Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-12-04

BY tho governor, GILBERT A PIERCE.
JAMES H. TELLER, Secretary Dakota Territory.
Forman has secured the county seat
of Sargent county.
jamestown claims a population of
5000.
John Farley, asaloonkeeper at Tower,
was stabbed in a quarrel and died next
morning.
The Alex Mitchell hotel at Mitchell
was opened to the public, with G. H.
Shaw, formerly of Charles City, Iowa,
proprietor.
]. i. Gallon, who mysteriously dis
appeared from Sioux Falls after being
injured by a runaway, has been seer at
Pierre, drunk and apparently dcmented.
The townsite company Of Dunseith is
offering $500 and a town lot for the first
boy born there.
A Rapid City paper says the copper
prospects of French creek are attracting
attention. Rich specimins Of ore have
been taken from n mine.
A citizen of Walworth county has
made a good article ot what the Yank-
ton Press calls maple" sugar from the
sap OF the bex elder.
A movement is on foot to build a
railroad from Columbia, to Brit
ton, a station on the Dakota & Great
Southern.
At Ipswich, Alonzo Skif, J. E.
Schryver and a boy named Otis Judd
have been held to the grand jury for
stealing grain from John Shaw. Skiff
has escaped.
Civil action has been instituted to
recover the sum of s25, 600 from the
firm Of McBain & Co. Of Sioux Falls
for taking granite from a school section
neal Dell Rapids and selling the same.
The contest Of the twelfth Legislative
district of Dakota Pembina county,
bdweer ION. Judson LaMoure aud Mr..
Wilson Of Bathgate, was settled in favor
of LaMoure.
The organization Of Buffalo county
has been stopped by the governor. 1t
was, found that one Of the commission
srs appointed lived in New York and
n In Ohio. 1t is not the wish of a
majority Of people living in the county
that 1t be organized at present.
Bismarck, Special The statement
sent out TO the associated press from
Yankton TO the effect that Bismarck
viii ask to be reimbursed for the ex-
pense of the capitol and that a bond
ing bill to cover the same will be intro
duced in the coming Legislature, is false
in every particular. Bismarck, in con-
vention assembled, has several times
declared that the capitol building is a
free gift to the territory, and the peo-
ole will never be asked TO pay one cent.
Judge Edgerton, at Yankton, has
sentenced f. E. Carpenter, convicted
Of dealing in fraudulent land scrip, for
Two years imprisonment in the Detroit
bei,e Ct cor, ection and to pay a fine Of
s2,0en 4 ety Of execution Of sentence
win bG b. VIII tho Supreme court Of
the United Sat- : Stsil. pass upon mis-
appeal.
Chas. A. Ballach, Of Carsitgfga, had
a dog stolen which he vaiged greatly
Getting trail of the parties who had
taken ia, he had a warrent issued and
two deputy sherifs sworn in, and star
ted ON a journey Of 200 miles to the
Canadian frontier with instructions to
bring back the dog and costs of the sx-
petition, or the parties who took the
animal They had not returned at last
accounts.
A new county is reported on the
npis, cutting Kidder county in twain.
adding something from Buileigh to the
west part, leaving Steele as the county
seat; adding from Stutsman Il the east