The Dickinson press., 1883-06-16

1piEnuAo Spring wheat is
boxing very good. There is IL healthy
solor n it is vigorous and making good
stools. n reports, embracing forty
nine counties, on the present condition
which placesit at95 e cent. on account
OF l%ateness. The acreage is largely in
creased over last year; also in the en-
elusive region. The acreage for the Ter
rltory is ,O06 900, an increase over last
year OF 40 per cent. and the condition. "a
compared with last year, is lis per cent.
Last years average for the Territory was
seventeen bushels" According t1 fhe
above decidedly tlattering official state
ment, Dakota will this season produce
wheat cropaggregating 90, OOO, 600 bush
els. N'i
The Bismark Tribune, speaking of its
early struggles says: The Tribune, which
now publishes a morning and evening
edition with full associated press reports
less than ten years ago was printed on a
quarter medium Gordon jobber, and
frequently on brown paper. At one
lme to keep from distress it borrowed
$3.50 from Jack Champlin, who did not
Keep the most chaste kind of an estab-
lishment, giving a mortgage on property
WSSAoAA AAAl1u1Cu OOlldTS, pawn
Topper cent. per month interest. /
borrowed for months at five per cent
per month, and for years at two and
three per cent, per month, and its pub
fishers sacrificed IL piece of real estate
after another that to-day would bring
one hundred thousand dollars, for the
sake of keeping the Tribune alive.
Chamberlain is to have a system of
water works and the people there figure
that the improvement will increase the
value OF property many times its cost.
1t is claimed that in the Mitchell land
district alone 10000 acres have been ob
tanned by fraud.
Hand county proposes to raise 100, 900
bushels of wheat this year.
The virgin sod is being turned over at
the rate Of 600 acres per day in Hanson
county.
Bismarck, had another boom last week
occasioned by a visit from the big Mil
waukee railroad officials.
The chief engineer of the Winona &
st. Peter road says the buildings of the
new division terminus;;at Tracy are bein
vigorously prosecuted. The round house
VIII have stalls for thirty engines, and
the machine shop and blacksmith build
ing are to be.200 feet long and so vide.
Two coal storage houses, each 2GOx26,
with a capacity Of 5000 tons, are also to
be constructed.
A call has been issued for a constitu-
ional convention for South Dakota, on
the 10Th of this month, at Huron. The
measure, as rule, is favorabIy COM
inented upon by the papers, though at
first it was regarded with not a little
suspicion.
Bismarck's capitol park is to be mod
eled after that around the capitol at
Washington.
Architects can bid on the Dakota capi-
toll building up to noon July 5.
Near Parker III. Vanepps, went down
a we'll to finish digging and tainted. His
fa%ther-in-law, Henry Shenkle, started
down to help him. When nearly at the
bottom he too, tainted, and fell from the
bucket, striking his head ON a nick aNe
Before farther help came he was dead.
Fanepps was taken from the we'll in an
insensible condition, but is considered
out Of danger.
Gov. Ordway has applied for an ex-
ension of time on the lease of the house
he occupies in Yankton, the extension.
to run through the indefinite period
"seveal months" j. 7. Sargent, of the
Herald, has recently purchased the res
idence occupied by the governor and
wants to move into..it but it appears
that his excel!ency is not yet ready to
depart.
Hanson county's assessor is taking the
crop statistics which the board Of COM
missioners have authorized. If every
county in the territory would do tho
same thing it would be found very yalu-
able.
- lakewood, q little village north of Vol
ga, has gone crazy with gold fever. An
old miner from the east quietly bought
all the land near the lake.
Gathering float wood in the Missouri
is an important industry during the sea-
son of flood. Hundreds Of cords of ex-
cellent wood are piled along the shore,
which were ished out Of the river by
flatboat-men who engage in the business
as a source of profit.