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DAKOTA. W. Grinnell, who lives near Williston, has been in the habit of beating his wife. She warned him if he tried it again she would kill him. Recently he attacked her, when she managed to throw him to the ground and choked him to death. Reports from all over the Territory show a general tendency toward mixed farming. The Farmers' & Merchants' Bank at Wahpeton, C. P. Pinney & Co., assigned to . Pinney, of Fargo, recently. Assets, $30,000; liabilities, $32,000. Charles Herr, near Wessington, had his barn destroyed by fire the other night, together with grain, machinery, etc. Loss, $1,500. It is said the opening of the great Sioux Reservation will be no special advantage to the people at large for several years. It will require the remainder of this year to secure the necessary number of signatures by the Indians. All of 1889 will be required to survey it; most of 1890 will be used in having these surveys put through the United States Land Office. Not until the end of that year can settlers occupy the land, and then only homesteaders can take it. They must live on it four years and then pay fifty cents an aere for it The Dakoto packing-house at Huron was burned the other day. Loss, $20,000. Sioux Falls has guaranteed $50,000 to William Ryan & Sons, of Dubuque Ia., to put in a $150,000 pork-packing house. Lange's clothing-house and Blockwell's billiard hall, at Spearfish was burned recently. Loss, $6,000. At the first Territorial conference of the Knights of Labor, held the other day at Aberdeen, a Territorial Assembly was organized and S.J. Conkling, of Watertown, was elected master workman There are about fifteen hundred Knights in Dakota. John Pletceher was drowned at Ludden recently while attempting to cross the ferry with a load of hay. Last year was a great year for the location of Mineral claims in the Black Hills. This year will be largely devoted to their development. A terrific "fight occurred a few days ago in Hartford township between au insane man named Henry Ehde and A. B. Jones and wife. Ehde's head was pounded into a pulp, but he is expected to recover. Jones and his wife were both badly cut by being struck with an iron bar. A fire at Blunt a few mornings ago destroyed eleven business places, aggregating in value $15,000, with only $2,000 insurance. Several people narrowly escaped with their lives. Several business men are rendered nearly destitute, but all will resume. A proposition for a creamery at Wessington Springs has been received from a praetical creamery man of Chicago. An Olivet justice has decided that an American double-action revolver is not a weapon or a firearm, but bears about the same relation to weapons as a dumb watch does to real timepieces.
