Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-11

be an exception and never have any fail
ures. We must look for certain parts Of
our crop at certain times to be failures,
either in quantity, quality or price,"
MINoKEN TOWNSHIP PEOPLE.
William Nelson was born in Nova Scotia.
Came with his wife to Burleigh county, N.
D., 1876. He had a team; it died. He
worked and secured a team of young
steers. and with this team he treighted to
the Hills, with the profits adding two more
yoke of oxen and a cow to his stock. In
the spring of 1880 he quit %freighting and
moved into what is now Menoken w
ship. He secured the claim that Mr.. Bar
rett, the station agent at Menoken, had his
eyes on. But Judge Bowen and Kirken-
dali had their eyes or it, too. So it was
agreed between Bowen and Kirkendall
that they play "seven up".to decide who
would file on the land. Barrett was not
onto the scheme. The game lasted long
in the night. Kirkendall won and the next
day filed, Bowen choosing another piece.
Kirkendall some time after sold it to Nelson.
| The first we'll sunk on a farm in the town.
! ship was on this quarter. Nelson broke
| five acres in 1880 and put in garden truck
on the sod. In 1881 he broke fifteen acres
more. 1t was a dry y~ear-nothing raised.
In the spring of 1882 he seeded the twenty
acres to oats and broke fifteen more. He
secured 1000 bushels of oats from the
twenty acres anu sold 900 bushels at sixty
five cents per bushel, making $500 on his
crop. He earned more by breaking that
season, the price being 81 per acre. Since
that time he has'increased the acreage to
100 acres. He has had five good crops, two
fair and two failures. This year he has in
ten acres of corn, ten of oats, forty OF mil
let. three of potatoes and a garden. He has
a comfortable house, a barn and corral that
will hold 100 head of stock. and that is
what he has got to put III it. He secured a
cow in 1882. From that COW his stock
started. From her he has an increase OF
sixty and twenty from Others by buying.
He has one yoke OF oxen and ten horses.
Seven of the horses he has raised. HIS
farm is one mile from the station. On it is
a meadow of thirty acres, also thirty acres
under fence for pasture and three acres of
thrifty trees around the north side of the
residence and corral. He killed and sold
$500 worth Of beef in 1889.
born children. The family are all in good
health, and are very comfortably fixed.
IL was the first real farmer settler
in this town" said Mr.. Nelson. II made
up my mind in 1881, at the time of the hot
winds, that l must not expect a good crop
every year. I then thought of working
stock in with grain and it has worked well.
l began at the bottom, using oxen several
years. When we have a wet season this
is a great grain country. l have secured
twenty-five bushels Of wheats per acre; at
another time tWenty-tWO; another twenty,
and oats the same way; then the time we
had grasshoppers l lost my crop: Then
hail hit me a lick; then the frost tried to
freeze me out, but I have pulled through
heaviest all around yield this year we ever
had. You will see every acre of the old
cultivated land seeded in the spring of 81
and it will not be long before every farmer
will have a. bunch of sheep, cattle OF
horses and Some will have many Of all
kinds"
Meeting of theC ~hautauqua Circle.
The following programme of the first
general assembly of North Dakota Chau'
tauqua circles, to be held at Langdon, July
18th, 10Th and 18th, has been announced
and IN invitation is extended to all inter
ested in Chautauqua to be present
and assist in making the first annual sum
mer assembly a success.
Tuesday evening, July 15th-Reception
of visitors by Langdon circle.
Wednesday morning, July 16th-Roman
history will be reviewed. Mrs. j. E. Tru'
ak will review Roman mythology; Miss
Amelia Brennan, Rome nde the kings:
Mr.. Cowen. the Roman republic; c. W,
Clark, the Roman empire. Selections ap'
propriate to the subject will also be read
by Mr.. Robinson and Miss Florence Bren.
man,.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Political economy will be taken up. A
discourse on some of the most important
social and governmental questions of the
day. will be given by Mr.. N. G. Young, af
ter which the subject will be open for dis,
cussiOn.
The Bible of the 18th century will be
j. 5re a. sla az Key and Sc sfrs. It i, s g. Ta%np Mfr Wiii
give readings.
Wednesday evening-Rev. s. B. Maha.
ney will lecture on Irish history.
Thursday morning. July 17th-Mrs.
Schell will review Italian art; Mrs. n. G.
Young, Latin literature (poetry). Read.
ings and recitations will also be given.
Thursday a~fternoon-Prof Estes OF
Grand Forks will lecture on physics and
Mr.. o. G. Wentworth on the Future of
our railroad SYSTEM"
Thursday evening-A historical, musical
and dramatic entertainment will be given.
The entire program Of the assembly to
be. lnterSpersed with vocal and instru.
mental music, under the supervision OF
Mr.. Marsell1s. d
Work Commenced on The $500"
Tuesdays Aberdeen News contained the
following: IF. H. Hagerty received a
letter from his brother, j. F., of Monango
yesterday, which stated that the 500 ell
gineers had already arrived at that place
and were waiting for orders. The 500, as
IS known, now extends west from Cakes
to. Boynton, a station about half a mile
south Of Monangc. The engineers will
locate the line west as it may be ordered
by the company. Two surveys have al.
ready been made, one by the way of Ash
ley, in Mcintosh county. and one by the
way of Napoleon, In Emmons county.
| This certainly lOOkS like h%nsinass and