The Dickinson press., 1884-06-21

James Watts and b. W. Babcock
were arrested ut Gladstone Thursday
on a warrant sworn out by Mr.. Pow.
ers charging them with stealing a
shack. We have not learned the re-
suit of the trial.
John Chase and Geo. Frye returned
from their Minnesota trip Thursday.
They say that crops in the West Mis-
souri, country arc far in advance of
those i'll the eastern part of the terri
tory and Minnesota.
All persons who have not paid their
subscriptions to the fund for building
the Black Hills freight road are re-
quested to do so at once us the work
has been completed and the persons
who have done the work need their
money.
Old DR.. johnson was a benefactor.
Seventy-live years ago he invented
What is now called Johnson's Ano-
dyne l4lniment, the wonderful success
OF which in the cure of diseases of
the head, throat and lungs is truly as
tonishing. No family should be with
out it.
The spring term of school closed
yesterday. The term Was taught by
Miss Nettie Thurber who is a good
teacher and has given general salts
faction. The scholars made her a
present Of a handsome toilet set, gold
pen and holder as tokens of their
esteem.
Chas. S. Burke goes about on
crutches. the result of Il cut received
while chopping wood at the Kildcer
mountain. The AK stuck limb and
glanced striking his left foot Just
back of the big toe cutting a cash
about one inch in length. The wound
was dressed Thursday morning by DR..
stickney and while it is not consid-
cred dangerous, it is very painful.
w. w. Sumner, who was accident.
ally injured on the range by the burst.
ing OF shell, was taken to Bismarck
last week and as gangrene had set in
it was necessary to amputste the
limb at the thigh. The operation
was performed last Saturday by Drs.
Stickney, Petit, Fraser, Corson and
Lambert. The unfortunate man died
Sunday morning and was buried in
Bismarck. His people reside in
Nebraska.
+. w. ID. Holbrook was here this
week in response to the petition re-
Gently sent to Vice President Oakes
asking the company to make fire
break along their right Of way from
Gladstone to the Bad Lands. He in
tervleWed q number of our citizens
upon the subject and has concluded
that the best plan is to burn off the
right OF way along the railroad.
Rev. Schaffner's team created quite
a little excitement yesterday morn
ing by taking a sudden notion to run
over the prairie without the guidance
OF the Reverand's hand. They start
ed at his residence and after clrcling
around the livery stable came to a
sudden stop by striking plow be-
longing to Timothy Cuskelly at the
rear of the old Aud & Moore build
ing. The vehicle was badly wrecked.
| Everybody should read the reward
notice published by the stockmen.
They intend to prosecute any person
caught in the act of starting prairie
fires to the full extent of the law
Besides the danger of prosecution it
is to the interest of all to prevent
these fires from spreading as there
will be not less than $4,000 head of
cattle shipped from here this season
and if the prairie is burned off this
cannot be done and it will be a loss
to the town.
A man by the name of Graves,
who has been weighing mail between
Bismarck and Glendive, was arrested
the first of the week by special agents
Of the post-of1ice department for steal
ing valuable letters. Decoy letters
placed i'm the mails by the agents
were found on his person and he adj
mitted his guilt. The quick work of
the agents is commendable as they
had their man in six days after TAX
ing hold Of the case.
The size of Dakota is given below,
taken from an exchang: Place the
north line of the territory at the
south shore of Lake Michigan and
the southern boundary would be near
the northern state line of Alabama.
Place the western boundary on the
line between Illinois and Indiana and
the eastern boundary would be the
western boundary Of Pennsylvania.
n straight line drawn diagonally from
corner to corner of the territory
would reach from st. Paul to Cairo,
OF from Cairo to Galveston. Dakota
would make a strip of counties sixty
three miles wide from the Atlantic
to the Pacific oceans, or l25 miles
wide from Lake Superior to the Gulf
of Mexico. In strips one township