The Dickinson press., 1889-05-04
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA.

Sioux Falls mayor has closed all Sun
day saloons.
Thursday, May 2, is arbor day for
North Dakota.
The Fargo Republican will hereafter
have both morning and evening editions.
X. +. Pettigrew has obtained a char
ter for an electric street motor at Yank-
ton.
Coddington county has just organized
into civil townships, seventeen in num-
Der.
The first fire i'll the history of Cassel-
ton occurred Friday. A dwelling was
burned.
The two men arrested at Watertown
on suspicion of being escaped ioil break
ers from Madison have been released.
Fire at Roscoe consumed Newell's
hotel and all the other buildings in that
block. Loss, $40, 900: insurance, $l4,-
600.
w. q. Duck, a farmer living ten miles
north of Gary, while at work in the field
fell beneath a roller and was crushed to
death.
The Yankton Congregational church
trustees have decided to erect a new
house of worship to cost between S4O.-
600 and $500 DOC
The jamestown asylum trustees are
advertising for bids for boring an arte-
sian we'll. The legislature appropriated
$1,000 for that purpose.
The Yankton Daily Press and Dako-
tan has appeared in a new dress all en-
larged to an eight-page quarto. The
afternoon Associated Press report is also
taken.
Wild Rice, Cass county, is suffering
from IN epidemic among children which
has nearly invariably proved fatal in
three hours. 1t has the form of malig-
nant black diphtheria.
Assurances have been received at
jamestown that at the meeting of Catho-
lie dignataries in st. Paul, jamestown
was selected as the city for the newly
created Catholic diocese of North Da-
kota.
The Northern Pacific managers are
said to be contemplating a boom for
their Dakota country, and it is limited
that in the future the flood of immigra-
ton will not flow SO freely to W;1.ing-
ton territory.
The iankton Opera House company
will at once begin the erection of their
$4,000 temple of amusement 1t viii
be four stories high and arranged for
stores OH the ground floor and Masonic
temple on the fourth story.
The Manitoba has purchased a quarter
section of land near CenterviIle. and
have put a diamond drill at work there
on. No one is allowed to go near where
| fhn nrnSpnrtinr iS lo;rr ,rocoo,tol .o
it is not known what has been discov-
cred.
The directors of the Fidelity Fire In
surance company, of Huron, have de-
cided to increase the stock 5000, 900 and
establish n branch office in jamestown
for North Dakoto's business, and in st.
Paul and Minneapolis for Minnesota bust
ness.
Ten immigrants arrived at Grafton
Friday who were passengers on the
Inflated Danmark. They say it required
the aid of police officers to get the crew
on board the vessel Oh leaving the old
country, as they knew the machinery
was i'll bad order.
Chief Engineer Rice, of the Yankton,
Norfolk and Northwestern railway,
with a corps of ten assistants, has begun
making the final surrey of that road. He
expects to have the profile completed in
three weeks. Graders will be at work
within thirty day.
Orders have been received at Fort
Sisseton to abandon the post June J..
The Sisseton Indian reservation, con-
tanning about 3,000,0 900 acres, and the
military reservation containing about
500, 900 acres, will be thrown open to
settlement next fall.
Mitchell Republicans: Col. Gale has
won in his mandamus suit against Audi
tor McManima, and will get the cash for
his warrant ON the Yankton asylum
fund, while the poor devils who have
not been paid for their work by Gales
contractor will &c, left.
Under the provisions Of a law passed
last winter assessors are required to
make Il list Of all persons owning dogs
an return the list to the county auditor,
and he is compelled to enter a tax of 81
per dog against the party owning the
same. The tax will be collected in the
same hammer as other county taxes.
Minneapolis Journal: Mr.. Hagerty,
Dakotas new commissioner of immigra-
ton, has dispatched a man to Oklahoma
for the purpose of advertising Dakota.
There can be no doubt that thousands of
disappointed boomers will be glad to
find home and plenty in in Dakota when
they lind that their first hopes are but
decisions.
For InternatiOna DOWNRIGHT.