Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-21
9aily 3rsss and @lahotaia,l
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

jamestown has . lady physician d the
homeopathic school. - IS
Fort Totten will be improved this year
to the extent OF $l5O00p.
The married men of Bismarck contem-
plate organizing polo club.
An assembly of tue knights of Labor
will soon be instituted at Maadan.
There will be no spring session Of
court in Pemb;na county this year.
Portland boasts Of cornet aud string
band second to none in the territory.
The Bismarck telephone exchange
now numbers seventy nine instruments.
An effort is being made to form an as
socittion OF the teachers of northern Da-
kota.
Tower City's leap..year party was one
Of the most successful society events Of
tho season.
Mt. and Mrs. 7. J. Tuliy, Of Bismarck,
celebrated their silver wedding on St.
Valentines day.
Corporal Voothigen. Seventeenth in.
tantry. was frozen to death in the woods
uear Bismarck recently.
The Tower City Herald is four years
old and is to be enlarged aud improved.
1t was ALWAYS good paper.
A colony of one hundred families from
Nebraska will locate ct or near New
Salem, west of Bismarck.
The asylum for the insane at james.
town will cost $4,000, and will be com.
menced early in the spring.
The jamestown Alert has entered
npon its fourth year Of publication. It
is one of the best papers in the territory.
The Lisbon Clipper, last Issue, had y
review Of improvements, showing an ag-
gregate of $.023l4. the past year.
The Fargo Republican hes new press
and will soon be made an eight page
sheet with improvements and changes in
its staff.
I. P. Allison. Fargo cigar aud pea.
nut dealer. was robbed of twenty-five
dollars by highwaymen on Wednesday
night.
About City persons residing in La.
Moure and Dickey counties, have been
arrested by United States detectives for
fraudulent holding of government laud !.
There are lumors that Larimors
party is getting the right of way through
Grand Forks. Walsh aud Pembins
counties for the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul.
EiEhty.th,ee young men of Fargo
have been indicted by the grand jury
for having in their possession private
keys to well.known gambling estab.
lishment. Most OF them belong to good
families.
DEVILS Lake Globe: A new feature
IN the land laws came IN the other day.
L. Flynn was about to file timber
culture entry on claim when another
man demanded an auction for the privi-
lege, but upon Flynp's prosecution of an
affidavit setting forth his havlug i'm.
provements on the land. the officials de.
cided IN bis favor.
Foul citizens Of Valley City have been
arrested charged with grave robbery.
James Allen, taxidermist. is said to
have had two "stiffs" in his office recent.
~, which were seen by an attorney, who
one of them as James Smith,
. butcher. lately deceased. The attorney
said nothing until yesterday. when the
arrests were made. An examination OF
The cemetery revealed one grave partly
but the contents uudisturbed.
The feeling against the accused is
strong.
st. Thomas Times: There is no coun
Try on tue tace of the globe where more
provision has been made for
than here in Dakota. In re
gard to churches, the statement Las been
made, perhaps somewhat facetiously, |
hat while the surveyor was laying out q |
ownsite at least four missionariesIwould |
hasten to the spot aud be found sitting
~ the corner stakes ready to organize a
eiigious society and secure sufficient
own lots upon which to build an edifice.
So country has more newspapers, and
letter ones too, in proportion to Its
population, than Dakota. There has
'een deficiency IN regard to railroads.
'ut it now appears that this will be o
hing of the past.