Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-03-04
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.


time since on the charge of concealing
goods from his creditors by filling the
space oyer his kitchen at Bridgewater
with merchandise before he made an
assignment, was arrested at Marion
Junction and taken to Chicago, to
answer to an indictment for obtain
ing goods under false pretenses.
Limestone, said to be equal to any
in the United States, has been found
neal Redfield.
Judge Church has made an order
s-egregating Fall River from Custer
county for court purposes.
Par O'Leary of Brookings county,
said TO be Ill years of age, is the old
est man in Dakota.
The annual encampment OF the Da-
kota g. A. r. will meet at Watertown
March "a.
In June next the Norwegian Luthe-
ran conference of the Red River valley
viii meet at Belmont, Trail county.
W tn from one hundred and fifty to
| two hundred ministers and about six
hundred delegates.
Madison will vote on bonding the
city for S25, 900, to be used in COM
| plotting the normal school building.
Stone coal of a superior quality bit
luminous, has been found three-fourths
of a milefrom Minnesota, in the direct
ion of De Mores.
The water of the natural spring To-
Gated near Dakota City, Hutchinson
county, has been analysed and found
to contain valuable medicinal prop
critics,
A movement is onfoot to secure the
pardon of A. NJ. Flag, who was con-
| victed at Sioux Falls of embezzlement
and sentenced to four years imprison-
melt.
Public opinion in DEVILS Lake and
vicinity sustains the action of Judge
Mcconnell in refusing to grant Lawyer
Irwin's motion to release on bail U.s.
wald, the murderer of MeWeeney.
A fire in DuffacE's block Yankton,
partially destroyed the boot and shoe
stock ofJoseph S. Ketchum of Mime
apolis. The loss on the building and
stock is $1,000.
Rev. G. l.. Hunt has procured a di-
vorce from bis wife IN Yankton, and
| Mrs. Hunt is trying to get a divorce
from him in the New Jersey courts.
A meeting will be held at Webster,
Day county, March IL, 10 ~inaugurate
efforts to secure the opening to settle
ment OF the Sisseton reservation.
A young daughter of J. W. Barnes,
at Wilmot, drank a large quantity of
gelseminum and died in a few hours
thereafter. ..
Hans Medboe, who was shot near
Park River a short time ago, has since
died.
The suit of Brown county against
the city of Aberdeen to ecover a por-
ton of the liquor license paid in that
city has been decided by Judge Church
in favor of the county.
The jury in the case of George Get
ner and Stephen Adams, charged with
killing a man named Leman at Elk
Point, acquitted Getner but convicted
Adams of manslaughter in the second
degree.
The barn of Benjamin Reisdorf, in
Becker township, Grant county, was
! burned, with four horses, eight cows,
a number of hogs and many fowls.
John Nieacoti has been placed in
the Beadle county Jail for custody,
charged with trying to kill his wife, in
Miner county.
Tobias Gilbertson, living about
+tEaptr~ailas~ Southwest Of Grand
Forks, hanged himself IN his barn.
Judge Palmer issued an order to
dissolve the attachment of the Sioux
Falls National Bank against the First
National. The attachment was
brought to collect check of the latter
bank for $4,000 issued to the late
county treasurer, and on which pay-
ment was refused upon the alleged
ground that the treasurer had over
drawn.
The jamestown brewry, owned by
Gesal & K~ulewartz was destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated fromtwen-
ty to thirty thousand dollars, partly
insured.
At Steele, George Contin, a young
boy of French descent, has been bound
over for attempted arson to the next
term of the court.
A month ago, upon an affidavit of
a taxpayer alleging that the coun-
ty assessor had left the county
permanently, the commissioners of
Cass county declared the office of as
SCISSOR vacant, and since then there
have been some twenty applicants.
A few days ago the old assessor ap-
peared before the board and made
affidavit that his home was still in
the county, though he was spending
the winter at Detroit, and upon this
presentation he was reinstated.
The Rather Mining Company, otthe
Carbonate camp at Deadwood, has
purchased the Gilroy, which has al
ways been supposed to be a valuable
property, and the company will be re-
organized Immediately.
Sphinx County Agricultural Society
held its third annual meeting at Red
field. 1t provided for the purchase of
permanent grounds and the erection
ofsubstantial buildings. Officers elect
ed were as follows: President, ]. ID.
Wagner; vice-presidents, J. T. Hall,
John Harrison and T. c. Mariner:
secretary, H. NJ. Benedict; treasurer.
r. B. Hassel.
The Northwest Mutual Life Insur-
ance company directors elected the
following: A. c. Mellette, president;
George w. Sterling, vice president; S.
NJ. Johnson, secretary; L. S. Hazen,
treasurer; Love- Sterling, attorneys;
John A. Fowler, w. B. Sterling and
Dir. c. B. Alfred Of Illinois, executive
committee.
Judge Church opened a term ofcourt
here at Huron, with 1o4 cases on the
docket. |
Fire i'll Yankton destroyed a boot
and shoe store owned by j. s. Ketch-
am, OF Minneapolis. Loss So, 900,
covered by insurance.
Col. Sheafe is instructing the militia
ry companies of south Dakota.
w. jays hardware store at Park
Rapids burned, insurance, $2,35O.
Judge Roberts, OF the probate court
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