The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-04-03

The rate will 60 into effect: tomorrow.
This has fairly knocked the bottom out
Of Black Hills rates, upon which a war
i has been raging for several weeks.
There promises to be q lively fracas
i over this business. I 55z:,
n "A fire broke out at Grafton in Mickle
Bros. saloon, nextto the railway Goa
house, destroying this, also the build
1 ings Of Frank Winship, and Clelland &
4 Saulter Looming it, M wind WAS
blowing, or the whole city \ would have
4 been in ruins. Mickle Bros loss was
A 81 900, IN
Ephriam Bonner 81 Frederick was ar a.
1 rested for kidnapping Elizabeth Brisle,
on complaint Of her father. Two years
ago Bonner brought q fourteen old
i girl with his family to Dakota, claiming
that he first verbally adopted her, the
girls parents consenting. The father
Irepudnt esa the Fall legged adoption, and
\ claims his dang The father is from
! Rockwell, Iowa, Bonner's former home,
4 and has been at Frederick two weeks
searching for his child. sss Il:
Business Of the Devils Lake land Of
fee for February Pres mption' declar-
tatory statements, 900; cash entries, 80;
soldiers deelaratory statements g.;
I homestead entries, "; timber culture
entries, 1919; scrip locations, II. The
land thus taken und Ter the several acts
for the past month amounts to IS, O35
acres, and lies within six townships.
The Dakota encampm ent Of the q "a.
r., will convene st Sioux Falls, April
lI5ll Over fifty posts will be represent
I ed. u D sss.,f Y u
Lieut.. Cameron, at Fort Meade, was
robbed Of $3.50 BY Private Voc, who es-
| capped With the plpnde s35SS5Ss.
Gen. Cortez Fessenden 81 Huron,
surveyor general Of Dakota, iain WASH.
ington. i;Ssf:'
Z The Keller case was called at Grand
Forks BY Judge Deyoy, and as no one
appeared for the prosecution, the prris-.
oner was discharge sll ged5 and the case dis
missed. n 3's5
The day before his death Bishop
\ CLARK son dictated Give the Dakota
clergy my love and tell them 81 my CON
dition. s:ss5
Bathgate is to have q new Touring
mill, built By farmers who ontributey
wheat toward the enterp prise. b,
| 4 Tildeman s Taylor Of Maitland,
Douglass county, have purchased the
| property Of the Mennonite COLONY, II
miles northwest of Scotland. The
prop consists Of 9, 200 acres Of land,
upon, which there are several houses,
barns, sheds, ETC., and several hundred
acres &nnd or cultiyati on. The price;
paid was ss2255 s000. B,
| II MeR herson county has been organ
zed with the county scat Sat Leola,
With the following officers: Register Of
deeds and comfy clesrk Charles N.
lHerried; sheriff, s. 2. Hard enbrook; !.
assessor, Joseph Worthy Judge Of pro.
| bate, w w. Cornwall; surveyor, e. ID.
Haynes; justices, Henry Hoover, An
drew Williams; const ables, David T..
Collins, j NJ. Hooker. s'SE3' II H
Capt Gnggs OH Grand Forks has
bought from Alsop Bros. Of Moorhead
and the New York capitalists the two
steamers Pluck and Alsop and Ave bar
ges, and ali the wheat warehouses; on
the river, for theisnm of $49, Csc. He
expects to. do q lively business in river
traffic and the conveyance of passengers
by the Selkirk and other boats the
coming season. s.S3 sS%
John Baker; Z new Ii n settler at Rec
Heights, brought q fifteen year old girl
with him who gave birth last week to q
child by him. His wife has now ap-
peared with three children, and it turns
out that the girl mother is the &Wife,s
sister. q ,RalarS real iiafne IL Bowden:
as is a jail for adultery
In Pierre, . couple oflarge two-story
buildings neatl adioining, known as
Dutch Jelinsss md ssEE,oong Joe !, . the
first occupied as b saloon on the first
floor, and the second story the rehdez-
.yons of d half dozen siemi-mondes. were
burned. Tie other sljuii ding vas the.
i tYosstoTy fesid ence owned md occupied
bs g. 5oAg Joe. Loss 900. |. y
After 8 long delay Judge Palmers
/ commission, which had been sent 10 Far
4 go}by mistake arrived at Yankton and
the Judge was iimmed iately sworn III 81 a.
/ Judge Of the Fourth district, by Chief
4 Justice Edgerton. Judge Palmer and
A family will live temporarily 81 Sioux
4 Falls.
Sles sebrsS VI, Who was ! ysterionsly
Knocked fiji tifs Head, few days II ago 4 5
pear Eddy . saloon, Grand Forks, Is il
q precarions condition, Eddy was pull
under $500 bends. 's3sis
The incorporation Of the ST. Louis Nv.
er imp company ii simply d
Il reorganization OF the Knife Falls Boom
company, and has been hastened along
i by the pressure Of the recent litigation;
j The new company will, to al intenA
land purposes be zone and the snme as
the original Knife Falls Booming COM.
! psny oRl5 q mnch strong er cor oration..