Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-04-30
DlKoTa TERRITORIAL, NOTES.

Mercer The new county is named in
honor of Assemblyman Harry Oliver OF
Ransom county, who was one of the
leading members of the late legislature.
Ida Burdick, of unfortunate social
predelections, committed suicide at the
PARK house, Grand Forks. She had
ouarreled with her lover.
A regiment of eighteen companies OF
The Dakota National guards has been
formed and another one will be organ
ized in the south.
Many farmers in Dakota who did not
plow all their ground last fall have not
the stock necessary to prepare the
ground now, and viii be obliged to car.
nv out their. original plans. Others
have bought fax aud other seed and
cannot afford to change now. In some
cases where farmers have not procured
a.x FOR seed, and have ground ready,
they may put it into wheat.
The reason Dakota is allowed "a, 900
more than Minnesota for taking the
census is that the per cent of increase
of population since 1880 has been great.
er.
DIR. o. W. Archibald, superinten.
dent of the North Dakota hospital for
the insane, at jamestown, has arrived
there with his family from Fort A.
Lincoln. 1t is expected that patients
will be transferred from Yankton with.
in 30 days.
The contractors who graded about
100 miles of the Dakota & Great South.
ern railroad last year are again at work
with double the force. The work lacks
but a few miles of being completed
from Eliot, on the Fargo & South
western, to Bristol.
One firm ut Glendale has lust
shipped 100000 trees from Iowa.
That number set out in that section
would make quite start toward trees
ID. NJ. Shannon of Sanborn was awak-
ened the other night, to find his barn
in flames. He reached il it time to
barely save six horses. Fifty bushels
of wheat, 300 bushels of oats and reap
ing machine were destroyed.
Robert Fairweather, Of Euclid, Polk
county, has 700 acres in seed, and will
have upwards of 1900 acres seeded.
Commissioners Wilton and Mallory of
Rolette county, have been required to
give bonds of $500 each to answer on a
charge of misdemeanor and neglecting
TO appoint judges on May II, at q
special election, as called for by law.
The first rain OF the season fell at
Pierre, and farmers are happy. Vege-
tation was sadly III need of moisture,
and planted crops will rapidly come
forward.
A burglar broke into Mobey's tailor
shop at Fargo and succeeded in getting
away with six coats, five vests, three
pairs of pants and one pants pattern.
Police gave chase and captured the
clothes but failed to capture the thie'
Near Brownville, in camp Of Fin
landers q drunken row occurred, in
which John Weare was killed and john
Costello wounded by one Clemens.
Dr. G.. E. yesey, physician of good
standing at Clifton, in Sully county,
lately attempted to commit suiclde with
morphine and strychnine. Prompt use
Of antidotes saved his life. II was
thought that his mind was affected, and
the county board pronounced him in
sane, He has been taken to an asylum.
The MGndan Pioneer calls attention
to the fearful and wanton destruction
Of large game going on in the northwest
At this time.
Albert Bugemill Of Darbin has bought
he noted farm near Sanborn for gil,
500.
Fred Reenkel of Minor has been APP.
pointed auditor Of Sargent county.
The Hide & Fur company of Tracy
purchased an otter skin five feet in
length, which was shipped down from
Gary, Oak.
The Red River Elevator company, Of
Minneapolis, will build 10000 eleya-
Tor at Devils Lake.
W. L. Johnson of Aberdeen has
inc stable of horses. Hambletonian
Pilot, by Dauntless, by Hambletonian
10; dam Flora, by Strsder's Clay; sec
md dam by Pilot, Jr. Agatha, b. m,
by Alaric, by Richmond, by HANDLE
tonian 10; dam Mamie Thorne dam Of
Thornless, 2 ;2SD, by Hamlet. Grit, ,.
g., full brother to Thornless.
In the United States court at Yank-
;on. the jury in the case of William
Rust of Chamberlain, charged with
trespass on government timber, return
ed verdict of not guilty.
Bennett, accomplice of Bell in the
Small murder, pleaded. guilty as aces
sory. This gives him five years inn
prisonment. Bells corpse has been be-
headed and physicians have his skull.
The Park hotel at Steele, burned. 1t
was owned by Mrs. E. MCGOWAN, was
valued at $1,000, and was insured for
$500, 81, 500 being in the st. Paul.
Fire a. Marine company Of st. Paul,
Mimi, and 1900 in the Hartford Fire
Insurance company of Hartford, Conn.
The hotel was occupied and run by L.
s. Corwin and Fl. III. Stickney. Board.
ers and others had many individual
losses, making the grand total some
sl3, 500, with but $500 insurance.
Wednesday, the 18th the valuable barn
Of Paul Harris, living near Steele was
burned, involving loss of 81, ZOO, with
no insurance.
Flandreau, Oak, Special. -lndigna-
tion over the recent order of President
Cleveland closing the Indian reserva-
lions is expressed on 81! sides, and the
propriety as we'll as the justice OF the
act is freely discussed. The Indians
have already one section of land each,
which they make but little use OF.
Thirty five hundred defenseless men,
women and children are thus left on