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commit suicide with case knife.
Reportsreceived from various points
indicate that there is serious danger
of a fuel famine in the territory.
Edwin E. Sage, one OF the Oldest
and most prominent citizens Of Sioux
Falls, died after an illness OF many
months.
Wahpeton has built twenty-fvenew
residences and several new business
houses during the season.
James Stage, OF Webster, was drown
ed while attempting to cross Mime
washta lake in q small boat.
Prairie fires burned over a large
tract Of country in Brookings county.
The Homestake Mining company is
the largest in the world, and employs
$500 men.
Two Indies at Huron came near be-
ing aphyxiatsd from the gasgenerated
by a base burning coal stove. They
were resusciated and will recover.
La Moure is to be the county seat
of La Moure county, and several Of
the offices have already been removed
therefrom Grand Rapids.
C. G. Clark, ofthe st. Lawrence Trib-
une, has leased his paper to N. =. D..
Regen and removed to Yankton.
Dakota patents: H.. A. Marland,,.
Fargo, measuring pump; Emanuel
Clutter and A. Mackenhaupt, straw
burner; j. E. Duncan, Lisbon, revers-
ing mechanism.
Jesse Love, living near Park River,
was bound over to the district court,
charged with selling m~ortgaged wheat.
Andrew Mulberry OF George township,
Grant county, lost his barn and
about 1000 bushels OF grain by FIRE.
1t is claimed that Deadwood shows
signs of another boom, business of all
kinds being largely on the increase.
The Free Will Baptists are having a
revival at Sioux Falls.
8. G. Bagley, who returned to Min
neapolis a few days since from a trip
to Dakota, states that many of the
smaller streams are nothing but gray
ell beds, a large number of wells have
given out entirely, and stock must in
evitably suffer for want of water, with
out heavy falls of snow or rain to In
crease the nearly exhausted supply.
The Citizens National Bank of Sioux
Falls has received it's charter, and will
commence business. The officers are:
President, e. p. Beebe; vice president,
j. W. Bailey, Jr.; cashier, E. w. Hills.
This is the fourth national bank in
that place, and is an outgrowth of the
Citizens bank, for many years con-
Quoted by Hills & Beebe.
The Frankfort Touring mills at
Frankfort, ten miles east of Redfeld,
owned by Fremont & Fisher. were
burned with their contents. Col. e.
w. Foster had 1000 bushels of wheat
consumed, on which there was no In
surance. The total loss is estimated
at $24, 600; insured for SO, 500.
George S. Barnes, late president OF
the system of the Northern Pacific
elevators, denies the published state
ment that he is connected with a sym
dictate to build a competing system
OF elevators in Dakota. He says he
will spend the winter in Europe max
ing connections in the interest Of the
Northern Pacific system, and resume
active connection with that company
on his return.
The assessed value of property in
Fargo involved in the Peronto case,
decided by the Unites States supreme
court recently, is about $3.50, 600.
The real value is about three times.
that. It embraces $50 acres, a por-
ton of it in the business heart of the
city and the rest thesite ofthe pres emit
shops and yards of the Northern Pa
cifc. The effect of the decision is to
confirm the title to the property in
the Northern Pacific and individu als
to whom they have sold lots and
tracts, among whom are George Benz
of st. Paul, owner of the United block:
Davis Bros, New York, owner of the
Davis block and much other valu able
business property.
A report on Psychological formation
Of the Galena silver district appears
in Rapid City Black Hills Republican.
It has been prepared by F. R. Carpen-
ter, mining engineer, at the instance Of
capitalists OF that city and elsewhere,
who have under consideration the
erection, at Rapid City OF sampllng
works, q smelter, or both. Carpen-
ter estimates that the silver depos
it's cover an area of 1900 acres. and
states nnreservedly that the district
is one Of great richness. If the area
he gives will yield q vein averaging
one inch in thickness and yielding ali
we'll as the formation indicates, the
output will eventually be over $780,,
100000, or about q third as much
as the Comstock lode ofNevada yield
ed The average thickness of the de-
post will, however, estimating from
the mines already opened, be much
greater than one inch. The Rich
mond mill Ia in continuous n~naratinn