The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-23
DAKOTA TERRITORIALNEWS.

Pierre is said not to have been as in
furious to crops as was first reported.
Forty-fve thousand barrels Of water
/ go to waste every day from the Yank-
| ton artesian well.
Joseph Smith, near Hamliu, Rich
land county, was killed by a stroke OF
lightning.
| The Huron National bank has in
creased its capital stock TO $4,000.
The lessees ofthe Yanlxton creamery
have disappeared. leaving an indebt-
edness of 1000, principally to farm
srs.
Mrs. Olivier Laplant, living near
Elkwood, was killed by stroke OF
lightning.
w. E. Jones saw mill in the foot
hills west of Big Springs was destroy
ed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Important finds OF silverand copper
and some gold and mica are reported
at Whalen canyon, near Muskrat can
yon.
A negro named "Skip" was fatally
shotat Sturgis City by courtesan.
Iron Hill turned out 1884 ounces
of silver during June.
Fire destroyed the residence OF E.
Hughes at Portland The contents
were sauad ,oss S4ft1
S. +. Pickert has been commissioned
postmaster at Pickert-
A. l.. Abbott, ex-iudge OF probateat
Milbank, has received 2, ,o95 back pen
sion.
The treasure coach brought into
Rapid last week $l5l,185 worth of
bullion.
Arthur Fenton, at Salem, made his
third unsuccessful attempt to commit
suicide by taking chloroform-
Lieut.. L. P. Dawson, Eleventh. infan-
try, late Seventh cavalry, has been or
dered to his station at Fort Bufordr
Oak
L. @. Jeffries, late OF Wooster, Ohio,
has been appointed clerk of the Hyde
county court by Judge Church. Mr..
Jeffries is an author.
A prairie fire in Potter county
burned over a stretch of country
thirty miles long and ten miles wide-
The Milwaukee & ST. Paul engineers
are now in Emmons county, cross sec
tioning and setting grade.
The increasing demand for oats in
the Black Hills has caused prices to
advance to 1925 per 100 pounds
and the government contractors will
be obliged to ship in grain from the
states,
DIR. w. 7. Collins of Grand Forks,
who was defeated two years ago Tor
the territorial conncil, has again an
nounced himself as a candidate for
the same position. m
Timber and prairie fires swept over
q large area north ofthe Belle Fourche..
Settlers fought it two days before get
ting control.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
about dozen ministers in Dakota
and a membership OF about seven
hundred.
Following is a list Of the gentlemen
who were charged with having filed
claims on the Aberdeen land Officer
Abe Boynton, G. Boyd Barrett, DEM
ocratic editor. of Aberdeen; r.. III.
Broom, Huron; z. A. Bowers, r. III.
Calvert, j. w. Cope. E. "A. Howard,
| N. B. Manson, E. r. Mashiers, a. M.
Pierson, H. D. Pugh, T.. III Russell,
Mai. Al. L. Burke, K. j. Dean, AM
brose w. Miller and Frank L. Ran
dolph.
A Chamberlain special says: Trout,
who is wanted at Sioux City for the
murder Of Ed Hatch, July 8, was cap
tured nine miles east OF Chamberlain
by John Foster, city marshal Of Cham
berlain, and Deputy Sheriff Austin,
while assisting afarmer in making hay.
He at first protested his Innocence OF
| the crime at Sioux City, but finally
under close questioning by officers, he
| confessed he was Trout.
DIR. Burchard, the insane cousin Of
ex- President Hayes,who came upfrorn
| jamestown and started west, viii have
| TO 90 back to the asylum at James
| town and await the arrival of Eastern
| friends.
Special from Sanborn: Animmense
cloud OF grasshoppers settled down on
i grain field seven miles east of San
| born, and in short time had eaten
svery green thing on about fifty acres.
One or two other fields were also in
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