The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
DiKOTi TERkffTf66RRfiiiEf NEWS

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marck.
A postoffce has been established at
Shelby, Brown county.
Frank J. Drew of Grand Forks dis
+ributed 300 loaves of bread among the
poor of that city on New Years morn
ing.
The plan of building a soldiers home
in Dakota is being agitated by the ter
ritorial press.
Dakota spent 500, 900 for school
houses last year and owns school lands
valued at $75, 900, 600.
The Sioux Falls, Fairbanks & West
ern survey has been completed to a
point three miles west of Huron, and
will be continued in the direction Of
Sioux Falls.
Fire destroyed the saloons Of Megin
& Pritzel and Gilbert Matson, at Rey-
nolds, near Grand Forks. Megin lived
over his place and lost his household eff
fects.
Charles Oleson, q Scandinavian was
taken from the eastern train at Bis
marck with his limbs SO badly frozen
that they must be amputed, the result
of q spree at Brainerd.
A. Johnson and Fingar Larson were
brought before the United States COM
missioner at Fargo and pleaded guilty
to cutting timber on government lands.
A Territorial horticultural a~ssocia-
ton has been organized, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, e. De Bell
of Sioux Falls, vice president, III. Wust.
off of Huron; secretary and treasurer,
W. F. Eastman Of Washington.
A finely proportional steer weighing
1850 pounds was killed at Yankton,
and its skin has been stuffed for ex-
hibition at New Orleans.
Messrs. Dale and Kennedy, hardware
and farm machinery merchants at Daw-
son, have made an assignment and
closed up business.
At Yankton Judge Edgerton pro-
nounced the following sentences: Will
liam Williston burglary, one year and
six months; Jacob Kostelberger, lar
ceny from a store, six years and four
months; Nelson FL. McDufie, securing
money under false ~pretenses, two years
and six months; Charles Sanford, bur-
glary, four years and six months.
The vote for delegate, as officially
canvassed by the chief justice and sec
rotary of the territory, is as follows:
Total vote, 86,764; Clifford, II, 079; VIII
son, 10, l24 scattering, 81.
The Odd Fellows of Dakota will cele-
brate the sixty-sixth anniversary of
their order at Huron, April 9th, next,
and x -Vice President Colfax will de-
liver the Grafton.
A Philadelphia clergyman told the
children of his Sunday school that out
in Dakota they dig great square holes
in the ground and hold the Sunday
schools in these holes. A little girl
writes a letter to the Times of that city,
saying that the reverend gentlemen is
In hole himself, as no such system
exists in Dakota.
At Fargo the United States commits
sioner held W. w. Bowers, Knud Knud-
son and Albert Graves, charged with
stopping the United States mail in Rob-
ert county. III. ii. Hougherty and Ed
win Cook were discharged.
Word has been received of the death
at San Francisco of Samuel McMaster,
superintendent of the Homestake gold
mines and other Enterprises in the Hills,
and a prominant candidate before the
last Republican territorial convention
for nomination as delegate to congress.
In an open letter to Gov. Pierce in a
Jamestown paper John Paul Logan asks
him to recommend the reconstruction
OF the east and west boundary lines of
all counties in Dakota which touch the
46th parallel, SO that the 46th parallel
shall be the north boundary line for all
contiguous counties In South Dakota.
This, he says, would commit the present
legislature to division, and otherwise
facilitate the same.
The capitol building at Bismarck will
be dedicated with appropriate ceremo-
MES on Jan. IA, the expenses Of which
will be borne by that city. Mayor
Dunn has appointed the city council as
q committee to act in the matter. An
invitation to participate has been ex-
tendedto MEMBERSHIPS of the legisla-
ture, all county commissioners OF the
Territory, editors, civil and military or
CARNATIONS and prominent citizens.
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