Bismarck weekly tribune., 1886-12-17
From All Over the Territory.

Wheat fifty seven cents at Jamestown.
The BrOokings college has 195 students.
The Sioux Falls packing house has
opened.
The Catholic fair at Aberdeen cleared
nearly $1,000.
Vermillion has an organized gang of
sneak thieves.
Roscoe is,still booming and their is not a
vacant house.
Eighty teachers attended the teachers in
stitute at Huron.
The new city directory of Sioux Falls
contains 2,140 names.
In a wood saw, at Valley City. Charles
Guyon lost two fingers.
The 1roquOis Herald records the birth of
twenty-four pound boy.
There are tifty-eight students in the
North Dakota university.
The wooden mill at Yankton is paying 25
cents per pound for wool.
Nearly every town in the territory is
building tobOggan slide.
Withereil & Kent, general dealers, at
kimball, have failed for $S 900.
The st. Lawrence Tribune has changed
its name to the Saturday Tribune.
Delegate Clifford has his wife and son
with him in Washington this winter.
Grand Forks claims to have the longest
tobOggan slide in the wOrid-900 feet.
Trains will begin running between
jamestown and Aberdeen on the 10th.
The Masons and Odd Fellows of White
Lake will unite in their Christmas festivl-
ties.
A ton Of flax has been discovered by
some Dakota farmers to be as good as ton
OF soft coal.
The Clark Pilot and Review have consoI-
idated and the name is now hyphenated
''Pilot-Review."
Charlie Mallahan, of the Elk Point
Courier, is candidate for clerkship in
the next council.
Churches Ferry, up in Ramsey, wants
brewery. The people complain of its being
lUNmiles to beer.
The Copp Blizzard, the Casselton Blizzard
and the Elk Point Blizzard are three terri
torial publications.
f. G. Paddock and j. A. McGregor, of
MedOra, killed thirty-seven antelope in
three days last week.
Canton is suffering from almost an cpl
demic of malarial fever, which is believed
to be caused by poor water.
Robert Hunter. of Darlington. is en- route
to Canada, whese he will organize party
of settlers for Stutsman county.
A. H. Paine and Miss Margaret Dal-
rymple, daughter of the bonanza farmer
MI af Caoonlfnp nol low
Rev. Writ is authority for the statement
that the Minoc farm, j. Parsons, manager,
lost 1000 head OF stock in the recent storm.
A herd of nearly 1000 antelope-the
largest ever knOwn-is now roaming in
the Bad Lands between MedOra and Bel
field.
Work has been closed on the Omaha ex
tension from Salem to Mitchell for the
winter. Iron will be laid early in the
spring.
Adelbert W.Warren, of Larimore, pleaded
guilty OF taking more interest than the le-
gal rate, and was fined 800 by Judge Nc
cOnnell.
The Mcintosh Herald of the 9th is a
little premature. 1t says that E. r. Otis, of
the Journal, has been appointed receiver of
the Bismarck land Office.
Valley City's military company is al
ready figuring on grand ball Washing
toms birthday, at which Colonel Sbeafe
has promised to be present.
Owing to the strong home prejudice
against his appointment, James G.. Walsh,
the new postmaster at Pembina. will un-
dOubtedly fail to secure his commission.
Hon. C. B. Pratt, of Grand Forks, has gone
to Washington to labor for the division of
the Third judicial district and the establish
ing of two or more new districts in the ter
ritOry.
The Duluth News nominates Dennis
Hannifin, of Bismarck, for the Bulgarian
throne, because peace troubles his mind
and he always plays the limit in old
games. ..
Judge Thomas fined the district attorney
$3.50 for being late ten minutes the other
morning at the opening Of the court In
DeadwOod, yet when he started for Ken