The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-26
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

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wood,
A vein OF soft coal has been discov'
,r,r, three miles northwest OF Old Gar
field, Walsh county.
Behymer, Braes L Sparks, groceries
ut Highmore. have made an assign
ment.
John Hainey, of Hammond, Oak,
hung himself in Chicago.
The text of Commissions Sparks
letter suspending surveys inthe Turtle
mountain district is gwen.
All but thirty head OF cattle which
Major Swami was charged with appro-
priating to his W use while agent at
Cheyenne agency have been found.
They had strayed away.
Charlie H. Sawyer, Mapletop,~ TRACTION
engine; Lorenzo III. Prunner, Dean,
wagon end gate; Samuel Miller, Pierre,
bundle carrier; Fred Gordon, Sioux
Falls, spark arrester; William E. Bal
lard, Madison, type galley, have re
celVed patents.
The United States district attorney
at Deadwood has been ordered to
commence a prosecution of the Dako-
ia Ranch company for cutting timber
on government land.
A mass meeting at Oriska, Barnes
county, denounced the commissioners,
and resolved to divide thecounty and
form a new one composed of ranges
SO and 81.
Dakota is we'll off in an educational
way, having five universities, six
academies, two seminaries, three col
leges and a school Of mines.
John Brennan, who lives sixty miles
north of Bismarck, was attacked by an
Indian, to whom his wife had given a
meal. Brennan saved himself by
| Selling the Indians tomahawk and
killing him. The Indian was drunk.
The trouble among the faculty of
Grafton college eliminated in the
resignation of President Linn, to take
effect at the end of the present term.
DR.. S. Ell. Moore Of Susquehanna, Pa,
will succeed Prof. Linn.
Arthur Blake, a prisoner in the
Pierre Jail, who was allowed to 90 GA
a hunting EXPEDITION, accidentally, and
probably fatally, shot himself.
A farmers mutual insurance asso-
citation has been formed ut Alexan-
dria. The association will insure
against fire and lightning only.
Attorney Joslin of Fargo brought
suit for the ST. Paul Fire and Marine
against a Ransom county party in the
district court. The sum being less
than 500, the defen liant pleaded
want of jurisdiction. Judge McCon-
nell held with Mr.. Joslin that the
district court had concurrent jurisdlc-
ton, and the case was taken to the
supreme court on that issue. The
bench decided Mr.. Joslin was right,
and sustained Judge Mcconnell.
Judge Mcdonnell at Fargo, decided
the contest over the seat of the COM
missioner in the western part ofTraill
county, giving it to r. nj. Pulson ana
unseating G. B. Thompson.
Evening Telegram of Yankton, was
sold by E. G.. Smith, editor and pro-
prietor, to Ex-Gov. John Il. Penning-
ton, and will be hereafter published as
q morning paper.
The Kicker block at Sioux Falls
burned. Loss, $500.
e. J. Daniels drygoods store burned
at Sioux Falls. Loss, $4,000; fully
insured.
All but one Of the large land owners
at Darlington have paid their taxes
notwithstanding the Trail county de
cision.
Some one has looked over the fig
ures and reports that there are TWEEN
ty states that grow less corn than Da-
kota.
A large colony of Philadelphia peo'
pie will settle in Charles Mix county as
soon as the Sioux reservation is open
ed.
The Indians held a council at, Chey'
enne agency a short time since and de
cided not to sell any more wood to
the white people. The Indian who
breaks the agreement willhave his gov
eminent supplies cut of for one year,
The Sanborn County Advocate
thinks the time is near at hand wher
artesian wells will prove a n~uisancet to
their owners, as the latter will be re
quired to keep tie surplus water q
their neighbors' land.
The Ranonr Rrstler saws the order