Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-07-30
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NORTHWESTERN NOxEs.

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st. Lawrence has voted to incorporate.
A new jail is being built in Pennington
county. San 5-7 = 1ss
A $500 school house is to be erected in
Aberdeen.
The assessed valuation of Grant county
Is $1,S07,745.
There was heavy frost in the Black
Hills last week.
Agate postofice, Sully county, has been
removed to Norf0la.
Wolves are committing bold depreda-
A travelling man was fined at Sioux Falls
for carrying two guns.
A party is being formed to capture the
Lake kampeska sea serpent.
The artesian well at Miller forces water
TO height OF seventy-fiye feet
The Milwaukee will build two elevators
at Twin Brooks, west of Milbank.
Brookings will vote on the question Of
issuing bonds for an artesian we'll.
The harvest in the neighborhood Of Iro-
quois is turning out an average yield.
A Farmer near Elk Point owns q calf
Which has three eyes and two mouths.
Columbia has voted to bond the city for
$4,000 to obtain additional railroad facili-
ties. ~ f5s72'''7
Martin Thoresin, farmer near Mayyille,
broke both arms by fall from q load
Of hay.
The law library association of Sioux
Falls recently purchased $1,000 worth OF
books. .5 4. ~, a.e -,.-
A large number of the Indians at the
Pine Ridge agency are members Of the
| church. 1.s,,a IN - -
Harrison lays claim to being the largest
as we'll as the neatest town in Douglass
county.
Yankton ladies are having their fortunes
told by band of gypsies encamped near
that city.
Patrick Ford, of Casselton. was thrown
from a hay rake and his lower limbs
paralyzed. f"rI
Sparks suspended fifty entries at Huron
1or various reasons during the first nine
teen days Of July. T7s
3: F: Spots, of Hamlin county, is in jail
at Watertown for assuming his brothers
name to secure $75. 1 J.
A small boy and some matches burned
Lon Cummings barn and three horses at
Fargo Sunday night.
Henry Lane, the murderer of John Sulli-
van, at Big Hole, Mont, June 9th, has been
caught at Mount Dillon.
John Elshire, of Chamberlain. has been
| held to the United States commissioner for
selling liquor to an Indian. .1'.'
The corner stone Of St. Mary's church at
Fargo, the first English Lutheran church
IN Dakota, was laid yesterday.
The head board of Wild Bilps grave. in
DeadwOod, gives strong testimony to the
presence of the irrepressible relic hunter.
The simple slab has been sadly disfigured
by pilgrim vandals. "A
Judge |. E. West, Of the Dakota railroad
commission, fears difficulty in getting the
milwaukee, and Northwestern t, reduce
Dakota rates as low as the Northern Pa
cific and Manitoba, He estimates the wheat
crop 100000 to 20,00O,0OO bushels. rs
Immigration Commissioners Dunlap esti-
mates that the population Of Dakota will
be increased 10000 the present summer by
Immigration. He adds: "Division and
statehood on either side of the line will
add 100000 to the population Of each Da-
kota during the first year thereafter"
A Helena Independent special from
Butte says: Physicians who embalmed the
D0dy OF Henderson, shot here yesterday by
Moore, discovered that his heart was liter
ally torn to pieces by buckshot Notwith-
standing this he walked about TWENTY-FIVE
feet after being shot. 1t is regarded by
doctors as wonderful case, considering
the circumstances. .es' >.
An exchange says: From the reports
from fifty-one counties in Dakota only
Twelve nave escaped serious damage to the
wheat crop from drought From reports
from fifty-fve counties in Minnesota only
s seven have escaped, and Of forty-fiye coun-
ties in Iowa all but eight are damaged and
in some. places ruined. In Wisconsin
spring wheat is almost total failure. The
drought has also extended into Michigan
and throughout the southwest.
Yellowstone Journal: The president
yesterday nominated Abernethy Grover
for register Of the United States land Of
fice at Miles City, vice Washington Berry,
whose resignation has been received, and
resident of this county. living on his ranch
few. miles up Tongue river, aud is
staunch democrat. AS there is nothing
that can be brought against him he will
probably be confirmed by the senate.
Helena Herald: A party of immicrants.
fourteen in number, who have ''crossed
the plains over" in four wagons, pursuing
the northern route, are due in Helena from
Benton this week. They are from Michi-
gan, having left that state April l4tt, and
have. since wheeled it" 1000 nliIea
Crossing the prairies of Minnesota and
Dakota, they first struck the Missouri at
Fort Stevenson, touching afterward at
Fort Assinaboine and keeping north Of
Bear Paw and Little Rocky mountains.
Sioux Falls Press: Those who have been
bemoaning the hopeless lot Of Dakota be-
cause OF the alleged crop failure, should
turn their sympathies several hundred
| miles to the eastward. An Oshkosh spec
ial says: The farmers of Winnebago
county are in terrible straits on account Of
the drought. Tine cattle have been turned
into the wheat and oats fields and road
sides to obtain enough to sustain life a
good many are selling off stock, one farmer
near OmrO disp0sing of ten cows for SlO0
Grass is being cut upon the marshes, and
even wild rice is being gathered for feed
this winter. Another farmer offered to
sell a thirty acre oats field for 81. Every
70 ~ "a, lscS, nsk.