Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-04-22

NORTHERN DAKOTA.

NOIRTHERN DAKOTA.
Bismarck has no street lamps.
Larimores city election occurs May
9th.
The Lsrlmore Leader has changed
hands.
W. F. Steele has been elected mayor
Of Steele.
There is considerable immigration to
Foster county.
a new train hss been put on between
Grand Forks and Devils Lake.
1t is reported that e Mapes has pur-
chased the townsite of Michigan City.
Lung fever is quite prevalent among
the cattle and horses Of north Dakota.
One hundred Thousand acres of wheat
will be sowed in Ransom county this
spring.
No snow has fallen to amount to
anything in the Devils Lake country
since March 9Th.
1t Is thought that every foot OF govern.
ment land in Dickey county will be oc.
cupied this season.
The Northern Pacific shops at Mandan
are soon to be put in operation with q
limited force of men.
Cooperstown is the terminus of the
Sanborn & Turtle mountain railroad,
and is live and growing town.
Larimore considers itself very fortu.
nate, in not having had a death in nearly
year or fire since June, 1882.
On Tuesday, April lst, the postoftice
of"Creel City" ceased to exist, the name
having been changed to DEVILS Lake.
The three western ranges of Pembina
county will SOW 52.736 acres this year
and expect to raise 100000 bushels of
wheat.
MAJOR Edwards. of the Fargo Argus,
has son only thirteen years old, who is
a short hand reporter of considerable
ability.
The body of Ole johnson, who was
lost on the prairie in Nelson county last
December, has just been found near
Lakota.
Mrs. Bokke, wife of Bismarck police.
man, fell dead of heart disease, while
greeting her husband on his return home,
lew nights ago.
An inaugural ball was held in the
Lakeveiw hotel in Devils Lake not long
ago, which was brilliant affair. Over
| 100 in attendance.
Sheriff Charles Brown, of Pembina
county, has gore to Philadelphia for
medical treatment. having suffered for
some time from softening of the BRAN.
1t is said that the rule in Huron is for
each of the defeated candidates at the
city election to plant tree on one OF
the principal streets on the first of May.
Andrew Thompson is in jail at Grand
Forks for shooting aud killing Gilbert
Volda at Garfield on Saturday night, IN
. quarrel over game of pool. Thomp.
son is twenty-three years old.
The three miles Of track built north oi
Ellendale is to be taken up, and the
News says that town will remain the
permanent terminus Of the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad.
A Holland minister has written to in.
quire about Larimore and vicinity, with
q view of locating 5000 Hollanders, who
are expected to arrive in this country
next month.
Washburn, the county seat of Mclean
county, has no railway, but has the Mis-.
souri, river. telegraph and good news
paper, and is also situated near the i'm.
mense coal fields of the Washburn coal
company.
Spring operations in the Lisbon gold
mines have begun. During the winter 8
number of tests we're made at smelling
works in Chicago and Omaha, the resul,
showing gold and silver in quantities .ol
from eighteen to forty dollars per ton.
| Deputy Sheriff Ferguson of Ramsey
county, has arrested two men named
Lignor and Shepherd for robbinga mar
named Lee at the Brooks house, Devil't
Lake, Tuesday night. The amount taker
was 1886. The men arrested are ninetee1
and twenty years old.
Fargo Argus, 18th: One hundred anc
seventy three cars of general freight wen
west yesterday. One hundred empty
cars left east on the Northern Paci6,
railroad yesterday. Five hundred anG
nlnety-three loaded and empty cars arr
standing IN the yards at present. One
hundred and forty.two cars loaded Will
freight and merchandise were received
on the Northern Pacific yesterday
There are at tie present time three
hundred and forty.fve cars Of genera
freight in the Fargo yalds of the North
ern Pacific railroad for Fargo merchants
u NORTHERN NEBRASKA.