Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-17
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cry another season.
The best lots in Mandan sell for four or
five hundred dollars.
A grand ball was given in jamestown last
Wednesday evening.
Fargo considers it most necessary to have
FIRE department without delay.
jamestown is preparing to be the coming
town between Fargo and Bismarck.
Judge Barnes elegant new residence at
Fargo is about ready for occupancy.
Lots Of frmsiin Fargo are doing a bust
ness. Of one thousand dollars per day.
Tower City is a new Town on the Northern
Pacific, about seven miles from Jamestown.
In nine days the receipts at the elevator,
in Fargo from wagons, were $4,000 bushels.
A man in Jamestown got on a three story
drunk one day last week, and dislocated his
shoulder.
The Brooks brothers, Of Grand Forks are
building an elevator, with a capacity Of So
600 bushels.
A man living in Fargo has the refusal Of
thirty-two thousand acres of Northern
Pacific land.
The land department of the Northern
Pacific, will soon begin to sell lands west
of the Missouri.
McMonigan, a brakeman, smashed two
fingers and q thumb, left hand, at Casselton,
Thursday afternoon.
A man, living near Valley City, raised
$50 bushels of corn in the ear, from less
than Il acres Of land.
A man named Olson who laid out on Sat-
,rdo~ o;,hK 81 Eorro 1;oI FROM, snAn otiap
Of the lungs the next day.
The new addition of the Headquarters
hotel will be opened on the first of Deem
Der, with a ball and q supper.
1t is estimated that ten thousand people
will locate within the limits of Stutsman
and Barnes counties in another season.
Considerable wheat, stored at various
stations along the line ofthe Northern Pa.
ci6c, has been stolen by nocturnal thieves.
T. c. McCracken, station agent Of the St.
p. & NJ. r. r. at Crookston, has been dis
covered to be a defaulter and has been ar.
rested.
One of the Fargo lumber yards, sold, this
season, 4,000,000 feet of lumber, foul car
car loads Of paper.
Aparty who owns a large tract Of land in
Barnes county says that the enterprises to be
undertaken in the vicinity of Sanborn next
year are simply colossal.
j. w. Barnum the great sewing machine
tucker man, owns a great deal of land in
Barnes county. He received $4,000 roy
atty from one manufacturer.
The Northern Pacific up to date, Nov.
10th, forwarded from Fargo more than
twice as many cars loaded with wheat -
the whole shipment Of last year.
The jamestown Alert thinks the name OF
that town ought to be changed, as the CAPT
toll of a large state lin prospect) ought to
: have q more romantic name than Jim
town.
Mr.. =. F. Doran, who has been in charge
of the Northern Pacific rolling stock al
/. Duluth, has been transferred to the same
position on the Missouri division, with head
. quarters at Bismarck.
Lucien Barnes Of Cass county hauled 1O4
> bushels and 40 pounds of wheat at one load
!. into Fargo last Saturday, with enc span o
horses. The times says he wants to SCI
q somebody's team beat it if they can.
&C. Carr, runner for the Campbell
House, at Glyndon, on Wednesday morning
. had a lively tussle with one of the waite
girls at the railroad restaurant. She threw
HIM and broke his leg. Muscular girl.
Fargo Times: The cultivated acresg,
Of Cass county this year, was 100000 acre.
Ninety thousand acres were in wheat, yield
. ing 100000 bushels of number one wheat
:. There were $4,000 additional acres broker
this season.
70 Mrs. Rec, . Bismarck actress, the Fare
Times says, il the John Sherman of he
IS family. She owns two farms that she pal,
several thousand dollars for, with her earn
lngs from the stage, upon which difereu
members OF her family reside.
J. Fargo Times: The coal that E. 81. Ri
10 taking out. west of the Missouri, is use
IN the locomotives on the extension, an
will be by the Bismarck Touring mill. TIL
n demand Is already greater than the suppl
=. be has mined. 1t can be put down in ia
ID 60 a $5 per ton.
G. G. Beardsley and staff have returne
he to Largo for the winter. Beardsley has hi
tn charge of the surveyors who we're 4 voI
ID in Traill and Pembina counties. RI.
n have surveyed fourteen townships il, Trai
~ W county, and eight townships in Pembi,
NC county, all of which have been taken nm |
ssttlsrs. =
According to the Times. VIM, Cobleir
ing Of Moorhead, intends to build . skati,
ties RINK on the ice just south of the railro,
bridge, as soon as Jack Frost bridges d
: = river over sufficiently strong. The ri
rel will be .5Ox25O feet in size, aud will Ca
ms tain we'll warmed and lighted reception al
refreshment rooms. "
tile Fargo Times: Mr.. Pratt, of Wiupip.
representing the Hamilton Powder co.er
oF ny, Ontario, loaded twenty.four mule ~
ing on Tuesday with forty tons Of powder bou