The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
Dakota Territorial News.

State of Minnesota.
Dakota Territorial News.
Kidder county paid $780, this season in gopher
bounties.
The Sioux Valley fair will be held at Sioux
Falls Sept. "a, Is, and &c.
The salary of the postmaster at Mandan has
been raised from 1,lUO to $500 per mum.
new town is to be laid out at Thief river
by MI. Kralsschman, of Red Lake Falls.
Smut in the wheat fields causes alarm in
Southern Dakota
one thousand cords of wood were burned by
an lncendiarya at Brownsville, Black Hills.
Dakota's G. A. Il. meet at Yankton in Sep
TENDER.
Statistician Baynes literally estima tes the
wheat yield of Dakota at 20, 900, 900 bushels.
George Gibbs, the victim of Ansley's bullet
at Bismarck, is still in a very precarious con-
dition.
Farmers elevators are under construction
at Argyle and Stephens on the Manitoba road.
That at Angus is completed.
Glendale has organized a board of trade with
fifty charter members.
r. G. Brophy of Cooperstown, is a nephew
of Gov. Cleveland.
and the man who opened the first rest aurant
in the place, dropped dead Of heart disease in
the street at Miles City.
1t is reported that q movement is on foot to
take forcible possession of Winnebago reserva-
ton, in Hughes county, and dispossess the In
dams of the soil they claim.
In the central Black Hills the wild raspberry
cropis unusually heavy, the bushes throughout
a large scope of country bending beneath the
weighto of this finely Favored fruit.
Reports from Milbank and Big Stone CITY. on
the Hastings g. Dakota road, say smut is appear
ing in many fields, and fears are entertained that
it will spread.
In one week recently forty-seven government
at the United States land office in Fargo, and
final proofs were made on thirty-six Claims, OF
500 acres.
Coal veins have been found near Yankton,
some VOL hundred feet down.
Lieut.. Chance of Bismarck, who drew s15.-
OUO in a lottery last winter, is in Europe.
Miss Rosa Whalen, Misses Eliza and Rosa
McGill and MI. Whalen located on claims in
Buffalo county. Some newcomers attempted
to jump their claims, and went so far as to
build shanties on them. When they were
finished, the young ladies harnessed up their
horses, hitched a chain round the shanties
and dragged them off.
Rev. Mr.. Allen of Grand Forks preached on
the Ward trial verdict from the text. "And
saw the dead, both small and great, stand be-
fore God, and the books were opened"
n law Ho vpao tho NOrtI,o,,, Too;&, ,,1,o4o
grapher, is now having built at Pullman, ILL.,,
an elegant operating car for his special work
on the line Of the road.
The new hotel being built in Bismarck has
been named 'sTlle Lamborn," in honor of
General Land Agent Lamborn, of the North
ern Pacific road.
Tho sites have been selected for four new
warehouses and two new elevators, on the
Fargo Southern road, and two others are YET
to be located. The points chosen are Grace
willie, Abercrombie, Fairmont, Christine, Hick-
son and Wild Rice. The contract has been
awarded to E. S. Tyler, who proposes to have
the buildings completed in time TO receive this
seasons crop.
Mrs. @. A. Monchow was thrown from he1
riding pony at Bismarck, and her foot being
caught in the stirrups she was dragged nearly
a block. The horse rushed down street in
frantic jumps, with Mrs. Monchow dragging
beneath him, and it is q miracle that she was
not killed. AS it was, she received q fractured
shoulder, several gashes in the head and other
bruises.
lady living a few miles outside of Sheldon
came into town the other day very much worked
up on account of q saloon-keeper selling
liquor to her husband. She marched ND tc
the saloon, and, at the point of o scven-shooter
ordered the Enanar tn close nm Ina esStpra !,
saying she had killed one saloon-keeper and
would soon make him o fit subject for q box
and picket fence. He closed up his place
p. d. q.
The Fargo Hail Insurance company, which
went out of business three years ago on &C
count of the fact of apparentimmunity from
hail storms and consequent lack of business
is about to be reorganized with q capital OF
$4,000.
Judge Levisee has filed his decision in the
suit of Buttz vs. Cotton, in regard to tho Lis.
bon town site. The decision is favorable tc
Buttz. >
Hon. Seward Smith, tho new judge of the
Fifth judicial district, arrived at Yankton. He
came to consult with Chief Justice Edgertor
and to qualify as associate justice.
Mrs. Barker, living on q farm near Cassolton,
Cass county, applied for q warrant for the al.
rest of Napoleon Guigras, vino has been en-.
ployed as cook on her husbands farm. Dur.
ing Mrs. Barker's absence, it is charged, Gui-
gras broke into her bedroom and appropriated
two diamond rings worth $500 and a watch
worth 800. Guigras had a bad record, having
formerly served a term in the penitentary fol
grand larceny. He is supposed to have hid.
den his plumber. Mrs. Barker's husband was
absent at the time of the robbery.
Brookins, Oak, Special: Boston, the cowboy
outlaw, who shot and killed Griffin at Elkton,
was arrested at Pierre by Sheriff Comfort, who,
in company with Sheriff Gould and DEPUTY
Roddle, landed him in this place.
The complexion of the next territorial legis.
lature is the leading question in South Dako-
tapolitics.
1t is estimated that the crop on 10000 acres
about Tower city was destroyed by the late
storm.
There are n%inety-six students in the Vermil-
lion university, thirty nine of them being
young ladies.
The Merchants bank of Deadwood has de-
clared q semi-annuaI dividend of ten pei
] cent