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1 Mwey by Am «rlc*n Ex press Co. Money OTMIM, S«*5B0^!WS Money refunded If order* aw SoW *t nil offices or the company. Pfty *l W P'nc,e»- .*««f: Tofjs, 5cj flO, fc it t0, IS 140,15c: 850,80c. 8 -)£. W. Mitnunw, Agt. i*0. O.PrATT. WM. K. PURCEIX I PYATT & PuRCELL, ^, COTO»M.OHIJ-AT-IiAW, Boal Bstnto, Loan anil Insurance Agents. J. C. Pxatt, Dept. Dist. Atty. iii Wahpeton,Dakota. PBIEDLANDBE^FC BESSIE, Law, Collection aiitl Real Estate, Insarance anil .General Agency Business, Dakota Ave, near 8d'Street, Wahpeton, Dakota. Deutsche Advokaten. KSB 8, H. SNYDER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,.-- WA-HJPITOK,DAKOTA. Money to Loan on Heal Estate nnd Chattel Security. OITCIE: Over Peirce's hardware store. McCumber & Bogart, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW. Special Attention Given to Collection. WAHPETON, DAKOTA. ir,. isr. ihstik:, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Loans. Office in Howry's ft new store. WAAPETQN, DAKOTA. ,lilv6 LEVI E. SPOONER, Attorney at Law, Wahpeton jnd 'Brcckenridge.'^ L. B. EVER DEL, Attorney nt LaiK^^I^ Ofllce opposito the MinnBSQtKfijjHB^^' *. 14 '|HRK(!nrl(lge, Minn. Ezra C. Valentine, 14 Attorney nt Law, Real Estate Exchanged and Money to Loan. Office in court house, Brcckenridge, Minn. D. Geo. D. Swaine, M. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Wahpeton, ... Dakota. Diseases of women a specialty. Office on Da. kota avenue. 6 G. W. ARBUCKIJE, M. D., HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. BRECKINRIDGE, MINNESOTA. Diseases of Women a Specialty, also the Eye and Ear. -wahpeton calls, promptly responded to. Office and Resience: Arbuckle's now building. HENRY C. RENO, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Wahpeton, D. T. Office over Howry's Bee Hivo Store. Resi dence, Dr. Hatten's house, Third street. w46 G. BAJRKOW, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Office over Martin Schott's store, WAHPETON, DAKOTA, ill H.B. CR AND ALL, Real Estate Agent, Notary Public and Collector. Farms and Town Lots for Sale. COLFAX, Richland County, DAKOTA GEO HAM.Y, SURGEON DENTIST Oftlco with Dr. Geo. D. Swaine, over Peirce's Hardware store, Wahpeton, D. T. AHTOH filLLES BOOT AND SHOE MAKER Shop on Dakota avenue, opposite N. ScUott's store. Ail kinds of repairing promptly attended to. Joseph C. Hen vis, Real Estate Office GRAND VIEW FaRM, D.T. Partios" located on soverment land. Money to Loan and Final Proofs Made, unefl J*Ajf Ste. $ 'Mr' 101 Dakota Avenue, ISIABRrfl BAKERY, ELI V4CHON, Propr. Opposite Opera House. Feb. 27n4 •,*, JOHN M. RUGGLES, WAHPETON, DAKOTA, $ REGISTER OF DEEDS. Titles to lands investigated, and correct ah stracts fnrnishod. Taxes paid for non-residents. Collections made, and promptly remitted. Lands bought and sold. I will see that the tax is cancelled on the treas urer's records, and the proper amount of tax collected. My charges are $1.00 for each receipt. & Proprietors of EXCELCIOR MEAT MARKET. Dealers in all kinds of fresh and salt meats, hams, bacon and sausage constantly on hand. Cash paid for fat cattle, hides and furs. Meat delivered to any part of Wahpeton and Brcckin idge, fre« of charge. Commercial Hotel WAHPETON, DAKOTA. Good Accomodation Guarnteed to the transient Public. MICHAEL June SCHM1TT, Prooriotor. C. WIENSMA, M. D. stetan and Surgeon, OFFICE OVER MILLER'S DRUG STORE, English, German and Scandinavian Languages Spoken. n2 WAHPETON, DAKOTA. HOTEL Cor. Dakota Aveiine end Sixth Street. Wahpeton, Dakota Oue Bjock from St. P.,M. fc M. depot, Good Sample Rooms. D. H. SMITH, ?sg Dr. T, L. Taylor •••'..* •. SURCEON DENTIST* r^hns permanently located in Wahpeton, and is Prepared to do a general dentistr badness. l&'ip {l p^latos and all iriegularitles of chUdren's nii «lMll recelve tlmlateet mode ot tmtment. A|t,i.waur WA&RAirTjra. •fon^i v.. & Dakota. rrf1 News Notes* At Rome, from midnight ^Friday to Sunday afternoon there were 687 deaths from cholera..... ^v The Barrett circus. bummers at 5watonna, after insulting a girl Saturday night, killed P. Blair, a special policeman with a-slung shot. Five prisoners county jaiFmb. -"1 bound and g. Thursday«n returned. do what partes aie Tins big Brooklyn "i .forced to •.is a Deli: the hot rjoint in leAj.an abo^i tons in super structure, and .the heavy, w^ght of the planking, it works freely,"and is wonderful for its delicacy. Des Moines, la, 18.^Piatt Saeger, of Washington county, was burned to death this rooming. Having an attack of asthma, lie got tip and bathed his chest with turpentine, and it caught Are while lie was heating it at the kitchen stove. His father heard his call and wrapped him in a blanket, but on iiis return with water Piatt was dead. Lynchburg, Va., 19.— Great1 ex citement exists in Amherst county over the unprovoked murder of Sam uel Mitchell, sixteen years old. The boy in company with two others was in search of cows, when they arrived at Hunter's Camp in the woods, occupied by three men. George Fortune, one of the men, or dered Mitchell to carry a beer keg for him, the boy refused and For tund shot him dead in his tracks. Nore Junction, la., 19.—This morning as a freight train on the Milwaukee & St. Paul road was crossing the Rock Island track at this place a freight train on the lat ter company's track ran into it, making a most complete wreck. The engine on the Rock Island train was smashed and about 15 freight cars of both trains. The engineer and fireman on the Rock Island en gine, seeing that a collision was un avoidable, jumped off, thus saving their lives. Winnipeg, Man., 10.—Thomas Booth, of Boync, and James Davis, two well known farmers, were suf focated by gas at the Grand Pacific hgtel. They had been put in one room and retired earJy. At about 3 a. in. one got up and lit the gas, and on going back to bed it is sup posed blew it out. They were dis covered about nine o'clock, one of them, Davis, baing dead, iVH^the other unconscious but almK&Vt last accounts Mr. Booth Awvstill but not expected to reQ|£y.er. olis, 17.—Negotiations closed for the pu apolis Triburt% from the eral Blether, Neltleton by Mr late business mana, the Kansas City Journal, a E. Haskell, son ot' E. B. HjftireflT^ci itor of the Boston Herald. The morning Tribune was established in 1880, and ha3 been successful. The consideration is understood to be approximate par for a capital stock of $200,000. It will be several weeks before the new proprietors take possession. In the meantime no change will be made in the man agement of the paper. Uniontown, Pa., 18.—Intense ex citement was created here by the discovery of a villainous plot to take the lives of the entire JTutt family. The water in the well whence the family drew their supply of water was poisoned by unknown persons. Two young ladies are al ready dead. Lust evening Miss Annie Nutt, the younger sister of Lizzie Nutt, betrayed some time ago by N. L. Dukes, which event was followed by the murder of Capt. Nutt and the shooting of Dukes, was suddenly taken ill and died in a short time. All other members of the family are ill, thus evincing that Miss Nutt, another younger sister of Lizzie, died from the effects of poison. The water in the well is being analyzed. Young James Nntt, the slayer of Dukes, and also' Miss Lizzie are dangerously ill. New York, 20.—An elabor well-planned attempt at ars house filled with people was to light to-day. The crime, ever, miscarried. Its only was the killing of a woman, wife of a man whom the police ar^ rested, charged with setting fire„ the house. The woman was Mi Gusty, the wife of Leo Gusty, a .loon keeper. The fire was discovered in his house. He lived on the second floor with his wife and child. Seven lodgers occupied, the thirji floor. Early this moraiag tt pol officer saw flames' in the house gave the alarm. He and another officer went into adjoining roomsJ^ and roused the inmates, then ascend ing the roof,- they went to"rescue the occupants of the building. But: they, at the ilrst alarm, had fled to tbe street, all but Mrs, Gusty and her. nine-year-old boy. They were {0nnd on the roof, the boy nearly choked wit^«mpke and', the .woncian dying witl^ harrlble -burns^l the fire was extinguished it covered that coal oil bad been p6n: everywhere and all the gr«s turned v* lis it I 'tuesdHi the boiler-of a threshing engine, nekr Biter Falls, Wis., ek ploded,killitf^theengineer, CJfflW left Ecker^- t^nd ^wriouiiy wouiiding' Chauneey Oliapl^ St. Petersburg/18 —^dvices from the northiUatQ thaff^ilflftuasian corvette a^yiadlvasi^SjrnttS seized the American schobfrer, Eliza! for having contraband goods on board, and the English schooner, Helena, for filegal hunting.v Mrs. W. B. Douglass of Fargo, Dak., while en rbute from that city to Chicago two weeks ago, lost a package containing 82,000 worth of diamonds, which is thought to have been stolen somewhere between St. Paul and Milwaukee. The matter has been quiet until now. Forest fires are bin on the west side Mitib. The Beach thU^i for any «pitarKft that1il?| town. At ond. Atlantic, la.*, 11.—A terrible trag edy was enacted Wednesday night at Reno, a small town situated eighteen miles southeast of here, and not on any railroad. Jacob Steen, posttrautter at Reno, shot his wife, killingWer almost instantly, and then turning his weapon shot himself, inflicting a wound whioh proved fatal in a short time. Mr. Steen was quite a prominent man in the community, and was at one time a candidate for representative from Cass county. It is not known that he had any family trouble, and insanity is probably the cause of the deed. The affair caused intense excitement in the community. ^tland, Or. Special, 20.—A jttig murder was reported near 'bsano, W. T., two \veek§Jj|^o. 'ickler, a prominent ^t^rjtpUsly disap, found. Tj isjeovered in a, uch circum doubt that he wit,h. When 1: had a large sum possession. This facl!*wa& getter ally known. He had evidently been fol lowed, assassinated, and robbed. No trace of the money can be found. Suspicion points strongly toward two men who have' suddenly left for parts unknown. The or^lrpostrtffloii^ The Sioux Falls tains $0 p|||onersi ijg^army wt Huron, ITO, is ime to fire threat ened' the bridg wa9 thought that some of tbe: puildings must go, but they were saved. Dr. Darwin Potter has examined Kate Smulsey, the Fort Plaines, N. Y., fasting woman, tind says tbe girl is suffering from St. Vitus' dance, pure, simple and uncompli cated. "I unhesitatingly pronoiince the alleged fast an unmitigated hum bug, a stupendous fraud and a phy £rological impossibility." Motley, Minn., 17.—On the occa sion of the opening of the roller rink at Motley, a crowd of drunken roughs went to the skating rink, and on being reprimanded by the proprietor for their ungentlemanly conduct,' pitched into him and sev eral of the participants were badly cut up with knives. Ladies fainted and were carried home insensible. The parties have been arrested and will pay the penalty of their rash ness in jail. was dealt ickler Brainerd, Minn., 17.—The Burns rape case was begun yesterday in court, and before adjournment last night all the prosecution's testi mony was in. It appears that Jack Burns, a saloon-keeper of sporting notoriety, went riding with Miss Emma Mays and her sister, both young women, another. man being along, and at a distance in the coun try Burns got Emma to leav.e the wagon with him, and as she alleged, violated her. The next day she weepingly confessed the assault to her mother, and a warrant was sworn out. When secured Burns got the officer to go with him for an interview with the girl, when the latter attempted to shoot Burns and wounded the officer. The defense ^claims that the girl's character was %ad, and that the rape case is trumped up. experienced sheep grower, who 'the present time a flock num afiout 500 head, informs the Sentinel that his experience line indicated leads him to it as tho most ..profitable of stock raising in this sec- other curiosities that will In the Dakota.exhibit at New Is this winter, will be a single ock 'of corn grown in Bismarck, jiaying on it eight well formed ears corn. Another stock having six ears on it will also be sent from the 'ilen. 0' same iyi:r-A Sun reporter ln« frmfgority of the whoM* er* in 3£argo in regard to nionof the Fargo & South ern railroad, and without a single ex$eptiiiti £b was admitted that the road:had 'benefitted the tradiand wouVl continue to, more and more IHWty yea*"* While it is adinitted thpt freights to Fargo are too hfgivyeti tttero are no com plaints against this road. Ed-itiort The disllfict court will colivene at Grand Forks, November Thalour-stoty pork pa|^g house fit Yankton is aUaut completed. Over 2,000,000 bushels of flax was harvested in Dakota this season. Ole Swanson was killed by light ning the other day near Casseltor. The Bismarck Journal is to be is sued daily from the 1st of October. The St. Laurence roller mills.aV^ manufacturing 100 barrelS 'of'ftoiir daily. Fielder, the new town of Hughes county, has a newspaper called the Times. B. R. Hughes of Sykeston, bad his hand baldly mashed in a self binder. My Partner" will be performed the local Thespians of Huron at tertown. The Fargo Broadaxe has changed h^sds again. The undertaker is reaching out for it. The new Fargo Southern road showed its enterprise by running a special train to Pierre. The finishing touches are being put on the North Dakota insane hospital at Jamestown. Henry Wells was arrested at Grand Forks for burglaring a store at Postville, H|tva, last spring. John Bauman has been arrested in Turner county for unmercifully beating his 9-year-old daughter. A severe storm occurred' "at Hick son last Saturday night, damaging such wheat as remained in shock. Sunday night safe breakers inef fectually attempted to blow open the safe of Mr. Fairfield of Fargo. Another shortage of $1,885 has been discovered in the Barnes coun ty embezzling treasurer's accounts. Yankton county will loan $1,000 to aid Commissioner McKeuzie in ar ranging for the New Orleans expo sition. John Murphy, a young man work ing near Larimore, had and arm torn off in the belt of a threshing machine. A prairie fire destroyed W. W. Wade's house and out buildings stored with grain, and Will Davis' barn at Huron. Thtt^ody of Dennis Dancrault, a Canadian aged 35, was found in Whitewood creek near Dead wood. It is supposed he fell in while In toxicated. Ellendale is to have a fine roller skating rink. There is hardly ii town of 500 people in Dakota that has not one of these popular places of amusement. A califlower is in Carpenter & Cary's office, grown at Ft". Lincoln, measuring over four feet in circum ference. The seed was sown on the 13th of July. Col. Steele's farm, Steele, in Kid der county, will send to the New Or leans exposition a turnip that tail ances the scales at 17 pounds,4^1 is 36 inches in circumference. Some thirt" veins of coal have been struclfain sinking wells at Park river in Walsh county. It is thought .that some thick enough to work profit ably will be struck lower down. While Sitting Bull is raking in rocks by showing himself throughout the country, the Indians at Standing Rock have thrashed all their oats with a yield of 60 bushels to the acre. The Indian boys at the farm school at Standing Rock sent a sample beet to,the Bismarck Tribune, accompan ied by postal card saying We have anv acre like this can any white boy of i6 years "beet" it Governor Pierce meets with a warm reception wherever lie goes in South Dakota. The different local ities vie with each other in paying the honor and respect due liim as the chief executive of the territory. What are termed the "bad lands" of Dakota wj er areturni do for stock] at $i,000, es ampler si! per ceht. of from all ixiui Wahpe Dakota, September 26,1884. NO, 25, money Itentiary con the Missouri riv to be an El Dora at country, valued country furnish and not above 2 tock has been lost M. Wp||Ke jail at Valley Springs, night, by sawing the bars vQltifws cell window. He was under arrest, charged with the robbery of the Northeu Pacific rail- Oriska. lie .order from olis to alley ey on road company's office^ alio telegraphed a f' the Security Biink the First National City, but failed to it.. Gov. Pierce was protection by the^ following letter, t^ndly Ifi German farhiw^^ffl^ Stark whose *te|fciwony 4&n the witfte&i stand, ittr a Tate trial is supposed to have instigated it: Warning to J. Holler. Dickinson, July 13.—You art hereby warned that if you do not leave Dickinson and Stark Co. within SSQ days from this date you will- be taken from your house at night by a body of masked men and hanged to the* nearest telegraph pole .until you are dead—dead. This warping js issued by an indignant community whom you have so base ly slandered by your many false re- ,4% •as JS* 4 «w New Go&ds and,' vfSt i* 1 Building Paper, Etc., Etc., Etc., 'i- NEW YORK STORES AT TH1& WHERE ARE KEPT, 5 rrywr'-.'/rf.r-t- :&M IDry G-oocL & C3-roc©ri©s, INCLUDING Fashionable Ladies' Wraps, Dres-rGroods and Trimiiiings ^"rpiotliing and ClotUs, Notions and Fan«Y *(jroods. Latest Styles in Ilats and Oapfe and Boots and Slioes for Ladie^ anc Gentleuiie1v,'Xittie Girls and Small Boys. Call antl See Our New Goods and get Prices." SELLER W. A. SEELY HEALERS AND JOBBEilS OF FIK8T CLASS FARM MACHINERY BUGGIES AND WAGONS, Paints, Oils, Glass, Belting and Mill Supplies, Car Orders Solicited. [w51] Wagon Makerg'.nnd Blacksmiths'Materials, Lumber, Coal Lime, Hair and Cemen^ F. H. BUTLER & CO., DEALERS IN Lumber, Sash, Doors, At Wahpeton and Wyriclmere, Dak. A Present to All! Men want a Water bury. Boy.1? want a Waterbniy. Everybody Needs a Waterbnry. The One-Price Clothing House, —Gives the- Hemonvbar I iiavo Always 011 Hiintl the Finest Goods! Lowest Prices! Latest Styles! NKXT BLOCK EAST OF POST OFFICE. Wahpeton, Dakota. potts." At the bottom of the letter is a picture of a coffin. J. C. Cowan's granary at Sherman was struck by lightning and burued. The v.-flue of wheat in Dakota is so low the local papers forget to publish thecurrertt to tip, in of feet by a An owli was captui Charles 13 Tower Cj college, ^Plj been subsci erection. roughs is to 00 A package worth of xlianioni stolen from go, on the tni] and Milwauk turning frd ago. A young man em Worthing and Lennox f( of ore in a slough this has been assayed and found sist of pure gold. He was oife five dollars for the same by Falls parties. There are 12 counties in North Dakota that had 880,17*2 acres in heat this year. They.will average er twenty bushels, or 17,600,000 ushels. It cannot be supposed they comprise half the crop of the entire territory. If not, the figures msut be raised much higher than ever yet stated.' '•'"'o cunning red men played a shrewd game on a showman at Blunt. They represented that the whole tribe of 250 Indians Were coming down from the reservation to seethe elephant, and got rates reduced from #1.00 to 25 cents, and paid for their own tickets at that figure. They enjoyed the'show witli evident satisfaction, but: tha tribe failed to put in appearance^ which led the & GOODHUE, & Co., manager to believe poor Lo was rapidly acquiring the ways of his white brethern. Walsh county is* to vote on the question of being bonned for a $20, 000 court house this fall. David llussell killed a buffalo, twelve miles southeast of Steele, on the lltli. There was a large herd in the neighborhood. Great excitement prevailed and everyone could secure a gun and a horse pn yit^hunt. from Coluinoia, in was in Casselton the his way to court at tvas run in by the police eious character. He had of a vast amount of bad did not look like a llgaSn AValipeton, Dakota, But he talks of bring for improper imprison Press: The best corn the world is fifty or a hun ogs. Guy C. Weed, who was the interior of the country ied the workings of one of cribs. While driving along the city about ten miles out, a farmer cried to him '•Hello, how do you like my patent corn crib?" The granger was feeding about eighty hogs with cornstalks freshly cut from the field. "You see,M continued the granger, "the beauty this crib is, there's no waste. The crib consumes everything, stalks, ears and leayep, and when that forty acre field oil corn is all in these cribs I'll drive them to mar ket." Mr. Weed says he was favor ably impressed with the desirability of the. crib. -He further said that this section was full of hogs and plenty of corn to fatten them, and that a large portion of this crop was already beyond the .reach of frost. «.»! «p.,|..W»hp«o» BaiecKionupca nHiiMujr. 1 W' 5071 ISaai. 700 740* •«-. ioaB«» tt»P Bk H15 WatfMtftH IbwrMt.... R^QV«R» •(VVI *W 9 Monday*, New Priori No Ooiaf Xatt,Ac (hMag West,Acoom 10 Ja alMMr Md thereby a good Ufbt't rwt, w4Wnf KMII at 7:55 a. m. nuSior eonSw^ws tnit an4 aonthboaiMtniBfrfr^thlafiiKI^ Persona wishing to pnrcbaae tlcketi Eaati WeBt, North or Sonth. will And lt-to tbeir adTaiv* tage to get them via tUf floe. O. A. HAWKE8, Near Koticheyar Bna. ^totK Served at all times, connsting of O S E S i: :. In their Virions Forms, Wines. Liquors & Cigars Wm. NORTHEY. J. R. BUXTON, (Opposite Catholic Charch.) Wahpeton, Dakota. Free of Charge to any part of The City. Will be Starched and Ironed, or will deliver dry, not Ironed. Special rates to Families. W. E. HANLY, Proprietor. G. ALEKEPHTi H. HARNE8 MAKER. DEALER IN 'Wmmk CAM are ifiii KRIwnt chaoga -onull traiaa frofltvft PtiUWJttiinpblb.Ml Farco and Doiatk for beaatMji4 comfort tbear cam, jwr. pmwd. SUWAIT BOUOI tma cm on day truing between Fargo aad |l«(tdaD. Theae cara are Used with new recliah)Echaira,and offer gpeial attractlona to the traveler. nnai pnnr* cm withoat exception,tbe the .continent are rait tiam tralna. Firat-claM maala. 75c, 1 Attorney Law, Money to Loan on. Real Estate, Final Proofp Mftde, $ And -Collections ^Made. Suits Prosecatdtl.Defended Dakota and Minnesi 11 Conrta of Office one Door west of Bee Hive Store. WAHPETON, DAKOTA. MONTEEALLADNDBT Blankets Netg,-Ox'iiRrnes#^ WluR^^rnsiies a Curne^omba,' Opposite Poat office. ^utriiox, Dakota H. A. "WOK •0 DRUG(|lST, Prcscritions Carefully Com pounded. Opp. John If el son's Store. "WAHPETON, DAKOTA B. C. BERG Has #t the Northern Pticiflc^ dfepot.'Wafcftetoii. Dakota, a snfflcient supply of tip famous 0 0 5 From Underwood, Otteriail County, Minnesota, constantly on hand Better quality than anywnere else Bmuisl, Projriet C»nwr Seeiai Street aN lalnta Ifeaaej Sample Room and finest Doa1 ling Alley Jn tbe northwest ahpeton, Dakota^ CSitinental 'CHA.RLE8 PUOPUIKTOn First Clas* in eve?? «nm* THBD 0UR,« &m '-vg IU town. Orders for car load lots promptly attended to Comejand examine before pnrchasing. All at Lowest Prices. Lxxxii B. C.BERQ BOWLING AiLEY v'- And Sample Room 1 :,v'»