Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-17

the inquest this afternoon verdict of
willful murder was returned.
NORTHERN DAKOTA.
The Sykeston Comet is q new paper.
A jamestown lady has q pet antelope.
A Press club is to be organized at
Fargo.
The new bank of Fargo had narrow
escape from fire recently.
Ole Swanson was killed by lightning
the other day near Casselton.
The Bismarck journal is to be issued
daily from the 1st of October.
The now Fargo Southern road showed
its enterprise by running special train
to Pierce.
The Fargo Broadaxe has changed
hands again. The undertaken is reach.
ing out for it.
Walsh county is to vote on the ques.
tion of being bonded for q $4,000 court
house this fall.
The jamestown Daily Alert has sus.
pended to keep out of debt. Its pub.
lishers will issue Sunday edition.
Tower City is to have a Baptist col.
lege, $120,o0O having already been sub-
scribed und donated for its erection.
The Lisbon Clipper says farmer
named Ash threshed forty.three bushels
of No. l hard, from little less than one.
half acre.
1t is estimated that over 10000 tons of
hay has been cut and stacked on Mouse
river since the commencement of the
harvesting season.
Col. Steele's farm, at Steele, IN Kidder
county. will send to the New Orleans
exposition turnlp that weights seven.
teen pounds, and is thirty.slx inches in
circumference.
The Mandan Pioneer says: IAN
Indian pappoosecarried tenderly in her
arms yesterday pet skunk. OF all the
pets in or out of Chrlstendom. this one
seems to take the cake"
Rumor. unconfrmed says the Dakota
and Great Southern railway was offered
eighty. five cents on the dollar for its
bonds, and further, that the line between
Bristol and Elliot will be ironed this
fall.
Special: David Russell killeda a buffalo
twelve miles southeast of Steele, On the
l1th. There was large herd in the
neighborhood. Great excitement pre-.
vailed, and every one who could secure
gun and horse was out on the hunt
LaMoure Progress: Perhaps but few
of our LaMoure people know that Nor.
monism has foothold in our country,
but whether these people in 1866 prac.
tice or believe polyRamy, they are under
direction of an elder, and observe the
Mormon creed.
It is said that there is not q single
physician in Benson county and Devils
Lake. There will be births enough
there the next year to give profitable
employment to ono or two doctors.
They now send to Devils Lake City
twenty-five to forty miles.
The gross receipts of the Fargo post
Office are greater than those at For,
Wayne and Lafayette. Indiana, com
bined. Greater than either Dubuque
Davenport, and Burlington, Iowa. and
almost as large as Quincy, Illinois, cit,
Of some 10000 inhabitants.
Mandan Pioneer: Our farmers arr
beginning to see that mixed farming il
the only sure way of making their bust
ness profitable. There is more money il
COWS, chickens, hogs, horses and small
fields of vegetables and the different
grains than there is in large fields o.
wheat.
Mrs. Kerr, who lives few miles eas,
OF jamestown, had nineteen hens in the
spring, and from them she has already
sold twenty-oue dollars worth of egg,
besides raising sixty-four chickens ani
eight turkeys. Her family have, in ad
dition, had an abundance of eggs fo
their own use.
i The Valley City Times complains
Twenty thousand dollars expended for
so.called system of sewerage IN Vale!
City, and the principal street of the cit,
to-day is covered with from ten to twelv,
inches of water. Will our city counci
council please attend to this and drail
of the water2
Fargo Republican: The daily news
, papers of north Dakota have, with on
! or two exceptions, pulled through tn
, financial depression Of the summer il
very good shape and are now entering
upon the more promising fall seaso,
with every prospect Of ending the yea
in quite as satisfactory q condition a
their older contemporaries in the state
: Of the east.