The Dickinson press., 1884-06-07
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES..
Canton is to have q SIS 900 brick
school house.

Elkton, Brookings county, has a bank
with $25 900 capital.
One hundred and five timber claim
entries were made at Deadwoodin April.
Another delegation of Dakota farmers
is interviewing Milwaukee railway Off
Gals. sz~y.~
Prof. Bailey says the tin ore found in
the Black Hills is practically inexhaus-
tible.
The Homestake company are prepar-
ing to build a 200 stamp mill lear the
mouth OF Gold Run, Black Hills.
Jack Miller, q drunkard at Spirit
Lake, resisting arrest and firing on the
officer, was shot and mortally wounded.
Experienced veterinary surgeons say
4here are no cases Of foot and mouth
disease among cattle in Sanborn coun-
ty.
Thirty thousand dollars of insane asy-
lum bonds have been taken in New York
and work on the Jamestown asylum will
proceed at onca
A new townsite has just been laid out
at the confluence of the Redwater with
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 q
capacity of 100 barrels a day.
The State Bank of Dakota, occupy
ing the first brick building erected in
Columbia, opened it's doors for business
last week with o capital of $50 900.
Another shortage has been discovered
in Barnes county in the treasurer's tax
certificates, making the latest amounts
of the defalcation discovered, $29, 6S5. so.
N. G. Dakin of Clinton, Mass, has
presented Yankton college with III 500
pound bell, worth. in position, $500.
The college has also been presented
with a clock worth $3.50.
An important arrest was made at Mil
bank by City Marshal Merry. The
prisoner is Lyman G. Burke who helped
burglarize the postofice at Luverne,
MIMI, on the 10th inst.
A. J. Worthington of Madison, Wis,
who bought a large farm near Mitchell
last winter, is dangerously i'll from a
bite on the thumb, inflicted by a man
with whom he had a struggle.
A raid was made upon the town of
Belford by horse thieves. -Four val
liable mules and one horse were stolen
from Gallien's farm, also one fine mare
belonging to William futile.
There is again prospect that the
United States court may wind up for a
lack of funds, the appropriation having
been exhausted and no more money be-
ing available until after July 1.
At Lisbon G. 7. Sperry, prosecuted
for selling liquor without a license, was
fined 500 and costs, and he has COM
menced Oh action against the city to
compel the issuance of license to him.
The Northern Pacific has made ar
J rangements with connecting railroad
, lines for several grand excursions to
North Dakota. The rates for these ex-
cursions have been made n cent a
mile.
A young son Of MI. Burgess, living
heal 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.
A hodcarrier named Burke and an
other laborer had been on a 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 has
not 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 the government. Jaycox has
been busying himself for the past two
months looking up alleged fraudulen,
entries, and several proofs have beer
held for cancellation. People claim tina,
d the government should make all inves
tigation before or at the time proof il
made; that after the local land Office ha.
once accepted proof, receivers receip
should be conclusive.
p Newton Edmunds, PC. Shannon ant
James H. Teller, members of the Siou,
Indian commission, returned from theil
official trip to the Sisseton reservation
whittier they went to arrange with til.
Sisseton Indians for the sale of q Dol.
ton of their lands. The commission
told the Indians briefly what they wer,
instructed to do, viz, to arrange will
them q plan by which the Indians coult
sell the greater part of the million acre
owned by them at not less than $2.5l