The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1886-10-07
Wheat, 55c. Buyers pay SOC.

for $l.50 at the Bee Hive Grocery.
L. Vachon of Moorehead, Cousin
to Eli Vachon of this city, was in
town Tuesday looking after proper
ty he has here.
Jas. Casper lost four stacks of
hay west of town Wednesday, and
at the same time Joakim Bauer
lost 60 tons Of hay.
Stephen Moulton lost his barn
and some hay by prairie fire this
week. This was some eight or ten
miles southwest of Wahpeton.
Vim. H. Willard, the butcher, is
putting an addition to his barn.
Mr.. Willard is doing first-rate
business and is bount. to have good
meat for his customers.
A young man named Geo. Moore,
relative Of Mr.. Adams of the Fair
view farm, has the past several
weeks been quite ill at the Head
quarters. He is now improving.
DR.. Swaine has his Office over
Pierce's hardware store, the hospi-
tai having been converted into ac-
commodations for the Wahpeton
Academy, which is now under way.
James Ford has returned to Wah-
peton and entered into a Co-partner-
ship with Chas. r. Loomis, to do a
general insurance and collection
business. These are first-rate young
men and we wish them every sue
cess.
Prairie fires have been very des-
tructive on the Minnesota side,
south of Mansion. For Il day or
two this week trains were sus-
pended, ties having been burned.
rendering it dangerous for travel by
rail.
J. P. Taylor of Fairmount paid
The TIMES a pleasant call yesterday.
Mr.. Taylor says the citizens mostly
in his section are on the right track
in the county treasury contest and
will vote solid for DR.. Swaine. Says
the doctor is gaining very fast
every where. This is right and as
it should be.
Rev. W.. w. Anderson, Of Okobojo
Sully county. D. T., will visit this
county early. in October, in interest.
Of the Good Templar's work. Any
one knowing where such work is
desired, and where IT. Lodge
can be organized, will please send
their address at once to MRS. J. B.
WILCOX, Wyndmere, D. T.
We understand that the railroad
spur extending from Mooreton
down to Adams farm is to be ex-
tended on to the Minneapolis & Pa
cific and thence direct to St. Paul.
And we have been led into sus-
picion that the M. s. P. is really a
line of the northern Pacific and
that, this will give the company the
most direct route to St. Paul of any
road in this section. That is sus-
picion we have.
Peter Kloeppel of Park, paid The
TIMES a pleasant call yesterday.
Peter says that between the prairie
fires and his steam thresher, he is
kept pretty busy. Monday of this
week he ard his crew had fearful
fight to prevent fire from burning
up a setting they were working at.
The flames jumped a sixteen foot
fire break and came tearing over the
stubble at fearful rate, and he
never saw men fight as his boys did
to save the farmers grain, and it
was saved.
The other day an Irishman forty
or fifty years of age, swindled
Eugene Richard out of suit of
clothes, in this way. The man rep
resented that he had money and
wanted to buy farm. Mr.. Rich
ard went into the country and
showed the stranger his farm. The
fellow was pleased with it and
wanted it, Of course, but induced
Mr.. r. to throw in suit of clothes,
which was readily done. The fellow
put on the suit, and leaving his
satchel in the store, stepped out to
see some of his friends, as he said,
and has not been seen since. Mr..
r. was anxious to sell his claim for
81, 900, and this fellow worked him
for suit of clothes on the strength
of this desire.
The firemen very justly complain
that builders very often have hose
attached to hydrants on Dakota
ave-, and that when fire alarm is
sounded the fremen find hydrants
locked up with these builders hose
so that fire might really get great
headway before wrench could be
secured, land these hose, reaching to
mortar beds removed and the fire
hose placed in their stead. This
was the case in the alarm caused by
fire in the straw about Michael
Schmitt's barn, last week. The hy-
drant was thus locked up entirely,