Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-01-08
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

The great seal OF the Sefr'Soi!
hon, remosea from Yankton to Bis
marck.
A postofice mas been established ~
Shelby, Brown county.
Frank J. Drew of Grand Forks dis-
lr;huted 800 loaves of breed among the
poor of that city on New Years morn
ing.
Dakota spent s64O, 900 for school
houses last year and owns school lands
valued at s75,000,OOO
The Sioux Falls, Fairbanks & West.
ern survey has been completed 10 I
point three miles west OF Huron anu
win be continued in the direction OF
Sioux Falls.
Fire destroyed the saloons of Megin
& prltzel and Gilbert Matson, at hey.
nolds, near Grand Forks. Megin hVea
over his place and lost his household eli
fects.
Charles Oleson, q scandinavian was
taken from the eastern train at Bis
marck with his limbs so badly frozen
that they must be amputed, the result
of q spree at Brainerd.
A. johnson and Fingar Larson were
brought before the United States COM
missioner at Fargo and pleaded guilty
TO cutting timber on government lands.
A Territorial Horticultural associa-
ton has been organized, with the fol.
lowing officers: President, L. De Bell
Of Sioux Falls, vice president, III. Wust'
off of Huron secretary and treasurer,
w. +. Eastman of Washington.
A finely proportioned steer weighing
1850 pounds was killed at Yankton,
and its skin has beer stuffed for ex-
hibition at New Orleans.
.Messrs. Dale and Kennedy, hardware
and farm machinery merchants at Daw-
son, have made an assignment and
slosed up business.
At yankton Judge Edgerton pro-
nounced the following sentences Will
liam Williston burglary, n year and
six months; Jacob kostelberger, lar
ceny from a store, six years aud four
months; Nelson Ii. McDufie, securing
money under false pretenses, two years
and six months; Charles Sanford, bur-
glary, four years and six ticnths.
The vote for delegate, as officially
cam ass'd by the chief justice and sec
retar If the territory, il as follows:
Total vote, 81, 1884; Clifford, 7l,079; VIII
son, 1924 scattering, 81.
The Odd Fellows of Dakota will cele-
brate the sixty-sixth anniversary of
their order at Hrron, April 9th, next,
and ex-Vice President Colfax will de-
liver the Grafton.
A Philadelphia clergyman told the
children Of his Sunday school that out
in Dakota they dig great square holes
in the ground and hold the Sunday
schools in these holes. A little girl
writes a letter to the Times of that city
saying that the reverend gentlemen IS
il a hole himself, as no such system
exists in Dakota.
At Fargo the United States commits
sioner held w. W. Bowers, Knud Knud-
son and Albert Graves, charged with
stopping the United States mail in Rob
ert county. IL. II. Hougherty and Ed
win Cook were discharged.
Word has been received Of the death
at San Francisco of Samuel MeMaster,
superintendent of the Homestake gold
mines and other Enterprises in the Hills,
and q prominant candidate before the
last Republican territorial convention
for nomination 8 delegate to congress.
In an open letter to Gov. Pierce in a
jamestown paper John Paul Logan asks
him to recommend the reconstruction
of the east and vest boundary lines Of
all counties in Dakota which touch the
46th parallel, so that the 46th parallel
shall be the north boundary line for all
contiguous counties IN South Dakota.
This he says, would commit the present
Legislature to division, and otherwise
facilitate the same.
Judge Guptell, United States COM
missioner, at Fargo. bound all the al
legged interferers with The mail wagon
in Roberts county, TO the term OF court
at Sioux Falls. The Judge stated that
while ii was shown there was no inten-
ton to commit the offenso charged, the
hating OF q wagon in the highway with
Winchester and revolver drawn. was q
practice upon which the court should
set the seal of its condemnation.
The capitol building at Bismarck will
be dedicated with appropriate ceremo-
MES on Jan. Ia. the expenses of which
will be borne by that city. Mayor
Dunn has appointed the city council as
q commit tee to act in the matter. An
invitation to participate has beens
tendedto members-elect of the LED
ture, all county commissioners 0
Territory, editors, civil and militaiS
CARNATIONS and prominent citizensa
Devils Lake Inter Ocean: MI
& Baldwin have enjoined the con
sioners of McHenry county from .
acting any business, alleging malad
istration and failure to provide vt
places for the citizens OF the last ge,
al election. injunction, Col. Town
err informs us, is in the interest Of a
townsite scheme. Messrs. Nicheus &
Baldwin have laid several hundred acres
Of scrip ON the Mouse river near the
western boundary Of McHenry county,
and an effort will be made TO undo the
present organization and effect a new
one favorable to the new scheme. Live
ly times are anticipated. The matter
will figure to some extent in the legisla-
ture.
The North Dakota Poultry associa-
ton had a show, lasting three days at
Fargo, and it was q most agreeable sur.
prise to its projectors in its being a
great success. Tie fair showed that
great interest is being taken in this Sec
lion in raising fine poultry.
Governor Pierce says that since the
county seat trouble in Sphinx and Rob-
erts counties he has applications from
almost every town and village in the
territory asking for the organization of
military companies. As the matter
now stands, the one thousand stand OF
arms appropriated IN tho taritory w;ll No