The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

- ~ hoI0nern portion OF the territory un.
less the weather from this time should
prove backward.
Two good horses were stolen from
Rev. Mr.. Cook of Dickinson a few DAYS
ago.
Miner county will issue ten bonds of
$1,000 each.
The new quarters for the fifteenth
Infantry band at Fort Buford have
been completed.
A man named Jacob Jordon was
drowned III Day Creek, near Rapid
City, recently. A cloud burst sudden
~, swelledthe creek, and he was caught.
W. L. Shrigley, a well known farmer
residing a short distance west of How
ard, was seriously, if not fatally gered
by an enraged bull.
Sheldon was visited by a h~aiIstor-n.
Among the fields damaged are James
Hawley, 200 acres; J. b. Folsom, 800
acres; A. j. Ayers, 800 acres. Most
all OF it vas insured in various COM
panies. The hail covered a strip four
miles wide by six long, hitting section
and skipping perhaps two or three be-
tore damaging another.
George Burns, while driving a bunch
of cattle along Elk creek, neal Rapid
City, was struck by lightning and
killed.
The Grant County Agricultural as
ISOLATION has secured $4,000 inter
est in the driving park association Of
Milbank, and it will use the grounds
for its fairs.
The Sioux City & Pacific railroad
will be built tie a point fifty-six miles
from Rapid City, this aso
Judge Mcconnell at Fargo, practical
" denied the ma;sdamus in the Trail
county ease- which had been asked for,
to prevent the building Of a new court
house at Caledonia. He advised the
contending parties to get together and
agree to improvements affording more
safety for the county records, instead
OF putting up anew building. Thecase
was adjourned for two weeks, when the
result of the conference will be given
to the court.
Miss Jennie McCauley has taken two
claims about four miles from Dun
seth. She has thirty acres OF break
ing already.
A large number OF energetic settlers
| have taken claims in thesouthwestern
part Of Rolette county. Two town
ships have been occupied.
Thefailure o IL. l.. Smith, the Omaha
merchant, made lively work for Sioux
Falls attorneys. 1t was learned that
Mr.. Smith was the owner OF about
twenty acres of land in Sioux Falls,
the value of which is perhaps $50 an
acre. John v. Farwells attorneys
were the first to swear out attach
ment papers, and his claim beng for
$4,000 will OF course absorb the en-.
tire property. Later the attorneys OF
Al. s. Gage & Co., for 50, 400, Wilson
Brothers for $2.165, and the Mer-
chants National Bank Of Omaha for
$4,000, each levied upon the same
property. OF course helatter attach,
ments can hope to get nothing, except
in the event that somee error may have
been committed in the papers OF Far
we'll & Co.
W. H. Day, Dakota's member OF the
national Democratic committee, was
at Grand Forks, and was besieged on
all sides by applicants for Office. n
,,anlv to inquiries he stated: He
Thought there would be some changes
IN federal Offices in Dakota during July
and August, both inthe postoffices and
land Offices; but no sweeping changes
IN either. There were legions OF appll'
cants for all the Offices in theterritory'
but it was impossible to say VINO tine
-.n AS urct1ld hp