The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-10-04
Dickinson Stark

About two hundred Gros Ventre
Indians from Fort Berthold came in
to town Monday and thirty-eight of
them, on a twenty-five days leave of
absence, took the emigrant train
Tuesday for Fort Custer to visit the
Crows.
The cattle shipments from here
during the month of September were
larger than from any other point
along the Northern Pacific. The
shipments amounted to $40 cars OF
about 10000 head.
Colonel Hughes and John N. Simp-
son, of the Continental Land and Cat
tie company are in Chicago. The
Colonel will go from there to his
home and Mr.. Simpson will return
here in a few days to finish up the
shipments for the season.
Andy Messersmith recovered a
horse from the Inians last Tuesday
which was stolen from him last fall.
The Indians were 10th to give the
horse up and it was necessary to is
sue papers which were placed in the
hands of the sheriff who took the
horse.
We have received from the pub
fishers, G. & G. Merriam & Co., SPRING
field, Mass, a copy Of Webster's Un-
abridged Dictionary. The work con-
tains large supplement of new
words, 5000 illustrations and is worth
more to a family than all other books
combined.
There is on exhibition in the North
ern Pacific emigration department at
st. Paul, a fine collection of vegeta-
bles from Gladstone, this county.
They are potatoes that yielded 4SO
bushels to the acre, fine heads of
caulillower, carrots, mangel wurtZels,
squashes, citrons, and corn that yield
ed sixty bushels to the acre ninety
days after seeding.
Jerry Hayes and Jerry Russell were
ut Fort Bertholl this week. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Russell's corporeal
immensity was too great for the III
dian bull boat, which was to carry
them over the Big Muddy, and the
boat qnivered for a moment and then
began to settle to the bottom, but
nothing serious happened except a
bad scare for Jerry and the squaw
who owned the boat.
Alex. Mckenzie is probably better
suited to manage the great Dakota
exhibit at New Orleans than any
other man in the territory. Through
his ,mtirng zeal and energy every
branch of industry will be repre-
sented. He has issued circular to
the newspaper publishers of the terri
tory asking them for nine copies of
their respective papers, three of each
| issue for three consecutive weeks, to
be placed ON file in the Dakota de-
partment at the World Exposition.
A gentleman from up the line stated
yesterday to a Pioneer reporter that
he had every assurance that there
will be a large emigration into the
West Missouri country next spring.
The big crops of this fall and the
hard times in the east will unite in
giving us a large number of substan-
tial farmers next spring. These, in
time, will tell their friends to follow,
and the country will take start that
will result in rapid and healthy de-
velopment.-- -Mandan Pioneer.
James Collister brought two beets
to town this week which were raised
on the farm of w. B. Powers. They
beat anything in the beet line we
have ever seen and doubt if these
beets can be beat by anybody, but be-
fore we tell of such beautiful beets
bound to be raised by Dakota farmers
it will be best to challenge any one
to show beets to beat these. One of
them measured about 81 inches in
circumference and weighed few
ounces over eight pounds. The other
measured twenty-siX inches in length
and weighed about five pounds.
After nearly year of intense suf-
fering. borne with Christian forti-
tude, Mrs. Charles Green died Friday
of last week at about 7 o'clock P. NJ,
and the community was bereft of one
of it's best women, husband left to
mourn beloved companion and an
innocent babe, too young to realize it's
great loss, left without mother.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Cooke, last Sunday at two
o'clock p. NJ. in the Baptist church,
which was filled with sympathising
friends. After the services were
over the remains were laid in the ST.
lent grave.