Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-06-07
THE News s.
Territorial.

Territorial.
PARKER has organized cavalry COM
pany.
The motor line at Sioux Falls has been
ironed to Fourteenth street.
GRAND FORKS wants the free delivery
SYSTEM and she ought to have 1t.
WI. HAYES of Cleveland, Ohio, paid
$3.50 premium for Sc, 1000 of Pierre bonds.
BIS. Jackson, general merchandise, of
Cavour, has assigned to Banker Vansaun.
The Mandan creamery claims to be
making over 1900 pounds of butter
week.
PIERRE reports that 24-hour rain on
Tuesday insures to that locality boun-
teous crop.
81. E. HAHN, an Elkton wheat buyer,
was held up for $3.50 the other night by
unknown parties.
w. H. FORD, captain of the Jamestown
company 81, d. N. G., has been promoted
to major of the army.
CAPT. VAN ETTEN is travelling over
South Dakota like a whirlwind in the pro-
hibition campaign. He speaks in two
places on Decoration day.
Hon. T. D. LAUANsE the new warden,
has taken charge of the Sioux Falls peni-
tentiary. He succeeds a mighty good
man, if he is a demOcrat-Dan Glidden.
IT is announced by the Watertown Pub
lie Opinion that Hon. G. G.. Williams is
socn to be appointed register of the Wat
ertown land Office to succeed NJ. w.
Sheafe.
In to-night's dispatches Delegate Mat
thews denies the reports sent out from
Washington regarding the Columbia post
Office matter and thus another good SEN
sation is spoiled.
FERDINAND ENGELRE, ST., was bound
over in $500 bail at Blunt to appear before
the grand jury. One son was fined $50 and
imprisoned thirty days, and third one is
on trial for larceny.
The county commissioners of Stutsman
county have fixed the liquor license at $500.
This makes the total license in Jamestown
$16OO after July l. This will amount to
almost absolute prohibition.
T. A. KINGsBURY of Watertown, well
known all over Dakota, died on Friday
last. Mr.. Kingsbury was chief clerk of
the council two years ago, and held a sim
liar position III several previous sessions.
The management of the Sioux Falls
Fourth of July celebration has contracted
with Mons. Leroy, the aeronaut, to give an
ascension in that city on that day, and
5000 feet
APARDoN was received at Sioux Falls
from Governor Mellette for Amos B.
Mitchell, of Codington county, who was
sentenced in September, 1887, to ten years
imprisonment for rape. Mitchell is Is
years old and very decrepit and feeble and
can live but short time.
Col. NJ. w. SHEAFE, commanding the
Second regiment, Dakota National Guard,
has appointed DR.. H. s. Seavey of Mitchell
as assistant surgeon, vice r. S. Cushman,
resigned. Samuel w, Lockwood Of Brook
lngs has been named as acting drum major,
vice 0. N. Russell, deceased.
THE body Of man named Joe Ketchum
was found about mile east of Dickinson
Saturday. He had suicided. A note was
found on his person intimating that there
wesa woman in the case. He left $l1 under
his head and other papers. He choked
himself to death with his suspender. He
came from Vermont and was evidently
we'll connected.
FRIDAY afternoon Black Bear was killed
by another Indian named White Horse,
about mile west of Mandan, where the
latter has been living for some time. Black
Bear, it seems, got full of fire-water and
became quarrelsome. He terrorized all
the other Indians in the tepee except
White Horse who wouldn't be trifled with.
The result was the shooting OF Black Bear
through the abdomen.
The county seat contest in Douglas
county resulted in the retention of the
county seat at Grand View by majority
OF 1877. Armour was the competing town
and Armour is on railroad, while Grand
View is four miles away from any railroad
and is not elaborateIy outftted as
county seat. In Armour thirty.one votes
were cast against Armour, which gives
the contest a still more singular aspect.
The result is surprise all around, except
to the still hunters who arranged it.
DIR. ALLowAY, the territorial veterina-
rian, has sold his Grand Forks stock farm
and moved to South Dakota, where he is
professor in the Brookings college. Allo-
way is veterinary surgeon because under
the law-which he got up himself
other man in Dakota is qualified for the
position. That graduate from some es-
tablished veterinary school'' clause and
the "tive years actual practice in the terri
tory" line are couple of ingenious pro-
visions that make the doctor secure.
There is no question, however, of Alloway's
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