The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17
NORTH DAKOTA.

Grand Forks can have a sash and door
factory, employing thirty men, in consider
alton OF a site to erect the buildings on.
Mrs. Domatilla Brunette is on trial at Fargo
charged with stealing 81 900 from R. W.
Rowland, guest at her house.
The following superscription, draped in
Grape, adorns the bar of the Hotel Dakotah
at Grand Forks: "Sacred to the memory of
departed spirits-1S90"
The Casselton fire department threatens to
disband because q number of its members
were celebrating the advent of prohibition in
North Dakota by forming procession and
marching through the town whistling.
The county commissioners of Burleigh
county, N. D., have decided to close up the
county poor-house. The Bismarck Tribune
says: ut has proved an expensive luxury
is too remotely located from anywhere, and,
with the limited number that require aid in
Burlegh county, this kind of charity can be
dispensed on a more economical PLAN"
Among the laws that went into effect in
North Dakota July 1 was the one making it
a crime to sell or give to minor under 16
years of age cigars or cigarettes of any kind
or form, except on the written order OF q
parent or guardian, or tobacco in any form,
the penalty for violation being imprison-
ment in Jail not more than thirty days or q
fine of not more than $50, or both such fine
and imprisonment.
A terrific wind and rain storm passed over
Wheatland and vicinity Buildings were I'M
rooed and chimneys blown down. Lumber
| yards and the elevator suffered considerably
damage. The general merchandise store
were damaged by fronts being blown in and
being flooded by the rain. Farmers report
great many buildings razed to the ground
| by the wind. Some localities report serious
| damage to crops from hail
There seems to be a growing feeling in
Fargo that the city should own and control
| it's own water works, and the city council
| has issued specifications and advertised for
bids both to construct new and extend the
present plant. There is good deal OF spec
ulation us to what win be the outcome
this move on the part of the city, as the pres.
emit company claim to have q contract with
/ the city that will not expire until A. b. 191 /,
| by which the city gives the franchise for all
water works purposes to the water company,
and agrees to pay them q certain sum every
six months for the use OF fire hydrants etc.
/ A correspondent OF the jamestown Alert
| tells hard story of a turkey gobber In his
town. The aforesaid bird, without any re-
/ gard for his sex, has for year been possess
ed of desire to raise q family, and none Of
| the useful arguments applicable to hens in
like cases could persuade his gobblership to
the contrary, So his owner concluded to let
him set In due time dozen chickens re-
warded his care. The chicks we're taken
away as soonas Matched. The gobbler was dis
consulate and was gwen second batch of
eggs to operate upon. Another brood is due
soon and the gobbIer will be allowed to have
full control Of their bringing up.
The delegation from North and South De-
kota, Montana and Washington believe
that they have little more to do with the
committee on appropriations 90 far as the
irrigation survey Is concerned Senator
Casey says the examination Of Powell by
the several senators practically makes their