Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.

DAKOTA.
BURGLARS are operating in Egan.
A NEW depot is to be built at Pierre.
Elk are numerous in CLARK County.
OwAToNNA is to have new town hall.
A METHODIST college is to be locaded
at Ordway.
The postofice at Benton has been
discontinued.
DAWSON, Kidder County, is building
$40, 900 hotel.
FARGO is complaining of lax sani-
tary regulations.
The Plankinton postoface is now a.
money order office.
BISMARCK and Mandan ate to be con.
nected by telephone:
RAPID CRY talks OF issuing $3.50, 900
in bonds to secure railroad.
CHAMBERLAIN has expended $4,000
for new buildings this spring.
CAssEnToN and Fargo are talking of
being connected by telephone,
FIFTY. ONE nav buildings have been
erected in Kimbal1 this month:
The school teacher in Minnehaha is
in Jail for an assault on scholar.
The Bismarck land Office derives its
business from land west of the Missouri
River.
The lost Trail County records have
been found at Traill Center, the new
county seat.
I4 is expected that all the public land
east of the Missouri will be taken up by
settlers this year.
The Turner County Herald, by w.
C.. Brown, is the name of new paper
started at Hurley.
GRAND FORKS is to have a 500, OO0
saw-mill, having subscribed bonus Of
$25, 600 to secure it.
Hon. ALEX. MCKENZIE, of Bismarck,
will he the permanent president OF the
penitentiary commission.
The university regents are looking
for suitable site at Grand Forks fol
the erection of building.
The Sioux Valley Baptist association
will meet with the Baptist church al
Huron. Dak., June Z, 1883.
NJ. G. WmaHF, of Morrie. for embez
| Element from the Manitoba Road, hat
been sentenced to Stillgate for ont
yeaf.
The two Scandinavian papers at Fargt
and Moorhead have been merged int
one, weekly paper, to be published Al
Fargo.
The citizens of Miller; being out O
coal, forcibly detained train. and un
loaded two cars of fuel bound for anoth
or point. i.
SALT works are to be established q
Hamilton, near St. Thomas, where al
excellent quality of that article has beer
discovered.
Hon. HENRY M. LORD, of Michigan
has been appointed register, and A. o
Whipp]e, OF Minnesota, receiver, of tn
land office at Creelsburg.
GOVERNOR AUSTIN is to be reappointe'
register of the Fargo land office, but th'
appointment, to save expense ant
trouble, will net be made cut until afte
the recess Of conef'sss.
The Northern Pacific railroad has jtis
issued an elegant new folder. It credit
Mandan with 1900 people, Bismarcl
with 1900, Jamestown with $500, Val
ley City and Fargo 5000.
Mr.. M11BANK, OF New York, has sen
men to build a SIS, 900 church in tn
city bearing his name, and work has be
gun. The church will be undenomina
tional, and will be presented to the cit.
of Milbank.
MISS KATE FARLEY came from New
York to Dakota to secure piece OF land
and while waiting to prove up on he
claim she ran a laundry at Plankinton
She has closed up her business and re
turned home with the title to 160 acre
in her pocket.
WARREN MARSH, the Snake Greek
Charles Mix county, cattle man, has ba
luck with the cattle he brought into hi
ranch last fall. He has lost somewher
in the neighborhood of $50 head of cat
tie in the last five months. Mr.. Mars
is the only man in the county that ha
lost any cattle the past winter an
spring.
The Fargo Republican says: An ir
genious Moorhead Yankee has eon
structed novel little propeller whic
looks like cross petween shoe DO
and a coffin. It is rugged with sid
wheels after the style Of the steame
Pluck, and can run as fast as that steam
er-if the tow line doesn't break. 1t
furnished with Yankee boiler whic
carries about $50 pounds of steam an
its tongue out, when going up stream.
MINNESOTA.