Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-20
WESTERN NEWS.

NEBRAAKA,
Chas. Deolier Of Cedar county has fifty
peach trees heavily loaded With delicious
fruit.
The Omaha hotels are crowded and bus
iness and building generally in that city is
improving.
Clay csunty boasts Of a mar 6 feet Z in
his Rocking feet and Fillmore county has
one weighing 800 pounds.
E. w. Buser Of Richardson county this
year raised . peach that measured eleven
inches in circumference.
"A union church building TO be used BY
the different religious denominations ,asdto
cost $4,000, il to be erected At Niobfars.
A party Of a half . dozen immigrants
from Dallas county lows. bound for Mo
brars, passed through Jackson on Monday.
James Burke. an Omaha gambler, shot
and killed o Texas cattle man named Morris
Weihle last Saturday, with whom he had
been playing pool and quarreled over the
game. Ht;|
Jackson Herald: On the Sioux City and
Pembina road the railroad boys .slow up"
and steal melons BY the wayside. but on the
narrow gusge road they do 1t without slow
ing-up."
Ponca Journal: I'VE have o subscriber
who talks 80 different languages. including
Choctaw and 'Feejee. He can swear In 800
the key Of g and never. break down. Yet,
With all these varied accomplishments he is
a very modest mar, and, never ,blows!"
On Sunday night, the first instant the
Touring mill Of Holt & Webb, at Dewitt,
0~0s-aI -. 49, o~s:.us~ Nn.k an,rnl H., G.n
entailing a loss of about $40, 600, on which
mill contained, Mt the time Of the fire, H.
600 bushels of grain and 400 barrels of
-four.
There are three threshing machines ip
full play In tho U'Nell4colony, and graft is
is averaging about Is bushels to the acre,
rye from II to % and barley and oats are
both splendid crops. the former going as high
as forty and forty-ive. snd the later sixty
five and seventy bushels.
NORTHERN DAKoTA.
A Tr,pp club has been organized at Bis
marck.
The North Pacific county SHIPPED 75,-
600 bushels of wheat to Duluth last week
also 1000 barrels of -four. The wheat is
all MOL
st. Paul Pionecr-Press: Col. Vim.
Thompson, Thomas Van E,ten, and G.. w.
Thompson yesterday placed on exhibition
the products raised by themselves and
Others at Bismarck, Dakota territory. The
collection comprises water and musk-mel-
Ions. squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers, on
wheat and oats threshed and 10 the ,sheaf,
corn In the stalk, md burberry trees loaded
with fruit, and wine made from the latter.
All the articles of garden truck are large
and Of the best quality. The wheat and
oats equal the best samples on exhibition
from any locality, and are so pronounced by
millers that have inspected them. The
wheat and Data were sown May Sd, and cut
July 80. THIS exhibit of the products rails.
ed at the terminus of the Northern Pacific
railroad, in the Missouri valley, demon
stratea the fact that that locality, supposed
to be too dry for successful farming, can
produce grain and other products that equal
that of any Other, locality, both a. regards
size, quality, and quantity to the acre.
MINNESOTA.
In Mobiles county buyers are paying 20
cents fol, No. 4 wheat.
Work has commenced on the Chatheld
railroad on the 9Th inst.
The Henderson masonic lodge has con-
tributed $23 to the yellow fever fund.
The Alden cheese factory Of Freeborn
county, has made 5000 pounds Of cheese
this season.
Mrs. Emily Crane of Sank Centre on her
Goth birthday walked q, distance of fifteen
miles in three hours and i've minutes
The %grasshoppers which recently visited
Mobiles county in considerable numbers
have disappeared. without depositing eggs.
Miss Lydia Austin, late matron Of the
state deaf and dumb asylum, was severely
injured at Owatonns by falling from . bug.
gy.
On the 22d of October the state auditor
will sell at Fairmont 45,305 acres of inter-
nal improvement lands and 28,098 acres of
school lands.
About $1,000 acres of international i'm.
arc to be sold BY the state auditor in Rem
vile county, October 29th. SO
In st. Johns. Kandiyohi county it was
found necessary to cut the corn before II
was ripe to keep the black birds from de-
.stroyine 1t. In the town of Mamre two
boys have during the past two or. three
weeks, killed between 5000 and 5000 black
birds.
BLACK HILLS NOTES.
DR.. c. w. Meyer reached Deadwooh on
his return from Ysnkton' on the 18TH
The masons Of Deadwood gave q ball on
the 18th for the benefit Of yellow fever suf-
ferers.
Seth Bullock, Capt. Hazerodt and j. F.
McKenna are the republican and John
Manning, JEFF McDsrmott and W. Fl. Stitt-
we'll the democratic aspirants for the office
OF sheriff ID Lawrence county.
The dead bodies of two men named o.
B. Davis and Geo. W. Heating, we'll known
horse and cattles thisves;-were found hang
ing TO q tree five miles north of Spearfish
on the. 18th, undoubtedly tho. work,of vigi.
lants Of spear6sh..s