The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-05
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES.

patents, who have been tandet treat.
ment in Yankton. have been Transferred
to the new jamestown Asylum. There
are now forty patients in tho asylum.
and the work of the institution has
fairly begun. But one building has
been completed-the receiving ward
west. The last legislature appropriated
$63 900 for the erection of new build
ing and $4,000 for the transfer of
patients from YoRkton and running ex-
penses for the next two years.
Miss Moore, a handsome brunette, 10
preempting claim near Devils Lake.
She walks from hef claim to DBvil's
Lake. seven miles, and back frequently:
The Blunt Times, in Hughes county,
says the acreage in crop about there
this year will be 200 per cent. larger
than 1884. with diversified crops, per-
haps one-third wheat.
Miss Horning, q young lady teacher;
living twelve miles north of Brookngs,
was found dead in her bed recently.
The Harney Peak Tin Mining and
Manufacturing company has purchased
of the Union foundry and machine shops
in New York four sets of Buchanan
rolls and four screens for that COM
pany's 200 ton concentrating plant; also
q Universal 4x3O inch crusher:
A new discovery of tin has been made
on Warren's eulch. six miles southwest
of Custer City, causing considerable
stampede to that locality:
The spring meetings Of the Iowa and
Dakota race circuit, with the liberal
purses offered, smo uniting TO q, 900;
has drawn large number Of very fast
horses, and the Sioux Falls races, to bo
held June 1918 will afford an opportu.
nifty for sport fully up to anything
heretofore held in the northwest. Al
ready some thirty entries have been
made, and each class from the Q "a to
the 300 shows horses that are sure to
make the competition exceeding hot.
The residence of Mrs. Thomas Mullin
on Third street, Fargo, was burned. It
was valued at 81, 900, and insured for
81 200; tho furniture worth 81, $50, and
insured for $500, was destroyed:
An attorney named A. A. Anderson,
Dane, mysteriously disappeared from
De Smet. A letter has been received
from him, mailed at Lake Benton, say
ing there is no use to look for him as
when the letter was received he would
be gone and his body lost.
The territorial auditor has csnvassed
the recent vote of McHenry county and
issued certificates. Scriptown gets the
county seat
The Bismarck Tribune gives this
statement of the counties in t.. =, ,,,..
marck land district. near the river,
showing that but small portion of the
land has yet been taken: In Bur1eigh
county there are eight townships III
IA claims each, taken; thirty-ssvSn
townships, including railroad land; hot
taken: In Morton; six taken; sixty
Emmons, three taken, thirty mine not
taken. In Mcintosh, one taken,
twenty seven not taken. In Kidder,
five taken, thirty-6ve not taken. In
Wells, two taken, eighteen not taken.
In Mclean, three taken, seventeen not
taken. In Mercer and Oliver, two tax
en-, twenty eight not taken.
Norman R. Lewis and Frank Dow.
nay, farmers living near Nina, OAK,
and Loren A. Barbour, commercial
traveller for q Minneapolis house,
called at Fuller's shanty thirteen miles
west Of Aberdeen, and asked Fuller why
he misrepresented facts when testifying
for the government in q recent hearing
in Barbours presumption case. Fuller
becoming enraged went into the house,
thrust shotgun through the door and
fired. The charge graced Barbour's
head and the powder permanently dis
figured Lewis face. Fuller styles him
self the "Duke of Argyle" and is con-
sidered crazy. He has been terror to
the community and will probably be
adjudged insane. Fuller, it is said, has
been the principal witness for Special
Land Agent Jaycox in the numerous
fraud investigations.
William Wilder, living thirteen
miles south of Aberdeen, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart. Wilder was about twenty-five
years old, of good habits, and had been
working for farmer named Childs.
Wilder had threatened to kill himself
because his eyes had been poisoned by
paris green. He had likewise been
disappointed in love. His relatives are
well-to-do people at Dunkirk, New
York.
Buffalo bones sell at 412 ton st
Bartlett, and many people are gather
ing them up.
The Bank Of Mitchell suspended on
the 9th inst. President Butterfield
announces that the difficulties are the
result of mismsnagement of the cashier,
w. G. Metcalf. The assets and llabili-
ties are not yet definitely known. The
suspension will only be temporary as
the securities are ample to meet claims
of all depositors.
The town of Bottineau has been laid
ont on Oak creek, in Bottinesu county,
two miles from the base of the foothills.
The government stables at Fort Sully,
with thirty nine head of stock were con-
sumed by fire. Cause unknown.
Thirty-one mules and eight horses were
burned. Three mules were all the ami
mails saved. It will be necessary for the
present to hire transportation Of freight
FROM the steamboat landing, four miles
from the fort.
While Matthew Conklin of Nordland.
Kingsbury county, was working on Ed
Benk's farm, near that town, he was
struck by ball Of lightning aud, to.
gether with the team, instantly killed.