Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-15
Dakota Dots.

About 12O tons of buffalo bones have
been shipped east from Sanborn this sea-
son.
Bishop Brondel has secured subscrip-
lions at Billings for the erection Of q Cath
Ollie chapel.
writer at Richardson, near the Mis-
souri, river speaks of seeing herd of
thirty anteiopes from his hotel door.
Not more than fifty feet of trench re-
mains to complete the Mullen tunnel. It
is expected that trains can run through in
about month.
Friday and Friday night eighty. three
cars of cattle, partly from Wyoming.
passed Fargo on their way east, most of
them destined for Kansas City.
There is trouble with the heating appa-
ratus of the new $4,000 school house in
Fargo. It is said that the architects did
not provide sufficient chimney.
Billings is about tc erect $4,000
school house, the city issuing $4,000 bonds
and Hon. Fred Billings, of the Northern
Pacific railroad, contributing $4,000.
The Grand Forks Herold reports that a
hunting excursion to Stnnp lake, brought
in goose weighing twenty-one pounds
and measuring six feet and four inches.
The Sykeston Advocate, in Wells county,
reports fish sc numerous in the Pipestem
river, that few mornings since Frank
Lloyd caught q fine pickerel with his
hands.
Three young men out hunting On the
west side of Devils Lake, captured 200
ducks, twenty-five shickens and other small
game in one dag. It is good time for
ducks.
mutual insurance company called the
Legion of Honor has been established in
Fargo. 1t is branch OF an extensive or
ganization like those connected with the
secret orders.
The new opera house at Brainerd is to
be opened on the night of October 18Th. It
is said to be & very neatly arranged, hand
some house, with the usual divisions of city
theatres. It will seat 1000, and the Stage
is 4Ox56.
Ed. Lyons, who had been keeping
boarding hou.e at GIoster, was found
about six miles from Helena dead with a
pistol shot near the heart. Domestic
trouble and whisky are supposed to have
caused him to take his own life.
The first district court that ever set in
Yellowstone county. Montana, commenced
its session last Monday, Justice Wade pre-
siding. The first cese disposed of on the
civil docket was divorce. The customs
of the country come west.
In the way Of vegetables Dakota claims.
to come to the front. In the vicinity of
DEVILS Lake twenty pound cabbage, on
ions fifteen inches in circumference and
carrots, beets and turnips in proportion.
are among the specimens shown this
season.
Hon. 81. Dunnell and other Minnesota
parties, are chief owners of the TOWNSHIP
of New Rockford, just laid out at the
present terminus of the Jamestown North
ern railroad, and which already has
booming newspaper, the Transcript. 1t
is good location.
Work will commence Monday, Oct. Is,
on theBull mountain branch of the Northern
Pacific railroad, which it is now said will
start from point some twenty miles be-
low Billings, to avoid the crrm ng bluffs
like those that have given go much trouble
along the Yellowstone.
The Office of the Western Union Tele-
graph company in Fa &C was removed on
Sunday from its old quarters on Front
street to the rooms in the new and elegant
Keeney block on Broadway, which have
been leased for five years. The recent
marriage Of the popular manager Inman
may have something to do with the need
of finer quarters.
Stephen Walker, who is employed in the
roller mills at Ortonville, Minnesota, at
tempted to move mill stone that was
standing against the side of the mill when
it fell on him breaking his right leg be
tween the knee ard ankle joints. He IS
brother of the superintendent o. the
creamery and is doing well.
The past week great deal of damage
has been done by prairie fires in Nelson
county. They extended over a strip some
fifteen miles : in length and half or more
of that distance III width, and great
many settlers lest ell their hay and some
of their shanries. number of ST. Paul
and Chicago parties have bee in the county
hunting with fine success.
The Grand Forks PloindealeY reports
the accidental shooting of E. W. O'Brien,
while hunting, near Mapes. By some
movement the gun was discharged in the
wagon in which O'Brien and three friends
were riding, and the charge entered the
neck under tho left ear, killing him in
stantly. He came to Dakota about three
months ago. The body has been sent to
Buffalo, N. Y, where his father lives.
In speaking of the prairie fires in Wells
county the Sykeston Adrocate says that
for several days great clouds of smoke
have been seen il the southwest, warning
people that big prairie fire was bearing
down upon them. Many of the farmers
had neglected 20 make the necessary ire
brakes, and, as the fire swept over the
Coieaux and down in the valley, many
houses, barns, grain and haystacks sue
cumbed to the fiery element. The dam
age will run up to thousands of dollars.
Fire-guards were burned around the town.
in time to save it.
At Joliet, ILL.,, F. Benefits livery stable
and two private stables we're burned yester-
day morning with five horses. Loss, $12,-
900, insurance, $4,000.