Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-05-24
WEEKS NEWS IN hAk0TA.

Over 800 pupils are enrolled in Can
tons public schools.
Work on tho electric motor line at
Watertown has begun.
Grand Forks business men want whole
sale houses established there.
Fifty dogs Were killed at Webster,
after having been bitten by mad dog
Chauncy N. 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 81, 800 will be given in prizes at
the fireman's tournament to be held at
Yankton in June.
The chair Of astronomy in Yankton
college has been rendered to President
McLouth of Brookings college.
Reports from North Dakota indicate
that the damage done by the recent
winds has been greatly over estimated.
The stock has all been subscribed for
thepurpoee of building 81 ,000, 900 pack
ing house and stock yards at Sioux
Falls.
Fred FaIIsy, of the Wahpeton Globe.
has bought the Minor Teller. He owned
II several years ago, before he went 10
Wahpeton.
At Sioux Falls the police made raid
on tramps' hang-out and captured
twenty one, who have been sentenced 10
the chain gang.
Bob Minor, wanted at Greeley, Kan.
for murder, was shot aud killed at Oil
Creek, near Deadwood, by an officer
while resisting arrest.
Chicago Inter. Ocean: With a few
more cyclones in .he East the press of
that region will quit making faces at
''the cyclone regions of Dakota"
Professor A. ". Ward Of Kimball,
made very daring balloon ascension
and performed upon the trapese bar
while half 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.
Frank Frisby has been reappointed by
Governor Mellette as member Of t;e
board of pharmacy of North Dakota.
The appointment is for term Of three
years.
The postofiice ct Clark was en-
tered by burglars last week who ob-
tanned a few dollars in nickles and pen
MES but missed three hundred dollars in
the safe. II was evidently the work of
novices.
Gov. Me.le.te. 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: T.
A. Bones, of Webster
T.. X. Ruggles. Of Webster, has re-
ceived the appointment OF custodian of
the government property ~ the aban-
doned Fort Sisseton military post. He
has $500, 900 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.
Ii consists of cows, eiks. bear. mountain
sheep, deer, quartz and ores Of every de-
scription, Indian curiosities, relics and
petrified wood.
The conyiots AZ the Bismarck pen
itentiary are doing some excellent farm
ing on the grounds east of the building.
Aside from the vegetables ami cereals
they harvest, they have number of fine
pigs and raise all the pork consumed at
the institution.
Milhank i,izeas propose to organize a
comEany for the purpose of constructing
a line from Milbank south to Egan OF
flandrau, filling the missing link in
direct line from Sioux City, Eankton and
Sioux Falls, with the expectation that
the Milwaukee will operate il,
At the jamestown encampment OF
Sons of Veterans it was resolved TO
divide and officers were elected for North
and South Dakota. Division INSPECTOR
Wordens report showed twenty-nine
camps in good standing The msnaber-
ship IN this district is about 500 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 in the Northwest, inclnding Devils
Lake and Winona, y. D.. and GIendiye,
Mont. will be reviewed before the secre-
tary OF the interior June IL. The Gull
ford-Miiler case, which has been pending
since 1885. has been set for hearing
June 10. The poiAt involved is whether
there was any authority to 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 o
withdrawal and that previous rulings
Of the department withdrawing indem-
Lity lands were void. Secretary Noble
grants a rehesring, Which is a partial
victory for the road.