The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-03
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Lake division OF h Manitoba rail-
road is over.
The official canvass at Minnewau-
kan gives Campbell for district attor-
q 214,RoIfe 2O8. Role will contest.
The Manitoba extension from Camp
hell to Aberdeen is about completed,
the work OF laying iron now being in
progress.
Diphtheria prevails to such an eX-
tent in Carroll! county that the schools
are closed.
The population of Custer county
has more than doubled within a year.
The city council OF Yankton were
called hurriedly in special session.
Prompt provision had to be made
against O. threatened overflow of the
creek flowing from the city artesian
well. Several business house cellars
have been flooded.
The Manitoba road has begun the
building of a six-stall round-house and
coal sheds at DEVILS Lake, and will
build machine shops in the spring sim
liar to those at Barnesvllle.
A Minneapolis paper publishes a
special from Valley City stating that
A. C. Wilmot, proprietor of the Kin
dred hotel, has gone away. He is alleg-
ed to have various bills unsettled, ag-
cregating about 81, 500. 1t is suppos-
ed that he and his family went to
Minneapolis. The hotel is now in the
possession Of the sheriff.
The vote OF the Fourteenth ~legisla-
tive district elects to the council F. j..
Washabaugh and s. P. Wells, and to
the house John Wolsemuth, John d
Patton and A. S. Stewart. Thecoun-
cil-men served in the last legislature.
The old report that Fort A. Lincoln
was about to be abandoned as a mill
tary post has been revived by some
Washington correspondent.
P. II. Trudell and wife are held for
the murder OF Joseph Connolly In
Lawrence county.
The graders of the Milwaukee road
are within about six miles OF the
Faux county line.
The elevator at Sheldon collapsed,
scattering $4,000 bushels of wheat
over the ground. 1t is reported that
the elevators at Buttzville have both
started to split open in consequence
OF the immense amount OF wheat
stored there.
P. G. Cooley Of Minnewaukan has
assigned. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
about the same.
The secretary of Interior has allow
ed Joseph Slater to file a contest
against jeremiah III. Murphy's entry
of the northwest quarter of section s,
township 113, range n, Huron land
district. This overrules the decision
OF the commissioner. In a rehearing
OF the case the secretary adheres to
his former ruling in the cas- of the
Hayden M. Thompson VS.. Lange con
test.
Webster Williams, whose foot vas
crushed by a switch engine a short
time ago died at Mitchell under the in
iuence of chloroform. He was appar-
emily improving when gangrene set in.
At DEVILS Lake. Right Rev. Martin
Marty, Catholic bishop of Dakota,
united in matrimony Thomas Cord
ner and Miss Marie Budde, daughter
. fCharles Budde.
P. G. Cooley, of Minnewaukan, has
assigned to r. r. Wise for the benefit
OF creditors without preference. Liza
bllities, $4,000; assets, about the
same.
X. +. Wallace's handsome cottage,
situated on the shore of Spiritwood
lake, jamestown. with the furniture,
including elegant bric-a.brac, burned.
Loss, SD, 700; insurance OIL furniture
$1,000 in the Fire Association OF Phil
adelphia and $3.50 on the house in
the Hartford.
Valley City was thrown into excite
ment by the discovery that A. c. Will
mot, proprietor of the Kindred hotel,
had gone away. He is alleged to have
various bills unsettled, a~ggregating
about 81, 800.
z. III. Shaw, landlord OF the Alexan-
der Mitchell hotel. returned to Mitchell
from a two weeks stay in New York
city, where he had beer in a vain
search OF his brother-in-law, who dis
appeared mysteriously Nov. /. The
latter was a bookkeeper named Fox,
VINO married Shaw's sister at Charles
CITY, Iowa, several years ago.
The railroad depot at Sanborn was
burned. The loss on the building,