The Dickinson press., 1884-08-30
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

The first car load Of the new crop OF
wheat arrived in Fargo from Lisbon.
The Mandan Pioneer estimates that
200, 900 bushels of wheat will DO mar
keted at that point within o month.
Editor WEIGH, of the Douglas County
Chronicle, was married to q neice of
Hon. Arson Burlingame, ut Irvington,
Mich.
> Territorial Treasurer McVay announ-
ces that as soon as his labors as q mem
Der of the territorial board of euualiza-
ton are completed he will at once es-
tablish his Office in the new capitol
building at Bismarck.
The Blunt Advocate gives currency
to the report that gold has been discov-
cred in the buttes near that town, and
says that Ed Rankey, an experienced
miner, has sunk several prospect holes
and found color in every one.
Hon. Neil Gilmoure, ex-state SUPER
intendent of public instruction of New
York, has been appointed receiver of
the Bismarck land office.
Two young men, named Andrew and
John Monsel, from Ontario, two years
ago took land in Pembina county, and
after they had proved up returned home
for a time. They now find that during
their absence their farms have been
m%ortgaged for $500 each, and will come
on and investigate.
The work of plastering has been ex-
tended to the upper story of the capitol
at Bismarck, and the building is being
completed as fast as possible. The ex-
ecutive department is now receiving it's
hard finish and the floors will lie laid
this week. A force of forty to fifty men
are at work.
Fire destroyed the residence of j. A.
Chase at Dawson. Mrs. Chase was an
deavoring to fill a gasoline stove. In
pouring the gasoline q small amount
was dropped on the jet, which imme-
diately enveloped the room in flames.
One of Mrs. Chase's arms was very bad
~, but not seriously, burned. The loss
on the house and property was quite
large and no insurance whatever.
The Dunseith (Turtle Mountains)
Herald says: Repeatedly within the
last two OF three months, choice speci-
mems of argentiferous galena and free
milling silver ores have been brought to
u notice by half-breeds and others,
who claim to have found them in the
mountains this place. .
Mercer county has been organized with
George Williams, Horace Walker and
G. Hawley commissioners, who will meet
in Stanton.
A reception was given Gen. Sherman
at Grand Forks. Just before the train
started Mrs. Mayor Mccormack came
forward and suggested that the ladies
thought that he had forgotten to dis
charge his duty. The general saw the
point and sprang forward with agility
and discharged the duty referred to,
according to approved patriotic style.
r. A. Lowell of Rockport, Oak,
writes that the charges against his
deceased father, J.. r. Lowell, are ut
terly false, and cites several prominent
citizens of st. Paul, where his father
formerly resided, as reference to his in.
tegrity.
The main rooms of the capitol at
Bismarck have received the hard finish.
All of the rooms and the halls and the
corridors have received the brown coat.
The brown coat has been put on most
of the second story. The fathers are at
work on the third story. The floors
have been put down in the rooms where
the plastering is finished, and only the
doors and windows remain to be put in
and the castings to be put on in these
rooms. Rooms can be provided within
ten days for all of the executive offices.
The legislative halls, judiciary offices,
ETC., will be completed within sixty
days. The work then Will have cost
$138, O00-$10O, 900 of it was paid from
the Bismarck subscription and the re-
AlAluO6T lTOm Ul6 SUE Oh lOGS.
Eighty tramps took possession OF
Oasselton n day, and drove families
out of their houses and committed other
excuses. -Four tramps were captured
by the sherif's posse. The others es-
capped.
The National commissioners of Agri-
culture publishes the following reports
about crops of Dakota:
T%wenty-one counties report damage
from hail, from q few farmers crops in
some counties to a whole township, OF
more, in others. Outside of the local..
ties scourged with hail stones the CROP
is very promising. The pastures are
almost universally reported fresh and
vigorous, supplying an abundance Of
excellent stock feed. Corn is in good
condition, with plenty of rain and suit.
able temperature to forceit along. The
corn belt proper has not been injured
much from storms. The wheat harvest
in South Dakota is over. The heads
are quite large and the quality good
but stalks not as thick as last year
About the time of stooling, there was
high temperature and q tingeo of dryness
The crop gives promise of better.yielc
than last year, as though the same con.
ditions exerted an influence in the soutl
part of the territory.
Dakota has los money order offices
In this department it is ahead of nine
teen of the states, namely: Alabama
80; Arkansas, "a; Colorado, 70; Con
necticut, rs; Delaware, II; Florida, Sc
Georgia, 1903; Kentucky, 104; Louisiana
81 Maryland, 81; Mississippi, SO; New