Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-28
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEW

L a&E Ns0>y - OilK RfUn- /
ment before the house committees ~
territories for the admission ~ n
kota.
Gov. Pierce has left for chicago ana
thu East probably to be absent abou,
a month.
Mr.. Reynolds, a lawyer OF Herman
Mimi. has been in Grand Forks Ioov;n.
after the estate of Thollefson. whSx
was killed by Swenson. The heirs H..
rear Herman, and the estate is worth ,
ah'out $1,000.
The news was reached in siour
Falls that Helmuth S~choenfeld. VIII
was formerly q resident OF that civ
had been scalped by Indians in Mon.
| tana, where he now is. The particu.
lars OF the affair have not been learn.
ed.
Corsett, cashier OF the collapsed
bank at Devil Lake, was arrested Al.
.er leaving on a train Tor the east.
Bismarck has accepted the propo.
sition of a local company To hight thu
| city by electricity, and the Brush sys.
! tenn will be put in at once, enough
private lights have been taken to IL,
sure it's success.
Julia Peronta, one OF the heirs Of
the 'Peronta estate which is q claim
to a large portion OF Fargo, was ~
Gently married in Grand Forks, and
she now claims, it is said, that 1t was
against her will; that she was the vic.
tim OF a conspiracy, the conspirators
first getting her intoxicated, and by
threats compelling her to marry The
man, the purpose being to get her to
relinquish her claim to the ''estate.n
Boththe Milwaukee and thd North.
western have withdrawn their men
from Yankton, and there is n ctssa-
ton of hostilities regarding right-of-
way in that city and vicinity.
The fight between the two banks at
Sioux Falls, resulting from the First
National refusingt to honorit cashiers
check for $40, 900, and which wa the
cause of the attachment being served
OIL the First National, will be pushed
to the bitter end. United States Bank
Examiner Taylor of St. Paul has ar
rived to examine into the difficulty OF
the First National bank.
Subscriptions at Sioux Falls for the
new railroad o amount to $40 600.
Z. S. Fancher, formerly OF Chicago,
was arrested at Yankton charged with
seduction under a promise ofmarriage.
The grand jury at Deadwood hasre
turned indictments against Sheriff
Garland, Col. Tracy, John Mccarthy
and others, charging them with issuing
false evidences OF their Indebtedness.
The residence OF l.. c. Nelson, near
Bridcewater, burned. Mrs. Rasmus-
sen, who was injured at the has
since died.
man arrived in Park River and
summoned Coroner Melville to attend
a man named Hans Midboe, who had
been murdered by his brotf@r, Gunlick
C. Midboe, in Vesta township. Hewas
taken to the county jail at Grafton.
Midboe is n Norwegian and au old
settler.
c. X. Howard, county treasurer at
Sioux Falls, rendered his resignation
to the county commissioners, and it
was accepted The board at once ap.
pointed Charles l.. Norton to I'LL the
Vacany. Mr.. Norton is cashier OF the
Sioux Falls National bank. He was
q candidate for the Office at the last
general election and was defeated by
, but twenty four votes. Mr., Howard
! has heldthe office for-thirteen years
The Ozone printing Office at Steele
was burned to the gsound. The loss
! will amount to nearly $4,000, within
insurance. The proprietor, +. ;. Cor
1 win, has been burned out twice 5stort
Q in the past two years.
. w. NJ. Hollister, agent of the Moline
!, Pillow company at Sioux Falls, was ar
: rested on a charge Of perjury IN swear
/ ing out an aflidoyit for an attachment
against the firm OF Summers & Var
2 Horn, who claim to have made settle
= ment with the company direct.
y Deller City is the name Of a new towr
r recently planted in the south part o
Aurora county.
Hog cholera is making aclean SWEEP
in Greenfield township, Clay county.
n At Mandan the residence OF Ale'
Helmsworth burned. Loss, 81, SOC
i insured for S1,5oo.
= Gilbert Walker OF Grand Forks ex
II poets As, 000,0 600 feet of lumber.
:. A movement is on foot to organic
d a company to build a line Of railwa,
, between La Moure and Glendale, con
Meeting the James River Valley roa
y with the Milwaukee & st. Paul.
re Insanity will be the main defense i
x the Dickey-o'Brien murder case a
% Yankton.
rs Dakota loses about fifteen towr
o ships by a change in the Sioux reservs
n tion bill.
"a The editor OF the Fargo Argus say
m "We can accommodate 10000 CIR
no with husbands in Dakota on nlnet
ID days notice. We have publishe
N 1000 letters from as many your
~ women, and made as many matches
IT. The Farmers Mutual ~Insuran'
=. Company of Dakota, with headqua
Id tiers at Plankington, has been orga
er lied. Capital, $4,000
II. l.. s. Sweetland, postmaster
Sweetland, ten miles south OF Mile
was burned out recently. Cause,
detective fue. Loss, 81 900; insur,
in Council Bluffs, 500; Springfield
is $500.
OF Edward N. Leiby, of Glendale, h
al been appointed correspondent !
- Dickey county for the statistical {
eir partment at Washington. He W
We have three assistants under his chars
A number OF settlers in Avon, RI
is Homme county, have petitioned I
ers an abatement OF taxes on the groul
OF great loss by hail.
j. NJ. Roe of New Rockford has be
%. sued for 81, 6OOby parties who claim
started a prairief fire whereby plainti