The Dickinson press., 1885-01-17
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Building improvements in Huron the
past year amounted to $146, AIS.
Dakota spent $3.50, 600 for school.
houses last year.
Ex.Gov: Ordway is confident chat
congress will do nothing toward the
division of Dakota this session.
Buildings and public improvements
at Sioux Falls last year amounted to
$40 1000.
Efforts are being made by j. h. Mar.
lette to establish a rolling mill at Man.
dan.
Frank johnson, reported frozen to
death neal Custer, is alive and we'll.
Elk are being killed by the hunters
on tie Jim river, in Brown County.
Building improvements at Mitchell
last year were $2S3,425.
Osborne Benson of Burlington writes
to the Lisbon papers that he was not
hanged by vigilantes, as reported.
At the term of court held at Gliyet
Levi Wallisas vas convicted of rape,
and sentenced to twenty-five years and
six months in the Sioux Falls peniten.
tiary.
The building of NJ. T. Kennedy 10
Dawson, occupied by him as a harness
shop and residence, burned, with its
contents. Loss, $4,000; insurance, l..
$50.
George Stickney, treasurer of Union
county, is reported short in his ac-
counts $4,000 or more. His affairs
are in bad shape. 1t is thought the
shortage will be made good.
The county seat war cost Sphinx county
$4,000.
The skeleton of Bill Styles. alias Bill
Caldwell, one of the Mortified bank
robbers, was consumed in the recent
fire at Grand Forks. The skeleton Of
William Pitt, another of the gang, is in
possession of DR.. Murphy of st. Paul.
A chattel mortgage for 81, 1868, ss,
covering the stock, stores and their fix
lures of Goodman &Grange of Sheldon
and Lisbon, in favor of George r. New
ell & Co., Minneapolis, was filed in the
registers Office, and Newell s. Co. are
IN rocoaooioo &c kbo clooI-
The county treasurer Of Hamlin
county, accompanied by several other
men, went to C%astlewood and removed
his records back to Spaulding, which
was the county seat before the recent
canvassing board threw out the vote of
several precincts in order to count
Castlewood in.
Taxes in Dakota become delinquent
the first Monday in February, at which
time q 5 per cent. penalty attaches up
on oil unpaid taxes, and interest at the
rate of 1 per cent. per month is added at
the first of each month until the taxes
are paid.
Matt Miller, who attempted to kill
Oliver Lane, near Mitchell, was con-
victed and sent to the penitentiary for
four years. 1t now turns out that
through a flaw in the Indictment he will
escape further punishment, the grand
jury failing to charge him with using q
deadly weapon in the assault.
D. q. Fries, a slater, slipped while
working on the new slate roof of the
railroad roundhouse of Mitchell, and
fell to the ground, breaking his leg and
f%racturing his skull. The wounded
man is in q dangerous condition. He
has q wife and child living in Minneapo-
lis.
Chambers is so prevalent and fatal
among the Bismarck and Pierre stage
horses that the Fort Yates military au-
thorities have excluded them from with
in the post limits. Large numbers Of
horses and mules are sick and dying
from this dreadful plague all over the
territory.
On Sunday night, Dec. %, a fine
mare and top carriage were stolen from
R. J. Finlay of Beadle county. The
matter of hunting up the stolen proper
ty was put in the hands of Sheriff W.
II. Cobban of Howard. who on TUESDAY,
found the mar and buggy, the latter
broken down. at Joseph Grants, a farm
er, residing a few miles Of Madison,
Lake county, but the thief had skip.
ped.
The county commissioners of Sphinx
county offer a reward of $500 to the
parties who will find out and cause the
arrest and conviction of the persons
who broke open the Sphinx county vault
on the morning of Dec. 6, 1884, and
stole therefrom the books and records
of Sphinx county therein contained. E. s.
Noyes, chairman, and S. F. Hammond.
county clerk, sign the offer.
Col. VIM. Thompson, of Bismark, as
sisted in laying the corner stone of tho
Washington monument. being a MEM
Der of congress then from Iowa. He
commanded the garrison at Fort LIN
coin for years, and is now bonanza
farmer Of Burleigh county. Ee will