Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
piKOTa TERRITORIAL NOTES.

riot, destroying thousands OF uollars
worth Of valuable timber.
The barn Of S. n. Newton OF Crystal
was burned, together with two horses,
one colt and nine hogs. The fro soon
spread TO the barn Of Hon. Henry
Strong. burning that and $50 bushels OF
wheat and two hundred bushels OF oats.
ID. w. Driscoll also lost l2,OOO feet OF
lumber. Mr.. Roberts, who occupied
the store next to Mr.. Strong's barn, had
his household goods damaged to soma
extent. Total loss, $1,000
Twenty. nine men and nine female
patients, who have been under treat
ment in Yankton, have been transferred
to the new jamestown Asylum. There
are now forty patients in the asylum,
and the work of the institution has
fairly begun. But one building has
been completed the receiving ward
west. The last Legislature appropriated
s63 900 for the erection Of a new build
ing and $4,000 for the transfer OF
patients from Yonkton and running ex4
penses for the next two years.
Miss Moore, a handsome brunette, is
prompting claim near Devils bake
She walks from her claim 10 Devils
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, young lady teacher,
living twelve miles north of Brookin"s
WIS found dead in her - ----
~ -sa rssshtls,
.as Harnoy Beak lin Mining anC
! Manufacturing company has purchased
of the Union foundry and machine shop.
| in New York foul sets OF Buchanan
rolls and four screens for that com
panys 200-ton concentrating plant: ais
| a Universal 4x30 inch Crusher.
4 new discovery Of tin has been mad
on Warrens gulch, six miles southwes
1 of Custer City, causing considerable
stampede to that locality
The spring meetings of the Iowa an,
Oak ta race circuit, with the liberia
purses offered, amo uniting 10 $4,000
has drawn large number Of very fas
horses, and the Sioux Falls races, to b
held June 1918 will afford an opportu
nifty for sport fully up to anythinI
heretofore held ia the northwest Al
ready some thirty entries have bee
made, and each class from the 2 "a Il
the 300 shows horses that are sure +
make the competition exceeding hot.
The residence of Mrs. Thomas Multi
on Third street, Fargo, was burned. /
was valued at 81, 900, aud insured TO
81 600; the furniture worth 81, $50, an
insured for $500, was destroyed
An attorney named A. A. Anderson
i Dane, mysteriously disappeared fror
! De Smet A letter has been receive
from him, mailed at Lake Benton, say
ing there is no use TO look for him q
when the letter was received he woul
be gone and his body lost.
The territorial auditor has canvasse
the recent vote of McHenry county an
issued certificates. Seriptown gets til
county seat.
The Bismarck Tribune gives th
statement of the counties in the Bi
marck land district, near the rive
showing that but small portion of I'll
land has yet been taken: In Burleig
county there are eight townships
IA claims each, taken; thirty-seve
townships, including railroad land, NJ
taken. In Morton, six taken; sixt.
four, one-half railroad, not taken.
Emmons, three taken, thirty nine NJ
taken. In Mcintosh, one takel
twenty seven not taken. In Kidde
five taken, thirty-fve not taken.
Wells. two taken, eighteen not take
In Mclean, three taken, seventeen NJ
taken. In Mercer and Oliver, two tai
en-, twenty eight not taken.
Norman II. Lewis and Frank DoV
nav, farmers living near Nina, OAK
and Loren A. Barbour, commerce
traveller for a Minneapolis hous
called at Fuller's shanty thirteen mil
west of Aberdeen, and asked Fuller wi
, he misrepresented facts when testifyiI
for the government in a recent heatir
in Barbour's presumption case. Full
, becoming enraged went into the hous
thrust a shotgun through the door al
fired. The charge graced Barbour
: head and the powder permanently di
: figured Lewis face. Fuller styles hin
!, self the Duke of Argyle" and is co
, sidered crazy. He has been terror
the community and will probably
adiudged insane. Fuller, it is said, h
been the principal witness for Spec
Land Agent Jaycoy in the numerol
: fraud Investigations.
William Wilder, living thirte
miles south of Aberdeen, commit
suicide by shooting himself through
3 heart. Wilder was about twenty Fl
j years old, of good habits, and had be
, working for farmer named Chi,
. Wilder had threatened to kill hims
4 because his eyes had been poisoned
paris green. He had likewise be
; disappointed in love. His relatives &
! well -to-do people at Dunkirk, n
York. ....
: Buffalo bones sell at $l2 ton
! Bartlett, and many people are gath
. ing them up.
! The Bank of Mitchell suspended
the 9th inst President Butterf
( announces that the difficulties are
Z result of Encouragement of the CASH
w. @. MetcaIf. The assets and lab
ties are not vet definitely known. I
suspension will only be temporary
: the securities are ample TO meet clai
Q of all depositors.
= The town of Bottineau has hAen
out on Oak creek, in Bottineau coun
! two miles from the base Of the foothi
Z The government stables at Fort SUI
Q with thirty.nine head of stock were c.
sumed by fire. Cause unknov