The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04
WEEKS NEWS IN DAKOTA

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Mosquitoes are SO thick at Fort Lincoln
that smudges are used in the stables to
save the mules.
The citizens of Mitchell have guaranteed
$1,000 to the new Methodist university.
The building will be commenced this fall.
The farmers convention of Sphinx
county was held at Redfeld. The nomi-
nees of the PrOhibitionists for sheriff and
district attorney were endorsed.
y large two.story house arrived in
Aberdeen overland from Ipswich last
week. 1t was drawn by twenty horses
and took only two days to travel twenty
five miles.
Ground has been broken at Grand
Forks for the new $3.50, 900 hotel, to be
inclosed this fall. The building is to be
modelled after the style of the Ryan hotel
in st. Paul.
A little boy named Booth, whose pa
rents reside at DE Smet, came near being
:snffocatcd while playing in the wheat
stored in an elevator. The spout was
opened while he was at play.
Cultivated blucberries ia another Da-
kota product, John H. Miller, of Huron,
having succeeded in raising them. He
says they bear luxuriantly and demand
comparatively little attention.
A druggist of De Smet had his Compel
itor arrested three times because the
latter was not a registered pharmacist.
He, however, employed q physician to
compound prescriptions, which satisfied
the law.
United States Deputy Marshal Shat
tuck, OF Fargo, went to Casselton Thurs
day and arrested Nick Richard, Archie
Holiday and H. Free for selling liquor
without a United States license. They
were taken to Fargo.
John Durkfn, a section foreman on the
Northern Pacific road at Steele, was ia
tally injured while attempting to board
a moving train.
The residence of A. N. Washau, of
Miller, was struck by lightning and en-
tirely consumed. The family escaped
with but a slight shock.
So far in the campaign Custer county
shows up sixteen citizens who desire to
o%tliciate as sheriff, and have made their
willingness known.
&c. Hague, a boot and shoe dealer at
Aberdeen, has made ar assignment. The
failure is due to slow collections and
overstocking. Liabilities, 80, 800; assets,
$1,000.
Brookings is getting to be considerable
of q stock county. According to the as
sessor's books there are IL, 1868 head of
cattle and 5,627 horses and mules in the
county.
While returning from a berrying expe-
dition near Tilford n Mrs. Dunning was
thrown from n carriage and had one leg
broken below the knee, the ankle Joint
dislocated, and two bones of the ankle
fractured.
A sneak thief entered the dental office
OF DIR. Bradley at Washburn while the
family were at dinner, and stole a guam
tity of clothing from a trunk that be-
longed to Mrs. Bradley. Nothing else of
value was disturbed.
People at Rapid City feel rather I'M
easy in regard to the opening of the
Sioux reservation. DIR. McGillycuddy
says Sitting Bull is opposed to the open
ing, and that his influence will be pow
erful among the Indians.
Burglars cracked the safe in the city
treasurer's Office at Yankton and secured
about 5000.
Judge Rose has qualified as Judge
Francis successor. He will resign as
district attorney of Stutsman county.
A heavy wind storm demolished John
Jelenick's house, north of East Stiles,
killing the wner The storm was ac-
%companied by some hail, and wheat was
slightly injured.
z. ]. Hupdley, editor of the Huron
Herald-Den,ocrat and a member of the
committee to prepare charges against
Governor Church, is reported rs saving
nothing has been done in the matter, and
does not believe any charges will be for
wardcd.
Paul Miller was drowned in the James
river near fankton in n peculiar man
ner. He was carrying a seine rope across
the river, and when in five feet of water
he threw up his hands and fell backward.
He arose once, but was powerless and
sank before his comrades could help
him. The theory is that he was sun
struck while in the water.
Nine salconkeepers have been arrested
at Fargo for violating Judge McConnell's
Injunction. The district attorney placed
in the sheriff's charge warrants for
twenty more saloonkeepers doing bust
ness in Fargo, Hunter, Wheatland, Cas-
selten, Mapleton and other towns in the
county. From now on it will be war to
the knife against saloonmen.