Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-03
WINTER WHEAT IN DAKOTA.
A Farmer Who Has Succeed ed in Raising
Big Crop of It.

A Farmer Who Has Succeeded in Raising
Big Crop of 1t.
WATERTowN. S. D., July Hon.
W. II. Donaldson, postmaster of this
city and an extensive farmer, has dem
onstrated that winter wheat, can be sue
cessfully grown on Dakota prairies, and
believes he has inaugurated a revolution
in Dakota agriculture. He now has
ripening for harvest 1870 acres Of winter
wheat which promises yield of from
twenty-five to forty bushels per acre.
Mr.. Donaldsons experiments in wheat
culture are interesting and instructive.
The seed for his large crop has been
grown here for several years and has
yielded d"SAa as high ss as Thirty. Tt Ell ght ;ht
bushels. Hitherto it has been
grown on comparatively small scale,
but being convinced of it's success, Mr.
Donaldson last year sowed largely of it.
His method is to first cultivate the land
to corn, carefully destroying all weeds.
About Sept. he drills in wheat be-
tween the corn rows. leaving the stalks
standing. The standing corn protects
the young wheat plants by gathering
and retaining the snow. The past win
ter Was an exceptionally hard one on
wheat. A slight fall of snow early in
December soon disappeared, and the
ground remained bare, with alternate
freezing and thawing until February,
when heavy SHOWS came that buried the
wheat until spring. Mr.. Donaldson's
wheat, however. came through without
the loss of Il single plant.
Nir. Donaldson is this year cultivating
26O acres of corn, in the whole of which
he will SOW his Dakota ironclad winter
wheat this fall.
INHUMAN WHITE CAPS.
Southern Indiana Indignant Over Dia-
holical Work of the Organization.
New ALBANY, Ind, July 1.-There
was another brutal whipping by White
Caps i'll Crawford county, Sunday, in
which Il young woman of IS yeacs was
one Of the victims VIM. Mcclure and
his 1S-year-old stepdaughter Eve near
Leavenworth, the county seat OF Craw-
ford county. They were suspected of
living in adultery but there was no
proof OF this charge. Sunday morning
Twenty Masked White Caps,
all armed with revolvers, went to the
Mcclure residence, broke down the
door, and seizing Mcclure, who is about
50 years Old, and the stepdaughter they
dragged them to the woods and tied
theEl face foremost to trees. Then the
clothing Of both the victims was low
cred to the hips and the White Caps
commenced the cruel work of switching
them Gu the bare backs, haying them
from the shoulders to the hips. The
young woman shrieked for mercy at
every blow she received, but her appeals
were vain until
She Sunk Painting
from the pain. She received over fifty
lushcs, and her shoulders, back and
hips are trightfu]ly lacerated. Old man
McGulre was given about seventy-tiye
'ashes, he also faintiug under the saw
age punishment. After the whipping
the White Caps notified their victims
that it they were found in the county
twenty days later they would be hung
up by the neck. This infamous whip
ping of a helpless, defenseless girl has
created the most intense excitement at
Leavenworth and in the neighborhood
of that town, and is denounced with
great bitterness. The victims will be
confined to their beds for two or three
weeks. The charge against the girl is
doubtless false, though Mcclure is
worthless fellow. He and his STEP
daughter will doubtless leave Crawford
county as soon as they are able to
travel.