Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-29
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL

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Justus Robinson of yermillion wasz
run over by the cars and killed.
The Van Dusen company is maxim.
arrangements to build a large elevs1
tor in Ordway.
The stage line between Minneawa,,.
kan and the Turtle mountains is r.
be discontinued after May Is.
A terrific storm at Chadron a. l.
stroyed large amount ofproperty.
DEVILS lake is entirely open, ana
navigation will soon be resumed. Tn
ice did not break up last year Until
May IL.
Nine tin claims in the Palmer dis.
trict, near Rapid City, have been sofa
to Chicago and Detroit parties Tor
$50, 700.
Groton college, in Brown county
has 113 pupils. The town OF Grotoa
presented the college with forty acres
| of land.
A prairie fire ran through a portion
of Brown county, the town of Fred
erick narrowly escaping destruction |
The Dakota Iron and Steel COMPANY
buy the Fargo foundry for the ne. +
smelling works.
Fires in Miner county DESTROYED
| buildings belonging to William Egeed
| Levi Checker, Mr.. Phillips, Louis Da I
Clark and Henry Ford.
The fourth semi.annual session Of
| the Midland Association OF the Conere-
| zational church will be held in Redfeld
May II, IL and 10.
The official term ofB. E, Henderson
receiver OF the land office at Aberdeen,
will expire July 8.
The artesian we'll at Aberdeen can.
not furnish sufficient power for eighteen
electric lights as expected, but gives
enough for ten, and the city will soon L
be lighted with electricity.
Mr.. Davidson of Brown county win /
| put in five hundred acres to wheat.
HIS granary now holds six Thousand T
bushels OF last years wheat.
Miller's town council has granted
liquor license against the ruling OF the
county board. The matter will De
| tested in court.
The annual meeting of the Dakota
| press association will be held at Aber
deem, beginning Monday June 81. and
continuing two days.
f. c. Mutchman's house and con
tents near CAVITY were destroyed BY
fire. No insurance.
Prairie fires destroyed the residence
of George f. Weischell OF Sully county.
Mrs. Dollinger's farm buildings and
stock in Lynn Lake township, near
Webster, were destroyed by prairia
fire, and Mrs. Dollinger was fatally
burned. n
The Vermont Live Stock company
has recently purchased a large herd
of cows, which will increase their herd
in the Dakota ranch to about 10,
600 head.
Rev. A. A. Murphy, pastor OF ths1|
Huron Congregational church, hasi
ceived an invitation to become pres
| ident of the Groton college at Gro.
ton, Brown county, and will prob
ably accept.
A. J. McCabe OF jamestown and
r. f. Wolliver ofMandan were elect
| ed delegates to the train dispatches
| national convention to be held id
| Chicago, June 10.
The District Medical association fof3
Dawson, Hanson, Aurora and adioin.
ing counties, was organized at Mitch
ell, with the following officers; Presi
dent, DIR. Andrews, Mitchell; vice prssi
| dent, DR.. Dott, Alexandria; secretary
DIR. Halverson, Mitchell. The next
meeting will be held there the frst
Tuesday in June.
Judge Church had A. B. Melville, a
prominent attorney of Huron, and
City Marshal Mozart before him fos
contempt OF court. he fined Melville
$50 or thirty days in jail, and McGart
who acted under Melville's advice S25
or imprisonment thirty days. They
paid the fines.
A Dakota Club" for social pug
poses has been organized at Fargo.
W. E. Wright, an attorney of Bis
marck, was severely beaten by Cha.1
| les Bentley for having instllted the &
! young lady with whom the latter had
been keeping company. Both were
! arrested.
A sad accident occurred to thefamf
| ly OF Andrew Nelson, living six miles
south OF Volga. Mr.. and Mrs Nelson
were away at a neighbours leaving
their four children, all under seven 1
years, at home. The family burns
| flax straw III the stove in place oil
| wood, and in some manner the burn
| ing straw fell from the stove upon the
floor. The house was completely con
| sumed. The two oldest children es
capped, but the two youngest, aged
four years and year and hall, were
| burned
Mel Powers, proprietor OF hoase
of i'll fame, at Aberdeen, was severely
cut in the throat by j. Southwick,
citizen whom he attacked. The blow
was a hard one, and nearly severed
the Jugular vein. Mayor Skillmsn
has ordered all gambling dens closed
in the city.
Among the documents filed With
! Gov. Pierce at Bismarck was q
requisition for the removal of William
S. Nelson from the county jail al
Fremont, Ohio, to Stutsman countys
house OF criminal refuge.
William d. Russell, A. 4. Haveroh
and E. f. Carpenter, who have been
under indictment mt Yankton four
=, years, charged with crooked transac
lions with fraudulent surveyor scrip
have at last secured a dismissal Of
their case. They were tried in Yank
ton three years ago, and during the
same year were taken to st. Louis
where the government attempted &c
secure their conviction but was unsnc
cesssul. The government has pad
$50, 900 i'll the prosecution of thecasf
against the men, but Judge Trip has
dismissed all cases against them.
The immense quantity of peanuts
| rraun n, tfripn S,rIl, A,,,.,,.;,,,, md