Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-09-17
DAKOTA DoINGs.

Pierre is to have Sunday paper.
Dakota's lakes are full of ducks and
geese.
MITCHELL s first death was from delirium
tremens.
DEVILS Lake has an artesian we'll 18O
feet deep.
Sugar cane has been successfully raised
in Dickey County.
Mitchell is going to have dry fair this
fall. Beer will be excluded.
A rusty gun and the skeleton of man
were recently found near New Rockford
The territorial land offices turned $780,
600 into the government treasury the past
year.
The Tyndall Tribune claims that oats
in that vicinity are yielding 100 bushels
per acre.
Quails have appeared in considerable
numbers in the older counties. The grain
brings them.
The Philadelphia Tribune and Farmer
estimates the wheat crop of Dakota for
1884 at $4,000 900 bushels.
The Yankton Insurance Company suf-
ferred losses to the amount of $4,000 by
the hail-storms of the present season.
The Pierre Press Club will give the
newspaper men who attend the Republi-
can Territorial Convention a banquet to-
morrow evening.
The Northwestern Railroad Company
is counting upon the shipment of Is, OOO,-
900 bushels of wheat. this year, over it's
Dakota division of 600 miles.
Over 100 carloads of paving stone are
awaiting shipment at Dell Rapids The
quarrymen find it impossible to get cars
fast enough for their business.
The first furrow was plowed in Ransom
County in 1881, and the first crop har-
vested in 1889. This year 80, 900 bushels
OF wheat were required for seed.
Thursday last the town of Steele was in
hubbub, caused by the appearance. of
herd of buffalo southeast of town. Guns
and horses were, in great demand.
The further the drill goes down in the
Yankton coal find the more promising
the prospects are. The last stratum
pierced measured II feet of solid coal.
A sulphur spring has been discovered
near Rockford, the medicinal qualities of
which are said to surpass those of any of
the noted health resorts in the country.
An Indian, we'll dressed in u blue cot
ton suit, driving good horse to good
top.buggy, with his wife by his side holds
ing a clean, well-dressed baby in her
arms, drove into Pierre the other day.
Miss Samuels has claim near Kato,
and had built a shanty thereon to make
good her title. Recently storm came,
struck the shanty, carried it out of sight,
and left her sitting in the rain for the
rest Of the night.
A farmer near Watertown claims to
have entirely obviated danger from smut
by soking the seed in vitriol water 1t is
said that this not only prevents smut, but
renders the kernels plump and causes
complete and full growth of the head.
Col. A. D. Robertson, of St. Paul, an
old-time horticulturist, is making study
of the climatic conditions of northern
Minnesota and Dakota as related to. fruit
culture. He has been following the track
of hail-storms into Dakota, and holds the
theory that frequent belts of timber will
dissipate and turn these storms, to rain.
Hughes County has quite number of
Indians who have proved up on land un.
der the homestead law, and some of. them
have farms in q fair state of cultivation
but majority prefer the lazy, vagabond
life to which they have been accustomed,
and refuse to, till the soil with the excep.
ton of small garden and truck" patch.
Rev. r. II. Dolliver, who was Dakota's0 So
delegate in the Prohibition convention
at Pittsburg, which nominated st. John
for President, says that, unless one or the
other Of the old parties in Dakota nomi-
nate strict Prohibitionist for Delegate,
the Prohibitionists themselves will make
q nomination and support their candidate
at the election.
The Scranton Pioneer says that the ex-
pertinent of artesian wells as a motor for
Touring mills Is not untried. William
Wenigar, of Prairie du Chien, Wis, has
had q mill successfully operated by the
flow of two large artesian wells since the
fall of 1875. The wells are over 1000
feet deep and s inches in diameter, from
which q never-failing stream of several
million gallons of water flows each day,
with q force sufficient to propel three run
of stone and the attendant machinery.
It is so much of success that Mr.. Weni.
gar is now preparing to enlarge the ca.
pacity of his mill.
Ass I0aD0 Ja4tzge OIL DtthOta.
Judge Seward Smith, of DesMoines, at
present visiting Dakota. writes as fol.