Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-27
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS


Army of the Republic will be held at
Aberdeen, Sept. Is, &c, and IL. Prep
arations are being made for the enter
tainment offifteen hundred veterans
| and fully five thousand visitors are ex'
pected. Gov. Oglesby of Illinois, Gov.
/ Pierce of Dakota and Senator Logan
will be present.
A Bathgate saloonkeeper, who per.
| sisted in selling a man whisky after
his wife had notified him to stop, had
to pay 500 damages to the lady.
The Valley City authorities are set
ting the tramps to work on the streets,
The corn crop about Pierre will
yield from 40 to 20 bushels per acre.
Harry Dawes OF Bon Homme county
has disappeared from his home near
Tyndall.
A petition Is being circulated in
Deadwood for the pardon of Joseph
Card, recently sentenced 10 the peni
! .entiary for a term of ten years. The
! .onvict's wife, since his incarceration
| q few months ago, has become insane.
A Marion correspondent to the Par
ker New Era says: +. w. DowningaBd
wife were both severely struck by
lightning the other evening, and light
ming struck p. Strominger's residence,
but did no damage. IL also struck the
residence OF Tom Vim, in town severe
| ly shocking Mrs. Vim, who was alone,
| aud she had to crawl to the door on
her hands and knees to get air to keep
from smothering.
Julius Field was struck by lightning
| and instantly killed. He lived four
miles east OF Lisbon, and was walking
| with friend at the time. He fell
| against his companion, throwing him
down, but received no injury, while
! Field was killed,
Miss Lizzie McDougal has been ap.
| pointed assistant postmaster OF Ros-
| coe.
/ The Dunseith people submitted po-
litely to the transfer of the county
records and property to st. John, and
the st. John people publicly thanked
them. A row had been expected.
n. Tilden OF Sioux Falls, who has o
farm near Hartford containing an inn
niense number of forest trees, offers to
! donate all the trees needed to beautify
the central school grounds Of that
city, if the school board will send to
his farm and get them.
A call will soon be issued for meet
ing ofrepresentative democrats OF Da-
kota at Aberdeen, Sept. %. led.
It is generally believed through tho
territory that the cultivation of flax
has much to do with the increase of
! wild mustard.
The Episcopal convocation which
was to convene Sept. 3, has been post
poncd till Sept. 10. 1t will be held at
Sioux Falls.
The Dakota university building in
Mitchell 10 being pushed rapidly to
! completion. Arrangements are made
to begin the fall term Sept. 80.
Emery l.. Wright, living four miles
southeast of Aberdeen, lost 500 bush
els of grain in the shock by prairie fire.
At Canton Mrs. Sarah Bray dropped
dead whilegoing to bed. Heart disease
was the cause.
A n.year-old daughter of James
Wilson, a farmer living near Sioux
Falls, had n braid OF her hair caught
while riding on areaper, and torn from
her head, together with q portion OF
the scalp.
At the new town OF Emery, twenty
miles west, OF Grand Forks, two ele-
vator crews of twenty men each, en-
sagpd IN d war with fists and clubs.
The fight lasted about an hour. Sew
eral We're seriously injured and one it
is feared fatally.
The next meeting OF the farmers al
lance for Dakota Territory will be
held Ct Columbia Sept, 2,
The assessable real and personal
property In Minnehaha county is
valued at 1858, 551.
At Grand Forks, there came near
being a general jail delivery. Deputy
Sheriff Dow entered the cell room and
was attacked by four prisoners who
overpowered him, taking his revolver
and choking him nearly to death. All
would have escaped but for the fact
that Dow had thrown the keys back
through the crate door after locking
the cell room. The groans of Dow at
TRACKED the attention of Sheriff jerks,
who drove theprisoners into their cells
with a revolver.
The Aurora and Douglas county fair
win be held ut Plankinton September
2B, "a, 25 and 20. Purses OF 800,
$3.50 and SIS are offered for running
and trotting races.
Prof. Whitney, recently rendered the
presidency Of tho territorial universe.
" at Vermillion, has declined.
The property valuation OF Grand
Forks county is "a, 399, 3s4, a gain of
ooiooo over laSt year. Inc increase
in the value Of farming lands is 22 per
cent.
The Northwestern right OF way CON-
mittee report that outside of Yank-
ton they had secured the roadbed
through Yankton county, excepting
one piece and through Turner county,
excepting one piece, which will prob.
ably be donated.
The Fort Totten deserters who
were captured at Larimore some
weeks ago, sawed the iron bars of the
post lookup n few evenings since and
again made their escape. They are
still at large
The grand jury at Deadwood pre-
scented indictments against thecounty
commissioners and county treasurer
Tor malfeasance, principally rs re-
CARDS the assessment OF property OF
what l. known as the Homestake
company's. by which the grand iiry
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