Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-04-05
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA.

e0uth Dakota VIII DE held at Sioux rails.
Work On The Black Hills college at
Pct Springs will be commenced at once.
Il. $. Person, formerly of The Woon-
|scket News, has bought The Howard
fress.
Prairie fires destroyed barns. hay and
rain around Huron and Chamberlain,
|rst Friday.
Public Examiner f s. TYLER, of Fargo,
Jas rendered his resignation to Cover
lor Melette.
The attempt to move the signal service
fation from Yankton 10 Sioux Falls has
Ut succeeded
Three Chamberlain ssloonkeepers will
plain to the grand jury why they kept
en Sunday.
kGrand Forks business men are organ
lng to push the city's commercial and
fdustrial interests.
| The Dakota Grand Army numbers
Svei 5000 men about 500 i'm North Da-
ota. 2,io0 in South.
Citizens of Pierre have resolved to
ord the city in the sum of $4,000 to
rect school buildings.
The Fargo Republican saws the Cas-
punty saloons must Keep out of politics
go out of existence.
The work Of districting North and
outh Dakota for the constitutional con-
.ntion Is III progress at Bismarck.
The proposition to build the Missouri
acitic railroad from Omaha TO Huron
Ieets with public favor in the latter
ty.
Gen. Greeley SAYS the Yankton signal
ice will not be removed to Sioux t'ity.
1t that another office will be established
Fere.
A fire was set ont in the cemetery near
X Point recently, and as a result many
eadstgnes and monuments were almost
ined.
The &. \. Il. encampmcnt at Abcr-
en last week was the largest attended
theriug Of the kird ever known in
sofa.
rank Thulen. who shot and killed
lfn u. Clark in MinncOla last August.
as acquitted in the district court at
'adwoOd.
iion. ID. +. Rogers. Of hifera. wants
G Huron land Office. He has gone 10
sshinGtnn TO see what the President
Ainks about il.
Prairie fires nave done great damage
to hay and stock sheds in South Dakota
last week. Several dwellings aud barns
were Also burned.
\ residence Of one year to the terri
tory, six months in the county and sixty
DAYS in the precinct i. now required to
make a legal voter.
Judge EdgertOn, of South Dakota saws
he doesn't want to be Il supreme Judge.
He would rather tax" chances on the
United States senatorship.
The Milwaukee railway will build into
Huron as soon As possible. Only eleven
miles of track wiil have to te buiit to
bring the line into that city.
John l.. Ca,hel, of Grafton, is among
the early candidates for state office in
North Dakota. He wants 20 b. treasurer
of the new state ard they say" he will
get there.
\ 2-year-old son OF City Attorney
o'EeeGe,r cf Grand Forks. got = slnall
phial of chlJyOiyne and swallowed Iiy
dose. His stomach was paralyzed. bu,
il will probably recover.
Zina Richey and w. b. Valentine. OF
Yank on. J. NJ. TaICo;t. If Elk Point. &.
W. Snow. of Sprin. .iiflJ and o. T. Dahl,
Of Sioux Falls, are the trustees Of the
lantton asylum, appointed by Governor
Mellette.
Tie apT Teal of John T.. Adams agains:
the county commissioners of Brown
county has been dismissed by tire United
States supreme court. This decision
takes the county seat from Aberdeen and
gives it back to Columbia.
Friday Russian jew was brought be-
fore justice at Grand Forks. charged
with starving his horse to death. When
found the animal had eaten several
boards of its manger in its efforts To live.
1t had been tied several DAYS without
food.
An inquest over the remlins of Lars
larson, of Lagrace. appeared to have
bern murdered by Halvor HalvurSon,
Ole Peterson and Peder Holden. his
neighbors. resulted in verdic. 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 lG0 acres 10 three differ
ent parties during the last three days.
and also rented il TO three different par
ties. The courts are inquirihS Us tu
the thing can be done in Da.
kota.
Richard Dowell was convicted of the
murder Of John r. Weston and his son
at Weston. ". Va. and sentenced TO be
hanged thirteen years ago. He escaped.
however. ON Oct ., 1876. He was cap
tured recently AT Grand Forks by the
chief of police. D6well will he 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 viii he the vote ON the tempo.
rary location of the capital. This will
be taken in October. on the final ratifi-
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.
quired to submit to the people at the
next general election the question Of
permanent location OF the capital.
Should no town receive a majority Of all
the votes cast. then at the next general
the governor shall cause another
vote to he taken, but only the two places
receiving the highest number Of votes
shall enter into competition. II may
take -four years to settle definitely the
question of the capital OF South Dakota.
= CHICAGO, April l.-Hereafter Western
Union Telegraph rates from and 10 Chi-
cagO will be reduced as follows; In AL
ALBANIA, Georgia. Mississippi. North and
South Caroliis, from 90 to 30 cents for
ten words or less: Colorado, New Bruns-
wick. Texas and Wyoming. from s5 to
90 cents: California, Oregon. Arizona.
Idaho. Nevada and Washington. from
a TO Is cents.
EnsIaad win Have n Navy.
LONDON. April 2.--The house OF COM
mons in committee. hss authorized the