Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-08-19
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

n. Ingalls,. a jamestown bridge
contractor, is dead
| Gov. Pierce has ordered militia
sncampnent at Aberdeen on Aug. 81.
Gov. Gil Pierce will deliver the adj
dress at the opening OF the North Da-
kota Agricultural Exposition, Sept
81. at Grand Forks.
A new brick depot is being bulls in
Grafton, by the st. Paul, Minneapolis
Il Manitoba railroad company. When
completed it viii be the finest on its
line west OF Minneapolis.
i A destructive prairie fire swept the
country north of Holabird.
Much hay was fired by lightning and
burned near Iankton.
/ Young trees in Benson county have
been killed in large numbers by the
drouth.
i Judge Church has appo inted w. A.
Lynch of Huron clerk OF the Sully
county court.
/ II. II. Moore OF Lisbon marketed
the first wheat in Ransom county
this season. 1t graded No. l hard,
and sold for 81 cents.
Postmaster Tomlinson, who was
arrested charged with assault with in
tent to commit rape on tifteen-year-
old girl, at Highmore. was discharged.
/ In Mrs. Kiliian's house, near Sun
down, lightning smashed the family
lamp, inluring no one, and then leaped
to the stable, killing all the horses,
cattle and chickens.
/ There are ls3 organized gold an6
silver mining companies in the Black
Hills.
| The damage by the hail storm in
the vicinity OF Inkster, covered 3d.
900 acres.
The body OF murdered man hall
eaten by wolves has been found near
Highmore.
| Judge Francis, at Valley City, re-
fuses to admit to practice attorneys
of communistic proclivities.
An attorney at Glendale by the
name of Kenney, July %, was fined
/ S12.S5 for unlawfully shooting prairie
chickens.
A prairie fire, started by lightning,
destroyed property near Forest City
valued at $4,000, and Forest City
was with difficulty saved.
r. n. Kratz, who has been a clerk
in the land Office at Mitchell for three
or four years, voluntarily resigned his
position.
The Standard Oil company's well in
the Black Hills continues to flow, and
they expect a spouter at 500 feet.
Sheriff Macdonald, of Sioux City, is
looking for the murderer OF Rev. G. C.
Haddock around Valley Springs.
JerauId county farmerslost $4,000
worth OF grain by not having binding
Irvine on hand in time.
Chureh's Ferry, the new town on
the Manitoba at the junction of the
Cando branch, is growing rapidly.
Over twenty business houses are in
full blast.
In Hand county the loss by the re.
cent hail storm was $4,000. Some
farmers are ruined.
Miss Dougan and Miss Hankey took
the veil ofthe Ursuline order at Grand
FORKS.
The recently organized Dakota So
i ciety for the prevention of cruelty 20
animals has large list of members
already at Fargo.
The time for holding the Nof i Da-
kota Methodist conference has been
changed from Sept. 10 to Oct. ii.
Last fall Henry Thomas was con-
/ fined in the cooler at Canton for
I drunkenness and disorderly conduct
He set fire to the Jail ard it burned to
/ the ground. During the confusion
Thomas made good his escape Afew
days ago he was recaptured and again
placed in the lookup. and again
escaped.
! IN Ingalls, OF jamestown died sud
denly at Hawley, Mimi, where he was
in charge OF the bridges and construc-
4 ton OF the Duluth x Manitoba rail-
way Mr.. Ingalls, built the hotels in
Yellowstone Park, and was long iden-
titled with the Northern Pacific con-
struction.
/ III. l.. Maxey returned to Fargo from
the country northwest ofDevil's Lake,
where he has a grading contract. He
reports the western extension graded
to the second crossing OF the Mouse
river, lao miles west of Devils Lake,
and eighty miles OF iron laid. On the
Bottineau branch forty-ive miles have
been graded. but no iron laid, while
on the Cando branch there have been
sixteen miles graded. The western
/ extension of the road is now within
sixty miles of the Missouri river, and,
it Is said, will reach the stream before
it freezes.
A cyclone passed few miles north
west of Aberdeen on the 10th, doing
considerable damage to property of
all kinds. Mr.. Makes house and
granary were destroyed, and he him
self severely hurt. Michael Kelly and
c. Kelly lost their houses, granaries,
farm machinery and twenty stacks of
grain. G. A. Young's house was de-
stroyed. J. l.. Carlisle's new barn
was blown into kindling wood, and
the house damaged. Daniel Knight S
barn was also destroyed. Many 9TH
ers lost large amount OF grain, farm
machinery, etc.
Fred Mitchell's barn in Vernon
county, filled with grain, hay, tools,
ETC., was struck by lightning and burn.
ed; no insurance. Levi Browns dwell
ling house burned with most pitts con-
tents.
Carl Schroeder, who forged an order
on which he procured quantity oil
clothing from local dealers at Madison,
was sentenced to state prison for one
year.
The average barley yield indicated
in Wisconsin is about % bushels per
acre. with no particular change in the
area harvested as compared with last
year. About Is per cent. will grade
No. l about 65 per cent. will grade No.
! 2 and about 2oper cent. below No. 3.
The stockholders of the Northern
Dakota Elevator company met in
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