The Dickinson press., 1888-06-30
WEEKS NEWS IN DAKOTA
The Fargo, Grand Forks and Cooks
ton Knights Templar were banqueted at

The Fargo, Grand Forks and Cooks
ton Knights Templar were banqueted at
Winnipeg Saturday night.
Henry Hathaway has been taken to the
bismarck penitentiary from Minnewau-
kon, to serve a term Of three years for
assaulting a 9-year-old girl.
Commodore Konatz, Of P%ittsburg, has
received a franchise from the city of
Yankton to build street railways, and
will begin operations within sixty days.
The saloons at Fargo are now running
in open violence of the law, and that
without revenue to the corporation. 1t
is evident that the Dakota prohibition
law does not prohibit.
Martin Lew, claiming to represent a
New York insurance company, escaped
from the Grant county Jail with another
prisoner. He was captured near Orion
Vile, end returned to Jail. His partner
has not yet been captured.
At the meeting of the Dakota Medical
society, charges were preferred by the
secretary against DIR. j. Fl. Vanvelson,
of Yankton, asking his expulsion. He is
accused of working" the members on
various %pretenses for sums a%ggregating
over $500.
The Dakota Baptist association is
in session at Yankton.
The Aberdeen roller mills have shut
down to put in new machinery.
H. NJ. Darlington has been commits.
stoned postmaster at Fort Meade.
1t is reported in Ipswich that four large
warehouses will be built In that place
this year.
A 4-year-old son of Sheriff Elmer, OF
Steele, fell down u pair of stairs and
broke his neck.
July 2 Grand Forks will vote on the
proposition to bond for $50, 900 to build a
bridge across the raging Red.
The Brookings people have headed
their Fourth of July posters, "Patriotic,
though deprived of our rights"
The body of a female child was found
in the Pipestone river at jamestown. It
was fully developed and had evidently
been born alive.
Governor Church thinks there is not
money enough appropriated to warrant
the holding of a territorial encampment
of troops this year.
The rains in the vicinity Of Bismarck
the past week have been of inestimable
value to the growing crops, the yield
being expected to surpass that of 1859,
when it ran over forty bushels to the
acre.
The people OF Bismarck are anxious az
to who will succeed Judge Francis. 1t
was rumored Judge Spencer would re-
move to that district, but the Judge says
he will remaini in Huron. Roderick Ross,
of Yankton, will likely be appointed.
j. G. Rapellje and DR.. Williamson,
who assaulted d. f. Barry with a horse
whip at Bismarck last winter for IN al
legged SANDER on the DOCTORS wife, have
signed u retraction, which has been &C.
copied by Barry in settlement of the suit
for damages.
There is only one prisoner in the Bea-
die county Jail.
The board of education at Br bookings
will erect a $16, 00U school house this
summer.
II. 8. Brown, of Yankton, was ar
rested IN Omaha on a charge of passing
bogus checks and returned to Yankton.
The Methodists will hold a tabernacle
meeting in Canton, commencing July 10
and continuing & days, including Sunday.
The teachers of the public schools Of
Madison are arranging to give a public
school exhibition at the opera hou sc on
Tuesday evening, July 3.
The sudden rising of Whitewood and
Deadwood creeks, at Deadwood, threat
ened serious damage to property, but
the waters receded before much harm
wal done.
The Farmers alliance, of Aberdeen.
expects to handle $500, 900 worth OF
Irvine during the present saason, over
one.twelfth c. the entire binding Irvine
manufactured. Over two-thirds of this
amount has already been contracted for.
Thomas Hall, a confidence man, had
induced several farmers in the vicinity
of Yankton to sign notes, alleging they
were contracts for the sale of their
crops. They discovered the fraud. Hall
was arrested in Sioux City and compelled
to return the notes.
The musical festival at Fargo is in
progress with good attendance.
The body Of a ma was found in the
sand OF the banks of Lake Irvine, near
Church's Ferry. 1t was badly decorl-
posed and unrecognizable.
Connection will be made with the ar
tesian we'll at Andover, next week, which
will give the town first-class fire protec-
ton.
Deadwood is somewhat exercised
about the poor accommodations that
have been furnished Lawrence county
paupers.
Two boys from the country have To-
Gated in Sioux Falls and are spending
their time in filing information against
saloonkeepers.
Gunderson's gun store at Sioux Falls
has again been visited by burglars. This
is the third time within a month the
store has been robbed.
The names of the Sioux reservation
committee to obtain the consent of the
Indians will be withheld until it COM
mences work, in order, If possible, to
prevent undue influence of corporations.
There are indications of a rate war
among local soda water dealers at Yank-