The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-05-25
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

charter OF Bismarck will be attacked
in q Forthcoming sait = the district
court. 1t arises on q sidewalk tax
case.
G. NJ. Wagner, of the Dunseith Her
aid al arrested charged withiorgery,
and when brought before the Justice
acknowledged the crime and was
remanded to the care OF the consta-
BILE. During the night he made his
escape, and is now being followed.
He is a young man, the o Of a New
York minister, and was quite promi.
nent in local political circles. 1t is
thought he went vest, and his father
had refused to give him any assist
ance, as he had been in other troubles
before.
A petrified monster about the size
of a barrel in diameter and from
twenty to forty feet in length has
been discovered neat Medicine Bluff.
on the south side OF the Missouri
river. Several soldiers from Fort
Randall. are engaged in digging out
the stone and sections OF it will be
sent east to be examined by experts.
One cablegram costing S57 for
transmission went from Yankton
recently to England. 1t covered two
pages OF cap, and the words were
written closely together.
A young gentleman at Bismarck,
Weldon Webster, has invented a type
writer that double discounts the ma
chimes in S as far as speed is con-
cerned. 1t should make eighty words
a minute in the hands OF a fair writer.
MIR. Webster has been working on it
Tor a year and filed a caveat in the
patent oficeto protect his revolution.
The old-time spirit oflawlessness has
oeen revived at sturgis. One night at.
the halfway house between the town
and the fort, a coIored damsel carved
a soldier OF the same hue as herself.
With one fell swooD she hewed him
from collar bone TO hip. He was not
killed and no arrest was made. 1t is
said that two men were shot in the
same row.
The Buckeye Cattle company OF
Rapid City sold its horses and horse
brands to Bolard & Gould, OF this
place. The price paid was $50 per
head. The number sold is net known
yet as the count has not been made.
The sale is one OF the largest stock
transactions made here this year.
Recently Warden Fullenweider, OF
the United States penitentiary at.
Sioux Falls, received a pardon from
President Cleveland for Herman Gum
ther, who was q soldier in the United
States army and was aenteneed from
Bismarck to sixty.fve days in the
penitentiary and TO pay q fine Of
$1,000 for mayhem.
The Sioux Falls nigh school has
been presented with over SIXTY maps
and charts by the interior depart.
ment. The collection is highly priced,
and viii he OF much benefit to pupils
who r posting themselves on the
United States.
Fire destroyed eleven business
places in Blum a~ggregating in vatue
$4,000 with only $4,000 insurance.
Several people narrowly escaped with
their lives. Some Of the business men
are nearly destitute, but all will re-
sumo. The Hughes County Bank, a.
millinery store, two butcher shops, a.
confectionery, livery stable and a law
Office are amongthe buildings destroy
ed.
Planting the first tree in a new
country is not usually made an event
OF much Importance, but the iSew
Englanders OF H~ettineer county have
thought it worth while to record the
TACT chat the first tree was planted
on the 10Th OF April.
Mrs. Richard Higgins. who vas al
ficted by the death OF her husband in
Aberdeen during the last days Of
April, andthen again by the death ola
young o a week OF so later, received
a letter Monday night baaring the sad
intelligence OF the death of her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs, r. S. Raw.
don. or che same day at their home
in Darlington, Lafayette county. Wis.
Minot has 4 citizen John Hyatt by
name, a man Of some 20 years OF age.
who has never had q tooth, none ever
having grown. But has q set of gums
that are almost as hard as a stone.
lie says that he can eat anything, and
while in the army he had no difficulty
in getting away With the bareback.
The Sioux Falls vinegar and pick.
ling works have secured cucumber
seeds and these they are going to dis
tribute among the farmers and then
enter into contract with them for d
cumbers. 1t ia tine intention to put up
several hundred barrels Of pickles
this fall. and the price to be paid for
cucumbers viii make it d big induce.
ment tor farmers to engage in this
business.
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