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DAKOTA PARAGRAPHS. Among the fourth-class postoffices are La Moure, Mayville and Hillsboro. The North Dakota Congregational college will probably be located at Fargo. The citizens of Ellendale have raised $3,900 as a bonus for the Manitoba railroad. Joshua Duncan, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Fargo, died Monday. Beadle county has the largest number of pensioners of any county in the territory-168. Farmer Brown, of Ipswich, shot at a hawk and set a 500-bushel wheat stack on fire. Loss, total. Surveyore, said to be in the employ of the Rock Island road, are at work near Jamestown. South Dakota Baptists will hold their annual convention in Huron Sept. 30, and Oct. 1, 2 and 3. Smith & Co's. store at Groton, was closed by the sheriff on an attachment in favor of George R. Newell & Co. Inmates of the Jamestown insane asylum received the first premium on vegetable at the Grand Forks fair. A large number of pre-emption patents have been received at the Bismarck land office-the first in two years. Albert Kraus mysteriously disappeared from his home near Valley City, and it is feared has been murdered. William Armstrong, of Abercrombie, charged with the seduction of Margaret Quiun, a Pierre servant girl. Hon. George S. Engle, of Aberdeen, has been appointed by Gov. Pierce attorney general for the territory. The grading is nearly completed on the Minneapolis & Pacific railroad, and the iron will be Jaid by October 10. Fourteen Indians from the Sisseton agency were in attendance at the meeting of the Presbytery at Fort Totten. The Brule county commissioners have decided that the county seat question shall not be put to vote this fall. Frank Martin, of Wheatland, interfered in a quarrel and was badly cut by a man named Mason, who was arrested. Rufus Cobb, of Pleasant Valley, has just received $2,700 from the war department for supplies furnished 20 years ago. The Jamestown Capital charges the Stutsman county commissioners with squandering money in Public improvements. The Potter county court house has been converted into a hospital during the prevalent epidemic of typhoid fever at Gettysburg. John Johnson, conductor on a gravel train, was killed by the cars, near Mitchell, Tuesday. His remains were taken to Calmar, Iowa. The Dakota board of agriculture has presented Mrs. W. F. T. Bushnell, wife of its seci retary, with a handsome silver ten service. Edward P. Doherty, now Indian agent at Cheyenne river, was one of the squad that captured John Wilkes Booth, President Lincolu's assassin. Steven Clifford, conductor on the Andover r extension railway, leading north, was severely jammed by the cars while switching in the Andover yard. Ex-Governor Ordway and Abe Boynton, it is rumored, will purchase and reorganize the First National bank at Sioux City, now in the hands of a receiver. Sept. 28, 29 and 30 all the Indians on the Fort Totten reservation encamped at the Fort, I with all the paraphernalia, so that a census of the Indians could be taken. Col. Jameson, general superintendent of the railway and mail service, says that the rail18 roads of Dakota are carrying more mail matter e of the first-class than are any of the roads in st any one of seven old states. The trial of Sheriff Hawks for the murder of William Stevens, both of Cavalier county, II was closed on the evening of Sept. 21st. The t, jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and the sentence was fixed at six years and three months in the penitentiary. in s Fargo Argus: A severe prairie fire started west of the Sheyenne yesterday afternoon on the south side of the Northern Pacific track, d and some 1,500 tons of hay are said to have d it been destroyed, including 500 tons for John E. Haggart. It is claimed to have started from locomotive spark. r. d Carrington News: The Manitoba railroad '8 company has written to Register Rea, of the n Bismarck land office, inquiring about the agriB. cultural possibilities of Stevens, Ward, Renville, McHenry, and Wynn counties. Very y significant as to the future intentions of the company. A fourteen-year-old boy named Manly was shot by a thirteen-year-old playmate named Day, in Oliver county, thirty miles north of in Mandan. The boys were playing together a with gun, which Day raised, and it went off accidentally, shooting Manly in the forehead and killing him instantly. a Is Adam Marr, near Devils Lake, 23 years of II age, and his younger brother, went to the field I, to plow, taking a shot gun with them. In getting on the sulky plow Adam attempted to take up the gun which was standing against ). the plow. The weapon was discharged and the entire contents went into one of his shoulders. p A fracas took place Sunday afternoon, six miles west of Grand Forks, between a farmer named Ole Ellissen and six men who had been at work for Ellissen thresbing. A difficulty arose on the settlement. The men procured a rope and attempted to hang the farmer. Two hired men who attempted to interfere were d knocked down, and one stabbed with a pitchfork. When about to put their threats in execution to hang the farmer, neighbors arrived to rescue him. d Fargo Argus: The strong vein of water found some weeks ago just below a powerful d vein of gas, on the Monson farm, was selected the hallow used