Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-28
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A s25. 00a Masonic temple is to be
built at HuFpn.
Six more woodhawks have been ar
rested near valley City for cutting tim.
Der on govsaRment land.
Robert Ills OF Fort Pierre hes been
arrested, charged with selling liquor te
| Indians. ~
United States Commissioner A. b.
| Lucas, at Castalia, held George Lane
to answer to answer to a charge of per.
| Jury in q land contest case. John w.
Gillings escaped arrest on the same
| charge by going to Wisconsin,, and John
| w. Gethen Was discharged on a tech.
n~icality and viii probably be arrested
again.
A shooting affrayoccurred~ recently at
| Devils Lake, in which A. j. Bolster
had his hat riddled with bullets, and
received an ugly scalp wound from Q
| leaden missile H. MsCreel and David
Coolin did the shooting. Saturday
morning Bolster swore out q warrant
| for the arrest of Cree1 and Coolin,
the latter on-s charge Of assault with
intent to kill, and Creel on q charge Of
assault. The case came before Judge
McClory, who held the defendants in
$500 bail.
John I'll. King. q member of the re-
publican territorial commissions of Da.
kota, residing at Chamberlain. is now
stopping in Washington as q meraber OF
the Dakota delegation in the interest OF
opening the Sioux reservation and other
matters. He says he is Iii favor of Da-
kota holding two conventions, one for
Southern Dakota and one for Northern
Dakota, and each convention electing
two delegates and two alternates to the
national convention. Mr.. King says a
number of Dakotians have expressed
themselves favorable to this, and he has
as O member of the committee, formally
made the request to the chairman, Mr..
Wells of jamestown, Oak. He says
there is no pronounced feeling In Da-
kota in favor Of any particular candi-
date for the presidency, Logan, Ores
ham, Grant and Arthur each have q fol
lowing.
Mrs. Fosnaugh is held at Huron for
taking $2,774 sent her by mistake by
the express company.
The secretary Of war has recommend.
ed that the military reservation of Fort
Rice, and q portion of that of Fort
Randall be restored to the public do
main.
A firm at Aryilla, a station on
the Manitoba, twenty-five miles west OF
the Red river, reports the purchase this
season of lac, 639 bushels of wheat, oil
which 124 ,873 graded as No. l hard, or
all but 15, 1855. OF the latter amount
$500 bushels inspected No. ] and No, 2
hard.
An election Is to be held in the Sisse-
ton Indian reseTvation for the purpose
or eIectins the showing oIncefs: AS
sistant chief five judges, attorney,
treasurer, secretary, sheriff, twenty rep
resentativas or two from each district,
n constable and n justice from each
district. This is new plan adopted
from this agency and practically give
the government OF the reservation into
the hands of the Indians themselves.
The city Of Sioux Falls has been en-
joined from interfering with the Erie
Telephone company, and the work Of
rebuilding the line has been commenced.
The suil instituted against the city by
the telephone company for SIC, 900 dam
ages is in no way effected by the above
order. 1t will be prosecuted just the
same.