Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-13
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

NORTHERN DAKOTA.
The court house at Grand Forks is near
" completed.
The Episcopal church at Bismarck i,
nearly completed.
Building operations are going on exten.
sively in Grand Forks.
A new Catholic two story school will be
built in Bismarck soon.
The North Pacific extension is graded
100 miles west of Bismarck.
Red River valley ID booming With rail-
roads and business Of oil kinds.
Ar-mua sociable was one Of the novelty
entertainments at Grand Forks last week.
Half amillion dollars worth of farm
machinery has been sold at Fargo this year.
Bismarck has plenty Of amusement this
iall. two theatres. . free and easy, and a
Jail.
A movement ia on foot to organize Mason.
ic and Odd Fellow lodges in Grand
Forks.
Wheat has averaged higher in Crookston
this fall than at any point on the Northern
Pacific.
Fargo has = Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen who will give a ball Thanksgiving
evening.
The land Office business at Croekston was
better for the month Of October than at any
time this year.
Every available building in Grand Forks
that ia suitable for storing wheat ia filled
with that cereal.
Regular trains will commence running
between Grand Forks and Terhune Land
ing in q few days.
The United States land office at Fargo,
was closed last Wednesday, in memory Of
ex.Secretary Chandler.
appointed superintendent of the Fargo and
Grand Forks stage line.
NJ. j. Duffy. who was so badly burned by
q prairie fire near Drayton, died a few DAYS
since from the effects Of it.
Charley Gurley, of Fl. Stevenson, has
been promoted to first lieutenant Of his
company I'D" 9th infantry.
Maj. A. w. Edwards has his printing
material on the ground and will soon
launch the Fargo Daily Argus.
1t is predicted that jamestown will for a
year or % improve and grow as rapidly
as Fargo has for the last year or two.
Another department has been added to
the public schools of Bismarck, and teach
ers of superior ability have been secured.
The Casselton branch cf the Northern
Pacific is graded out about eighteen miles.
The line runs within one mile of Rush
river.
Hon. Ansley Gray's personal property is
advertised for sale by the sherin at Bismarck.
That sale will wind up Ansley's interest in
Dakota.
The earnings of the North Pacific for
October were $25S, 900 against $3.50, 900 for
the same month last year. Wheat is the
cause of this great increase.
L. Mitchell is the buyer that the Mime.
apolis Miller's association have permanent
ly located in Fargo. There are now six
competing buyers at this place.
New quarters are to be built for the
troops at Fort Buford. The steamer Sher-
man landed there November 9TH with the
material and a force Of mechanics to erect
the same,
Twelve four horse stages leave Bismarck
for Deadwood every week loaded with ex.
press and passengers. Over one thousand
teams are employed by the same company
in f%reighting between Bismarck and the
Black Hills.
The entries at the Fargo land Office for
August, September and October covered
297, sol acres. For a year at that rate the
business will be one million and two hun
dred thousand acres against a million for
the last fiscal year.
The wheat shipments to date are double
what they were last year. To February,
1879, the wheat cars from Fargo were 200,
and thus far, since harvest, they have been
about $500. The demand for cars still
keeps up. The wheat boom is a fact.
The official report of the yield on the
Dalrymple farms near Casselton is 22O, 900
bushels, with an average of twenty bushels
to the acre. On the Grandin farm the aver
age was the same on a total of l2O, 900 BUSH
els on six Thousands acres. Cass county il
reaching for the honor of being the leading
wheat county of the United States.
A new scheme will be adopted soon for
the sale of North Pacific lands. They will
be sold, say for the purpose of illustration,
at $3.50 cash, or on time at Z per cent, de-
ferred payments to be made in cash at $500
per acre, one-fourth down; or at $500 il
preferred stock; or at $500 per acre in
preferred stock one-fourth down and bal
ance on time to be paid in cash or in
stock.
The story of Senator Spencer's Ratchet
duel, is corroborated by Major Edwards, an
intimate personal friend Of the Alabama
statesman. The MI. Hall who was to fgh,
the duel with Spencer, is now his partne,
in the Dorango mine in the Black Hills
For this mine they have an offer of $3.50,
600, and Mr.. Spencer present visit 10 Dead,
wood is in connection with the transfer tc
the New York investors.
John WEIGH, q switchman, was killed il
Fargo on the 7th inst. At about 11:2O p
M, he attempted to jump on the real enc
Of the tender as the switch engine wa
backing, slipped and fell under the wheels
and was dragged some little distance, cut
ting. him nearly in two at the lower part o
the body. He lived about two hours. Tht
deceased was for many years yard master a,
the den0k 0f ona IF tho p.;roiDol cod -.