The Dickinson press., 1884-01-26
Dakota Territorial Notes.

territorial GNO GV5Ss
MI. L. E. Reed of st. Paul has been
elected president Of the First National bank
of Manden.
Sphinx county valuation has increased from
$2s, 600 in 1880 to So OIL, 900 1 1888.
It is claimed that 80. 200 people settled in
the Huron land district last year.
Huron people are discussing . 5000 OPP
era house project.
Eight thousand tons Of ice will be har.
vested in Sioux Falls.
Canton WILL givea public square for
SCHOOL purposes.
Minnehaha county has raised the liquor
license to $500.
Dell Rapids saloons pays cense.
The price of liquor licenses in Sioux
Falls have been advanced to $500.
The Beeman hotel at Hurley, burned re.
Gently. Loos, 81. 500; insurance, 81. 200.
The question of Judge Kidder's successor
still hangs fire.
Joseph Allen of Hurley has concluded
his inventory, and finds that his liabilities;
including mortgages, to be about Sill 900;
and his assets, after deducting all exemp-
tom, amount to SIS 900.
G. s. Palmer, assistant United States at
torney tor Dakots, heretofore located ct
Yankton, has been ordered to transfer his
headquarters to Fargo.
Twenty families from Jefferson, Wis,
| will locate in Aurora county in the spring.
The man reported frozen 10 death ct Lew
is, was a section hand, who Va, not dead,
and all is right.
The Hughes county grand Jury has in
! dicted a man who took up . stray animal
| and failed to advertise II.
The Burleigh county bar unites in rec.
commencing George F. Flannery for judge
ofthe Third dictrict.
Fred Brown OF Lstcher, stole Q deed
which his grandmother gave him to mail,
sold it ter $1,000 and blew in the money.
He has been arrested.
Land agents ct Huron are making . rack
ct over the decision of the commissioner Of
the general land Office that final proof pa
pers may be made by local land offices for
small fees.
Raw. NJ. NJ. Tooke of Rockford, ILL.,, who
has been appointed financial agent ofthe
| university of Dakota now building
has reported an outside subscription Of
over $4,000 and says he can double the
amount by September.
| The county commissioners have over
ruled the protest Of the temperance ascot.
alton Of Mt. Vernon, but compromised the.
matter by allowing license to only two "a.
looms instead of the several applying.
Joseph Sues who q little girl in the
Jim river timber aear Sioux Falls, last
month. has been found guilty, and will 60
to the Territorial penitentiary for q term
Of not less than ten years.
The business Of the Grand Forks land of.
fee for December was: 375 pre-. emption
filings, 60 900 acres; 1923 homestead entries,
10, 11S acre 1854 timber culture entries,
1857 acres; 294 cash entries, 3d. 45 acres;
Al final proofs, five Year, residence, 1858
scres. Total 153, 235 acres.
The new college building at 0rdway is
to be fifty by eighty feet for the main build
ing, with q wing on ether side forty-tvo
BY thirty-two feet.
II is now generally believed that the farm
er Matthias Larson, who was found dead in
his house on his farm near Woonsocket,
was murdered, as he was knewn to have
had considerable moLey, which he carried
on his person. The money is gone and can
not be accounted for.
The examination Of Marx Wellstein Of
Fargo, charged with obtaining several
thousand dollars worth of goods from
Milwaukee dealers, occupied most of the
time OF the milwaukee municipal sour
recently. The testimony was of q ve-y
damaging character, and he will probably
| be- held for trial.
Father ST. 9 p al of Janestow nhas been
apo nted by Bishop Irelan oiSt. Paul and
B~hop Marty of Dakota to supariatend i'm.
.A rat to the Northwest, and will visit
New York in q few days on that business
W. s. Kelly, charged with poisoning
Capt. HI fnan at Fort Bennett, has beau 90.
quilted, alter trial In the Territorial oouri
at Yankton.
Father Sheehan Of Yankton has recently
received and placed in good homes, twenty.
five poor children from Boston.
Receiver Chandler, of the Yankton land
Office, has gone to Rhode Island, where he
was married on the 18th inst.
The Citizkns' National Bank of Grand
Forks has elected; President, ]. 8. Eshel.
man; vice president, J. Walker Smith,
cashier, 8. s. Titus. The capital stock o.
$4,000 was doubled.
The FRS: National Bank of Grand Forks
elected: President, John McKe'vey; vice
president, William Bulge; cashier, G. e.
Burrell.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. f. Thomas o fvalley City
were asphyxiated by coal gas, and then
lives were saved only by the greatest efforts.
The arrest of w. L. Finch, postmaster al
Glendale, upon q charge of emb; element,
| has rovivo6 in Tho vn;uSo ~ L...-l-