Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-08-07
Dakota Territorial News.

Dakota Territorial News.
Kidder county paid s30.this season in gopher
bounues
The Sioux Valley fair viii be held at Sioux
Falls Sept y, ., and &
The salary Of tho postmaster at Msndan has
been raised from SLIGO to $3.50 per annum
town is to be laid ont at Thief river
by Mr.. Kralsschman, Of Red Lake Falls
Smut in the wheat fields causes alarm in
Southern Dakota
One thousand cords Of wood were burned by
an iEcsndiary at Brownsville, Black Hills.
Dakota's G. A r meet a. YAnkton in Ssp-
TENDER.
StAtistieian Baynes literally esnma tes the
wheat yield Of Dakota at 100000 bushels
George Gibbs, the victim Of Ansley's bullet
At Bismarck, is still in a very Precarious con-
ditiOn.
Farmers elevators are under construction
At Argyle and Stephens on the Manitoba ro&d
That at Angus is completed
Glendale has organized a board OF trade with
fifty charter member.
r. G. Brophy of Cooperstown, is nephew
Of Gov. Cleveland
J. p Foster, one of the pioneers Of Bismarck,
and the man who opened the first rest aurant
IN the place, dropped dead Of heart disease in
the street at hiles City
II is reported that a movement is on foot to
take forcible possession of WinnebAgo reserya-
ton, in Hughes county, and dispossoss the In
dams Of the soil they claim.
To- .kn ooutr.t pIo,L uII, Al. In -.
crop is unusually heavy, the bushes throughout
= large scope of country bending beneath the
weight of this inely-hayoredfruit
Reports from Milbank and Big Stone City, on
the Hastings Il Dakota road, say is appear
ingin many fields, and fears are entertained that
il viii spread
In one week recently forty seven government
claims, amounting TO $3.50 acres, were filed on
at the United States land Office in Fargo, and
final proofs were made on thirty-six Gains, OF
!, 100 acres.
Coal veins have been found near Yankton,
some two hundred feet down. :
Lieut. Chance Of Bismarck, who drew SIS.
900 in a lottery last winter, is in Europe.
Miss Rosa whalen, Misses Eliza and Rosa
McGin and Mr.. Whalen located on claims in
Buffalo county. Some newcomers attempted
70 jump their claims, and went so far as TO
build shanties on them. When they were
finished, the young ladies harneased up their
horses, hitched q chain round the shanties
and dragged them Oh.
Rev. Mr. Allen of Grand Forks preached on
the Ward trial verdict from the text, And ]
saw the dead both small and great, stand be-
fore God, and the books were opened
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grapher, is now having built at Pullman. Ill,
an elegant operating ear for his special work
on the line of the road
The new hotel being built in Bismarck has
been named HThe Lamborn,S iu honor of
General Land Agent Lamborn, Of the North
erIl Pacific road
The sites have been selected for four rev
warehouses and two new elevators, on the
Fargo Southern road, and two others are vel
to be located The points chosen are Grace
vile, Abercrombie, Fairmont, Christine, Hick.
son and Wild Rice The contract has beer
awarded to E. s. Tyler, who proposes 70 have
the buildings completed in time 10 receive this
seasons crop.
Mrs G. A. Monclow was thrown from her
riding pony at Bismarck, and her foot being
caught in the stirrups she was dragged nearly
~ bNpCh. Ag uOEHs EhNutl tilNnk Street IN
frantic jumps, with Mrs. Monehow dragging
beneath him, and it is a miracle that she was
not killed As it was, she received a fractured
shoulder. several gashes in the head and other
bruises.
A lady living a few miles outside OF Sheldor
came into town the other day very much worked
up on account of a saloon-keeper selling
liquor to her husband She marched nm n
the saloon, and, at the point OF a seyen-shooter
ordered the keeper 70 close up has 'store,S
saying she had killed one saloon keeper and
would soon make him a fit subject for a boz
and picket fence He closed up his place
p. d q
The Fargo Hail Insurance company, which
went out Of business three years ago on ac-
count Of the fact Of apparent immunity from
hail storms and consequent lack Of bnsiness
y about to DO recognized with a capital oil
$4,000.
Judge Levisee has filed his decision in the
suit Of Buttz vs.. Cotton, in regard 10 the Lis.
bon town site The decision is favorable to
Buttz.
Hon. Seward Smith, the new Judge of Inc
Fifth judicial district, arrived at Yankton. He
came 70 consult with Chief Justice Edgertop
and TO qualify as associate justice
Mrs. Barker, living on a farm near CasscIton.
Cass county, applied for a warrant for the ar.
rest Of Napoleon Guigras. who has been en-.
ployed ne cook on her husbands farm. Dur-
ing MIRA Bankers absence, it Is charged. chi.
gras broke into her bedroom and appropriated
diamond rings worth $500 and A watch
worth 300 Gnigras had a bad record. having
formerly served q term in the penitentarv fog
grand larceny. He Is supposed to have hid
den has plunder. Mrs Barker's husband was
absent at the time OF the robbery.
Brookins, Oak, Special: Boston, the cowboy
outlaw, who shot and killed Griffin at Elkton
was arrested at Pierre by Sheriff Comfort. who /
IN company with sheriff Gould and Dapntg
koddle, landed him in this place.
Inc complexion of the next territorial leci.-
lature is the leading question in South Dako-
ia politics.
1t is estimated that the crop on 10000 acres
about Tower city was destroyed by tho late
Storm ""
There are ninety six students in the yermil-
hon university, thirty nine of them being
young ladies. ~
The Merchants bank Of Deadwood has ia
clared a semi-annual dividend of ten Der
The orange tree at Versailles. known
as the "Great Constable, is nearly five
hundred years old, 1t was planted in
l422 by Eleanor Of Carlisle, wife Of
Charles ILL.,, King Of Navarro.
A Norman paper predicts the spread
Oh cholera in this couptrv ne n n;,~