The Dickinson press., 1890-09-27
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.

NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.
Tower City will have a new weekly
newspaper early in October.
1t is reported that Grand Forks ID
soon to have a third daily paper.
The 500 railway will be built into
Valley City this year, says The Times
Record.
The state normal school at Valley
City opens Oct. ID, with J. w. Sifton as
as principal.
M. P. Holt claims that 12 acres of
wheat on his farm near Fargo yielded
700 bushels.
The Catholics of Fargo will hold a
general fair during tho week commence
ing Monday, Oct. 90.
"a wooden mill will be in operation
Mt Inkster or Gilby within two years."
says The Inkster Tribune.
A bill has passed the house creating a
new land district in North Dakota. The
land Office will be at Minot.
David Russell, of Kidder county, will
winter 5000 head of sheep in Stutsman
county. All Montana stock.
On his Barnes county farm, E. j.
White put in $50 acres of wheat. It is
threshing almost 20 bushels per acre of
No. / hard.
The Jamestown board of education
has decided to add physical culture and
drawing to the courses of study in all
the city school rooms.
Several SHROPSHIRE rams that fool, first
prize at the late Minnesota state fair,
have been purchased by Richard Sykes
for his North Dakota farms.
Fred eraser, living near Valley City,
says the wheat on his poorest piece of
He sold it for So cents per bushel.
Joe Hanson, of Fargo, who built tho
$4,000 Congregational college there,
has the contract for building the new
Congregational church in Jamestown.
John Young, of Fargo, who has just
Travelled through Cass, Richland, Barnes
and Trail counties, says the wheat crop
will average eighteen bushels per acre.
A 9-year-old Swede boy named Sune-
son Travelled alone from Sweden to Bis
marck, arriving last Friday. His sister,
aged II, made the journey alone two
years ago.
Bishop Stanley thinks of removing
the orphan boys from the care of the
nuns at Grand Forks to st. Paul until
some suitable provision can be made for
their support and tuition at the Forks.
Charles p. Anderson, master carpcn-
ter of the Brooks system OF elevators at
Grand Forks, dropped dead Wednesday
of heart disease. Deceased was about
so years of age, Il prominent Mason and
Grand Army
The Grand Forks Daily Herald has
moved into it's new tive-story building,
corner Third street and Kittson avenue.
The building just completed is one of
the finest newspaper structures north
west of st. Paul.
Grain in the locality of Larimore is
only about half threshed OH account of
the wet weather. Wheat ranges from
eight to twenty bushels. Oats turn out
fairly, as do also barley and other grains
common to this locality.
An Oregon stockman named J. w.
Cole brought a lot of horses into North
Dakota to sell. One of the cars caught
fire and a number of horses We're killed,
for which the Northern Pacific had to
pay Cole 500 per head.
Professor Stockbridge, who has
been director of the experimental
station connected with Purdue univer-
sity, Indiana, has accepted the presi-
dency of the North Dakota Agricultural
college, at Fargo, and will take charge,
Oct. 1.
Asa Francis, living near Fargo. has
made a remarkable showing in raising
sugar beets in his garden, and The Ar
gus remarks that if the bcets can he
grown the same size with field culture.
it would seem that there should be no
doubt of the success of the sugar indus
try in the Red River valley.
The Bismarck Tribune saystwo steers
were recently purchased of a farlnerliv-
ing near that city, which were literally
mountains Of flesh, their combined
of the steers tipped the beam at 2.115
tie are grass fed is taken into considera-
ton, the value of the Missouri slope as a
stock country becomes apparent.
John Hawkins, of Inkster, has gone
west for a train load of sheep. The
moneyed men of this state have unlim-
tied confidence in the sheep enterprise.
and are willing to invest thousands Of
dollars to make a thorough test. There
is a two-fold object among business men
in introducing the new industry: First,
to invest their money in q good paying
investment, and second, to encourage a
profitable agricultural industry.-Ink-
ster Tribune.
Farmers in the vicinity of For1nan
are turning their attention to sheep
raising, as wheat has been a fail
ure for the past three seasons. They
realize that something must be done.
Magnus Nelson, of De Ladere. who
owns quite a large flock, says they pay
better and can be raised cheaper than
anything else that can be raised in
North Dakota. w. E. Patterson, of
this place, intends buying 800 head the
coming spring, and several others have
also announced their intention of doing
so. The prairie grass is said to make
excellent grazing for sheep.