The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-10
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS

'lne D6ODlG Vi WdtSH COullUy dEt
0cyitioning for $500 liquor licenses.
Many Grand Army posts are being
abandoned for lack of funds to keer
them up.
The town OF st. Thomas, had
a $4,000 fire. Loss, SO, $50; insur
ance, $4,000.
The Manitoba officially announces
that the company,s Devils Lake ex
tension will be built and opened to
Bottineau by July l..
The complaint in the libel suit
brought by j. r. Wells againat Irving
Bath, proprietor of the Minnehaha
Mail, has been filed. Damages are
laid at $4,000.
Aman near Buffalo river bought o
coffin for himself at Moorhead, but he
didn't die and is not even sick; he
only wants it handy in a Of an
emergency, as collins can't be bought
any day where he lives.
In the case of Samuel Deon. OF the
Pine Ridge agency, who claims 5000
depredations by O~gallalia Sioux in
1864 and 1865, it was decided by the
interior department that the evidence
was not sufficient to establish the
claim.
Min0t, situated at the end of the
track of the western extension of the
Manitoba, in Ward county, is a typi
cal Western town. 1t is now about
five weeks since it started, and has a
population of about 1000.
Sioux Falls is grumbling because
coal is higher than it was last year,
though 5000 900 was donated to a
new road 10 insure competition.
Two bags of mail matter were burned
in the depot at Sanborn. and also a
considerable quantity of baggage and
personal effects.
Yankton Press and Dakotian: A
delegation of Pierre citizens consisting
OF J. D. Hilgar, r. j. Templeton and
A. D. Morrioll is in st. Paul using its
time and influence to induce the job.
bers of that city to lend d hand in the
interest OF the passage of the Dawes
bill for opening the great Sioux reser-
Walton.
Forty bachelors ate their Thanks
giving dinner at the Park Place at
Aberdeen, whit the understandlngth that
the one who was first married should
pay the bill, and the proprietor of the
hotel evidently thinks that time is
not remote, as he agreed to wait for
his pay until the wedding day.
The Dunseith News says in relation
to the murder of George Morrow at
the St. Paul stockyards: Morrow
at one time held q claim three miles
southwest of town, and has a broth
er here holding land. The sad news
reached his brothers ears on the 25th,
and overwhelmed him withgrief.
The wheat blockade at st. Thomas
has called forth the citizsns inindigna-
ton meetings. Business is at q stand
still, merchants and farmers are be.
coming desperate, and the condition
Is described as deplorable. with bank
ruptcy staring them in the face.
Joseph Hammerschmidt, aged TWEEN
ty-seven, q ranchman, living on the
Belle Fourche, Black Hills, was caught
In a storm and persisted. The body
was found. Heformerly lived at Peru,
Iii.
Three Russians living near Roscoe,
while going home, found a bottle by
the roadside which they supposed to
contain alcohol, and drank it. 1t
proved to be aconile, ana it killed
them.
The Baptist collie ye ofNorth Dakota,
was formally inaugurated at Tower
City. 1t has a handsome endown-
ment from Charlemagne Soarr of Phil
adelphia, after whom he place is
named.
Maj. Adam M. Easterly oil Fargo was
made Inspector for the nine land of
fees in the territory. He will prepare
the papers for the spring inspections.
his headquarters viii remain at Fargo.
The secretary Of the interior has de-
cided that Frank A. Bidwell, OF
Mitchell, and George w. Vennum Of
Jamestown, be no longer recognized as
attorneys or agents before the interior
department. at any bureau or Office
connected Herewith.
There is q herd OF buffalo, $50 to
800 head, in the Bad Lands, near the
headwaters Of Beaver and Glendive
creeks, supposed to have been driven