The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-20
DAKOTA GONDENSEO ITEMS.

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Christian J. Blatt, a farmer OF Millevipe,
Minnesota, was shot dead while on d NOV.
ing machine, it is supposed by a man With
whom be had a land dispute.
While four men were building 4 barn On
the farm OF T. /. L.athrop, near Sioux
Falls, the scaiiolding gave way and precip.
itated the men to the ground, a distance
OF 2S feet. Eric Erickson will die Oh his
injuries, Jonas Carlson was badly bruised,
but the Others escaped injury.
Miss Carrie J.aBartlett, Of Sioux Falls,
preached two excellent sermons, at Huron
on Sunday, for the Unity circle.
Secretary Bushnell Of the Dakota Board
OF Agriculture is in receipt OF a letter from
General Passenger Agent Carpenter OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railway.
advising him that seven excursion trains
will be run daily over that road during the
fair in Mitchell in September.
Great excitement is manifested At Har-
old. over the discovery OF Gil in the arte.
sian well. For three days the men had
been boring in a stratum Of gas, and
about three quarts OF crude oil were
brought up. An expert oil man from
Pennsylvania says that there is every in.
dication OF an oil well.
H. Lathrop, the owner OF the Keyes
creamery, at Sioux Falls, has become dis.
gusted with that portion OF the territorial
sphere, and has betaken himself unceremo
niously to parts unknown, leaving many
disconsolate creditors to mourn his loss.
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are out about $40, 600, which he took
with him.
The Northwestern depot at Aberdeen
was entered Monday sight BY persons
bent on robbery and but for the Office
safe, which resisted the apparent clumsy
implements Of the thieves, the raid would
have been Il productive one. The bur.
glars demolished a window aad let them.
selves in. After tampering with the sale
and ransacking the ticket case, they pro.
Ceeded into the baggage room as a last
resort. Here several trunks were broken
into and their contents scattered over the
floor. Another trunk was found a few
rods east OF the depot IN a demoralized
condition, and evidently articles OF APP
parel had been distracted, though the
loss, OF course, Is not known. Several
tramps,. who had hung around the depot
for several days previous. are suspected OF
the burglary. During the day the theory
was advanced that the FIRE Monday even.
ing was closely connected with the at
tempted raid at the depot. To FIRE the
town and then ply the burglars trade
may have been the programme marked
out and it behooves the officers and the
citizens to be alive to the evidently nu-
merous agents OF darkness which surround
the city.-The News.
Frank e Newton. Of Henry, who pleaded
guilty to an indictment for the forgery OF
mortgages and was sentenced to three
years in the territorial penitentiary recent
Nv, was found dead in bed in his cell in the
county jail. 1t is thought to be a case OF
suicide.
The SPHINX County Prohibitiouists have
placed the following ticket in nomination:
r. b. Hassell Of RedHeld, for county attor.
ney; George Bayer, Of Ashton, for treasur-
or, and w. d. Craig Of Frankfort, Tor sher.
if. Resolutions we're passed ~pronouncing
strongly in favor OF continued prohibition
and demands the officers to properly exc
cute the law,
Mr.. =. H. Tenant, living near Huron.
sold a carload Of hogs in The St. Paul
market recently for $50 per hundred
above all expense. e
Atra mp, near Howard, assaulted q farm
er's wife after she had given him some
tEing to eat, but she managed to get out Of
the house, and the brute following, she
picked up a stone and struck him between
the eyes, and knocked him insensible.
Mitchell Vincent has just returned to
Sioux Falls from Chicago and reports
that the Illinois Central officials informed
him that the first railroad building that
road would do ia Dakota would be from
Sioux Falls to Mitchell. 1t depends a
great deal on the success Of the commits
sion to secure the opening Of the reserva-
ton, as the Illinois Central intends to
cross to the Black Hills immediately.