The Dickinson press., 1884-04-26
La Moure has a prosperous forestry
association.

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A large number of red river half
breeds passed Mandan recently ON their
way from Fort Maginnis to Winnipeg
The house Of T. A. Brownell, of st.
Olaf, was burned with it's contents.
Loss, $1,000.
Charles Jones, q brakeman, fell from
a train and was killed near Bristol.
Judge Palmer inaugurated his work
ct Sioux Falls by collecting 81, in
fines from gamblers.
7. F. Wilson of Dubuque is to estab-
lish a national bank at Grand Forks
with a $4,000 capital.
Aurora county expects to raise $1,000
bushels of wheat this season.
Alfred NJ. Flagg, the Sioux Falls law
yer, has been sentenced by District
Judge Palmer to four years. imprison-
merit for embezzlement.
Sheriff Brown of Pembina county,
has softening of the brain.
The jewelry store of E. j. Wells at
Kimball was burglarizedof$ 81, 500 worth
of valuables.
The funeral of the murdered city
marshal, Capt. Pierce, at Mitchell, was
the largest ever held in that city.
A livery shooting ARRAY occurred at
Columbia, eight harmless shots being
exchanged between Dan Foster and
James Holborn in a dispute aboutmort-
gagged property.
The salary of the mayor of Sioux
Falls is 81 per annum. The mayor of
Sioux Falls has other business.
Joseph McClung, fifteen years old,
tried ct Dickinson, on q charge of COM
hitting rape on Bertha Freeze, a four
year-old girl, at Little Missouri, was
discharged, the evidence not being suf-
fcient to convict him.
ABrule county man mistook the ma
ture of a subpoena to go before the
Yankton grand jury, and went to his
neighbors to see if they weuld go bail
for him.
The inquest on the body of Samuel
Wright, who committed suicide on a
Northern Prciic train heal Mandan,
resulted in q verdict that he shot HIM
self while temporarily insane.
Ground has been broken for a new
$40, 900 hotel in Jamestown.
Sheriff jerks of Grand Forks, armed
with a writ of attachment issued at the
instance of Gotzian & Co., of st. Paul,
and Lindeke, Warner & Schurmeier,
Of the same place, levied on the stock
in the general store lately run by the
firm of Hammer & Fischer, at Grafton,
and turned over by the latter o few
days ago to Beaupre, Keogh, & Co., of
st. Paul. The keys of the store were
handed over to the sheriff, who prompt
ly closed it.
A Sturgis City correspondent Of the
Deadwood Pioneer writes as follows,
under date of the 9Th inst: "The long.
continued feud between the cattle men
and farmers on the Belle Fourche has
eliminated in the death of all the
dogs ownedby the farmers on the river,
the burning of the range and the loss
of hundreds Of cattle which persisted in
the river. The stockmen poisoned the
dogs to keep them from running their
stock, and the farmers. being unable to
fence, yet determined to save their
property from being destroyed by range
cattle persisted in the river while en-
deavoring to escape from the flames.
The Fargo city government has been
somewhat ~reorganized G. J. Keeney
takes the presidency of the council, vice
G.. j. Kissner; J. D. White takes the
post of city engineer, Chief of Police
Wood, Auditor Hayden, City Attorney
Stone and Fire Chief Fenton retain
their old positions. An ordinance will
be drawn for the issue of bonds to con
plete the Red River bridges.
In consequence of the large tract Of
country around the Pembina mountains
being opened up for settlement by the
government, large numbers of squat
tiers. spectators, etc., leave every day
to file upon land at the land Office at
Grand Forks. A lively time is expect
ected, as the land is valuable and
claim-jumping is common in spite Of
the risk.
As the south-bound passenger pulled
out from Redfeld Thursday the 18th.
a hog running at large ran under the
wheels of the rear car. throwing it from
the track and causing it to capsize. z
Hon. John s. Tooker, secretary of Mon.
tana Territory, and Miss Abbie A. Ran.
SIOUX of Aberdeen, were injured,
though not seriously. No other seriou.
damage was done.
The first annual department encamp.
ment of the Grand Army of the Re.
public will be held at Sioux Falls on
the Both inst.
MI. Archy Bullock and Miss Sarah
Written, both of Benson county, nea,
Church's Ferry, were married recent.
~. They were both from Mortified,
and had taken claims adjoining.
Eli Terry, a Deadwood farmer, com.
mitted suicide recently by cutting his
throat from ear to ear, leaving q wife
and two children, a farm of 100 acres
and a $4,000 life insurance policy
Aberdeen has a nice, commodious city
hall, recently erected, a well organized
fire department with hook-and- ladder
boys. The city is putting down another
a~rtesian we'll in the rear of the city hall.
Matt Miller, who attempted to mur-
der the Lane family, neal Finley, in
Turner county, had his trial at Swan
Lake before Judge Palmer, and was