The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

shall.
A fire at Darlington destroyed Top
lift & Co. coal sheds. Loss, $4,000
A population of 1000 is claimedfor
Sioux Falls.
John O'Brien OF Wisconsin was
found dead in his bed at Bachelors
Grove, near LarimoIe.
G. S. Kidder Of Michigan, who died
intestate sometime since, owned con-
siderable property in the vicinity OF
jamestown.
Wentworth's new tow mill has a
capacity to produce ten or twelve
tons a day, and it starts with $500
tons OF flax straw on hand.
The members of the Watertown and
Coddington county bar gave a'compli-
mentary banquet to Judge l.. *.
Church.
Clay county farmers las year lost
5000, 900 worth of hogs from cholera,
and will cease growing hogs for the
next two or three years.
Contracts ase about to be let at
Highmore for new buildings to cost
about $4,000.
Hyde county commissioners have
accepted plans for q new court house
and jail.
Judge Hamilton of Lead continues
among the missing, says the Dead
wood Times. Additional small irreg-
ularities are daily reported, and the
total, it is believed, will foot upward
of $4,000.
The territorial secretary's Office at
Bismarck, which was moved from the
capitol building to an Office down
town by ex-Secretary Teller, has been
moved back by Secretary Mccormick
to the capitol building, where all other
territorial offices are located.
The wife of Knudt Thompson, living
fifteen miles northwest of Sioux Falls,
was adjudged insane, and taken to
Yankton. Mrs. Thompson is the
mother of thirteen children, the oldest
only nineteen years, and her mania Is
jealousy OF her husband.
The old veteran, Andy Marsh, kill
ed a blacktail deer at Glenavon that
scaled 240 pounds.
Rev. Miss Ella Howard will preach
regularly at Holabird hereafter.
The faculty of the Dakota universe
ty have just secured the services of
Prof. E. S. Mashbir as professor OF
German. The professor is a graduate
of Kieff university, Germany, and q
scholar of rare ability and attain
ments.
A short time ago o nephew OF Will
lam Reilly, ofCentral, died. In caring
for the remains Mr.. Reilly contracted
a cold from the effects of which he
died. A friend of Reilly, in attending
the funeral of the latter, caught cold
which also resulted in his death.
Count Fritz Won Ingleheim forged a
check for $25 on the Sioux Falls Ma
tional, signing his father-in-law's &c
j. Mill's1 name, and sold it to Peter
Ries of the Phillips house. Marshal
LETTERS arrested him in the basement
OF the mint, and he was placed under
$500 bondst TO appear at thenext term
of court.
The Wisconsin Land and Lumber
company will erect from % to 80 cot
tages in Huron, ranging in price from
$1,000 to $4,000. They are all OF
modern plans, and will be sold or
rented.
An attempt was made to fire the
old court house at Mandan. Thee
tents of a large caldron OF kerosene
standing in an outer building were al
lowed to run on the ground and then
fred nv a wad of cotton ON the end OF
a stick. 1t was discovered before ma.
terial damage was done.
At a meeting of citizens held at
Sioux Falls $4,000 was subscribed
by the PROPERTY owners upon heguar-
anty fund required by the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern to build the
lineto that city. This is about three
fourths of the amount asked OF Sioux
Falls. Committees were appointed to
work in the county, and the entire
amount will be guaranteed within
few days.
The first session Of the circuit court
for the Sixth judicial district convened
at Minnewaukan. Judge w. H.. Francis
presided. Quite a number of promi
nent attorneys from different parts o
the territory we're in attendance
among whom are Johnson Nickens o
jamestown. r.. p. Flannery OF Bis
marck and Tillotson, county ~attorne,
of Rolette. The celebrated Rolett,