The Dickinson press., 1909-11-13
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Interesting News from Thirty.fve Slope
Towns as Cleaned from Exchanges
Newsy1tems Briefly Told for Busy Readers.

$Towns as Cleaned from Exchanges
}Newsy1tems Briefly Told for Busy Readers.
Another new elevator will BE- erected
Immediately at Beifeld by David Coutts
Of Duluth. -.
A big prairie fire in tic vicinity, Of
Rhame did much DAMAGE, last week.
The estimated loss Of property Ito the
farmers is about s.. ooo.| ,':'s'H . .
A S,utsman county man.. arrested in
the northern part Of the county, charged
with. setting a prairie fire, was fined
$2Q,in the county court last week.. %
One eastern writer speaks of the Beach
country as 1.-The Bread Bsket of the
World" II is claimed that two million
bushels of grain have already been mar
keted. ~ g.
The plant of the Crystali Call was
badly damaged by fire last week and
Editor Minder was compelled to have
the last issue printed in Grafton.
Cliff Morris of the sheep firm Of Morris
& Sublette; of Berry, Hettineer: county.
died suddenly while on his way to visit
his parents in Nebraska. The cause of
his sudden demise was heart failure.
The new steam turbine to be installed
in the Gendive plant by the Hughes
Electric Co. arrived last week and as
soon rs it is installed they expect 10
furnish a dav current
Frank Day, assisted by Theodore M.
Knappen. a newspaper man Of Mime
apolis. will soon begin their biography
of the late Governor johnson of Mime
sofa. ~
A prairie FIRE in the vicinity of New
England did a great deal of damage to
the hay crops. Several houses and barns
also were destroyed and a number of
grain stacks. >
The newspaper exchanges from the
western and southern part of the state
all report disastrous prairie fires, start
ing from sparks from passing locomotives
or in some unknown way. and causing
much loss to farmer and homesteader.
VIM. Heinrich. living on the Cedar.
had a satisfactory crop this year. White
fife went 25A bushels to the acre, late
oats went As bushels to the acre and
early oats 50 bushels to the acre. The
entire crop harvested was 2. ESQ bushels.
Rhame is the highest railroad station
in the state. its elevation being 3.185
feet. The highest point on the Mil
waukee in North Dakota is a short dis
lance west of town, while Post Office
Butte towers 200 feet higher, making the
elevation of it's summit about 3, 400 feet
above sea level, somewhat higher. than
other places which have claimed to. be
the highest point in the state
Last weeks issue of the Haley Herald
will be the last one issued at HaleySand
the paper will be moved to Ludlow,
Harding County. South Dakota. This
move is made necessary for the reason
that the editor is unable to conduct. the
paper and at the same time attend to
the business of u. S.. Commissioner al
Ludlow. ..
Bowman County News: The plairie fire
north OF Griffin last week did consider
able damage. not only burning the
prairie for a distance of over twenty
miles. and several miles wide, but also
burnt up everything, some. of the farmers
had even their grain and their homes.
The fire is said 10. have originated: from
a stock train going east at Ives. about
twelve miles west of here. ~
The Globe. published at Mcintosh on
the Milwaukee Coast line. says. 1t
commences to look as though the Mil
waukee would beat the N. P. into Mott.
If the weather is favorable the formers
branch will be nearly completed by the
first of the year as far as Mott. Accord
ing to the rieht-of-way agent there. are
now twelve grading crews at work be-
tween Mclaughlin and New England
and one-third of the grade is completed.
Scranton Register The Northern Pa
ciic lands in this township are now on
the market and the first party of home
seekers came in this week to look them
over. 'Wheelock & Wheelock of Fargo
have the sale of the land. and we under
stand it is to be sold only in section
lots. 1t seems to us it would be better
for the country if this land could pass
at once in to the hands of actual settlers;
men of small means. who. would settle
and farm the land; rather than into the
hands of spectators who will hold the
land for incresae in value which is sure
to come. f.e
Bowman County News: The soil in
this section of the country is evidently
well adapted to the raising Of broom corn
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