The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-10-22
DAKOTAT TERRITORIAL NEWS.

DuShAS
Prairie fires in Benson county have
destroyed many hundred tons OF hay
and some grain.
Five hundred head of cattle were
forded across the Missouri at Pierre,
An undertaking seldo m attempted.
A dwelling house occupied by Rev.
7 A. Seaton, pastor Of the Christian
church at Watertown, was burned.
Fire at White Lake destroyed Col
Inns blacksmith shop and Baxter's
wagon shop.
George Homidowof La Moure, while
hunting shot himself.
At Memo, John Hart was killed by
Carl Levi.
O. Gary's barn and granary, near
Milbank, has been destroyed by fire.
His f~our-year-old sol was in the barn
at the time, and was burned to death.
John Roney, a farmer living ear
Hamilton, is alleged to have deserted
his family and left for parts unknown.
His liabilities will aggregate $40, 600.
immigration Commissioner Dunlap
will remove his Office from Huron to
Bismarck.
During a quarrel near Wolsey, Silas
Hopkins stabbed John Winnie.
The territorial insane asylums are
badly overcrowded.
Ole Lars Haug, who lived near
Dwight, was burned to death while
sleeping at a camp fire.
Rev. W. H. Wyatt Hanneth was ar
rested at Bottineau for the alleged
smuggling of alot OF traps from Mani
toba.
The Russians that emigrated from
Bon Homme and Hutchinson coun-
ties to Campbell county last spring
are reported to be in destitute circum-
stances.
At Manville, Joseph Colosky has Sc.
cured a flowing well at the depth OF
10 feet. The water forces itself
through an inch pipe to the heighth OF
Is or 20 feet.
At Revillo, r. E. Woodruff lost 500
bushels of wheat by fire.
In an interview at WATERFOWL, M.
H. Day said: My nomination certain.
ly was a triumph, as you say, for the
principle of division and statehood
for the south half. / never would have
been a candidate had it not been for
a preponderance OF the division senti-
ment in the convention. The result OF
vision standpoint, is peculiarly crafty
ing to me.
Gov. Hauser of Montana has receiv-
ed a dispatch from Gov. Pierce stat
ing that the diseased cattle at Man
dan has been killed and buried and
asking that no quarantine be issued
by Montana against Dakota cattle.
A terrible prairie fire passed a few
miles west OF Hope, doing vast dam
age. Jacob Lang's barn, granary and
$4,000 bushels of wheat we're destroy
ed. Myron Plumb lost all his build
lngs, wheat, oats and farm machiD-
cry.
There has been much destruction to
property by prairie fires throughout
Mcintosh county. Many families
have lost everything they possessed,
their hay, grain and dwellings being
consumed. The country beyond the
Coteaus is a blackened waste for miles
In all directions.
Major John Hotaling Of Huron, died
on the 18th Of heart disease. He
came to Huron from Minneapolis in
July, where he had been connected
Wlth the panorama OF the Battle of
Atlanta, and has since been confined
TO his room. The body was sent to
Rochelle, H., for interment, accom-
panied by the widow, son and broth
er OF the deceased. The major was q
lannon's soldier, having been Logan's
chief OF staff for @ long time.
The many friends of Adiutant Gen
eral Thomas p. Free will be panied to
near OF the affection that has come
upon him. For many years a great
sufferer from diseases acquired during
service in the army, his mind forsome
months has been failing, and he was
recently removed to the asylum
at iankton, where he may receive
skilled treatment.
At the Episcopal General Assembly
- VI -.
10 Chicago, Bishop Walker of North
Dakota spoke of the marvellous growth
u the population in that country:
lne white population was intelligent,
ssnned and progressive. Two thou