The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Dakota Notes.

Huron has band tournament Sept. l6 and
II, to which sighty-seven bands have been in
yited.
The YsnktoA coal vein has been drilled into
hve feet and is supposed to be much thicker.
The quality is good.
s. \. Church, a Fargo singing master, has sued
the Fargo Republican for breach of contract by
]. b. Hall, late manager of the paper. Church
alleges the paper is $4,000 in debt.
A woman in Beres'ord was crazed in a recent
thunder storm. She looked out of window 10
the night and saw her husband stricken dead by
lightning and his clothes burning. She wa,
taken to Yankton last week.
AT Huron the testimony in the case of j. B.
Weeks, arrested by the United States marshal
charged with fraud in fling soldiers declaratories
in the Huron land distri {, closed after an all
night session. United States COMMISSIONS
TAYLOR held the accused to bsil in two Thousand
dollars to await the action of the Uni ed Statet
| grand jury. Bail was furnished.
| Never advise those persons who are we'll
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contented with their surroundings. amid the
scenes and friendship of theta early life to come
west. But fer those whose heal may not be
good, or who may not be abe to make star
because of limited means, or who may Ls restless
and Ill at ease at the old home, Dakota extends q
! hearty wei5Uine.
| The body Of an unknown man, supposed to be
81. Fl. Hackett, was found on the prairie, in a
small slough, about nine miles north OF Ellen
dale Mosday morning. A coroner's inquest de-
veloped the fact that he had benn murdered, ard
his body lsft where fonnd. Nothing Of value
was found, only an express receipt for packagr
New, Alhin, Iowa. s.
! Sheriff jerks of Grand Forks hae in custody
Bjorgo Ole Hofto. He was arrested ia Walls,
where he attempted to kill hi. sis er and brother
in-law He sho the latter and seized his sister
bythe hair and dragged her around, almost tsat.
| ing her bra ms out About q year ago Sheriff
jerks took h.kc asint to the insane seyldm, and
it /. related that his brother in the old coantr3
while insane, killed person.
The Dakota capitol. as it stands, cost the con-
tractor siSs,Ooe, and he has 5000 WORT 0
work to do to complete bis contract, which IL is
now proceeding t. do. He has received fro the
commission in cash slOs,tCO, and In the way Of
accounts assumed or guaranteed by the commits
sion, slS,OV1, making tbs amount actually paid
on he building by the commission &lf6,OU0.
The contractors loss on the building will be
about $40, 90,
Ia the Dakota mail division there are $50
mailing clerks; that for the fiscal year ending
Juue 80, 1884, the number Of letter packages,
handled was l4,0al ,sl4, regi-tered packages,
8. 472,7 ,78i; total number Of letters distributed,
$50, ,872, So; total number of papers distributed,
8s5, 469, ,050; total number of pieces Of mail,
first, second third and fourth class, distributed
SO6, $40, Or ne rly 1000, 10000; total num-
ber u registered pieces, $3.50, .S5.
Old man Stockuen, who has been /. the Black
Hins seven years, and during that time has
worked all the time, cutting wood, saving logs,
or burning charcoal, has stuck 1t rich at last
Heis eighty-four years old. HIS grandson has
come on ftorn.the east after him, and will escort
him back TO whore legacy Of $4,000 in cash
awaits him. It is reported that tn is portion
OF s4,u0 1000 estate in which the old man is
more Largely interested than any Other one per-
SON.
Bismarck Tribune! The consumption of the
uatiys coal Of the Missouri slope is growing
rapidly, and coal mining promises to become one
the leading industrses,of the coun ry. 20 show
the increase in the demand the following figures
concerning coal shipped from Sims are given:
Coal shipped from No.embsf 1851. to July 1853,
l2.72o tons; from November, 1853, to July,
1884, %. $50 tons, or an increase in the latter
period OF e,6l0 tons. People are learning to
use this coal, and many Of the leading business
houses and hotels Of the country are using It
exclusively for fuel.
citizers Of Huron are raising funds for the
relief OF those ia Beadlecodnty who lost their
crops BY the hail storm Monday week. Banks
and individuals holding mortgages or other
papers against the sufferers will carry them
another year without interest. A public meet
ing is called Il take definite ection in the matter.
The board Of county commissioners viii beasked
t. sebate the taxes for this year Of all who suf-
Jared BY the storm within Beadls county. An
abundance win be raised to carry she infortu-
Mates comfortably through the winter and furnish
them With grain FOR seed next year.
Mcfarland q West will take charge Of the ter
ritorial prison shops st Sioux Falls on Dsc for
! term Of fve years. The building MI be lox8o
feet on the ground and four stories high. Mr..
West, the junior msmber Of the firm, win have
personal supervisioni Altar this season the
quarry interests Of Sioux Falls will be left eD4
,irely te free labor. By working the copviots n
tne shops Il is calculated .-s the EXPENSES ofshe
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