The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-06-12
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.
Canton Is to have I, 8 s16,o 900 brio.

CIV LASS tAes we're naue aG OeadWood1 IN April
/ Another delegation 81 Dakota farmers
is interviewing Milwaukee railway OH
cials. y
! Prot. Bailey says the tin ore found in ]
the Black Hills is practically inexhaus
ible. tsss. 81 3s j
The Homestake company are prepar-
ing to build 9 200 stamp mill near the
mouth Of Gold Run, Black Hills.
Jack Miller, q drunkard at Spirit
Lake, resisting arrest and firing on the 4
officer, was shot and mortally wounded.
xperienced veterinary surgeons say
4here are no cases Of foot and mouth
disease among cattle in sanborn coun-
". nv u Ia
Thirty thousand dollars Of insane asy-
lum bonds have been ken in New York
md work on the Jamestown asylum will
proceed at once. IL 5$$s .:s3 15
5A new townsits has Just been laid out,
at the confluence Of the Redwaterwith
the Belle Fourche, in the Black Hills,
and called De Mores.
Goold Brothers Of Morris and New
Windsor, Ill. have begun work on a
$4,000 Touring mill at Howard, with
capacity Of; 100 barrels day. Ii
The State Bank Of Dakota, occupy
ing the first brick building erected in
Columbia, opened its doors for business
last week with . capital Of $50, 900.
Another shortage has been discovered
ii Barnes: county in the treasurer's tax
certificates, making the latest amounts
Of the defalcation discovered, $29, 6s5. 49,:
I ~ ~. q. Dakin ofi Clinton: Mass. has
presented Yankton college with an 800
pound bell, worth, in position, $500.
The college has also been presented
with clock worth $3.50.
An important arrest was made at Nil.
bank by City Marshal Merry. The
prisoner is Lyman Q. Burke who helped
burglarize the postoAice at Luverne,
Mimi, on the 18th inst. Y, =. 3, 81 :,
A. J. Worthington Of Madison, Wis,
who bought . large farm near Mitchell
last winter, is dangerously i'll from q
bite on the thumb, inflicted by q man
with whom he had struggle. * 5 5lyg
h "a raid was made upon the town Of
Bedford by horse thieves. -Four val
liable mules and one horse were stolen
from Gallien's farm, also one fine mara
belonging to William futile.
There is again prospect that the
United States court may wind up for o
lack Of funds, the appropriation having
been exhausted and no more money be-
ing available until after July i. 5S.5
At Lisbon @. II sperry, prosecuted
for selling liquor without 8 license, was
fined $40 and l costs, and he has com
menced an action against the city to
compel the issuance Of . license to him.
II The Northern Pacific has made mr.
rangements with connecting railroad
lines for several grand excursions to
North Dakota. The rates for these ex-S
cursions have been made one cent.a
mile. as
a young son Of Mr.. Burgess, living
near Castlewood, while playing with a
bottle containing some two pounds Of
powder, set fire to the powder, blowing
the roof off the house and tearing the
boys side open. !.
q A hodcarrier named Burke and an
other laborer had been on q spree at
Mitchell, and were quarreling on the
street in front Of Corbin's Livery stable
when City Marshal Eller tried to arrest
them. One Of the men escaped, and
Burk was struggling to get away when
Eller pulled out his revolver and shot
him through the bowels. Burk is not
dead but the extent Of the wound las
mot been definitely ascertained.
Aberdeen Special: Three citizens
Indignation meetings have been held
here protesting against the work Special
Agent Jaycox is attempting to do in be-
{ half Of tile government. Jaycox has
been bnsying himself for the past two
months looking up alleged fraudulent
entries, and several proofs have been
held for cancellation. People claim that
the government should make all inYes-
tigation before Or at the time proof is
made; that after the local land office has
once accepted proof, RECEIVERS recent
should be conc usiYe.
Newton Edmunds z. q: Shannon and
James Il, Teller, members Of the. Sioux
Indian commission, returne ID from their
official trip to the sisseton reservation,
whittier they went to arrange with the
SSisseton Indians for the sale Of por--
tion Of their lands. The commission
told the Indians brief what they were
instructed to do, viz. to arrange with
them . plan BY which the Indians could
sell the greater part 81 the million acres
owned by them at not less than $3.50
per acre. It's estimated that the lands
would bring at least 81, 900 900 which,
sat s per cent would yield 800, 900 PET
year, there BY making 9 cash annuity
d nearly $500 for each family Of six
persons. In reply to the commission