Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-15
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS


Valley City, with 1 500 popusation,
boasts four newspapers-one q daily.
The following were elected at Red
field: ID. r. Miller, mayor; j. j. Mey-
ers, recorder; w. X. Dawes, treasurer.
The Iron Hill Mining company has
declared another dividend OF five
cents per share
High license won in Madison and
Ashton.
Ingebright Ullary, a scandinavian
farmer, hanged himself in his barn in
Modena, Buffalo county.
John Morgan was killed in the Old
Abe mine by slide OF rocks.
At Huron, Rice, Wilson, and Dun
ming were reelected for mayor, clerk
and treasurer, respectively.
III. S. Corning, of Grand Forks, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat.
Destructive prairie fires prevailed in
the vicinity of Holabird.
The postofiice at Yankton has been
raised to second-class Office.
S. A. Kean, of Chicago vas award
ed the bid for $25, 900 normal school
bonds at Madison. at 3 1-5 per cent.
premium.
Elected in Pierre: Mayor, P. F. Nc
Clure was reelected; city treasurer, III.
G.. Hollemback; city clerk, A. w,
Johnson.
Elected at Casselton: Mayor, Mark
Lynch; treasurer. II. II. Walters; JUS
tice, j. C. White.
At Aberdeen, the democrats elected
the city marshal and the republicans
the rest of the ticket by a small ma
iority. o.
The following were elected at Graf
ton: Mayor, Joseph Tombs; treasurer,
Jacob C. Anderson; assessor, Isaac z.
Heath.
Elected at Watertown: w. Mcintyre,
republican, for mayor, and Erode Hell
gard, democrat, for city judge.
Charles l.. Sheldon of Yankton has
been appointed one ofthe anniversary
speakers from the senior class of And
over Theological seminary.
The wife of George Juhster, register
OF deeds OF McHenry county, attempt
ed to poison himself by taking strych-
nine. No cause for the act is known.
The election at Mitchell, re-
suited in the defeat of Litcher by Tay-
lo1 for mayor.
The following were elected at Steele;
W. F. Steele, mayor unanimously;
aldermen, C. II. Stanley, +. Conger,
Z. C. Barkman. and NJ. c. Goodsiil;
city clerk, w. F. Cochrane; city treas
urer, III. W. Tayan; justice, C. III.
Dyer; marshal, b. Crause.
The Man-Who- Falls Flat has been
arrested for killing Jumping Elk on
Bad river. Both are residents of the
Sioux reservation.
The Hartshorn Silver Mining COM
pany has been organized at Dead
wood. Capital, S1,25o,00O. The
mines are located in the Ruby basin.
At the Ashton election the issue was
between high license and prohibition.
The ladies OF the city electioneered,
but their influence was not sufficient
to change the result of last year. The
high license ticket was elected by 80
majority, Hon. c. B. Billinghurst being
elected mayor.
Ole Aulie, who was killed near Ram
sey, Mimi, was a jeweler at Madison,
D. 7. There is no doubt he was de-
ranged, and it is rumored that a re-
cent robbery of about $50 from him
brought on his temporary insanity.
The residents of Sherbrooke, Steele
county, at a meeting adopted resolu-
tions guaranteeing the Manitoba
road the right of way through
Steele county, provided it will extend
its Hope branch in a direct line from
Hope to Sherbrooke and erect a per-
manent station in Sherbrooke.
At the city election in Mandan, Z.
C. Rice, republican, was elected mayor.
Three republican aldermen and treas
urer were elected. The democrats elect
ed the, comptroller.
Maris Taylor, surveyor general oil
Dakota, has returned from three
weeks absennei in Washington. From
conversation with the leading demo
Gratis in congress he is convinced that
the democrats will pass adivision bill
for Dakota, dividing the territory by
an east and a west line, either on the
forty-sixth degree of latitude Or on the
seventh standard parallel.
Mat Gering of Elk Point, now clerk
in one of the departments at Wash
ington, is a candidate for assistant at
torneyship of Dakota.
So far this season 200 horses have
been shipped into and sold at the
town of Clark.
At Columbia, Don c. NJ. Mckenzie,
high license candidate for mayor was
elected by a majority of 43 over the
Prohibition candidate. The MAORI.
| ty OF aldermen elected are high license.
At Bismarck, Israel p. Hunt,
Democrat, was elected mayor by a
majority of 243 over w. S. Moore
house, Republican candidate. Geo.
Reed, Democrat, on the peoples
ticket, was elected city treasurer.
Edward Barrett was elected city clerk;
c. NJ. Hunt, Republican, was elected
city justice. The total number oil
votes cast was It's.
At Fargo, Charles Scott was elected
mayor by eighty-four majority; w.
H. Barnett had a majority over both
of his opponents for city justice, while
A. T. Shotwell was elected treasurer
by 500 majority.
The Iron Hill mine, Black Hills, has
declared it's third dividend, 5 cents a
share, aggregatingS12, 500. The work,
ing of the mill has been a success, the
10 stamps having produced over
$4,000.
A Methodist colony from Dunn
county, Wis, has located near Ster.
ling Burleigh county.