The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES.


Lawrence county has forty school did
tricts and 1000 school children.
Citizens of Edmunds have struck flow.
ing water at a depth OF 1887 feet.
The postofice at YOUNGSTOWN. wa.
burned, with most of its contents.
The Black Hills Times estimates Il.
number of stock cattle in the Hills ~
800, 600.
A colony of 1000 persons is being Or.
ganized in Vermont to locate in Dakota
this spring.
The house of Jol n Black, at james.
town was burned, with its contents. Par.
TALLY insured.
The ladies of Ashton, banouetad
Representatives Picker and Miller an
their return from Bismarck.
Quite a large amount of money ha,
been subscribed by people of Rand
City toward the building of a mammotb
brick hotel.
Over 5000 has been spent in ~artesisu
well drilling at the Casselton roila,
mills, without a sufficient flow of wate,
being secured.
Gov. Pierce has on recommendation
of Judge Hudson, issued a pardon e.,
Marcus Liverson of Richland county
convicted of larceny.
The government telegraph Offices al
Forest City and Fairbanks have been
discontinued, owing to trouble caused
by incompetent operators.
The house and out buildings of James
Lees, at Jane stown, burned. The prom.
erty destroy ed was valued at near ST.
600. The insurance was 81, 375.
The county commissioners of Walsh
county awarded the contract for build.
ing their court house to McNicol & Nc
Adam, at their bid of $13,113.
Mrs. Fosnaugh, charged with the
grand larceny of s ,700 from the ex.
press company, pleaded not guilty, al
Huron, recently. The trial is set for next
week.
r. F. Custice, a very prominent
young business man at Andover, in Day
county, died recently, and his remains
were taken to his former home at APP
pleton, MINI.
Frank Grontier, who left Albany, N.
Y, last October, with a team reached
La Grace, in Campbell county, q few
days ago, having driven the team the
whole distance.
Mrs. Cordelia Fosnaush of Huron,
who is charged by the American Ex-
press company of a theft of 80, 700 was
recently indicted by the grand jury now
in session IN that city.
The citizens of Flandrau, the home
of Mr.. Rice, turned out with a torch
light procession and grand jubilee over
his appointment as attorney general.
He is very popular there.
r. E. Wallace and Robert Gray re-
burned to jamestown from South Da-
kota, where they purchased 1900
head of cattle, including young steers
and a large proportion of heifers, the
latter for breeding purposes.
From the 1st of September to the
LIST of March the Columbia mills took
$1,000 bushels of wheat from the farm
ers ON exchange, giving them in return
about 800, 900 pounds of -four and 70O,-
900 pounds of bran and shorts.
Mr.. Small, an attorney at Harold,
disappeared about the 4th of December
last, mounting a pony and starting for
Blunt on some legal business. 1t seems
he was never seen at Blunt, nor any
thing known of his whereabouts.
A large per cent of the imported bulls
taken out into the western ranges have
succumbed to the rigors of the winter.
The Vermont company has lost thirty
ont of 113, with chances of losing as
many more before safe weather is
reached.
Deputy United States Marshal Web
ster of Pembina, arrested two men
named Lafferty for cutting timber on
government lands near Turtle noun
tam. They had cut about fifteen hun
dred cords when detected. Several
arrests will be made for the same of
Tense soon.
Near Tappan, Kidder county, Joseph
Schenck, Jr., was shot twice with .
double barrel gun through the window.
The first shot took effect in his left
cheek, and the second in his hip as he
fell. Anton Leopovske was arrested
on suspicion and died in jail protesting
his innocence.
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