The Dickinson press., 1884-10-11
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

to build a town hall.
Surveyors are engaged in laying out
road from Spiritwood, on the North
srn Pacific, to Spiritwood lake, q dis.
lance of twelve miles.
E. Shane of Lead City, OAK, was
fatally injured by being struck by q
stick of wood coming down q chute.
Joe Lacy, q Brule county horse thief,
was captured ut Fargo and taken to
Chamberlain.
The grain crop of Hutchinson county
Tor this year is estimated as follows:
Wheat, 400, 600 bushels; oats. 200, 600
bushels; fax, 800, 900 bushels; corn,
$4,000 bushels.
1t has been supposed that the wood
cock never came so far north as north
Dakota, but one was shot near La
-Moure recently.
A vein of coal ten inches in thickness
has been found at Park river, near Dew.
lis Lake, at q depth of twenty feet.
The report from New York that Sit
ting Bull took q bath in that city is not
credited in Dakota. 1t is thought there
is an impostor in the case.
While threshing for NJ. L. Squire in
the northern part of Sargent county, a
spark from the engine ignited the straw.
The separator was destroyed with 200
bushels of wheat and q new wagon.
Brown county claims eighty eight
school houses, f%orty-eight of them built
the past year. which speaks we'll for
that fine county.
O. 4. Howard of Sioux Falls killed
q cinnamon bear over twelve feet long,
and weighing seven or eight hundred
pounds.
Wesley McLoud, at one time a police
man at Sioux Falls, shot himself dead at
Alpena.
The general store of P. j. Landin,
Flandreau, was closed by the sheriff.
Landin was rated as worth about
$4,000.
An Indian visited Scranton, in whose
blanket half a bushel or so of fine
anthracite coal was found. He came
from the Moreau valley, and reported
that members of the government geo.
logical party had taken it out there.
F. NJ. Smith, of Vermillion is build
ing a monster barn, 82x11O feet and IS
feet high.
]. NJ. Mcleod shot a gray eagle with.
in the city limits of Carrolton.
w. Pettigrew, q plasterer was arrest
ed and lodged in Jail at Bismsrk for
committing or attempting to commit, a
rape upon an eight-year-old colored
girl, purportlng to be the child Of
Christ Garvey, colored.
Several artesian wells have recently
been bored near the Red river and pure
soft water found in abundance at from
200 to 300 feet. Some of them have a
moderate flow rising several feet above
the surface.
The Grandin, one of the bonanzas on
The Red river, has threshed 100, OOO
bushels of wheat, with an average Of
about nineteen bushels. Tt is not prob.
able that any of the big farms will av.
erage higher.
Devils Lake city will issue $4,000
bonds, with which to establish a fire de.
partment.
Mortality among children of Madison,
Lake county, IS unusually great.
Hanson county farmers state that the
cause of the difference in the growth
of wheat this year-some fields giving
an abundant yield while adjoining one
will not give an average yields ow
ing to the different depth of blowing
the deep blowing bringing forth {
bountiful crop.
Mrs. Curtis, who was arrested al
Chamberlain on the charge of setting
out a prairie fire which burned up al
81. s. Philips hay, had a preliminary
hearing, and was held to the grand ju
ry in bonds of 800.
The seventh legislative district Re
publican convention nominated A. B
Smedley of Grant county, and D. V
Kennedy of Brown county, for mem
bers of the council, andN.T i. De Woor
ly of Ipswich, E. Huntington, Franl
A. Eldridge of Big Stone, and 81. G
johnson of Groton for members of the
assembly.
Deadwood times: Five monste1
bricks. the result of two weeks u b,
the Homestake, Gold Star, Highland
Deadwood Terra and De Smet mills
valued in the aggregate at $97, QUO, wer
brought down and with much othe
treasure went east by the Pierre coach
The valuation of Beadle county is 81,
GAS, 476, with q tax of $75,840.
The Fifth Dakota legislative dis
trict convention met at .Egan and nomi
mated the following ticket: Member
of the council, W. B. Cameron of LAX
county and a. 81. Natwick of Brooking
county; members of the house, Johl
Hobart and George Rice, of Mood
county, and j. G. Southwick and V. V
Barnes, of Kingsbury county.
As Mayor Gale of Canton was abou
entering his house, some unknown per
son stepped behind him with an irol
rod and felled him to the sidewalk
Three blows ON his head and a cash o.
his chin were received. That the muir
derous assault was not for the purpos
of nhhorv ia annarent. as Gales watch