The Dickinson press., 1884-02-16

lands to be leased is to be made to con
gress.
The houses of Mr.. Rosa and Mr..
Laurence, in Goodwin, were burned.
Loss 81, 800.
Wylie Winter, a Frederick, attorney
and land agent, is under arrest at Col
umbia, charged with embezzlement.
Aberdeen papers claim that $500 900
have been expended in building i'm
provements in that city the past season.
Thomas Wise, q carpenter at work
on the Sioux Falls penitentiary, fell
thirty feet, receiving serious injuries.
Citizens of Mortified are donating
. 800 900 to Mariner Humphrey & Mari
ner, who will erect a $50 600 Touring
mill there.
+! A. Goodman and wife, of Roscoe,
have recently lost four children by
%diphtheria, and their residence was
burned just after the last funeral.
More woodlands have been arrested
at Sibley Island.
! Hundreds of men are leaving Dead
wood daily, for the Occur d'Alene mines.
1t is estimated that at least 1900 men
would make an exodus from Deadwood
in the spring.
The mother of Kid Wade, a Nebraska
horse thief and outlaw, is in Yankton,
having been driven from home with her
nine children by the hostility of her
neighbors.
Charles Wilson and Fred Wexford
had a prize fight at Bismark, being won
in six rounds by MILFORD, who pocketed
$25, and 500 gate money.
Barney Caulfeld telegraphs from
Washington to the Deadwood Times
that everything looks favorable to the
passage of the bill to open up the Sioux
reservation.
Dr.. Darlington of Cheyenne is miss
ing, and diligent search is being made
for him by his neighbors. 1t is be-
lieved he was lost while going from his
claim shanty to his team during q biz
zard.
Mrs. DR.. Brown was thrown from a
carriage at Huron, and dangerously
hurt in the neck and spine.
The Methodists of Huron OCCUPY
their new church. About 50, 1000 was
raised to pay the debt.
The trial of Alex. Mcclure for shoot
ing Tom Mullaly at East Grand Forks
last September, resulted in a sentence
Of guilty, and the prisoner was SEN
fenced to two years at hard labor in the
p~enitentiary.
r. r. Kelley, q well-to-do farmer liv-
ing near White Lake, has been threat
ened with lynching by his neighbors OH
account of q brutal assault on his wife
and several small children.
At a term of the district court of Col
umbia, Weeks, who is charged with at
tempting to murder his daughter at the
Hotel Artesian, Aberdeen, last fall, was i,
released on his own recognizance.
Bradstreet's March book will show
sixty-fve new postoffices established in
Dakota since Dec. Is, 1888, and 700 new
names of firms and individuals doing
business in that territory within the
same length Of time.
w. Uppercue, formerly connected
with the First National bank of Fargo
has been indicted by the grand jury for
the embezzlement of $500 from the
bank. He states that he lost the mon
ey from his pocket, and had no inten-
ton of %betraying the trust which the
bank reposed in him.
While j. E. Hill and Peter Souvin-
lea were digging a we'll for Engineer
Steinmetz in the South part of Mitch
ell they came across a hemlock log
about three feet in circumference, at :
depth of twenty-fve-feet below til
surface.
Anton Morboe and Randolph Hold
ing, of Ransom City, have been
arrested for selling liquor to Indians.
The register and receiver of the
Mitchell land Office have prescribed the
following forms in final and cash entry
proofs: Testimony of claimant and
witnesses; receivers receipt OF affidavit
of it's loss; affidavit required of claimant
or non-mineral affidavit in duplicate;
special affidavits and copy of citizens
papers; proof of publication, and appli-
cation to purchase. "
N. G. Mcfarland, commissioner of
the general land Office at Washington
has officially announced that the order
disbarring O. I. Letcher from practic-
ing as an attorney before the Mitchell
land Office has been revoked, but he re-
fused to disclose the information upon
which he made the order of disbarment.
although they have been demanded by
Mr.. Letcher.
Three mules and six horses were stol-
en- from three hunters on Big Powder
river, Black Hills, by two men. The
hunters did not discover it until about
two days afterward. They got some
horses at the 101 cattle ranch and went
in pursuit. They overlook the thieves
on Wednesday of this week, between
Sun Dance and Rocky Ford. They re-
covered their horses and mules and sent
the thieves, it is supposed, ''where the
on1hin tvioatb