Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-02-21

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The Bartlett, Ramsey county
syndicate has sold about 81 ,0JC
worth ot lots.
A. K. Henderson, of Fargo
proposes to erect $4,000 brick
residence in the spring.
About twenty Grand Forkers,
including the mayor, took in the
New Orleans mardi gras.
Larimore citizens have select
ell n. w. Roach as their first
mayor under the new city char
ter.
A good many Stutsman conn
ty farmers contemplate RAISING
a large amount oil ohions nex'
season.
A foundry aud machine shoT
will be established III Grano
Forks in the spring BY G"u'a
Bros, OF Chicago.
On Sunday there were in the
railroad yards at Grand Forks
twenty cars of wheat, waiting
for the raising OF the blocka le.
The Bismarck Tribuoe say ;
that last year at this time the
Burleigh county farmers were
out with their p!ows for spri NJ
work.
The new hotel which Mr.
Klaus is To build in jamestown
will be called the Willard ho-
tel" IN honor of the president
of the North Pacific.
Fears are entertained for the
safety of the trestle work sup
porting the approaches to the
new bridge at Bismarck IN the
spriug break up.
Casselton has well alb ,ut
two hundred feet deep which il
full of water that rises To the
surface OF the ground and is per-
fectly free from a!kall.
A hop at the Sheridan house
in Bismarck, one night last
week for the benefit OF the Ban
ner hook aud ladder company,
netted over 500 90.
The Northern Pacific railroad
company is building It's ic,
capacity at the princirui poiats
all along the line, They will
store 10 900 tons at Fargo.
Three men arrived in Sa nborr
Barnes county, u few days agt
who had made a journey of $40
miles on foot through Dakots
and Montana in December.
A Grand Forks boomer has
wagered silk hat with a trav.
cling man that the bu llding i'm
provements of the town next
year will amount to $3.50, 900.
DR.. John Kirk, a well known
citized of Mapleton, Cass coun-
~, died last Friday from the ef-
facts of exposure and cold OF a
few days before. He was sew.
enty-nine years OF age.
While a policeman at Maple
ton, Cass county was driving II
the country few nights slnce,
he was SO badly frozen in til,
lower part OF hie abdomen tha,
death will probably result.
The records of Fort Pembln;
proved this to be the coldes'
winter in eleven years. TIL,
average temperature for the fils
twenty days in January was
eighteen degrees below zero. In
1875 It was, during the same
days, sixteen degrees below zero
Last year it was one-fourth OF {
degree below.
John Manen, of Bismarck
found little girl baby IN
front of the Catholic church
while on his way to the riveI
from town. A ribbon was tie.
round the chil,'s neck to whicl
was written: "rake good care OF
this child, aud you will be re.
warded. Name 1t Anne, after
its mother, who is too poor to
take care of it," The child j,
cared for.
Mrs. Barned OF Cooperstown
the new county seat OF " rigg,
county, while driving on I'll;
prairie during a recent storm
became lost within a short dis
tance Of her house. The sleig /
was overturned six times before
she gave up as lost, and sh,
then, with GOODNESS aud courage
set about saving herself. Throw
ing her blankets on the snow
she covered herself with tn,
ropes, and began rubbing her
wet, chilled limbs, first freeing
them from the frozen skirts
Soon the wind covered her will
snow, thus providing her
covering that assisted her il
keeping from freezing. Fo