The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-14
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS,

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Daniel Aiken, working on the farm o.
Mr.. Stevens, near Trysel, was drown
ed.
The Press association of the South
has resolved that So. so is the figure
for final proof notices.
Frank N. Harwoo6 died of sun.
stroke, near Huron.
The valuation of Walsh county has
increased from $436, 1905 in 1881 to
IS, 485 1896. Its farm lands are ALL
1866 acres, valued ut Sc, 163,302.
Mitchell has only twenty-three
lawyers among its 5000 people.
Matthias johnson has been arrested
and held to the circuit court at Port
land, for practicing medicine without
a licence.
disqualification board at Waphston
raised one mans assessment $27 900,
and he was indignant.
Mrs. Gidley, wife of j. W. Gidley, SUI
perintendent OF the Northwestern Stage
company, committed suicide at Rapid
City by taking arsenic and chloro.
form.
In Miner county the hail insurance
companies havesettletll losses on wheat
on basis of twenty-five bushels per
acre as the average of that section.
One man in Campbell county has
raised very fine blackberries this sea-
son from roots brought from Mich.
igan.
The Cheyenne crossing, to which
point the Black Hills extension of the
Sioux City & Pacific is expected to be
completed Nov. 4, is distant but nine.
ty-five miles from Deadwood and but
fifty miles from Rapid City.
j. Hansen Ais of Leonard has re-
tanned Miller & Green of Fargo in his
suit against the Northern Pacific rail-
road for ejecting himself and bride
from the cars ut Wood Siding two
months ago. The damage was put at
81 900.
The heirs of John Forester of Yank-
ton and his brother, Adam Forester,
of Niobrara, have recently fallen heir
to about $4,000 by the death of the
father of John and Adam Foester in
Germany.
A. ]. Harwood, former president OF
the Republican committee, and ono of
heearly settlers OF Fargo, has sold his
dwelling for So, 900 and will engage in
business in Minneapolis.
According to the assessors returns
there are in Bookings county 1890
horses and 7,774 head of cattle, OK
elusive of those under one year old,
April 1, 1886. There are also 3,l72
sheep and 1880 hogs. The taxable
property of the county is about ST..
100000.
The reports from seven land offices
in Dakota for the month of June show
1882 new filings on homestead and
presumption claims, with an area of
454 1888 acres. The total number of
settlers proofs was GG3, and theto
area acquired by final proof, 1O3, 7O8
acres. The total number of tree
CLAIMS entered was 92S.
The first annual agricultural fair OF
Dakotais to bcheld at Huron Sept. 90,
80, Oct. and 2, with $4,000 adver-
tised in premiums for stock and pro
ducts. Farmers and stockmen of Cen
trail Dakota, besides many outside ex-
hibitors, are said to be making ar
rangements to attend, and this, al
though but the first series, promises to
be O good starter.
Oliver Dalrymple writes to L. +.
Hodges, from Casselton, that he will
begin harvesting on his farm Aug. 10.
He gives the average per acre in Dako
ia asfollows: Barnes, z to 2O;bushels;
Bon Homme, Is to 80; Beade, 90;
Brown, IL to II; Brockage, Is; Cass ID
10 2O;Dawson, 1S to 90; Dickey, Shay,
20; Grand Forks, Is to 20; Grant, 10
to Is; Lincoln, 18 to 20; Lake, Is; Nc
Cook, 16; Minnchaha; Is to -;
Is; Pembina, 20; Ransom,
Is per cent by blight and
rust; Richland, 12 to 1S; Sargent, 90;
Is to %; Trail, 10 to 10;
Turner, 16 to 20; Walsh, 10 to 25;
Eddy, damaged % per cent,
In the case of Thomas A. Parker vs..
Frederick G. Castle, from the Huron
land district of Dakota, the secretary
of the interiorreverses, upon review, his
predecessors decision of Feb. 10, 1885,
that the service of notice by
is not warranted upon the
sworn allegation that "the present ad-
dress of the defendant is unknown to
the deponent, and that personal SER
vice cannot be had upon him." but
that it must also be affirmatively
shown that due diligence has been used
to procure personal service before IN
order for publication can DO allowed.
Warden Williams ofthepenitentiary
at Bismarck, wishes it distinctly I'M
derstood that Wednesday of each
week is reception day at his mansion,
and on that day visitors are welcome
and invited to call. The admission
fee will be twenty-five cents, the pro-
ceeds to be devoted to library fund
for the purchase of books and papers
for the convicts.
The following officers of the Dakota
militia we're designated by Governor
Pierce to attend the funeral obsequies
of General Grant: General Thomas 8.
Free, adjutant general; Colonel o. w.
Bennett, first regiment; Colonel NJ. w.
Sheafe, second regiment; c. b. Little,
aide de camp.
Bismarck special:-Gov. Piercesent
500 to Warner M. Bateman Cincin.
natl for settlement in full of judg.
ment obtained against him at Padu-
cab, KY, in 1864, for the market val.
ue of a negro boy and girl. Pierce was
at Paducah, and EN-.
ployed about 1900 negroes, most Of
whom were slaves of residents of that
part of Kentucky. He refused to sur
render them to their owners, and had
some trouble over the matter, thelast