The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-19
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

ty opens at Mitchell, March %.
Sarles & Durstine of Jamestown have
scld their extensive lumber interests
to the Gull River Lumber company.
There is now cribbed at Elk Point
over 10000 bushels of corn. Since
Jan. 15 fifty car loads have been ship
ped out OF the place.
Roscoe business men have determin-
ed to abolish the credit system.
Ignatius Donnelly will be the St.
Patrick's day orator at Fargo.
A Boston court rules that a divorce
obtained in Dakota is not binding in
Massachusetts.
During a dance at Camp Crook, on
the Little Missouri, Charles Chandler
was fatally shot by unknown parties.
Several chiefs at the Rosebud agency
have written their brethren at various
agencies urging them to refuse to ne
gotiate for the sale of the Sioux res
ervation and to demand q survey.
In the territory there are 69,075 en-
rolled pupils in the public schools.
Hyde county is to nave anew court
house at once. County bonds to the
amount OF $1,000 have been sold for
the purpose, bringing 20 cents premi-
UNI.
A case has been made up for presen-
tation to Judge Trip, to test the ruiz
ing OF Commissioners Sparks relative
to the unlawful enclosure of school
and public landsin Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larriway of Elk Point,
have been heldfor murder in the first
degree for the alleged killing of Oscar
Krosen, Mrs. Larriway's former hus-
band.
Capt. r. f. Voolfolk OF the Evans
Transportation company, has been
appointed Indian trader at Standing
Rock agency.
Mail service on the Northwestern
road between Centralia and Yankton
has been ordered, and will commence
the 18th inst.
Ex-Gov. Ordway denies that he has
tried to influence congress against the
division of Dakota, and says the
house may pass a bill embracing the
whole territory.
In some sections where fuel is ex-
pensive, farmers will this year grow
an acre or two of fax for fuel. 1t is
claimed that a. ton of flax straw is
worth more for fuel than a tono soft
coal.
The Medora Cowboy says cattle on
the northern ranges have not winter
ed as well as those near the Hills, aud
the loss will be about 5 per cent.
The treasure coach from Deadwood
recently took out $175,00 bullion,
the result of a semi-monthly cleanup
of the mines in that vicinity.
w. ID. Allen of fargo had takenfrom
his right leg a piece of glass that had
been imbedded in the flesh for nine
years. 1t was O. fragment ola window
pane of one of the cars in an oil
train that was demolished during the
Pittsburg riots.
Farmers in Dawson county have
formed an organization with $1O,O O0
Tor the purpose Of buying and selling
farm products. machinery. etc.
#eN
Mr.. Harlow, of the Halfway house,
near Fort Meade, was arrested by
United States auvb0rities for conceal
ment of government property.
The election at Madison to bond the
city for $25, 1000 to rebuild the burned
normal school building resulted in 20e
for bonding and 3 against.
At Fargo Judge Mcdonnell denied
the motion for a divorce in the case
of Albert j. CHESHIRE VS.. Alice HI. Ches
bro.
Five bills for the admission Of hal
or the whole OF Dakota are before the
house committee. These are the 10
seph bill, to divide the territory OF
the forty-sixth parallel and create the
territory OF north Dakota; the Fred
erick bill, to admit the whole terri
tory this year; the Springer bill, fol
division on the Missouri river anG
securing a popular vote by the plar
of minority representation on tn.
question of division and admission
Senator Buffers bill, which is simply
an enabling act for the whole terri
tory; and the Harrison bill, passed by
the senate and admitting south Da
kota, fullnedged, with state officials
and senators, and congressman elected
The latter, however, was pigeonhole.
a fortnight ago. Some sort of a com
promise measure is expected.
At Bismarck, joint 'Donnel, an ex
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