Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-16
Dakota ard Monsona Dots.

Dakota and Montana Dots.
Last week Hans Halverson, seven miles
south CT Lisbon, lost $500 by prairie fire.
The Congregat1onalists have bought
site and expect to have church edifce in
Helena before long.
At Glyndon rain has stopped threshing,
but the yield OF wheat is reported from II
to % bushels per acre.
The walls of the new penitentiary at
Bismarck have reaohsd the second story,
and the work is being pushed rapidly.
The name of the fourth man who was
smothered to death in the granary on the
Nolthrope farm vas james Sullivan. He
was thresher not known here.
a day or two ago a son OF ia. Martin,of
Fargo, fell from the top OF freight car
on the Northern Pacific road and fractured
his skull, but it Is hoped he will recover.
The trustees report that they will this
fell open the collegiate school at Fargo,
provided for at the late session of the con
ference. Rev. n. s. kaufman is presi-
dent.
A surveying party has gone fromDeVirs
Lake City to survey seventeen townships
In the vicinity of Turtle mountains. There
are Canadian half breeds squatted on some
of the land.
E. c. Sprague, who has one of The largest
bonanza farms of the Red river valley, has
threshed out $4,000 bushels to date, and re-
ports his yield 2615 bushels to the acre.
He is on the east side Of the river.
At Sheridan, Brookings county, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Palmer celebrated their golden
wedding, and several we're present who
witnessed the wedding anniversary fifty
years ago-not in Dakota, however.
writer to the Sunday Argus from
Mayville in Traill county, says the yield
will average twenty bushels of wheat per
acre in that section, and that a half million
bushels will be shipped from that little
town.
Cars are now run twenty six miles from
Moorhead north On the new branch and
five elevators are in process of construe-
ton On the line. The Manitoba road has
arranged to ship wheat TO Duluth for
The secretary of the Fargo Southern
railroad yesterday secured from the Man
itoba complete outfits for track laying,
which will commence at once at Fargo end
Wahreton, IN both directions from the lat
ter, and also soon from Grsce7ille.
The famed musical club, Of which the
male portion are without hirsute attain
ments upon their heads. gave concert ct
Wahpeton, the past week, which created
quite furore Of enthusiasm in that rising
young city. Few of the professionals
could elicit such applause.
A man named Anders o. Bellman, at
Portland, il north Dakota, tried to murder
his wife and boy Sunday last, but was too
drunk to shoot straight. At the same
place Peter Holland barely saved his
/ threshing machine from the prairie fire.
| His wagon was burned.
One day recently Chas. Waterman, q
young boy, solicited a ride IN a passing
wagon in Wabash county. and sat or a
| beer key. The wheels struck rut and
| brew him out, striking on his head and so
injuring him that he died. The mora! Tor
boys is not to get near beer kegs.
The Tower City Herald in the west part
of Cass county, say that never before has
so mich wheat been received as at present.
! Inc elevators and wsrehoases are full and
on the 18TH there were fifty car loads in
| the yards of the n P. railroad. In Sep
TENDER 195, 600 bushels were marketed at
| that point.
Tbs Benedict club Of this city, which
means married people only, gave their first
dance of the season at the headquarters on
| Friday night, aud for such grave and ven
cradle company as it chiefly was, there
vas en- abundance of saltstoriai h1larity.
This club will nave regular conoeavsions
during the winter.
jamestown was much disappointed that
the Presbytery at It's recent sessi"1 at Fer
gus Falls did not settle the loce of the
Presbyterian university instead leaving
| it to the next April session. Jef estown
| is the Only active and liberal bidder for
the institution, and there is little doub.
that it will eventually obtain it.
While there are large number of emf
grants every day passing west 10 the Pc
cifo coast, there is quite sprinkling CON-
ing east. One dsy the past week four cal
loads came east, and it is believed that the
number will be greater than those going
west when it is fully understood that there
is no farming land west of Dakota, equa
to il, that can be had by men of limited
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