The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-08-20
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

CllONIblDllANAA
Gov. Gil Pierce will deliver the ad'
dress at the opening Of the North Da'
kota Agricultural Exposition, Sept
81, at Grand Forks.
News is published OF the elopement OF
Ella Uline, daughter OF Col. Cal oiine
OF Devils Lake, q well-known citizen,
and now right OF way agent oil the
Manitoba extensions, with George
Stewart, son OF "Parson" Stewart o.
DEVILS Lake.
A new brick depot is being built in
Grafton, by the St. Paul, Minneapolis
& Manitoba railroad company. When
completed it will be the finest on It's
line west OF Minneapolis.
A destructive prairie fire swept the
country north of Holabird.
Much hay was fired by lightning and
burned near Yankton.
Young trees in Benson county have
been killed in large numbers by the
drouth.
Judge Church has appointed ". A.
Lynch OF Huron clerk OF the Sully
county court.
H. H. Moore OF Lisbon marketed
the first wheat in Ransom county
this season. 1t graded No. l hard,
and sold for 81 cents.
Postmaster Tomlinson, who was
arrested charged with assault with in
tent to commit rape on a fifteen-year-
old girl, al Highmore, was discharged.
In Mrs. Kiliian's house, near Sun.
down, lightning smashed the family
lamp, injuring no one, and then teaped
to the stable, killing all the horses,
cattle and chickens.
There are 1873 organized gold and
silver mining companies IN the BLACK
Hills.
The damage by the hail storm in
the vicinity of Inkster, covered 80.
600 acres.
.Kidder county recently paid 81, 900
for gopher tails.
The body OF a murdered man half
eaten by wolves has been found near
Highmore.
Judge Francis, at Valley City, re,
fuses to admit to practice attorneys
of communistic proclivities.
An attorney at Glendale by the
name of Kenney, July %, was fined
$12.85 for ~unlawfully shooting prairie
chickens.
A prairie fire, started by lightning,
destroyed property near Forest City
valued at $4,000, and Forest City
was with difficulty saved.
r. N. Kratz, who has been a clerk
in the land Office at Mitchell for three
or four years, voluntarily resigned his
position.
The Standard Oil company's we'll in
the Black Hills continues to flow, and
they expect a spouter at 500 feet.
Sheriff Macdonald, of Sioux City, is
looking for the murderer of Rev. &C.
Haddock around Valley Springs.
Jerauld county farmers lost $4,000
worth Of grain by not having binding
Irvine on hand in time.
Church's Ferry, the new town on
the Manitoba at the junction OF the
Cando branch, is growing rapidly.
Over twenty business houses are in
full blast.
In Hand county the loss by the re-
cent hail storm was $50, Some
farmers are ruined.
Miss Dougan and Miss Hankey took
the veil ofthe Ursuline order at Grand
Forks.
The recently organized Dakota so
ciety for the prevention OF cruelty to
animals has q large list of members
already at Fargo.
The time for holding the North Da-
kota Methodist conference has been
changed from Sept. 16 to Oct. IA.
Last fall Henry Thomas was con-
fined in the cooler at Canton for
drunkenness and d~isorderly conduct.
He set fire to the jail and it burned to
the ground. During the confusion
Thomas made good his escape, Anew
days ago he vas recaptured and again
placed IN the lookup, and again
escaped.
{. n. Ingalls, of jamestown died sud
denly at Hawley, Mimi, where he was
in charge OF the bridges and construc-
ton OF the Duluth & Manitoba rail
way. Mr.. Ingalls, built the hotels in
Yellowstone Park, and was long iden-
titled with the Northern Pacific CON
sfrucfion