The Dickinson press., 1884-05-10
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

William w. Stockton, q prominent
business man of Huron, died suddenly
1t is reported that petroleum has bee
found thirty miles north of Salem, an
apout forty miles northwest of Bismarcl
Three prisoners broke Jail at Farg.
and no clue has been found. They wei
in for minor offenses, and made thei
escape by breaking through a wal
They have probably crossed to Mime
sofa.
The house of N. NJ. Thompson, nea
Huron, was burned bya prairie fire.
The house of Mr.. Robertson, nea
Darlington, was burned, with it's cor
tents.
Pillsbury & Hubert will build an ad
dition to their elevator at Larimore O
10000 bushels, which will make in al
an 80, 1000 bushel elevator.
In q quarrel at Fort PIERRE, Joe Scot
fired at Joe Rivers, the ball grazing hi
head and glancing acros the cheek O
a Mrs. Beam, blowing a fearful cash
Scott was arrested,
Rev. j. H. Clark, Presbyterian min
lister, was arrested at Glendale TO,
stealing hay. The best citizens of tn,
place, it is said, believe him innocent O
the charge.
Rudolph Schulter of Sioux Falls at
tempted suicide with q revolver. HI
aimed at his heart, but the ball did no,
puncture the skin.
Mrs. Shinn, living near Tower City
was terribly burned in putting out 6
prairie fire, which threatened her home
N. J. Harvey, u over by a train al
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.. z. r. Messersmith, formerly OF
st. Paul, arrived in Dickinson from his
cattle ranch at Killdeer, Mont, with a
fine specimen of gold-bearing quartz,
found on his ranch.
Two OF 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 Northen
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 woodchopper,
committed suicide by hanging himself
cal Rapid City.
Ninety-three foreigners we're 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 MAY
20.
Ground was broken at Mitchell fo1
ths University of Dakota.
Crandin is to have a 200 barrel flour
mill this season.
At Portland H. Keeling, baggage mas.
ter on the Maryville & Breckenridge
line, was examining a revolver, when il
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 go%vernorship of Dakota.
The grand jury at Wahpeton returned
twenty-six indictments, among them
several charging wheat stealing. ia.
cob and lsaac Learson and Louis Knud-
son were convicted on the latter charge.
A horse, buggy and harness belong
ing to r P. Webb, in all worth 5000,
were stolen from the Methodist church
at Huron. Suspicion rests on a bov
who had been in jail there a long time,
but gave the deputy sheriff the slip o
few days since.
AS the steamer Grandin was descend
ing the Red river a man named Butcher.
a laborer working near Holy Cross, fell
off the steamboat and persisted. The
boat was. stopped, but no trace of him
could be found. The body was not re-
covered.
At Salem last fall Peter Fiddler at
tempted to shoot John Norton. The
jury, after being out til. rty-one hours,
returned a verdict of assault. Peter
was sentenced to thirty days in Jail and
pay the costs of prosecution, amounting
to $751; SO. The verdict causes much
indignation among the people in that
vicinity. The Salem Register says,
"should Fiddler ever attempt to live in
McCook county we would like to take
out a big insurance risk on his life."
The new court house at Wapheton is
o occupied. It is large and convent
emit.
Robert F. Sinclair, paper hanger and
house decorator at Fargo, has deserted
his wife, who is in Strengthened circum.
stances.
Deputy Sheriff John Lowell was en-
gagged to be married to Miss Ida Lawton
of Washington Springs, on the 80 ult.,
but q few days ago the family were
stricken with diphtheria, and as. nom Of
the neighbors would come near, being
afraid of taking the disease, Lowell at
tended the family, and was compelled
unaided, to place his afianced in her
coffin.