The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
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for the Fargo Office.
Fargo Special :--About half Of aelo.
ony of 13o Roumanians sent out by emf.
grafton agents to settle on the Cano<
dian Pacific, near the scene of the Ria
trouble, reached Fargo, on their war
to locate in Foster county. Thew az
thoroughly Disguised with ManitoLs
and their treatment there. They onIv
stopped n day at Qu'Appelie and
turned about. They found the country
full of soldiers and Indians, and eyary
M going for their money, Part -
the party stopped at Winnipeg from
lack of means, but will follow. and
many more will settle in Dakota.
Judge Francis p%ronounces the act ~
the Legislature unconstitutional proyid.
ing a way for him to admit youno
Magill to bail. He was tried for shoot
ing a man and the jury disagreed.
About Blunt in Hughes county, there
is a third more land in wheat than last
year. 1t is the increase in new sections
that will make up for the shortage n
the older settled sections.
A camp meeting on a large scale Is
being arranged for in Lincoln county
in June.
A farmer in Lincoln county claims
to have discovered thot fax seed eaten
by stock is fatal to them.
The Daily News at Devils Lake has
retired for a year, leaving the field to-
the Inter Ocean. 1t will continue as q
weekly.
The past year 101 final proofs were
made in Yankton county. Probably
most of them were tree claims, as it is
n of the Oldest counties.
@. M. Clark, "Chet, " as called, who
died at Caledonia recently, was a char
acter Of considerable note in Trail
county, of which he was the first sheriff
and about the first settler, having gone
there in 1870. He was a very large
land holder.
Miss Stevens, a Devils Lake belle,
has returned to her claim with the
means to prove up, earned on the vaude-
vile boards during the winter.
Members of the bar at Wahpeton ex.
press themselves highly pleased with the
appointment of w. b. Mcconnell to
succeed Judge Hudson.
Two hundred and fifty immigrants
settled in Edmunds county recently.
Mayor Stow of Deadwood was re-
elected by an almost unanimous vote.
Grant county claims u population Of
over 5000 and the value Of its property
is estimated at So, 000, 900. The county
produced over a million bushels Of
wheat in 1884.
Fargo has suspended Chief Of Police
Wood, and a conflict with the council
is looked for.
President Cleveland signed the COM
mission of William b. Mcconnell Of
Fargo, to be associate justice of the ter
~ritorial supreme court.
Four burglar1es were committed at
Yankton, making ten or twelve in ten
days. The people are stirred up great.
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The G. A. r. territorial reunion will
be held in Aberdeen the second geek
in September.
Farmers in the vicinity of Frederick
have planted 100, 600 trees this spring.
Several parties living in the neigh.
borhooi of the Washington hills have
discovered myriads of grasshoppers
already Matched where the old grass u
still left unburned.
A billiard tournament is being ar
ranged between Yankton, Sioux Falls
and Mitchell experts.
The late storms in the Black Hills
caused heavy losses OF stock,
Near Steele, seven men were riding
on a hand car, and, while running az
rapid rate, the car jumped the track
and rolled down arr ~enbankment, inJnr--
ing every man. The seven wounded
laborers were taken to the Northern
hospital at Brainerd.
A young man named Sidney 5. Jcr-
dan was struck by lightning and killed:
on Unions ranch, three miles north OF
Rapid City.
There ore lightweight G. A. 4
posts in the territory. with IN aggrre,
gate membership Of something Ike
5000.
Mr.. Babcock, living near Sioux Falls
has captured six cub wolves.
In Woonsocket, Contractor Payne
horse whipped o young school teacher