The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-29
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

vicious bull while doing chores. His
father started to his assistance, hut
dropped dead of heart disease. The
boy escaped from the bull and ran to
his father. The deceased came from
Iowa in 1880, was assessor several
years and one of the best known men
IL this section.
More taxes by $50, 900 have been
paid into the Harrisonicounty treas
ury so far this year than in any pre-
vious yeaF, of its history.
Woonsoeket at present isshort on
preachers and has to depend on
neighboring towns for supplies Of
spiritual food. The clergymen are
rusticating.
During a heavy thunderstorm at
Aberdeen, Clara, eldest daughter
OF George Weed, while standing m
the open doorway, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
A farmer living neafSa Huron claims
to Aaye a. 2-year-old heller which has
never had a calf and yet gives two
gallons Of milk per day,
James Clark, a iaborer, whose he e
sin Montreal, Canada, was drowned
while in swimming in the Red river
near Grand Forks. He had Just
made a dollar bet thathe could swim
across the stream and had about
succeeded when he suddenly sank.
The people OF Bismarck are disgust
ed with the law that precludes them
from participating in the coming
election for county superintendent.
Bismarck pays hall Of the taxes and
has over half the children Of school
age in TIE county.
An armistice has been arranged be-
tween the city marshal OF Yankton
and the dogs, pending a decision by
the city attorney relative to the con-
stitutionality Of the ordinance de-
creeing the death Of all untagged
dogs.
The prisoners in the jail at Water.
town attempted anescape by cutting
the bars to a window with a saw
made from a case knife. When dis
covered one bar was cut through and
another nearly through.
Among the features OF the contem-
plated addition to the Aberdeen high
school win be an observatory which
win crown the structure at the
height Of about 80 feet, in which will
be mounted a powerful telescope for
the s OF the scholars and also
citizens in viewing the heavens or sur
rounding country, and it viii be SO
arranged that OF special occasions
observations may be made at night
as well as in the day.
A genuine case of equine homesick-
ness is reportedfrom Kimball. Some
six weeks ago Louis Richards sold a
lot OF his horses to j. o. York, and
among the number was a black that
had been owned by him half a dozen
years. No sooner had the horse
changed stables than he
began to grow sick, refused
all food, and was thoroughly
i'll, butwhen allowed to 60 free scamp.
cred back to his old stable apparent
ly as well as ever. The horse Is now
in the pasture and is gaining in flesh,
yet has not regained all that helost.
Deputy Sheriff Mckinney Of MInot
arrested one OsNeill three miles vest
Of Churches Ferry. O'NeiIl had been
employedas collectorb ya Minot firm
and disappeared with $500. Sheriff
German Of Towner county, while
hunting for a horse chief across the
line in Manitoba, found one stolen
team and the thief. He induced the
thief to ross the line, and now has
IN custody ut Canada.
The following nominations Of
.postmasters in Dakota were sent to
the senate: H. Baldwin, Park River;
wv. Morgan, Hillsboro,J j. Houtz,
Blunt, 1t is understood they were
recommended by Gov. Church.
a Sanborn county farmer is invent-
Ing a potato bug sprinkler, to be run
by horse power, and which win dose
rowG Of potatoes with Paris
green as fast as the horses can walk. /
Aberdeen wheat buyers are now
offering to contract wheat Of the
growing crop at So cents per bushel.
The farmers Of Mclean county
lain that they win show up this
with more wheat to the acre
han any county in the territory:
Another petition the county com
nissioners, asking to hs4ge local op
ion submitted to a vote of the peo-
DE, is being circulated in Yankton
The Groton artesian well, up to-
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