Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-06-17
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NORTHERN DAKOTA.
Fargo has military company.
Wahpeton has case Of highway 70

NORTHERN DAKOTA.
Fargo has military company.
Wahpeton has a case Of highway rob.
bery.
Wahpeton has concluded not to cele.
brate.
A large brick hotel is to be erected al
Bismarck.
A drunken man is rarely seen on the
streets of Fargo.
Wahpeton will spend $500 gu its
streets this season.
Glendale will erect school house to
cost $4,000 this summer.
Casselton has new paper called The
Sun, prohibition organ.
Valley City has raised $500 for its
Fourth of July celebration.
The Sells Bros. monster circus will
exhibit at Wahpeton the 18th.
Melville boasts of as fine equestrians
as are to be found in the territory.
The Casselton Reporter was never SO
prosperous as at the present time.
The Mandan Pioneer has changed
from morning to an evening paper.
Two school houses are being built at
Fairmont township, Richland county.
Casselton is making elaborate prepar-
ations for celebration on the Fourth.
Thirty car loads of merchandise for
Fargo merchants was received the 18th.
Miss Littlefeld,o ,one of Jamestown's fa-
vorite teachers, will teach in Fargo next
year.
A Lisbon, Ransom county, dealer in
fruit sold l6S quarts of strawberries last
week.
Wahpeton's amateur vocalists are re-
hearsing the opera of the "Bells of Nor
mandy"
From 1900 to 5000 bushels is about
the average of daily receipts of wheat at
Hillsboro.
The Manitoba railroad sees in Devils
lake the coming summer resort of the
northwest.
The people of Forest River are dis
satisfied with the town cite and are fgur-
ing to change it.
The Indians at Standing Rock have
collected aud shipped so far this season
$50 tons Of bones.
Walsh county has seut eleven insane
persons to the asylum at Yankton in
about as many months.
Bachelors Grove, in Grand Forks coun-
ty, will have regular old fashioned
Fourth of July celebration.
The Alert says: jamestown has more
handsome women and girls than any
other city Of its size in the northwest.
Eight cavalrymen and one infantry.
man deserted from Fort Yates recently.
Scouts were sent out to gather them in.
The Republican says all Dakota cities
except Fargo are preparing to celebrate
the Fourth in a fitting and appropriate
manner.
Preparations are being made at Penn
bina for Fourth of July celebration
that will eclipse all former celebrations
in northern Dakota.
A Mrs. Darlington, o widow lady living
on the Shyenne river. lost her house by
fire recently, containing verything she
owned in the world.
The first annual session of the Ransom
county teachers association was held at
Lisbon last week. There were twenty
teachers in attendance.
Two Indians i'll birch canoe passed
by Wahpeton last week. They were on
their way to Winnipeg from the White
Earth reservation, Minnesota.
The Fargo, Larimore & Northern be.
gan surveying last week. They will
grade from Fargo to point near the
Goose river, between Mayville and Hills
boro.
Among the measures being adopted to
push Devils Lake to the front as sum-
mer resort, are system of hot and cold
baths and park on Rock Island con-
venient to steamboats,.
jamestown Capital, 18th: The rain
storm last evening exceeded in magDi.
tude any ever seen by even the Oldest
inhabitant. For two hours the rain fell
in torrents. The windows of heaven
seemed to have opened with vengeance.
The Bathgate Sentinel says: A merry
crowd of campers left Oh Tuesday morn.
ing for one of the picturesque dells in
the Pembina mountains, where they will
pitch their tents and enjoy mature, in
her visible forms," for a week.
A company of soldiers at Fort Pembi-
ma, are under orders to march west to
protect people living in Rollette and
Cavalier counties, against band of
horse thieves that are terrorizing the
country by carrying off horses by the
Wholesale
The Republicans says: Fargo has
beautiful park, covered with refreshing
shade trees and inviting grass plots, but
it seems wholly given up to tramps and
idle men, who occupy the choice seats
and appropriate to themselves all the
most desirable shady places.
At Cooperstown, Griggs county, there
are 25O tons of buffalo bones awaiting
shipment, estimated to represent 10000
animals. These were all gathered from
narrow scope Of country and show
what an immense number of the animals
died that their country might be enrich
All nv their hones