The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-05
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

notel, Wnicn Is nearly ready Tor DuSf-
ness.
Chicago & Northwestern through
trains over it's own lines and those. of
the Northern Paci6ct to Bismarck seem
not improbable at an early day.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern has established a station at
Sioux Falls.
The Missouri river is only two feet
deep at Pierre, and a farmer crossed
there with his team the other day.
Cornelius Gleason, a bachelor farm
or, was found dead in his yard by q
neighhor at his home near Ipswich.
Mr.. Smydell OF Mandan lost his
house by fire. Loss over insurance
about $500.
Prairie fires in the Black Hills, west
Of Spring Valley, destroyed a great
deal OF valuable property.
As soon as the rails are laid from
La Moure to Cakes, which will be in
about so days, the Northwestern will
run through trains from Huron to
jamestown.
Rapid City is to be lighted by cleo
tricity, forty-fve lamps being the
number with which the illumination
will be given.
The M. E. conference accept sthe
Dakota university located at Mitchell
and it pledges itself to promote its
growth. '
The gold, silver and bronze medals
awarded in certain classes at the ter
ritorial fair arrived at Huron and
were forwarded to the winners.
A couple of highway robbers at
tempted to 60 through ]. G. Murphy
near Wahpeton, but they caught a
tartar for Murphy got the drop on
them and escaped.
The surveying party of the st. p,
M. & M. north Of Park river, it is
said, met a similar party from the
Northern Pacific, running a line from
Turtle mountains toward the Red
river.
Some kind of an epidemic is proving
fatal among the horses at Yankton,
nearly a dozen having died within the
past few weeks.
Men andteams are at work on the
Dakota & Montana railroad in East
Grand Forks. The line, with the ex-
ception OF a mile, is 10Y ready for ties,
and the completion of the work is near
at hand.
The following were admitted to prac-
tice before the interior department at
Washington: J. G. Beatty. Roscoe,
OAK; J. b. Henyan, Huron; and ]. Al.
Owen, Deswia, Oak.
The interior department has disal-
lowed the claim of Carshoff & Stone
Of Burleigh county for 1921 damages
alleged to have been sustained by them
from raids by the Arickaree Indians
in 1873.
Under the Session Laws of 1885,
chapter SO, the election of LAVE are
amended SO as to require a residence in
the county of sixty days, and in the
precinct where the voteis offered of
twenty.
1t is learned On good authority that
two train loads Of Milwaukee graders
and graders outfit were hauled over
the Hastings & Dakota division ofthes
Milwaukee road to Glendale, at night
and quietly unloaded and disappear
ed before daylight.
The Northwestern Construction and
Improvement Company Of Minneap-
oils contracted with the Ordway, Bis
d Northwestern for the on
struction of its line of road from Alb
erdeen northwesterly to the coal fields
in Mclean county, a distance of i5O
miles.
The contest between the Pierre and
Sioux Falls people for the franchise OF
the Pierre Fire and MariueT Insurance
company has been decided in favor of
Sioux Falls by the territorial insur-
department.
A man giving the name of John
was found in theroadfve miles
of Huron in an unconscious
condition. He is now semi-uncon-
scious. He says his home and friends
are in st. Paul, that he was sick, out
OF money and weak from hunger and
to find shelter, and lay down
to die.
District Attorney Glaspel Of Suits
man county rules that the recent law
Of congress, restricting county taxes
TO 4 per cent of the assessed valua-
ton OF the county, don't apply to