Press And Daily Dakotaian

MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1883.

NORTHERN DAKOTA:
Grand Forks Italian troubadours have gone to Larimore.
Minto, Walsh county, built $140,000 worth the past year.
Grand Rapids has a literary society and a dramatic club.
A yoke of oxen was sold in Grand Forks Saturday for $240.00.
Emma Abbott is advertised to sing in Fargo March 8th, 9th, 10th.
The Pioneer says the Mandan board of trade is doing good work.
Jamestown urges upon its people the necessity of tenement houses.
A masque ball will be given in Hillsboro, Traill county, March 9th.
A grand masquerade was given at the Fargo roller skating rink Saturday night.
Twelve cars of No. 1 hard wheat were shipped from Bismarck last Wednesday.
A sleeping car has been put on the Northern Pacific between Fargo and St. Paul.
The Eagle says as a social centre Mayville has won an enviable reputation this winter.
Mayor McCormack and wife, of Grand Forks, are at the Southern hotel, St. Louis.
The Fargo chamber of commerce is having frequent meetings after a rest of nearly two years.
The Alert hose company, of Grand Forks, is to establish a reading room in their engine house.
The Fort Lincoln string band gave a dance recently which the elite of Bismarck attended.
Several young men of Grand Forks are thinking of forming a boarding club and thereby securing cheaper rates.
Nine children have been born in Bathgate, Pembina county, since the town was first started six months ago.
Grand Forks Plaindealer: In a recent tableau Pat Donan represented a Dakota blizzard with an artistic spirit that made the audience shiver.
Col. Donan has returned to Fargo, from Dayton, Ohio. He reports to the Argus that renewed interest is being taken in Dakota everywhere.
Railway Age: Enterprises now under way indicate that at least 1,000 miles of new track will be laid during 1883 in Dakota and Western Minnesota alone.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer is of the opinion that the location of a university at that point will increase the value of property one hundred per cent.
The question of bonding Walsh county for $20,000, for court house and jail, is being fully discussed by farmers and others, and as far as can be learned it will be strongly opposed.
Two horses, belonging to Dr. Duggan, of Grand Forks, got away from his hired man the other day, and when found one was dead and the other just alive. The loss is a great one to the doctor.
The lambskin or apron worn by the grand master Thursday night, at the dedication of the Bismarck masonic hall, is 120 years old, having originally belonged to the father of Mrs. Col. Brown.
N. Stephenson, of Valley City, who attempted to cut his throat a short time ago has been adjudged insane and will be brought to the asylum at Yankton, which makes the fifth case from Barnes county since January 8th, 1882.
The comedy of Josh Whitcomb was rendered in Fargo last Wednesday night by home talent. The Argus says the success achieved by the amateurs places them at the head of any amateur dramatic association in the northwest.
The total area under cultivation in Barnes county during 1882, was 125,000 acres; 90,000 were sown to wheat, with an average yield of twenty-two and one-half bushels to the acre. The acreage of oats was 15,000, and the average yield forty-five bushels.
Jamestown Alert: J. A. Atkinson has on exhibition in his office a sample of No. 1 hard of his own raising that weighs seventy-two pounds to the bushel, and that yielded thirty-four bushels per acre. He also shows a sample of oats given thirty-nine pounds to the bushel, the yield per acre of which was seventy-seven bushels.
Bismarck Tribune: Yankton is excited over the discovery that the headcheese of that town has been extensively poisoned. As head cheese is the chief element of the modern free lunch, there is a horrible suspicion in certain quarters that some malicious person has deadly designs on the lives of the honorable the territorial legislators.
The Bismarck Tribune says there is strong reason to believe that the days of the disreputable dives which have flourished for years down at the landing are numbered, that the county commissioners are determined to grant no licenses to saloons within the county which are not subject to police regulations, and therefore probably no licenses will be granted saloons at the landing. This is a matter for general rejoicing.
Jamestown Capital: Spiritwood Lake, a locality held in blissful remembrance by all lovers of summer resort sports in this favored section, will this year take its stand among the leading pleasure fields of the entire northwest. Last season some of our citizens erected tasty cottages upon the shores of the lake and a large number will be erected for this summer's use. A scheme is also on foot we understand, instituted by the Gray brothers, who own valuable lands in the vicinity, to erect a commodious hotel and place in it all the arrangements of a tourists' palace. If any effort is made in this direction at all, Spiritwood Lake will in time be a centre of attraction for all tourists who visit the great valley. We hope its great natural advantages will be appreciated and improved by judicious application of money and care.