The Dickinson press., 1884-04-05

matter of grading freight rates, and
elevator management, and will do all in,
their power to remedy any evils which
may exist.
George v. Slsby was nominated
postmaster of Mitchell.
Dakota has thirty national banks,
with an aggregate capital of. 81, ,55l, 800.
The Deadwood Times says there is
more snow on the divide than there was
ever before known. It is. so deep that
it is almost impossible to get through it
with empty wagons, and more coming
1t is claimed that the population of
the Black Hills is 100000.
The De Smet mine cleared sos, ,S27
last year.
Kanut A. Hamre, Norwegian living
near Highmore, was found nearly dead
about two miles from town, being bad
ly frozen, and died soon after being
taken home.
w. A. Cox of Mitchell gets forty five
pounds of milk a day from one COW.
Ex-Postmaster General Tyner, form
erly of Indiana, now of Fargo is in
Washington.
Acting Gov. Teller appointed George
II. Hand as q member Of the tax COM
mission to fill the place made vacant
by @. S. Palmer, who has been appotn-
ted judge Of the Fourth district.
While making running switch,
Frank B. Hall, yard foreman on the
Northern Pacific at Fargo, fell under
the cars and had his arm terribly
mangled by the wheels. His arm was
amputated at the shoulder and he is do
ing we'll.
G. q. Thayer, cashier of the bank OF
Flandreau, has sold his interest in the
bank to o. D. Brown of Sioux City,
and will be succeeded by Mr.. Brown OF
Larimore about April 1. Mr.. Thayer
will start another bank in some new
western town.
The body ofD Darlington of Lakota,
who was lost last winter while after a
wagon load of provisions for his family
has been found about two rods from his
house. At the time he was lost his
horses were found near the stable, one
frozen. A party has been organized tc
search for Ole John Buhl, who was
lost Dec. 6.
Cornelius E. O'Neil, convicted at
Deadwood of manslaughter in the sec
ond degree, was sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary.
j. G. Cochran, respected pioneer o
Sioux Falls, died in that city aged sixty
five years. He leaves a wife, daughter
Mrs. FL. ID. Carter Of Minneapolis, anC
son, 10 c., with whom the parents
made their home.
The Valley City Times says Capt
Northrop Of Kibbv has been arrested
for embezzlement of school funds, the
alleged offense being the negotiation of
three school orders for 81 800, the pro
ceeds of which have not been turned
over to the trustees.
A new candidate for the governorshil
of Dakota has appeared in the person o
q Mr.. Lansing Of Albany, N. Y, who i
a friend of the president and Secretar,
Folger.
Frank d. Hall, alocomotive fireman
had his arm crushed at Fargo by falling
under the wheels Of an engine.
At Glendale Sheriff Larson is unde
arrest for assaulting Jacob Bornhold
his employe, with chair.
William Reyseck, of Benson, tried tt
split log with powder, blew the fus'
and lost his eyesight.
An Irishman, named Lawrence
Rooney, started from Huron from hi.
shack on section 33, III, IS, Oh the
morning of the blizzard, Feb. 18. Moth
ing was seen of him until Sunday last
when his body was found by party o
shack builders.
The mines of the Black Hills, hav'
mined and milled 1,512, ,O37 tone of goot
ore, yielding $1O, ,434, 11G, an average o.
only 1918 per ton, making profit ,ant
paying in dividends So, ,l42, 500.
The first annual encampment of th'
department of Dakota, G.. A. r. is to b
held in Sioux Falls on the 29th and 30tl
of April.
M. o. Tracy has discovered six foo
vein of coal on the Box Elder, near til
government crossing of the Little Mis-
souri, in the Black Hills.
Suits against tho Lost Bonanza Min
ing company at Deadwood have bee
dismissed IA work in the mine will b
resumed April 1.
Mail service between Parker and Ver
million has been discontinued.
A branch of the Clay county bank a
vermillion, will be established at Gran
View, Douglas county, April 1.
One farmer near Elk Point has sol
$3,4OO worth of butter the past tw
years.
Rev. j. N. McLaney died in siou
Falls. The deceased was in his thirty
sixth year and unmarried. He wa
Congregational pastor at Vermilion i
1S74-7; at Sioux City until January
1879; thence to Sioux Falls five years.
A hearing is to be had at the Creels
burg Devils Lake, land Office, in til
matter of the pre- emption claims of tn
Ward boys, who were killed last yeal
DIR. Ward 1.-The administrator, in behal
of the heirs, files a protest against tn
final proof of A. A. Hanshaw. This
of special interest. rs it involves til
right of heirs of deceased squatter o
unsurveyled government lands.
Unusually rich deposits on tin hav