Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-13

goes slowly on account of the heavy straw.
From rs to 40 bushels of wheat to the acre
has been threshed, and so of barley.
Sanger-Weather cooler; threshing com
menced. Wheat running 90 to Is bushels
per acre; oats 80 to As. Corn damaged to
considerable extent by frost.
Hamilton = Weather rather wet for
threshing, and comparatively but little
done yet. Grain yields well; 40 bushels to
the acre is common. Stacking will be well
advanced this week, and blowing has been
commenced. A light frost on Saturday
morning.
PEMBINA.
A~kra-Cutting is finished and stacking is
going on. Wheat threshed from 90 to 40
bushel to the acre. Oats and other grain
Weather has been excellent for harvest
work during the past week.
RAMSEY.
Benzion-Harvest is done. Some barley
and oats have been threshed, turning out
IS bushels of barley and IS OF oats to the
acre.
Crary-Cutting is practically done.
Stacking and threshing is general; yields
good, but considerable smut, grade is No. 2
northern.
HIGHLAND.
MISUNDERSTANDING the past week
favorable for threshing. Fall plowlng has
commenced but it is quite dry. Corn ma
turing.
Moselle-Weaeher has been good for
shock threshing for the past few days, and
it is nearly finished. Smut is quite promi-
nent, and the grade is rather low. Wheat
yields from Is to Is bushels, oats about 20
bushels II OF very good quality. Corn
out of the way Of frost.
Dickinson-The past week has been
very windy and dry and has interferred
with tereshing. Heavy frost on the night
of the 9th killed late corn and vines.
TOwNER.
Sidney-Wheat harvest completed; some
damage from frost. Grain has very heavy
straw. Potatoes and all garden truck
very II
sTUTsMAN.
.JameStOwn-Shock threshing about done.
From reports it would seem that the yield
is some better than first expected, but only
best yields are reported.
WILLIAMS.
WiIliston-The first two days of the
week were beneficial for corn. Harvesting
completed. Killing frost on the 7th. but
no damage reported except to corn in
exposed places.
Extensive prairie fires are reported
from the western cattle ranges.
Mimic caught the drouth last week,
and seven pigs were raided and closed up.
Fourteen hundred and sixty cars of
beef cattle had been loaded and shipped
to market from Dickinson up to Septem-
Der l..
The Trail county seat case, which has
been in litigation for years, has been
settled IN favor of Hillsboro again. The
case was heard before Judge Mcconnell
at Hlllsboro Thursday submitted and
decided.
N. D. Gagnier of Cavalier, was ar.
rested yesterday, charged with criminal
libel. The complaining witness is G. A.
Holbrook, a merchant, and the complaint
arises from statements published in
Gagnier's paper.
Another threshing explosion took
place at Cuthbetson, a locality four
miles northwest of WheatIa nd, at six
o'clock Friday night when a threshing
engine exploded and killed the fireman,
Louis Barry, and seriously injured the
engineer.
Rev. Harbaugh of the Presbyterian
church at Devils Lake, haLd ed in his
resignation, but the cong regat,on re-
fused to entertain it. The resignation
was offered because of a divorce case out
of which Rev. Harbaugh achieved some
notoreity.
In a number of counties farmers are
objecting to the unloading Of South Da-
kota threshing outfits. It is claimed by
many that these outfits have been thresh.
ing in the cactus infested country in
South Dakota, and that separators must
be full of Russian cactus seeds, and that
just as soon as they will commence oper-
atoms here they will scatter the seeds all
over the country.
Charles Brown of Emerado, was re-
leased from Grand Forks Jail, where he
has been incarcerated several weeks for
threatening to burn the town of Emer-
ado. Several years ago he threatenedto
do the same thing, and was taken to
Fargo. While there he and some other
prisoners planned an escape, and used
the jailer pretty roughly. The party was
sentenced to seven years at Bismarck.
Upon his return to Emerald he is said
to have again threatened the destruction
of the town. Judge Templeton allowed
MI. Brown to 60 on his own recogniz-
ance during his good behavior.