Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-13

Int Fargo 1ltnes saws tn9t the great Oulk
nj The Bi.ma,ck 4 Hills s.aec cnsnpsny'.-
freight will 20 BY the southern Dakota
routes this year.
Bishop Mar,i, of Dakota, ia said to have
snlgResied the name Of T,ntah, which in the
Sioux LAM usge signifies 'prairie," a. aname
for the new territory.
Lisbon ia . new town, located about in
the center Of Ransom county. on the Shey.
-nne river, with aspirations of sometime
being the county seat.
The young ladies of Jamestown give sdr.
prise parties to their gentlemen II ends al
their places Of business. They furnish their
own music and refreshments.
Fargo hid its drst thunder storm a few
nights sgo, accompanied With rain. hail etc.
lightning struck in two places killing two
dogs that were lying on the hear,hs,ones.
The Fargo Daily Argus Of April 9Th
CO mes out just double it's usual size. Most
Of its extra space is devoted to a description
Of Hubbard, Spencer 4 Co.'S. hardware pal
ace.
List GUNNER Wahpeton was composed Of
half a dozen hnnsea. Harvest was hardly
over before building commenced and by
mid-winter some thirty five houses we're
erected.
Wm Root. of Wshpeton i. giving awav
building lOta to any one who will improve
the same, suhj letting the transfer to the con.
dition that no liquor is to be sold upon the
premises.
The Fargo Argus is coming to the from,
in a vrrv ladylv manne jn putting forward
N. K. Hubbard fnr mayor Of Fargo. 1t is
most cOmmendable, considering the events
VI the past few months.
The man who winked at the Sheridan
house, Bismarck, waiter girl. and was asked
il he had weak eyes. will not do 90 any
more, as he has discovered that the' carries
a "pop' in her hip.pocket.
The Bnis de Sioux river at Richlsnd
raised Mt the rate Of two inches an h,ur y
short time sg, necessiiatlne the remnval ri
the bridge 81 that place. 1t viii be replsc-
ed as snOn as the waters sunside.
A family BY the name Of Grspdin have II
full township near and vest Of Elm river
10 Trait county. Thew will lease it 10 farm.
Of six hundred and fnrty acres each, and
prepare one HUNDRED acres tor the lessee.
Seeding commenced at Jamestown, &C
cording TO the Alert. aud other points on
the North Pacific on the 22ad VI March,
Notwithstanding all the hue aud CRY made
by outside papers in relation to snow and
ice.
Kensington is a new town 10 Pemhins
county, In that vicinity last year ten acre.
would cover all the blowing done, nov
over two hundred acres are ready Enr E
nsd double that amount will be mao,
ready.
immigration is 80 on the Increase a
Tower City, that stores, houses, blacksmith
shops and every nook and corner are pressed
into service for sleeping rooms for new
comers. The hotels accommodate nearl,
one hundred.
The Valley City Times tells of a man
who lives four miles from 'here. who hat
forty acres sown March 3Oth, and of another
man who worked all day in the field bare
footed the same day, aud attended a dance
in the evening.
II never could enjoy poetry when Tn
cooking" said a Vale, City girl, ''but wh.r
[ 20 out to feed the pigs and chickens am
hist myself onto the fence and throw N,
soul into q few lines of Captain Jinks, i
does seem as il this airth was made to live il
after ALL"
At a meeting Of the vestrv Of the Epis.
copsl church held at Grand Forks recently
The organization If The parish was com.
pie,ed and q name selected. Work on S.
Paul's church will be commenced ns 500,
-s brick can be procured at the Grand Fork,
brick yard. The lots are to be decided Il
Bishop Clnrkson in trust for the church.
Northern Pacific Times: Last Monday
at evening, with the mercury at 6ftv degrees
above and the western sky as starry az 8
soldiers coat, with prairie fres burning in
all directions. there came the most rapid
fall OF SNOW Of the largest fakes and The
most Of them while the storm continued
VIII CHI was some fifteen or twenty minutes
that We ever had the pleasure Of seeing.
A Bismarck telegram dated April s,h
contains the following: The Indians in the
vicinity of Ferry Point have been getting
restless, as the grass has heightened. They
are %vlciously inclined. Companies E. and
C.. Of the second cavalry have had an en-.
xagement with the ho-tiles thirty. five miles
1ou h Of the Point The troops captured
forty-eight ponies hut the Indians escaped.
One soldier was killed and two wounded.
A Bismarck telegram in regard to the
city election, April 9Th. saws: "a very
exciting election took place to day in this
city for this. among other reasons, that a
desperate eff ,rt va. made BY the general
klckers to break up what had been known
az a ring. But the .h~oroughbreds won BY
over two hundred majority, the largest ever
reached here. Geo. Peoples, for mayor,
and the entire democratic ticket we're
elected"
The devil of the jamestown Alert, taking
advantage Of the absence of Marshal Nc.
Clure. the editor, ito zee his girl" takes the
occasion to give his superior the following
character: "Whil. he ia here he takes de-
light in abusing and 'cu.-ing' the 70, eman
up hill and down; that il. il things dom,
move fast enough to suit him. He is the
wlckedest man in the territory sn neve,
has been known TO 20 to church. He play.
penny ante, steals cigars from MAJ. Lyons,
aud wears my Shirts"
The new Methodist church at Bismarck
will be seventy feet long and thirty.six fee,
wide with an ornamental front and a steepIr
one hundred feet high. The auditorium
will he ffty-,bree by thirty foul with q
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