New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-23
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

cuisines in the Custer City jail, charged
| with killing Stansbury Arthur at that
place some months ago.
The constitutionality of the city
charter of Bismarck will be attacked
| IN a Forthcoming suit IN the district
court. 1t arises on a sidewalk tax
/ case.
g. NJ. Wagner, Of the Dunseith Her
| aid was arrested charged with forgery,
and when brought before the Justice
acknowledged the crime and was
remanded to the care of the consta-
BILE. During the night he made his
escape, and is now being followed.
| lie IS a young man, the son Of a New
| York minister, and was quite promi-
nent IN local political circles. 1t is
| thought he went west, and his father
had refused to give him any assist
ance, as he had been in other troubles
before.
| A petrified monster about the size
OF a barrel i'll diameter and from
twenty to forty feet in length has
been discovered neal Medicine Bluff
on the south side of the Missouri
1 river. Several soldiers from Fort
/ Randall are engaged in digging out
the stone and sections Of it will be
sent east to be examined by experts.
One cablegram costing s57 for
transmission went from Yankton
recently to England. 1t covered two
pages OF cap, and the words were
written closely together.
/ A young gentleman at Bismarck.
Weldon Webster, has invented a type
writer that double discounts the ma
chimes in use as far as speed is con-
cerned. 1t should make eighty words
minute IN the hands OF a fair writer
Mr.. Webster has been working on it
Tor a year and filed a caveat in the
patent office to protect his revolution.
The old-time spirit oflawIessness has
been revived at sturgis. One night at
the halfway house between the town
and the fort, a colored damsel carved
a soldier Of the same hue as herself.
With one fell sWoop she hewed him
from collar bone to hip. He was not
killed and no arrest was made. 1t is
said that two men We're shot in the
same row.
The Buckeye Cattle company OF
Rapid City sold it's horses and horse
brands to Bolard & Gould, OF this
place. The price paid was $50 per
head. The number sold is not known
yet as the count has not been made.
The sale IS one Of the largest stock
transactions made here this year.
Recently Warden Fullenweider. o.
the United States penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, received a pardon from
President Cleveland for Herman Gun
Their who was q soldier in the United
States army and was sentenced from
Bismarck to sixty-6ve days in the
penltentiary and to pay a fine of
! $1,000 for mayhem.
The Sioux Falls high school has
been presented with over sixty maps
and charts by the interior depart
ment. The collection is highly priced,
| and will be OF much benefit to pupils
who are posting themselves on the
! United States.
Fire destroyed eleven business
places in Blunt aggregating in value
$4,000 with only $4,000 insurance.
Several people mario WY escaped with
their lives. Some OF the business men
are nearly destitute, but all will re-
sumo. The Hughes County Bank, a
millinery store. two butcher shops, a.
confectionery, livery stable and a law
office are among the buildings destroy
ed.
Planting the first tree in a new
country is not usually made an event
OF much Importance, but the New
Englanders OF Hettlnger county have
thought it worth while to record the
fact that the first tree. was planted
on the 10Th Of April.
Mrs. Richard Higgins, who was al
flicted by the death Of her husband in
Aberdeen during the last days of
April, and then again by the death OF a
young son week or so later, received
a letter Monday night bearing the sad
intelligence Of the death other father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs, r. S. Raw.
don, on the same day. at their home
IN Darlington, Lafayette county, Wis.
Minot has acitizen, John Hyatt by
name, a man ofsome 20 years of age,
who has never had a tooth, none ever
having grown. But has a set of gums
that are almost as hard as a stone.
He says that he can eat anything, and
while in the army he had no difficulty
in getting away with the hardtack.
The Sioux Falls vinegar and pick.
ling works have secured cucumber
seeds and these they are going to dis
tribute among the farmers and then
enter into contract with them for GU
cumbers. 1t is the intention to put up
several hundred barrels OF pickles
this fall, and the price to be paid for
/ ~, ON M Iorc will N, n I,c, ~ = NJ,