The Dickinson press., 1884-08-16
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

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Trail county denies any damage to
crops from storms.
j. Millene Link, treasurer of Wal
worth county, ,v.s married at Kankakee.
ILL.,, to Maggie, daughter of J. A. -Traup.
The Yankton coal vein has been drilled
into five feet, and is supposed to be
much thicker. The quality is good.
Huron has a band tournament Sept.
l6 and II, to which eighty-seven bands
have been invited.
o.. h. Carpenter, of Lincoln, ILL.,, is
living in Blunt. He was acquitted of
killing Fora Burns.
A new township plat of township 1877,
range ~, was received at the Bismarck
land office last week. This land is three
miles South of Fort Lincoln on the Lit
Tie Heart river, adjoining the Fort Rice
reservation on the east.
Lieut.. Charles F. Roe, Eleventh in
tantry. has been detained for Temporary
duty as depot quartermaster at Bis.
marck, OAK, and will relieve Capt. F.
u: Hathaway, assistant quartermaster,
VINO mas been ordered to take station at
the military prison at Fort Leayenworth.
Kans.
In q recent hail storm st Grandin
there were about 5000 acres of wheat
destroyed, and the loss is estimated at
$1o,oOO. The largest sufferers were
Rand & Brown, 1900 acres, Kenyon g.
SIM, 300, and James Nicol $50. It is
the smallest ones that are the worst
hurt.
A woman in Beresford, was crazed in
o recent thunder storm. She looked
out of a window IN the night and saw
her husband stricken dead by lightning
and his clothes burning. She was taken
to Yankton last week.
Hon. E. L. Spence, probate Judge OF
Brown county. OAK, has prepared a
work of some five hundred pages, en-
titled the probate Code and Practice
of Dakota Territory"
s. +. Stair has disappeared from Carl.
ton with 81, 900 in school moneys.
Old man Stockwell, who has been in
the Black Hills seven years, and during
that time has worked all the time, cut
wood, saving logs, or burning charcoal,
has struck it rich at last. He is eighty
four years old. His grandson has come
on from the East after him, and will
escort him back to where O legacy of
$4,000 in cash awaits him. It is re-
ported that this is o portion of q 4,O0O,-
600 estate in which the old man is more
largely interested than any other n
person.
At Huron, the testimony in the case
of j. B. Weeks, arrested on Saturday
by the United States marshal charged
with fraud in filing soldiers declara-
tories in the Huron land district, closed
after an all night session. United
States Commissioner Taylor held the
accused to balm two thousand dollars
to await action of The United States
Grand jury. Bail was furnished.
The Dakota capitol, as it stands, cost
the contractor 1888, 600, and he has
5000 worth of work to do to complete
his contract, which he is now proceed
ing to do. He has received from
the commission in cash $1O3 900,
and in the way of counts assumed or
guaranteed by the commission, $4,000,
making the amount actually paid on the
building by commission $1l6. 600. The
contractors loss on the building will be
about 500, 600.
Lieut.. Col. William T. Gentry,
Twenty-fifth infantry, will be relieved
from duty at Fort Meade. OAK, the
latter part of the present month, and
will take station at Fort Smelling,
Mimi, where he will assume the duties
of the commandant of the post, sue
ceeding Col. George L. Andrews, the
first commanding officer, who goes
East to attend the Swain court martial
and also on general recruiting service.
Father Stephan, director of the
Catholic Indian bureau, has Just re-
turned from a visit to the Indian re-
servation OF Devils lake. He found
the Indians all engaged in working
small farms of from ten to forty acres
each. They have q splendid wheat
crop, beside barley and other cereals,
and are happy, Industrious and con-
tented. Maj. Cramsie, the agent, is a
live, energetic manager, and makes the
Indians work, so that they are now self
sustaining and only receive government
rations when they are sick. Father
Stephan expresses himself as highly
pleased with his trip.
Bismarck Tribune: The consumption
of the native coal of the Missouri slope
is growing rapidly, and coalsmining
promises one of the leading industries of
the country. To show the incre asein
the demand the following figures con-
corning coal shipped from Sims are CIV
en-: Coal shipped from November, 1882,
to July, 1883, 10 .72O tons; from Nov
ember, 1883, to July, 1884. 22,33O tons,
or an increase in the latter period of
9,6lO tons. People are learning to use
this coal, and many of the leading bust
ness houses and hotels of the country
are using it exclusively for fuel.
Deadwood Dakota Special.-John
Hunt, arrested at Pierre for obtaining
$4,000 from the First National bank on
q forged draft purporting to be issued
by the Market bank, Detroit, on the
bank of the Republic, New York City.
returned, and is nov in Jail here. He
is a remarkable sleek operator. He