The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-10-01
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

~. hclldTQ WIS UOuuu ONCL dO Odo
SETON for attempting an assault on tbs
person of Miss Nettie Hansen.
John Crawford WAS arrested at Des
Moines charged with burglarizing Hen.
bricks store at Fargo.
George Hillock, of Dickey county,
Oak, who was shot some days ago.
died from his wounds.
Mrs. Sellers, living near Fort Mead
has given birth to seven children dur
ing the past four years-four twins
and triplets.
Edward Powers was sentenced at
Bismarck to ten years at hard labor
and fined $1,000 and costs for man
slaughter.
A railroad artesian we'll at Aberdeen
closed somet time ago,c commenced flow
ing, throwing mud and a large mum
bur of fish.
Bishop Walker is at Dunseith, try
ing to persuade the Chippewa Indians
TO remove to the White Earth reser
walton.
The store. of NJ. Livingston, at Sioux
Falls, was closed by the sheriff on o
$4,000 mortgage.
The North Dakota synod will meet
at jamestown, Oct. 8.
The county treasurer at Bismarck,
at the October sale, will sell the so
called railroad lands on which taxes
have not been paid, in order that the
courts may pass on the question.
Ayoung Russian named Albert
Kraus, who does not speak English,
has lately disappeared from about
Valley City, and it is believed he has
been foully dealt with, as he had not
drawn his wages and left his property.
Gerald Pierce, son OF the governor,
has resigned as deputy territorial
treasurer.
The corner stone of the new Dick.
enson county court house was laid
a few days ago.
The yield Of flax in Lincoln county
is fifteen to twenty bushels per acre.
The number of women who have OBJ.
tanned one or two manifestations OF
160 acres each in Dakota is very large.
Many schooI-teachers, dressmakers,
saleswomen, and girls at service, and
others more or less dependent on some
male relative for support, have judi
ciously saved, invested their earnings
and acquired property inthis way and
are now Independently well of with a
fair prospect Of becoming rich.
The store of d. Brownlee, at Maple
ton, was burgarlized and a large lot OF
harness and other goods taken.
Lisbon was shocked at the sudden
death OF the wife Of "A. Ell. Laughlin,
register of deeds, one of the most
prominent ladies of the place.
Sheriff Hawks, on trial at Pembina
for the murder of William Stevens,
was convicted OF manslaughter and
sentenced to six years and three
months in the pe~nitentiary. He was
attempting to seize Stevens team on
a mortgage. Stevens resisted, when
Hawks shot him, as he claimed, in
self-defence.
The corner stone of the new Congre-
g~ational church, WHICH was destroyed
by a wind storm Aug. 16, was laid
with appropriate services by the resi-.
dens pastor, Rev. William Edwards.
Robert Hillock of Glendale, who
received a bullet in the brain from a
shot fred by the sheriff posse on the
9Th inst, died on the 10th. 1t is not
known what action the county will
take in the matter, but the sheriff
and his posse are exonerated from all
blame. Hiliock's own rashness in fir
ing upon the officers while he was in
ambush caused his death.
The Waterfowl Fire Insurance com
pany filed articles of Incorporation
with the territorial auditor, the fol-
lowing named gentlemen being incor~
porators: III. ID. Walrath, M. w. Sheaf,
w. r. Thomas, A. G. Millett, John j.
Marks, e. G. Fahnestock, Il. C. Rice,
r. B. Spicer and G. G. Whistler, Wa
tertown is named as the principal
place of business,
Charles Carson, the noted Black
Hills highwayman, was caught at
Chamberlain.
"A man named Seymour at Ipswich
killed himself by hanging. Cause, tenn
porary insanity.
The secretary Of the interior has
affirmed a decision OF the land COM