Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-07
NORTHERN DAKOTA,

UGUV VANILLA,
Crookston has q third paper-,he North
err Tier.
Bismarck sidewalks are in a demoralized
condition.
The Valley City Times is a first elias.
local paper.
Pemhina has organized a social and
dramatic club.
The laying of the N. p. track will 70 on
in the face Of winter.
Thousand dollar cottages are built in Far
60 inside OF Q month.
The Presbyterian church at Fargo was
dedicated last Sunday.
Brick is SIG a thousand at Valley City,
and wood $3.50 per cord.
Brick 10 Fargo 10 In lively demand ii If
teen dollars per thousand.
Capt. Maratta, of Bismarck, owns the
fastest morse IN that city.
Buford had a taste of the real old FASH
Toned blizzard October Goth.
An ameateur rendition of Pinafore is
being talked of in Bismarck.
Grand Forks Is anxious 10 have a United
States land Office this winter.
Eighty passengers left Bismarck going to
the Black Hills in n week.
A postofice has been petitioned for near
the mouth Of the Wild Rice river.
The Pembina Tioaeer reports the wheat
crop yielding 4l1ss bushels per acre.
There are over seventy thousand bushels
of wheat stored in n elevator in Fargo.
The Pembina Pioneer of October 30th,
nofoa tho aersva1 IS C,... d.. IT
Hand.
Crookston and Grand Forks are connec.
ted by a railroad, and now they are
happy.
Miss Truesda!l has lately purchased five
thousand dollars worth Of real estate in Cass
county.
A portion of the material for the new
paper at Fargo, the Daily Argus-has
arrived.
The Pembina Pioneer has just completed
its first SO cents worth-as it were-of
Pioneer.
The Bismarck Pirafotc troup is contem-
plating a trip through the towns of North
ern Dakots.
Newton Porter has been appointed supe,-
intendent Of the Fargo, Grand Forks and
Pemblna stage line.
A cit zen Of Fargo who wanted to escape
the marshal, took a short cut to Moorhcat,
and swan the river.
U S. Marshal Raymond figures in the
real estate transfers, ut the Fargo land office,
as a heavy purchaser.
A son of Major Jack Garland. at Fl. Lin
coin, was crushed to death by the upse.ting
Of a government wagon.
Robert Ray. of Belmont, who was report
ed dead has denied the r,pcrt IN a commu-
~n,cation to the Fargo Times.
The beavers are eating down the pile
bridges on the n. P. extension. There
is consequently a lively war on the beavers.
There are two potatoes on exhibition at
the Sheridan House, Bismarck, raised on
sod turned over last spring well hing 81 lbs.
each.
A farmer living near Fargo, raised ca, .
bage measuring four feet and three inches
in circumference and weighing thirty-Corr
pounds.
The Grand Forks Herald contains q full
and elaborate financial statement of the
condition Of Grand Forks county. in their
issue of October 30lh.
CO.. Lounstu!y has succeeded in making
his Bismalck %postoeice second class, with 8
salary of two thousand dollars per year and
office rert, and CLERK hire additional.
Almond Wylie, near Valley City, died
from the effect Of a shot gun being discharg-
ed in his hand. 1t was the shock to his
nervous system that caused his death.
The BABY Mine" coal mine across the
river from Bismarck has eighteen men at
work upon it now The proprietors will
endeavor to supply the Bismarck market.
The lateness Of the Bismarck Tribune
last week was caused by the foreman skip
ping out after making numerous forgeriea, a
sick printer, another IF his "ker base" and
the devil" being full.
A man by the name of Hurbert employ.
ed in the Northern Pacific yards at Bis
marck had one of his legs crushed in a
horrible manner between two cars while
attending to his duties.
Mr.. Steele. proprietor of the noted Steele
farm in Cass county, finds use for mules by
the car load on his great farm. He will
seed twelve hundred acres next spring
and break up twelve hundred acres add
tional for 1881.
Grand Forks %rejoices IN being able to an:
uSonSS J tAdSh OCtWCCuC 0IkU
and F saer's Landing is laid, and Thai Inc
first through train arrived on the Minnesota
side within half a mile of Grand Forks a,
three O'Clock Friday, Oct. 3lst.
Bismarck Tribune: An effort should be
made to extend the survey about Bismarck
The call for land during the past month
has been unprecedented and the need OF
more surveyed land most keenly felt.
There are now more people in this vicinity
living on unsurveyed land than on tina,
which has been located by the government
surveyor.
The Red River presbytery at Fargo, wa.
organized last week. Rev. D. r. Breed
preached a powerful sermon on tie enemies
of the gospel. Rev. o. II. Elmer, of More
head, was elected moderator. The churches
Of Fergus Falls, Western Moorhead, Fargo
Bismarck. Elm River, Grand Forks, Turtle
River. Forrest River and Pembina, are
embraced in this presbytery. Tomorrow
morning Mr.. Breed will preach a sermon
at the dedicatory services of Fargo Presby
terrain church, and in the evening a sermon
Of ordination of Rev. Nj. Stevens o