The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-14
DAKuTiT TERRITORIAINEWWFs


Daniel Aiken, working onthe farm Of
Mr.. Stevens, near Trysel, was drown
ed.
The Press association of the South
has resolved that $3.50 is the figure
for final proof notices.
Frank N. Harwood died of sun
stroke, hear Huron.
The valuation OF Walsh county has
increased from S436, 295 in 1881 to
S3,485, S36. It's farm lands are 411,-
1856 acres, valued at SO, 163, 392.
Mitchell has only twenty.three
lawyers among its 5000 people.
Matthias Johnson has been arrested
and held to the circuit court at Port
land, for p~racticing medicine without
a ~licence.
The son of Senator Eustis of Louis
lana is secretary ofthe Bismarck Loan
and Trust company.
The equalization board at Wapheton
raised one mans assessment $4,000,
and he was indignant.
Mrs. Gidley, wife of J. w. Gidley, SUI
p~erintendent ofthe Northwestern Stage
company, committed suicide at Rapid
City by taking arsenic and chloro-
form.
In Miner county the hail insurance
companies have settled losses on wheat
on a basis of twenty-five bushels per
acre as the average of that section.
One man in Campbell county has
raised very fine blackberries this sea-
son from roots brought from Mich.
igan.
The Cheyenne crossing, to which
point the Black Hills extension OF the
Sioux City & Pacific is expected to be
completed Nov. /, is distant but nine
ty-five miles from Deadwood and but
City miles from Rapid City.
J. Hansen Ais of Leonard has re-
tanned Miller & Green Of Fargo in his
suit against the Northerr Pacific rail
road for ejecting himself and bride
from the cars at Wood Siding two
months age. The damage wasput at
$1,000.
The heirs of John Forester of Yank-
ton and his brother, Adam Forester,
of Niobrara, have recently fallen heir
to about $4,000 by the death of the
father of John and Adam Foester in
Germany.
A. j. HARDWOOD, former president of
the Republican committee, and one of
the early settlers OF Fargo, has sold his
dwelling for SO, 200 and viii engage in
business in Minneapolis.
According to the assessors returns
there are in Baookings county 1920
horses and 7,774 head of cattle, ex-
elusive of those under one year Gid,
April 1, 1885. There are also Site
sheep and 1880 hogs. The taxable,
property OF the county is about $4,-
soc, 900.
The reports from land Offices
in Dakota for the month of Juneshow
1882 new filings on homestead and
pre-emption claims, with an area of
asa, 1888 acres. The total number Of
settlers proofs was 663, and thetotaf
area acquired by final proof, 103,708
acres. The total number Of tree
CLAIMS entered vas 928.
The first annual agricultural fair of
Dakota is to be held at Huron Sept. 20,
80, Oct. / and 2, with $4,000 adver-
tised in premiums for stock and pro
ducts. Farmers and stockmen Of Cen
trrl Dakota, besides many outsideex -
hibitors, are said to be making ar
rangements to attend, and sthis, al
though but the first series, promisesto
be q good starter.
Oliver Dalrymple writes to Il. #.
Hodges, from Gasselton, that he will
begin harvesting on his farm Aug. 10.
He gives the average per acre in Dako
Ia asfollows: Barnes, Ito 20;bushels.
Bon Homme,. 10 to 80; Beade, 20,
Brown, 12to 17;Brockage, 10; Cass IA
to 20;Dawson,1 Is to 20;Dickey, 18;Day,
90; Grand Forks, Is to 90; Grant. 10
tolls; Lincoln, 1S to 20; Lake, Is; Me-
Cook, 10; Minnehaha, 15 to Is;
Moody, Is; Pembina, 20; Ransom,
damaged Is per cent by blight and
rust; Richland, 12to Is; Sargent, 90:
Stutsman, Is to %; Trail, 10 to 49,
Turner, 16 to 20; Walsh, 18 to IS;
Eddy, damaged % per cent.
Al hail storm did some damage at
Gardner, destroying 500 acres for
James Rowe, and 100 acres ut BBiiall-
chard for Brown Bros. & Preston; but
this leaves them some 1000 acres UNI
touched.
In the case OF Thomas A. Parker vs..
Frederick G. Castle, from the Huron
land district of Dakota, the secretary
of+ha ;,,+a,.,o M raxra,.uas ,,p,t r.vss.- hsa