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is equally fortunate in his other important
Dakota appointments he will make hosts of
friends
Dakofa NewsIets.

ineness to its humor.
One of the mills at Fargo offers to con-
tract wheat in harvest at 80 cents, but the
farmers expect to do better.
A good deal of land has sold lately in
Ransom and adjoining counties at $40 an
acre, payable in wheat at 81 bushel.
The Central Dakota Editorial association
is to meet at Watertown in June, and
banquet and reception is on the program.
The agents of colony from Jefferson
county, Pennsylvania, have been looking
over the Devils Lake region the past week.
1t is said that Brown county has 100
schools, with lis teachers and 81 school
houses. 1t is one of the new central coun-
ties.
Scotch pines planted about the capital at
Bismarck and other points were not injured
by the winter and will be largely put out in
the North.
Fine herds of antelope and some noun
tain sheep have been seen in the vicinity OF
Medora of late. They furnish choice hunt
ing for Theodore Roosevelt and his New
York friends
A concert was given recently at Dead
wood to raise money to send running
team to take part in the firemen's tOurna-
ment at Sioux Falls. Quite sum was
raised.
1t is said that Mrs. Dill, the Wahpeton
woman who killed her husband, is the first
woman to find quarters in the penitentiary
at Sioux Falls Petitions are already being
signed for her pardon.
A Grand Forks paper says that the young
ladies there make presents to their gentle
men friends OF hand-painted SuSpenders,
and the young men reciprOcate with carriers
and lOcketS attached.
1t is believed there will be twenty towns
of South Dakota represented in the fire.
mems tournament at Sioux Falls June
1926. The prizes to be competed for ag-
gregate $1,000, and the community will
spread itself on the occasion.
Surveyors are running line northeast
of Watertown, and there is little doubt had
that it is for connection with the Fargo
Southern and Milwaukee at OrtOnville. 1t
is expected that at the June meeting OF the
directors of the latter provision will be
made for this connection.
The report that Hon. Alexander McKen-
zie, the head center of all North Dakota
movements, would remove from Dakota,
has called out warm compliments of an
obituary type in all sections. Some think
the report was sent out for this purpose.
Working girls are scarce about Pierre and
the Press wants carload shipped from
the East. 1t a notable fact that in many of
the towns of the North there is little de-
mand for them, as the most fashionable la
dies quite generally prefer to do their own
house work.
George II. Penniman, who owns game
preserve of "a, 900 acres in North Carolina,
has been visiting the Devils Lake section
of late. and proposes to buy 10, 600 OF more
acres near the lake for that purpose. He
will bring hunting party for the fall
duck.
The Sioux Falls Press says the new Dem
ocratic postmaster there is chairman of the
Republican committee of his ward, and sees
something in that inconsistent with robust
Democracy Such fine distinctions are not
adapted to Dakota politics, and will rule
out most Of the leaders.
L. M. Thomas of Watertown has gone
to Washington with package of indorse-
ments for the postofice and fully convinced
that he is better man for the place than
Oscar Kemp, and the News alleges that
while Monk, the incumbent, has made a
good official there is ample evidence that
he has given more letters to Republicans
than to Democrats.
AS an encouragement to the growing of
trees, the case of W. j. Wimple, near Can
ton, is in point. About seven years ago he
planted lot of box elder seed on his claim
He now has trees eight inches in diameter
and twenty feet high, and they are so thick
that he will have all the fuel he needs in
thinning them out. He has also sold over
500 worth of trees.
Parties from Illinois and other states are
surprised to find that at Fargo and other
points they can purchase goods at about the
same figures they have been accustomed to,
even oranges, lemons and bananas, and
most fruits except apples. The merchants
of Fargo are an enterprising class and see
the policy of making figures that will pre-
clude sending abroad.
Sheridan Jones, superintendent of public
instruction and editor of the Rural Voice at
Olivet, was the gallant leader of the party
that hunted wolves last week, and gives a
thrilling narration of the attack of the wolf
upon his dog, and how he himself lay in
ambush and brought down the unsuspecting
wolves with his little gun. The narration
will perhaps appear in future Dakota school
books.
The Bismarck Tribune learns from John
r. Mason that his brother-in-law, Charles
Whalen, was burned while asleep in his
shack at night, by prairie fire. There were
no neighbors, and when Mr.. Mason went to
visit him the next day he found only the
ashes of the shack and the charred remains
of the body, which he shipped to friends in
Wisconsin. This occurred, according to
Tribune statement, in the Devils Lake re-
gion.
The Sioux Falls Press is of the opinion
that all the railroad building in South Da-
kota this year will be the line from Sioux
Falls to connect with the Burlington &
Cedar Rapids at point east of Rock Rap
ids, and the Milwaukee connection from
Ortonville to Flandreau, giving north and
south line from Sioux City, via Sioux Falls,
to Fargo.
The Devils Lake Inter Ocean states that
as late as May 20 solid layers of ice were
found there twenty-six inches below the
surface, and says anywhere in North Da-
kota ice may be found from five to seven
feet down, and that the frost will not be
entirely out till late in the summer, and
some years does not entirely thaw out
This deep freezing, it says keeps the
ground cool and moist, and insures good
crops when there is lack of rain.
Oscar Ball, resident of this section in
connection with wealthy members of the
Chicago board of trade, has bought a Sec
ton near Sterling, in the southeast part of
Burleigh county, some twenty-five miles
from the capital, and will lay out town
and build hotel, convenient to Long lake,
with special view to accommodate sports
men from Chicago. The fall shooting is
said to be superb, and the lake has fish and
many attractions. 1t is expected that the
hotel will be ready in August and quite a
little village will spring up.
The Blunt Times in Hughes county says