The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA,

The Milwaukee road will will a new
depot at Yankton.
Frank L. Yahn has been appointed
postmaster at Wilmont.
Fishing parties have been ordered off
the Sisseton Indian agency.
Lamoure gopher hunters did up 1908
of the pests one day last week.
Over a hundred Duluth business men
visited Sioux Falls last week.
DIR. Collins, territorial veterinarian, is
killing %glandered horses at jamestown.
The Grand Forks Daily Herald has
completed the first ten years of its exis.
tence.
Prairie chickens promise to be more
plentiful in Dakota this year than ever
before.
Plow works will be established at
Watertown which will give employment
to lUu men.
The formal opening of the South
Sioux Falls Railroad and Rapid Transit
has taken place.
Tile Indians at Chamberlain are learn
ing to play bail, and will give an exhibi-
ton game July i.
The planning mill and lumber yard Of
Mciver Bros. at Sturgis burned Sunday.
Los. 81, 600; no insurance.
Theodore Poole, under arrest in st.
Louis. Mo-, is wanted at Ipswich, for
m~ortsaglng property lie did not own
South Dakota will hold a Republican
convention at Huron, Aug. %, to NOM
mate congressional and state officers.
Rev. VI. Baker asks the good people of
North Dakota to subscribe an endow-
mcnt fund OF $?5o.Gm tor prohibition.
The jury in the Sphinx county White
Cap case remained out all night at Red.
field and brought in a verdict of acquit.
tal.
The Dakota militia, in camp at Water
town, are not entirely pleased with the
stric! discipline of Commander Carmen.
ter.
South Dakota liquor dealers have per-
tectrd an organization to work against
the adoption of the Sioux Fails constitu-
ton.
The North Dakota Farmers, convcn.
ton was held at Fargo last week. Be-
tween 200 or 3Uo farmers were in at
tendance.
When the new liquor Law went into
effect o July L. the number of saloons
in Gankton was reduced from twenty
four to six.
by the capsizing Of IL boat on Devils
lake Corporal Collins, Company r,
Twcity-sccund United States infantry.
was drowned.
An excursion train will leave Jackson,
Miss, July u, bearing the Mississippi
Editorial association to WATERFOWL. HEY
Will be royalty entertained.
The Sioux commission are NOW AT
Lower Grule agency. having left Pine
Ridge FRIDAY with IL bare majority of
the signatures Of the Indians there.
Twenty members of the Yankton
board OF trade Went to Sioux Falls to
confer with the people and a committee
from Duluth regarding closer comnler-
cial relations.
y Northern Pacific dining car was
burned near jamestown last Friday, and
it was with difficulty that the sleepers
were saved. The dining Car conductor
lost $500 cash.
.Aberdeen's appeal in the famous
Brown county seat case has been allowed
by Judge Crotcot,. and the county rec.
ords wall remain there pending a decis-
ION OF the supreme court of the United
States.
Gov. Mellette has issued a proclama.
ton giving the names of the delegates to
the constitutional convention for North
and South Dakota. There were 1910
votes for and BIB against the Sioux
Fails constitution.
Abiding to the recent North Dakota
bankers meeting ut Fargo, the Phila-
deiplia Record says that the $la. 0GU, 600
c%alital represented by the banks is more
eisnt of the state.
The trustees Of jamestown college
haNe elected Rev. "a. G.. M%endenhaIl.
until recently pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Grand Forks and proprietor
and editor OF The Daily ~Plaindealer,
president of that institution.
Secretary Richardson has gone to
Sioux FAILS to arrange tor the opening of
the south Dakota constitutional conven-
ton. South Dakota has S2U,UUU to spend
on the convention, but it is not believed
that 1t will continue cver a week or ten
days.
Since the destruction of the Sioux
City pontuon bridge across the Missouri
river the Iankton city council has de-
cIded to rescind its proposition to aid in
minimizing such a bridge at that place.
The risk is greater than the city dads
care to assume.
The assignee of the Bank of Wahpeton
was ready 10 file his statement OF the
assets and liabilities OF the bank when
AN injunction was served upon him ask
ing That cause he shown wny a receiver
should not be appointed. The liabilities
are tound to be ~S3U,467.17, and assets
S3l ,Oo7.03
Under orders from DIR. McChesnev,
Indian agenta at Cheyenne. Il man named
w aldron was bounced from the Sioux
reservation by lnuian police. Maluron's
ot'ense consisted OF trying to persuade
Indians from signing Inc treaty opening
the reservation 10 settlement. lnis is
a warming to all parties not to in,eiiere
with indians at Cheyenne.
The constitution of South Dakota.
adopted by the Sioux Falls convention,
gives school suffrage to omen and pro-
vldes that an amendment snail h. SUB
united to the people granting them fun
suffrage. Several other provisions arr.
notable. among them one limiting the
deb, that may be incurred by the state
to $500, 600, except in case of war, anu
the county, city and town indebtedness,
to j per of the taxable property.
Fargo.-The Scandinavians of North
Dakota have organized under the name
of the Scandinavian Union of North
Dakota. for the purpose of securing for
themselves a more equal distribution Of
Offices. 1t is looked upon as an otfshoot
of the Farmers alliance.
CONDENSED VIKINGS.
The Alabama Press association is in
session at Huntsville.
Philaielnhia.s nonulation 10 Dou, est;