The Dickinson press., 1884-08-02

Mr. g. G.. Beardsley, the government
land surveyor, reports that he had ten
horses stolen from the survey, about
thirty miles north vest Of Devils Lake,
on the border of Towner and Benton
counties.
The Fargo Southern will be ready
for passengers Aug. 15.
The barn of Sheriff Lyon of Dell
Rapids, was burned by incendiaries
Loss 5000.
The assessors tax list shows an as
sessed valuation of real and personal
property in Lawrence county of So, ,961,-
226 against $3,250, 900 last year, an in
crease of about 100000. The assessed
valuation of Deadwood is ST. ,128,OOO.
Dan Wheeler at Custer has fallen
heir to 100000 by the death of a rela-
tive at Cincinnati.
Last week fourteen soldiers deserted
from Fort Meade.
The county board of Dawson county
offered reward of 800 for the appre-
hension of the murderers of Bechtel,
whose body was found in the river ter
ribly mutilated.
Mrs. William Flagg, of Sykeston,
Wells county, was taken i'll and given
one and one fourth grains of morphine
in four doses by DR.. Cox. She became
unconscious at midnight. and died.
An extra night shift will be put on the
capitol building at Bismarck, and Con-
tractor Thompson says he will have the
building ready for the legislature in
fifteen days.
The bridgework for the Manitoba
crossing, just north of Portland, Oak,
IS being pushed with all available force
Even the pile driver crew and culvert
men on the Mayville have been brought
here to help, and the tracklayers have
reached the river, and will make con-
nections with the present northern ter
minus on this side of the river Us soon
as the bridge can be crossed. When
this is completed there will be an un-
broken through line and it will be the
shortest route from st. Paul and
Minneapolis to Park river, Larimore
and Devils Lake.
Capt. W. E. Whaley, late captain of
police of Norwich, Conn.,, went into q
bedroom at Mandan with his son, a
young man ,and shortly afterwards the
inmates of the block were startled by
the report of pistol. It was stated by
tie son to the people who were attracted
by the report, that Mr.. Whaley was
standing with his back to his son when
the pistol, o. calibre, fell out of the
latters pocket, and on touching the
ground went off and the bullet lodged
In the skull of the elder Whaley.
A terrific wind and hail storm passed
over the valleys outside the Black Hills,
inficting an incalculable amonnt of dam
age to crops. At Spearfiish, Sturgis,
Fort Meade and all intermediate local1-
ties every pane of glass facing west and
north was broken.
George Braune, pop manufacturer
of jamestown, committed suicide by
taking morphine at hotel in Morris,
MINI.
It is thought that not less than 81 900
worth of crops were destroyed by the
wind and hail storm that visited the To-
cality of Huron.
There has been much question wheth-
er new counties in Dakota could elect
county attorneys under the new law
passed at the last legislature. The
question has hinged on the interpreta-
tion of the words Judicial organization"
The question has been submitted to
Judge Hudson at large, and he holds
that all counties in which civil organiz-
alton has been completed may elect
county attorneys, but that he cannot
try the criminal cases of that county
unless term of the district court be
held therein, the law being that the
prosecuting officer of the county, when
the Indictment is found, must prosecute
the case; but he can act as counsel for
the board of county commissioners and
assist in regard to criminal prosecutions
before the indictment is found. Under
this ruling county attorney may be ell
ected in many counties where they have
not yet been elected on account of the
impression that such action would be
illegal.
The barns and granary of Roger
Culhane, five miles south of Aurora,
were burned, with all his farm tools,
grain, one horse and eight hogs. Cause,
children playing with matches. Loss,
$1,000.
A. II. Humphreys, Sioux Falls, Oak,
says in the New York Tribune: Among
other things that the Northwest is de-
veloping are its valuable quarries in
granite, prophyry and silica. Thequali-
ty of these stones is of the very highest.
You know that prophyry and silica
are extremely hard. They blunt the
finest tools, and polished they will cut
glass like the diamond. By new pro-
cess, using tiny globules of chilled iron,
we cut the stone without difficulty. The
silica is of rich terra Gotta shade, and
it being cut into slabs and sent to the
growing cities of the West for pave
ments. The cost is about what granite
is here; and it is polished and used for
ornamental purposes.
John Mcclure of Philadelphia drop
ped dead near Larimore, on Thursday.
According to the assessors returns
just in the eacreage in crop in Cass county
of the various kindsis as follows: Wheat,
32O, 1856 acres; oats, 1850 acres; bar
lor AKA anros. onrn D1Q aoroa. r,-o