The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-09
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1t is reported that petroleum has haon
found thirty miles north of Salem and
apout forty miles northwest of Bismarck
Three prisoners broke jail at Fargo
and no clue has been found. They were
in for minor ~offenses, and made tbe;,
escape by breaking through a wall
They have probably crossed to Mime.
sota. as
The house of N. NJ. Thompson. noa,
Huron, was burned bya prairie fire.
The house of Mr.. Robertson. near
Darlington, was burned, with its cor.
tents.
Pillsbury & Hubert will build an a..
dition to their elevator at Larimore ~
10000 bushels, which will make in at
an 10000 bushel elevator.
In a quarreliat Fort PIERRE, Joe Scott
fred at Joe Rivers, the ball grazing his
head and glancing across the cheek ~
a Mrs. Beam, blowing a fearful cash
Scott was arrested,
Rev. J. HI. Clark, Presbyterian min
lister, was arrested at Glendale. for
stealing hay. The best citizens Of tha
place, it is said, believe him innocent az
the charge.
Rudolph Schulter of Sioux Falls at
tempted suicide with a revolver. He
aimed at his heart, but the ball did not
puncture the skin.
Mrs. Shinn, living near Tower CITY.
was terribly burned in putting out !
prairie fire, which threatened her home.
N. J. Harvey, run over by a train at
Valley City several days since, died Fri
day morning.
The Dakota Medical association will
hold its third annual meeting in Mitch
ell, Wednesday, May 81.
Mr.. E. +. Messersmith, formerly Of
st. Paul, arrived in Dickinson from his
cattle ranch at Killdeer, Mont, with a
fine specimen of d-bearing quartz,
found on his ranch.
Two or three of the Indian BOYS at
the new Indian school in Yankton have
provided themselves with blankets and
turned their faces homeward.
The corpse of a man by the name Of
Grannaham was found ON the Morthen
Pacific track, near Little Missouri, hav.
ing been run over and killed by a train.
Mrs. Carrie M. Pierce, the widow Of
Capt. Pierce, the murdered city magis-
trate, of Mitchell has removed to her
former home in Manchester, Iowa.
William A. Young, a w~oodchopper,
committed suicide by hanging himself
near Rapid City.
Ninety-three foreigners were natural
lied at the late term of court at Swan
Lake.
The grand lodge and encampment of
Odd Fellows meet In Mitchell May IA,
and the session will continue four days.
The territorial convention of county
commissioners will gather in Fargo Nav
20.
Ground was broken at Mitchell for
the University of Dakota.
GGraaain is to have a 200 barrel -four
mill this season.
At Portland ii. Keeling, baggagemas
ter on the Maryville a. Breckenridge
line, was examining a revolver, when it
was discharged, the ball penetrating his
brain, causing instant death.
Senator Conger and Mr.. Cutcheon Of
Michigan have presented to the presi-
dent the papers of Col. Lounsbury fol
the governorship Of Dakota.
The grand jury at Wahpeton returned
twenty-six indictments, among them
several charging wheat stealing. Ja-
cob and Isaac Learson and Louis Knud-
son were convicted on the latter charge.
A horse, buggy and harness belong
ing to f.. p. Webb, in all worth $780,
were stolen from the Methodist church
at Huron Suspicion rests on q boy
who had been in jail there. . long time,
but gave the deputy sheriff the slip
few days since.
As the steamer Grandin was descend
ing the Red river a man named Butcher,
a iaborer working near Holy Gross, fell
| off the steamboat and persisted. The
boat was stopped, but no trace OF him
| could be found. The body was not re-
covered.
George Stebbing Of Woonsocket says
that Hank Lewis Of Mitchell, OAK,
killed his partner in the cattle business
in Arizona Territory, over q quarrel
about their partnership property, which,
among other property, covered 600 head
Of cattle, in all worth probably $4,000.
At Salem last fall Peter Fiddler at
tempted to shoot John Norton. The
i,rv after be;no ont tn rfy-one hours,