Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES,

-. vi hldder countv
Killed ~ a head for all gophers
q mountain lion is playing hayoc With
o'A IN the vicinity of Steele.
Mike Wagner, one of the o,do.. a.
zens OF Pembins, has inherited s75 oon
" 2 death of his brother in Germany
LYMAN, Reid & s~chornblng will
puiid o fifty barrel oat mea, nil :.
rerker, with a capacity for Isn oon
ousneis OF oats and $1,000 bushels 81
"a'ertown, is, for the present, to bo
we terminus OF the Western extens;o,
OF the Minneapolis & st. Louis.
TWENTY-FIVE dollars has been .,n0us
ed on the Agricultural college, bn;la;n.
at Brooking. Dding
Silver J. Melhous Of Hillsboro con,
ted suicide by hanging himself bocor.0
widow Olson, for whom he worked 10,
fused to marry him.
warren Whipple and Morgan Haaner
ave been arrested at Mandan. and bo,d
'othe grand jury on a charge of burglary,
A car, loaded with stock and emioront
goods belonging to Mr.. Clifford. took
nre between Gladstone and Dickinson
destroying five head of stock and soma
household goods.
4. Z. Gilman of Chamberlain has 50.
cured the contract for the erection If
twenty buildings for the government
Tor Drifting Goos's band, TO be I6Y8o
all complete. The prics is 50, 1000.
Maj. John NJ. Bacon, seventh cavalry.
has been assigned to duty at Fort Tot.
ten, and he will at once proceed tbitber
and assume command of the post.
Gen. Beadle accepted an invitation to
deliver an address en- the evening of .Ju-
ly l, before the teachers of South Da-
kota, who meet at Huron July | and 9
TO organize a teachers association.
Michael Hanley has brought suit
against the Northern Pacific Railway
at Mandan to recover $40. 900 damages
Tor being scalded by his engine being
thrown down an embankment.
The hardware store of Luke g. Frahn,
Grand Forks, was entered by burglars
and considerable goods taken. The
police are on the track of the perpetra-
tors.
Jack Sheridan, who was taken 10
Fargo from Minneapolis on a charge O:
grand larceny, was bound over to the
district court in $500 in the former city,
in default Of which he went TO jail.
The returns of the Sphinx county as.
SCISSOR, just completed, show that there
are 400 ,0S0 acres Of decided land in the
county. The total area of the country
is 1857, $50 acres.
Gov. Ordway has appointed a mill
tary staff as follows: Thomas Free, Of
Sioux Falls, adjutant general; John B.
Dennis, Yankton, paymsster general;
William II. Parker, Deadwood, Judge
advocate general; Alexander Griggs,
Grand Forks, engineer -in-chief. Aides
de camp, with rank of colonel: n. n.
Tyner, Of Fargo, Wilbur F. Steele, of
Steele, Capt. W. Lucas of Chamber
lain, Cincinnatus W. Richardson OF
Pierre, Frank J. Mead of Mandan,
Charles Richardson Of Valley City.
Chamberlain Register: The banking
firm of Gale & Foote OF Kimball have
got into serious trouble. On last Fri
day a warrant was issued by Judge Nor
row for the arrest of Mr.. Foote on the
charge of embezzlement. Officer Barnes
went to Kimball and arrested him,
brought him to the city, where he gave
bail in the sum of 81, 500. The amount
said 10 have been embezzled is 81 200.
The suit was set for the 2lst of May.
The house committee on public lands
has considered favorably Mr.. Reynolds
bill granting to Dakota Territory sec
ton Is, in the county Of Aurora, for the
purpose of a reform school, and grant
ing TO the territory n section thereof
for school pur poses. The section is to
be selected by the governor from any
of the public lands subject to private
sale or entry.
Nels Jensen died at Flsndrau, from
injuries received a week ago in a fight
with Soren Christensen Jensen was a
Swede, and about fifty years old, and
Christensen is unmarried and forty
years of age.
Grand Forks has suffered from in
eendiary fires.
Grand Commandery Knights Tenn
plar has been instituted for Dakota, with
the following officers: Grand COM
mander, Samuel Roy, Deadwood; depu-
Nv grand commander, William u,
Sites. Sioux Falls; grand generalissl-
mo, DIR. ID. Frank Etter, fankton;
grand captain general, Nj. A. Brewer,
Fargo: grand prelate, Rev. j. M, Nc
Bride. Sioux Falls; grand senior war,
den, A. L. Bigelow, Bismarck; grand
iunior warden, Edward Porrett, Fargo;
grand treasurer, L. ID. Farmer, lank-
ton. grand recorder, Edwin Il. Sage,
Sioux Falls; grand standard. bearer, l..
Il. French, Yankton; grand sword.
bearer. II. G. Lake, Desdwood; grand
warden, l.. b. Graves, Deadwood;
grand captain Of the guard, William L.
Doolittle, Sioux Falls.
Hundreds of teams are engaged IN
gathering buffalo bones near Bismarck
~ a ton being paid for them. For the
present the bones are being shipped TO
Philadelphia, where they are ground
and sold for fertilizing purposes.
Miss Hattie Taylor of Canton, who
Wa seriously injured in a railroad ac-
c;dant last winter has received $4,000
dapaaqes from the Milwaukee railroad
company.
Mrs Won Doren has surprised her
,rod;tors in Bismarck by taking French
Leave with three m~ortgaged horses.
In the case of William Ceilings at
Ashton, supposed to have been muir
dered. the coroner's jury found that
CnIlines came 10 his death by, violent
means and believed TO be murdered by
- ,arson 10 the Jury unknown; but