The Dickinson press., 1884-05-31
DAKOTA news NOTES.
Dakota Odd Fellows increased 4S De,

Dakota Odd Fellows increased 4S per
cent last year.
The commissioners of Kidder county
offer five cents a head for all gophers
killed in the county.
A mountain lion isplaying havoc with
stock in the vicinity of Steele.
Mike Wagner, one of the Oldest citi-
zens of Pembina, has inherited $75, 900
by the death of his brother in Germany.
Hyman, Reid & S%chornbling will
build a ffty-barrel oat meal mill at
Parker, with q capacity for $50, 900
bushels of oats and 10000 bushels of
corn a gear.
Watertown, is, for the present, to be
the terminus of the Western extension
of the Minneapolis & st. Louis.
TWENTY-FIVE dollars has been expend-
ed on the Agricultural college building
at Brooking.
Silver j. Melhous of Hillsboro commit
ted suicide by hanging himself, because
Widow Olson, for whom he worked, re-
fused to marry him.
Warren Whipple and Morgan Hazner
have been arrested at Mandan, and held
to the grand jury on a charge Of burglary.
A car. loaded with stock and emigrant
goods belonging to Mr.. Clifford, took
fire between Gladstone and Dickinson,
| IacfroV,sr<r Ave- hood 80 ,xoo1V a~ 1855.
household goods.
F. G. Gilman of Chamberlain has Sc
cured the contract for the erection of
twenty buildings for the government
for Drifting Goos's band, to be 16x3O,
all complete. The prics is $4,000.
Maj. John NJ. Bacon, seventh cavalry,
has been a assigned to duty ut Fort Tot
ten, and he will at once proceed thither
and assume command OF the post.
Gen. Beadle accepted an invitation to
deliver an address nthe evening of Jul
ly l, before the teachers of South Da-
kota, who meet at Huron July l and 2
to organize o teachers association.
Michael Hanley has brought suit
against the Northern Pacific Railway
at Mandan to recover $4,000 damages
for being scalded by his engine being
thrown down an embankment.
The hardware store of Luke & Frahn,
Grand Forks, was entered by burglars
and considerable goods taken. The
police are on the track of the perpetra-
tors.
Jack Sheridan, who was taken to
Fargo from Minneapolis on a charge Of
grand larceny, was bound over to tho
district court in $500 in the former city,
in default of which he went to Jail.
The returns Of the Sphinx county as
SCISSOR, just completed, show chat there
are 400, OSO acres of decided land in the
county. The total area of the country
is 967, $50 acres.
Gov. Ordway has appointeda mill
tary staff as follows: Thomas Free, of
Sioux Falls, adjutant general; John B.
Dennis, Yankton, paymaster general;
William H. Parker, Deadwood, judge
advocate general; Alexander Griggs,
Grand Forks, engineer-in-chief Aides
de camp, with rank of colonel: II. N.
Tyner, of Fargo, Wilbur +. Steele, of
Steele, Capt. w. Lucas of Chamber
lain, C%incinnatus w. Richardson of
Pierre, Frank j. Mead of Mandan.
Charles Richardson of Valley City.
Chamberlain Register: The banking
firm of Gale & Foote of kimball have
got into serious trouble. On last Fri
day a warrant was issued by Judge Nor
row for the arrest OF Mr.. Foote on the
charged of embezzlement. Officer Barnes
went to Kimball and arrested him,
brought him to the city, where he gave
bail in the sum of So, 500. The amount
said to have been embezzled is -, 900.
The suit was set for the Dist of Nav.
The house committee on public lands
has considered favorably Mr.. Reynolds
bill granting to Dakota Territory sec
ton Is, in the county of Aurora, for the
purpose Of a reform school, and grant
ing to the territory one section thereof
for school purposes. The section is to
be selected by the governor from any
of the public lands subject to private
sale OF entry.
Nels Jensen died at Flandrau, from
injuries received a week ago in a fight
with Soren Christensen Jensen was q
Swede, and about fifty years old, and
Christensen is unmarried and forty
years of age.
Grand Forks has suffered from in
cendiary fires.
Grand C~ommandery Knights lem
plar has been instituted for Dakota, with
the following officers: Grand COM
mander, Samuel Roy, Deadwood; depu-
ty grand commander, William d.
Sites, Sioux Falls; grand gencralissi-
mo, DIR. D. Frank Etter, Yankton;
grand captain general, NJ. A. Brewer,
Fargo; grand prelate, Rev. j. M. Nc
Bride, Sioux Falls; grand senior war
den, A. T. Bigelow, Bismarck; grand
junior warden, Edward Porrett, Fargo;
grand treasurer, Il. D. Farmer, Yank-
ton; grand recorder, Edwin E. Sage,
Sioux Falls; grand standard bearer, l..
B. French, Yankton; grand sword
bearer, r. G. Lake, Deadwood; grand
warden, L. B. Graves, Deadwood;
grand captain of the guard, William L.
Doolittle, Sioux Falls.
Hundreds of teams are engaged in
gathering buffalo bones near Bismarck,
So o ton being paid for them. For the