The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.
Prairie du Chen. Wis, Courier: The
Southeastern Dakota papers all speak
of the generally large yield OF wheat as
jit is being threshed. Many instances
are cited where the yield is 40, AZ, and
As bushels. The quality Of the grain Is
better than last year and the farmers
are all happy. ysS;s
The constitution as adopted contains
an excellent provision relative to the
care of school lands. It provides that
none of this land should be sold at less
than ten dollars per acre and that not
more than one.third the entire body
shall be sold within ten years from the
dato of the first sale. Provision is also
made for renting this land while il re-
mains the property of the state. The
vast gift of the government is thus care.
fully secured to the uses for which it
was intended and made to serve In the
highest degree the educational interests
of the state.
I There is considerable activity in Bis
marck military circles. The governors
guards are recognizing.
The Fargo brick and tile company
sell brick to Bismarck.
Spiritwood lake near Jamestown is a
favorite pleasure resort.
Travel over the completed Northern
Pacific is rapidly increasing.
The Fargo & st. Louis railway is MAX
ing encouraging progress.
Prairie fires have been threatening
Bismarck.
The country in the Mouse river valley
is said to contain inexhaustib!e deposits
of coal of a superior quality.
dakota.
Augustus H. Hurd of Bismarck has
obtained u divorce from his wife on the
ground that she is common scold.
Mrs. Dan Kirthbride, living near
Ojata, Grand Forks County, gave birth
to two girls and boy recently.
Work at the Bismarck capitol grounds
has been resumed, brick having arrived.
Architect Burlington condemned large
quantity of brick and it was necessary
to stop work.
Rev. DR.. Ward of Yankton was the au
thor of the address to the people, the
chapter on 9 iucation, and the chapter
on the great seal and motto in the Sisux
Falls constitution.
Efforts are being made to find the
grave where Rev. Mr.. Smith and Charles
Mason. killed by Indians in 1876, were
buried together.
Capt. Harmon has been granted rights
for street railway at Bismarck.
Deadwood is putting in the electric
light. 1t will be burning Oct. Is.
John Youngblood, living near Rem
shaw, claims to have founi specimens
of gold in the soil on his farm. He is
sanguine of finding gold in paying guam
titles.
The pressed brick layers who get s. a
day for their work, get double pay 10
Sundays and are in great demand. The
building boom pays little heed to the
Sabbath in Sioux Falls.
The Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran
congregation of Sioux Falls are erecting
commodious new church and have it
raised and enclosed.
Work on the Territorial Agrieu 'tural-
college at Brookings is being pushed en-
ergetically. The foundation wells are
finished. 1t will be splendid edi6ce.
Tho contract stipulat-s that the building
shall be enclosed by Nov. next.
The Black Hills Pioneer gives O. col
umn of interesting statistics concerning
the Homestake mine. During the wear
ending June 3Oth, 1882, the Honestake
mills crushed 1SO,5l4 tons of Quartz
yielding 81, 237 ,1GO,67. During the year
| ending June Both, 1888, there we're 49,
O74 tons of ore crushed, yielding 81, 1885,
S9i.l7, The total expenses for the last
fiscal wear were SSH, 54s ,3S; Of the re-
rnalnder $60O,GO0 was paid to stockhold-
ers. The capital stock of the company
is represented by l25.OOO 500 shares.
Hamlin County Times: A nan living
near Poinsett th.eshed forty acres of
wheat the other day that averaged just
thirty bushels per acre
One of the best signs of the times in
the farming communities Of Minnehaha
county is that 30 many farmers are
working into the live stock business.
and of the improved strain OF blood
Nothing will Increase the wealth of an
agricultural region SO rapidly as the
growing of stock. Stock raising is essen
tial to successful farming, and thorough
bred stock brings tho best profits and
quickest returns.
wisconsin
Mary While, an unmarried woman
twenty.seven years of age, be came vic
lently insane at Racine. on religion. and
went to q female academy, where She
attempted to stab the lady attendant
with pair of scissors. She was taken to
the Northern insane asylum at Oshkosh.
There is great rejoicing at Bismarck
over the award to Burleigh county of
gold medal for the finest agricultural
display at the Cincinnati EXPOSITION.