Daily globe., 1883-10-30
DAKO1lAluOuqAHA
OUR NOaTHWESEERH nEIGHBQRS.
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected and Forwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, Oct. 90, TO the St.
Paul Globe.
Dakota Notes.

weather will leave about 10 per cent. un-
plowed.
At Sheldon, in Cass county, wheat comes
in lively, and the increase of acreage is
put at % per cent.
Clay county, Mimi, reports tbreshing
about done, but few selling. Flowing is
nearly done with the large farmers.
st. Vincent, near the Manitoba line in
Minnesota, had respectable fire the past
week, taking in a livery stable, saloon,
boarding house, &c.
The knights of Pythias meet in Grand
Forks Tuesday to arrange for the dedica-
tion of their new and elegant hall. A fine
time is anticipated.
The past week a pelican was shot in the
west part of Cass county that measured
eight feet from tip TO tip. It was sent to
ST. Paul to be stuffed.
Crookston has a dramatic and library
association OF some fifty members, and it
is expected they vindicate the intelligence
and culture OF the place.
Miss Forest Crosthwaite, pleasant and
handsome young lady from Washington,
D. c., is visiting friends at jamestown,
Grand Forks and other places.
Casselton, in the vicinity of the bonanza
farms, has, by careful estimate, within
ten miles of the place, $4,000 acres PloWed
and 5000 more to ploW this season.
The new Episcopal church at James
town is to be constructed of Dakota gran
ite, which will make it novelty in that
region and quite attractive in appearance.
The publishers of the Jamestown Capt.
tai are arranging to issue branch sheet
at M1nnewnuken, the new town on DEVILS
lake. They have one already at New Rock
ford.
Sanborn reports plowing and threshing
about two. thirds done, and little wheat
damaged by rain. Cooperstown reports
blowing we'll advanced, many being eIi-
tirely through.
The Helena Independent has informa-
tion that the railroad now being built to
Miches will be pushed on to Butte. This
will bring valuable acquisition to the
trade Of Helena.
The first station on the Northern Pacific
between Missoula;and Helena, to have G
depot built is Gold Creek. A $4,000 struc-
ture is up with separate buildings for the
Chinese and other laborers.
A farmer named Iggles, drove his team
into stable when the upper floor gave
way and 5000 bushels of wheat fell. The
man was buried in the grain bat not hurt,
The horses were killed and the wagon
broken.
Early in The spring q man named Wm.
Tobin left his home near Turtle river, in
North Dakota, in pursuit of work. Re-
Gently James Mich discovered his remains
in q gulch on his farm. II is not known
how he came to his death. He was poor
man and leaves family.
The Crookston reporter says the farmers
are all threshiug aud will finishing plow-
ing in two weeks. A great deal of the
so called 'frozen wheat" he says, is sim
ply second growth wheat owing to drouth.
But little wheat in Polk county was ao-
tually frozen, but the millers are taking
advantage of it to lower grades.
The Lisbon Star reports that dozen or
more mining companies have been cr-
ganized there to work the gold discoveries
and that new and apparently rich finds are
constantly being made. It says also that
parties in searching for gold have found q
vain of coal OF good quantity, and be
lieved to exist in large quantities.
1t is reported from Bozeman that there
is truth in the statement that the Union
Pacific will send their new line across the
Gallatin valley, and via the Bridger pass,
on into the Snake river valley, through the
M1ssel Shell country, across the Missouri
and On the Canada Pacific. This may be
strictly true, but it is early to insist upon
il.
The Marquis de Mores has gone to st.
Paul and New York in the interest of the
Northern Refrigerator Car company, to be
gone a month. AT the main establish
ment at the crossing of the Little Missouri
arrangements have been made for slaugh-
tering 10000 animals year. They now
ship two car loads of dressed meat per
day.
The laying of rails on the jamestown
Northern has stopped for the winter at
New Rockford, one of the youngest of the
new towns, and located on the Sheyenne,
sixteen miles north of Darlington. 1t will
not be surprising if there should be re-
ports of gold discoveries in that part of
the Sheyenne as we'll as fifty or sixty miles
south.
Crookston, the enterprising town on the
Minnesota side of the Red river has made
arrangements for the electric light. The
city has leased its surplus water power to
a company for term of years, the power
to be used in running an electric light ma
chine. In a month the imitation sunlight
will begin to get in its work on the dark
ness.
There are reports of gold specimens be-
ing found near Valley city in Barnes coun-
ty on the main line OF the Northern Pact
fc. There is the usual excitement there
and the people are out with shovels, pans,
ETC., deiving for the fascinating metal.
Wherever the country is broken or rocky
near the Sheyenne it will be all dug over
for signs.
The opening of the Northern Pacific, it
is asserted, has flooded the Montana towns
with cheap John shows to such an extent
that the people are almost sorry there is
any railroad out there. That is rather a
sweeping statement, bat there is no doubs
that the managers have thought anything
good enough for that new and supposed