Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-09-22
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

fralr1e nfes are raging around New
Buffalo.
At Grand Forks wheat is selling for G
cents bushel.
A claim near Grand Forks was sold re-
Gently for 81 500.
Buildings almost without number arc
going up in Wahpeton.
Mrs. N. NJ. Haphins of Boston is teach
ing elocution In Fargo.
Grading has commenced on the Red
River and Northern road.
The Burleigh county court house will
be completed October 18th.
The Grand Forks cornet band gave
harvest home hop Sept. 2lst.
The Hon. Geo. H. Walsh raised 5000
bushels of wheat this season.
1t is estimated that 100000 bushels oi
wheat will be marketed at Mapleton.
The jamestown Alert has a new hand
press and the office is being enlarged.
1t is estimated that Fargo will expend
S3OO,0O0 for new buildings during 1880
It is estimated that 100000 bushels OF
grain will be marketed from the vicinity
of Fargo.
Already the shipment of cattle from
the country along the n. P. r. R. is a
big item.
Wheat in the vicinity of Tower City
yields from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre.
John A. Mckay, of Wheatland, had
the middle finger of his right hand cut
off last Friday.
A bell weighing eight hundred pounds
hangs in the belfry of the new school
house at Sanborn.
Mr.. Daniel Mcdonald, one of the old
est settlers of Caledonia, died Sept. 18th
OF hemorrhage of the lungs.
10 any man who will go to Lisbon,
erect building and open up some kind
One elevator at Mapleton has capa.
city for 10000 bushels yet tits called a
baby elevator and of only small account.
Fargo pays nine cents more for wheat
than any point along the line of the st.
Paul, Minneapolis e. Manitoba railroad.
Several hundred bushels of seed wheat
from President Hayes farm near Bis
marck have been sold for S1.25 per
bushel.
The Casselton Reporter is credit to
the town it is published in, and is Just
now contemplating important improve
ments.
Klans new Touring mill at jamestown
has five run of stones and is said to be
one of the most complete mills in the
territory.
MIR. Flohr boot and shoe manufactur-
er of jamestown is preparing to build
thousand dollar store at that place at an
early day.
The Fargo telegraph Office is being re-
arranged and retitted in a way that will
make it the model telegraph office of north
ern Dakota.
The Burleigh county wheat yield, ac-
cording to the Bismarck Tribune, is,
minimum, 18 bushels to the acre; maxi
mum 3l1s.
The interval between frosts in Bur-
leigh county this season was from April
Both to September 18th, 136alays. In
dian corn fully matured.
The Fargo Republican closed the sec
ond year OF its existence Sept. 1st with
the names of over 1890 subscribers on
its list. Stand corrected.
Thirtytwo miles south of Tower City,
on the banks of the Sheyenne, is pleas
antly situated the town of Lisbon, the
metropolis of Ransom county.
The rails on the N. P. extension are
laid one hundred and thirty-fve miles
west of Mandan, and tracklaying pro.
crosses at the rate of 1000 feet per day
When the new court house is complet
ed at Bismarck, there will be given 6
grand house warming in the shape of q
ball in honor of the completion of the
work.
The Grand Forks Herald estimates the
average yield of wheat in that region al
twenty bushels to the acre, though some
old and we'll cultivated land has produc
ed thirty.
One Of the notable events of the sea
son at Fargo was the marriage of Jame
s. Stack to Miss Rose Irene Crandall
daughter Of the Congregational clergy
man of that place.
The Northern Signal has been publish
ed Mt Caledonia for six months vet ha
never been called upon to record tn
death of an adult person in Traill coun
| ty until Its last issue.
Casselton enjoys heavy grain trad,
At the depot last week. one hundred an
eight car loads of wheat were shippe
from that point, exclusive of grain fc
the Dalrymple estate.
The Bismarck Tribune says that Il,
Bismarck and Mandan display at til
recent Minnesota state fair was one
the most attractive and interesting 9,
hibits in that very attractive building.
1t is almost an impossibility to hire
carpenter in jamestown though the,
are over seventy OF that class Of trade
men in that town, because of the gre,
amount of building that is being done.
There is stock of cane grass on exh
bition in the Northern Pacific Times o
fice that measures over thirty-tive feet
length. 1t was found having it's root i
springy ground at the foot of a bluff.
The confectionery and fruit store
CD Herbert of Fargo was consume
by fire last Saturday evening which W,
caused by the upsetting of lighte
kerosine lamp. The loss was eight hui
dred dollars and no insurance.
1t is claimed that sixty thousand dc
lars can be saved on the four hundrt
Thousand bushels of wheat tributary
the lower Red river valley by marketir
the same at Fargo instead of shippir
through the miller's monopoly.
Mr.. Steele of Fargo has six or seve
hundred acres, on which the averas
yield will be not far from thirty-f,
bushels to the acre. On one acre. {
which the wheat was unusually heav
he found the yield to be iifty-eight bus
els and thirty-nine pounds.
: Fargo Republican: 1t is rumored tn
there is trouble between the officers