The Dickinson press., 1889-05-25
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA.

Over 800 pupils are enrolled in Can
toms public schools.
Work on the electric motor line at
W:tertown has begun.
Grand Forks business men want whole
sale houses established there.
Fifty dogs were killed at Webster,
after having been bitten by a mad dog.
Chauncy NJ. Depew will be invited to
crate at Bismark on the Fourth of July.
The late gold discoveries in the Black
Hills seem to be of considerable import
ance.
About $4,000 will be given in prizes at
the tireman's tournament to be held at
Yankton in June.
The chairo astronomy in Yankton
college has been rendered to President
McLouth of Brookings college.
Reports from North Dakota indicate
that the damage lone by the recent
winds has been greatly over estimated.
The stock has all been subscribed for
h epurpose of building a 81 1000. 900 pack
ing house and stock yards at Sioux
Falls.
Fred Falley. of the Wahpeton Globe,
has bought the Minor Teller. He owned
it several years ago, before he went to
Wahpeton.
AT Sioux Falls the police made a raid
Oh. a tramps' hang-out and captured
twenty one, who have been sentenced to
the chain gang.
Bob Minor, wanted at Greeley, Kan,
for murder, was shot and killed at Oil
Creek, nea Deadwood, by an officer
while resisting arrest.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: With a few
more cyclones in the East the press of
that region will quit making faces at
1.-THE cyclone regions of Dakota"
Professor A. w. Ward. of Kimball,
made a very daring balloon ascension
and performed upon the trapese bar
while half a mile above the earth
Hon. John Murphy, appointed by
President Harrison United States dis
trict attorney for Dakota, has held the
position of assistant for several years.
The postoffice at Clark was en-
tered by burglars last week who OBJ
tanned a few dollars in nickles and PEN
mics but missed three hundred dollars in
the safe. 1t We evidently the work of
noTices.
Gov. Meilette, of Dakota, appointed
the following old soldiers members of
the board of trustees of the soldiers
home at Hot Springs: Gen. Hammond.
of Ashton: j.. j. Kleiner, of Pierre; L,
A. Bones, of Webster.
p. r. Ruggles, of Webster, has re-
ceived the appointment of custodian of
the government property at the aban-
doned Fort Sisseton military post. He
has $500, 600 worth of buildings besides
other property to look after.
The New Orleans exposition exhibit
given to the university of North Da-
kota, has been received at Grand Forks.
1t consists of COWS. elks, bear, mountain
sheep, deer, quartz and ores of every de-
scription, Indian curfosities, relics and
petritied wood.
The convicts at the Bismarck pen.
itentiary are doing some excellent farm
ing on the grounds east of the building.
Aside from the vegetables and cereals
they harvest, they have a number of fine
pigs and raise all the pork consumed at
the institution.
Milbank citizens propose to organize a
company for the purpose of constructing
a line from Milbank south to Egan or
Flandrau, filling the missing link in a
direct line from Sioux City, Yankton and
Sioux Falls, with the expectation that
the Milwaukee will operate it.
AT the jamestown encampment of
Sons of Veterans it was resolved to
divide and officers were elected for North
and South Dakota. Division Inspector
Worden's report showed t%wenty-nine
camps in good standing. The member
ship in this district is about 800. The
encampment next year will be held at
Lisbon for North Dakota, and between
Miller and st. Lawrence for South
Dakota.
Scrip cases. which affect several town
sites i'll the Northwest, including Devils
Lake and Winona. N. D., and GIendive,
Mont, will be reviewed before the secre-
tary of the interior June II. The Gull
ford-Miller case, which has been pending
since 1885, has been set for a hearing
June 10. The point involved is whether
there was any authority t o withdraw
from settlement and entry lands in the
indemnity limit of the grant to the
Northern Pacific road. Secretary Villas
held that the granting act prohibited a
Withdrawal and that previous rulings
OF the department withdrawing indem-
Lity lands were void. Secretary Noble
grants a ~rehearing, which is a partial
victory for the road.
Wonlerful por3s