The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL Rally.
GOING soUTH.
SUNBEAMS.

@tSSNANAt
Wednesday evening.
The Presbyterian college for central Dalzo-
ia will be located at droton.
AT the city election in ST. Paul Tuesday
the democratic ticket was victorious by fair
majorities.
Notwithstanding the decreased probabilities
of war, wheat continues to advance in the eae-
tern markets.
Two hundred and fifty carloads of emil
grants moveables were unloaded at Ipswich
during the month of April.
--Gen. Mcdowell, commander of the Union
forces at the first battle of Bull Rur, died at
SanFrancisco Sunday night. aged " years.
Call on Green, Macleod & Co., before max.
ing arrangements for the purchase CT your sum
miner supplies. They are now in position to
help you out.
old hunters state that prairie chickens were
never SO plenty in Dakota as this spring, and
that there will be fine hunting this fall If they
are let alone now.
Tree planting is being freely indulged in
this spring. The finest specimens we have seen
On the market are those from w. /. Steere's
farm in Rondell township.
w. I. Steere wishes to announce to the mod
orators of public schools in Rendell that
grounds free of cost, if called for the first of
next week.
The entire northwest experienced a slight
snow fall Wednesday. In this vicinity the
ground wss hardly covered and the snow was
absorbed next day. The weather this spring is
an exact counterpart of that of three years ago,
when Dakota produced her la gest crops.
--Itis time the railway mail service received a
little shaking up. Mail matter from Aberdeen
to this point is frequently carried past and de-
iiversd on the return trip, while that from Co
lambda is transferred at Redfeld instead of at
Aberdeen, naking AN unnecessary delay of
| twelve hours.
General Grant is working daily on his book
and it has now become an interesting contest
between him and the doctors to determine
whether he viii finish his sook before the doc
tors finish him. At the latest accounts the gem
eral was ahead, but the doctors were full of
confidence.
The commissioners of Sphinx county are pre-
pairing classified and itemized statement of ali
monies received and disbursed, naming the
source from which received, and to whom paid,
from the time the county was organized up to
date. Why can't the commissioners of Brown
county follow suit
The Aberdeen Republican, in an article on
"County Taxation is wrong in stating that
"the rate for ordinary county revenue, includ-
ing support Of the poor, shall not be more than
four mills on the dollar.' The law has been
revised, making the maximum rate six mills.
The article in question is in the main correct,
however.
-Ordway Tribune: Win Commissioners Hurl-
but please rise and explain by what authority
he draws mileage from Groton to Columbia and
return three or four times a week when he only
makes one trip Ii he loves the Taxpayers as
dearly as he pretended to just before the recent
election, he should return the large sum Of MON
ey he has illegally drawn % mileage, to the
county treasury.
Columbia Sentinel: There is probably no
truth in the rumor that the Rock Island people
already haye force Of engineers and graders in
the field this side of WatertoWn at work
on the extension toward Bismarck. The
matter Of the extension was only brought
before the directors of the company at meet
| ing held last week, and it is little early yet
for their decisien in the matter, if it was for
building, to have taken shape.
Il he farmers Reyiew, ia commenting upon
the numerous crop reports up TO May /, says:
'sMay has been ushered in with q snow st rm in
Wisconsin and Minnesota, and with rains in
other portions of the northwest; while il is pure
| ly idle guesswork to prognosticate growing
season, there is nothing very encouraging in the
general crop report outlook. Winter wheat is
bad and promises to grow worse rather than inn
prove. Spring wheat has not all been seeded,
and oats are not all sown YETI
The WARSER SUN lays the blame for the de-
| feat of the division scheme onto the north half
of the county, yet according TO the returns q
msjority Of the voters Of the south half were
opposed to the measure. However, the north is
wiling to bear the blame. ~ Columbia Dispatch
It's wonderful how this habit Of lying grows
upon man. Mr.. Thomas knows well that the
south half favored division. yet il is NOT in his
nature to own ii. Had the south half voted
1 against division, Mr.. Thomas would have con-
tended to his dying day that the contrary was
the case. As compared with Mr.. Thomas.
Baron Munchansen was Washington.