The Wahpeton times., 1885-05-21


DlKeTA IERKITOKlAL NOTEA 8
Tho sun.dfes. Corning Judd, the re
4 Gently appointed postmaster at Chicago,
! is a leading merchant at Fargo. It8 is
i understood dthat the son is Il candidate
\ for the Fargo office. Z, 4 4
Fargo Special.:: About half of.a.clo-
ony of 13O Roamanians sent out by emil
4 grafton agents'to settle on the Cana
dian Pactic, maar the scene eof the Riel
ftrouble, reached Fargo, on their way
Isto locate in Foster county. They are
sthoroughly aisgusted with Manitoba
,and their treatment there. They only
stopped one day at @u'Appelle and
sturned about. They found the country
full Of soldiers and Indians, and every
.aae going for their money, Part Of
'the party stoppsA at Winnipeg from
lack of means, but wild follow, and
many more will settlein Dakota.
rgudge Francis pronounces the act OF
THE legislature unconstitutional provid-
| ing a way for liaa to admit young
Magill to bail. He was tried for shoot
ling n man and the jury disagreed.
About Blunt in Hughes county, there
| is afthird moro land in wheat than last
year. TITS the increase in new sections
\ that will make up Eor the shortage in
the older settled sections.
Acamp meeting on large scale is
being arranged for in Lincoln county
In June.
a farmer in Lincoln county claims
to have discovered thot flax seed eaten
by stock is fatal to them. 54
The Daily News at Devils Lake has
retired for a year, leaving the field to
the Inter Ocean. It will continue as q
weekly.
The past year 1O1 final proofs were
made in Yankton county. Probably
most Of them were tree claims, as it is
one of the Oldest counties.
g. M. Clark, "Chet, ]" as called, who
died at Caledonia recently, was 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 q 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 population of
over 5000 and the value of its property
is estimated at $3,OOO,OOO. The county
produced over a million bushels Of
wheat in 1854.
Fargo has suspended Chief of Police
Wood, and 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
~.
The G.. A. R. territorial reunion will
be held in Aberdeen the second week
in September.
Farmers in the vicinity of Frederick
have planted 100000 trees this spring.
Several parties living in the neigh
borhood of the Washington hills have
discovered myriads of grasshoppers
already Matched where the old grass is
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 hand car, and, while running at
rapid rate, the car jumped the track
and rolled down an enbankment, injur-
ing every man. The seven wounded
laborers were taken to the Northern
hospital at Brainerd.
A young man named Sidney s. Jcr-
sdan was struck by lightning and killed,
on. .Linton's ranch, three miles north of
Rapid City.
There are eighty-eight G.. A. R.
posts in the territory, with an aggre-
gate membership Of something like
5000.
Mr.. Babcock, living near Sioux Falls,
has captured six cub wolves, j.
In Woonsocket, Contractor Payne
horse-whipped young school teacher,
Fred Slack. on the main street. The