The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-17
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

kota Agriculture! college.
The college at Groton win open the
fall session with 100 students.
Sioux Falls proposes to have an ice
palace and carnival next winter.
The Bank of Parskston has gone in
to operation. with G. HI. Rathman of
Mitchell as cashier.
A brick yard will be opened at
Bookings, and 3 900, 900 bricks burn
ed this autumn.
Miles and miles of Clay county soil
are literally carpeted with sun flowers.
A colony of Southern negroes is to
be established in Dakota.
Pennsylvania nut coal sells for $25
a ton in Deadwood.
Archie Bangs of Grand Forks was
accidentally shot while out hunting
at Crary, near Devils Lake.
1t is said that victims ofthe Newark
wind storm are suffering greatly from
priyation and exposure.
Fargo's tax for city purposes has
been fixed at 10 mills on the dol
lar added to the school tax OF two
mills.
Rev. Father Philips took twenty
FIVE Indian girls from Dunseith to edu-
cate them in q convent In Denver,
Col.
Yankton county and Clay county
are working in partnership in the con-
struction Of a ditch to drain the
sloughs between the Jim and the Yer
million.
Track on the Manitoba extension
has been laid 107 miles west ofDevil's
Lake, and within sixteen miles of the
Second Crossing, where work will close
for the season.
The Brule county commissioners
are receiving petitions circulated by
Kimball parties to call an election Tor
moving the location OF the county
seat.
A Plankinton Chinaman is among
the students at the Yankton college.
The faculty of Yankton college have
decided to make Monday the weekly
holiday instead of Saturday, as has
long been the practice.
Lamoure, has been bonded in the
sum of $500, to erect a town hall.
Prof. Fletcher Of Boston demanded
a salary of $4,000 to take charge of
the school Of mines, SO the board is
hunting for another man.
Mrs. L. E. Bailey of New York city
is on a featuring tour through the ter
ritory under the auspices of the Ma
tional w. c. T. u.
A feasible grade and alignment has
been discovered tor the line across the
Great divide between the valleys of
Rapid river and Spring creek.
The grand jury at Lisbon, has in
dicted i'll. Cotton for conspiracy.
E. J. Webb and G. A. Moody, com.
missioners of Roberts county arrested
charged with forging county warrants
to the amount OF 5000, waived ex-
animation at Traverse andgave bonds
to appear at the next term of the dis
trict court.
Judge Francis states that having
found that the Indebtedness of Bur-
leigh county exceeds the 4 per cent
limit, there will be no territorial jury,
either territorial or petit, at the open
ing of the September term of tho dis
drict court.
Mrs. Carl Lee of Abdul on, a widow,
was gored to death by a bull whtGh
she was trying to tie up. The animal
turned on her and sent one of his
horns through her breast, killing the
lady almost instantly.
Grafton has voted bonds for water
works.
Gilbert e Morrison's new roller -four
mill at De Smet has a capacity offfty
barrels per day, and is the only one
in K~ingsbury county
A draw bridge crossing the Red river
between McCauleyville, Mimi, and
Abercrombie, Oak. has just been COM
pIeted, it having been built by the
counties of Wilkin, Mimi, and Rich
land, OAK, at a cost OF 5 $4,000.
Sheriff Strange, Of Dickey county,
shot and killed Sandy Helleck.
The sheriff attempted to seize proper
ty under 4 chattel mortgage. Helleck
resisted and fired upon the officers,
wounding one deputy. The sheriff re-
turned the fire, killing his man.
The property Of Fred StilImaker,