The Dickinson press., 1891-07-11
NORTH DAKOTA.

NORTH DAKOTA.
A herd of antelope were seen near
Ashley . few days ago.
The town site of Churoh's Ferry has
been sold to st Paul parties.
The average wool.clip of six focks in
Dickey County is 7.66 pounds to the
head.
Ed. Kane of Ardoch has been senten.
ced to 80 days imprisonment for selling
liquors.
The Milton Globe thinks the roads
leading into that town are the worst in
the states.
-Four finely bred calves we're stolen
from the barn of Col. Andrew Knudson,
near Grand Forks.
John Hofacker has found some low
grade silver ore in the Turtle Noun
tains, neal Bottineau.
There is general condemnation of the
Alliance policy of holding its state CON
v%ention with closed doors.
Q. W. Sutton. of Traill county, has
200 acres in corn, and says he has made
a fair crop every year for five years.
Jamestown thinks she will ship 3O0,.
600 pounds of wool this year, an in
crease of 200, 600 pounds over last years
shipments.
Breaking has been comparatively easy
this summer, owing to the moist condi-
ton of the ground, and there has been
lots of it done.
Forman is chucklingover thefact that
she will soon have a Jail. From what
The Item says. she has some fit material
for its occupancy.
Hillsboro has just organized a twenty
horn-power brass band, and its instru-
ments arrived a few days ago. Now,
watch the skies crack.
Mayville is proud of her Kid Band, all
boys under II years, and capable of
splitting the Dakota atmosphere with
far resounding harmonies.
The 1000 sheep on the Richardson
ranch IN Mouse River yielded an aver
age clip of eight and a quarter pounds
of wool-a total of 16. 500 pounds.
Mrs. W. P. Adams in the Wahpeton
Globe: We expect our farm to average
at least thirty bushels to the acre this
year. I never saw grain look SO we'll.
Cattle shipments from the Missouri
slope will this year greatly exceed those
Of any former year. -Four hundred
ears will be shipped Aug. 25 as astarter.
The chief local reform the Alliance
requests of the next legislature is
said to grow out of q we'll defined fear
that the farmers have not had their
wheat weighed honestly in the past.
The Alliance wants a track scale at every
regular railway shipping station in the
state.
For a long time Kidder county has
been without a local bank, but with the
advent of better times, and on account
of the future prosperity Indicated on
every side, a bank has been organized
at Steele. The stockholders are two
Kidder county men, John Thornhill and
A. g. CLARK, and an Ohio capitalist, d.
81. Clark. A. G. Clark will be crshier
aud manager.
In Kidder county the old settlers have
organized a society and on Tuesday of
last week they held their second annual
gathering at Dawson. Court was being
held at Steele, but as all the jurymen,
and others interested, desired to attend
the festivities, court adjourned and
went to the picnic. An evening session
of court was held so that the time en-
pended in the afternoon attending the
picnic wa made up. The proceeding
consisted of speechmaking, Rotations,
essays, singing and social enjoyments.
The speakers were Hon. J. Il. Worst of
Emmons county and Judges Winches-
ter and Francis of Burleigh county. It
is unnecessary to say that the speeches
we're very good ond highly interesting.
Mr.. Worst talked about the "locomo-
tive that pants, and paints its smoking
ringlets on a startled sky" and there
were other beautiful images of speech
thrown to the wind from the steps of
the school house. There seems to be an
era of good feeling abroad in Kidder
county. and everybody is feeling de-
lighted at the promises of. good crops
that prevail.