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in Beadle county, has commenced action
to foreclose the same.

in Beadle county, has commenced action
to foreclose the same.
It is believed that there are more old
soldiers in Dakota than n other new
section. They come to take advantage
of their homestead privilege.
A robbery of an overcoat and gloves
from Mr.. Steele of East Grand Forks
was committed by a man named Gilbert,
formerly of Cleveland, Ohio.
T. j. Goodman of Des Moines is in
Yankton with a proposition for the or
ganization of a stock company, with a
capital of $4,000, to start q pork
packery.
d. 7. Bramble, head of the firm Of
Bramble, Miner & Co., wholesale gro
GERS of Yankton, says that the firm had
turned over all its property to the First
National Bank of Yankton until m
thing could be known about the stand
ing Of the firm.
William E. Finch, postmaster at e.
lendale, has been taken to Fargo
to answer the charge ofrobbing the mails
OF registered letters while in charge of
the postofice at Glendale. The case
against him is reported conclusive.
The Episcopal mission at Santee agen-
cy was entirely destroyed by fire. The
loss included church, schools and resi-
dence of W. M. Fowler.
Tower City has raised the necessary
bonds, and Baptist university board of
locating have formally located the North
Dakota university at that point. The
building will be commenced in the
spring.
G. r. Cook of Miner county has been
lodged in the Mitchell jail on the charge
of having two living wives. The charge
will be investigated. He is ameek-look-
ing man, and nearly sixty years old.
A stock company has been formed to
run a pony express from Deadwood to
Belfeld, Billings comfy, on the North
ern Pacific.
Diment brothers of Columbia have
made an assignment. Liabilities, So, 500;
assets, $4,000.
Beamer, the Norton, wheat thief, who
skipped his bail with a team belonging
to his bondsmen; wa capturedin Mime
sofa and is now in custody.
A company has recently been organ
lied in Bismarck, to be known as the
Bismarck Loan and Trust company, and
it will commence business within O few
weeks. The officers are Frank B. Allen
president; Marquis de Mores, vice-presi-
dent; r. B.. Mellon, treasurer, and
Frank La w secretary. Capital, $780,
900.
7. P. Allison, who keeps a cigar and
peanut stand at Fargo, was robbed on
the night of the 25th, He was on his way
home about IL o'clock, when two thugs
attacked him, threw him down, and re-
lieved him Of $25.
R. j. Valentine of Valley Springs
was lodged in the county Jail on
the 18th inst, under $1,000 bonds,
for the shooting with the intent to kill
Henry Harvey OF that place.
"Doc" McCumber, who was in Wah-
peton some months ago, has been arres-
ted and returned to that city, charged
with bigamy, it being claimed that he
has three wives in that vicinity.
The new church at Milbank was first
opened for religious service this month.
Rev. I. L. Granger, of Bunker Hill, is
the new pastor.
Joe Keenan, Of Casselton is q fugitive
from justice, being wanted to assume
paternity cfthe child of q thirteen-year-
old girl whom he is charged with seduc-
ing.
The receipts of Minnehaha county
last year were 500 sos. 83; expenditures,
$55, 427 SO; leaving a net surplus Of
$39 ,O78.4 Al.
Sheriff Allentown has just returned
to Mitchell, from Iowa, havingin charge
G. H. Ernst, who was indicted at
Mitchell for felony, but jumped his
bond, leaving o. H. Perry, his bonds
man, in default. The prisoner brought
plenty of money with him to secure
bonds.
Frank Beamer, who was found guilty
before Judge Lavayea at Grand Forks,
on a charge of stealing seventy-ive
bushels of wheat, and was bound over
in the sum of $500 bail, has skipped the
country.
Malcolm McGeloran, charged with
m~anslaughter, was acquitted at Fargo,
+horo NOT haino avidonca Tn oonv;ot
The Daylight says one can stand on
the townsite of Briton, the new town
projected on the Tower City railroad,
in Day county, and see the smoke from
a thousand claim shanties. The rail-
road is expected to reach there in July.
A call has been issued for a conven-
ton in favor Of the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, the meeting to be COM
posed of citizens of north Dakota, fol
consultation as to the best means Of se-l
curing the object designated in tn
meeting. The meeting will take place
in the Methodist church, Fargo, on
March 4.
The sensation of the day in LaMoure
and throughout the James river valley
is the arrest by United States detee.
tives of q number of persons who have
been fraudulently holding or seeking to
acquire title to government land.
Nearly fifty persons belonging to La
Moure and Dickey counties have laid
themselves liable to prosecution, and
owe ~ +bo %o;1r