The Dickinson press., 1889-04-06
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA.

plant III q lew days.
= daily morning paper is to be started
at Devils Lake April 10.
II. E. johnson has purchased The
WATERFOWL Courier-News.
w. II. Mitchell, of Mimic, is compiling
a history OF Walsh county.
Prairie fires did great damage in the
vicinity of Scotland and Harlem.
North Dakota will enter the Union
with an Indebtedness of $3.50, 900.
The next &. A. r. encampment for
South Dakota will be held at Sioux Falls.
Work on the Black Hills college at
Hot Springs will be commenced at once.
X. S. Person, formerly of The Woon.
socket News, has bought The Howard
Press.
fralrie fires destroyed barns, hay and
grain ronnd Huron and Chamberlain.
last Friday.
Public Examiner Z S. Tyler, of Fargo,
nor Melette.
The attempt to nov the signal service
station from Yankton to Sioux Falls has
LOl succeeded.
Three Chamberlain s%aloonkeepers will
explain to the grand jury why they kept
open Sunday. %
Grand Forks business men are organ.
!zlng to push the city's commercial and
industrial interests.
The Dakota Grand Army numbers
oven 5000 men-about 500 in North Da-
kota, 2,400 in South.
Citizens of Pierre have resolved to
bond the city in the sum of SGT, 900 to
erect school buildings.
The Fargo Republican saws the Cass
county saloons must keep out of politics
or go out of existence.
The work of districting North and
South Dakota for the constitutional con.
ventlon is in progress at Bismarck.
The proposition to build the Missouri
Pacific railroad from Omaha to Huron
meets with public favor in the latter
city.
Gen. Greeley a v the Yankton signal
Office will not be removed to Sioux ('ity.
lni: HAT another office will be established
there.
y fire was set out in the cemetery near
Elk Point recently, and as a result MANY
headstrnes and monuments were almost
ruined.
The q. "A. r. encamplnent at Aber-
deem last week was the largest attended
gathering of the kind ever known in
Dakota.
Frank Thulen, who shot and killed
John ID. Clark in Minncola last August.
was acquitted in the district court at
D.aIwool.
Hon. ID. f. Rogers, of .tlfera, wants
the Huron land Office. He has gone to
"ssh!u","n 10 see what the President
thinks about it.
Prairie tires have done great damage
to hay and stock sheds in South Dakota
last week. Several dwellings aud barns
We're also burned.
a residence of one year TO the terri
tory, sin months in the county and sixty
days i'm the precinct is now required to
make legal voter.
Judge Edgerton. of South Dakota saws
he doesn't want to be a supreme Judge.
He would rather take chances on the
United states se%natorship.
The Milwaukee railway will build into
Huron as soon as possible. Only eleven
miles of track will have to be built to
bring the line into that city.
John l.. Casllel. of Grafton. is among
the early candidates for state office in
North Dakota. He wants to he treasurer
of the new state and they say" he will
get there.
\ e-ycar-old son of City ATTORNEY
O'kecfc. of Grand Forks, got a small
phial of c~hlorodyne and swallowed a big
dose. His stomach was paralyzed, but
it will probably recover.
Zina Richey and w. b. Valentine. of
Nankton. j. NJ. Talcott. of Elk Point. G.,
w. Snow. of Springfield and o. 2. Dahl,
OF Sioux Falls, are the trustees of the
Nantt"n asylum, appointed by Governor
Mellette.
Tie appeal of John E. Adams against
the county commissioners of Brown
county has been dismissed by the United
States supreme court. This decision
tnkes the county seat from Aberdeen and
gives i back y Colupbia. ,a.
friday 4, russian jew was brought BE-
fote.R justice at Grand Forks, charged
with starving his horse to death. When
found the animal had eaten several
boards Off its manSer in its efforts to live.
1t had been tied several DAYS without
food.
An inquest over the remains of Lars
Larson. of Lagrace. appeared to have
been murdered by Iialvor Halvorson,
Ole Peterson and Peder Holden. his
%neighbors, resulted in a verdict of death
by drink, and the defendants were dis
charged.
Some Dakota farmers are noted for
thrift. One of the citizens of Caledonia
sold his farm of 1G0 acres to three differ.
ent parties during the last three davs,
and also rented it to three different par
ties. The courts are inquiring as to
whether the thing can be done in Da-
kota.
Richard bowel was convicted of the
murder of John r. Weston and his son
at Weston. w. Va. and sentenced to be
hanged thirteen years ago. He escaped.
however. OF Oct. o. 1876. He was cap
chief of police. Dowell will be turned
over to West Virginia authorities as
soon rs the reward of 800 offered at the
time of his escape is paid over.
Under the Sioux Falls constitution
there will be three different elections.
The first will he the vote on the tempo
rary location of the capital. This will
be taken in October. on the final ratiti-
cation of the constitution. The town
which gets the largest number of votes
will be the temporary capital. At its
first session the state legislature is re-
ql,ired to submit to the people at the
next general election the question of
permanent location of the capital.
Should NO own receive a majority of all
the votes cast. then at the next general
election the governor shall cause another
vote to be taken. but only the two places
receiving the highest number of votes
shall enter into competition. 1t may
take fnllr NearS to settle dAtinitaly tl,a