New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-27
DAKOTA JOTTINGS.

4 DullHSS UHe pdSGl lOuF years Mlnne-
1 haha county has paid into the terri
q torial treasury for taxes $4S, 269.37.
/ The committee who have in charge
the matter of raising funds for the
rebuilding Of the university atMitch-
s ell report excellent success.
The police at Sioux Falls have no
titled all saloonkeepers not to al
low minors to frequent their places
{ of business.
4 There are but three cases of scarlet
fever at Bismarck and the board OF
education have decided not to close
/ the schools.
c. c. Holland, of the Frederick
Free Press, has disposed of his entire
interest therein to W. E. Hicks, who
assumed control.
Five House bills were recommended
to pass. Among them were the bills
j to permit keeping billiard and pool
tables in saloons.
1t is estimated that there are fully
/ 200 persons engaged in horse breed
ing in the Black Hills, and they have
now on the range fully 10000
horses.
1t isreported that over fifty young
men at Watertown have quit using
tobacco as result Of Rev. P. E..
Hops caustic sermon on that sub
ject.
/ A large brick building is soon to
be erected at Salem. The ground
i1oor will be occupied by the Citizens
bank and the second floor will be ar
ranged for Masonic hall.
A correspondent says that rents
are higher in Miller than in Kansas
City, and some building must be
done soon or the people will have to
live in TENTS
The number of young men at Dead
wood who are conspicuous for their
habits of idleness has become so
large that the authorities are hustline
them out oftown.
Careful investigation shows That the
rumors regarding the financial status
of the Sioux Falls penitentiary were
set afoat by some of the anti-Church
Democrats of the city.
Inasmuch as Sioux Falls has no
police or fire alarm service it is pro-
posed to furnish the night clerk of
the Cataract house with a police
whistle and to that place all alarms
can be telephoned.
The Iroquois alliance will hold a
meeting on the 22d inst, at which
the county purchaser will be present
and take orders for the machinery
and give prices at which the same
can be bought.
Another attempt was made at
Gary to burn the town, but the work
OF the fiend was discovered in time to
prevent serious damage. The citi-
zens are thoroughly aroused and
every means will be used to bring the
culprit to justice.
John Wilson, one ofthe Homestead
train robbers, who turned states evil
dence and pleaded guilty, escaped
! from Deadwood. He picked the pad
lock on the cell door and then escaped
from the building by jumping from a
second-story window. Aposse is out
/, hunting for him.
The Rapid City Journalsays: "The
legal fraternity of this city is waxing
wroth at the very unsatisfactory con-
dition of the large and constantly in
creasing court business in this county.
4 1t is now almost a year since term
4 OF the district court has been held in
Rapid City and the docket FULL
The trustees of the University of
i North Dakota at Grand Forks have
4 decided to close the institution for a
few weeks on account OF the breaking
out ofdiphtheria among the students.
The plumbing is to be thoroughly
/ overhauled and the buildings will be
idisinfected by Immigration from top
Ito bottom.
The county commissioners and the
district attorney, M. thomson, are
at war at Michigan City, the commits
sioners sought to issue bonds for
seed wheat in conformity with the
1.new1 law, but it appears that the
1 county is already bonded to the full
amount allowed, 4 per cent of the
valuation
i oldfeld, the boy arrested at Nor.
ton and brought to Watertown of
the charge of robbing the gambler
4 Dutchy of $500, acknowledged the