Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-09-04
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

the burglar who vas trying to break IN
10 her house, and scared the fellow
away.
A rusty gun andthe skeleton OF q man
we're recently found near New Rock
ford.
At Grafton, Annie Feldman WIS shot
and killed by the accidental discharge
of agun she foundin the granary, placed
there by her brother.
Horse thieves attempted to take the
stock of Thomas Nelson, near Grand
Forks. They were fred at and n OF
them hit, but they all got away.
AT Caledonia, F. NJ. Bish was en-
gagged in oiling a shaft, in the Goose
River mills, when by accident, his foot
slipped throwing Mr.. Bish between two
rapidly revolving cog-wheels, causing
instant death.
The G.. Fl. Thomas post, G.. A. H., at
Redfeld, have arranged for 0 reunlo
of veterans at that place on Sept. ~,
IL and II. Preparation has been made
for the accommodation oil $4,000 soldiers.
At Emerson, Manitoba, a stock COM
pany has been organized to build ele-
yators and buy Minnesota and Dakota
wheat and ship it via the Canadian Pa
cifc to Port Arthur, and thence to
England via the lakes.
The labor of the Dakota ~penitentiary
at Sioux Falls has been leased to Nc
Farland & West Of Chicago, and will
be employed in the manufacture OF
boots and shoes.
Judge Edgerton has made Sanborn
county q judicial subdivision, and here
after terms of court will be held at the
county seat.
A Huron, special says: The territor-
ial normal institute began in the univer-
sity at Vermillioa yesterday morning In
charge of Prof. McLowth of Michigan.
The normal school Will continue two
weeks, and is free to all.
Crops around Belfeld are a totol loss
from the recent storm. Astrange coin
cidence is the fact that Just a year ago
on the same day and at the same hour
the remarkable tornado of 1888 swept
over Belfeld, demolishing nine houses
and otherwise causing much damage.
DIR. Pardee, while at Clear Lake last
week, secured two additional 500 0
subcribtions to the endowment fund OF
the Mitchell university, one from DIR.
Brush and the other from Elder Hart
sough. This swells the total endow-
ment pledged tonearly 500, 600.
The new directory Of Fargo contains
1882 names, aud on that the local pa
pers claim a population Of IL 1862.
Ed Gardner, of Clay county, has IT'S
bearing apple trees.
The first wheat brought to the Memo.
ken elevator this year was by Miss Bell
who delivered 172 bushels of No. | hard,
the product of seven acres put in by
herself last spring. Miss Bell formerly
taught school at Sims, but believing
farming more profitable, took a claim
last spring with the above result.
The Tyndall Tribune says n. NJ. Nc.
Dufie, the granger school master who
rented the Dunlap farm near Bor
Homme, skipped the country this week.
He mortgaged about fifty head OF STOCK
belonging to Mr.. Dunlap for 1925 and
left with his family for parts unknown.
A Turner county Justice of the peace
recently granted a divorce and awarded
alimony. The court agreed that as he
had power to marry people, he had
power to unmarry them, and would not
hear to any monkey work about ;uris.
diction in such a plain case.
The First National band at Larimore.
the stockholders of which organized
and established the Nelson County bank
at Lakota, have sold the latter institu-
ton tc, = J. Kane, George Martin and
Mowbroy z. Ncrthcote, who will in
crease the capitI to $4,000
Charles Hughes and John Brown,
indicted and convicted of participation
In the robbery OF a German smigran,
named Schramm, near SturGis, s1rat
months ago. have been sentenced &c tEt
p~enitentiary for life. Their pal, Fiddler
was lynched at the time the crime was
committed.
Business Of the Fargo land Office foi
the week ending Avg. %; Homesteads
4 filings, 1 ,120 acres; tree claims, 3 fl
ings, 800 acres; declaratory statements
8 filings, 1880 acres; soldiers declara
tory statements, none; final proofs, 81
filings, 10 400 acres. Totals, So filings
i 5000 acres. Total cash receipts, 3d.,
803.5 30. Contest cases IL.
Orders have been issued by Gen.
Terry for q survey of the military res.
ervations at Forts Sully and Meade,
the purpose being TO settle dispute.
and TO clearly define the boundary lines
by appropriatiDg posts and marks as to
prevent any future encr oachment OF
these lands by the neighboring settlers,
The work will be done by Lieut.. John
Biddle, chief engineer officer Of the de
The territorial board of equalization
has Just finished its labors. The in.
crease in the total assessment Of the
territory is this year 80, O00, 900 more
than last, Notwithstanding the fact that
the assessors universally placeda lowe,
valuation upon all property. At the
same ratio of valuation the total assess.
ment this year, instead of $50, 00O, 600
would have been 500, 000, 900.
r. E. Wallace, president of the First
National bank Of jamestown has made
q confession Of judgment 10 his broth,
er, Charles s. Wallace, Of New Castle,
Pennsylvania, in the sum Of $50, 900,
and the bank hiss suspended business.
1t is understood, that the depositors
viii be protected by securities.
Pillsbury g. Hurlburt have beer
erecting m elevator at Caledonia, with a
shipping capacity Of 100, 900 bushels.
Sugar cane has been raised successful.
~ In Dickey county this year.
The recent pointed and vigorous
speech Of the superintendent. OF schools.
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