Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-20
news OF TaE NORTHWEST.
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CENfREv1ihE is to have bank:
A FosToFF1cE has been established at
Clearwater:
FARGO is becoming metropolitan. It
has opium dens.
The new capitol building for Dakota
will be lighted by electricity.
BESIDE the capitol Bismarck has an
arte~ian wei! 1, ,155 feet deep.
The Fargo Argus will not be removed
to Bismarcs. So says the Argus.
LOTS in Bismarck have sold as high as
$500 per foot since the capitol location.
THERE are forty -nine lodges and eight
eucampments of Odd Fellows in Dakota.
The Yapkton Press and Dakotian re-
ports wheat in Hutchinson County foot
high.
EDWARD JAMES, eighteen years old,
was killed by Lightning III Kilkenny
township, LIE suer County.
The Argus says everybody is satisfied
with the location of the capital kept the
spectators who botght real estate at the
wrong place.
TIE Mandan Pioneer looks for clamor
next for division on the Missouri River,
and thinks the re.sons for such division
unansverable and ,rresistible.
The north Dakota penitcntiary direc.
tors have accepted the plahs submitted
by W. Il. Dow, of Sioux Falle, which
we're modelled After those OF the Sioux
Falls prison.
The Winnipeg Free Press states that
there has been eleven deaths from small
pox on tho DAkota side of the line nea,
Gretina, and that there are nov many
cases existing.
The acting commissioner Of Indian
affairs gives notice that persons who
were settlers on the Turtle Mountain
lands when the reservation vas estab'
lished wall not be disturbed in theirpos
! session.
Mr.. JoHx PReuD, of Aberdeen, who
was reported to have lost three children
from the eH cts OF drinking alkali water
denies the statement. He lost one chic
six cen months cid from an entirely diff
fereDt cause.
MANDAN Pioneer: The excitement
in Bismarck reminds one of the old time
excitement in oil towns. Speculation il
land and lots developed as fully into {
craze as ever oil did at Titusville, Brad
ford or Oil City.
Mr.. EARL, private secretary of Vic
President Oakes. Of the Northern Pa
cifc, is a. Mandan suffering from bro
ken arm. The fracture was sustained q
Helena some weeks ago, but has not ye
properly knitted, and while Mr.. Ear
was enrout3 east he was compelled Il
stop off for treatment.
The Fargo Republican says: Our ad
vices from every section of the Re-
River Valley are uniformly to the effec
that the growing crops have neve
looked better at this season of the year
Mr.. b. Stephens, Of Wheatland, say
that wheat could notlook better or prom
ise more abundant harvest.
A PISTOL fight took place Oh a clair
near Carson, twenty-five miles north Q
Pierre. Two contestants for a pre-enp
ton becoming enraged at each othe
drew revolvers AMI commenced firing
After number IF shots lad been ex
changed one of the belllgerents r, ceive
serious though not fatal wound in th
side.
In Bear Gulch, Gear Dealwood, dun
ing the recent food, the guivh file
with debris f.om the hills, covering til
t1ume many feet in depth. The entir
fume was catried out. The Niger Hi
Mining Company has Sustained loss {
lot less than 1925, 900, and has been Sc
back many days in their work for thl
season..
NORTHERN DAKOTA, according to th
Fargo Argus; boasts Of eight towns wit
a population OF more than 1900 eact
Fargo heads the list with r.:tind 10, 0W
Grand Forks follows with COCO: BIZ
marck claims 5000; jamestown come
up rext with $500; Valley City boast
Of 1880: Mandan and Wahpeton hav
800 each and Casselton ends the Lis
with 1900.