Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-04
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

wilmot is having q fine three-story
hotel, which is nearly ready for bust
ness.
Chicago & Northwestern through
trains over its own lines and those OF
the Northern Pacific to Bismarck seem
not improbable at an early day.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern has established a station at
Sioux Falls.
The Missouri river is only two feet
deep at Pierre, and a farmer crossed
there with his team the other day.
Cornelius Gleason, bachelor farm
err, was found dead in his yard by a
neighhor at his home near Ipswich.
Mr.. smydell OF Mandan lost his
house by fire. Loss over insurance
about $500.
Prairie fires in the Black Hills, west
OF Spring Valley, destroyed a great
deal of valuable property.
As soon as the rails are laid from
La Moure to Cakes, which will be in
about 80 days, the Northwestern will
run through trains from Huron to
jamestown.
Rapid City is to be lighted by cleo
tricity, forty-fve lamps being the
number with which the illumination
will be given.
The NJ. Z. conference accept the
Dakota university located at Mitchell
and it pledges itself to promote its
growth.
The gold, silver and bronze medals
awarded in certain classes at the ter
ritorial fair arrived at Huron and
were forwarded to the winners
A couple of highway robbers at
tempted to go through j. c. Murphy
near Wahpeton, but they caught a
tartar for Murphy got the drop on
them and escaped.
The surveying party of the st. p,
NJ. & NJ. north OF Park river, it Is
said, met a similar party from the
Northern Pacific, running line from
Turtle mountains toward the Red
river.
Some kind of an epidemic is proving
fatal among the horses at Yankton,
nearly dozen having died within the
past few weeks.
Men and teams are at work on the
Dakota & Montana railroad in East
Grand Forks. The line, with the ex-
ception OF a mile, is now ready for ties,
and the completion of the work is near
at hand.
The following were admitted to prae-
tice before the interior department at
Washington: J. G. Beatty, Roscoe,
OAK; j. B. Henyan, Huron; and ]. A.
Owen, Deswia, Oak.
The interior department has disal-
lowed the claim of Carshoff & Stone
of Burleigh county for 1921 damages
alleged to have been sustained by them
from raids by the Arickaree Indians
in 1873.
Under the Session Laws OF 1885:
chapter So, the election of laws are
amended so as to require residence in
the county of sixty days, and in the
precinct where the Votes offered of
twenty.
1t is learned on good authority that
two train loads OF Milwaukee graders
and graders outfit were hauled over
the Hastings & Dakota division OF the
Milwaukee road to Glendale, at night
and quietly unloaded and disappear
ed before daylight.
The Northwestern Construction and
Improvement Company OF Minneap-
oils contracted with the 0rdway, Bis
marck & Northwestern for the con-
struction of its line of road from Alb
erdeen northwesterly to the coal fields
in Mclean county, distance of 15o
miles.
The contest between the Pierre and
Sioux Falls people for the franchise of
the Pierre Fire and Marine Insurance
company has been decided in favor of
Sioux Falls by the territorial insur-
ance department.
A man giving the name of John
Bailey was found in the road FIVE miles
southwest of Huron in an unconscious
condition. He is now semi.uncon-
scious. He says his home and friends
are in st. Paul, that he was sick, out
OF money and weak from hunger and
unable to tiEd shelter, and lay down
to die.
District Attorney Glaspel of Suits
man county rules that the recent law
of congress, restricting county taxes
to per cent of the assessed valua-
ton of the county, don't apply to
the current expenses OF a county, but
to the unusual expenses, such as the
payment of interest on bonds or for
the construction OF buildings or other
improvements.
1t is stated that the Democrats OF
the territory in favor of admission as
a whole are organizing club, and
Immediately after election the organ.
ization will be perfected. The execu-
tive committee will have member in
each judicial district and one at large,
and these have already been elected,
together with Judge Brewer, the late
secretary of the Democratic commit
tee, as secretary.
Some of the stockholders of the Ash.
land National bank and Others, act.
ing under the authority of the con,
troller OF the currency, completed the
organization of a new bank, which is
called the FIRST National Bank OF Ash.
land. The capital stock has been paid
in, its directors and officers elected,
and the registered United States bonds
ordered purchased.
At Meanwhile, near Marshfield, John
WEIGH attempted suicide by swallow.
ing large dose of aconite that had
been used in doctoring diseased oxen.
He is still alive but in a dangerous
condition.
The Watertown foundry has taken
the contract to cast three styles o.
stoves for burning hay or straw
Over forty-seven thousand pounds
of wool We're shipped from Deadwood
A Sphinx county farmer harvested a
hundred bushels OF potatoes to the
acre.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul issued 6
tariff quoting rates to Edgely, new
station on the Hastings & Dakots
division, tweuty-six miles north O