The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-11-20
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Ben Arthur, a pugilist, was found
dead at Bismarck.
Eighty acres of land 9 Rapid City
recently sold for $4,000.
Alden & Waters elevator at Pin
gree burned. Loss, $4,000.
A colony of twenty-four persons
from Vermont have joined the Ed
munds county settlement.
Two months ago the Rev, j. b. Nc.
CorkeIl of Stanton, gave Joseph b.
beau $1,000 to buy ponies in Mon
tana. That was the last seen of Jo-
seph.
The Estelline creamery just closed
made 90, OBS pounds of butter during
the season. The average price paid
tor cream per pound was 1912 cents.
It is estimated that 100000
bushels of grain from the present crop,
800, 900 of which is wheat, has been
taken out of points tributary to the
Hastings & Dakota.
One hundred and sixty thousand
bushels of this years crop of wheat
has, been marketed in Aberdeen this
season, half of which was received last
month
E~x-Register George B. Armstrongand
family left Huron for their new home
in Davenport, Iowa, where he will be
the aditor of tha Gazatta
The new Congregational church at
Cooperstown will cost $4,000, and is,
to be a. frame structure 32x56 feet.
Marshal Billy Wilson of Rapid City
was shot and killed while attempting
to disarm Josse Borland, Arthur Orr
gan and Bud Baird. Borland was
shot twice, andis now under the care
of physicians. He may possibly re-
cover. Wilson lived a hall hour after
the shooting.
The old settlers of Lincoln county
met at Canton and formed an old set
tiers organization.
William Wilson is t~wenty-six days.
turned over 156acres, mostly stubble,
an average Of six acres a day.
The grand total of all horses, mules,
oxen, COWS and other cattle in 1880
in Dakota was but I88. 512; now it is
1,042, 318-five and one-half times
greater than 1880, or an increase of
450 per cent. In the spring Of 1886
Dakota's stockmen will go into bus
mess with 1.25O.000 head of stock.
A Burlington & Northern circular
states that Altoona, a new station on
the Iowa Falls division, eight and one
half miles south of Elkton, has been
opened for business.
A Flandreau druggist has just re-
ceived q supply of drugs for the In
dams, among which are 20 gallons OF
castor oil, 40 pounds of salts and
1000 compound cathartic pills.
A large number of white swans have
been killed in the vicinity of Mitchell
this season.
Two merchants of Beresford were
victimized out of $500 by buying a
patent fence post.
William Morrison OF Valley City was
bound over for selling m~ortgaged
property.
Rev. Shaffner, who was sentenced to
the ~penitentiary for six months at the
last term of court at Mitchell for as
sault with a'deadly weapon and who
secured q stay of sentence pending an
appeal, has skipped, leaving two
bondsmen in the lurch.
John ID. Smith, sheriff of Kidder
county, arrived at Steele with w. N.
Bremen, charged with burglary near
Steele.
The First National Bank of Sioux
Falls has changed hands. A party
from Chicago is there, and will take a
large share Of the stock of the bank.
j. B. Young, who has been president
of the bank since its organization in
1880, will retire, to be succeeded by
r. j. Wells, a prominent attorney.
The elevator of Alden & Waters, at
Pingree, was burned. There were
several thousand bushels of wheat in
the building, which was insured. The
elevator cost $500, and the n
are two large farmers at Pingree.
A granger from the lower end of Davi-
son county, named James Grundy,
was arrested for passing spurious
molfey on Charles Rhodes of Mitchell.
The man gave Rhodes an ancient relic
of the Rebellion in an 1860 Missouri
bond of the value of $50, which
Rhodes accepted with guileless limo
cence. In Grundy's possession were
found ahalfdozen WretchedlY executed