River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-08
NoRTHyynsrEKN NEWS.

The following appointments were made
at the recent North Dakota II. E. confer
ence at Wahpeton;
Fargo district, presiding elder to be APP
pointed: Casselton, S. \. Griffith; Elliott
circuit, E. p. La Cell; Farg0;s $. w. Ing
ham; FoTman circuit,-DanfOrCh; James
town, William f. Cook: La MOure circuit,
E. S Preston; Lisbon Isaac Wilcox; Min
newaukan, to be supplied Sanborn, 3. ?.
Hall; Sheldon circuit, to be supplied
Steele to be supplied; Tower City, William
NJ Spoor; Valley City. .. Herbert; Wan
peton, II. w. Troy; Yorktown circuit, to
be supplied,
Grand Forks District-D. c. Palmetto
presiding lder; Bathgatc circuit, j. B.
Monroe; DEVILS Lake, L. Ii. Sheckier;
Drayton w. r. Morrison; Grafton, W H.
Cunningham; Grand Forks, Frank Dor3n;
Grandin circuit, to be supplied; Hills
borough circuit, J. Turner; Hunt circuit
to be supplied Inkster circuit, A. r.
Harlow; Lakota, j. r. Yost; Langdou
circuit, Reese; LaTimore, r. j. Laird;
Mimic circuit, to be supplied; Ojata circuit
s. F. Terwillger; Osnabrook circuit,
r. Hamar; Park River, H. T. Cooper;
Pembina, J A Hovis: St Thomas circuit,
to be supplied; Walhalla circuit, c. A.
Mcnamara.
Bismarck District-H. D. Brown, presid-
ing elder: Bismarck Peter Clare: Burling-
ton mission +. Z. Royse: Duuseith mission,
Nandan, G. w. COllinge, Stanton mission
TO be supplied; Victoria mission, TO be sup
piled; Winchester mission, TO be supplied.
The Minnesota Board of Railroad Ware
house commissioners, the ID, made public
their report in the matter of what is known
as transit rates While the board does not
declare for the abolition of transit rates in
toto, it orders that shippers must be given
the opinion Of having his grain carried to
Minneapolis at q reasonable freight charge,
or Of awaiting himself of the privilege
of the transit rate through to Chi
cago and the East. The order of
the board now stands as follows:
1t is the judgment Of the board OF rail
road and warehouse commissioners that I,
is reasonable and eXpedient, in order to
promote the convenience and accOmmod0-
tion of the public, and also to discontinue
a practice which the board regards as an
eXtortion and an unjust discrimination,
that the Chicago, Milwaukee q 81. Paul
railway do make q tariff of local rates
for the shipment of all kinds of grain
land especially Of wheat} u and from al
stations. on al of its lines within the State
of Minnesota, and to publish said taI1u
at all of its stations within this state and
that said rates be reasonable; that all
gram shipped shah be billed subject TO such
local rates unless the shipper shall request
! his shipment be made subject to transit
rates: that such tariff of local rates be
made and put into effect as soon as prac-
ticahle and not later than October 18th,
/ inst. The board do so recommend" The
order also applies TO the Minneapolis & st,
Louis. Omaha and Duluth roads.
The interior department at Washington
has decided that the land at DEVILS Lake
ID. T., upon which the Ward brothers locat-
ed when killed by a mob in 1888, belongs to
the little daughter OF Fred Ward. John
Bell who had previously settled on the land
was not citizen of the United States and