The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
ElEaTa NEWS NOTES.

1T is said that Col. Pat Donan pines
to be a Washington editor.
The Two buildings of Frank WTinship
and Clelland & Sanlter at Grafton,
were burned. Loss, 81, 700; insurance,
81 300.
I. J. Gray, late president of the Bank
of Dakota, at Mitchell, will remove to
Alexandria, where he will establish a
new bank.
At the recent election the no license
question was settled in favor of prohibi-
ton in K~ingsbury county.
The Ursuline sisters of Grand Forks
will establish an academy at Harrisburg,
on the shores of Stump lake.
Officers of the Wyoming Stock Grow
er's association have telegraphed Gov.
Ordway, asking that quarantine be es-
tablished to protect cattle from the
foot and mouth disease,
Mrs. Orr, charged with killing Mrs.
Healmquest at Deadwood, through NAL
practice, was acquitted.
Five thousand dollars have been sub
scribed fora Congregational and a Cath
Ollie church at Wisner.
Modiste Roberts of st. Johns Devils
Lake, has raised some fine specimens of
tobacco plants.
Afre at Camp Poplar river, destroyed
Lieut.. Heistand's quarters, the adju-
tant's Office and the telegraph Office.
The body of Lawrence Rooney, for
merly of Blackberry, Kane county, ILL.,,
was found frozen thirty miles north of
Blunt, Oak. Rooney has a wife, daugh-
ter and son in Kane county.
Mayor Raymond, of Bismarck, dis
covered the other day hat he was en-
titled to $500 salary, and at once turned
it back into the treasury.
J. G. Steele, one of the enterprising
business men of jamestown, was recent
ly married to Miss Carrie CARTS, one of
the bellies of the highlands in Boston,
Mass.
j. A. McKroskey, charged with the
murder of William Meyers at Bonilla,
on the I'd inst, waived examination at
Huron, and was committed to await the
action of the grand jury, w. A. Liv-
ingston, charged with being an Access
sorry, was also held.
The county commissioners of the ter
ritory will hold a convention in May
next at Fargo. The object of the con-
yention will be to regulate certain mat
tiers of taxation, and to discuss some of
the laws which need repair.
The First National bank Of Madison
was organized last week. The capital
stock is SIS, 900, with the privilege of
increasing to 500, 600. G. G. Kennedy
is president and T. d. Fits cashier.
Spotted Elk, the Ogalalla Indian,
who has been confined in Jail at Dead
wood since last fall for the murder of an
Indian, on motion Of Hugh ). Camp
bell, United States prosecuting attorn-
ey, after the decision in the Crow Dog
case, was discharged by Judge Church.
ii. 81. Cline, late proprietor of Cline's
Opera house, Grand Forks, was arrest
ed there, charged with selling mort
gagged property. The case was contin-
ued to March 20, and bail fixed OF $500.
The Indians in Sitting Bulls camp
at Fort Yates appear to be well armed.
A correspondent says: "You cannot go
any distance from the agency back on
the prairie but you meet Indians well
armed, and numbers Of them with both
guns and revolvers. The writer's at
tention was called to two half breeds
and an Indian, in the post-trader's store
the other day, Who each had q revolver
strapped to his side.
The seal Of the diocese of North Da-
kota is about twoinches long by one and
a quarter wide, On the top is North
Dakota" bottom, Deus incrementum
dat" which means "God giyeth the in
crease" In the upper end are the two
! Greek letters "ch r" for Christ: next is
a sickle, sheaf of wheat and pillow, all
emblematical ard very appropriate,
her m the inter, key and crozier,
and underneath the Bishops initials,
Nv. D.. w"
Little Dog, the chief, is under arrest
at Benton for killing Bill Jones. The
Record says Little Dog Is about twenty
five or six years of age, rather good
looking for an Indian and built like q
reindeer. He is one ofthe most infuen-
tial members of his tribe, and like his
father, q fearless warrior. The senior
Little Dog was a firm friend of the
whites in the days when his own and
every other tribe in the country were
hostile, and it is hard to realize that his
son would attempt the life Of a white