The Dickinson press., 1885-03-21
DAKOTA Territorial News.

discovered at Britton.
The convent of the Ursulines. near
Miles City, is nearly completed. 1t will
be a fine structure.
Peter Shogren, living near yermil.
lion, was killed by his team running
away.
Ashton is glorifed wei being made
the county seat of Spinx county.
The excitement at Grow Creek reser.
walton is abating, and squatters are al
lowed to continue in peaceable possess
sion.
A Flandreau brute, in a mad ft.
Drained his horse with an ak,
MI. and Mrs. Killeen of Irouuois
nav lost their entire family, consisting
of three beautiful children, from diph-
liberia.
Two companies of soldiers from Fort
Custer marchedto the Crow agency and
arrested Spotted Horse and Bear Wolf.
two chiefs who had put head on Agent
Armstrong.
A Sioux squaw has committed sui
eide, near Pierre, because of the I'M
faithfulness of her half breed husband.
Sheriff D. Dick left st. Vincent for
Yankton, having in charge a man nam
ed L. Capito, who is insane.
Mrs. F. P. Wellington, a lady we'll
known in Sargent county, has cultivat-
ed extensively the Russian Mulberry.
which is believed to be the tree for
Dakota prairies.
A handsome new building is to be
erected for the Second National bank If
Aberdeen, which has been incorporated
with a capital of $4,000.
The Sisters of Charity will erect a
church at the new mission at Fort Tot
ten.
A thousand Vermonters will settle in
the territory this spring.
Flandreau people celebrated the APP
pointment of Mr.. Rice as attorney gen
eral of the territory with music, fire.
works, etc.
The eight-month's-old babe of Mr..
and Mrs. George Davidson of Miller,
weighs sixty pounds.
At Darlington, Elske's shoe shop and
Poodless' restaurant we're burned re-
Gently. Loss, 81, 1000.
The Black Hills tin region is found
to be much larger than was supposed,
New locations are constantly opened.
The new gold dlggings in the Little
Rockies show up as high as 81 to the
pan.
Al Ipswich the artesian we'll struck q
strong stream of water at a depth of
1,093 feet. The town r%ejoices in the
solution of the water problem.
Kimmenor, the person who was ar
rested and confined in the Yankton jail
on u charge of burglary last summer,
and who subsequently, escaped, has been
detected and arrested again at Des
Moines, Iowa.
Articles of incorporation of the West
ern Investment company, capital stock
$500, 600, have been filed in the Office of
the territorial secretary. The compa-
ny will do a banking and loan business
at Sioux Falls.
Smith and Norton, the st. Paul pu-
g%ilists. got into a quarrel at Tower,
where they were giving sparring exhi-
billions, and bruising each other up bad
ly. Norton left the combination, in
consequence.
Joseph L. Mansfield of Grandin,
chairman of the farmers committee of
the Red river valley, and editor of a
farmers paper called the Investigator,
has become insane. He fled from Bis
marck to Valley City because he feared
somebody was going to kill him.
Register Armstrong has received
word from Delegate John B. Raymond
that the plots of the Winnebago reser-
walton recently opened for settlement
are being prepared as rapidly as posi-
BILE and been promised by Saturday
night.
At Mitchell, Chris Halverson was
standing on the pilot or footboard
Of the switch engine, and, missing his
footing, fell in front Of the engine. The
front wheels passed over his legs, cut
ting the left leg off below the knee and
cutting the foot of the right leg.
One Bell of Harold has been on ex-
animation for a week before United
States Commissioner Taylor at Huron,
on an affidavit Of Special Agent James,
for a fraudulent land entry. Fiske g.
Van Horne, who are Bells attorneys,
made every effort to save their client
and succeeded in inducing the commits
sioner to reduce the bail from s., 0 to
s4OO.
Washington special:-Maj. Cram
sic, of the Devils Lake Indian
agency, had an interview with In