Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-10

= road bed OF the Northwestern, consisting
I OF j. A. Pierson, VIM. Van Osdel and'J;
E. Bruce,me this afternoon OF the court
house to appraise the property of the
Milwaukee company to be used as q
crossing by the Northwestern. The at
torney for the Milwaukee company pre-.
sented an affidavit in the nature of 6
protest against the right of this com
mittee to act, whereupon the committee
declined to serve and new committee
will probably be appointed by the court
An insurance man told his story this
morning while last nights blaze was
being discussed. He said: "Shortly after
| came to Yankton a wooden barn hall
filled with hay took fire in the dead oil
night. The alarm was sounded and the
tiremen responded. They put out that
fire and saved half the barn and a con.
siderable portion of the blazing hay
That satisfied me that Yankton's fire
protective system was about as neal
perfection as anything could be and ]
have since considered the town SAFE
Our fire boys and our mineral water are
inyincible.
Fred is a dog who belongs to r. W.
Burns, lodges with w. S. Bowen and
lunches around among his numerous ad-
mirers, whom he invariably captures, to-
gether with their cold victuals, by the
pathetic wag of his tail and the beseech-
ing openness of his countenance. He Is
q powerful English setter of remarkable
sagaclty and an intelligence at times al
most human. Of his many peculiar
traits the most marked is his phenom.
email faculty for discovering fires, and
of this we are reminded by last nights
adventure. He seldom fails to give the
first alarm when there is a fire, ever
many blocks away. Last evening he
was lying ~contentedly in the hallway of
Mr.. Bowen's domic;le and everything
was tightly closed for the night. Sud.
denly there came his quick, sharp, short
bark which those familiar with the
habits of the dog have learned to reeog.
nize as an unfailing fire warning. A few
minutes later anne the human cry of fire
on the streets followed by the clsng Of
the fire bell. When the bell strikes
Fred is wild with excitement and would
if he could tear his way through a bricl
wall to get into the outer air. He al
ways goes to a fire with the machine
barking violently and speeding bach
and forth in front of the running fire
men. BY what instinct the dog can de
tect the existence of a fire in advance o
any alarm has always been q mystery
equalled only by his excited enioymen
of a raging contiagration.
Surveyor General Taylor, who is il
the city, has left with us a map shown!
the bounds of the territory which belong
to the so-called Turtle Mountain Chip
pewa Indian reservation in north Da
ko.a, which Sparks has lately declared t,
belong to the $50 Indians whom tn
government is now disposed to make ez
~tensive land owners The r%eservatio
boundary begins at q point or the il
ternational boundary about two mile
west of the 98th meridian and run
parallel with that meridian to the lat
standard parallel. From there i~t.slant
westwardly in a straight line and strike
the Cheyenne river in township $50.
then follows the Cheyenne
. its headwaters, sw0ops southwark an
takes a bite out of Sheridan count,
r bears north and west across the soutt
west corner of McHenry county, th
northeast corner of Stevens county an
the southwest corner of Ward count
and halts at a point in Mountralll
county some twelve miles west of til
102d meridian. From there it proceed
due north to the international boundar
line and thence to the place of beginning
1t takes in the whole of the counties
Towner, Roletts, Bottineau, Wynn, Rel
vile, Ward, Ramsey and DeSmet, mo
of the counties of Cavalier, McHenry ar
Benson and parts of the counties
q Mounteille, Stevens, Sheridan. Nelsc
and Walsh. This is all these $50 Indian
want-they do not ask for the emit
globe.