The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-16
DlKOTl TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Dakota spent $500, 600 for school
houses last year.
Ex.Gov. Ordway Is confident hat
congress viii do nothing toward the
division of Dakota this session.
Buildings and public improvements
at Sioux Falls last year amounted to
$40, 900.
Efforts are being made by J. FL. Mar
lette to establish a rolling mill at Man
dan.
Frank Johnson, reported frozen to
death neal Custer, is alive and well.
Elk are being killed by the hunters
on the Jim river, in Brown County.
Building improvements at Mitchell
last year were 1888, 425.
Osborne Benson Of Burlington writes
to the Lisbon papers that he was not
hanged by ~vigilantes, as reported.
At the term of court held at Glivet
Levi Wallisas was convicted of rape,
and sentenced to twenty-five years and
six months in the Sioux Falls penit en-
tiary.
The building of nj. L. Kennedy in
Dawson, occupied by him as a harness
shop and residence, burned, with its
contents. Loss, 50, 800: insurance, L..
$50.
George Stickney, treasurer of Union
county, is reported short in his ac-
counts $4,000 or more. His affairs
are in bad 4hape. 1t is thought the
shortage will be made good.
The county seat war cost Sphinx county
So, 900.
The skeleton of Bill Styles. alias Bill
Caldwell, one of the Mortified bank
robbers, was consumed in the recent
Gre at Grand Forks. The skeleton OF
William Pitt, another of the gang, is in
possession of DIR. Murphy of st. Paul.
A chattel mortgage for 81, 26S, SS,
covering the stock, stores and their fix
lures of Goodman & Grange of Sheldon
and Lisbon. in favor of George r. New
ell & Co., Minneapolis, was filed in the
registers office, and Newell & Go. are
in possession of the stock.
The county treasurer Of Hamlir
county, accompanied by several other
men, wentSto Castlewood and removed
his records back to Spaulding, which
was the county seat before the recent
canvassing board threw out the vote OF
several precincts in order to count
Castlewood in.
Taxes in Dakota become delinquent
the first Monday in February at which
time q 5 per cent. penalty attaches up
ON all unpaid taxes, and interest at the
rate of ! per cent. per month is added al
the first of each month until che taxes
arc paid.
Residents of Dakota are charged nc
tuition at the Brookings Agricultural
college.
Matt Miller, who attempted TO kill
Oliver Lane, near Mitchell, was con
victed and sent TO the penitentiary for
tour years. 1t now turns out that
through a flaw in the indictment he viii
escape further punishment, the grand
jury failing to charge him with using q
deadly weapon in the assault.
ID. e. Fries. o slater, slipped while
working on the new slate roof of the
railroad roundhouse of Mitchell, and
ell to the ground, breaking his leg and
.racturing his skull. The wounded
man is in dangerous condition. He
has a wife and child living in Minneapo-
lis.
Chambers is so prevalent and fatal
among the Bismarck and Pierre stage
horses that the Fort Yates military au'
thorities have excluded them from with.
in the post limits. Large numbers o.
horses and mules are sick and dying
from this dreadful plague all over the
territory.
On Sunday night, Dec. %, a fine
mare and top carriage were stolen from
r. J. Finlay of Beadle county. The
matter of hunting up the stolen proper.
ty was put in the hands Of Sheriff w
H. Cobban of Howard, who on Tuesday
found the mare and buggy. the latter