The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-11
Territorial News.

Wheat is delivered in Grand Forks at
the rate of 5000 bushels per day.
There are twenty seven saloons in Grand
Forks, five of which opened out for bust
ness during the week ending Oct. 30.
The Bismarck land office boasts of being
the best equipped aud shandsomest fur 8
nished government office in the territory.
A short time since the grain warehouse
of Mr.. Metler, at Grand Forks, bulked out
at the sides, and 1900 bushels of wheat
were spilled Oh the ground.
A youthful couple named John Hans
man, nineteen years of age, and Tena
Spiering, seventeen, both of Trail county
were made one the other day at Fargo.
A mink killed thirteen brown Leghorn
chickens in Tower City one night last
week, aud paid for it the next night by
putting his foot IN steel trap and having
his head blown off
A. H. Daniels, while digging a we'll
near Plankington, found beautiful sea
shell eighty six feet below the surface of
the earth, and pieces Of timber down at a
depth of one hundred feet.
Venison and antelope are exposed fol-
sale in Vermilion in great plenty. Both
deer and antelope are reported to abound
on the streams in the vicinity of the town
and an occasional elk has been seen.
A young lady in Sioux Falls, the other
evening, while on her way to attend s
ball, slipped and fell on the street. She
was not injured, but her balldress was g
sight to see, covered with slush and mud
Over 5000 bushels of wheat were solo
| in Parker during October, The weather
during half of the month was so severe
! that marketing was out of the question
| The wheat this month is coming in lively
| and much of it runs No. Ezra.
! There is on exhibition in Deadwood {
/ bride made OF hair by man in the Utah
| penitentiary. It was sent to a friend il
that city to be ratified off, the proceeds tC
| so to the manufacturer to purchase lux
urles that the territory does not furnish.
The Elk Point Courier says if a prairie
fire were to start in that country under {
strong wind, it would burn one.half tht
grain and hay stacks aad one fourth the
| grain and hay stacks and one-fourth the
| buildings in the county, SO few precau-
! lions have been taken against fire.
! Grand Forks Herald Wheat is com
| ing into Grand Forks now at the rate Of
! about 5000 bushels day-all No. hard
! Ele 'a:or men expect that within thu
next two weeks the total receipts will be
between 10000 and $4,000 bushels a week
| Pillsbury & Cos. elevator alone has aver
| aged over 900 bushels day for the cur
! rent week At present farmers are de-
! voting all their time to getting their fall
/ blowing done, and consequently do not
! take time to thresh; hut after it freezes UP
/ look out for boom in the wheat NJ arket
/ Elk Point Courier: A week ago Mon
day the bodies of Mrs. Lundquist and hel
! son, a boy four years old, were found il
the snow two miles northwest Of Big
! Springs, in this country. Mrs. Lundquist
was a widow living alone in house with
he1 son. As near as can be ascertained
! during the storm on Friday night, III
house caught fire. She removed the DO,
. from the house few rods, wrapping hin
up in robe and returning to the house t.
save the furniture. She worked until sh
sank exhausted in the snow beside the
house where her body was found lhre
days later. The boys body was wher'
! she had laid him. OF all the accidents o
the late storm, this is by far the saddles
/ that has come to our knowledge. Til
bodies wer taken charge of by the neigh
bors and buried the 2lst ult. in the Bap
tisl cemetary near Big Springs