The Dickinson press., 1884-04-12

II. Seaman had a large new sign
placed in front of his business place
this week. 1t says shot coffee, lunch,
beer, etc., at all hours.''
Geo. H. Scott, the we'll known fruit
tree agent of the northwest, arrived
here Tuesday and has been bnsily en-
gagged in loading a large consignment
of fruit trees for the Black Hills.
The annual statement of the finan.
cial standing of Dawson county. Mon
tana, published in the Times of last
week, shows the county indebtedness
to be $Sl,935.l4.
We have just received one of the
finest assortments of visiting cards
and fancy stationery ever brought to
the West Missouri country. Call and
examine them.
The Northern Pacific has appointed
F. Green, formerly train master of
the Minneapolis 4 st. Louis railroad
Assistant Superintendent of the Mis-
souri, division with headquarters at
Mandan.
James Cuskelly, Samuel Burnside
and several others who recently took
freight to Deadwood have returned.
They report the merchants as we'll
pleased with the time and good con-
dition in which their freight arrived.
The Northern Pacific has made
this a coupon office and tickets can
be purchased to any point in the
United States or Canada. They have
placed large and handsome walnut
ticket case in the depot for the use
of the agent.
The Dickinson Press has passed
it's first mile stone and in it's last is
sue entered upon it's second volume.
The Press is neat, newsy paper,
that looks out we'll for the interests
of its locality, and it deserves a
hearty support from it's constituents.
jamestown Capital.
Up to the present time only one
car load of freight has arrived.-Bad
Lands Cow Boy, April 10. Counting
from the lst of December up to the
present time only 36l,2S pounds of
freight has arrived and been shipped
from this point to Deadwood. Does
this look as though Dickinson OF Me .
dora had the freight route?
The Bad Lands Cow Boy goes off
into state of ecstasy this week over
the fact that forty freight cars were
standing on the side track at Medora
on Wednesday. Probably they were
empty freight cars that were unload
ed at Dickinson of Black Hills freight
and sent up there to get them out of
the way.
L. G. Hay, one of the enterprising
proprietors of the Beltield town site
and F. II. Ertel, were in town We'd
nesday and made the PEEss a pleas
ant call. They are both genuine
West Missouri boomers and are ex-
pecting quite large emigration to
their town this spring.
The fellow who is always hard up
has housed his reapers, mowers,
plows and other farm implements out
on the prairie where he last used
them. He will dig them out in the
spring and find that they are almost
useless, when he will want to buy
more on long time.-Northwestern
Farmer.
A middle aged man named Samuel
Wright, on the west bound train last
Sunday committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself in the head with revol-
yer while the train was crossing the
Missouri between Bismarck and Man
dan. On his person was a ticket to
Portland, o., $3.50 in money and two
baggage checks. He was from Fer
gusonville, N. Y. The remains were
buried at Mandan.
The preliminary examination of
Joseph McClung, who was arrested
at Little Missouri on the charge of
ravishing Bertha Freeze, little four
year old girl, at that place on Friday
of last week, ended yesterday by the
discharge Of the prisoner. The ex-
animation was had before justice
Auld and occupied three days. A
large number of witnesses were ex-
amined on both sides of the case and
after hearing their evidence and the
arguments by attorneys the court
held the evidence was insufficient to
bind young McClung over to the
grand jury and the prisoner was ac-
cordingly discharged.
The Black Hills Pioneer has the
following to say of one Of the freight
ing outfits which recently left here
with Deadwood freight: Eight wag-
ons arrived yesterday from the North
ern Pacific loaded with freight for
this city. They were heavily loaded,
bringing freight to several of our
merchants, among whom are Star &
Bullock, Kohorn L Weidenfeld and
others. The trip was made in IL days.
| Considering the condition of the