Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-08-02
DAKOTA NEWS NOT

clares tiitit Lhe weeds must gD. 8.
threatens to make it expensive
parties who neglect to keen !,
premises in good condition
Last April G. H. Hunt OF pits,ss.,
Mass, shipped a car load of H.,
twenty sets of harness aud twn
ons from st. Louis, No, TO Dra,t s.
Dakota, IN charge of William {,
lace of PeInbina, to dispose IL
advantage and remit the proeas.ss / .
Hunt. Wallace disposed of In
fit, turned over only 5000. paw.
wife 500 and is now In Mans,
A telegram from Mr.. Hunt ~ 4
chief of police at Winnipeg was
late to catch him there.
Aberdeen has footpad and ha :.
rash enough to hold up the secres..
Of the Y. NJ c. A Of that place
didn't get money, but reoe;yss
thump on the head from the ea,s
the secretary.
United states Marshal D. Marafk
brought to Yankton E. II. and 4 3
Jacobs, president and cashier ~,
lively of the National Bank Of MAJ
son, Lake county, who were arr,,,4,.,
on a charge of falsifying aceo,,.
with intent to defraud d.rsss
tors. The defendants waiysf :
animation before the eou,miss;oa.s
and were held to answer In sane5
bonds, which were furnished. tn
bank was closed sometime lgo X
the public examiner, who il al, =
have found evidences of large caoa;
/ edness.
The news ofthepassage Dycong,...
of the bill dividing the Fifth jndf;,I
district and giving two Judges xa1
seats at Aberdeen and Huron 4.
received with great Satisfaction :.
business and private interests hass
suffered greatly from lack of adeoua,.
| courts.
At the recent meeting Of the board
of county commissioners at Milbapt
very large petition was pressp,sl
asking to have the question a n
sale of intoxicating liquors suhms
ted to vote next fall, and the bts,rl
granted the prayer.
The hail storm which passed ove.
Sioux Fails covered only narrox
belt of country. 1t did not exs.sa
beyond the western limits of the ejtv
and was only about a quarter of
mile wide. The Baptist eolle.,ey.a
four-story building, suffered the a
struction of every light Of glass IN
the north side. Other buildings h
in the track of the hail sustaipa
similar losses.
Barney Finnegan, sixty years old
was found dead in the bushes lea,
the james river at jamestown
Intoxication, exposure and stary.
alton are thought to have caused hi
death.
A young man named Oliver Bah
cock attempted suicide at Lakota Is
stabbing himself in the peek and
breast with a jack knife. ThewounA
are not fatal. The authorities haye
telegIaphed to his relatives in Msus
ton, Wis.
DIR. S. J. Hill, of Fargo, recovered
ais valuable dental instruments thet
were stolen from his Office ssns
weeks ago. They had been sold 10
the Minneapolis Dental Manufst
uring company by u man who
claimed to have just retired from
practice in town. A member of The
| firm being In the city, and har;z
learned OF DIR. Hills loss called upaa
him, and the instruments were easily
identified.
The report that pieuro-pneumonis
had broken out among the cattle IN
the vicinity of Sioux Falls is contra-
dicted by w. ID. Stiles, clerk of The
district court, upon whose alleged
authority the report was based
ID. Alloway, territorial veterinarian,
declared that pleuro-pneunonia
never existed in Dakota.
Over three thousand Indians are at
Cheyenne agency, Fort Bennett, par
suant TO the orders of the Indian
agent, waiting the arrival of The
Sioux Indian commission. 1t is nci
known definitely when the commis
sion will arrive. The Indians may
remain in camp at Fort Bennett from
now until negotiations are over. The
disposition among the Indiansnow IS
not to sign a treaty, but bestinfonn-
ed men say it is a ruse of the Indians
to create an expression ofhostilityto
"a measure that they may extract
presents, feasts, etc, afterwhich they
viii all sign to q Inan.
4 meeting of mille-s was held at
Fargo to organize millers' associa-
ton. The following cities and towns
were represented: Fargo, Grand
Forks, DEVILS Lake, Mimic, Mayyille
0riska, Valley City, Bismarck and
Mandan, and Soorhead and Fergus
Falls, Mimi. 1t was decided to or
ganiZe an association to be known
as the North Dakota Millers and 70
be governed as far as practicable BY
the rules governing the national mn.
ers.
President Jocelvne, of the Water
town moter line, returned from De
troit, Mich, where he has completes
the purchase of the necessaryiron for
the line. An increased force will 30
put at work on the line Immediately.
The Watertown contractors petl-
toned the city council for a SIX
month extension of time in which 70
complete it. The council adjournei
without actingupon the petition.
Molhe Mccormack daughter Of Sec.
rotary Mccormack, turned the tirst
sod at Fargo, for the magnifieenil
$50, 900 hotel, which win be entioSesl
this fall, according to the plans. Inc
building will be u miniature Ryan.
The dimensions are 125x12 % feet aa
five stories above the basement.
A prairie fire in Sully countyruinea
\ n lnrpp nnornf nf hay Land for tn: