The Dickinson press., 1884-12-27
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Bismarck, died at Medora.
Sphinx county, OAK, must pay the
piper to the tune of at least 90, 900.
Okoboji will soon have a frst-class
douring mill, the first in Sully county,
The town of Fountain, in Brookings
county, had two deaths from smallpox
recently.
During tho past year Devils Lake
has invested $S5, 1855 in buildings anG
improvements.
Building improvements in Madison
the past year totaled forty-three new
buildings, costing $3.50 900.
Petitions are circulating at Huron
and vicinity asking the legislature te
grant woman suffrage.
Capt. Isaac Stockwell, an old and
prominent citizen Of Yankton, died in
that city from the effects of q cancer.
Hank Lewis, charged with the murder
of City Marshal Pierce of Mitchell has
been granted q change of venue to Au.
rora county.
Stahl's hotel, Neche, burned and sey-
eral railroad men who were staying there
over night had a wv escape from be-
ing burned to death.
A recent fire in jamestown destroyed
property to the amount of $1,000, aud
not $lS, 600, as at first reported-which
was largely covered by insurance.
Among the prominent candidates for
for speaker of the next house are Mark
Ward, of Mitchell, Williams of Bis
marck, and Martin of the Black Hills.
Ex-Tice President Colfax will deliver
an Grafton at the sixty-sixth anniversary
celebration to be held by the Odd Eel.
lows of South Dakota, in Huron, OF
Monday, April 81.
Business at the United States land
office in Watertown has materially in.
creased of late, so the officials state, in
the line of contesting, cancellations and
original filings.
Holabird, on the Dakota division of
che Northwestern, and Porterville, Wis,
on the Chippeway Valley division of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul, have been made
regular stations.
K. Thompson, E. Estenson, J. j.
Gunderson, S. o. Henjum and J. w.
Walters were arrested for removing
stone from a school section at Dell Rap.
ids, and taken to Yankton.
Capt. Rockwell of Fort Lincoln has
been appointed chief ordnance officer
Of the department of Dakota, vice Cap
lain Bennett who goes to Washington
as inspector of rifle practice.
A deputy United States marshal at
tempted to arrest Lean Elk, Red Shirt
and other Indians at Cheyenne agency,
for horse stealing, but Agent Swan re-
fused to give up the redskins.
The we'll known Towner farm, neal
Mapes, comprising 2,24o acres, 1000 Of
which is broken, and upon which Their,
are some frst-class buildings, was pur.
chased by John S. Sinclair, a Scotcl
capitalist.
Claus Slegiman, formerly agent o:
The st. Paul harvester works at Andov.
or, has been convicted of robbing
George Humphrey vf SOB, the money
being found under the floor of Slegi-
mans claim shanty.
E. j. Travis, formerly agent of the
Gilmer & Salisbury stages, of the Fort
Benton steamer line, while suffering
from mania potu at Deadwood, attempt
ed to kill himself with a knife. Travis
had been sheriff of Lincoln county,
New, but lost friends and standing
through gambling.
The Episcopal Indian women Of Elan.
arau have established a guild on the
sewing society plan. They not only
manufacture fancy articles with the nee
die, but make pipes, ornaments of
pipestone and retail the latest gossip,
according to the most approved fashion
of their white sisters.
Robert Earl, of Howard, was arrest
ed and pleaded guilty of adultery with
the wife of James Otter, formerly of
Grand Meadow, Mower county, MINI.
Mrs. Otter was recently adjudged in
sane, and is the mother Of a large
family, some of them grown to manhood
and womanhood.
A board of officers has been appoint
ed at each of the posts of Fort Magin-
mis-, A. Lincoln, Meade, Totten, Ran
dali, Ellis, Bonnet and Pembina to ex-
anime and report upon the qualifca-
tions of enlisted men for appointment
as post quartermaster sergeants. The
pay and allowances which attach to the
position of post quartermaster sergeant
make it q very desirable one, and the
appointment is much sought after by
those who consider themselves eligible.
Edmund Hackett, the husband of the
woman who attempted suicide by cutting
her throat with q butcher knife at Min.
newauken, is a former mayor of Bis.