Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-05-21

result. They arc also giving NJ, the one
crop idea, and many are going quite ex-
tensively into small fruit raising.
The Journal says: The present season
starts in counterpart to that of 1882,
when the general average of No. / hard
in La Moure county, was twenty five
bushels.
The Dakota bicycle clnb of Grand
Forks has been formed. Uniforms have
been ordered and an application made
for membership of the league of Ameri.
can Wheelmen.
In La Moure county, since the assess.
ment of year ago, two hundred claims
have been proved up, giving tho county
$4,000 acres additional taxable lands,
from that source alone.
Wheat in Richland county is all sown
and about one third up. The price Of
oats is SO low that very little has been
sown. Good seed corn is so scarce that
none has been planted.
The james river valley, in LaMoure
and Dickey counties,is the scene of great
activity. The towns of LaMoure, Grand
Rapids. Ellendale, Yorktown, and others
are having quite boom.
1t is claimed that the Red river is
getting wider every day and that in 1875
it was only about one. third its present
width. 1t is now navigable for steamers
OF one hundred tons burden.
While Mr.. White was gathering bones
among among the sand hills, few miles
from Mandan, he found the dead body
OF man lying face downward. The
coroner and sheriff are investigating.
The county commissioners of Kidder
county have offered bounty of five
cents per head for all gophers killed in
that county. The scalp, with the ears
attached. is requisite for proof
TIE Inter Ocean says: Every travel
ing man who comes to Devils Lake, says
this is the best business point in Dakota.
10 be Devils Lake merchant now, is
to have good credit in the eastern mar.
ket.
At the recent municipal election in
Valley City, I. F. Weiser was elected
mayor by ten majority, and both factions
turned out and celebrated the result.
The salary of the office is five dollars a
year.
Eighty government claims, amounting
to l2,S0O acres, we're fled on at the
United States land Office in Fargo during
one week recently, and final proof was
made on thirty.seven claims, or 1920
acres.
Hope Pioneer: This week will about
wind up seeding operations in this neigh.
borhood, and we are glad to be able to
say that the work has been generally
we'll done. and ii now depends only upon
favorable weather to insure the heaviest
crop OF No. l hard that has ever been
produced in this section.
Fargo Republican: The people of Da.
kota, are too much interested in the out.
come of the wheat crop, to pay very
earnest attention to political affairs, but
after the harvest Is gathered, they will
take hand in politics, and show to
those who aspire to direct and lead
matters, that the people have been doing
some thinking for themselves.
The body of DR.. J. P. Darlington has
been found about fifteen miles from
Hope, in Steele county. 1t will be
remembered that the doctor was lead.
ing physician at Mayville, and the day
before Christmas started to visit hif
family residing on claim fifty or sixty
miles distant He was caught in the
great storm of that date and lost his life
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
st. P. NJ. / NJ. extension north from
Portland, Traill county. The work il
being divided up into short sections, and
the contracts call for the completion OF
the work by the 18th of July. Iron is tc
be laid as fast as the grading is com
pleted, and the entire road will be iu
running order in time to move the grow
ing crop.
Mandan Pioneer: A car load of Col
umbia river salmon from the dalles o
the Columbia, and the first car load o.
the season, shipped east to New York
went through Mandan last evening OF
the through passenger train. This ca
is the first shipped under the contract q
the Marquis de Mores with certain New
York parties to furnish them with lare,
amount of salmon weekly during til,
season.
Casselton Reporter: Miss Ella Nun
ston, of Casselton. was before the insan
ity commissioners Saturday. Her cas-,
is very peculiar. She has not spoken
word for three days, and will sit and lool
straight in front of her, totally obliviou
to everything that is going on. Th,
commissioners tried several means to at
tract her attention, but without avail
They decided she was fit subject to b.
sent to the asylum at Yankton.
Grand Rapids Journal: The Jane
river valley, as represented by Stutsmau
La Moure, and Dickey counties, will hav
100000 bushels of grain to dispose Of
and at this writing has only three o
four elevators, to care for the prospec
tive immense crop, many farmers having
hundreds of acres, thirty miles from the
nearest elevator. The completion o
the James River Valley railroad, and tn