The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12

land for a cemetery.
Land hunters are now making a raid
on Douglass count.
Wheat sold at Huron for 80 cents a
bushel, one cent lower than oats and
the lowest ever known by any Huronite.
The trustees of La Moure have voted
$1,000 bonus for the erection of a -four
ing mill at that point.
w. @. Waters. who keeps a general
store at Sioux Falls, has been closed
under foreclosure of mortgage. Assets
and liabilities comparatively small.
The jury of the United States circuit
court at Yankton has brought in a YER
dict OF not guilty in the case of j. @
Fairchild, who was charged with frauds
on the land Office at Mitchell.
The farmers at Dakota are earnestly
discussing the question of wheat grades
and intend to secure action by the leg.
islature.
The Huron National bank has opened
for business with q capital of $50, 900.
Lewis W. Hazen is president; John A.
Fowler, cashier; and John A. Shaw
assistant.
A. j. Gibbs, on trial at Yankton for
dealing in bogus declaratory statements
was acquitted.
A turnip Weighing sixteen pounds
and seven ounces we're raised on sod
near Ipswich.
The corn crop was a profitable one in
North Dakota this season.
The capitol of Steele county has been
removed to Sherbrooke.
Eev. H. Swift, Of st. Stephens mis-
sion, is erecting a new mission church
just north Of Moreau.
The Continental hotel, Fargo, is to
bo rebuilt, brick, four stories, 100x140.
Austin, tried at Columbia, for shoot
ing Mr.. Ball, was acquitted.
A-large herd of buffaloes is grazing
neal Fairbank.
The barn and So, 900 worth of grain
belonging to ". P. Smith of Wheat
land was totally destroyed by fire.
Partially insured.
A new fire company has been organ
lied at Sioux Falls and named the
Drake company, in honor of j. I'll
Drake of ST. Paul.
The barn of w. P. Smith, six miles
north of Wheatland. Cass county, con-
tanning 5000 bushels of grain, was des-
stroyed by fire. There was an insur-
ance Of about $500 on the barn and
grain.
J. M. Paulson, running a saloon in
Fargo, was arrested, it being alleged
that he set fire to his place of business
having first secured the cash and othel
yaluables. He was seen to u out OF
the saloon, and shortly after the place
was found to be on fire.
M. O. Hexom, a farmer living les
Hickson, Cass county, was killed by
team running away with him. He
leaves a wife and family. He was for.
merly a member Of the Minnesota legis-
latnre, and was once a commissioner OF
of Cass county.
Advices from Clark county report a
hog epidemic that is destroying the ami
mails by the hundreds. The disease il
not a hog cholera, but a malady much
more offensive and just as fatal; il
seems to be a disease that effects the
blood of the animals and poisons the
entire system, literally decaying them
to death.
The business men OF Valley City, had
d mass meeting to consider the question
of legislation Of freight rates on wheat,
and alleged discrimination in favor of
elevators. A committee was appointed
to investigate the subject.
An old lady Of seventy years left
town to go to her home, four miles
southwest from Winthrop, since which
time nothing has been seen . heard
of her, though diligent search has been
made. It is surmised that she became
lost, and wandered about on the prairie
until exhausted, when she sank down
and persisted.
james A. King, a farmer living six
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