The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES.


The official elevator report shows Lis
bon to be 5 per cent. aheaa of any other
town in Dakota in the quantity of No. /
hard produced last year, and the county
of Ransom II per cent. ahead.
The new county of Oliver has been
created out of a part of tie county of
Mercer. The new county Is named in
honor of Assemblyman Harry Oliver of
Ransom county, who was a of the
leading members of che late Legislature.
Ida BuIdick. of unfortunate social
predictions, committed suicide at the
Park house, Grand Forks. She had
qusrreled with her lover.
A regiment of eighteen companies of
The Dakota National guards has been
formed and another ore will be organ
lied in the south.
Many farmers in Dakota who did not
plow al their ground last fan have not
the stock necessary to prepare the
ground now, and win be obliged to car
ny out their original plans. Others
have bought fax and other seed and
cannot afford TO change now. I'm some
cases where farmers have not procured
fax. for seed, and have ground ready,
they may put it into wheat.
The reason Dakota is allowed $4,000
more thans Minnesota for taking the
census sis,that the per cent of increase
of population since 1880 has been great
er. aat
DR.. @. w. Archibald, superinten-
dent of the North Dakota hospital for
the insane, at jamestown, has arrived
there with his family from Fort A.
Lincoln. tits expected that patients
will be transferred from Yankton with
in 30 days:
The contractors who graded about
100 miles of theD Dakota & Great South
ern railroad last year are again at work
with double the force. The work lacks
but a Few miles Of being completed
from Eliot; on the Fargo q South
western, to Bristol.
One firm at Glendale has just
shipped 1900, 900 trees from Iowa.
That number set out in that section
would make quite'a start toward trees.
d. M. Shannon Of Sanborn was awak-
ened the other night, to find his barn
in flames. He reached it it time to
barely save six horses. Fifty bushels
of wheat, 300 bushels of oats and reap
ing machine we're destroyed.
Robert Fairweather, of Euclid, Polk
county, has 700 acres in seed, and viii
have upwards of 1900 acres seeded.
Commissioners Wilton and Mallory of
Rolette county, have been required to
give bonds Of $500 each to answer on a
charge of misdemeanor and neglecting
to appoint judges on May u, at g
special election, as called for by law.
The first rain Of the season fell at
Pierre, and farmers are happy. Yege-
tation was sadly In need of moisture,
and planted crops will rapidly come
forward.
A. burglar broke into Mobey's tailor
shop at Fargo and succeeded in getting
away with six coats, five vests, three
pairs of pants and one pants pattern.
Police gave chase and captured the
clothes bnt failed To capture the thief.
Near Brownville, in a camp of Fin
landers q drunken row occurred, IN
which John. Weare was killed and John
Costello wounded by one Clemens.
DR.. g.. e. Vesey, a physician of good
standing at Clifton, in Sully county,
lately attempted to commit suicide with
morphine andstrychnine. Prompt use
of antidotes saved his life. 1t was
thought that his mind was affected, and
the county board pronounced him in
sane. He has been taken to an asylum.
The Mandan Pioneer calls attention
to the fearfrl and wanton destruction
of large game going on in the northwest
ut this time.
Albert Bngemill Of Darbin has bought
the noted farm near Sanborn for $11,-
500. ft
Fred Reenkel of Minor has been ap-
pointed auditor Of Sargent county.
The Hide & Fur company of Tracy
purchased an otter skin five feet in
length, which was shipped down from
Gary, Oak.
The Red River Elevator company, o.
Minneapolis, will build q n, 900 eleva:
tor at Devils Lake.
w. II. johnson Of Aberdeen has
fine stable OF horses. Hambletoniar
Pilot, by Dauntless. by Hambletonial