The Dickinson press., 1885-01-10
-biKoFA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

The great seal of the territory has
been removed from Yankton to- Bis,
marck. IS
A postofice has been established "
Shelby, Brown county. Is
Frank g. Drew-ofsGran Forks dis.
tributed 300 loaves of bread among the
poor of that city on New Years morn,
ing.
The plan of building a soldiers home
N Dakota is being agitated by the ter.
fitorial press.
Dakota spent 100000 for school
houses last year and owns school lands
valued at $4,000, 600.
The Sioux Falls, Fairbanks g. West
ern survey has been completed to a
point three miles. west of Huron, and
will be continued in the direction Of
Sioux Falls.
Fire.destroyed the saloons of Megin
& Pritzel. and Gilbert Matson, at .Rey-
nolds, near Grand Forks. Megin lived
over his place and losthis household eff
fects. =
Charles Oleson, a scandinavian was
taken from the eastern train at Bis
marck with his limbs so badly frozen
that they must. be amputed, the result
If a spree at Brainerd.
A. johnson and Fingar Larson were
brought before the United States COM
missioner at Fargo and pleaded guilty
to cutting timber on government lands.
A Territorial horticultural associa-
ton has been organized, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, e. De Bell
OF Sioux Falls, vice president, H. Wust.
OFT OF Auron;- secretary and treasurer,
w. +. Eastman of Washington. -
A finely proportioned steer. weighing
l,55O pounds was killed at Yankton,
and its skin has been stuffed for ex.
hibition at New Orleans.
Messrs. Daleeand Kennedy hardware
and farm machinery merchants at Daw-
son, have made an assignment and
closed up business.
At Yanktop Judge Edgerton pro-.
nounced,the following sentences: Will
liam Williston burglary, one year and
SIX months; Jacob Kostelberger, lar
ceny from a store, six years and four
months; Nelson H. McDuf1ie, securing
money under false pretenses, two years
and six months; Charles Sanford, bur-
glary, four years and six months.
The vote for delegate, as officially
eanvassed by the chief justice and sec
rotary of' the territory, is as follows:
Total vote, 86,764; Clifford, 71,O79; Will.
son, 1924; scattering. 81.
The Odd Fellows of Dakota will cele-
brate the sixty-sixth anniversary of
their order at Huron, April 9th, next,
and ex- Vice President Colfax will de.
liver the grafton.
A Philadelphia clergyman told the
children of his Sunday school that out
in Dakota they dig great square holes
in the ground and hold the Sunday
schools in these holes. A little girl
writes a letter to the Times of that city.
saying that the reverend gentlemen is
in 9 hole. himself, as no such system
exists in Dakota.
At Fargo the United States commits
sioner held W.. W. Bowers, Knud Knud-
o and Albert Graves, charged with
stopping the United States mail in Rob
ert county. H. H. Hougfierty and Ed,
win Cook were discharged.
Word has been received Of the death
at San Francisco of Samuel McMaster,
superintendent of the Homestake gold
mines and other Enterprises in the Hills,
and a prominant candidate before the
last Republican territorial convention
for nomination as delegate to congress-.
In an open letter to Gov. Pierce in a
Jamestown paper John Paul Logan asks
him to recommend the reconstruction
of the east and west boundary lines of
all counties in Dakota which touch the
10th parallel, so that the 46th parallel
shall be the north boundary line for all
contiguous counties IN South Dakota.
This, he says, would commit the present
legislature to division, and otherwise
facilitate the same.
Judge Guptell, United States COM
missioner, at Fargo. bound all the al
legged interferers with the mail wagon
in Roberts county, to the term Of court
at Sioux Falls. The Judge stated that
while it was shown there was no inten-
ton to commit the offensc charged, the
hating of a wagon in the highway with
Winchester and revolver drawn. was a
practice upon which the court should
set the seal of it's condemnation.
The capitol building at Bismarck will
De dedicated with appropriate ceremo-
MES on Jan. IA, the expenses of which
will be borne by that city. Mayor
Dunn has appointed the city council as
o committee to act in the matter. An
invitation to participate has been ex-
tended to members-elect of tile legisla-
ture, all county commissioners of the
Territory, editors, civil and military Or
CARNATIONS and prominent citizens.
Devils Lake Inter Ocean: Nickeus
s. Baldwin have enjoined the commits
sioners of McHenry county from trans
acting any business, alleging maladmin-
istration and failure to provide voting
places for the citizens of the last gener-
al detection. Theinjunction, Col. Town
er informs us, is in the interest of q
townsite scheme. Messrs. Nicheus &
Baldwin have laid several hundred acres
of scrip on the Mouse river near the
western boundary Of McHenry county,
and an effort will be made to undo the