Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-15
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

O0NOuNs
A PowDER-HoUsE will be erected near
Bismarck.
GRAND FORKS has attained popula-
tion of 6, 600 in three years.
P1ANK1NaToN expects $200, 900 of
building improvements this year, among
them 81, 200 Touring mill.
Mr.. GEO. B. EvER1rT, of North Caro-
lima, will succeed VIM. Letcher as reg
lister of tho Mitchell Land cf1ice.
A NUMBER of counties have elected
delegates to the Huron constitutional
convention, which meets September 4th
The Bismarck Tribune claims that the
building boom of that city during the
past two months will amount to nearly
81, ,000,0
A BRAKEMAN was killed at Elk River
bridge the other day. He was standing
on the top of freight Car when the
bridge struck him on the head.
ERNEST, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Schrauber, of Yankton, was drowned fin
the Missouri, and, strange to say, the
body was recovered.
ONE of the thieves who captured four
fine horses and terrorized the people of
Sanborn, Oak. has been arrested at
Larimore, and taken 10 Valley City.
The idle mine mills in the Hills
country are being robbed of everything
movable. Whole wagon-loads of ma
chinery are hauled away and sold for old
iron.
WH1TEwooD CREEK is to be prevented
from overaowing Deadwood again by
building bulkheads along the bank.
About 81, 900 is t. be raised by subscrip.
tion for the purpose.
The blanket brigade at Pine Ridge
agency is to be increased by 391 Chey-
ennes and Al Arapahoes from Indian
Territory. This makes it the largest
agency in the country.
A COMMEMORATIVE monument to be
placed at Fort Keogh has been COM
pleted for some time and is daily ex-
pected from the east through st. Paul
en- route to Fort Keogh.
JAMESTOWN authorities will not permit
travelling sales men to do business in that
city without a license, as it tends to
breed an unhealthy competition to home
business firms who poy taxes in that
city.
A BUILDING syndicate, composed Of
six Bismarckians, bas entered into bonds
and put up a forfeiture of $500 each,
agreeing each to build residences on
Prospect Place, west of the capitol
grounds, Bismarck, costing from 81, ,000
to SIS, 900 each.
DAKOTA, north of the forty-sixth par.
allel, claims IA national banks, 21 pri.
vate banks, 10 Touring mills, 7e
churches, 254 school houses, IL daily
papers, 40 weeklies, 714 miles of rail.
road. Its assessed valuation is $34, 764
600; population, 1885.
Mrs. RUDOLPH M111ENz, of Mitchell
suffered from malaria, and DR.. Gran,
gave her husband q bottle Of aconite
with directions to dilute the drug Will
water before administering dose. Ru
do]ph forgot about the water and gav'
the aconite straight. BE is Low wid
over.
A MAN nsmed Woods, living in Bis
marck, received severe bite from 9
horse at Ostland's livery-stsble recently
while putting q bride on the animal
The eyebrow was bitten almost entirely
of, and had the beasts teath entered
an eighth Of an inch lower the eye woult
have been taken out.
A BLooDLEss duel was fought between
the day and night telegraph operators o
Pierre, the day operator being the chal
lengirg party. Mr.. Charles J. Haines
of the Signal, acted as second for th'
day operator, the night man having NJ
representative. The weapons used wer'
pistols, at twenty PAGES. Two shot
were exchanged without injury to eithe
party, when the day man, considering
his honor sustained, claimed he wa
| satisfied