The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-08-13
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

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is burned. loss $3, 900; insurance, ST.
500.
Vermillion is agitating a proposition
to sink an artesian well on the uni
yersity grounds.
Some hunters killed 800 prairie
chickens near Edgerton in one daysa
few weeks ago.
A twelve-year-old son OF Pet Lebos
was drowned in Red Lake near Grand
Forks.
The total product OF Iron Hill to
August is 202, 494 ounces.
A man emptied his pipe in some
dead grass near Lafoon, and Mr.. Chap
mans ten-acre field of ripe wheat was
burned up.
A man named Standish was killed
by lightning near Cotton while repair
ing grain stack.
G. f. Ray, of Yankton county, last
week threshed from one acre Of land
seventy bushels of flax, forty-two
pounds to the bushel.
Miss Clara Shafer, of Huron, candi-
date for Beadle county superintend-
ent of schools, is briskly !ectioneer-
ing.
A Pierre jury has new name for
Suicide" AT a recent coroner's in
quest the jury brought in the follow
ing verdict "We, the jury, do find
that she came to her death by felon-
| ious intent TO hereinafter dwell in the
happy hunting ground" !"
Huron has a larger school popula-
tion in proportion to it's size than
any other city IN the territory.
The machinery shed Of William
Ritchie, of Richmond, was destroyed
by fire. Insured for 81, 900.
/ A 2OO-room mhotelisgoon to beerect
ed at Washington Springs.
J. c. Harris, clerk at Sisseton agen-
cy, claims the recent suit against him
by an Indian girl is simply blackmail
The plaintiff says the charge is made
in good faith.
| Fargo was visited by Belmont
man named Haucks, who weighs 800
pounds and is six feet six inches high
and aged twenty-four. He is from
Norway, and came to Dakota seven
years ago, weighing Ito pounds.
Hon. III. M. Day says he never said
that President CT sveland assured him
of Ziebach's appointment as governor
| of Dakota. He only thought Ziebach
stood the best chance. Day now
thinks the appointment lies between
Ziebach and Canfeld.
a prairie fire destroyed about six
hundred tons Of hay in the Holland
settlement, besides about fifty acres
of grain for Peter Bor in Campbell
county.
I'll. III. Moore of Lisbon marketed
the first wheat threshed In Ransofa
county. 1t grades No. hard and the
price was 81 cents.
Judge Church, in q letter to the
Deadwood Pioneer, says his resigna-
tion was placed in the presidents
! hands five weeks ego, and was neither
demanded nor suggested by the ad-
ministration.
Preparations are being made at
Sioux Falls for fitting up the govern
ment wing OF the penitentiary.
The first twenty-five miles Of grade
on the Ordway. Bismarck 4 North
western southeast of Aberdeen has
been let to the following contractors;
George S. Enge. lie Grue & Evans and
r. j. Eaton. The road will not beck
tended to Gettysburg this year, owing
to the short~yheat crop.
An Indian OF the Cheyenne river
agency came into Pierre with several
nuggets of pure gold found~in the bad
lands above Cheyenne river.
The first annual fair of the Dakota
Agricultural and Stock Growers as
sociation will be(leld in Mitchell from
Aug. 80 to Sept. 3.
A farmer, Alphonse Chezelmas, living
eight miles west Of Ashton, was muir.
dered at ms own house.
In the district court at Fargo the
case of Bowen and Kingsbury ol
! Yankton vs. A. w. Edwards was tried
by jury and verdict rendersI for
the defendant.
/ Watertown unanimously resolved
to accept the offer of the Manitoba
railroad company to build into the
i city. The citizens guarantee right oi
way across the Chicago & Northwest
ern lands and tracks lying within the
city limits, also depot grounds; pro
yidinp said company have their line