The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-21

ADAMS a about 500 of the spolls on
ms person when arrested and it is sup
posed that be andhis friend had divided.
At Pembina, by the burning of VIM.
Mason1s livery stable, there were some
very valuable horses destroyed, the not
able ones being Mr.. Booker's 2:40
horse, valued at $500; Mr.. Bookwalter's
(the collector of cnstomsl three-minute
horse, valued at $3.50; Customs Inspec-
tor Cavaliers team, valued at $500. Mr..
Mason had an insurance Of So, 900 on
the building andits contents, So, 900 be-
ing on the building, ST, 500 on the house,
$1,000 on buggies and robes, and $500
on hay and grain; So, 900 being in the
insurance Company of North America
and $3, 600 1.-THE Home Insurance of
New York Eleven of the horses
burned belonged to Mr.. Mason himself.
The entire loss will be about $14, 1000.
Hon. Va @. Metcalf, clerk of the dis
trict court and United States commits
sioner, is announced as a candidate for
the postmastership at Mitchell and is
receiving general Endorsement.
Judge Edgerton has appointed o lady
stenographer for the present court, a
sister Of ex-Gov. Davis of Minnesota.
Sergt. Swepstone from Fort Sully
took the remains of his brother, who
shot himself at Fort Yates, to Creola,
Ohio. ,
The case of w. Ell. Matteson, of the
Fargo Sun, for using language in his
paper calculated to bring the court into
his contempt, is on trial. The a is
said to be likely to prove o serious one,
owing to the line of action adopted by
the counsel for the defense.
The notorious horse thief, Charley
Smith, who broke Jail in Brule county
during the holidays, has just been caught
in a shanty on a claim in the south part
of lincoln county, where he was being
harbored by James Hornback, one of
his former pals. He defied the sheriff
and posse to arresth him, but was secured
by strategy and has been brought to
Mitchell by Deputy Sheriff Barnes.
The present school census of Dakota
now amounts to $4,000 children of the
proper school age, and the counties of
Ransom, Custer, Sergeant, and Faux
each have lady county superintendents.
The proposition to bond Lake county
for $15,0 00, to build a court house and
Jail at Madison, was voted upon and re-
suited in a majority of ~ in favor Of
issuing the bonds.
The family of Frank OdelI of Eden
We're mysteriously poisoned. Though
zone Of them died they we're fearfully
and alarmingly I'LL.
John j. Reichert died suddenly at the
Winona house III Pierre on Monday Of
congestion of the lungs.
Brown county had an assessed valua-
ton in 1883 of 81, 265, 800. In 1882 it
was 1851, 129.
The brick veneer has fallen from
nearly one-half of the Ely block in
Fargo, built last summer.
Biglen has been convicted at Dead
wood of ma~nslaughter in the first
degreee.
Lumber is being delivered OF the
line between Dickinson and the Black
Hills for the erection of stage stations,
and before long the Dickinson and
Black Hills stages will be making
regular trips.
The Cooper brothers, founders and
owners Of Cooperstown, in the county
of Griggs have just made a sale of s.
720 acres of land in the neighborhood
of Cooperstown at So per acre, or 1885,
500 for the whole, the Coopers to have
this years crop also, which is worth
so, 000. The purchaser is Mr.. How
ard Oyitha Of New York city.
Mr.. Scofield says his farm near Far
go is not sold. He did sell it under
contract for $50 900, but the purchaser
declined to take it because of the rail
road reserve of right of way under
which it was sold to him.
A meeting to establish a grand COM
mandery of the Knights Templar will
be held at Sioux Falls, May IA. There
are five chartered communicates in the
territory.
Black Hills papers claim that Tuttle
was lynched by some Of his own gang
who feared he would turn states evil
denee and "ggiyethem away"
The house of Henry Hanson, near
Sheldon was burned with its contents,
the family barely escaping with their
lives.
An unknown workman was killed by
falling between cars while on his way to
Redfield with o car of emigrant NOV
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