The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01
Dakota Territorial News.

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the treasury.
Mitchell has dedicated a new Baptist
church.
Fish an inch and a halflong have beer
found in the water from the Aberdeen
artesian we'll.
Maj. Carrier of Yankton has bought2,.
400 bushels of wheat from the Grow
Creek Indians since harvest.
A colony of forty families from Huron
county, Ohio, will settle in Hand county
in the spring.
The Sioux Falls Packing company has
paid out $4,000 for hogs this winter.
The Yankton postofice has changed
hands III. w. Howard retiring and
Wheeler L. Bowen, of the Press and
Dakotian, assuming charge. Mr.. How
ard has been postmaster since 1873.
Anew reightroute is being established
between Deadwood and the Northern
Pacific road. 1t is called the Dickinson
route. The distance is given at 175
miles, and teams have come through in
twelve days.
A jamestown couple made the most
economical bridal tour on record. After
bidding their friends an affectionate
goodbye they went upstairs and went to
bed.
Mike Archer was caught while at
tempting to burglarize the De Smet,
pqstotfice.
Nels Swensson committed suicide near
Dool0pOnl hu honuinn hipnoa1f
A telegram from Vermilion, was re-
ceived at Bradstreet's announcing that
that B. F. Reen, proprietor offs general
store'at that place, had made an assign
ment.
The captors OF Kid Wade gave an ex-
hibition in Turner Hall, Yankton, at
which the kid exhibited his wonderful
skill with a revolver. Capt. G. C. Dodge,
of the capturing squad, gave an account
of the capture of Wade and a sketch Of
the operations of the Niobrara vigilance
committee, which has secured forty
thieves and returned as many stolen
horses.
Bismarck Tribune: The new capitol
building was again photographed by Mr..
Golf on the 10Th and copies will be sent
to the East to show to the world the
magnificent gift rendered by the citi-
zens of Bismarck. Many persons are
laboring under the delusion that the
capitol is as yet on paper. When spring
opens another sale of lots from 80 acres
of land, also donated, will take place,
fromthe proceeds of which the south
wing and the dome will be built.
A dispatch from Henry, Dakota, says:
DR.. j. Smith of Iowa and Doctors Ben
net and Briggs, of Watertown, amputa-
ted a log for Mr.. C. B. Elwood on the
Goth inst, for gangrene above the ankle.
The leg was removed quickly and care
fully under ether, but, singularly, the
doctors found no arteries to secure, on
the day following-though there had
been ar arteria oozing in the tissues
and the limb vas warm, the doctors
think obstruction of the main artery
near the knee may have caused the
death of the foot.
Jerauld county has at last been fully
organized and the officers will at once
enter upon their duties. The officials
will be as follows: J. NJ. Spears of FL
mer, sheriff; p. G. Stevens, deputy sher-
if; L. G. Wilson of Parsons, assessor; HI.
M. Rice of Waterbury, probate Judge;
w. ]. Williams of Elmer, probate Judge;
j. A. Mcfarland of Stetson, surveyor;
DR.. ID. +. Roger of Alpena,% coroner: r.
Y. Hazard ofCrow Lake, superintendent
of schools; r. M. Magee of Elmer, prose-
cutting attorney; A. B. Swart of Elmer,
5. P. H.Mocher of Crow Lake, and II.
ID. Fisher of Elmer, county commissions
ers; j. @. Gray of Alpena, #. Toffmeier
of Elmer, and M. w. Young of Parsons,
Justices; James Paddock Of Waterbury,
{. &C. Solbefg Of Parsons, C. w. +. Os-
good of Elmer, and l.. w. Castleman of
Alpena, constables. The county seat is
not yet permanently located.
Hon. r. F. Pettigrew has gone to
Washington on political business.
sDr. Parmalee Of Mitchell was married
recently to Miss Rose Gardner Of Berla,
Ohio.s
AT Albion, Iowa, John Peppe, a grain
buyer, committed suicide by hanging
himself.
An aged Scandinavian lady named An
ME Grimsend fell down stairs at the
Victoria hotel Fargo. She died a short
time after. She was about eighty years
old.
Rev. R. w. Kennedy, Presbyterian
minister at Gary, has been debarred
from the pulpit, in which position his
term has not yet expired and without
being ordered to resign by the presby-
terry or being paid.
Henry Lovejoy, who was sent from
Bon Homme county in 1882. to serve q
thirty years sen sence in the penitentiary
for rape, died at that institution, OF pull
monary consumption.
Mifchall Ia e~ndaavnring to secure an