Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-20
NORTHERN DAKOTA

A new depot u building ii Mandan and
= new grocery house, with q 5000 stock,
his been opened.
Gov. Austin savs the Fargo land odice>is
doing the largest business Of any land office
10 the United States. ~
,6ssamboating on the Yellowstone is end.
edtfor this year. and that stream il nov
more like % wet ribbon than a river" ny
Fort Keosh, 26o miles west Ct Bismarck,
Il 1000 feet higher than Bismarck, and q
100 feet higher than the level Of the sea.
Tom Ryan, . wood-hawk at Carroll, on
the upper Missouri, vas murdered recently
BY somebody who thought he was selling
wood to the steamboats, too cheap.
The government telegraph line has been
completed to Standing Rock and il working.
To complete the circuit through the Indian
country the government has purchased the
private line from Helena to Fort Ellis.
The half breeds sent into Fort Buford by
Gen. Miles have been released, and those
belonging to the Dominion are marching
under military escort back to their home.
Thus 60 the fruits of Indian warfare.
jamestown carried off the prize At the
Minneapolis fair for the largest and beat
display of vegetables. When the exhibitor
returned home the citizens presented him
with . purse Of 500.
Capt. Wm. Harmon, post-trader at Fort
Lincoln. 10 testing the p%roftableness of the
cattle business in this section. On the op
poalte eide of the river he has picked out
. fine range, where the land will not b. in
demand for farming, and the springs are
like the hills. eternal.
On Monday of last week a freight tain
on the northern Pacific road ran into a LOT
Of horses, killing five horses and landing
the engine, tender and one car in the ditch,
but fortunately none of the train men were
injured. The horses belonged to Wells
Brothers who were driving a herd of cattle
from the Yellowstone to Glyndon.
Peter Seims, of the Black Hills Stage
company, is going into the cattle business
on Tongue river. he will send doc" Ar.
mington next winner to Oregon and there
buy five thousand head and drive them
across the mountains and down the Yellow
stone valley to his proposed range on Ton
que river. Cattle are very cheap in Oregon.
Wells Brothers, of Montana, are driving
their herd Of Eve hundred head of cattle
across the country from Bismarck to Glyn-
don where they expect to recover the adj
vantage Of competitive railroad rates. That
fact suggests the possibility of Glyndon be.
coming . cattle point others have more
such herds coming this way. They hint
that they may 90 to Lake Kampeska and
thence via the Northwestern to Chicago.
Bismarck correspondence Pioneer.P ress,
1lth : In the trial Of the Mandan towneite
caees, resulting fayorably to the Northern
Pacific railroad fherA vsa an ines.a.t ;ro
scene. The attorney Of the railroad com
pany. made the point that the company were
f.t in possession, and the Jumpers Of the
lots were therefore tresp.assers. Being in
possession, the Jumpers had no rights over
The railroad company. It being question
Of law, Judge Barnes said to the jury:i
"Gentlemen Of the jury, your yer
dict is for the plaintiff in the sum Of six
cents damages" John J. Jackman, one of
the jurors answered back: 'That may be
your verdict, your honor, but it isnot mine"
His honor silenced him by suggesting that
the sheriff was an ofcero Of his court. Jack.
hans effort to explain was not successful.
sYour verdict is tor the plaintiff" That
Vas explanation enough. At the same term
Of court Judges Barnes threatened To put
bis shorthand reporter into the "cooler;;"
limited to ono Of the attorneys that he had
4 notion to bounce him from the bar, and
told another that he didn't know anything.
The judge makes his court interesting.
Msndan 10 o free from legal entangle-
ments, and with the grade Of the extension
completed for seventy-6ve miles, and the
track laid for thirty.seyen, the OMAHA Of
the Northern Pacific hopes to get new life
aud . fresh send-of.