Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-02
DAKOTA TERRITORIALNEWS

1t rained every night Tor over two
weeks at De Smet.
a flour mill will be erected at onco
ct Riverside.
1 Charles S. Voorhees,, delegate from
I Washington territory, has been sug-
I gested for governor OF Dakota.
A number OF Hughes county farmers
tried the experiment of raising winter
wheat the past season and report the
experiment successful,
/ A iourteen-foot vein of coal has been
discovered in Faux county.
Brown county has $23, 900 cash in
its treasury.
The $4,000 worth of bonds recent
ly voted at Mitchell have been sold
to William o. Cole & Co., OF Chicago,
who bid a trife over 4 per cent.
Konrad Luther's stable, at Edger-
ton, was struck by lightning and four
horses killed.
William b. Genung, aged seventeen
years, while bathing at Sioux Falls,
was sucked into an eddy and drowned.
The Northwestern is about to build
a large depot at Redfield.
At Roswell station, near Howard,
q three-ye old son of the agent, j.
+. Jordan, was accidentally run over
and killed by some men while switch
ing cars.
Another suit growing out OF the
I taxation of Northern Pacific lands
has been begun at jamestown by
several capitalists to recover an ag-
gregate of $4,000 paid in taxes under
protest.
| immigration Commission Dunlap
estimates that the population of Da-
kota will be increased 70, 900 thepres-
ent summer by immigration.
Premiums for the biggist baby, the
prettiest baby, the smartest baby,
twins, triplets and four OF kind are
offered by the Farmers Alliance of
Barnes county.
Gottlieb Long, a worthy German
farmer living near Devils Lake acct
IDENTIFY fell from load of grain aud
his head WAS crushed by the wagon
wheel, killing him instantly.
In about three weeks North and
South Dakota will be connected by a
direct railroad up the James River
valley to jamestown. The North
western connects with the James Riv-
er Valley road Northern Pacifie) at
a point twelve miles below La Moure.
Building in Sioux Falls never was
pushed with so much energy as at the
present time, the many large stone and
brick blocks in course of erection, to-
gether with the recent orders of the
city council extending the gas and
electric light service, thestreet railway
charter requiring % portion of the
track to be laid and operated within
six months, and the numbering of all
buildings and streets certainly gives
the town metropolitan pretensions.
The report going the rounds of the
newspapers that Judge l.. K. Church,
of Huron, was arrested and fined for
shooting prairie chickens is not only
untrue but nothing of the kind ever
occurred.
A petition has gone from Dakota to
Washington for the appointment of
Judge l.. X. Church as governor.
In the preliminary trial OF Freeman
for killing Kessler, the Justice at HUI
ron held the defendant to the grand
jury without bail.
The thermometer on the ed at
Aberdeen, registered ITO in the shnde.
A son of w. P. Kingston, living near
Warner was overcome by the heat
and died.
Leonard Bass, well known as mail
contractor and dealer inschool books
and furniture, committed suicide at
Guyestburgh, near Highmore, by hang
ing.
At DEVILS Lake burglar entered
the residence OF S. NJ. Dodd, who was
away from home. Mrs. Dodd crap
pied with the burglar, who knocked
her down. She tried to shoot him,
but the robber knocked the revolver
from her hands and fled, having
secured Mrs. Dodd's watch. The bur
glar was arrested.
A fire at Mimic burned Hunt, Holt &
Garner Bros lumber Office and part
OF their yard; Robinson's lumber Office,
n. G. Moore's lumber Office and yard,
and building belonging to Tim Sulli-
van. A livery barn belonging to NJ l..
Bateman was burned, with two valu-
able stations. Total loss, $4,000;
insurance, 81, 100.
Frank Finney, OF jamestown, a
contractor on the Minneapolis &
Manitoba extension, was shot and
killed by one Elmer, one of his EN-.
ployes, near Burlington. Elmer was
creating a disturbance in the cooks
tent, when Finney attempted to eject
him. A scufiie ensued, which resulted
as stated.
At a convention of farmers at Sioux
Falls, the platform OF the recent ALI
ance convention at Aberdeen was
adobted. Resolutions were adopted
favoring government ownership and
control of all railroads and telegraph
lines, and pledging the support of the
farmers to only such candidates as
win favor that object.
While stacking, near Estelliue, Ed
Carnahan placed a pocketbook con-
tanning between $50 and $40 under
the edge OF the stack for safe keeping.
He forgot it, and the stack was struck
by lightning and burned.
Washington W. Whitney, postmas-
ter ard hotel keeper at Henry, COM
mitted suicide at WATERFOWL by tax
ing poison. Unhappy family relations
are supposed to be the cause, for upon
his arrival in Watertown he told
friends that he should never return
again to Henry, as his troubles were
too great. He visited brother and
there ws.s Mortified to find a photo
graph OF his wife and young man
with whom she supposed to be upon
too intimate terms, photographed to-
gether. After leaving the place he is
said to have stated that he had seen
something he would not have missed
seeing for 500, and that he would
not have seen for 100000.
An extensive prairie fire is raging in
Potter county, west OF Redfield.
A large amount oil fax at Schatz-
vile was destroyed by fire.
The residence of John Doyle. Mt