The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-01

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and after taking the oath of Office will
90 east to close up his affairs, leaving
Secretary Teller as acting governor.
At Bismarck, on Thursday, Gov. Ord
way reviewed the militia organizations
ofthat city, and was serenaded and given
An ovation. The crowd numbered fully
1000. The governor spoke for two
hours, reviewing the history of his adj
m~inistration. He cited the fact that
when appointed the territory had no
public buildings of stone or brick, and
10 per cent. bonds sold for 80 cents.
Now there are ten substantial economic
lily erected public buildings costing not
less than 400 900 and 6 per cent terri
torial bonds sell for 105.
A hail storm eighteen to twenty-five
miles north of Blunt, destroyed all the
crops four miles wide and double that
length, and destroyed several houses.
During the storm Tuesday lightning
struck a barn on the farm of Andrew
INLAND five miles south of Mayville,
setting it on fire, and it was destroyed
together with five horses and his har-
aesses.
Gen, htchfasters, superintendent OF
The Home-stake mine at Deadwood, is q
candidate for delegate to congress.
AT Waterfowl, Mrs. Kittie Stephens
vas thrown from a buggy, striking OF
ner head and producing concussion of
The brain, from which she may not
recover.
The Dakota storm did not spare the
Black Hills. Glass was smashed and
crops damaged.
Tuesdays cyclone in Dakota was fol-
lowed Wednesday and Thursday by
severe thunder, rain and hail storms,
which, it is feared, wor. ! very serious
lamage to crops.
III. o. Graf, a farmer living south of
Brookings, near the Moody county line
had a valuable team Of horses stolen,
which weighed $500 pounds.
Albert Lenka, of Pierre, who on July
), shot and killed Caleb Perry and
wounded Robert A. Porter and r.. w.
Benedict, wa acquitted IN his prelimi-
nary examination. /
The barns and granary Of Roger
Culhane, five miles south of Aurora,
were burned, with all his farm tools,
I grain, one horse and eight hogs. Cause,
children playing With matches. Loss,
1,5G0.
A. FL. 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-
~ Of these stones is of the very highest.
You know that prophyry and silica
are extremely hard. They blunt the
finest tools, and polished shey will cut
glass like the diamond. BY a new pro-
cess, using tiny globules Of chilled iron,
we cut the stone without difficulty. The
/ silica is of q 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. Z
On Sunday night the entire herd Of
horses belonging to Anderson, the milk
man. and MI. Hnmel oIDeadwood
were stolen and run off from Ander-
sons ranch, in Centennial prairie.
Wallace T. Harrington, living near
Steele, was killed by gas in a we'll he
was digging.
John Mcclure Of Philadelphia drop.
ped dead near Larimore, on Thursday.
According to the assessors returns
just inthe acreage in crop in Cass county
ofthe various kinds Is as follows Wheat,
800 ,536 acres oats, As, $40 acres bar
ley, 6,453 acres; corn, 218 acres; rye,
50 acres; potatoes, 1918 acres; peas,
lab acres; beans, Sc acres; acres of new
breaking, 80, 514; acres Of tame hay,
1855; acres Of cultivated trees, 1851;
total area 81 cultivation, 37S, $40 acres.
The total population Of the county Is
! given as "A. $50.
The first harvesting Of the season was
done On Friday by james Wilson, at
rlandrsau. The grain cut Wis barley.
Grain Of all kinds ia that vicinity Is
looking remarkably well, and is consid-