Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-03

proprietors mad put nearly all thas;ss
cash into the bank at the close al .aelr
ing hours.
Hon. L. X. Church, recentlv
pointed judge, proposes to haste,
gal matters as much as Justice 49,
equity will allow, and says the Ia
must make short speeches and syefs
point. He explains the adionrnot hs
of the term at Milbank bv the nsat
ment that it was impossible ..sa,e'
sworn into Office and have his oS.oe
oath filed, as required by the or,aaal
act OF the territory, in time to ast auis
to his official duties at Milbank NM
at the same time it might be donhaaa's
wheter Judge Smiths authority GO
when he Judge Church. was Comma
stoned.
The dormitory of the a~gricultn,.,
college was formerly accepted nv u.
board of regents at their session ~
building was finished in good sbaaa
The college is progressing nicely nv.
being about 24O students in attana
ance from all parts of the territo.u
and the number Is increasing almos,
daily.
Navigation on the Red river clossa
the 18th inst. About 395,l76 bp.h
els OF wheat was handled.
W. Riley, alias Big Reddy, is ups4,
arrest at jamestown. He was /.
rested first without a warrant hrt 4
is supposed the charge is gambling.
A petition has been gotten out and
literally signed by the leading atto,.
neys OF Fargo, Bismarck and otba.
cities, favoring Richard A. Jones 81
Rochester to take Judge Francis nlaCs
i'll the Sixth judicial district.
Numerous residents OF Sioux Fan,
and vicinity have filed application,
on railroad lands at the Wortbinotor
office on the idea that they We're OPEN
for entry.
Tom Riley OF Sioux Falls gave one
A. f. Maine a evere pounding under
the supposition that he had insultel
his daughter. The girl declared sinh.
sequently that Maine was not the
man.
The resignation OF Rev. B. F. Cooley
"a accepted by the vestry of the
Episcopal church at Fargo.
The Fargo Argus has adyices of the
capture of j. A. Williams. who il
charged with being 2 very expert for.
ger, at Darlington, and he passed east
recently in charge OF Sheriff +. d. Win.
ny OF Michigan. 1t is charged that
his crimes are numerous.
A recent dispatch announced that
the office OF secretary of the TERRITORY
was worth but $500, while the mar.
sh"isNi1 was Il plum, realizing from
So 600 to $4,000. This is erroneous.
Capt. Maratta said some time AGO
that he would have gwen Raymond
$4,000 a year for his fees as mar.
shall; but this was an over-estimate,
rs he now finds he cannot clear over
IS, 900 a year, while Secretary Teller
last spring received over $1,000 for
certified copies of laws passed at the
last session OF the legislature, between
Its adjournment and the time whent the
statutes were printed.
Minneapolis parties will put in a
flour mill at Ipswich if the city will
make it m object.
A wedding took place at Huron, the
parties being Miss May Lowell, daugit
ter of Albert Lowell, and George T.
Turner, a dispatcher in the Chicago 4
Northwestern railway.
Good running water is scarce in Da.
kota, and lately i'll the upper valley Of
Spring river, $500 was paid for a
quarter section OF wild land.
A number OF business men OF Man.
dan ore talking OF forminga business
mems association for social business
matters.
John U~pperdahl, tried at Yankton
for perjury committed befOrethe land
officers at Watertown, was acquitted.
Fargo Special;-The Conservative
Insurance company has been organ
lied with a paid up capital OF $780,
600 and the presidency rendered Gov,
Pierce, who it is said will accept should
he be succeeded soon by a democrat,
The stockholders of the new company
are scattered over Dakota, many be,
ing in Fargo, but the headquarters viii
be at the capital.
The daughter OF Mrs. Ellen Eastcn
u wealthy widow of Bismarck, eloped
with n young man named Duncan
who had been employed on the farm
The girl, who Is eighteen years old, has
a fortune of $4,000 awaiting her ma
turity in Scotland.