Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-25
DAKOTA DOTS AND DAsHES.

y $4,000 Masonic Temple has recently
been dedicated at Sioux Falls.
Proposals are lnylted for an enlarge.
ment Of the territorial penltentiary at
Deer Lodge.
Deadwood has furnished thirty lunatics
for the insane asylum in the past four
years, and now wants to furnish the con-
gressmap.
Gov. Pierce has appointed Alex NJ ;.
Kenzie of Bismarck, W. H. McVey, Of
Ysnkton, and X. Brown Of Canton, as q
board of control TO make rules and regu.
lahons and audit accounts for Dakota's
part IN the New Orleans exposlti IN.
A herd OF about 300 buffalo was seen in
the Bad Lands in west Dakota recently.
A few scattering ones have been seen east
ofthe Missouri river.
One man IN Turner county threshed l04
bushels Of fax from four acres. 1t is the
paying crop this year.
Fargo has over thirty residences which
cost sl0. 900 ana upward each. 1t has one
residence which cost al, 900, and il the
finest IN the territory.
The Missouri is washing rapidly, oppo-
ste Pierre, having eaten into the banks
800 feet IN q few weeks.
An Indian in the guard house at Fort
Yates for stealing horses committed sui
eide last week.
Eighteen miles Of trees haze been plan.
ted in Watertown streets.
A distillery is to be built at Grand
Forks to use wheat aud potatoes.
Ladies Of Mitchell have built an artistic
railway locomotive Of Dakota grains and
grasses for exhibition at the New Orleans
and other exposltions.
A Dead wood man enticed = number Of
Chicago girls into his daLce house by rep
rcsenting to them that he was the PRO-
prietor of large hotel.
Bishop Marty has ordered Catholic
church to be built IN Vermillion, and steps
will soon be taken to see that it is done.
In connection with the church there will
be parochlai school.
Itis calculated that 1900, 900 bushels
of fax seed will be harvested in Dakota
this season and sold at from &l. 90 to 81. 10
per bushel.
The first wheat threshed in Pembina
county is reported to yield "a bushels to
the acre.
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The First National bank OF Aberdeen
has paid out e1OO, 900 for wheat.
The BARRIERS of Aberdeen have resolated
to shave no more on Sunday. They want
to 20 to church.
chicago parties nave recently purchased
several sections of land near Hope, in
Grlggs county, and will improve them.
Oats are being hauled from Pierre tt
the Black Hills and retail at Deadwoot
at 81. so per 100 and $3.50 at Custer City
The corn crop in Hughes county wa'
immense and 1t is out Of the way o. frost
The stone masons are now engaged II
laying the granite in the walls Of the frs
story above the basement of the pcnlten
tiary shops at Sioux Falls.
Pierre has voted down q proposition t
build $1,000 town hall.
A Brule county man unearthed nes
of eighteen rattIesnakes at depth OF Il
feet the other day.
Mitchell has been made the terminus o
the Southern Minnesota railroad and
round house is being built at that place.
The corner stone of All Saints School .
Sioux Falls was recently laid with eccle
siast,cal and Masonic ceremonies.
In Dickey county oats on the sod ar
yielding fifty bushels to the acre, and on
yield is reported Of LOG bushels, not OF
the sod. however.
Inc OneycuuC iva 40 "
vines loaded down with grapes. flum'
are also plentiful.
A young peoples temperance soclet!
is TO be organized at sanborn. The socl
ety ,s to be of literary and social ma
ture.
A LAWYER from Columbia, IN Bro~r
county. was In Casselton the other day OF
his way to court at Fargo. anu was rur
in by the police as q suspicious charac'
ter.
Mr.. Stone, banker at Grand Forks, ha'
100 acres OF wheat that averaged thirty
six bushels 10 the acre. and reports ina
in Walsh and most Of that section I'M
crop turned out beyond expectation.
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer
has been to Buffalo the past week ana At
ranged to store his eco, 900 bushels OF No
l hard there, with large additional 10
he is handling. He will hold for better
pr1ces.
Rev. J. N. Elliott Of Fargo has aroused
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