Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-01-15
DAEOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Building improvements IN Huron the
past year amounted TO $l46,475.
Dakota spent $3.50, 600 for school
houses last year.
Ex.Gov. Ordwsy is confident that
congress will do nothing toward tho
division Of Dakota this session.
Buildings and public improvements
at Sioux Falls last year amounted to
s44O,OOO.
Efforts are being made by J. FL. Mar
lette to establish o rolling mill at Man
dan.
Frank johnson, reported frozen to
death a 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 $3.50, 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 Gliyet
Levi Wallisas was convicted OF rape,
and sentenced to twenty-five years and
six months in the Sioux Fails p~eniten-
tiary.
The building of M. I. Kennedy in
Dawson, occupied by him as a harness
shop and residence, burned, with its
contents. Loss, s2,5oO insurance, l.
$50.
George Stickney, treasurer Of Union
county. is reported short in bis &C.
counts q 5000 or more. His affairs
are in bad shape. It is thought the
shortage viii be made good.
The county seat war cost Sphinx county
5000.
The skeleton of Bill Styles, alias Bill
CALDWELL, one Of the Northield bank
robbers, was consumed in the recent
fire 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 Il Grange OF Sheldon
and Lisbon, in favor of George II. New
ell & Co., Minneapolis, was filed in the
registers office, and Newell q 90, are
in possession OF the stock.
The county treasurer Of Hamlin
county, accompanied by several other
men, went to 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
C~astlewood in.
Taxes in Dakota become DELINQUENT
the first Monday in February, at which
time a 5 per cent. penalty attaches up
on all unpaid taxes, and interest at the
rate of l per cent. per month is added al
the first of each month until the taxes
are paid.
Matt Miller, who ATTEMPTED 10 kill
Oliver Lane. near Mitchell. was cou.
victed and sent to the peniteutiary for
four years. 1t now turns out that
through a flaw in the indictment he will
escape further punishment, the grand
jury failing to charge him with using /,
deadly weapon in the assault.
D.. E. Fries. a slater, Slipped while
working on the new slate roof Of the
railroad roundhouse of Mitchell, and
Iell to the ground. breaking his leg and
f~racturinp his skull. The wounded
man is in a dangerous condition. He
has a wife and child living in Minneapo-
lis.
Chambers "a 40 prevalept 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 of
horses and mules are sick and wing
from this dreadful plague all over the
territory.
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