The Dickinson press., 1884-12-27
EXCHANGE EP1TOME.
GLADSTONE EXPRESS.

Iof MS OH nome in RlpOn, Wis. He
will return in the spring.
r. Robbins returned from Bis.
marck recently, where the season was
spent at his trade, that of carpenter.
Gladstone boasts of number of
nimrods who find it no trick to down
from five to ten deer a day. Pretty
lively work, ell!
Town property is on the boom
that is, some of our townsmen pro.
pose making it so cen though a lot is
swapped for sack of navy beans.
Selah.
The Wells. Fargo & Co.'S express
have established an office at this
point. Office ut the depot.
j. S. Let's left last week for Man.
dan and the east. He went in the in
terest of his colony work. The gen.
tleman expects to bring out a number
of families for settlement in this val
ley, next spring. Gladstone and
Stark county have an earnest worker
i'll the person of Mr.. Let's.
f. G. Bates raised As bushels of
flint corn from little less than q of
an acre Of ground. the past season.
yield of so bushels per acre, which is
big yield for an older corn country.
1t is sound, plump and what is better
still, matured early. Considerable
corn was raised in the vicinity of
Gladstone, this year, which speaks
volumes for our climate and soil.
Home-seeker, stick a pin here and
come and he satisfied.
JAMESTowN CAPITAL.
Corn socials are the thing in Fargo.
Fargo seems to be developing into a
community of chiropodists.
A farmer living near Carrlngton
has this fall sown tree seeds in all the
sloughs and low grounds on his land.
In a south Dakota city that gave
one vote for Mr.. Wilson for congress,
it is said that twenty persons now
claim to have cast it.
The Manitoba road has this wear
shipped l3.500.000 bushels of wheat.
and it is said there are still 9,OOO.OOO
bushels i'll store along the line of the
road.
An enterprising citizen of Wahpe-
ton is training four Indians on roller
skates. They will give the war dance
i'll paint and feathers, and gather in
lucre in the east.
A man in LaMoure county. twelve
miles from Grand Rapids, recently
found the bones of an infant in tree
wrapped up in the Sioux way of dis.
posing of their dead.
MANDAN PIONEER.
In Minneapolis. sawdust can be had
for the hauling. In Mandan a car
load would cost $3.50. That's freight.
We learn that Sims desires to have
two county commissioners for the
west end of the colmty-one for Sims
and one for Glenullin.
A New York gentleman, who has
some little property interests in this
part of Dakota, writes to real estate
firm that from what he can see lie
believes good many eastern capital
lists who are getting tired of the pre-
carlousneSS Of the stock markets
will look to Dakota in the near future
for investments.
All the iron on the old Bellows and
Fogarty spur track by the river will
be taken up this season and the
bridge thoroughly secured from in
jury from high water and ice, by the
force of men now at work.
MANDAN TIMES.
The people at Sims have actually
taken the bull by the horns and are
working hard to have new county
carved from Morton.
The weather has been so frosty of
late that the wire of the fire alarm
system has not been all strung.
BLACK HILLS PIONEER.
A party has been organized at
Cheyenne to go into Northeastern
Nebraska for the purpose of killing
off wild stations that are said to run
off mares.
A Rapid City girl, while out riding
with Il young man. deliberately got
out of the buggy to kill herself, be-
cause the young man persisted in
driving with both hands.
The owner of the largest herd of
Polled Angus cattle in the United
States will remove them from the
grounds in Indiana to Fall River
county this territory, early in the
spring. and possibly within the next
thirty days. This is the country for
them and their importation will be
hailed with pleasure by every lover
of fine stock in the Hills country.
BISMARCK TRIBUNE.
Territorial Treasurer McVay, ar
rived in Bismarck with his Office ef-
fects Friday.