The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-05
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

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ness.
Chicago & Northwestern through
trains over its own lines and those Of
the Northern Pacific to Bismarck seem
not improbable at an early day.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern has established q station at
Sioux Falls.
The Missouri river is only two feet
deep at Pierre, and a farmer crossed
there with his team the other day.
Cornelius Gleason, a bachelor farm
or, was found dead in his yard by q
neighhor at his home near Ipswich.
Mr.. Smydell of Mandan lost his
house by fire. Loss over insurance
about $500.
Prairie fires in the Black Hills, west
OF Spring Valley, destroyed q great
deal OF valuable property.
AS soon as the rails are laid from
La Moure to Cakes, which will be in
about 80 days, the Northwestern will
run through trains from Huron to
jamestown.
Rapid City is to be lighted by cleo
tricity, forty-fve lamps being the
number with which the illumination
will be given.
The NJ. E. conference accept sthe
Dakota university located at Mitchell
and it. pledges itself to promote its
growth.
The gold, silver and bronze medals
awarded in certain classes at the ter
%ritorial fair arrived at Huron and
Were forwarded to the winners.
A couple of highway robbers at
tempted to go through j. c. Murphy
near Wahpeton, but they caught q
tartar for Murphy got the drop on
them and escaped.
The surveying party of the st. p,
M. & M. north OF Park river, it is
said, met a similar party from the
Northern Pacific, running a line from
Turtle mountains toward the Red
river.
Some kind of an epidemic is proving
fatal ameng the horses at Yanktop,
nearly a dozen having died within the
past few weeks.
Men and teams are at work on the
Dakota & Montana railroad in East
Grand Forks. The line, with the ex-
ception OF a mile, is now ready for ties,
and the completion of the work is near
at hand.
The following were admitted t prac-
tice before the interior department at
Washington: J.. G. Beatty. Roscoe,
Oak; J. b. Henyan, Huron; and J. A.
Owen, Deswia, Oak.
The interior department has disal-
lowed the claim of Carshoff & Stone
of Burleigh county for 1921 damages
alleged tohave been sustained by them
from raids by the Arickaree Indians
in 1873.
Under the Session Laws of 1885,
chapter So, the election of laws are
amended so as to require q residence In
the county OF sixty days, and in the
precinct where the Votes offered Of
twenty.
1t is learned on good authority that
two train loads Of Milwaukee graders
and graders outfit were hauled over
the Hastings & Dakota division oftheN
Soad to Glendale, at night
and quietly unloaded and disappear
al hnfora davlioht
The Northwestern Construction and
Company of Minneap-
oils contracted with the Ordway, Bis
marck q Northwestern for the con-
struction of its line of road from Alb
erdeen northwesterly to the coal fields
N Mclean county, a distance of 150
The contest between the Pierre and
Sioux Falls people for the franchise Of
the Pierre Fire and Marine Insurance
company has been decided In favor Of
Sioux Falls by the territorial insur-
ance department.
A man giving the name of John
Bailey vas found in theroad five miles
southwest of Huron in an unconscious
condition. He is now semi-uncon-
He says his home and friends
ire in St. Paul, that he was sick, out
money and weak from hunger and
Unable to find shelter, and lay down
% die.
District Attorney Glaspel of Suits
nan county rules that the recent law
i congress, restricting county taxes
o 4 per cent of the assessed valua-
ION Of fho countu don't orrIv ~ H