The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-17
DlKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES.

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Rapid City voted to issue bonds for
k45, 900 for the purpose of establishing
awater system.
The body of Edward Peterson was
found near Larimore. The cause OF
bis death is unknown.
The order Of President Arthur re.
moving the land Office to Rapid CITY
has been suspended, and the Office will
remain at Deadwood.
Marion is building a new Methodist
church.
The Fielder Times has been moved
TO Winnebago City, a new town at the
mouth of Chapelle Greek.
Sioux Falls is to have a Free Will
Baptist church ediice, making the thir-
teenth church building in the city.
In the suit of Mathew Latin of Chi
cago against Joseph Taylor of Dead
wood, charging the latter with swind-
ling him in a NINE deal, Taylor was
discharged.
The Right Rev. Bishop Marti has left
for Europe. During his absence the af-
fairs of the Catholic church in Dakota
will be managed by Rev. Father Will
lard, vicar general.
A taxpayers union, composed of bust
ness men, has been formed at James
town, for the purpose of securing the
adoption of such measures in city gov.
eminent as are deemed advisable.
George Pratt was arrested on Willow
creek recently for stealing twenty-si y
COWS from @. Corners, of q Belle
FOurche ranch.
Among the improvements already in
progress or early promised at Wahpeton
are an Episcopal church.
The country residence of Robert Low.
ry, receiver of the Huron land office
was burned. Loss, $4,000
The gold discovered near Bismarck
proves to be q combination of granite,
porphyry, feldspar, gneiss, hornblende,
iron, mica, and yellow pyrites, making
a g%ranulated rock without q trace 0
gold or silver.
B. A. Plummer of Forest City, re-
turned from Clifton with the corpse of
his murdered brother, Miles Plummer,
his widow and two children.
John Noble has been arrested at
Plankinton, charged with making coun-
terfeit dollars, and held in $500 bonds
for trial.
j. E. Wisner, one of the Lisbon rust
Iers, lately sold one of his farmes 70
1000 acres for $18 an acre, to be paid
for in wheat at 81 a bushel.
A number of the leading citizens Of
Yankton, Democrats as we'll as Republi-
cans, called upon Chief Justice Edger-
ton to express their regret at the charges
which have recently been preferred
against him.
Judge McCalmont, recently appoint
ed commissioner Of customs by Presi-
dent Cleveland, is quite we'll known in
Valley City. He is owner of some land
IN Barnes county, and during the past
few years has been a regular visitor to
Dakota and Valley City.
A young man named Holbrok has
been arrested in Bismarck, charged with
sodomy. His brother was arrested a
year ago for incest.
DR.. George yesey of Clinton, Suiiy
county, committed suicide by taking
poison. No cause is assigned.
Parties at Fargo obtained a warrant
for the arrest of n Y. d. Hawkins Of
Peoria, ILL.,, for obtaining from r. w.
Coleman, an attorney at Moorhead, $50
by falsely representing that he had q
large amount in a st. Paul bank to
meet the check given for the money.
Hawkins was taken back to Fargo on a
requisition.
The past few weeks prairie fires have
been very numerous in the central and
southern regions, and where there has
not been special a r to protect build
lngs they have suffered.
About two months ago Edward
chamberlain disappeared from Moore's
ranch, at Dogden, in Sheridan county,
sixty miles northwest from Bismarck.
Two weeks ago Nathan Moore, owner
OF che ranch, was arrested on suspicion
OF numbering Chamberlain. Moore,
when arrested, said when Chamberlain
LETT the ranch he went after two lost
ponies and he believed Chamberlain was
either frozen to death or had skipped
the country. Moore is from Minnesota
and has relatives at Sank Rapids, Mimi.
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