The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-06-04
Dakota TERRITORIAL.NO

Dakota TERRITORIAL NOTES. X.
For the past two weeks forest fires
have ragged in the Turtle Mountain dis
ltriet, destroying thousands Of dollars
worth of valuable timber. 8 +,
The'barn Of s. N. Newton of Crystal
was burned, together with two horses,
one colt and nine hogs. The FIRE soon
Iispread to the barn Of Hon. Henry
Strong, burning that and $50 bushels Of
| wheat and two hundred bushels of oats.
D. w. 'Driscoll also. lost 1900 feet Of
lumber. Mr.. Roberts, who occupied
the store next to Mr.. strong's barn, had
his household goods damaged to some
extent. Total loss, $15, 900.
Twenty.nine men and nine female
patients, who have been under treat:
ment in Yankton, have been transferred
to the new jamestown Asylum. There
are now forty patients in the asylum,
and the work of the institution has
fairly begun. But one building has
BEEN completed ~ the receiving ward
west. The last Legislature appropriated
$63, 900 for the erection of new build
ing and $56,0O0 for the. transfer of
patients from Yonkton and running ex-
penses for the next two years.
Miss Moore, q handsome brunette, is
preempting claim near Devils Lake.
She walks from her claim to DEVILS
Lake, seven miles, and back frequently.
The Blunt Times, in Hughes county,
says the acreage in crop about there
this year will be 200 per cent. larger
than 1884. with diversified crops, per-
haps one-third wheat. y u u aTa II
Miss Horning, aiyoung lady teacher,
living twelve miles north Of Brookings,
was found dead in her bed recently.
The Harvey Peak Tin Mining and
Manufacturing company has purchased
ofthe Union foundry and machine shops
in New York four sets Of Buchanan
rolls and four screens ! for that COM
pany's 200-ton concentrating plant; also
a Universal 4x3O inch crusher. 1; {a
A new discovery Of tin has been made
on Warren's gulch, six miles southwest
Of Custer City, causing considerable
stampede TO that locality. ne 's u
/ The spring meetings Of the Iowa and
Dakota race circuit, with the liberal
purses offered, amo uniting to So, OOO,-
has drawn.a large number of very fast
horses, and the ,SiouxiF alls races to ;be
held June 16- Is will afford an opportu-
nifty for sport fully up to anything
heretofore held in the northwest AZ
ready some thirty entries have been
made, and each class from the q IA to
the 3 100 shows horses, that are sure to
make the competition exceeding hot. q,
The residence of Mrs. Thomas Mullin
on Third street, Fargo, was burned. It
was valued at $4,000. and insured for
81, 900; the furniture worth 81, $50, and
insured for $500, was destroyed.
i An attorney named a. A!'Anderson,
3 Dane, seriously disappeared from
De Smet. "A letter has been received
from him, mailed at Lake Benton, say
ing there is no use to look for him as
when the letter was received he would
be gone and his body lost.
/ The territorial auditor has; canvassed
the recent vote Of McHenry county and
issued certificates. Scriptown gets the
county seat. s IS
The Bismarck Tribune gives this
statement Of the counties in the Bis
marck land district, near the river.
showing that but small portion Of the
land has yet been taken: In Burleigh
county there are eight townships Of
IA claims each, taken; thirty seven
townships, including railroad land, not
taken. In Morton, six, taken; sixty
four, one-half railroad, not taken. In
!Emmons, three taken, thirtysnine not
Itakens In Mcintosh, s one taken,
twenty seven not taken In. Kidder,
five taken, thirty-five not taken. In
Wells, two taken, eighteen not taken.
In Mclean, three taken, seventeen not
taken. In Mercer and Oliver, two tax
en-, twenty eight not taken.
r Norman B. Lewis and Frank Dow
may, farmers living near Nina, OAK,
and Loren a. Barbour, commercial
traveller for . Minneapolis house,
called 81. Fuller's shanty thirteen miles
west Of Aberd een, and asked Fuller why
he nnisrepresented facts when testifying