Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-07-09
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

NORTHERN DAKOTA,
Wild strawberries are very plentiful,
large and of fine flavor.
The salary Of the Bismarck post Office
has been increased to $4,000.
A block of stores we're burned in San.
born the other day at loss of several
thousand dollars.
The officers of North Star lodge, at
Larimore, were duly installed last We'd.
nesday evening.
A cavaly troupe of young ladies and
gentlemen took part in the jamestown
Fourth of July display.
The Hillsboro Banner has changed
hands, E. D. Baker retiring and Geo. E.
Bowers taking the helm.
Real estate in Dickey county is lower
than it ever was before. Farms Of 100
acres can be bought for 800.
The Fargo Republican says: Railroads
running into and through north Dakota
find freight business light trade.
The ladies Of Sanborn have organized
a society for the development of social,
literary and religious enterprises.
The value of property, real and per.
sonal, in school district number twenty.
five, in Pemblna county, is s95 1000.
The corner stone Of the insane asylum
at jamestown, was laid with due cere.
mony by the Masonic fraternity the 4th.
The Fourth of July celebration at
Valley City was not success owing to
one of the heaviest rain falls of the sea.
son.
A gang of professional thieves are
working the Dakota division of the
Northern Pacific and find a good mapy
victims.
During thunder storm last Sunday
Mr.. l.. Clark, of Hillsboro, was struck by
lightning and seriously if not fatally
injured.
While firing off anvils at Bismarck on
the Fourth. Thomas Welsh was nearly
killed. If he survives at all he will be
totally blind.
Devils Lake is to have a Norwegian
paper-the Devils Lake Tidende-L. N.
Ashem, publisher. The paper will be a
seven column folio.
DIR. Frank Smith, of Fargo, dropped
dead in front of his Office on Tuesday
afternoon. He had been in that city three
weeks and was preparing to leave for st.
Paul.
Hope. Steele county. has a choral and
orchestral union. It is thought that
there are few if any towns in the terri.
tory, that contains such an array of
musical talent as Hope.
If report be true, Alfred Pickard, Of
Foster county, whose reputation as 6
horse thief was unqaestionable, wa.
hanged by band of lynchers, in Nc
Lean county, few days ago.
According to the Devils Lake Pionee
Press, horse stealing is becoming s,
common along the international line at
to indicate that there is an organized
gang, and that paper advises a libera
use of hemp.
The body of man was found hoatins
in the river near Fargo recently. Th,
man had hole In the skull and deer
cash in the chin. A verdict of acciden
tai drowning was, however, returned By
the coroner's jury.
James Forrest, aged seventy five years
died Sunday morning at the residence o
his son, Richard Forrest, at Marvel, i,
Grand Forks county. He had just arse,
and was wslking across the floor whel
he fell aud expired almost instantly.
During recent thunder storm th
telegraph instrument at Darlington wa
completely demolished. Some of th,
wires and small metallic parts of tn,
"ticker" were consumed without Ieavin,
q trace behind, and the wood was ais
charred though not ignited.
| A collision occurred on the Fare
Southern road near Rahpeton on Frida,
last, between an excursion party and
work train. Mrs. Mcdonald, wife of
railroad contractor, was injured inte,
nally and received scalp wound. Nj
McDonalds sister was injured in tn
back and also received scalp wound.
Larimore Pioneer: A few days ago i
3 Norwegian row, near Northwood
Kneut A. Moe. one of the number, wa
kicked and beaten almost to death. Fo
several days he has been apparentl
insane. DIR. Oonkey went out to see hi1
Tuesday and found that the skull ha
been cracked, which caused the tendenc
to insanity. he dressed the wound an
the patient is now dong we'll.
II Bismarck Tribune: The re.appoin,
ment and confirmation of John A. Re,
register of the United States land ofic.
! at Bismarck, rewards a servant of Uncl
} Sam who has kept the records Of hi
Office in the best condition of any Ian
Office in the United States, and who's
suggestions to the department hav
been of ineakimahle valna 70 kho .a&&l<