Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-07-16
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

abundant harvest will be our portion.
NORTHERN DAKOTA.
Flowing water was found at depth Of
148 feet in Grafton.
The northern part of the territory is
still suffering from lack of rain.
The Fargo post Office has 1900 boxes,
the rent of which amounts to S3,320.
Hon J. Nickeus, of Jamestown, deliv-
cred the 4th Of July oration at Valley
City.
The printers of Bismarck have organ.
lied branch of the national typograph.
ical union.
D. w. Scott of the Watertown land
Office has been appointed clerk of the
court of Stark county.
Out on the prairies surrounding Fargo
wild strawberries are growing this sea-
son in great profusion.
Mandan needs building association.
Coles circus exhibited in jamestown
last Tuesday to 5000 people.
A rough estimate made from the as
SCISSORS rolls gives Mayville, Trail
county, population of 1900.
There seems to be no doubt about
there being coal in good paying quanti-
ties in the Pembina mountains.
The river bank in front Of Bismarck
is being washed away to such an extent
that the safety Of the elevator is threat
ened.
NJ. 8. Burrows, halter of Grand
Forks, presented the base ball club with
a set OF white plug hats for beating the
Fargo nine.
The Fourth was celebrated at May
vile. An Grafton in English was deliv-
cred by T. F. Halverston, and in Norske
by Jens o. Risting.
The jamestown Capital pays its re.
spects to the county assessor, T. s.
Collins, who, it says, is unfit for the
place and should promptly resign.
Fostofices have been established at At.
lantis. Day county; Kate, Mcpherson
county; Sargent, Sargent county, and
Tomlinson, Foster county.
On the farm of David Long. in Steel,
county, is slough, the water in which
appears to be poisonous. Cattle, sheep
and dogs die from the effects of drinking
lit.
Camilla Urso, the noted lady violin
ist, is billed to give concert in Fargo
soon. Camilla will also visit the capita
commission city while dong the north
ern territory.
Bismarck Tribune: Keep right o,
sending your money and old clothes t,
the heather. There are only 1900 town
west OF the Mississippi without churche
or regular preaching of any kind.
De Witt Talmage and Henry War,
Beecher, the two most widely know
} men of America. will give lectures il
Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck an,
Jamestown sometime this summer.
Two little boys. playing with fire cracl
ers on the Fourth at Tower City, set fir
to the dry grass near the elevator, and
disastrous cenhagration was averted onI
by the most strenuous exertions of th
l citizens.
The Fargo foundry is casting for
hundred horse shoes to be sent to IL
Yellowstone park. They are to be hun
in springs, the water crystalizing the,
almost instantaneously after being ont
brought into contact with it..
, A four year old child OF Mrs. Kendric
q music teacher, was abducted by j
= father at Fargo this week, but I'll
r officers got on his track and the chi
g was recovered. The husband of MI
, Kendrick came from the east lately.
8 The body of Berg, who has been mis-
: ing for some time, has been found in IL
e Otter Tail river, feur miles below Wa
= peton. He was pursued by an officer
r Breckinridge last winter and to esca,
Q shot but not fatally wounded his pursue
and then jumped into the river to swi
' across. Since then nothing could
!. learned of him.