New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-07
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

at bismarck with -. e. Goodkind,
president; G. B. Little, treasurer:
Gerald Pierce, secretary and manager.
Capital stock, $4,000.
Orderly Sergeant Ward Williams, OF
Company 81, Waterton, Dakota, Ma
tionaI Guards. now holds the gold
medal offered by his company for
the best drilled man in the company.
he having won the same in three
trials.
At Pierre Adam Geiger's place was
raided by the prohlbitionists on a
search warrant. The house was taken
IL charge, and the whisky seized.
One more victim OF the recent biz
card died at De Smet. 1t was Guy
stearns, the boy whose terrible suffer.
lngs were described in the papers, and
his death was the result Of the ampu-
tation of his frozen limbs.
Charles Gray,a former deputy Unit
ed States marshal, was brought to
Fargo, from Minot, charged with &C
cepting bride from a liquor dealer,
Tor whom he had a warrant, and let
ting the man escape. He is an old cit
izen OF Fargo.
Three thousand bushels OF barley
stored on the third floor in the Sioux
Falls brewery building was precipi-
tated to the ground by the giving away
OF the top floor. All the floors IN
that part OF the building were wreck
ed by the accident, entailing loss to
the brewery company OF nearly ST.
600.
q. d. Green, q lumber merchant Of
Fargo, was in a caboose at Wadena
on his way to Brainerd, when a freight
car was switched violently into the.
caboose, throwing Mr.. Green upon q
red-hot stove, which was upset and
fell upon his leg. He was quite badly
burned.
A company composed of business
men OF Aberdeen has been organized
to secure the right Of way for g. new
road to the southeastern part Of the
territory. Many OF the gentlemen in
! terested are connected with the Alb
erdeen & Fergus Falls company.
| which secured the Manitoba road for
that city.
Redfeld Special: The saloon test
case, the county against William
O'Connell, relating to the validity Of
city licenses, was decided in favor of
the county by Judge Spencer, and a
restraining order served on the de-
PENDANT. The saloons here are all
closed and the legal sale of liquor in
Sphinx county is ended.
Fargo Special: Deputy United
States Marshal Shattuck returned re-
Gently from a trip to Ransom coun-
ty, where he went to arrest several
parties for cutting timber on the
school lands. Marshal Shattuck ar
rested Andrew Johnson, Chris E.
Johnson, Alex G. Swegtem, and Ed
ward Lirch. They are in jail here.
At Gladstone large meeting Of
farmers and citizens, to consider a
cheese factory plan, was held. A COM
mittes was appointed to contract
With a manufacturer, who will build
and equip a factory for 81, 500, to be
ready for business June /.
The Ashton Gas and Fuel company
has been prospecting for natural gas.
A heavy flow was struck at a depth OF
100 feet. The flame burns steadily
from q threeinch hole and rises to a.
height Of four feet. Coal has also been
struck in the same place, but the
thickness OF the vein is not yet known.
Papers were filed at Ashton for the
arrest of a farmer named Page, who
secured 800 of the $4,000 bushels of
seed wheat loaned by the Milwaukee
company to farmers. Page, though
now III fair circumstances, refuses to
return the wheat and is said to have
given crop mortgage before getting
the wheat. The complaint is made
by the agent of the company, and it
is said that this will be a test case.
A wonderful lunar display was OBJ
served at Aberdeen between $50 and
7:45 the evening OF the 25th. A halo
surrounded the moon with a we'll de-
fined circle marking it's outer rim. A
line OF well defined light, parallel with
the horizon, at a height of about 45
deg, encircled the heavens, intersect-
ing the rim OF the ring Of halo at it's
diameter, and ending there in two
brilliant rainbow spots or "dogs."
It's period OF greatest brilliancy was
reached about 7:15 after which it
gradually faded, disappearing wholly
at 7:45. The phenomenon excited
great interest here, and old Dakotians
say that q similar display isunknown
to the region.
White Lake paid the contractors
So, $50 for its artesian we'll.
DR.. Elizabeth Orr was before a
Deadwood justice, trying to explain
why she was practicing medicine with
out a license.
The latest from the horrid coal
stove comes from Winifred. Maggie
TheopiIus, 16 years old, was staying