Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-31
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

DEVILS Lake expended about 500,
900 for improvements the past year.
Mrs. Dennis ofGrand Forks by mis-
take gave to her little daughter, aged
twelve months, twelve drops of tinct.
IRE of acconite rootTan ordinary dose
for a horse. In about ten minutes the
mistake was discovered, and with
much difficulty the child's life was
saved.
The bill introduced in the senate To-
eating the land Office at Pierre includes
the counties of Hughes, Potter and
SulIy on the east side OF the river, and
Stanley. Pyatt, Sterling and Nowlln,
the south half OF Dewey and Schasse,
and the north hall Of Presho and Pratt
on the west.
Rev. Olaf Stub, who has been sick
with typhoid fever in Sioux Falls, be-
came d~elirious and jumped out OF the
window. He attempted to run down
the street. but was brought back.
A convention is called to meet at
Fargo, Jan. 81, for the consideration
of several questions of present interest.
The first is the proposed canal giving
the Red River an outlet to the Mis-
sissippi and the gulf; the second the
recent ~vagaries OF Commissioners
Sparks; the third, the Trail county
decision, and lastly the division ahd
admission OF Dakota. Nine Minneso-
Ia counties are invited to send dele
gates.
Senator elect A. J. Edgerton had a
cordial reception at Mitchell. An adj
dress by the mayor, an eloquent re-
Spouse by Judge Edgerton and short
but felicitous speeches by State Sena-
tor Wanchfeld, Col. Price OF Letcher
and J. w. Shannon OF Huron, constitu-
ted the programme.
Five handsome bricks, valued at SOL
600, was the result of arun OF Home
stake mills for the first two weeks In
December.
Sim Mace, the well known Bear
Gulch and Spearfsh express man, died
at Spearfsh from injuries received by
falling from his wagon.
r. B. Walker will build a new boom
on Red Lake river. He anticipates q
large cut, fully coming up to the 40
000, 900 feet originally intended.
A mar named Schliek, agent for a
st. Paul harvester machinery house,
was knocked down at Pembina and
robbed of $1,400 by a man named
Woodhouse. of Pembina, and a soldier
from the fort, named Thompson.
A large and most fashionable we'd
ding occurred at Fargo. The parties
in interest were John c. Robinson, the
union ticket agent at Duluth, and for
merry the freight agent oil the North
ern Pacific. and Miss Lillian Capehart
daughter OF Gen. and Mrs. Capehart.
In the district court at Fargo, in
the case OF Martin Hector ct al. VS..
Sheriff Haggart the plaintiff recovered
a verdict for s2,341.41. This was on
a chsttel mortgage given by one Of
Hector's customers to him, and about
a year and n half ago, while in posses
sion of the stock, certain Chicago
parties levied on the same and sold il
to satisfy their own claims. Hector
sued for the difference between his
claim and what he received and recov-
I cred.
A lawyer OF Huron named Reed at
tempted to induce the daughter OF
Rev. Davis, pastor of the Baptist
church, to elope with him, telling her
he would leave his wife and son here to
themselves. The barrister was sent out
OF the house a-kiting.
In one day the Bismarck land Office
recorded more new entries than dur
ing the whole OF the corresponding
week OF 1854.
]. w. Cobb has purchased 5000
acres OF land in Emmons county, all
of which will be occupied by settlers
in the spring.
Rev. A. NJ. Beaman, Sioux Rapids,
has accepted a position as secretary
in the church extension board.
w. ]. Tanning was arrested at Gen.
terville for attempting TO shoot a cit
izen OF that place,
Sears hardwa store and Mr..
Cases building at CastaIia burned.
Loss, 81, 800; insurance, 81, 200.
Fifteen minutes before the mails are
closed at New Rockford, the postmas-
ter sounds n bugle, and all the inhabi-
tants, who have not done so already,
deposit their mail in the Office.
A verdict OF 50, 900 has been render
ed againt ex-Treasurer Mansfield, in
Stutsman county. His bondsmen
must stand about half Of it.
New York parties have recently pur-
chased property at Sioux Falls, and
the newspapers think it means the
establishment OF a glove factory.
1t is figured up that the South Da-
kota state machine only cost three
cents for each person.
A lodge of the order of the Grand
Orient has been instituted at Sioux
Falls, with about forty members.
Over one hundred teachers were in
attendance at the Sphinx county insti.
tute, at Redfeld.
A charter has been received for the
First National bank at Dell Rapids,
with capital OF $4,000.
Omaha Bee: Lieut.. Chase, aide-de,
camp to Gen. Howard, returned from
q visit to Flandreau, where he visited
the settlement Of Santee Sioux, for the
purpose OF inspecting the issuing OF
annuity goods. These Indians left the
Santee agency some years ago OF their
own accord, and took up lands in
Eastern Dakota for the purpose OF
farming and stock raising. Some OF
them. it may be remembered we're en-
gagged in the terrible Minnesota massa-
ere OF 1862. They now number $50,
including men, women and children,
and are a healthy, hardy, stay-at-
home, p~eaceable lot OF Indians.
The $4,000 school house at Graf.
ton ODpnai with 1S0 nppils