Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-02
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

Harvesting has commenced in Grand
Forks county.
. Harvesters are getting from two to three
dollars q day. around Fargo.
Wheat cutting isin progress all along the
line of the Northern Pacific.
The Odd Fellows Of Bismarck claim to
have the finest hall in Dakota.
Fargo is proud of its MI. All Hung and
Kun We Leung, "washee, washee allie
timee."
1t is claimed that the Red River valley
will produce six million bushels of wheat
this year.
The Fargo Independent is out with .
sixteen column history of Fargo and her
business men.
A party of the most noted editors in the
country was expected at Bismarck on the
first Of August.
Horse stealing is carried on with a high
hand in Grand Forks county. Judge Lynch
i, threatening a visit there if it continues.
Geo. H. Walsh purchased Grand Forks
county's $10,0 900 of Court House bonds at
par. The bonds draw 8 per cent interest.
The Clay County Advocate published at
Moorhead, devotes several columns of Its
! last issue to it's business men and its pros
poets.
An unknown lumber man attempted to
hang himself in the Leland house stable at
Brainerd, but was cut down in time to save
his life.
Mrs. Milan Howe, of Keyes' camp. west
of Mandan, shot herself below the kIee
with q revolver that she wa carelessly
handling.
Coal explorers have opened a four foot
vein Of coal, about ten miles west Of Bis
marck. which bids fair to be much better
than any coal vein heretofore discovered in
Dakota.
There has been a drying park association
organized at Fargo, six thousand dollars
having been subscribed, with the prospect Of
increasing it to twelve thousand, in further
ance of the project.
Peter Bannigan who shot and killed Pri.
vate Martingsle, Of the seventeenth infantry.
nearly three years ago, was acquitted on
the charge at his second trial at Bismarck
one day last week.
Andrew Delaney, recently an
employe Of the Fargo Republican. and
Frank D. Herbert of the Independent, have
started a paper at Caledonia, called the
Trail County Argus.
A young man by the name of John B.
Noyes attempted to commit suicide at the
Merchants hotel in Fargo, a few days ago,
by taking laudanum, but was discovered be.
fore it had fully taken effect and resuscitated.
No cause given.
Lieut.. Chance reached Bismarck on Wed.
nesday with a soldier named Clifford who
was shot in the camp of Co. e., on Badger
creek. 40 miles west of Mandan. on the line
of the extension. Clifford's wound Is SER
ious and may prove fatal.
1t is stated that F. R. Delano, Of St. Paul,
is to build about 40 miles Of railroad in Da-
kota, from Casselton due north, thence
northwesterly to the British boundary line
whence it is contemplated to ultimately
build it to the valley of the Asainaboine.
Fargo Times: Perhaps in no history O.
Fargo's existence have Improvements been
more rapidly made than at present. Build.
ing here, building there, building, building
everywhere. The demand for tenement
houses is very great and there is not a va.
cant house in the city.
The new post Office at Fargo Is receiving
It's last finishing touches. and Postmaster
Grant will move his effects therein next
week. The interior is most deliberately fin.
ished 10 pure metropolitan style, and was
designed and made BY the Yale Lock Man.
ufacturing company, of Stanford, Penn.
There are 1000 call boxes. $50 lock boxes.
Wednesday morning Martin Kelly. of Bis
marck who runs the water works at the
river. was tossed forty feet into the river,
the frame work being thrown down by 9
rapid rise gave way. and fell with the bank
into the river. He was wet but not hurt
thanks to the substantial character of the
s%caffolding on which he was at work.
Jamestown Alert: During the firing OF
a salute at Fl. Totten on the 9TH, one of the
guns prematurely vent off while the rammer
was being withdrawn, resulting in private
F. H. Thomas who was acting as No. l, OF
rammer of the squad, having the little fin.
ger Of his left hand blown of, also stripping
the flesh off the finger next to it; private
Isaac Shay who was thumbing the piece
had, by the discharge Of gas through the
vent, his thumb broken.
Fargo Times: Commodore Andrus, the
active general eastern agent of the N. P
railroad, has turned the attention Of number
of New England people to the valley. A
number Of prominent Catholics, of Boston
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