Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-09-30
NORTHERN DAKOTA.


jamestown supports two dentists.
Fargo has wholesale candy facto.
ry.
Farm hands are scarce in Richland
county.
The jamestown Herald has ceased pub.
lication.
A new bakery will be opened in Wah.
peton soon.
Two large steam elevators arc being
built at Ojata.
The public schools OF Grand Forks are
full and overflowing.
Grafton has been declared the county
seat OF Walsh county.
Warrants issued by Traill county are
worth their face value.
Many new buildings are in course of
construction in Grand Forks.
A train of Montana cattle pass through
Fargo going east nearly every day.
The total tax on property in Traill
county is sixteen and one. half mills.
Michigan capitalists are investing
largely i'll Grand Forks aud vicinity.
The Grand Forks postoffice has been
made an international money order Office.
The new Methodist church at Valley
City will be dedicated in about two
weeks.
Mayville, Trail county, is soon to
nave newspaper called the Mayville
Eagle
About two thousand bushels of wheat
per day are received at the elevator at
Hillsboro.
Acton is situated on the Red river
about half way between Grand Forks
and Pembina.
Three or. four thousand bushels of
wheat are received daily at the union ell
evator at Fargo.
An all steel track has been laid on the
No'theIn Pacific road from st. Paul as
far as Tower City.
The Acton News has been removed to
Grafton, and will hereafter be known as
the Grafton j ews.
Fourteen thousand dollars worth of
Tr i'll county land was sold to a Michi-
go man not Ion Z ago.
The new Manit ,ba passenger depot at
Fargo VIII De o handsome one with q
cupola and wide piazzas.
Olata, near Grand Forks, wants shoe
makers. harness and barber shops and
general furnishing stores.
A harvest home ball given at Hills
ooro last Thursday evening was large
ly attended by Fargoltes.
The name OF the new town of Carlton,
on the Northern Pacific near Valley City
has been changed to Oriska.
Mrs. Hopkins. Falgo's famous elocu-
ZIONIST, gave a dramatic reading at that
place on Thursday evening last.
There have been five pairs of twins
born the past summer in the neighbor
hood of Newburg, Traill county.
A boom has set in at Bathgate, new
town at the railroad crossing Of The
Tongue river in Pembina county.
A one hundred and twenty-five cal
lead drove of Montana cattle are now u,
Bismarck awaiting shipment east.
Whlle some men were speeding their
horses at Mapleton not long ago. one OF
the horses stumbled, fell and broke his
neck.
The track for the northern branch rail
road from Grand Forks has reached Tur.
tie river, and will soon be completed tc
Grafton.
1t is said the new Episcopal church at
Valley CITY. when completed, will be opt
OF the andsomest church edlfces in til,
territory.
The Arlington MINISTRIES gave a fine
entertainment to n crowded Fargo audi
ence short time ago. They gave Ship
afore. with Miss Billy as Buttertub.
The Republican says that the most i'm
posing structure i'll Fargo is the nev
brewery. which is now near " completed
1t will have capacity of 10000 barrels
year.
Howard Vaughn, late clerk of the cour
OF Pembna county, was arrested Sep
tember 2lst by w. NJ. Burke, specia
agent Of the general land office, for per
jury.
About two hundred and fifty persons
mostly ministers and their families
were present Mt the Methodist confer
encc at Fargo the early part of til,
week.
Nearly all of the business houses O
Fargo were closed on Monday and drap
ed in mourning; public school service
ness prevailed.
The Traill County Banner says the re
cent rain and hail storms did great dam
age to the wheat, but the crop of til
county will yet average twenty-five bush
els to the acre.
Wheat sold for one dollar and twenty
five and one-half cents per bushel il
Fargo last week. The highest price eve
paid for wheat in the territory west q
the Red river.
Sanborn, hardly two years old, has
: new and admirably kept hotel, 1000
Fbushel elevator, half dozen stores, ex
cclient schools aud some of the best pee
pie in the territory.
Hiram Graham, n carpenter at Fargo
was caught in shaft in Roberts 4 Pei
kins' Touring mill, while grinding som
tools, n short ime ago, and terribly mar
gled, prcbably atally.
The Fargo and Northwestern comran
, expect to locate and secure the right.D
way for two hundred miles this fal
ready to commence the actual work {
grading in the early spring.
The steamers Pluck and Grandin a,
rived at Fargo only n few hours apart
{ short time ago, loaded with wheat fro,
the Grandin farm. Together they ca
ried 1900 bushels of wheat.