The Dickinson press., 1889-04-13
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA,

Tower City ls to have q militia com.
pany.
The Deadwood reduction works will
be rebuilt.
\ board of trade has been organized
at Chamberlain.
Sturgis is to have Catholic school
building this year.
Rodney Church. son of the ex.gov.
erno'. is very ill of lung fever.
Yankton real estate transfers for the
past ten days amount to $5OO,OOO.
The Fargo Republican has it that the
Argus will sell out to Eastern parties.
In the election last week Columbia
voted for license by majority of one.
John Flaherty is on trial at Huron for
the murder OF Hattie Wilson last Au.
gust.
The new Grand Opera house at Grand
Forks will be able to accommodate ], 900
people.
Hamilton has an artesian well. 1t is
1850 feet deep. The last $50 feet was
bored through granite.
United States District Attorney Pur-
cell was married to Miss NIyra E. Stevens
at Wahpeton last Wednesday.
Minnewaukon wants a creamery. a
flour mill, a shoe maker, furniture
store and first class physician.
Thonos Hollern. of Armour, was ac.
quilted in the United States court of the
charge of selling whisky to an Indian.
Gray wolves in Stark county are
troublesome. occasionally getting so bold
as to enter stables and carry off stock.
The Farmers alliance for Ramsey
county have resolved to discard the self
binders on their machines and bind by
hand.
Over s2G0.00O has been paid into the
territorial treasury during the last week.
This is mostly railroad tax money and
more is to follow.
Sunday, fire destroyed a large barn be-
Longing. to +. A. Stanford, a prominent
farmer near Ipswich, together with nine
head of valuable horses.
Fire broke out in Devils Lake Mill
company's flour mill, quitting the two
top stories. Loss estimated dt from
So,UUO to 81 900: insured.
While eating breakfast, John Lecroix
OF Grand Rapids dropped over dead. He
was a frenchman, and had reached the
advanced 'ge of lO4 years.
James L. Mcdowell has been an.
pointed register of the land office at
Huron. He was recommended by
Moody, Matthews, Mellete. and others.
On account of the action of Sioux CITY
III securing the location OF the signal sta
tion. the merchants of Iankton are said
to have begun to boycott Sioux City lob
bers.
One NJ. Goldfish, of Palisades. near
Sioux Falls, will be tried for an attack
on a. L.. Skinner, Manitoba agent at
that place. He is said to be 'sWhite
Cap
Sitting Bull, Chief Gall and John
lands. The change i'll price offered. from
30 cents to $l.25 per acre, is what
fetched 'em.
Governor Mellette issued requisition
papers for bowl, the West Virginia
murderer, and he is now ON his way
back. He will hang pretty soon after
ne gels nome.
North Dakota Prohibitionists will be.
gln am active campaign for constitutional
prohibition next week. The first mass
meeting will he held at Grand Forks
April lG and Ii.
South Dakota Prohibitionists held a
meeting at Iankton Tuesday T. ID.
kanouse addressed a public meeting ir
,I,i i,,tn A
Falls constitution.
The commissioners of Beadle county
have decided To loan seed wheat to farm.
ers who suffered from the late fires, The
rate of interest will be per cent, notes
payable Dec. l, secured by mortgage on
crops.
Governor Mellette has appointed Alex
Mckenzie, Bismarck: II. NJ. Tuttle, Man
dan; John Haggart. Fargo: John Sim.
ons, Valley City, and p. McHugh Lang.
don, trustees of the Bismarck peniten.
tiary.
Governor Mellette has appointed w.
ii. Roach, of Larimore: James Twmley
of Nlinot: Albert l.. Hansen, of Hills.
boro; ii. G. Mendenhall, of Grand
Forks, and George u. Heidel, of Valley
versity.
Arrangements are about completed for
the early building of railroad from
Watertown to Aberdeen: also one from
Watertown to Sioux Falls. This would
give nearly an air line from Bismarck tc
Chicago by Aberdeen, Watertown, Sioux
Falls and Iowa points.
y lO-year-old daughter of Jerre Wat.
son, at Parkston, in sport pointed shot.
gun at her playmate. the little daughter
of George Reinhart. Tie gun was dis.
charged, load of buckshot entering the
victim back and coming out at he,
breast, LITERALLY tearing out the child's
heart.
| The burning bluff in Charles Mix
county is now being investigated and
much interest is being manifested in the
progress of the search. Smoke still rises
from the spot, followed by a gaseous va.
por. but the heat is less intense than il
was some time ago. and this is accounted
| for by the belief that the fire has burned
deeper into the earth.
| Sioux Falls is to have q canning fac.
tory. \ $50. 900 stock company has been
organized S2l 900 of the stock having
been paid in, and the other So, 900 prom.
ised. y storage building go by 100 feet
two stories high, and another smalle !
will be erected within few weeks.
Corn. tomatoes. peas and string beans
will be canned. and the institution will
give employment to something over la(
hands.
Scott Slower. of Chicago. and o. O,
Whltlon. town site agent for the Chicas,
and Northwestern railway, have bough,
up all the available coal lands ner Cen
tcrville. covering an area of six miles
square. Machinery and timber for sink
ing shaft have been purchased and
every arrangement made for developius
the mine. Experts have been prospect.
ing for two months, and their rel ort.
| justify the assertion that coal exists in
large quantities within 100 feet of the
surface.
Arbor Day i'll massachusetts.
BosroN, April 9.-Governor Anes has
issued u proclamation setting apart Sat
urday. April 81, to be observed as Arbo1
| day throughout the commonwealth.