Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-21
TERRITORIAL

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appointed deputy United States mar
shall.
A FIRE L. Darlington destroyed Top
Lift & Co.'S coal sheds. Loss, S2,ooo'
A population of 1000 is cisimedfor
Sioux Falls.
John o'Brien OF Wisconsin was
found dead in his bed at Bacheiors
Grove, near Larimoie.
C. s. Kidder OF Michigan, who died
intcstate sometims since, owned con.
siderable property in the vicinity oil
jamestown.
Wentworth's new tow mill has a
eabacity to produce ten or twelve
tons n dat, and i. starts with 2,5oo
tons OF fax straw on hand.
The members OF the Watertown and
C~oddington county bar gave q compi-
mentary banquet to Judge L.. N
Church.
Clay county farmers last year lost
5000, 600 worth of hogs from cholera,
and will cease growing hogs for II
next two or three years.
Contracts ase about to be let at
Highmore for new buildings to cost
about 100000.
HYDE county commissioners have
accepted plans for q new court mouse
and jail.
Judge Hamilton OF Lead continues
among the missing, says the Dead.
wood Times. Additional small irreg-
ularities are daily reported, and the
total, Ii IL believed, will foot upward
OF $4,000.
The territorial secretary's office at
Bismarck, which was moved from the
capitol building to an office down
town by ex-Secretary Teller, has been
moved back by Secretary Mccormick
to the capitol building, where all other
territorial Offices are located.
The wife Of Knudt Thompson, living
fifteen miles northwest Of Sioux Falls,
was adiudged insane, and taken to
Yankton. Mrs. Thompson is the
mother OF thirteen children, the oldest
only nineteen years, and her mania Is
jealousy Of her husband.
The old veteran, Andy Marsh, kill
ed a blacktail deer ut Glenavon that
scaled $40 pounds.
Rev. Miss Ella Howard will preach
regularly at Holabird hereafter.
A short time ago a nephew of Will
lam Reilly, ofCentral, died. In caring
for the remains Mr.. Reilly contracted
a. cold from the effects Of which he
died. A friend of Reilly, in attending
the funeral OF the latter, caught cold
which also resulted IN his death.
Count Fritz Won Ingleheim forged a
check for S25 on the Sioux Falls Ma
t;cnal, signing his father-in-law's IT
j. Mills) name, and sold it to Peter
Ries OF the Phillips house. Marshal
Jeffers arrested him in the basement
OF the mint, and he was placed under
$500 bondsto appear at the next term
of court.
The Wisconsin Land and Lumber
company will erect from % to 80 cot.
taees in Huron, ranging in price from
$1,000 10 $2,5C0. They are all Of
modern plans, and will be sold or
| rented.
An attempt was made to fire the
old court house ut Mandan. Thecon.
tents of a large caldron of kerosene
standing in an outer building were al.
lowed to run on the ground and then
fired by q wad OF cotton on the end oI
a stick. 1t was discovered before ma.
terial damage was done.
At a meeting OF citizens held at
Sioux Falls $4,000 was subscribed
by the property owners upon the guar
anty fund required by the Burlington
Cedar Rapids Il Northern to build tn,
line to that city. This is about three
fourths of the amount asked OF Sioux
Falls. Committees were appointed tc
work in the county, and the entire
amount will be guaranteed within 6
few days.
The first session OF the circuit court
for the Sixth judicial district convened
at Minnewaukan. Judge w. II. Francis
presided. Quite a number of promi
nent attorneys from different parts o
the territory were in attendance
among whom are johnson Nickens o
jamestown. X. p. Flannery of Bis
marck and Tillotson, county attorney
of Rolette. The celebrated Rolett,
county seat contest cas- was OPPOSED
OF by appointing j. l.. Richmond, clerl
of court, to take testimony, beginnin,
the first Monday in February.
The Republican figures the amount
expended on new buildings and inn
provements in Mitchell for 1885 al
$500, 900. The Mitchell land ofic,
for the quarter ending Dec. 81, re
ports 275 cash entries, representing
22,Sl7 acres and S48, 1o6.66, addi
tional fees and commissions S5,131.
At, total receipts for the quarter
$50, 241.13.-H. c. Green received q
New Years present in the shape OF a
commission as United States deputy
marshal.
Hon. j. b. Ives, an officer OF the re
Gently organized Scotland, Bismarck
& Northern, is quoted by the Hola
bird Advocate ms saying, the line o
the proposed road is from Scotland il
a northwesterly direction through
Hutchinson, Douglass and Aurora
forming a junction with the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul at Plankington
from thenceto Duncan, Buffalo county
and still bearing of in the northwest
erly direction, cross the Winnebago res
ervation to the Medicine creek valley
and follow the valley to Holab;rd, ant
there form a junction with the North
western folks.
Abill was introduced into the U. S
Senate by Senator Spooner authoriz
ing the construction of a bridge b.
the Dakota Central Railway compan.
across the Missouri river at Pierre
and authorizing that compan,
to construct and maintain ways TO
wagons, carriages and foot passenger
over the bridge, charging the sam
such reasonable tolls therefor as ma,
be approved from time to time by tn
secretary Of war, the bridgeto be bull
so as not to interfere with navigation