The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-31
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.


near Canton.
The Grand Forks Light Guards are
going to the great militia encampment
at Washington next May.
Bazilla Clemens, of the Cheyenne
River agency, who claimed $4, $50 for
depredations committed in 1869 by
Sioux Indians, was awarded in Wash
ington 81, TAO in full satisfaction for
his claims.
The commissioner OF Investigation
at Bismarck says that all the East
ern mail sent from st. Paul on the
first of the present month was de-
stroyed by fire, and asks any parties
who might have written about that
date to duplicate their letters.
The long-looked-for and much.desir.
ed railroad connection, by which two.
separate routes are opened to st. Paul
has been made, and the Northwestern
now will run it's trains into James
town.
Wo Ives in Bon Homme county are
becoming a dangerous nuisance, and
In place OF being hunted they are now
hunting the hunters.
1t is estimated that there are 49,
SOC, 900 acres of land in the territory
yet subject to original entry.
The secretary of the interior has af-
frmed the decision of the land com
missioner in the case OF w. III. Bach
man VS.. Dorothy Smith. giving the
northeast quarter of section 20, town
112, range SO, Huron land district, to
the latter.
Three weddings in the Russian set
Element in Hanson county recently,
were followed by festivities lasting 48
hours-a Russian custom.
The clergy at Grand Forks have pc
titioned the county board to estab-
lish high license for saloons in that
county. They do not ask for prohibi-
ton.
Some OF the Black Hills papers are
not at all sanguine of securing the
opening of the Sioux reservation.
The provision of the Dawes bill re-
quiring the written consent of three
fourths OF the male adult Indians
would defeat it's operation.
A herd of nearly 1000 antelope
the largest aver known-is now roam
ing in the bad lands between Medora
and Belfeld. Thirty-seven were killed
by two hunrers in n day.
Mrs. Stanley Huntly, assistant terri
torial auditor, has resignedher present
position to become the amanuensis of
Adit. Gen. Tyner.
A man in Aberdeen wants to bet
one hundred dollars that more thhaaa
five hundred new buildings will be
erected in Aberdeen next year.
The Lincoln county district attor-
ney contest was settled by Judge
Palmer at Sioux Falls in favor OF A..
r. Brown. Brown had a majority of
votes at the election, but a certificate
ofelection was granted M. E. Rudolph
on the ground that Browns votes
read county attorney" instead of
district attorney" Rudolph will
probably appeal to the supreme
court.
In the Ease of Alexander Boursel,
involving land in section 81, town
Isl, range 65, Devils Lake land dis.
trics, the secretary of the Interior re-
verses the decision of the commission
err, demanding that Boursel give up
one of the lots in his entry as it ag-
gregated 176 1-2 acres. The secretary
holds that, as Boursel came on the
land eight years in advance of the sur.
veys, made improvements ~aggregating
in value 5 1000, which would be in
jured by a surrender, and that the
government would gain nothing by
the REIMBURSEMENT of q single lot, he
be allowed to keep the land.
When news of the death of Adj. Gen.
Free at Yankton reached Gov. Pierce,
he Immediately issued an order
expressing regrets, and instructing
Adj. Gen. Tyner TO take the necessary
steps to insure the departed official a
soldiers respect and soldiers burial.
Gen. Free vas taken to the insane
asylum at Yankton about six weeks
ago, his mind having given way. He
has q good war record, and did much
toward the organization and develop
ment of the Dakota MALTA.
At a meeting of the stockholders OF
the Dakota Fire and Marine Insurance
Company at Chamberlain, George A.
Johnston, OF Mitchell, was elected
vice president, and George A. Silsby,
or Mitchell. secretary. Both these