The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-05
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N6 OllOuSHnU0 gnf I.ll 4
worth of valuable timber. u0uan
The barn Of s. N. Newton a. e..
was burned, together with two Ma, s'Ai
n colt and nine hogs. The fire 49,
spread to the barn of Hon. Hsas4
Strong, burning that and $50 bnsb.lss
wheat and two hundred bushels q ~
u. W. Drlscoll also lost IL. 600 fass
lumber. Mr.. Roberts, who Co., y
the store next to Mr.. Strong's harr t'ss
ms household goods damaged to SOM,
extent. Total lose, $15, 900. ~
T~wenty-nine men and nine fa,n.,.
patients, who have been under sr....
ment in Yankton, have been transfey,.a
to the new jamestown Asylum. Tbe,.
are now forty patients in the asylun
and the work of the institution 4.
fairly begun. But one BUILDING ~
been completed-the receiving ws,s
west. The last Legislature appropriate
S63 900 for the erection of a new bu;lS.
ing and $5S, 900 for the transfer =
patients from Yonkton and running a..
penses for the next two years.
Miss Moore, o handsome brunette /
preempting a claim zeal Devils Laka
She walks from her claim to Devils
Lake, lever miles, and back frequently
The Blunt Times, in Hughes county,
says the acreage in crop about thers
this year will be 200 per cent. larger
than 1884. with diversified crops, Der.
haps one-third wheat.
Miss Horning, a young lady teacher,
living twelve miles north of Brookrnps.
was found dead in her bed recently.
The Harvey Peak Tin Mining and
Manufacturing company has purchased
Of the 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 4x30 inch crusher.
A new discovery of tin has been made
on Warren's gulch, six miles southwest
of Custer City, causing a considerable
stampede to that locality.
The spring meetings of the Iowa aud
Dakota race circuit, with the liberal
purses offered, uniting to 5000,
has drawn a large number of very fast
horses, and the Sioux Falls races, TO be
held June 1918 will afford an opportu.
nifty for sport fully up to anything
heretofore held III the northwest. Al
ready some thirty entries have been
made, aud each class from the 2:24to
the 300 shows horses that are sure to
make the competition exceeding hot.
The residence of Mrs. Thomas Mullin
on Third street. Fargo, was burned. II
was valued at 81, 600, and insured for
81, 900; the furniture worth 81, go, and
insured for $500, was destroyed.
An attorney named A. A. Anderson,
a Dane, mysteriously 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.
The Bismarck Tribune gives this
statement of the counties in the BIS
marck land district, near the river
showing that but a small portion Of the
land has yet been taken: In Burioign
county there are eight townships @
144 claims each, taken; thirty-seyen
townships, including railroad land. not
taken. In Morton, six taken; sixty
four, one-half railroad, not taken. -
Emmons, three taken, thlrty-nine nov
taken. In Mcintosh, n TAKEN
twenty seven not taken. In hiddeI,
FIVE taken, thirty-ive not taken. y
Wells, two taken, eighteen not taken
In Mclean, three taken. seventeen no'
taken. In Mercer and Oliver, two tax
en-, twenty-eight not taken.
Norman r. Lewis and Frank DOW
nav, farmers living near Nina, OAK,
and Loren A. Barbour, commercla'
traveller for a Minneapolis house
called at Fuller's shanty thirteen mle'
west of Aberdeen. and asked Fuller why
he misrepresented facts when testliyina
for the government in a recent nearing
in Barbour's presumption case. fulie'
becoming enraged went into the house
thrust a shotgun through the doc -
fred. The charge graced barposi y.
head and the powder permanently als
figured Lewis face. Fuller styles nun
self the duke Of Argyle" and is con
sidcred crazy. He has been . terror Y
the community and will probably Y
adjudged insane. Fuller, it is sad, ~
been the principal witness for opecaa
Land Agent Jaycox in the numerous
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