The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-09-10
DAKOTA RRITORIAL NEWS.

stions passed calling for the Immediate
removal of Judge Francis from the
the BENCH -i Az X Y ~!
The Russell Miller Milling company
has been organized in Valley City, with
O capital of 500, 900, which will oper.
ate the Touring mills there and at
Bismarck. .i5sg, Ks # n tS; s.,
At prize fight at Neche between
Ed McKeown, champion heavyweight
Of Manitoba, and an1lnkno wn furnish
ed by John s. Barnes OF st. Paul, the
latter proved himself to; be a.: hard
fighter, and after four hard rounds
had been fought the battle was given
to the unknown on q foul. Barnes
unknown was Denny Kelleher, who
made such q hard fight a few months
ago with "the Marine. rs 53$
Officials ofthef Aberdeen land Office
decide that the claims of Lyman c. &
James r. Dayton, of Minneapolis, to q
MANIFESTATION on the edge Of that
city are unfounded. 912 Ests 5s;sf Il,
Major Myrick, judge advocate Of the
department OF Dakota, is ordered to
join his command after Oct. ].
New postmasters in Dakota:-Len.
OK, NJ. Schultz, vice Trent, removed;
Centerville, J. F. Davis, vice Edge, re-.
moved; White lake, J. Deng, vice
Pratt, removed; Qliket, e. w. W. Ba-
ker, vice White, removed; Memo, T..
Bray, vice He'll, removed; Hurley, r.
Rees, vice Allen removed; Marion, j..
Ryan, vice Boeber, removed; Frank
fort, F. P. Graves, vice w albridge, re.
moved; Volga, c. Keith, vice Brown,
removed; Darlington, CD. Smith, vice
Halsey, removed tn
Sheriff 3Haggart had twenty-one
stacks of wheat and one of barley
burned OH his farm. The flames also
consumed his stock. shed, some nine
hundred feet long. The entire loss will
reach $4,000; no insurance.
Two men, onenamed George Emory
and the other James Bouton, were
killed BY lightning on E. E. Redmon's
farm, two miles south OF Mapleton.
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Since the tragedies at Sturgis the
liberty Of the soldiers at Fort Mead
has been greatly restricted and every.
thing is very quiet.
Judge Council announces q term
of court in Trail county, beginning
Sept. "a. ..S...... ii M u
4 A Congregational church is under
construction in Bon Homme. 81 y
A little cloud passed EVERYWHERE they
were threshing near Mapleton, when
the men took refuge in the barn.
Lightning struck the barn, killing the
head feeder and ano ther one of the
crew, and injuring two Others quite
seriously. Twelve or fifteen men were
in the barn and all felt the shock. I
J.H. Teller, territorial secretary OF
5Dako ta, iii st. Paul, expressed himself
ready for decapitation, but thinks
Gov. Pierce will be permitted to serve
out his term. ~
A young man by the name OF Belts
has been arrested at Ipswich by the
sheriff Of Aurora county, charged with
belonging to a, gang Of horse thieves
hills. Seven Others Of the gang are
now in jail at Plankington:
Unknown parties attempted to
wreck the passenger train between
Canton and Lennox. 4 They placed
three oak ties on the track, but it hap
pened that a freight train preceded
the passenger, and the engineer having
been warned, was on the lookout, and
stopped his train before any serious
damage was done. The passenger
train came along half on; hour later;
and, although The yagabond tramps
had replaced the tiesEo the track, the
engineer eyaded accident.
The caseSof the Marquis de Moses
has been removed to Bismarck, on d
change Of venue granted by Judge
Francis. ,s:t IS ;' 'S;s zSS,
Rev. Schaffner, the Baptist minister
of Dickinson, convicted on the charge
of assa,ilting q deacon of his church
with a hatchet, with intent to do great
bodily harm, was sentenced to six
months in the penitentiary of this city.
The friends Of Mr.. Schaffner are yery
much chagrined, at the verdict of the
jury, and claim that the case is one
OF the most fragrant persecution. 3
Z The Boston Daily Advertiser not
susuallyin the favor Of admitting ter
ritories to the Union, makes an ex-
ception in the case Of Dakota. The
Advertiser snys: '".The Territory OF
Dakotais, by wealth, population and
ability to govern itself, entitled to
statehood, and its admission viii
make the Union stronger. Therefore,
for the democrats to refuse it's admiis.
sion merely because it is republican
community, or for them. to ATTEMPT
to admit q puny and undeserving Ter.
ritory of democratic procliVities as q
partisan offset to It, will be to AL
counter to enlightened public opinion.
The recent census returns from Dako-
tasshoW that arguments to the effect
that the Territory is too small, too
sparsely settled, d or too uncertain
IN its prosperity to be made
/: q state, are untenable. AS q
Territory, Dakot tn may fairly be call
+ ed an oyergrown infant. AS a State.
Sit2would to-day rank in population
above Colorado, Delaware, Florida.
I Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon.
Rhode Island and Vermont; while ten
years from now, fits population IN
Ecreases ut any thing like the rate Il
has maintained in the past decade.
there would be at least a third Of the
States in the Union inferior to It a
number Of voters. To say that 4
Territory which contains so, 900 farms
is in danger Of dwindling into asecond
Nevada Is manifestly absurd. Such q
statement betrays either ignorance OF
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