Oakes Republican., 1903-10-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

j. NJ. johnson of Dickey county
has put lot of black bass in the lake
formed by the flow from his artesian
we'll.
/Using multiple of four, the state
School census just completed would
indicate that we have population of
100000. Not bad for state of North
>Qakota's age.
The Fargo city council has granted
a franchise to the Union Light, Heat
and Power company to lay heating
mains in the streets. The franchise
runs for 20 years.
G. E. Jones of Tioga killed GO
pher and found 145 bolls of fax in it's
chops that il was carrying to its hole
for the winter. This gives one an
idea what damage few of these
pests can do.
Editor Mcclure and Captain Greg
ory have returned from trip to Nc
Clure's gold mine in Colorado. Their
Investigations show 250OOO tons of
ore, worth net 1925 ton, as soon as
cyanide mill is established near the
property.
In 1897 there were only four cream
cries in North Dakota In 1898 there
were only fourteen and now there are
sixty-four, all doing good business.
Last year the six creameries at New
Salem paid the farmers in that local
ity $4,000 for butter fat.
Frederick Crane, United States in
spector of immigration at Neche, cum
ningly captured recently nineteen
men who were trying to get into this
country without paying the head tax.
Thirteen of the men we're of British
origin and the rest Poles and Hun
garians. They we're all shipped back
to Winnipeg.
IAN old document in the state treas
hrer's Office at Bismarck shows that
lin 1864 there was but nine dollars In
fthe treasury of Dakota territory, and
no furniture or stationery belonging
to the territory. This document is in
hthe form of a receipt signed by Moses
<. Armstrong, who was then terri
tSrial treasurer.
The hool census has been tabu-
lated at Bismarck by the department
of public instruction and Richland
county has 1920 school children, a
gain of 3l6 or 5 per cent. Some of
the newer communities where the
larger part of the emigration of the
past year settled showed gains of
nearly 80 per cent. Only one county
showed decrease, Pembina.
b. M. McAllen of Valley City is
pretty we'll convinced that Haynes
pedigreed blue stem wheat is very
profitable variety for the farmers to
raise. He planted ten acres last year,
from which he threshed $40 bushels,
weighing 62 pounds to the bushel.
This year he has in 25O acres, and he
figures that the average yield will not
be less than 25 bushels to the acre
and he would not be surprised if it
averaged IS bushels.
Recently the states attorney for
Billings county attended coroner's
inquest at Fryburk in the case of
Paluch, Green river rancher of that
country who had met death by being
dragged by horse which he was
breaking. The testimony showed
that deceased, holding wild horse
by a rope, wound the rope about his
arm to enable him to use his hands
in rolling cigarette. The horse be-
came frightened and Paluch was
dragged to death.
Some of the agricultural college
crops have been threshed. It is in
teresting to note, as showing the ben
eft Of crop rotation, that land sowed
to corn last year and disced twice
this spring before seeding produced
forty bushels of wheat to the acre.
Land that has been planted To wheat