The Dickinson press., 1889-03-30
WEEKS NEWS IN DAKOTA.

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j. NJ. Bailey. Dakota's new treasurer,
is twenty-four years old.
Devils Lake has organized a board Of
trade with sixty members.
Navigation on Devils Lake will open a
month one than last
Seven glandered horses were killed
last week by Territorial Veterinarian
Alloway.
Dakota veterans gathered around their
annual camp fire Tuesday. About 500
Were present.
Joseph NJ. Bailey, Jr., of Sioux Falls,
has been appointed territorial treasurer
by Governor Meilette.
g.. \. Lanning has been appointed
postmaster at Egan: William S. Chase,
Sturgls: John Cutter. Parker.
Territorial TreasurerI.awler has handed
his resignation to Governor Mellettc, and
with his wife has left for the East.
Rev. H.G. Mendenhall will give up the
pulpit and devote his time to entirely to
building up The Grand Forks Daily
Piaindcaler.
Col. Lounsberry has been appointed
special agent of the land office depart
ment with 4 salary of $l,5O0 and his
travelling expenses.
Governor Mellette took the oath of
office at Watertown Thursday. lie ar
rived at Bismarck on Friday and took
possession of the g]ubernatorial chair.
y. F. Wickmire, q young married
man of Grand Forks, was arrested for
stealing wheat. He confessed to having
stolen two loads from a farmer sgranarv.
Guy c. II. Corliss. formerly a st. Paul
lawyer. now practicing at Grant FORKS,
\. d., has been mentioned as likely to
he appointed a justice of the territorial
supreme court.
Col. Gale. of Canton. one OF tho
Church trustees of the Yanktcn asylum,
arrived at Bismarck SATURDAY.. lie was
surprised to find on arrival that he had
been fired on Friday.
The Fargo Gas and Electric Light
companies have been consolidated. a
new organization has been effected with
IL capital of $250,0O0. The circuit will
also include Moorhead.
September Ii has been fixed upon By
The board of agriculture for North Da-
kota as the date for the opening of the
territorial fair to be held at Grand Forks.
The fair will last IL week.
The liquor dealers of South Dakota
met last week at Aberdeen and formed u
Wholesale liquor dealers and brewers
protective association. a vigorous am
paign against prohibition will be organ
lied.
Ramsey county commissioners held a
special session at Devils Lake Saturday,
and concluded not to bond the county
for seed wheat for needy farmers. alIeg-
ing there were no needy farmers in the
county.
The farmers alliance adopted resolu.
recommending farmers to use every OK
p",iipnt to do without binding Irvine the
coming season. They urged changing
rea.ers into headers and adding plat
forms for hand binding.
at Millank twenty-five alleged vio-
lations of tic local option law await in
dicimcnt. Detective johnson. OF Min
n%eai'"lis. who worked up the clue to the
violaters. has been arrested at the in
stance of the saloon men.
Capt. Voolfolk, of Chamberlain. re-
Gently returned from the standing Rock
on, from that agency that the Indians
there are uraniinonSlv in favor OF ac-
ccptins the reservation bill.
The preli ninary examination at Red
field of iiliam Massey. Oscar Massey.
.l"y'Rallie and Charles u. Palmer for
it,e !: liitc Cap Outrage closed and all
were bound over t" answer The charge
of an assault with intent to kill.
Secretary l.. p. richardson arrived
at Grand Forks from " ashinston Fri
day anil received congratulations from
friends. slr. Richardson said that when
ne went to Washington he had no intcn-
tlon OF receiving any appointment.
Huron did not get the constitutional
Il better attraction for July I. They have
invited Hon. S. $. Cox to be with them
III that day. and he has accepted. Gov.
A~lcllette has accepted their invitation
also.
Secretary Mccormack retires amidst
more complimentary paragraphs from
the opposition press than any other
Democratic official. Already the Demo-
,.racic papers are naming him as a can
'lidatc tor governor of the state of North
Dakota.
lion. j. II. Patten. whose prohibition
bill passed both houses of the legislature
and failed to reach the governor, has
been in Bismarck the past week. He
wants to find the man who monkeyed
with the bill, and is said to have his
optics full of gore.
1t has been calculated that if the binder
Irvine trust gets in its work as per the
alleged programme. the cost of the Irvine
necessary to harvest this years crop in
North Dakota alone will reach the start
| ling figures OF 81. LOO. 900. which will be
$3.50. 900 i'll excess of what the same
| amount of Irvine would cost at last sea-
sons prices.
/. The jamestown Alert puts it this
way: "You may hive the stars in a
nail key. hang the ocean on a rail fence
| to dry. put the sky to soak i'll Il gourd
| and let the sun and r1oon out, bu don't
think you can escape the place that lies
on the other side of purgatorv if you
don't pay for your paper"
There is a great rush of settlers to
Eureka. the Northwestern Mecca for
German speaking Russians. One day
last week Conductor Robinson pulled
into Eureka with d cars oflmovables
and about 200 Russians. comprising fully
80 families. Friends and relative, of the
immigrants had gathered clear from the
Missouri river. a distance of fifty miles.
to welcome their kindred, and it was
estimated that there We're at least 5000
Russians in the little frontier town
Friday night Judge Trip dissolved
the injunction restraining the as,lum
trustees from accepting tine completed