Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-22
NORTHERN DAKOTA.


NORTHERN DAKOTA.
Grand Forks claims to be the rival of
Fargo.
Six saloons have gone out of business in
Cass county.
There were five weddings in Grand Forks
insone week.
The government buildings at Buford are
about completed.
A new telegraph station has been establish.
ed al Baby Mine.
The Methodists are preparing to build a
chapel at Mandan.
Gen. Hazen has been appointed post
master at Fl. Buford.
Mandan is anxious to become the county
seat of Burleigh county.
Cass %county's poor cost $4,000, and the
prisoners $1,000, last year.
The Fargo Times has been made the off
cial paper of Trafl county.
The Cass county license will be cut down
from $500 to $500 per year.
The Casselton school house, which is
about completed, cost 81, 500.@
There are 25 saloons in Cass county, and
of that number 20 are in Fargo.
There is talk of moving the Sheridan
house from Bismarck to Mandan.
A sorghum mill will be put into opera
ton in Big Stone City, next season.
Barnesville is locking forward to the
building OF a $4,000 school house IN the
spring.
The Bismarck Tribune will publish an
edition Of fifty thousand copies about the
first of April.
The old settlers reunion at Grand Forks
onsthe 4th of February promises to be the
event of the Season.
Fargo Times: U. S. Marshal Raymond
stands ready to subscribe $500 to d bnilding
association in Fargo.
Over one hundred have signed the pledge
at Bismarck since the temperance reform
was commenced there.
The upper story Of the Sisters new school
building in Bismarck, is offered free for the
use of a public library. =
A horse belonging to the Mandan and
Bismarck stage line, dropped dead in the
streets of Bismarck Sunday.
The Tribune says one hundred head of
stock have persisted this winter on the differ
ent freighting lines leading from Bismarck.
While two young men were engaged in a
friendly s%cuf1ls, at Pembina, a short time
ago, one was thrown and accidentally broke
his leg.
There is talk Of organizing a Workman's
lodge in Jamestown, which will make four
different orders OF lodges and societies IL
that town.
Big Stone City, is growing with remark
able rapidity. Over $4,000 has been ex-
pended IN building and other improvements
since September lst.
The Tribune predicts that there will be
more bricks put into buildings in Bismarck
in 1880, than were used for the same pur-
pose IN Fargo last year.
Owing 10 the delay of trains on the
Northern Pac fic Tor eight days, one ton
and a half Ot mail matter arrived ut Bis
marck from the east January 18Th.
Bismarck Tribune: The railroad com.
p.ny has contracted Tor 10000 tons of BABY
Mlne'' coal and it Will hereafter be used on
the Dakota and Missouri divisions.
Fargo is aaxiously agitating the subject
of issuing zen thousand dollars in bonds,
for ten years at len per cent, for the pur-
pose OF paying the city's eleven thousand
dollar debt.
The now was rapidly disappearing at
Bislnarck OF the l7sh, The weather WIS
SO warm that tae predictions were That 1t ii
Continued many days longer the Missou.
RI would break UP.
Bismarck Tribune: T. II. Gray, form
erly OF Yankton, the popular clerk of the
Gen Sherman, arrived from the east on
Monday train, He says he did not do it
while he was gone, and still remains in
single harness.
The large hotel being built in Big Stone
City on the Identical spot where, a few years
since stood a village Of the Slsseton Indians,
is being pushed an rapidly as possible to
completion, and will be ready for guests by
the LIST of March.
The boys OF Bismarck have had some fun
at the expense OF a trontiersman who came
10 town in search of a wife. They dressed
a beardless youth in woman 8 clothes and
actually married him TO the man. after which
there was much drinking and festivlty.
The married man is now hunting tor his
wife.
Tue holiday number of the Northern Pa,
ClAC AlLueS. ls d fSIy tutGicSltuR SuScI VI
twelve pages. II talks for Valley City
more Than any other point, but it gives an
excellent review of Fargo, Bismarck aud
all of the towns on the line of the N, r..
railroad.
Bismarck claims to be the great ware
house of the northwest. sIe is. the shipping
and receiving poin. for everything. Tue
gold from the Rockies. the stock from the
Yello wstone. the coal from our fields, the
iron from g = the n,esehand,se from
st. Paul, Duluth, Yankton ana st. Louis,
and the people from everywhere.
The Bismarck Tribune thinks that as the
business of the u. S. court increases that
three .fourths of the business comes from the
Missouri river and that this court should
be held at Bismarck instead of Fargo. At
ter the new court house and Jail is com.
pleted there will be no excuse why this
court should uot be held here. 1t would
bea great saving to the United States in
expenses.