Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-20
WESTERN NE VS..
DAKOTA.

DAKOTA.
Highmore witnessed the dedication of its
first church a few days ago.
The new shops of the Falls City penitentia-
are completed and ready for occupation.
Aberdeen claims to be doing mora building
than any other town in south Dakota.
Hughes county bonds to the amount of
800, 00U were recently sold at 9ss cents.
Frankfort is going to have a steam Touring
mill with a capacity of seventy-ive barrels of
flour per day.
Over q hundred thousand bushels of grain
have been marketed in Pukwana since last
August.
The commissioner of Hanson county have
let the contract for a new court house for
S9,973.
Business at the Bismarck land office is said
to be unusually active, entries averaging over
twenty per day.
The crop prospect on the recently opened
and closed reservations is reported looking
much better than the title.
A site for the Rapid City school of mines
has been selected within the limits of that
town, consisting OF a ten.acre tract.
Farmers in the immediate vicinity of Fred
erick are said to have planted more han
l ,0GO, 900 trees this spring.
Over 50, 900 has been raised to aid the re-
cent agricultural society organized in Lake
county. A fair will be held in Madison this
fall.
and st. Paul railway will be completed to
Roscoe, in Edmunds county, tie present
season.
The Marquis de Mores believes he has dis
covered k%soline, q clay from which the finest
pottery is made, near the town of Medora, ON
the Northern Pacific.
Deadwood is in a chronic state of excite
ment the past few days oyer the supposed
rich strikes and new finds in the carbonate
camps near that town.
0utcroppings of galena ore have been dis
covered a few miles north of Dunseith, In
the Turtle Mountain country, one mass of
float weighing over 900 pounds.
The division headquarters of military tele.
graph lines at Bismarck, maintained sincs
1878, will be broken up June l and the pres
ent officers assigned to other posts.
The Grand Army of the Republic for Da.
deem post, and will hold their annual re- nnion
in that city the second week in the coming
September.
The board of education of tina city of Yank-
ton sold to Boston p, rites So 600 Of ten-year
z PER cent bonds at 81 cents The bonds are
payable after five years, at the option of the
board.
The artesian we'll at Altoona is down to a
depth of 145 feet. The town Is to pay $4, 500
for the first 90 feet, and from 80 cents to
Sl,50 per foot additional to the above price
for any greater depth.
Cattle about Bear Butte are said to be an
noyed by q small striped fly that stings the
cattle in the heel, depositing its eggs in the
skin, where they hatch, causing what is
known as 'gtub In ths heel"
Bismarck has a brewery which cost Its
owners S125, COO and the Tribune asserts that
it Is worth more to that community than the
capital or any other public institution The
capital cost the people Of Bismarck S225, 600.
The brewery cost them nothing.
The total number Of entries on which final
proof has besd made In Charles Mix county
for the year beginning May l, 1884, and end
ing April 81, 1887. is l6l. The total number
OF entries on which final proof has been made
since the land was thrown open to settlement
by President Hayes in 1879, is 429, en- bracing
6S, SEQ acres.
1t is announced that myriads of grasshop-
pers are Matching in the washington Hills
in Jerauld county, Dakota.
This was an old breeding ground for these de-
in by-gone years and it is probable
that some of the seed has been lying dormant
there since the palmy days of the pestiferous
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