Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-06

| ooo acres IN which he X me- hhe
atotal OF 527 900 bnsbal.' ef es
vest viii commence i Ihchs,
| weeks. aeout III
The published accounts q Il.
BILE calamity which has ha,am
people OF Hyde county, haye =.
not overstated the loss ~,
hardly given correct jdea hs
says a relief committee Il 4. ~
The village of Holabird Lw;tb rad
iatlon OF ZOO was almost total EO
stroyed. The town of Hipbm,uly
county seat of Hyde county
population 500, was terrihly sA
the school building, few ras s'sin
and two stores being all thai waas
The county for a distance ~ ~ ~ Y
miles is badly damaged. me,, elr!
houses, barns, etc, BEING Az. ~
Two hundred families are lei w;' Ssy
homes, food or clothing, suiIeria 's'ss
helpless. v
La Grace was visited by a hail ~.
the local paper stating that NJ,
were picked up which measured M
and three-quarter inches i
amount of window glass was broks y
Fargo special,--seems probabI. 1.
the territorial encampment win
held at Huron. GOV. Pierce has
the location to Mai. Gen. Dennis "
Gen. Free and the militia Officers ~ y
Free has, It Is understood. made J.
culation OF the expense of the osa'
ing, and states that it will cost q Nv
less to transport the militia 4
from Huron than any other Dom,
the territory.
John Gilbert of Sioux Falls i,
went to Canton with party to NJ,
ball, attempted to get off tbe {,
while it was moving, was thrown
der the trucks and so badly mansJ
that he died soon after.
George Grequrson, living near
ton, was killed by lightning.
Forty clerks are employed al i.
capital at Bismarck, copyino !,
compiling census returns of NortbA.
kota, under the superintendent
Maj. Edwards OF Fargo. The M.
Dakota returns are not all in vet \.
Edwards claims the total popuIstm
OF the territory exceeds IO0,0O0
which upwards of $50, 600 il in MOI
Dakota-more than the populatr,
OF all Dakota five years ago.
John Novoak OF Bonhomme eo,m.,
a bohemian, killed his wife and ~
blew his own brains out DomAa,
lnfelicity is supposed to have been N
cause. He made his will beforebs,i
and meant business. lie leaves M
dren by former wife and was ineos
Portable circumstances.
Two men were drowned in the Nj.
souri, river, twenty miles north
Bismarck. The men were John WI
ters ane William Barton, whoh1
been living by hunting aud woodcby
ping on the banks OF the river. "a
Thomas Gibson of st. Joseph, PA
bina county, while temporarily insan
drowned himself in the Pembina rio
Arthur PICARD, aged eleven yas
was drowned Mt jamestown By iaEu
from a boat.
Alfonso Gray, amalgamator iorts
Homestake company, dropped ds
at Lead City.
The crop reports received from NJ
Pherson, Mcintosh and Campo
counties Indicate favorable harys
yields for the Russian colonRis \
Gated IN that region, ana an snereas
immigration Eam the ears domais
peSt season as u result.
The commissioners OF Mortoneomr
offer a reward of 500 for informaia
leading to the conviction OF any pers
setting out prairie fire in that co.'s
ty.
The three fatal cases OF smallpOIs
Scotland are claimed to have exhaas
ed the disease in that locality, a tla
ough quarantine having prevented IA
spread of the contagjpn beyond II
immediate Locality IN which It "
peared
+. ii Wells, superintendent Of lads
schools at Fort Herthold, was us
MARTY bounced q few days ago BY
dIau Agent Clifford.
In the Rolette county seat conts
heard by Judge Francis at Bismars
the court decided III favor OF St. Jeas
rs the county seat, against Dunsed
the present location.
At Northwood the recent storm u
more of cyclone, and accompaas
by hail. A strip of country ahoGtdH
miles wide and fifteen miles in leass
having the crap entirely DESTROYS
Ihe loss - estimated at from 200ON
10 g50,000 bushels. Sherdon jon
son, a step sop of Jacob K Jacobsa
aged about seventeen years, wasstrr
by lighting and instantly killed
A curiousphenomenon was obserra
at Frankfort, Sphinx county, abcf
$3.50 O'Clock ut night. A stiff brua
sprang mp from the west and ,ssal
west, but Instead qfpaalmg thsstHar
phere Il ,agIisi blasts OF iurnacels'
peat, whtch eonhl 10 compared
nothing but the heat released iron
oven by opening the door. II eS
tmued foralnosttwo hours, and tbs
which had receded TO
deg. and SIS deg. by the sinking n
sun, quickly shot w te 100 as' ~
los deg.
There are rumors at Devils las
that the Turtle mountain lndIss
threatened TO drive the whites iio
the lands recently opened for SEE
ment. The militia at Fort Io''s
are fully prepared to summaFay Y
down any attempt ~ revolt.
The Congregational mission at ~ I
tee agency, under the supervisor y \
direction OF Rev. A. l.. Riggs, y ern
ing one of the finest buildings ~
West, to cost, all complete, soine'nl
over $4,000.
The Marquis de Mores is abohs
his system of refrleefa.
storage, which he established alobSa.s. III
line OF the Northern Pacific VIA
view OF supplying the local Cienlana~