The Dickinson press., 1884-10-18
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Hoskins Lake, Mcintosh county,
neighborhcod is being rapidly populat-
ed by settlers: hundreds of choice
claims still selling at S1.25 per acre.
The Little Falls & Dakota extension
to q point on the Union Pacific, will
commence at Browns VALLEY in the ear
ly spring. The Browns Valley branch
is now operated by the Mlnitoba
A gentleman who visited st. Stevens
mission, near LIE Beau, o few days since,
was informed by the Rev. Henry Swift.
the pastor in charge, that many of the
Indians were absent, ostcnsibly on a
hunting expedition, but said that in
reality they We're selecting homesteads
in the coal region of the reservation.
Bramhall, a new proposed station on
the Northwestern, six miles west of Rec
Heights, has been established by circu-
lar dated Oct. 4, and issued from the
traffic department of the Omaha.
The Bismarck penitentiary has been
completed according to contract, and
the same turned over AMI accepted by
the directors.
William D. Hull of Sanborn, was
fatally injured by q runaway team, dy-
ing 20 after.
The county seat question was settled
permanently in favor of Chamberlain,
and all the cases dismissed or thrown
out of court.
An incendiary attempt to burn the
Western house, at Bismarck. damaged
the building to the extent of 81, 900.
Mr.. Shultz, Crystal Lake township,
lost his residence, barn, grain, hay and
in fact everything he had, by q prairie
fire. He barely saved his family.
Parker grain buyers have bought co.
600 bushels of flax already this season,
and have paid out over $50, 900 to the
farmers for that seed alone.
w. H. ingalls,, originally from West
Point, N. Y, later of Clear Lake, Iowa,
who was a member of Acacia Masonic
lodge OF Grand Forks, died of heart
disease in tho latter city.
Mike Mclaughlin is in Jail at Sioux
Falls, charged with raising a check for
$9.17 to 800. II.
George Hills, late cashier at the Sioux
City Il Pacific office, WAS arrested at
Nermillion, and taken to Sioux City,
charged with embezzlement.
Eden is being populated at the rate
of nine babies a week.
VIM. d. Hull was killed by q
team at Sanborn.
ID. Stiles was convicted at Chamber
lain, for purchasing stolen property nd
harboring thieves and Judge Edgerton
sentenced him for three years at the
territorial p%enitentiary at Sioux Falls.
Young Mason WAS convicted and given
one year for horse stealing.
The Dakota extension of Burlington,
Cedar Rapids s. Northern is rapidly
nearing completion. Track is now
being laid at the rate of two miles a
day. 1t is expected that the track
layers will reach Clear Lake, by Nov.
l, and Watertown by the middle of
the month.
The district court at Deaawood
granted a temporary injunction against
the treasurer of Custer county restrain
ing the collections Of IS, 1000 taxes from
the shiedley cattle company.
The Father DE Smet Consolidated
Mining company paid their 37th divi-
dend, one of 20 cents q share, a%ggregat-
ing $40, 600. Total Of nine dividends
this year $3.50, 600, or 81. 80 per share.
Before Judge Edgerton, at Yankton,
result was reached on the motion for q
new trial i'll the cases of q. =. Carpen-
ter and W. D.. Russell, convicted in the
United States court for conspiracy in
the issuance of fraudulent surveyors
scrip. The judge denied the motion for
a new trial, and fixed the 18th of Oct
ober rs the day for sentencing the con-
victed parties. An appeal from this
ruling has been taken to the supreme
court of the territory, and itisprobable
that Judgment will he suspended pend
ing the decision of that tribunal,
Wesley Mcleod, q former policeman
of Sioux Falls, attempted suicide by
shooting himself at Alphina.
Doc Bently was sentenced for six
months in the Sioux Falls peniteutiary
for stealing wheat at Redfeld.
A young lady by the. name of Miss
Nellie Knapp, formerly known as Miss
Meeker, who has been holding down a
claim neat Canning during the past
summer, applied for a certificate to
teach of the superintendent, and was
in this city about a week ago to take
the required examination. She subse-
quently returned to her boarding
house in Canning, and q number Of
the married ladies in that town became
jealous, and informed her THAT unless
she left town they would tar and
feather her. She has disappeared, and
q reward of $50 is offered for news of
her whereabouts. She has always
borne a good reputation, and much in
dlgnation is felt against herpersecutors.
Henry G. Timm, wife ard three child
rem, who left New York city five months
ago to settle on a soldiers claim near
Redfeld, Sphinx county, walking the en-
tire distance and wheeling a hand cart