Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-31

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Splnk county valuation has increased from
$z5,0OOin 1880 to SO OIL 0 In 1888.
y is claimed that 80. 900 people settled in
the Huron land district last year
Huron people are discussing : $40 0Ol OPP
era house project.
Eight thousand tons Of ice wall be bar
vested in Sioux Falls.
Canton VIII give a public square ser
school purposes.
M~innehaha county has raised the liqaor
license to $500.
Dell Rapids saloons pay . ccnse.
The price Of liquor licenses in Sioux
Falls have been advanced to $500.
The Beeman hotel at Hurley, barned re-
gently. Loos, 50. 800; Insurance., &l 100.
The question of Judge EiaasS's successor
still hangs fire.
Joseph Allen of Hurley has concluded
his Inventory, and finds that his liabilities:
including mortgages, to be about Sill 0 10;
and his assets, after ~deducting all exemp-
ton amount to SIC 900.
q. s. Palmer, assistsnt United States at.
torney for Dakota, heretofore located a.
Yankton, has been ordered TO transfer his
headquarters to Fargo.
Twenty families from Jefferson, wis.
Will locate in Aurora county In the sprfEg.
fhe man reported froz IN to death at Lew.
Is. was q section hand, who wa not dead.
and all is right.
The Hughes county grand jury has Id.
iicted q man who took up d stray animal
and failed to advertise 1t.
The Burleig5 county bar unites in rec.
commencing George II. Flannery for Judge
ofthe Third dictrict.
Fred Brown OF Lstcher, stole a deed
which his grandmother gave him 10 mail,
sold it or $1,000 and blew in the money
lie has been arrested.
Land sgents at Huron are making q rack
ct over the decision Of the commissioner OF
the general land OH % that daaI pooof Pr
ozrs may ba madeby local land 0fises for
small fees.
Rsv. M. NJ. Tooke OF Rockford. I'll, who
mas bean appointed financial agent OF the
University OF Dakota now building
aas reported an oatsids sab3cripsioa OF
aver $40, 600 and says he can double the
amount by September.
The county Commissioners have over
ruled the protest Of the temperance ascot.
alton of Mt. Vernon, bat compromised the
matter by allowing license to ON two So.
IONS ins cad of the several applying.
Joseph Sues who raped a littis girl in the
lin river limbr sear Eioux Falls, last
nonth, has been found guilty, and will 20
to the Territorial peniteEtiary Tor a term
Of not less than ten years
The business OF the Grand Forks land Of.
fee for December was: 275 pre- anption
filings, g, 600 acres; l2s homestead entries,
I'D, Il5 acre i5t tim Yer caSs NstrEss,
1867 acres; 29i caah entries. 53, 8a5 acres;
Al anal proof, five Years' residence, 6,55S
ores. Total 1853, 235 acr $.
TIE new college building at Ordway il
to be fifty by eighty fee scr the main build
ing, with . wing OIL 81 her side forty-tWo
BY thirty-two feet.
Ii is o generally believed thst the farm,
err Matthias Larson, whc was found dead iD
his house on his farra near Woonsocket,
vas murdered, as he was known To have
had considerable moLey, which he carried
on his person. The money Is gone aid can
not be accouated for.
TIE exauil ation of Mark Wellstein Of
Fargo, charged with obtaining several
thousand dollars worth of goods from
Milwaukee dealers, occHp ei NEST Of tha
time OF The Milwaukee, municip,l court
recently. the testimony "a OF q ve-y
damaging character, and he will probably
be held for trial.
Father 81 g p a III Jamestow nhas been
appo nied by Dish > IL, Ian | OILS Paul aid
b. hop Marty OF d * Ia ~ s~upsrsaIend inn
i rat on to the N rthwe.r, and will visit
New York in a Jew dns on thai BUSINESS.
w. s. Kelly, charged with 20 s ,ning
Capt. HI, F.nan at Fort Benret, has beaa ao-
quilted, a ter trial in the Territorial court
at Yankton,
Father Sheehan of Yankton has recently
received and placed in good homes, twenty.
dive poor children from Boston.
Receiver Chandler, OF the Yankton land
office, has gone to Rhode Island, where be
was married on the TIN inst.
The Cltizsns' National Bank OF Grand
Forks has elected; President, J. s. Eshel-
n ID; vice president, J.. Walker Smith,
cashier, s. 8. Titus. The cspital stock Of
$4,000 was doubled.
The Firsi National Bank of Grand Forks
elected: President john McKeivey vice
president, William Bulge; cashier, G. K.
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