Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-25
TERRITORIAL NEWS

bong himself 10 Chicago.
The text of Commissioner Sparks
fettersusPcfdiffs MISREPRESENTATION
mountain district is gwen.
All but thirty head OF cattle which
Major Swami was charged with appro-
priating to ms own use whiteragsnts st
! Cheyenne agency have been IUuna.
They had strayed away
: TheUhited States district attorney
at Deadwood has been ordered TO
commence a prosecution of the Dako-
ia Ranch company for cutting timber
on government land.
A mass meeting at Oriskas Barnes
feoanty, denounced thecommissioners
! and resolved to divide the county and
form a new one composed OF ranges
SO and 81.
Dakota Is well of in an educational
| way, having five universities,
academies, two seminaries, three COT
leges and a school OF mines.
I John Brennan, who lives sixty miles
north of Bismarck, was attacked By an
Indian, to whom his wife had given a
meal. brennan saved himself by
Selling the Indians tomahawk and
killing him. The Indian was drunk.
The trouble among the faculty OF
Grafton college eliminated in the
resignation of President Linn, to take
effect, at the end of the present term.
DIR. s! H. Moore OF Susquehanna, Pa,
will succeed Prof. Linn.
Arthur Blake, a prisoner in the
| Pierre Jail, who was allowed to 60 on
a hunting EXPEDITION, accidentally, and
probably fatally shot him self.
A farmers mutual insurance asso-
cation has been formed at Alexan-
dria. The association will insure
against fire and lightning only.
Attorney Joslin OF Fargo brought
suit for the St. Paul Fire and Marine
against a Ransom county party in the
| district court The sum being less
than 800, the defen liant pleaded
wanttof jurisdiction. Judge Neon
nell held with Mr.. Joslin that the
| district court had concurrent jurisdic-
ton, and The case was taken to the
supreme court on that issue. The
bench decided Mf. Joslin was right,
and sustained Jadge Mcconnell.
Judge Mcconnell at Fargo, decided
the contest over the seat OF the COM
missioner in the western part ofTraiH
county, giving it to E. NJ. Pulson and
unseating G. B. Thompson.
l. Evening Telegram OF Yankton, was
sold by EtG, Smith. editor and pro-
prietor, to Ex-Gov. John L. Penning-
ton, and will be hereafter published as
a morning paper. -sf.sE ~
The Kicker block at Sioux Falls
! burned. Loss, $500.
l Allbut one of the large land owners
at Darlington have pad their taxes
Notwithstanding the Trail county de-
cision.
Some one has looked over the fig
ures and reports. that there II tweir
ty states that grow less corn than na-
kotaT
A large colony OF Philadelphia peo'
pie will settle in Charles Mix county as
soon as.the Sioux reservation is open
ed.
The .sanborn County Advocate
thinks the time Is near at hand when
artesian wells will prove a nuisance to
their owners, as the latter will be re-
| quired to keep 2tbe surplus water oil
their neighbors' land.
The Bangor Rustler says the order
prohibiting the cutting of wood upon
the Indian reservation is 1igidly en-
forced. Indian police are %patrolling
the banks of the river.
Final action has been suspended in
1888 cases. in the Fargo land dis
trict. $3.50
Edward NJ. Halstead shot himself
fatally at Warner, whether by accident
or design is net known.
Pierre has raised $4,000 for ex-
penses OF the tiremen's tournament.
". E. Cations store at Fort Ben
nett, has been closed by order OF the
interior dep 1rtment, and Cation has
gone to Washington to see about the
matter.
A boy twelve years OF age, and his
sister Of ten, arrived at Grafton from
| Glasgow, Scotland, travelling the
5000 miles entirely by themselves.
The American Home Missionary So
ciety has given $3.50 towards paying
the first years expenses OF the Plank
ingtoa academy. <.'
Real estate at Deadwood has taken
a boom. Property is NOW sold at
double the price asked for it a few
months ago
Hilisboro 0 has elevator eapac
'ity for 19o, 900 Bushels of wheat:
Several of the most extensive bust
ness establishments at Buffalo Gap
were destroyed by an incendiary fire.
E, n. Faux was appointed P. NJ.
for Caledonia, vice Johnson, not COM
missioned. 49,
At Fargo Ira W. Bradford OF San
born tried to pass a forged check pur-
porting to be signed by S. W. Holmes
OF Moorhead. 1t was for $50, and
was offered to several parties, who re-
fused it.
Special Agent w. ". McIlvain, oithe
Fargo land district, received a COM
m]unication romCommissioner Sparks
notifying hiEl of the suspension OF
1888 entries, giving the list OF said
entries and instructing him to make
thorough investigation of them. OF
the entries specified, or are pre-.
emptions, 2s6 committed homesteads
and go military bounty land war
rants locations. All except five are
included in the Fargo district. Dates
OF entry range all the way from 1880
up to 1886, and lands involved are
pretty evenly distributed through the
district, which is composed of the
counties of Cass, Trail, Richland,
Ransom, Sargent, Lamoure, Steele,
S%tuttsman, Foster, Barnes and parts
of Dickey, Eddy and Grigs.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany has issued Special Tariff No.
1877 Ito succeed Tariff No. 1867 upon
emIgrant movables from st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Minnesota Transfer,
Duluth or Superior to points in Min