The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-11
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

", "A. II. post VIII be organized at
Clear Lake.
A petition is being circulated, and,
it is said, numerously signed, in Far
60, asking the government to pardon
Tom Magill.
IL. w. Clark of Minneapolis has pur-
chased a half interest in the CONNER
clal hotel as Sioux Falls.
Mrs. Emma S. Welsh has sued C. w.
Richardson in the Hughes county dis
trict court for $40, 900 for alleged de-
tamation of character.
Rev. J. B. Pomeroy, synodical mis-
sionary of the Presbyterian church,
VIII soon organize a Presbyterian
church in Washington Springs.
Taxes are due this year on Nov. /,
and become delinquent Feb. /. Apen.
atty Of 5 per cent attaches Feb. /,
and l per cent monthly additional
after that date. =
AT the Jencks coal farm, says the
Yankton Press, Moore has the new
prospect hole down 120 feet. This
hole Is being made about fifty feet
from the artesian well in which the
original coal discovery was made.
Ii. M. Day thinks Dakota can OBJ
tain division and admission by elect
ing Bartlett Trip to the senate.
Lewis Gilbert had been to Valley
Springs with O load of grain, and did
not start home until after dark.
About half way home his team was
stopped by three men, who demand
ed his money. His team happened to
be a very spirited one, and the slight
touch of the whip which he gave them
started them off on a dead run. AS
he struck his horses the robbers fired
several shots at him, one passing
through the front of his cap and an
other through the shoulder of his coat,
but none Of them touched his body.
The barn of A. M. Howard, in the
northern portion jamestown, caught
fire from q lantern which was acci-
dentally knocked over, and was con-
sumed, together with the greater por-
ton of the stock it contained. There
were m tie barn thirty-six head of
horses and cattle and a number of
hogs. Twenty cows, two horses and
most OF the hogs were burned.
Mrs. Ellen Easton, a wealthy widow
living a few miles north Of Bismarck
reported that her daughter Maggie
had sloped with a young man named
George Duncan, who had been en-
ployed on her farm for several weeks.
A careful investigation by Mrs. Eas-
tons interested friends failed to sub
stantiate the lady's suspicious and
fears. Indeed no elopement was CON
templated or planned, and the worthy
young people are greatly annoyed at
the unjust and unfounded report.
In the United States court at Yank-
ton, the United States attorney made
affidavit that certain alleged forged
papers had mysteriously disappeared
from his office, and that without
these papers they could not continue
the case, which was that of the Unit
ed States VS.. Weeks, charged with
perjury before the land Office at HUI
ron. The jury vas discharged, and
the court adjourned.
At Mitchell, fire broke out in q one
story frame bui. ing occupied by D.
Johnston as a secondhand store and
by the United States Express COM
pany as an office. The building, val
ued at $4,000, the stock, at $4,000,
and all the express matter were on
sumed.
1t is said the murdered man found
in a wheat car at Duluth, was a farm
er living near Milnon, Sargent coun-
ty.
Gus Johnston, living six miles
north Of Mitchell, attempted to burn
a strip Of grass near his house, when
the fire got beyond his control. His
barn and stacks, containing several
hundred tons Of hay, were consumed,
and his dwelling and stock were saved
with difficulty.
A sensation was caused at Fargo by
the discovery that a boy baby had
been lett at the Russell house. The
babe was brought there by a very in
telligent and well dressed woman,
some twenty-five years of age, and
she slid out directly after supper,
leaving the child asleep in a chair, and
no trace of her has been found.
The December term OF the Cass
county court opened at Fargo with
226 cases upon the calendar.
An order was received ut the Mitch
ell land Office requiring parties prov