Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-08
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

S. II. and L. C. Mayer are arrested
1t Fargo. charged with setting their
store on fire.
Rapid City has taken hold ola S10,-
900 water work project.
Charles Mix county reports an ap,
pie orchard which promises good
yield this summer.
Morris Taylor, surveyor general OF
Dakota, will hereafter exercise the
/ junction for Nebraska as wel:. The
senate amended the legislative bill SO
rs to effect this.
| Deadwood is to have another ma
national bank with 100000 capital,
| put up by the Nebraska ard Wiscon-
sin men worth 100000.
Dickinson voted S15, 1000 bonds for
court house building by good ma.
jority.
Tame grasses are now profitably
cultivated in Yankton county. Tim.
othy is taking the place of flax.
Ii l.. Greene has found skeleton
and several ancient stone implements
i'll mound near Sioux Falls.
The surveyors who are engaged in
setting grade stakes on the Redfield
extension, completed their work to
Abbott's, twelve miles southeast OF
Lafoon.
Griffith's store at Grand Forks was
broken into and $500 worth OF goods
were taken.
| f. C. Tans, an alleged blackmailer
at Sioux Falls, has been ordered out
of the city by indignant citizens.
| Glenn w. Hurd, formerly of Fort
Atkinson, Wis. was thrown from a
horse near Letchers and killed.
Miss McGibbon, the Pierre young
lady who eloped with the printer,
| Stone, has been returned to her home,
The town council of Madison allow,
a bill OF S127 10 for entertaining Gov.
Pierce and suite.
The Douglas County bank has been
Incorporated at Alexandria with a
capital OF $4,000. -
Rapid City has raised $4,000 with
which to celebratethe arrival of the
railroad
The Red River Valley Baptist asso
citation will meet in the Grand Forks
Baptist church on Friday and Satur
day, July and TO-. The ASSOCIATION
comprises. all the churches north Of
Fargo.
In one township in Ramsey county
Just west of Lisbon, where, four years
ago, there we're perhaps not more thar
| 500 acres of breaking, there are now
about 10000 in crop.
The Devils Lake, Big Coulee, Tur.
tie Mountain and Mouse River Stock
and Agricultural association held a
! fair at Devils Lake beginning july /.
| The object OF the fair was to show the
splendid cattle that have been raised
IN that section.
Orders from the department of Da'
kota at st. Paul have been received
removing the Seventeenth infantry
from Fort Totten to Montana. This
move has been anticipated for some
time.
Among the applicants for pensions
examined by the United States board
at Fargo, were Charles Cooper of Nil
nor, ID. ". Evans OF Breckenridge and
August Gillzies Eof .Wahpeton. Tho
board has passed upon 40 appliea,
tions just closed.
Bismarck Tribune: The last relic Of
the Custer battle to be found on the
field isno at the Tribune office. hav,
ing been presented by DIR. Porter, anG
in the foot of a soldiers boot, the lee
had been cut off and taken by the In
dams at the close of the fight, as was
lone with all the boots ofthesoldiers
A quarry Of fms, building stone has
been discovered near washington
Springs.
The telephone line near Bismarck
and Washburn is now completed.
The total elevator capacity al
Aberdeen is los, 200 bushels.
A flowing oil well has been struck
few miles from Sundance. =.
The Caledonia mine tuned out $15,
lT3 bullion in May. ~ a. ~
The Manitoba has established its
first station on the extension west o.
DEVILS Lake, at the crossing OF tn,
Big CouIee, and named the new towr
site Blanding. The site is on land
owned by G. M. Fisher of Devil's Lake
and is one mile north of Church's fer
ry. Freight may be. consigned thery
after July /.
Oliver Dalrymrlea few days ago wher
asked about the crops in Dakota, said
The situation is healthy. The val
leys between Breckenridge and Grand
Forks undoubtedly have their usua
crops. Outside OF this there are larg,
sections cut short by drouth The
only difficulty has been the absence o
! rain, and this has effected some crops
in the western part of Dakota. The
critical time to wheat raisers is wher
wheat fills. The crop of the entirt
wheat country in the northwest vii
not exceed that of.last year, while the
winter wheat crop will be less. Tn,
elevators are pretty well emptied o.
last years crops and farmers are moi
looking for high prices.
The third annual meeting OF tn,
North Dakota Educational -associa
tion convened at Valley City with 8
good attendance. The association
was called to order by John W.. Cow
en-, the president, who III his address
gave some interesting facts relating tt
the work, progress and needs o
the educational interests of the terri
tory. He stated: 1.-The total mum
Der of teachers employed in NorthDa
kota was I,146, and the number Of
schools $50, with school population
of 26, 760, of which 10, 725 were in at
tendance in the public schools. The
permanent school property in NORTH
| Dakota shows a valuation Of 81, los,
1885, tie percentage of enrolment IT
| the public schools to school popula
ton has Increased during the past ter
years from so to 10 per cent, a rate
exceeded in only four states in The
union"
Following is the record for the fisca
year, closing SGne so, of the Unitet
States land Office in Fargo: Received
LOIS homestead. filings, 162, 1886
acres; S21 timber culture, 131 1850
acres; 64T detlaratory statements
lob, $50 acres; s soldier statements
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