The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS

ASHhO NAS NS 49,
up to LOG deg.
The Aberdeen 4 Fergus Falls Rail
road company are arranging TO lay
out several new towns on their line.
1t rained every night for over two
weeks at De Smet.
A flour mill will be erected at once
at Riverside.
Charles s. Vooshees, delegate from
Washington territory, has been sug-
gested for governor or Dakota.
A number of Hughes county farmers
tried the experiment OF raising winter
wheat the past season and report the
experiment successful.
A fo~urteen-foot vein of coalhas been
discovered IN Faux county.
Brown county has 500 600 cash in
It's treasury.
The $4,000 worth of bonds recent
ly voted at Mitchell have been sold
to William O. Cole 4 Co., of Chicago,
who bid a trife over 4.per cent.
Konrad Luther's stable. at Edger-
ton, was struck by lightning and four
horses killed.
William B. Genung, aged seventeen
years, while bathing at Sioux Falls,
was sucked into an eddy anddrowned.
There will be a grand bicycle con-
test at the territorial fair at Huron.
The Northwestern is about to build
a large depot at Redfeld.
At Roswell station, neal Howard,
a three year-old son of the agent, j..
&. Jordan, was accidentally run over
and killed by some men while switch.
ing cars.
Another suit growing out of the
taxation of Northern Pacific lands
has been begun at Jamestown by
several capitalists to recover a N ag-
gregate OF $4,000 paid in taxes under
protest.
immigration Commission Dunlap
estimates that the population of Da-
kota will be increased 70, the pres
ent summe by immigration.
Premiums for the biggist baby, the
prettiest baby, the smartest baby,
twins, triplets and four of a kind are
offered by the Farmers Alliance of
Barnes county.
Gottlieb Long, a worthy German
farmer living near Devils Lake acct
IDENTIFY fell from a load OF grain and
his head was crushed by the wagon
wheel, killing him instantly.
In about three weeks North and
South Dakota will be connected by a
direct railroad up the James River
valley to Jamestown. The North
western connects with the James Riv-
err Valley road Northern Pacifc) at
q point twelve miles below La Moure.
Building in Sioux Falls never was
pushed with so much energy as at the
present time, the many large stone and
brick blocks in course of erection, to-
gether with the recent orders of the
city council extending the gas and
electric light service, the street railway
charter requiring a portion of the
track to be laid and operated Within
six months, and the numbering OF all
buildings and streets certainly gives
the town metropolitan pretensions.
The report going the rounds of the
newspapers that Judge l.. X. Church,
of Huron, was arrested and fined for
shooting prairie chickens is not only
untrue but nothing of the kind ever
occurred.
A petition has gone from Dakota to
Washington for the appointment of
Judge l.. X. Church as governor.
In the preliminary trial Of Freeman
for killing Kessler, the justice at HUI
ron held the defendant to the grand
jury without bail.
The thermometer on the 23d at
Aberdeen, registered Ito in the shade.
A son of w. p. Kingston, living near
Warner was overcome BY the heat
and died.
Leonard Bass, well known as a mail
contractor and dealer in school books
and furniture, committed suicide at
Guyestburgh, near Highmore, byhang-
ing.
At Devils Lake q burglar entered
the residence OF s. M. Dodd, who was
away from home. Mrs. Dodd crap
pied with the burglar, who knocked
her down. She tried to shoot him,
but the robber knocked the revolver
from her hands and fled, having
secured Mrs. Dodd's watch. The bur-
ylar was arrested.
A fire at Mimic burned Hunt, Holt&
Garner Bros lumber Office and part
Of theiryard; Robinson's lumber Office,
n. g. Moore's lumber Office and yard,