The Dickinson press., 1884-03-15
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

Brown county receives $4,000 per
annum from saloon licenses.
There is not a Baptist church in the
Black Hills.
Finch, the Glendale postmaster, goes
up two years and three months.
Large improvements will be made.
this season in most of Dakota towns on
railroad lines.
There are 300 900 head of cattle and
horses in the Black Hills, worth 50,
O00, 900.
MI. H. J. Wallace has been appointed
surveyor of Jerauld county.
Upward o ftwenty- five new Methodist
Episcopal churches will be put under
contract for erection in the early spring
in South Dakota.
Miss Rebecca Hobbs, matron in the
government school at Santee agency,
was married recently to a young red
skin.
The wife of DIR. w. z. Crane, of
Woodstock died the 5th inst, and the
body was shipped from Mitchell to
Cambridge, Wis, for interment.
Since its organization the Homestead
company has paid 1913 80, 600 in divi
dends; the Deadwood Terra, 81, $50, 900;
the De Smet, $4,000.
Mr.. John McKelvey, president of the
First National bank of Grand Forks,
has sold to Mr.. W. H. Hacknew his
1900 acre farm, with all his stock and
farming Implements, for $77 900.
Rev. B.. I. Humphrey of Kimball, has
received a call to the Baptist church at
Huron, and will accept.
A petition is being circulated in Cen
trail Dakota asking congress to set aside
Pease Island, near Chamberlain, as a
small national park for the use of re-
ligious and literary societies.
Erick Peterson committed suicide six
miles west of Canova, by attaching q
rope (used for a halter) to his neck and
jumping off a mangeri njhe stable. He
was forty-two years of age and has been
q lunatic for two years.
The Territorial Medical association
convention will meet at Mitchell, in May.
DR.. Van Velser of Yankton is president
andDr. W. e. Crane of Mitchell, secre-
tary.
Forest Ross, aged forty, living near
Blunt, Hughes county, became intoxi-
Gated, and vas found next morning,
outside of his shanty, frozen to death.
James Burns and j. P. Neff of Mill
bank have been arrested and held to
the district court in $500 each, for keep
ing gambling rooms.
Mason Brothers of Pierre have made
an assignment, with liabilities of $15,-
600.
Jennie, the simple-minded daughter
of Michael Meehan of Grafton, persisted
in o recent blizzard.
George Stickney of Elk Point will
open a bank at Grand View, Douglass
county.
A steam Touring mill will be built at
Canova this year.
Gladstone is to have a $15, 600 flour
ing mill.
Dakota has $50 newspapers.
The celebrated Sanborn county seat
contest cas- will come up before Chief
Justice Edgerton at the present term at
Mitchell. Eminent counsel are engaged
on both sides, and the case has aroused
much feeling in that county, as we'll as
a general interest to the people.
Fifty thousand dollars has been sub
scribed to build a 200 barrel Touring
mill at Mandan.
The granary of Robert Kerk, near
Springfield, burned with it's contents.
Loss, $4,000.
A board of officers to consist of Lieut..
Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer, Eight cavalry;
Capt. Samuel T. Hamilton, Second cav
airy, and Capt. George E. Pond, assis-
tant quartermaster, quartermaster Of
the board has been appointed BY Gen.
Schofeld to inspect and purchase 100
cavalry and 6 artillery horses for the de-
partment of Dakota.
There is general satisfaction over the
appointment of Judge Palmer, and the
spring term of court, which opens April
1, will bring him into exceedingly &C.
tive service to dispose of the very large
docket of cases, both new and carried
over from the fall term.
Matt. Miller, the man who attempted
the double murder of Finlay, has been
captured at Star Corners, Clay county.
He had hired to a man to work by the
month. He was taken to Hurley, and
delivered to the sheriff, who started with
him to Sioux Falls.
Huron journalists and a few others
have called o meeting of editors of the
counties of Readle, Sphinx, Faulk,
Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Potter and Sully
Dak,, to meet at Huron, March IL, to
form an editorial association.
A correspondent of the Freeman's
Journal says: eft is rumored that the
vicariate of Dakota is to be divided into
two vicariates North and South Dako-
ta), and a name I heard mentioned sew
eral times as a probable future incum-
bent of the new Episcopal see is that of
the Right Rev. A. Edelbrock, o. S. B.,
of st. Johns Abbey, Minnesota.
William E. Finch, late postmaster at
Glendale, Oak, was a few days since
convicted in the district court at Fargo
of tampering with the mails. He was