The Dickinson press., 1888-11-17
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA

Sioux Falls will have an $50, 900 court
house.
The wheat thief is abroad in the vicin-
ity of Aberdeen.
Local option was defeated at Huron by
about 500 votes.
The bazaar of nations at Aberdeen
netted nearly 5000.
The contract for an artesian well at
Scotland has been let. 1t will cost 81
per foot.
An eight-inch vein of Ignite has been
discovered by Rapid City parties in the
reservation limits.
Flowing wells are near the surface at
Memo. y depth of 165 feet sutiiced t..
open a good one on a farm near that city.
1t has been resolved by the trustees of
Tankton college to add a theological de-
partment. DIR. Duryea, of Bus IL. will
be offered the new chair.
Rapid City Republican says the vol
unte of money in circulation throughout
the Hills is larger. business is healthier,
bank statements are more satisfactory
and there is less p~inching and turning
and contriv!ng to make 81 do the work
of $50 than for many a day.
According TO the Yankton Press the In
dian school at Pierre will soon become
a fixed fact. The government has al
ready made an appropriation of S25 ,0OC
to begin the buildings. and it is thought
that 500, 900 will be set aside for the
same purpose in the near future. The
plan is to establish at Pierre an indus
trial school for the entire Sioux nation.
The county debt of Aurora county in
round numbers is $500
Deer are said to be quite plentiful in
the vicinity of Rapid City.
The county commissioners of Beadle
county have accepted the mason work on
the almshouse.
c. w. Shatto fatally shot Richard Nc
Nabb, near Milbank. McNabb made a
murderous assault upon Shatto, firing
several shots at him.
DIR. A. j. Dickinson, of Huron, com.
mitted suicide Saturday by severing his
carotid artery with a knife. He had
been sick for two years.
Huron's board of education has pur.
chased a philosophical and chemical ap.
paratus at a cost of about 5000. 1t will
be used in the high school.
Crow Walker, a Sioux Indian, who
pleaded guilty to the charge of burglar.
izing the post trader store at Lower
Brule agency, has been sentenced to one
year in the territorial penitentiary.
The citizens of Rapid City have re.
buried the remains of j. w. Patterson,
George w. Jones. John Urquhart and
Thomas Pendleton, who were murdered
in the limits of the city Aug. %, 1876, by
Indians.
The Congregational college fair al
Huron, put nearly 81 800 into the treas
ury of that institution, and besides there
is over $500 worth Of machinery vet I'M
sold. The college took about $500 worth
of musical Instruments, printing, mate
rial. furniture, ETC., for its own use out
of the donations.
A. G. Gordon, of Grand Forks, has
been bound over to the grand jury fo1
illegal voting.
The liquor license at Grand Forks has
been placed at 81 1000 and no bondsmen
connected with the liquor business will
be accepted.
The house of j. H. Daily and it's con.
tents, nine miles northwest of La Grace,
were destroyed by fire. Over 81 1000 in
money was in the house, but 81, 800 was
gold and silver and was found in the
ruins. The loss is about 81, 900.
The %coroner's jury, at Yankton, afte,
three weeks investigation of the causes
of the death of &. N. Thompson and
Jacob Lee. killed by falling walls at the
insane asylum, returned a sealed verdict
which has been placed in the hands OF
the district attorney.
a new p~ostoflice has been established
Christopher Dover as postmaster. The
office at Compton. Fall River county
will be discontinued Nov. 30 because nc
one wants it. The office at Scoville
Ransom county. has been moved one
mile west and Mrs. Carrie A. Foster be
comes postmistress in place of Jonathan
Watkins.
White Lake has nearly completed lay:
ing of water mains.
Egan county is suffering from an I'm
usual amount of sickness.
The Deadwood land office took il
eighty-one homestead patents last Tues
day.
There have been $50 residences ant
business buildings erected in Madison
this year..
Prairie fires have again been raging il
the vicinity Of Huron and Aberdeen tn,
past week.
A. B. Anderson, a wealthy farmer liv
! ing south of Gary, got his hand in a fec
mill, Amputation will be necessary.
Citizens of Madison intend to give tn
local option law a thorough trial, an or
ganization having been effected witt
that purpose in view.
Ex-Attorney General Templeton DUAL
flied before Judge Mcconnell at Fargo
as judge of the new Grand Forks Judi
cial district.
Hon. j. NJ. Thurston, of Omaha, ha
agreed to lecture before the students o
the university of Dakota, at Nermillion
A date has not been fixed.
D. w. Kean, inspector. and B. Pattec
contractor, have been arrested. charge,
with being responsible for the death o
Thompson and Lee at the Yanktol
asylum.
a live beaver. caught on the Jame
river, was purchased by some enthusias
tic Republican and expressed to Presi
dent-elect Ben Harrison. With the com
pliments of the city Of Rediield.
A NEEN