The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-11-18
DAKOTA TERRITORIA Z NEWS.


term5of court in Hughes county IN.
til January. Us 58.s
a branch Of the First National Bank
OF Columbia has been ablished at
i Cakes. S. 80 E. + ta
y A young woman living at Armour
died few days ago from the effects OF
taking the wrong medicine compound
ed BY, mistake by a druggist. ~
About twenty travelling men hap
pened to be at Huron on Sunday and
they all went to church, in q body. 81
There are hundreds OF gold, silver,
tin, lead and mica claims in the Black
Hills now lying idle and non-pro-
ductive, merely for the lack of cap
ital to work them. 81, DIE 5. y
The recent election in La Moure
county resulted in majority Of 8S
for removing the county seat from
Grand Rapids to La Moure. &:
The LIST day OF October there was
not one house in the new town OF
Monango, in Dickey county, and the
LIST day OF November there were fifty.
John Wilson, a. farmer living near
1 VERONA, died from the effects of q
gunshot wound in the leg, accidentally
received. Wilson was thirty five years
OF age and from Wisconsin. .55..
The Sioux Falls Savings bank, with
a capital of $4,000, has just been or
I,ganized. The officers are: p resident,
9iJ. T. Gilbert; treasurer and cashier,
Mark Russell. Il
A man named Cleveland, cousin Of
the president, was elected coroner Of
Trail county. /. ....:s.s.s;..s
Those with means Of comparison
state that there have been more land
and home seekers in Dakota this fall
than q year ago. A large proportion
have means and prefer to buy land. &
The Milwaukee & st. Paul has asked
the New York stock exchange. to list
81 900. 900 first mortgage bonds Of
the Dakota & Great Southern. Isl
The Sioux Falls Press believes the
Burlington road will move northwest
ward from Sioux Falls and from Wa
tertown in two lines-that these lines
will form junction at Glendale, and
from there one line will be sent on to
Bismarck. ":
An indignation meeting was held at
Huron, all on account Of the fact that
the street car company had a:large
force of men at work on Sunday, and
a committee Of three was appointed
to look up the law and see if such rep
| rehensible Sabbath dissertation can
not be stopped.
E.. S.Kneeland Of Hillsboro has just
completed greenhouse, which is the
largest institution OF the kind in the
territory. It !. is heated by steam and
contains between two and three thou.
sand plants. .55s ". 3354s,
A party Of eight or ten men and
women, who call themselves the Pray
ing Band, have gone from Jamest town
4 to Storm Lake, Iowa, They have
/; rented houses, and will. make that
town their Dakota eadquarters.
They are. q similar organization tto
the Salvation Army !, ssnd propose To
make acanvass 81 ss'the town; hold
meetings and do all possible to reclaim
lost sinners. They begin their work
,at;2 once, havI READY billed the
town with 5larg osters.
The grad 81 thss Milwaukee & St.
Paul line ,bet@een Preston and. Madi.
son, is nearly pleted, and the
track Is being laid at the rate OF one
mile per: day. n
Ana deem dispatch says: secre.
tary Quinn has closed up the head.
quarters Of the Democratic territorial
committee here and has gone home to
j Bismarck. Tho official returns have
lnot been very generally received yet,
/ but it is underst bod that Clifford
majority will not vary much from 49,
4 600. The legislature, 30 far as heard
from, shows three Democrats in the
4 council and fvein the house, with two
farmers candidates from Cass county
and one Independents from Ramsey.
AT the district court at Lakota the
impo RANT case Of the term has been
the trial Of young Wheeler for. the
murder Of Andrew Abrahamson at
Michigan City some time age. The ju.
4 Sry returned q verdict of not guilty.,
4 Wheeler was a watchman at an eleyar
i tor at Michigan City. Abrahanson
was proWling around the premises,
lsand, not obeying Wheeler's command
4 to halt, was shot dead.
The body Of a dead man has been
1 found near Bristol. An examination
i developed that he had been shot three
times, twice in the face and once ia the,
back of the head, and in addition to
this had his throat cut from ear to
ear. Not q thing could be found on
or about the person Of the dead man
to Indicate who or: what he was, and
not person In or around Bristol
4 knew anything of him, or remembered
having seen him. The jury returned a
verdict in accordance with above
II facts. The mystery was partially
4 cleared up q few days ago, when I a
u young man named Miller, who had at
tempted suicide BY poison. confessed
that he was q party to the murder.
The management of the Rapid City
Il Republican changed, g. E. Bishop, the
present editor, retiring, and j: wv.
i MeManus assuming the editorship and
4 control. I:
Yankton Special: n. a. Day, b.
i n. ziebach and other leading Demo
Gratis are Of the opinion that the sue
4 cessor OF Gov. Pierce viii not be Us.
4 pointed till after the adjournment 81