The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-23
Dakota Territorial News.

and son attacted ChrlstlanSon, who,
with o club taken from Mrs. Jensen,
struck Jensen on his head, causing his
death.
The people of Lisbon have been agi.
tated over the license question.
The body of Mrs. Alton, who was
drowned in the Pipe Stone near Pin
gree about a month ago, was found near
ly half a mile below where the accident
happened.
Charles T.. White committed suicide
at Deadwood with a shotgun while tenn
porarily insane
The followingis the last of a series Of
resolutions adopted by the farmers Of
Sphinx county: Resolved, that we con-
denim the law relating to the taxation Of
railroad property passedby the fifteenth
Legislative assembly, as being in conflict
with the organic act and unjust by dis
eliminating in favor of railroads, and
we request the next assembly to repeal
said law, thereby placing railroad prop
erty on the same level with other prop
erty.
Butler b. Strang, formerly marshal
of Dakota, committed suicide at his
home in Westfeld, Teega Co, Pa. He
arose early, dressed himself, and was
making his toilet in the presence of his
wife and son Benjamin, when, without
attracting their attention, he took q re-
volver he had from a drawer, and
lodged o bullet in his brain. He did
not speak after the shot. His pro-
tracted illness, without hope of recoy-
cry, was undoubtedly the cause of the
action, as the c~oroner's jury found.
Orders have been issued by Gen,
Terry directing the transfer from Camp
Poplar River to Standing Rock agency
of six lodges Of Uncpapa Sioux, who
surrendered to Can't. Read last winter
and have been held at Poplar River as
prisoners of war. These Indians claim
to belong to Sitting Bulls band and 60
to the agency to be incorporated there
III.
The Manitoba road has clesed CON
tracts for two elevators of 80 1000 bush
els capacity each, to be built at Devils
Lake this summer by two different
compinies.
w. w. Whitney was found dead on
his claim near Dakota, Nelson county.
The members Of grand lodge Of the
Masonic fraternity will meet in annual
c~onclave at Aberdeen, june 10.
Thirty habitual drunkards are posted
in Sioux Falls saloons.
Alice DsEstelle, a danseuse at Grand
Forks. died Of congestion of the brain.
She was very popular among the
variety fraternity, and stunned vice and
dissipation.
An Indian school is TO be established
e lie Beau by Bishop Hare, ten acres
Of ground having been donated by Mr..
Snipes Of that place.
At Flandreau, S. Christianson was
jailed for murder.
e. M. Burr, an alleged Steele, Dak.,
forger, was arrested at ST. Paul.
William Cullen Of Ashton, was found
murdered, and James Thomas, suspect
ed of the crime, has fled to Arkansas.
Coy. Ordway has appointed q milf
tary staff as follows: Thomas Free, Of
Sioux Falls, adjutant general; John b
Dennis, Yankton, paymaster general
William FL. Parker, Deadwood, judge
advocate general; Alexander Griggs,
GRAND Forks, engineer-in-chief Aides
de camp, with the rank of colonel N. m.
Tyner of Fargo, Wilbur r. Steele Of
Steele. Capt. w. Lucas of Chamber
lain. Cincinnatus w. Richardson OF
| Pierre, Frank J.. Mead of Mandan,
| Charles Richardson Of Valley City.
Hyman, Reid, 81 sehornbling will
build a f~fty-barrel oat meal mill at Par
ker, with a capacity for 100, 900 bushels
| of oats and 40 900 bushels Of corn q
year. Crops look remarkably we'll in
that vicinity.
Five horses we're stolen from John
Staley Of Mclean county, . few nights
| ago.
The Sioux commission has been auth
orized to negotiate with the Sisseton,
Wahpeton and Yankton Indians for the
cession Of portions Of their reservations
| to the United States. Tho house com
mittee on Indian affairs have informally
agreed TO the Sioux reservation bill
The amendments to the senate bill are
not material, and will be nc obstruction
to it's passage. The friends Of the meas
ure say they are willing to accept the
amendments, and are confideEt the bill
viii rn through the house and become