Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-18
Dakota GOSsiD.

Lisbon is soon to be made money or
der postoffce. It is one IF the liveliest
towns in North Dakota.
Bismarck now has two engines for cleo
trio light power and the citizens are i'm
patient for the streets to be lighted.
Mr.. A. j. Cafrey, lawyer and poet of
Bismarck, is to lecture in Fargo Thursday
night upon the Knights of st. John on the
sies Fa'ta'
e5 connection was made with the
track Of the Fargo Southwestern and the
Fargo Southern, to enable them to deliver
construction material.
The treasurer of Becker county, MINI,
M. E. Dahl, who went to Norway in hopes
to regain his health, is reported to have
died soon after his arrival there.
Recently fires have ragged over the cattle
ranges between the Black Hills and the
Northern Pacific to such an extent as to
cause alarm for forage for the stock.
The Catholic church recently dedicated
az Mitchell, is a splendid monument to the
zeal and energy of Father E NJ. Hennessy,
who came to the country only year or SO
ago.
AS an evidence of the solid anu excel
len5 roads in this country in dry times, a
Portland paper speaks Of two horse teams
hauling to that town mora than two tons
of wheat at a load.
Saturday the new 1000 pound bell was
placed in the new school house in Fargo.
It's tone is g sharp, and is rather TOO
m9eh ike one Of the other bells in the city
for easy distinction.
Oliver Dalymple, sthe bonanza farmer,
has threshea the product OF $500 acres OF
ground, giving 10000 bushels of wheat
and 10000 of oats. This is about one
fourth of his acreage in crop.
J.K. Wetherby, of Bismarck, will start
in day or two for six months trip to
Europe It is not uncommon for one
seasons crops in north Dakota to enable a
man to recreate the rest of the year in
travel or visiting.
The man, A. o. Moen, lately arrested in
Trail county for attempting to shoot his
wife and little son, is believed to have
been more crazy than drunk, but his is
not pleasant sort of character to have at
large in community.
Seven cars of steel rails for the Fargo
Southern, arrived Al Fargo yesterday, and
it is expected that the first spike will be
driven TO day, probably by the president
and secretary. The latter will after the
ceremony leave for st. Paul.
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer,
it is said, will ship 600, 900 bushels of wheat
to Duluth this year, claiming that by SO
doing he can save about five ceats bushel
over Minneapolis, which is handsome
sum on SO large shipment.
The Braiuerd Tribune reports that
among the game recently killed in the
Mile Lac section, Northern Mimi, were
nineteen bears. They are favorite game
with sportss1en, and those lakes are the
nome OF great variety of game.
On the completion of the new jail at
Grand Forks the jailer played huge joke
on squad of county officials who were
inspecting it, by turning the key on them
and then calling on the newspaper boys to |
come and interview prisoners through the |
bars.
1t il stated by the Argus that the vacan |
cy on the territorial bench, caused by the !
death of Judge Kidder, has been rendered !!
to ex- { o lgressmen j. G. Burrows # Mic l.
igan, but declined, and that an effort is
now making to secure the appointment of
G. S. Palmer, assistant district attorney.
Jas. H. Kelley, the man who attempted
to kill Harry Oliver because he would not
surrender a valuable claim he had bought
from Kelly, had preliminary examina-
ton at Lisbon the past week and was
bound over for trial IN the sum of $4,000,
which he was not able to give, and is now
lodged in jail at Fargo.
The editor of the utter Ocean at Port
land, North Dakota, vouches for potatoes
of the peach blow variety that weighs six
pounds and five ounces and turnips that
go twenty-five pounds, grown on the farm
of Judge Lenesse this season. This Red
river valley soil certainly does effect as
results in the vegetable line.
Col. Chas. Morton, of Fargo, who has
made j snug sum handling Dakota dirt
has bought choice farm on the Red, and
will make it a moGel, and will exhibit to
visitors all the products and possibilities
of this remarkably productive soil. He
aims to show that this country has vastly
larger capacities than have yet been dem
onstrated.
Deputy United States Marshal Gray yes
tsrday brought down from Pembina
couple of fellows captured near the Mani
toba boundary, charged with an attempt to
;muggle horses across the lines which
hey had stolen on the Queens side, and
offering to sell them on this side. One of {
he men reported to have served term in
he Winnipeg penitentiary. Is
The first number of the Dakota Chris
ian Advocate was issued last week at 5
huron. It is a Methodist paper and
claims to be the first distinctly religious I
paper in Dakota. Some of the others, like !
he Fargo Argus, have had religious de-
partments mainly filed with sermons,
,ome of them reported from pulpits and a
,thers written by Col. Donan, who coca {