Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-03
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.
The Turtle River p~ostofice has
been discontinued.

The Turtle River p~ostofhce mas
been discontinued.
Drayton is to have three large
water tanks for fire protection.
The survey of the Fort Lincoln
reservation is in progress preparatory
to the disposition of the land 10
settlers upon terms not definitely
determined upon, although expected
to be mother than those OF the home
stead law.
Public Examiner Wallace has
| Inspected accounts and condition OF
the state ~penitentiary at Bismarck.
The institution was found to be run
ming in good order under Warden
Haggars's management. There are
at present seventy-six convicts, one
of whom is a female.
w. f. Mansfield, a druggist at
Minot, discovered a petrihed tree
about fifty feet in length. Tue tree
looked as natural as life, having
retained not only its many branches
but part of the foliage. 1t viii be
taken to Chicago entire and exhibited
in the North Dakota collection at the
worlds fair.
Mike Simmer, a faneher on ting
Cheeehne, while crossing thessssm -f
John Pierson, near Fargo, was
assaulted by Piefson and beaten
almost to death and proddcd with a
mtchfork. Simmer was going through
Persons ranch by a private road
which travellers had been warned
not to use. He is in a precarlous
condition.
1t is stated that manyofthe farmers
In the western portion Of Barnes
county are burning their stubble and
do not intend to pillow the land in the
spring, but will put in the seed with
ont blowing. They think that
should 1t be adry season the land will
hold moisture better unplowed and
that they will therefore secure a
better crop.
S. S. Gannett, of the United States
engineering crops, with a temporary
observatory at the jamestown court
house, is taking astronomical obser-
yations for the determination or a
base line from which surveys will be
made extending over the artesian
belt of North Dakota. SURVEYS are
now In progress in the states south or
us. The work will be prosecuted
from Manitoba to Texas.
A. G. Barrett, agent OF The
Minneapolis and Northern Elevator
company at River Warehouse, six
miles north of Grand Forks COM
mitted suicide, shooting himself
through the temple. He mad been in
poor health and dependency was
probable the cause. He was an
Englishman about thirty years old,
and hadno friends in this country
as far as known.
Work begins next week on the
development of the rich clay beds
tributary to Dickinson. The plant
will cost in the neighborhood of ST.
600 and will be for the manufacture
of the best bricks, using the dry sys-
TEN, which can be operated as well IN
the winter as in the summer. A spur
will be built out to the works, 50 that
brick can be loaded on the cars from
The kiln. The plant will have a
capacity of 10000 brick per day.
In an interview at Minneapolis
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza
farmer OF North Dakota, said: Il
had II. 1000 acres in wheat this year,
and the average yield was II bushels,
which gave me a yield of about 100000
bushels, a large part of which have
marketed. The fall has been favor
able for blowing, and the farmers
have awaited themselves o. it and are
blowing a much larger acreage than a
year ago. If the conditions are
favorable there will be;a big acleage
put in next spring.
John White, who up to the present
time enjoyed the distinction of being
the Oldest man in the state, died
last week at the Lamborn hospital
in Bismarck. Mr.. White has been
an inmate of the hospital for a con-
siderable time. OF his exact age no
one is aware, but as nearly as can be
discovered he was in the neighbor-
hood of los years of age. His death
was merely the result of extreme old
age, the organs of life refusing longer
to perform their natural functions,
and attendants say his end was. as
the falling of n who is tired into a
,orn1 cIadn