The Dickinson press., 1889-10-05

NeN. IL. IL. NCf1eUFy. WIG HIS
been absent in the east for several
weeks raising funds to complete the
Presbyterian church, will arrive
home in time to hold union service
i'll the Congregational church to-mor.
row at the usual hour.
Frank ]. Thompson, son of j. c.
Thompson, of this place, was elected
a state senator from the Fargo dis.
trict by Il handsome majority. Mr..
Thompson is a bright young lawyer
and will make II valuable member of
the senate.
A team belonging to Geo. Beislgl
made things lively OF election day by
suddenly starting for home on the
run. The wagon struck a snow fence
post just east of town and was slight
ly damaged. The horses escaped
serious injury.
\ fire was accidently started in a
| pile of Northern Pacific lumber near
the Dickinson farm, early Monday
morning. causing quite u little ex.
element and a heavy loss to the com.
pany. About eight hundred large
bridge timbers were consumed.
II. r. Deracan had a wagon destroy
by fire in a very peculiar manner the
other day. While putting IL load of
hay on the wagon it was accidentally
set on fire by spark from IL pipe and
before anything could be done the
hay and a portion of the wagon was
| burned.
f. J.. Scofield and family are now
residents of Dickinson and Mr.. SEQ.
field is busily engaged in the pre-
liminary work of opening up his stock
of general merchandise at Vinton's
old stand. He is a good business man
and will command IL liberal share of
patronage.
The only remaining child of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Cunningham died,
Wednesday morning of scarlet fever.
| This is the third child they have lost
in the past few months from that dis.
Ease and the family have the sym.
pathy of the entire community in the
sad misfortune which has overtaken
them. The funeral took place Thurs.
day morning.
C. +. Trask and y. billiard arrived
from the west. Wednesday evening
with $500 head of sheep which they
purchased near Livingston, Montana.
A portion of the herd will be for sale.
We are pleased to see this country
filling up with sheep and hope the
day may soon come when every farm.
er is Stark county will own y bunch
of sheep. The farmers will then be
in shape to stand Il partial loss OF
crops without feeling it so much.
The II T boys have been on a round
up of horses this week. The ranch
has about 1000 head and this seasons
increase which is between 500 and 800
The horses are mostly scattered out
from the ranch ten to twenty-five
miles, in punches of so to 100 head,
and in some cases two OF three, or so
have singled out by themselves and
strayed some distance. This has been
a successful ranch in business, and
they are annually importing stock, OF
which thirty head were shipped in
this year AS soon as the stock be
comes of mature age it is shipped tc
the II Il farm in Pennsylvania, where
the horses are broken and sold. Cn
til within about two years the horse:
have been broken OH a ranch west Of
New England City before shipping
but OH account of lower wages ant
the advantage of working the horse:
it has proved to be u saving to shil
before breaking to work and they are
only halter borken at the place Of
raising now.-Rainy Buttes Sentinel
The Mandan Pioneer gives the fol
lowing account of the manner il
which Sims citizens rid themselve!
of an objectionable citizen:
There was a young man living a
Sims a few days ago, who has sine
left the town on the strong ADVICE o
his neighbors. His name was Rober
Atwell, and his chief fault seemed t.
be that lie allowed his tongue to wal
too freely about citizens and thei
families. The habit he had got a lit
tie ~monotonous, and Il few days ag
there were omnibus whispers floating
around that he was to be tarred ant
~feathered. All arrangements wer'
made. but it was decided that if il
took everything back on his knees
and left the county, he would b
spared the proposed indignity.
meeting was arranged for and held il
the large Dol of the hotel. AL! til
surrounding country was represented
John Warn, who lives twelve mile
from Sims, was on hand and preside
with ability as Chairman. The pre-
ceedings were formal and we'll cor
Quoted. The culprit was informe
that if he did not so down on hi
knees and apologize for all lie ha
falsely said, he would he tarred an
f~eathered and perhaps hung. II
took it all back, ard with tears in hi
, eyes promised to leave the count.
Everything was satisfactorily a
, ranged, and a committee with powe
to act was instructed to see him o
on the next train. Atwell has NJ