The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19

Lodul dHu quarter VI y ul11c1
diving in q short time after.
The thief who stole Assessor Wye
koffs horse was captured neal the Tur-
Tie mountains by the sheriff of Steele
county. He was brought back to Hupe
and was put in jail there preparatory to
to being taken to Fargo the next day.
He broke jail and escaped during the
night, and there is no clueto him. The
horse and buggy were recovered.
Orders have baen issued by the sec
rotary Of the interior disbarring the fol-
lowing named attorneys in Dakota:
Sanford McGinnis, Kimball; William
d. Mixter and a. j. Gibbs, Mine Cen
Ter, and G B. Bartlett. Salem. They
we're charged with completely in land
frauds.
The construction Of the new Bismarck
extension of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern, says the I,uyerne
Herald, is now completed to L,lyerne,
Mimi. The track is laid to adistance
Of about a mile and a half norta Of town.
The telegraph poles have been set as
far as Luverne, and tht wire will be
strung to that place In D sday or two.
The track is now laid about twenty
miles north of Pipestone and by the
time the iron is laid to tina { place from
the south, the road viii probably be
nearly completed to Watertown.
The house Of John Crofoot, near Alb
erdeen, was robbed Of $1,000 in cash.
After getting into the house, they n
tered Mrs. Crofoot's bed room and took
a trunk from under the bed, on which
she was sleeping, unlocked and ram
sacked it for the money, but not find
ing it they threw down the bed clothes.
and took the money from a belt which
she wore around her body without
awakening her OF any other inmate of
the house until they were about leaving
the premises, but pursuit was useless.
In Sioux Falls, Cora, daughter Of
Jacob Hawkins, aged about seventeen
years, took a dose Of creesote with
suicidal intent. The Press says: She
left her fathers house in the morning
to take the north bound train, o~stensi-
bly, for Minneapolis, but, it is said to
elope with q young man of that city,
who took his departure to some point
out form here on Saturday. Her faith
er's former house keeper, learning Of
the girls movements, fastened to the
depot and walked her back home. Up.
on reaching the house she repaired up
stairs, wrote a letter to her father and
swallowed the drug, but was saved by
the prompt action Of a physician.
Gov. Pierce has recently issued a
proclamation appointing an auditing
board, whose duty it shall be to make
rules and regulations for auditing the
accounts of the commissioner for Dako-
ia for the coming worlds fair at New
Orleans. The members of the board
Will be Alex Mckenzie, w, III. Mckay,
Yaslkton; and r. Brown Of Canton.
Lightning was incessant during q
shower and struck several grain stacks
neal Ashton. 4. Lewis, living seven
miles east, lost two stacks containing
about 700 bushels Of wheat, and Chase
Brothers, q short distance north of the
town lost about $50 bushels.
At Yankton, there were over Is 900
soldiers present at the soldiers, rannian
fiFuii grand army posts were present
from VermiIlion, Elk Point, Canton,
Sioux Falls, Hurley and Salem. The
exercises of thA stand we're interesting
entertaining and were mainly of q pa
t-;etsiio character. Chief Justice Ed.
gerton delivered a short address Of vel
come, to which Col. Duncan responded.
Maj. Free of Sioux Falls, commander
Of Grand Army pests for Dakota, then
spoke briefly, when Gov. Pierce was in
PRODUCED. The great mass Of people
now saw Gov. Pierce for the first time,
and all were favorably impressed and
received his able address with cordiality.
Col. Oliver, q prominent politician of
Arkansas then delivered a set address,
at the close OF which Gen. Campbsu,
of Scotland, Oak, an old Mexican war
yeteran as well as Of the late war, was
called for and responded happily.
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