The national leader., 1889-07-18
Dakota Crops a Failure.

The wheat crop of Dakota is thirty million
. bushels short. The total production cannot
exceed twenty million bushels.
Outside of the valley of the. Red
River all the grain grown n, will probably not
in in fact, the only NJ yield, will
/ be in the counties of PemM Walsh, Grand
Forks, small portion of kiIl, the centre
Of Cass and NortlF Festern thland. Else
where the groundl as bard and almost as
brown as though akrairie fire had crossed it.
In Nelson CountyIamo99ly prolific wheat
Ramsey is bare except in the immediate vi
cinity of Devils Lake, and in the famonsTurtle
Mountain repion, the rich soil of which has
bithnrto hepn regarded as drought proof;
there will be but little wheat for export.
ALONG the main line of the Northern Pacific,
in the once famous bonanza farm district,
the elevators are closing up and the country
tributarv 10 Bismarck is as barren as sand
hill The Jim River Valley will barely feed its
nao,,la and in short nowhere in Dakota
Lii there he any wheat for export save
olono tho main line of the Manitoba road
rom noint thirty miles north of Fargo, the
l,oundery. The cry OF famine that was
o;ond last winter in the western part OF
Walsh County will finds It's echo all over tho
Territory the coming winter
1rio,.o is another danger which viii be felt
noy,orply. and that is the want of fodder
fo,. {be stock. Tic oat crop is bad and the
odo,rs ~ AZ away from the river bottoms are as
narched as the prairie.
More Room at the White House.
T;o,,+onant-C Colonel John NJ Wilson, Engi-
neer Corps superintendent or Puphc build
nc. 80. - GIrounds, at Washington, in his an
Inss S.nU .O.,ort TO the Chief of Engineers says
% nutti :Ipo te the opening of the Washington
SIdI o,,+ sllio f2t .S71 people have assembled it.
1u lI1SI,rocutive Mansion has been kept in
me ,air In The erection of an addition as
goou [eL Lto residence for the President is
anaopnn,naended, q and it's suggested that
it might be ouhI osi.o oh 'he tho S''S Stato "
Ine @ s,J s,,J Navy buildings, while on
war al anu eide of the White House, toward the
Gne othol nictlIre gallery might be built,
treasury, 1T "+o Of the East roon1 and thence
opening udsone conservatory and winter
INTO nnx,,an worthy the home of the Chief Ex-
ecutive. otos for the next fscal year are:
The estimate ao,nloyes, $50, 36Oi improvement
Salaries OIL enIi enubIic grounds, $102, 500; care of
and care ol ol"nsion, repairs and fuel, $3S, 600;
Executive 5Ml'aacrtive Mansion and public
lighting o,s - 50: repairs to water pipes
5opnads g5e@H. tesgraPh lines $1,000;
s25O9; Sp5} asp'sSttS 'sStS5O For the washington Monu-
fosai, toeat g RI 900 100 additional Z asked
nostructive Forest Fires.
Dc' # fire have been rolling in
Greas 'E tRegh .dd thf :. TSod soas.ln in
Multnomah CoTTH THSc fire was started by persons
washington; o49!;,.1 1DSn On the Creighton Tract
Tho f1sn6i fiames, i3s isnnsSs sarough the 'ms for
est to the s. susGinood eSrino and standing timheT
havoc with the :" The lass to property vii
in that tn IT., yiraG hood q throe-quarters Of
.rtten 8 letter in which he
announces the lDNouties for credit for the
the Chamber OF oat,Vss gS sThe Angelus," for
purchase Of |, M Mlssil goo The painting will
therefore become. IL Of N8F York city.
lean Art Associah lueri6an Art Association
The agent of the .,reluS d Paris for two
will exhibit 'The n Of c2Rritable institu-
months for the DeT