New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-03
DAKOTA SIFTINGs.

Farmers in the vicinity of Huron
are saving their cornstalks by cutting
and shocking before injury by frost.
! Pringle Bros store at Grand
Forks, was burga1ized and upwards
of 5000 worth of reyolvers we're
taken.
There are now ten candidates for
the office of sheriff in Sully county
and a few more townships to hear
from.
A number of Indians from Pine
Ridge agency amused the people of
Rapid City by giving a war dance on
the street in that city.
The shooting scrape which oc-
Cured in Lookout camp, near Rapid
City, has had the effect of driving
out the only saloon in the camp.
The office of the Northern Pacific
passenger depot was burglarized at
Grand Forks, and the contents ofthe
safe stolen, amounting to over $lOO.
A farmer near Rapid City boasts
of a peach tree four feet high which
has attained it's entire growth since
last spring, when the stone was
planted.
Twelve stacks OF wheat belonging
to j. ]. Nierling, living near James
town, burned. The fire is thought to
have caught from a spark from a
hired mans pipe.
Victor Steiner, who shot and killed
William Stevenson on a Northern
Pacific train at Bismarck six weeks
ago was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary.
Edward Greeley was shot and kill
ed at Winston by L. Martin. The
deceased was originally from Floris-
SAINT, st. Louis county, Mo-, where
he, has relatives. The difficulty orig
mated over cards.
John Sweeney, a resident of St.
Paul, was shot in the left leg just be-
low the hip at house Of ill-fame at
Dickinson, and may die, as the wound
is very serious. He refuses to have
the leg amputated until hereaches ST.
Paul.
Victor Steiner, who shot fellow
passenger as the train was running
into Bismarck, pleaded guilty to
slaughter and closed his case. He
was drunk when he did the shooting
and thought he was committing a
smart prank.
The Howard Advance says a coup :
lie has been found in the western part
Of the county who are willing to be
married on the last day of the fair.
The 500 worth Of presents accounts
for the consent, doubtless.
Supt. Gage, of the Northern Pa
cific Elevator company, reported
that the aggregate wheat receipts in
the territory are considerably larger
than expected. He estimates the
yield in Cass county at six bushels
per acre.
A man named Harrison, and claim
ing to be cattle buyer, hired a team
from Porter & Stewart Of Volga, and
has not been seen or heard from since
and the superstition is that he has
decamped with the horses. The Sher-
iff is on his trail.
The prairie fires are doing some
work. One Of them destroyed 1,7OO
bushels of grain for Joseph Dietrich,
and 600 bushels for DR.. Fraser near
Bismarck. They are roaming in
every direction, and a great deal Of
No. 1 hard will go up in smoke if
there is not more precaution.
The Grand Forks fair was a mag
nifcent success. Ten thousand Wis
itors, by actual count, were on the
grounds on the last day. The terri
torial fair this year is a success, not
alone pecuniarily, but for the gigantic
impulse it has given to fine stock
breeding among our farmers.
The affairs Of the Insurance Com
pany of Dakota promise to come to
the surface through the district court
sooner than expected. j. 81. West
over, late president of the defunct
company, applied to Judge Garland
for an order restraining Receiver A.
M. Crosby from acting as receiver
pending proceeding and requiring
him to show cause. why a new receiv-
er should not be appointed.
Something khOut Stanley.