The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-12-18
DAKOTA ITEMS.
Fargo has a female barber.

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Fargo has snow drifts two stories high
Flour is worth 50 hundred in Dead
wood.
Ihc Roc.port Pioneer vii! bc rcmovct
to Alexandria.
Gray wolves prowl around the suburbs
Of Sioux Falls.
Land-hunters are swarming all over
northern Dakota
,:he Olivet Cronlcle has enlarged to {
five column quartO.
According to the Fargo Times, coal oil
has been struck miles north of there.
! A drunken Indian was run over by 8
train east of Brainard, on the P road.
Gen. Rosser, division engineer on the
Northern Pacific extension, has resigned
Z. Sharpe Il Co. Of Sioux Falls have
just procured the largest safe in the Terri
tory
Bonesteel & Turner -goodsmen at
Springfield, do business of $4,000 a
year.
A bear weighing 75O pounds was
brought into Dead wood a short time
since.
Thos. Van Etten, of Bismarck, has
thirteen boys all born in Bismarck il six
years.
Goose rapids on Red river are 10 be
locked and damned $2D,oJJ worth, nexl
spring.
Street lamps are being put up all over
the business portion Of Sioux Falls Light
is needed.
AT 10 o'clock on the morning of the
18th the til 'rm ,ne:cr indicltcl l}o be
low zero at Fargo
George Evans, late CLERK of Rockbort
hash house, is reported to have married
Il German girl worth $50 600
The Pembina Pioneer claims to b. in
the highest northern latitude any paper
publ shed in the United States.
The Storm of thc lO1h al,nrtn tne North
ern Pacific was without parallel in th,
known history of Dakota biizzlrts
Il is expected regular trains will b. run
ming over the Springfield branch Of tn e
Milwaukee road by the frs: of January.
The train oa the Northern Pacific on
he l)th tett .Sism ,rck witn far ensin S
and evniag found it oalv sixty nils out =.
The NJ & st Z company will ,eceive
and deliver ;ght at the Missouri river
town, opposite Niobrara. at the beginning
of the new year.
The Milwaukee road is putting up an
extensive ware house opposite Niobrara
and making other preparations for d
steamboat landing.
A petition to congress has been mum er-
ously signed in the Black Hills asking
that Judge Moody's salary be increased
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Game IS very plenty in the nelghbor-
hood of Pierre. An old Indian brought
n twelve deer the other day as the result
.ot three days hunting.
Four Schwans have bsen arrested a s
wheat.thieves near Casselton. They ar G
brothers and their depre lations have
amounted to hundreds OF bushels.
L. B. Boomer and Engineer Dame, Of
the Northern Pacific roal, are examining
the Missouri river at Bisn arcls, with II
view to bridging the muddy caasm
Judge Mood ey is in favor of the admis
sion of Dakota as single state. If the
territory Is divided, however, iio says It
ought to be on the forty-sixth parallel!
The Elk Point Courier says, During
the last six months II J Brace has pur-
chased over 5000 head of cattle in Union
and Clay counties Most Of the cattle
were shipped to Iowa, where they will be
corn fed during the winter.
Judge Moody Of the Black Hills dis
trict has decided that the Ophir location
is invalid by reason Of its discovery hav
been made within the limits Of the Gjld
en- Terra location. Plaintiff appeals :.
The case involves Ss,000,000.
The railroad IS about finished IN Nj O.
brara, and working operations will cease
for time As soon as the weather will
permit, the whole force will go to work ON
Il, work on The Yanktnn line. snd It will
he pushed through with ali possible eoeei
A messure has been intrpi 'cal iria
ilst.ifsress 20 make the GiaY rseetgei i'y
mo, -. late egisf rf an
even value with gold a tine 'aeh pay
menis were made, and ala, TO give them
six per cent interest on sill such amounts
70 present time. 500. 900, 1000 are appro
sovno sniutfaO to carry