Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-18
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Judge Church has postponed the
term OF court in Hughes county I'M
til January.
A branch of the First National Bank
of Columbia has been established at
Cakes.
A young woman living at Armour
died few days ago from the effects of
taking the wrong medicine compound
ed by mistake by druggist.
About twenty travelling men hap
pened to be at Huron on Sunday and
they all went to church in a body.
There are hundreds OF gold, silver,
tin, lead and mica claims in the Black
Hills now lying idle and non-pro-
ductive, merely for the lack of cap
ital to work them.
The recent election in La Moure
county resulted in majority OF SO
for removing the county seat from
Grand Rapids to La Moure.
The LIST day Of October there was
not one house in the new town of
Monango, in Dickey county, and the
1st day of November there were fifty.
John Wilson, farmer living near
VERONA, died from the effects OF a
gunshot wound in the leg, accidentally
received. Wilson was thirty five years
OF age and from Wisconsin.
The Sioux Falls Savings bank, with
capital OF $50, 900, has just been or
gained. The officers are: President,
j. T. Gilbert; treasurer and cashier,
Mark Russell.
A man named Cleveland, cousin Of
the president, was elected coroner OF
Trail county.
Those with means of comparison
state that there have been more land
and home seekers in Dakota this fall
| than year ago. A large proportion
have means and prefer to buy land.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul has asked
| the New York stock exchange to list
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the Dakota 4 Great Southern.
The Sioux Falls Press believes the
Burlington road will move northwest
ward from Sioux Falls and from Wa
| tertown in two lines-that these lines
will form junction at Glendale, and
from there one line will be sent on to
Bismarck. Hs
An Indignation meeting was held at
Huron, all on account OF the fact that
the street car company had large
force of men at work on Sunday, and
| q committee of three was appointed
| to look up the law and see if such rep
rehensible Sabbath dissertation can.
not be stopped.
E. S. Kneeland of Hillsboro has just
completed greenhouse, which is the
largest institution of the kind in the
| territory. 1t is heated by steam and
contains between two and three thou.
sand plants.
A party of eight or ten men and
women, who call themselves the Pray
Ing Band, have gone from jamestown
I to Storm Lake, Iowa. They have
rented houses, and will make that
town their Dakota headquarters.
| They are similar organization to
the Salvation Army, and propose 10
make a canvass OF the town, hold
meetings and do all possible to reclaim
! lost sinners. They begin their work
at once, having already billed the
town with large posters.
The grading on the Milwaukee 4 st.
Paul line, between Preston and Madi-
son, is nearly completed, and the
track is being laid at the rate of one
mile per day.
An Aberdeen dispatch says: seere-
tary Quinn has closed up the head
quarters OF the Democratic territorial
committee here and has gone home to
Bismarck. The official returns have
not been very generally received yet,
but it is understood that Gifford's
majority will not vary much from l5,
| 600. The legislature, so far as heard
from, shows three Democrats in the
| council and fivein the house, with two
farmers candidates from Cass county
and one independent from Ramsey.
At the district court at Lakota the
important case OF the term has been
the trial of young Wheeler for the
murder of Andrew Abrahamson at
Michigan City some time ago. The ju-
ry returned a verdict of not guilty.
| Wheeler was a Waterman at an eleva-
tor at Michigan City. Abrahamson
was proving around the premises,
and, not obeying Wheeler's command
to halt, was shot dead.
The body OF a dead man has been
found near Bristol. An examination
developed that he had been shot three
times, twice in the face and once in the
back of the head, and in addition to
this had his throat cut from ear to
| ear. Not thing could be found on
or about the person OF the dead man
to Indicate who or what he was, and
not n person in or around Bristol
knew anything OF MIN, or remembered
having seen HIM. The jury returned q
verdict in accordance with above
facts. The mystery was partially
cleared up few days ago, when a
young man named Miller, who had at
tempted suicide by poison. confessed
that he was party to the murder.
The management of the Rapid City
Republican changed, c. E. Bishop, the
present editor, retiring, and j. w.
McManus assuming the editorship and
control.
Yankton Special:-M. H. Day, f.
NJ. Ziebach and other leading Demo-
Gratis are of the opinion that the sue
cessor OF Gov. Pierce will not be APP
pointed till after the adjournment OF
the legislature. Mr.. Pierce is perfectly
familiar with the affairs of the terri
tory, and to put new man into the
executive char would only impair the
present needs of the whole territory.
Black leg has made its appearance
among the cattle in Sully county.
In court at Yankton, before Judge
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