Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-04
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

Bismarck is crying for new sidewalks.
A new Touring mill is being built in
Fargo.
Cssselton is having q healthful growth
this fall.
The celebrated opera Of Pinafore has
reached Bismarck.
The new elevator at Fargo has a capacity
Of 100000 bushels.
There ire ten locomotives being built for
the Northern Pacific.
Brick in Valley City is SIG per thousand,
and wood $3.50 per cord.
An effort is being made to organize q
Catholic church in Fargo.
One hundred new freight cars are being
built for the Northern Pacific.
The Pembina Pioneer is getting out ten
thousand immigration circulars.
Plans are prepared for the Methodist par
sonage 10 be built at Fargo this fall.
Tho safe Of prominent business firm in
Fargo was robbed of $l35 last week.
The Valley City post Office has been un.
going various changes aud improvements.
The Fargo Times is alleged to be the
handsomest paper on the line of the n. P,
r. R.
A now house for the sheriff will soon be
erected in Fargo, adjoining the cour,
house.
The Pembins Pioneer says q good deal
Of illegal "proving up"i is being done in th.t
county.
The Norwegian Lutheran church, of Far.
70, have the first brick church in Northern
Dakota.
Extensive additions and improvements
have been made to the Headquarters hotel
at Fargo.
Z. Wintermute, brother of the Winter
mute who killed General McCook, was in
Bismarck one day last week.
A man from Connecticut offered ten
thousand dollars, cash, for 4 section of land
three miles from Casselton, and was refused.
The coal mine, "Baby Nine" across the
river from Bismarck, is being worked, and
the market will soon be supplied with native
coal.
DR.. Darrow writes to the Fargo Times,
that Dakota vegetables and grain got away
with the frat premium Ut the Chicago ex.
position.
]. H. Hanson, of the Pioneer Press, St.
Paul, has been in Bismarck and Fargo,
gathering statistics for . paper devoted to
Northern Dakota.
Bismarck Tribune: A car load of horses
ON the st. Paul, Minnesota, and Manitoba
railroad was burned up in . car in broad
daylight, on their way TO Pembina.
Fargo Times: The reduction of the
army has gone too far. At Fort Lincoln
there isl company with one private and
three commissioned officers. The private
has an interesting time.
It is said that Fargo is to have + daily
morning paper. called The Argus, and that
the first number will be Issued some lime
in November. The Times intimates that
1t is to be Senator Spencer's Dakota organ.
The Bismarck Touring mill, another
Nlargest and best mill in the territory" will
have six run of stone, and be In running op-
Grafton in about two weeks. Next spring
an elevator will be built, adjoining the mill.
with . capacity of 100000 bushels.
Fargo Times: g. B. West, msnsxine
editor Of the Daily Courier, Chicago, in its
best days. came in Thursday. West will
start . daily; Edwards will start . daily,
and after twenty days they will consolidate
fand call It the mammoth hyphen of Red
River Valley.
The following is 9 list Of what Wa
gown this year on two-hfths of On aero Of
Dakota soil. the plat being AHA reds situ.
sted on the sheyenne river In Ransom
county: One double row Of Narrowfal
peas. ylelding2 bushels; % bushels Of car
ross;; 10 bushels Of onions; { bushels Of
Mood beetS; 81 bushels Of 6anoel Wurt.