The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-08-27
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Judge Church.
Miner county viii haveits first coun-
ty fair this fall.
The new Buxton Mine Company o.
Lead City recently made a shipment
OF $4, 500 worth OF ore.
A destructive prairie fire swept cor
siderable territory north of Holabird.
A motor line will be built from Wa
tertown to Lake Kampeskat to accom-
modate the travel.
The new government wing Of the
Sioux Falls ~penitentiary, containing
ffty-six cells, is to be put in afdErtsf
a lot of crooks J Drtroit. :
Principals OF the great tin importing
houses of New York are investigating
the tin mines in the Black Hills.
Judge Francis will not allow any
newspaper men on any grandjury that
he has anything to do with.
The Republican convention Of the
Twenty-second district will meet at
jamestown Oct 13.
George i. Wright, one OF the pro-
p~rietOrs OF La Belle ranch, twelve
miles west of Madison, was seriously
burned while engaged in blasting q
boulder on his farm.
John Cannon, a mechanic of Brook
ings, drew the $4,000 Illinois farm
in the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers gift concert which recently
took place In Chicago.
Farmers near Blunt, who sowed
some winter wheat last fall, find it
matared before the drouth and is all
right.
A big vein of coal has been found in
Southeastern Potter county, near the
Hand county line. 1t Is equal to the
best Illinois coal.
In many places along the James
river where the crop was supposed to
be badly, damaged, wheat is turning
out fairly WE'LL
New wheat, brought into st. Law
renee. is lighter than last year, weigh
ffty-twosto ffty-six pounds q bushel.
The Burlington depot at Sioux Falls
will be built OF Sioux Falls quartzite,
and will be 40x115 feet in size.
A stock company, with q capital Of
$25 5000, is being formed at Water
town. The project is to heat the city by
steam by using q plant of boilers, and
also to light the city by electricity.
The Yankton Catholics are about
to begin the erection OF a fine, large
Church. The present Church being
too small for the congregation.
The fifth annual fair of the st. Law
renee County Agricultural and Indus
trial association will be held at Spear
fish, commencing Sept. 8.
Theodore Roosevelt denied at Bis
marck the statement that he had ex-
pressed himself in favor OF Blaine and
Logan in 1888.
The Republican convention for the
First legislative district will be held
at Elk Point onSSept. 81. This dis
trict is entitled to one member Of the
council and two members OF the
house.
The city council of B~rookings
awarded the contract for boring an
artesian well to Gray Bros, Milwau-
kee, they being the lowest bidders.
The price.to be paid is $3.50 per foot,
including tubing.
The entire assessed property of the
territory viii reach about $4,000,
900. 1t is expected the rate levied
for taxes for territorial purposes will
be about two and one-half mills.
Last year the property was valued
at 10000 600 and the nate three
mills.
The assessment rolls of Burleighcoun
ty, which have just been filed in the
auditors department, show valua,
tions as follows: 281, 052 acres ofland
$685. O2; town lots, $1,122, 270s
merchandise, S16O, $50; horses, sos,
$50; mules, $40, 134; cattle, $50, 237;
sheep, $4,o45; swine, So, 541; vehicles,
$37, O16; oney and credits, $161,-
Obs; household furniture, $14,185;
stocks or shares, $8l, 545; value 81
all other property, 1925, $50; making
the total assessed valuation $2,79l,-
16e, an increase Of $175,l00oyerlast
year.
The late storm proved moot severe
to the west and southwest Of Ellen.
dale. Grain and hay-stacks were
scattered for miles over the prairie
and many farm buildings destroyed.