Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-24
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

Mapleton needs another hotel.
The Caledonia mills are shut down.
Judge Barnes has returned to Fargo.
Five families are on their way to Fargo
from Maine.
Bnrglarizing is the order of the day at
Jamest)wn.
Eggs are az scarce and high in Bismarck
as in Deadwoed.
The Bismarck stage company discharged
ffty.two men last week.
Bismarck has yet to see a pawn shop in.
side its business precincts.
Fargo has a checker king who can solve
the gem puzzle bllndfolded.
A new post off e called Armenia has been
established north Of Casselton.
An effort was made a short time ago to
rob the pos.ofice at jamestown.
The Grand Forks land Office will
surely be opened by April 18th.
Newberg has had but one death this vim
ter, but "oh the births aud babies"
Two passenger trains left jamestown the
10Th, one for Fargo and one for Bismarck.
The Northern Pacifc's pay roll at Bic
marck, mounts to about 5000 a month.
A number of fine buildings are being
pushed to rapid completion IT Grand Forks.
A number Of counterfeit nickels and sill
yer half dollars are in circulation in Bis.
marck.
The Plaindesler Office at Grand Forks
claims to do as fine work as any Office in the
territory
psN-,@.~V,S, h.or& a-n~ ---> - -..-I
ball at the Sheridan house last Wednesday
evening.
Nearly ten tons of mail matter accumnla.
ted at jamestown during the late snow
blockade.
Bergen, a former editor of the Wahpeton
Gazette, ia preparing TO start q Scandinavian
paper at Fargo.
On Monday March 18th, the first train
reached Fargo from Bismarck, slnce the
miedle Of February.
St. Patrick's day was duly observed in
jamestown, winding up with q grand ball
at the jamestown hotel in the evening.
The Bismarck Tribune severely c@nsure.
the Nor,h-ru Pacific railroad company fol
not sending the malls through by wagon.
Fargo hss a poet who ia about to astoni4h
the world with his words OF song. Spring
Warhlings nov ready at ten centp per yard
The Baptist society Of Fargo will have "a
regular pastor after April lat The mex,
thing 10 order will be y new church build.
Jog.
Two leading citizens ofGrand Forks "mis
understood each other" the other day, anC
one If them shot the end off the others littl,
hnger.
A public meeting has been held at New
berg to consider the feasibility Of the open
ing Of the old road between that place anc
Grand Forks. =
Fargo'e new gem theater was formal,
opened last Wednesday evening. The Ar.
qua devotes \ column Of space giving q full
description Of it.
The Fargo Republican Incredibly inform
ed thai the St. Paul, M,nneapoli. & Mani
tobs R.R. will be extended from Barnesvill
to Fargo this year.
Sundry improvements have been mad
1abou, the Bismarck Tribune Office and
now b asts the pleasantest editorial sanctul
on the Northern Pacific.
A leap year ball occurred At the North
We tern hotel ut Mandsn, q ehort time axe
that vas the finest affair ever known 10 Ii
history Of Motion county.
A .pecial election has been called
jamestown Tor the 6r.t Tuesday in April
cleo. a superintendent Of achools,a Jus,i,
Il Of the pesce. and a coroner.
A years subscription TO the Bismarck T,
: bune Gill be given thc youns lady Of Ri
mark stc, during The year 1880. ~cul,ivA,
the finesi flower garden in ,hs, city.