Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-02
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

-
Judge Barnes, III Fargo, has seav essi.
There b . great amount Of sicxness 81
Fargo.
Barnes county has niue Organized SCHOOL
ditfictA
A deputy disrics attorney j. wanted kr|
Barnes county.
The Bismarck Tribune gained SO new
subscribers in January.
The jamestown Alert publishes q sup
plement With every issue.
TIE Bismarck Tribune Office is going to
have = new cylinder press.
Ten thousand acres Of land were broken
in Stutsmsn county In 1879.
Stutsman county has 600 people, 1870
farms, with 3.770 cultivated.
Fargo IL greatly interested in the organ.
izstion of . building association.
Madame farley and her wax works ex.
hibited At Valley City Feb. 10Th.
A Two s'orv brick block will soon be in
course of erection at Grand Forks.
A society has been organized in Valley
City called the Old Mems Blizzard associa.
ton.
A monster brick hotel three stories high
will be built at Grand Forks the coming
season.
Jamestown claims to have three Of the
best hotels along the line of the Northern
Pacific.
A genuine court martial has been in
session at Fort Bnford, with enlisted men
only on trial.
There are business men 10 B smarck who
have had goods on the way from the east
over fifty days.
The Fargo Republican comes out in an
entire new dre~, all new type and smaller
size than the old.
Antelope and deer roam within. gun
shot of the Sheridan house at Bismarck
every moonlight night.
About 10000 acres Of railroad land and
$500 of government lands bsve been
taken In Stutsman county. Z
The Bismarck Tribune wonders why
there isn't something done in Burleieh
county to encourage Immigration.
For miles .along some portions Of the
N. P. railroad o is shoveled up Oh
both sides of the track to the depth of
twelve feet
The Tribune a~nxioualy inquiries wby the
Bismarck boys will go east TO get married
when there are 60 many willing young
ladies at home.
Mr.. Thrope, who was on one of the snow
bound trains was robbed at a hotel in
Jamestovn of watch and money, SOM t1o
hundred dollars.
The extra edition of TN Bismarck Tri.
bune to be published April LIST, will be The
most valuable paper ever published on the
line of the Northern Pacific.
j. B. Chaplin, of Fargo, Ia candidate fol
the Office of mayor at the next city cleo
tion, and Capt. George Ebert. the present
mayor-being Q three termer-wiil become
q candidate for city marshal.
Major Bell, of the seventh cavalry, il
company with Capt. F. T. Clarity and fami
" of Fort Totten, were snow bound q
jamestown, the 26th of Feb. and will leav.
for st. Paul as soon as the condition of th.
road will warrant q safe trip.
]. The boundaries of the new Grand Fork.
land Office will include the counties Of
Grand Forks. Pembina. CAVALIER, Ramsey
DeSmet and Rolette. The department ha.
ordered all business heretofore transacted
for the new district at Fargo to be sus-
pended after March Goth.
A Bismarck telegram of Feb. Goth sayt
the snow blockade still continues. There ii
no sign of mail for ten days, perhaps till
spring, as solid ice has formed around the
rails between Bismarck and Jamesto "
which will have to be chopped out or thaw.
ed by the aun. There has been no mail
since the 18th.
Mr.. Adna Anderson, formerly connected
With the Toledo. Wabash & Western and
Erie railroads, has just been appointed chic
engineer of the Northern Pacific railway, il
expected to arrive in St. Paul and assume
the functions Of his new position this week
Mr.. Anderson is an engineer of much skill
and experience, and will be a valuable &C.
QUESTION to the Northern Pacific.
A jamestown telegram dated Feb. 10Th
Gays passenger train No. 8, which left Fargo
last Sunday morning with nearly three
weeks mail and forty passengers, arrived
here this afternoon at 5 o'clock, having been
four days on the road. The snow bucking
outfit which led the way, consisted of one
snow pillow, three engines and about one
hundred laborers. The outfit which leaves
here in the morning will consist of one
snowplow, three puahers and about 100 SHOW.
elers. 1t is Estimated that with the best OF
luck the outfit cannot dig through to Bis.
marck in less than six days.
The Bismarck Tribune says; Lieut.. G.
B. Walker. 9th infantry, arrived from Fort
Buford Monday night. The Lieutenant
j, en- route to Washington, having in charge
L. B. Spann, aprivate of Co. I, 9th infantry
who 10 to be placed in the government
asylum. spann was a regular paid up SUBJ
scriber to the Tribune, and became insane
over f~ruitless endeavors in tie poetic line
to produce a "pome' to be published at the
Tribune rate, $1.0O per line-the poor fel-
low imagined himself the Shakespeare of
the 10Th century. Though perfectly harm
less the serReant having him in charge
handcufed- him and put him 10 the Jail for
safe keeping until a train leaves for the
east. This almost broke the poets heart,
who had the sympathy of many who Wit
messed the scene.
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.