Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-18
NUMBER 3s.
NEWS IN NORTH DAKOTA


St. Thomas is erecting q ., 900 school
building.
A drove of 5000 sheep are feeding
near Jamestown.
Cass county estimates - yieldeof
wheat this year ut 10, 600, u bushels.
The Lutheran college building at
Grand Forks will cost $16, 900 when
completed.
Dr. Merchant, of Glendale, has 10000
cabbages growing ON his irrigated farm
near Glendale.
Tho Soldiers Home board has COM
pleted the purchase of a site for the new
home at Lisbon.
It is rumored that the Langdon branch
twenty miles this fall.
Attorney General Spencer holds that
the election of commissioners this fall
must take place under the new election
law.
The Dwight farm has shipped large
amount of wheat, every car of which
has gone No. hard, with two excep-
tions.
Hon. johnson Nickeus has returned to
Jamestown and will shortly resign his
consulship at Baranquilla, South Am
erica.
The first insiallment, fourteen car
loads, of Il shipment Of 5000 sheep for
Bottineau county, has arrived, con-
signed to David Dinwoodie.
Congressman M. N. johnson has writ
ten the Worlds Fair commission pro-
testing against the proposed opening Of
the exposition on Sunday.
The North Dakota worlds fair COM
missioners have selected the site for the
state building. It will be built with
North Dakota timber and have thatched
straw roof of native wheat straw.
All but one or two of the saloon men
of Dickinson Oh whom restraining orders
were issued Il few weeks since have been
arrested. They have given bonds to
appear at the October term of court.
Oliver Dalrymple is threshing nearly
10000 bushels Of wheat daily. He has
six threshing machines running. Mr..
Dalrymple will thresh nearly if not
quite 100000 bushels of wheat this
year.
The Fargo city council has decided to
dam the Red river Just below the water
works. The dam is needed to raise the
stage Of water in the river to make it
possible for the water to be properly fl
tered before using.
The Oldest man in North Dakota il
John White, who lives at the Sanborn
hospital in Bismarck He is III years
old. He was married at 81 and has eleven
children, the Oldest of which is 80 years
old and the youngest 65 and all are liv-
ing.
A four-pound potato has arrived at
the Minneapolis exposition from North
Dakota, with note which reads: "Come
over and help us. We are starving,
Wheat only thirty-fve bushels to the
acre, and oats and corn from flfty to
sixty. This is one of our potatoes"
Charlie Holton met death in = terrible
manner at Bottineau last week. He
was feeding thrashing machine when
he caught his sleeve and had his arm
drawn into the cylinder. His shoulder
was torn off and his heart could be
plainly seen through the hole in his side.
He died in great agony.
Fargo Republican,: Two gentlemen
VINO bought half section of land last
spring of the Dwight Farm and Land
company, will thresh 1900 bushels of
wheat from it this season. They Maid
5000 for the farm. Reckon t6eir
crop will amount to IS, 100. Does farm
ing pay in North Dakota! Well, some.
The acreage of wheat in North Dakota
as compiled from the assessors returns
is given by Commissioner Hegelson as
1850, ,502, an increase over last year of
249, 1SS acres, OF 81 per cent. He places
the total crop at $4,000. 900 bushels. The
acreage OF other crops is as follows
Corn, 81, ,693. oats, 4eO, 1874; barley, 49,
25,566.
Grand Forks Plaindealer: A train
load of buffalo bones passed east over
the Great Northern. The remains of =
million or two of these former denixens
OF North Dakota have been gathered by
tne farmers out west and sold to pur.
chasers who ship them east. where thev
are ground up into fertilizers, which are
used in the effort to redeem the worn
out farms there.
Grand Forks Herald: Mr.. Hillyer.
the London agent of the North Dakota
Millers' Association writes that he can
handle all the North Dakota -four Tent
him. Every bushel of North Dakota
ought to be ground into North Dakota
flour in North Dakota mills. The builds
ing of -four mills in this state win in
crease competition and secure better
prices for wheat.