The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
Brief Items of Dakota News.

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Huron, Oak, land Office, is Republic
a candidate for the legislature III
the Nineteenth Ohio district.
The Altoona artesian well is flowing
to the extent of150, 900 gallons a day.
It's depth is 05feet.
The first birth in logan county oc-
Cured onzthe Goth inst.-a daughter
to Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Freeze.
Rev. @. L. johnson has resigned the
passionate of the Dells Rapids Baptist
church and has gone to Grand Forks.
Nineteen out of twenty recent births
in La Moure county were those ofgirls.
The first shipment of wheat from
the Grandin farm was 10000 bushels.
At Grand Forks George Miller pleads
guilty to numbering the Spell family
last winter.
The Wiser boys, near Sioux Falls,
recently lost a ST, 900 stallion.
Fargo has raised over So, 0O0for the
militia encampment.
The Bismarck Journal states that
the land Office has done so per cent
more business than last year, anC
more claims have been located by east
ern parties.
Mrs. Otto Junk ofSabin took large
dose Of carbolic acid instead of castor
oil. She viii recover, though the acid
had a terrible effect upon her throat
and stomach.
1t is not generally understood that
penalty apd interest remission on all
taxes for 1884 paid prior to Oct. /,
1885, only applies to the counties OF
the Black Hills.
Aberdeen's new elevator will be
finished and in operation by Sept. Is.
The capacity will be $4,000 bushels.
Mr.. .. W. Buck OF Sioux Falls fred
at a bird as it rose on top of a hill
and lodged several shots In his wife's
head.
John Houser of Pierre, under the in
fiuence of liquor, smashed the inside
of his house to smithereens and adj
vanced on his wife to kill her. Hewas
Jailed to await the action of the next
grand jury.
Parties have been found around
Bartlett who are taking a publications.
for hail insurance without having been
authorized by the territorial auditor.
Thomas Major, a boy seventeen
years old, committed suicide near
Holabird. He had been out hunting
chickens and clearinghouse his moth
er requested him to do the chores,
which. it appears, he refused to do,
~whereupon shestarted to do them her.
self. The boy then took his gun, and
going out to the barn near the house,
placed his gun against his head and by
means of d stick discharged it, blowing
that part of his head above his eyes
completely off.
During the month OF July there were.
fled in the Deadwood land Office ap.
plications conveying seventy-six pre-
emptlons, forty homesteads, and fifty
five timber culture entries. There were
also t~hirty-five cash and twelve final
homestead CIT ~
Near Grafton, the children Of Samuel
Kaiser set fire to the granary, stable
and twenty acres of wheat in stack:
Eight hundred bushels of barley were
in the granary. The loss is $1,5o0.
At Gary, an mceneiary fire was dis
covered in the Bartelle warehouse.
which soon set fire to the Van Dusen
warehouse just west Of it. The Bar
telle warehouse was burned but the
Van Dusen warehouse was saved by
the untiring efforts OF the citizens.
Grand Forks Special. George Miller
pleaded guilty to numbering the Spell
family last winter, the court first In
STRUGGLING him that if he pleaded guilty
he should pass sentence ofdeathupon
him. Attorney Pratt. for the defense,
objected to the court advising the pris-
oner regarding pleas and asked for an
arrest of Judgment as the law under
which the court was acting was ex'
post facto, The court designated
Friday as the day to hear evidence
upon the character Of the crime, and
the defense also objected. The case
will go to the supreme court.