Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-03-11
DAKOTA TERRiRnAT aSs

Judge Campbell and T. "a. AM
werp of Yankton have formed GO
partnership.
Elijah Godfrey, postmaster at Deu'
lab, Douglas county, has been ap'
pointed a special agent OF m interior
department.
Charles Long, night Waterman at
Yankton, has Just received ", ooo' .ne
first instaliment OF q large legacy ieie
him by a relative in Germany.
Grafton is to have a $4,000 arte.
sian well. 1t is intended for general
water supply as well as for fire protec,
ton.
Grand Forks has just organized a
farmers hail insurance company ana
subscribed $4,000 stock.
A new insurance. company called the
Dakota Mutual Live Stock associa-
ton has been organized with head
quarters at Redfeld.
Citizens of Crandon propose to pc
tition the Northwestern railroad TO
keep the price of wheat in that town
as high as at competing places.
A delegation from the Turtle Mount
ain band OF Chippewas are en- route
for Washington to plead their claims
to the DEVILS Lake land district.
Surveyors find that the shack OF the
murdered man LEM is on the Fort
Rice reservation, hence his assailants
must be tried in the United States
court.
1t is reported the Milwaukee road
will be extended thirty-six miles west
OF Ipswich.
Frank w. Allen has resigned as
superintendent OF the Caledonia mine,
and is succeeded by 7. L.. Skinner,
heretofore attorney for the company.
La Moure county commissioners
have been ordered to show cause why
| thew should not reimburse Stutsman
county for the formers proportion oil
court expenses.
The Yankton fax tow bleaching
works are ready to begin operations.
First National Bank of Sioux Falls
is seized under an attachment in a
suit brought by the Sioux Falls Ma
tional bank.
Moses Kaufman isreported to have
left New Salem, leaving a good many
business claims unsatisfied.
Sioux Falls brokers, having been
severely bitten lately, refuse to lend
money on chattel mortgages.
Charles l.. Pool, aged nearly one
hundred years, has located a claim in
the DEVILS Lake region.
At Sioux Falls the other day Judge
Palmer decided that the court had no
jurisdiction to disbar aphysicianfrom
practice.
Some of the citizens in Watertown
and farmers in Codington county have
formed a joint stock company for the
purpose OF holding county fairs. The
limit of the capital stock is $4,000.
Attorney Bosard ssys Treasurer
Holman's books at Lakota were kept
f~raudulently from the beginning. 1t is
also alleged that Holmans accounts
ave been short for nearly a year.
| Hon. j. II. King has sent in his
resignation as postmaster at Chamber-
lain.
Extensive gypsum beds are being
opened at Buffalo Gap.
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Dakota was taken suddenly i'll with
an affection of the heart while in at
tendance OH the meeting of the house
public lands committee in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunning Of Leola were
found insensible q few mornings ago
from coal gas which had escaped from
a hard coal burner, and were barely
saved from death
Rapid City has voted So, 900 for the
purpose of having Rapid creek
Strengthened at that place. There will
be many acres of land reclaimed and
less damage from freshets.
The two prisoners confined in the
Steele iail-one for arson and the
other for murder-were caught hiding
a caseknife and submerging it in water
to harden it for the purpose OF saving
their way out OF jail.
An indictment has been found
against the parties who tarred and
feathered W. II. Fulmer at Plankin-
ton last summer.
Thomas Fish, at Valley City, was
bound over to the criminal court,
charged with outraging a thirteen
year-old girl.
Canton will vote in April or the
proposition OF bonding the city for
$1,000 to put in a system OF water
works.
L. Horton was appointed postmas-
ter at Elizabeth, vice Cragor declined;
and X. ]. Husevald at Cyrur, vice Ole
son, removed.
The Redfeld Rifles have ordered new
unif orms at a cost of $3.50.
c. X. Howard has been indicted in
Lincoln county, charged with bringing
diseased Texas cattle into the terri
tory.
Pennington county will vote on a
proposition to bond the county for
$4,000 for a jail at Rapid.
Lewis Olsen, general merchandise at
Caledonia, has assigned with liabili-
ties of So, 900.
A medical journal is to be published
at Mitchell by DIR. Andres and DR.. Sc
yey.
George Woolsie, fifteen years of age,
was found dead on a ranch in Fall
River county. He was in charge of
stock, and is supposed to have acct
dentally shot himself.
At the preliminary hearing of Cum
mings and the Dyer brothers, the al
legged horse thieves from Wyoming, at
Glendale, they were discharged.
In the absence OF Rev. A. P. Jones,
the preacher, at Frankfort, Sphinx
county, on a recent Sunday, his wife
preached a sermon, and the congrega-
ton now want the male to Jones stay
away all the time, Or let his wife do
the preaching. W.
Creditors of Michael Mead, Luverne,
has taken steps to declare him in
solvent.
The grand jury at Huron has found
indictments against John Blair and
Charles Hitchcock, county commits
| sioners during the time the court house
was beng built, for the misappro-