The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07


people of Hyde county, have not only
not overstated the loss, but have
hardly given a correct idea of it, so
says a relief committee in st. Paul.
The village of Holabird with q popu-
lation of 2O0) was almost totally de-
stroyed. The town of Highmore 1.-THE
county seat of Hyde county, with a
population 500,) was terribly injured;
the school building, q few residences
and two stores being all that was left.
The county for a distance OF thirty
miles is badly damaged, many farm
houses, barns, etc., being destroyed.
Two hundred families are left without
homes, food or clothing, suffering and
helpless.
La Grace was visitedby hail storm
the local paper stating that stones
were picked up which measured eleven
and three-quarter inches. A large
amount OF window glass vas broken.
FargoSpeciaI.-Seem probable that
the territorial encampment win be
held at Huron. Gov. Pierce has left
the location to- Mai. Gen. Dennis, Adjt.
Gen. Free and themiIitia officers. Gen.
Free has, it is understood, made acal-
culation of the expense of the gather
ing, and states that it viii cost 81 900
less to transport the militia to and
from Huron than any other point in
the territory.
John Gilbert of Sioux Falls, who
went to Canton with a party to play
ball, attempted to get off the train
while'it was moving, was thrown un.
der tketrucks and so badly mangled
that hedied soon alter.
George Grequrson, living neal Can.
ton, was killed by lightning
Forty clerks are employed at the
capital at Bismarck, copying and
compiling census returns of North Da-
kota, under the. superintendent OF
Mai. Edwards of Fargo. The south
Dakota returns are not ALL i'm yet, but
Edwards claims the total population
Of the territory exceeds 100000, of
which upwards of 100000 is in north
pakota-more than the population
of all Dakota five years ago.
John Novoak of Bonhomme county,
a Bohemian, killed his wife and then
blew his own brains. out. Domestic
infelicity is supposed to have been the
cause. He made his win beforehand
and meant business. He leaves chill
dren by a former wife and was incom-
fortahle circumstances
Two men were drowned In the Mis-
souri, river, twenty miles 2orth oil
Bismarck. The men were John Wal
tiers ane William Burton, who had
been living by hunting and wood chop
ping on the banks ofithe river.
Thomas Gibson of st. Joseph, Penn
bina county, while temporarily insane,
drowned himself in the Pembina river.
Arthur PICARD, aged eleven years,
was drowned at jamestown by falling
from a boat.
Alfonso Gray, amalgamatorfor the
Homestake company, dropped dead
at Lead City.
The crop reports received from Me-
Pherson, Mcintosh and Campbell
counties indicate favorable harvest
Gated in that region, and an increased
immigration from the cars domains
next q as a result.
The three fatal cases of small-poxat
Scotland are claimed to have exhaust
cd the disease in that locality, a thor
ough quarantine having prevented the
spread of the contagion beyond the
immediate locality in which it APP
peared.
f. III. Wells, superintendent o Indian
schools at Fort Berthold, was sum
marily bounced a few days ago by In
dian Agent Clifford
In the Rolette county seat contest,
heard by Judge Francis at Bismarck,
the court decided in favor of ST. John
as the county seat, against Dnnseiths
the present location.
Bismarck Journal Manager c. NJ.
Cushman commenced cutting oats a
few days ago on the farm of ex-Presi-
dent r. b. Hayes, lying sixmiles north
of Bismarck The farmcomprises 500
acres, of which 800 is in wheat, 240 in
oats and 90 in barley. The indica-
tions point to an unusually good crop
the best for many years.
Sioux Falls had a population OF
2,227 in 1880 and the census just tax
en- shows that it has more than dou-
bled, having, on June J., 5,005 people
within its corporate limits.
SulIy county has an assessed valua-
ton of $771,O 29, of which $3.50, TOT
is on real estate and $2lI,2S2 on per-
sonal property.