Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-08-23
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA.


The third annual iairof North Dakota
begins at Grand Forks Sept. II.
A. G. Sanford, of Wells county, shot
pelican measuring feet 8 inches from
tip to tip Of the wings.
The Brookings Agricultural college is
experimenting with thirty varieties OF
grasses and forage plants.
J. c. Brinkerhoff, Of Stevens, Mimi,
has been appointed deputy inspector Of
customs for the port of Neche.
Burglars went through the barn of
Bishop Hare, at Sioux Falls, and got
away with all that was movable.
Watertown gives bonus of 800 and
free fuel and gas to the employees Of the
various manufactures who locate there.
Joseph Dingman, SO years of age, fel
under moving machine at Mason City
and was horribly mangled. He died
almost instantly.
In car load of salt received at Can.
ton was found the figure of woman
holding a vase, handsomely carved in
some hard substance.
The Baptists of vermillion have CON.
tributed 81, 500 for new church, to be
of Sioux Falls jasper. 1t will be COM
pleted before January.
Counterfeit silver dollars have made
their appearance at Grand Forks. They
are dated 1873 and are almost perfect
limitations, but are lighter than the gen.
uine.
At Yankton an adventurous weasel
found its way into Governor Penning.
tons Office the other morning. It was
captured after lively chase, only to be
humanely set at liberty.
The most expensive artesian well in
the territory is at Highmore, whish cost
$500, and is 1859 feet deep. The
cheapest well in the territory is at Yank-
ton. 1t is 6l0 feet deep, and cost 81 800.
A meeting of the Democratic editors
of the state is called In Huron Septem-
Der 4, Ito counsel together as to mutual
action in the campaign work, and for
the protection of their business inter
ests."
Mr.. Sublet.e has pair Of young bald
eagles which were captured by farmer
q few miles west Of Mandan. The
eagles are about two months old and
will each measure over two feet from
tip to tip.
| A prominent Bruls county farmer
named M. Schaffner was drowned In the
Missouri river at Chamberlain while at
tempting to rescue his son Who had gone
beyond his depth. The body has not yet
been recovered.
A detachment OF soldiers from Fort
| Sully passed through Chamberlain Tues
day for the Sioux reservation, where
they will keep settlers from locating un.
til the presidents proclamation opening
the reservation has been issued.
The Black Ellis, Chamberlain and HUI
ron railroad, It is reported, will put
q party OF surveyors on the line within
the next ten days, and survey a route
froI Chamberlain to Huron, via Grow
Lake, washington Springs and Alpena.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press says sam
pie of wheat taken from the farm OF b.
Z. Rice, one milo south Of Wahpeton,
has been received at the Manitoba rail-
road Office. The grain averaged 40 1.2
bushels to the acre on farm of 100
acres.
w. e. Long, temperance lecturer and
violinist, who was sentenced at James
town thirty days In jail and fined $76
for assaulting District Attorney Wilkin.
son, Of La Moure county, few days
ago, has been released, La Moure
county temperance people going on his
| $500 bond.
Louis Sterry, IS years old, died at
Grand Forks. Two months ago Sterry
got rusty nail in his foot. IRE wound
healed rapidly and no danger was ex-
pected. He was taken sick and appar-
emily had cramps, but the disease devel-
oped into bad case Of lockjaw.
Hon. A. B. Guptill, president Of the
Dakota Republican league, has issued a
call for delegate convention, to be held
at Huron August ~, for the purpose Of
| organizing q Republican league for
South Dakota. Each Republican club
having q membership of twenty or up
| ward, or that has Deen organized since
May 10, is entitled to three delegates.
The Howard Advance relates the ex-
perience of j. w. Briggs, Of Miner coun.
| ty, this season. About the middle OF
| June, when his wheat was nearly dried
up, he turned artesian water upon Ave
acre field. The good effect was soon
seen, and has continued, resulting in a
yield of twenty-five bushels an acre,
while an adjoining field that was not
watered was too poor to cut.
1 Hc ISOEtHCIn DdhOth dUu INOEtutIh
Pacific Elevator companies have reached
an agreement, SAYS q jamestown dis
patch, whereby only one elevator at a
station will be kept open. At q very
large number of stations In North
Dakota both Of these corporations own
| houses, and they will take alternate
towns. This is done to save expenses.
as the wheat crop is 50 short that one
elevator is Of ample capacity to handle
the grain which will be marketed at
any station.
/ Some time last March Mrs. ID. Bru-
nellie, of Pleasant township, was ar
rested on the complaint of r. w. How
land, charged with stealing 81 500 from
him. The grand jury failed to indict
her, however. A few days ago l6.year
old niece made voluntary confession
to the effect that her aunt did steal the
money, and gave full particulars of the
crime. Hearing Of this Mr.. Howland
had the woman arrested again, and with
/ her young man named Brunette, who
i Ia Oh n r1cd NTH oidiutr tY, ~npcaa a ling the