The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-30
DaE0Ta NEWS NOTES.

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offer five cents a head for all gophers
killed in the county,
A mountain lion is playing havoc with
stock in the vicinity of Steele.
Mike Wagner, one of She oldest citi-
zens of Pembina, has inherited $75 900
by the death of his brother in Germany.
Hyman, Reid & Schornbling will
build a iffty-barrei oat meal mill at
Parker, with a capacity for $50, 900
bushels of oats and 10000 bushels of
orr a year.
Watertown, is, for the present, to be
the terminus of the Western extension
of the Minneapolis g. st. Louis.
Twenty-Five dollars has been expend-
ed on the Agricultural college building
at Brooking.
Silver j. Melhous of Hillsboro commit
ted suicide by hanging himself, because
Widow Olson, for whom he worked, re-
fused to marry him.
Warren Whipple and Morgan Hazner
have been arrested at Mandan, and held
to the grandiury on a charge of burglary.
A car, loaded with stock and emigrant
goods belonging to MI. Clifford, took
fire between Gladstone and Dickinson,
destroying five head of stock and come
household goods.
f. G. Gilman Of Chamberlain has Sc
cured the contract for the erection of
twenty buildings for the government
for Drifting Goos's band, to be 16x30,
all complete. The price is s 5000.
Maj. John M. Bacon, seventh cavalry,
has been assigned to duty at Fort Tot
ten, and he will at once proceed thither
and assume command of the post.
Gen. Beadle accepted an invitation to
deliver an address onthe evening of Ju-
" /, before the teachers of South Da-
kota, who meet at Huron July / and 2
to organize a teachers association.
Michael Henley has brought suit
against the Northern Pacific Railway
at Mandan to recover $40, 900 damages
for being scalded by his engine being
thrown down an embankment.
The hardware store of Luke a 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 to
Fargo from Minneapolis on a charge of
grand larceny, was bound over to the
district court in $8e9 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 402 $50 acres of decided land in the
county The total area of the country
is 967, $50 acres.
Gov. Ordway has appointed a mill
tary staff as follows: Thomas Free, of
Sioux Falls, adintant general; John b.
Dennis, Yankton, paymaster general
William II. Parker, Deadwood, Judge
advocate general; Alexander Griggs,
Grand Forks, engineer-in-chief. Aides
de camp, with rank of colonel: N. m.
Tyner, Of Fargo, Wilbur +. Steele, Of
Steele, Capt. w. Lucas Of Chamber
lain, Cincinnatus w. Richardson Of
Pierre, Frank }. 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 Frs
day q 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 ~, 800. Thesamount
said to have been embezzled is ~, O00l
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 16, in the county of Aurora, for the
purpose of a reform school, and grant
ing to the territory one 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 Flandran, 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
cendiary fires.
Grand Commandery Knights Tenn
plar has been instituted for Dakota, with
the following officers: Grand com
mander- Samuel Roy. Deadwood danu.