists the two
steamers Pluck and Alsop and Eve bar
gas, and all the wheat warehouses on
the river, for the sum of $40, $50. He
expects to do O lively business in river
traffic and the conveyance of passengers
by the Selkirk and other boats the
coming season.
John Baker, a new settler at Rec
Heights, broughts fifteen-year-old girl
with him who gave birth last week to o
child by him. His wife has now APP
peared with three children, and itturns
out that the girl mother is the wife's
sister. Bakers real name is Bowden,
and he is in jail for adultery.
In Pierre, . compile Of large two-story
buildings, nearly adjoining, known as
Dutch Johns and Long Joe's," the
first occupied as q saloon ON the first
&c. Ell 49, 10000 l~~ Lk- ~-a1on- al
vous of a half-dozen demi-mondes. we're
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